Wednesday, 30 August 2006
Red Cog
« Business Card | Main | "At this moment from where I sit, nothing here seemes real" »Announcing Red Cog.
Red Cog?
Red Cog is a social software development and support business. Red Cog will offer paid development and support contracts for blojsom and other projects such as del.icio.us Java, Akismet Java, Simpy Java, and future projects. In the past few months, I've had interest in paid development and support for blojsom from a number of companies. And ... well ... why not get paid to further develop and support your software?
What's with the name Red Cog?
The hardest part about forming a company is, IMHO, choosing a company name and a logo. I racked my brain for quite awhile trying to come up with an appropriate name. Of course I tried using anagrams with my name, my software projects, etc... and nothing really clicked. The name had to be simple and be applicable across projects and future work. blojsom could work as a company name, but would be specific to blojsom development and support.
It wasn't until I stepped back and looked at the redesigned blojsom logo that the perfect name hit me. I wanted to re-use the new "gear" in the logo, except it wasn't a gear. It was a cog, as I saw it ... albeit a futuristic looking cog. And it was red. The rest, as they say, is history. I checked for the company name, Red Cog, in the state's company database and the USPTO's trademark database. A few online forms and Red Cog was officially a company.
My business card on Flickr.
Does this mean those projects such as blojsom are now non-free or closed source?
Absolutely not!
All this means is that if an individual or company wants to pay Red Cog for development and/or guaranteed support for blojsom and other such projects, they can do that.
What's next?
Release blojsom 3.0. Roll out the Cog Blog. Announce clients.
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Awesome stuff David!
Its hard to understand why more people don't use Blojsom. Maybe this will be the break through... talk later ;)
Red Cog LLC opens doors
David Czarnecki has taken blojsom to the next level in FLOSS and is now offering professional blojsom support and development through Red Cog LLC.blojsom is a blog engine written in Java and highly extensible through its plugin interface and by the ve...
Red Cog
David Czarnecki has taken blojsom to the next level in FLOSS and is now offering professional blojsom support and development through
Congrats!
I was just thinking that blojsom is the best blog engines, in terms of features and architecture, and that more people needed to know that. For various reasons, I haven't been able to use blojsom of every project, and I've also wanted to experiment with using other blog engines--so, I have several points of comparison.
I would definitely say: anyone who can take advantage of using a Java web server, and who needs a blog engine, should use blojsom. And, I think it's great that you are creating a support and development company for blojsom and the other apps!