Moving Forward

Covalent Technology has just secured a grant (fund) under the Enterprise Innovation Fund Scheme from the Government of Malaysia (Ministry of Science & Technology). We've returned the draft agreement and signed the acceptance letter on May 03, 2007. Now, we're waiting for the official agreement to be released and signed by both parties (that'll take some time or a lot I suppose). The fund which amounts to RM 177,020 (~USD 50k) will help to sustain FREE Covalentia for another year. We've outlined a few things that we want to do:

Objectives

• To further develop Covalentia to become an open source cross-platform Rapid Application Development Tool for .NET that supports not only web-based application development, but also windows and console applications, and windows and web services
• To help beginners or junior programmers of local companies and government agencies to quickly produce .NET applications faster and more efficiently to lower development costs and risks
• To develop Covalentia E-Learning & Certification Program and online interactive support to help ICT students and unemployed graduates to learn and use Covalentia, polish their skills in .NET programming and be market-ready – to produce more highly skilled human capital

Milestones

• Multi-database Version
  • To redevelop and test Data Access Layer and Object Relational Mapping component to support other major database servers such as PostgreSQL and Oracle servers
  • Target Completion Date: 01 June 2007
• Cross-platform Version
  • To tweak, compile and run Covalentia on Linux operating system using Mono and Grasshopper Frameworks
  • Target Completion Date: 01 September 2007
• Multi-project-type Version
  • To develop and test multi-project-type components to support:
    • Web Application (Done)
    • Console Application Template (Done)
    • Windows Service Template (Done)
    • Web Service Template (Done)
    • Windows Application
  • Target Completion Date: 01 December 2007
• Covalentia E-Learning & Certification Program
  • To finalize contents, release and market Covalentia E-Learning & Certification Program and online interactive support/help
  • Target Completion Date: 01 March 2008
• Product Documentation, Testing and Benchmarking
  • To finalize product documentation and tutorials, and to run final test and benchmarking on Covalentia
  • Target Completion Date: 01 April 2008

When there's money, there'll be a lot of possibilites. A lot of things could happen. We might end up buying a beamer instead. Just kiddin' :) But, definitely, we're going to require more resources to reach these objectives and milestones. So, if you're interested to join us, do contact us, and we'll see what we can do together ;)

Oh, and preferrably women and married :)