You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
@@ -37,17 +37,6 @@ You may also watch these introductory videos for [beginners](https://vimeo.com/7
October was created by [Alexey Bobkov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexey-bobkov-232ba02b/) and [Samuel Georges](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-georges-0a964131/), who both continue to develop the platform.
The maintenance of October is lead by [Luke Towers](https://luketowers.ca/), along with many wonderful people that dedicate their time to help support and grow the community.
The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.
In November 2019, Luke and one other maintainer started an almost identical business called "October CMF" and used their position in the community to promote this project fork to all customers. Prior to this, Alexey and I had been working on the business side of October CMS, building connections with partners and working on marketing for years. The fork was damaging for those connections and for the community's trust.
We explored multiple ways to move forward, and took the opportunity to revisit the business structure to prevent similar problems in the future and to place the enterprise on a firmer financial footing.
For the past year or so, we have monitored the project from a distance without being too involved to avoid further conflict. During this time, we also worked on a private copy of October CMS.
We rebuilt the organisational structure to become more compact, more manageable and more resistant to being "captured" by a section of the community working collaboratively with us. If we need to extend by engaging with more people, it will be on a more traditional employee-employer basis.
It is important to know that Alexey and I have always worked together, mostly in private. People may have different perceptions about this, including negative perceptions regarding our lack of engagement. Both of us have been working on this project for its entire lifespan. We will continue to do so.
Timeline of events (make up your own mind)
2013 Jun - October CMS 1.0 development begins (in private)
2014 May - October CMS 1.0 launches to the public
2014 Jul - Work begins on Translate plugin
2014 Oct - Work begins on Pages plugin
2015 Jul - Work begins on Builder plugin
2016 Jul - First Stable release is launched
2017 Apr - Work begins on October Pond
2018 May - Luke Towers joins the team and is officially hired as Community Manager (paid role)
2018 Dec - Marketplace gets a revamp
2019 Jan - Product bundles feature is launched
2019 Oct - Private plugins feature is launched
2019 Nov - Luke Towers forks the entire business as "October CMF" on Twitter, GitHub, Website, etc.
2020 Jan - October CMS 2.0 development begins (in private)
2021 Mar - October CMS 2.0 is shown to the public
2021 Mar - Luke Towers departs the team and creates another fork
2021 Apr - October CMS announces it will become a paid platform with a new business structure
2021 Apr - Luke Towers sends an email to the October CMS mailing list declaring that October CMS is dead
3e83fbaThere was a problem hiding this comment.
Choose a reason for hiding this comment
The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.
What happened?
3e83fbaThere was a problem hiding this comment.
Choose a reason for hiding this comment
The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.
In November 2019, Luke and one other maintainer started an almost identical business called "October CMF" and used their position in the community to promote this project fork to all customers. Prior to this, Alexey and I had been working on the business side of October CMS, building connections with partners and working on marketing for years. The fork was damaging for those connections and for the community's trust.
We explored multiple ways to move forward, and took the opportunity to revisit the business structure to prevent similar problems in the future and to place the enterprise on a firmer financial footing.
For the past year or so, we have monitored the project from a distance without being too involved to avoid further conflict. During this time, we also worked on a private copy of October CMS.
We rebuilt the organisational structure to become more compact, more manageable and more resistant to being "captured" by a section of the community working collaboratively with us. If we need to extend by engaging with more people, it will be on a more traditional employee-employer basis.
It is important to know that Alexey and I have always worked together, mostly in private. People may have different perceptions about this, including negative perceptions regarding our lack of engagement. Both of us have been working on this project for its entire lifespan. We will continue to do so.
Timeline of events (make up your own mind)