RimI looks 4 open source devels

The german RimI eGovernment open source software project for internet portales is looking in the scene for serious interested developers and sub project coordinators and contributors of new code to the project.

Since 3 years me - Niels Dettenbach from the german open source company Syndicat IT&Internet are sill working on my actual favourite open source project RimI - "Rathaus im Internet" that would provide a complete application, based on a still existing code framework which covers and implements some of the most needed functions for eGovernment internet portales in and aroun the german government and public services.

RimI actually is in progress somwhere around ver. 0.7 and bases on a basis from:

• ZOPE 2.8
• python 2.4
• the ZMS - as a "workbench CMS" to fit the parts together easily. One target ist to get ZMS and the RimI server components as two completely independent applications wich could work very transparent together in a transparent portal framework
• KForms - Formulator 4 ZMS
• Formulator-RimI own Formulator fork of RimI project
• RimIForms
• the Postgres SQL database (some parts was still be parted from former MySQL wich is no longer used in RimI)
• the GPG framework - from Werner Koch
• OpenSSL
• python reportlab
• barcode
• openLDAP
• FreeBSD / openBSD for fitting security network devices
• planned is some A

As you can see at this point there is still a lot of work todo to consolidate the whole RimI application in a clean and clear structrured code and software basis - until now RimI was running more in very experimental states and more a proof of concept (but was working in that concept within a pilot project of a small public service agency for 3 years now!). My roadmap to the 1.x would be ready in the next days.

The first targets and actual steps are to build the RimI eGov Server (or RimI eGov Components )v. 1.0 - based on:

• RimIForms - Formular Server and Editor
• RimIOrgan - organisational database framework with standard interfaces like LDAP, XML
• RimIZMS - CMS base (based on a fitted ZMS version. From the ZMS maints we still got a special BSD-like license for this eGov projects!)
• RimISigTrust - crypto- and signature server
• RimIInterOp - data and service interface and connector service to serve all needed interaction of RimI Components with the most of outside the RimI world
• RimISecuGates - IP server and network (LAN/WAN) secure connection pack
• ...

because until now there doesn't exist some multilingual functionality in that project - so for first in most german developers are needed for contributing into the project (you can write us in german lingua too - why not?!). On the other hand - the eGovernment targets in the european union and african countries should be all the same at most - so peoples and interested developers from other countries are welcome in the project too, but has to arrange the translations parts byself on the RimI software and contribute them back into the framework. Many thanks to any of them for such work...

Please take some looks @ http://rimi.de project web about the actual and next steps and working progress on RimI and - of further interested - send some kind of message / email to Niels Dettenbach [email protected] with your short skill profile, some facts about your person, your targest and ideas how you think you can help us within RimI? Within the next days i will start some CVS and/or subversion repository wich holds some of my ready to use further framework parts and give collab access to the first peoples.