Sponsored jQuery Development
Excellent news today: Paul Bakaus has received sponsorship from his employer, New Identity AG, to contribute back to jQuery project. He’s being given a chunk of hours under which he is sponsored to develop jQuery-related code. All of this is going straight back in to the community.
This is in addition to the fact that New Identity AG is in the process of making some major switches over to using jQuery as their primary JavaScript library. They have a number of high profile clients that they develop for.
Paul is going to begin by undertaking a number of tasks that have been “in the works”, namely: A Prototype support plugin, Cross-browser utility methods, and improved functionality and bug fixes for Interface.
This is a clear sign of a couple things: That jQuery’s German user-base is growing quite well, that development will move at an even quicker pace now, and that Interface is becoming an integral part of the full “jQuery package.” Expect to see some important updates in the pipeline, soon.
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http://blog.ginader.de/archives/2006/09/07/New-Idendity-AG-sponsort-jQuery.php
Wie der jQuery Chef-Entwickler John Resig eben jQuery Blog brerichtet, hat, die Partnerfirma meines Brötchengebers Bartenbach & Co., der Mainzer IT-Dienstleister New Idendity AG, den jQuery-Entwickler Paul Bakaus eingestellt.
Als schöne Geste an die Community…
Awesome. Great news John & Paul!
That’s awesome! Congrats to Paul and thank you to New Identity AG managment.