Who Owns the website/ who started the whole thing

clapter · January 26, 2009, 04:45:28 PM

Who started the whole SMF thing, like who came up with the idea, was it an individual or group, and who owns the site/has acsess to the server. Just wondering because I know its a team but I want to know who came up with the idea first

shadow82x · January 26, 2009, 05:13:58 PM

http://www.simplemachines.org/about/

See: Who made SMF?
Also See: The current team list

clapter · January 26, 2009, 05:15:31 PM

I know there are members and stuff but who was the first person to think up this idea, It doesent say that in the About page , I checked before I made this post

shadow82x · January 26, 2009, 05:36:01 PM

I always thought it was Zef Hamel original idea to make a php version of yabb (perl) many many years ago called yabbSE. (SMF evolved from yabbse) As yabbse progressed it needed improvements and began to have issues. Therefore a developer named [Unknown] began working on a "secret project" which eventually involved into SMF. You can say a few individuals pitched in to help make SMF what it is today but it was more of a team effort.

Edit: See Compuart's post

metallica48423 · January 26, 2009, 05:37:17 PM

The original planning of SMF was a group effort as well.

The brief version: The project used to be known as YabbSE, and the group decision was made to make "Unknown's secret project", the new YabbSE project, into SMF.

clapter · January 26, 2009, 05:38:20 PM

I have real Answers.
Heil Zef Hemmel

Compuart · January 26, 2009, 06:10:56 PM

After the decision was made to go with [Unknown]'s direction (which basically meant separating templates and code, using YaBB SE as basis) a brain storm was started at an off-site hosted forum (to make sure nothing would leak

). On that forum, the team members of YaBB SE discussed many of the concepts that are currently applied at Simple Machines. Its name, the Charter Member system, the site navigation, the license, the core values etc.

Some of the people active in the transition would be (I forget a few or even more than that): Jeff Lewis, Joseph Fung, David Recordon for the project management, [Unknown] and me for the development, Ben_s, Andrea, Mediman for support, Jack.R.Abbit, Spaceman-Spiff for modifications. As said, I must've forgotten some names, but these are the ones I remember to be active during the transition.

Anyway, those were really great times. We knew what we wanted and were very driven towards that goal with great enthusiasm.

clapter · January 26, 2009, 06:52:06 PM

ok

Matthew-me · January 27, 2009, 01:50:03 AM

Quote from: Compuart on January 26, 2009, 06:10:56 PM
Anyway, those were really great times. We knew what we wanted and were very driven towards that goal with great enthusiasm.

And it shows in your great work

clapter · January 27, 2009, 06:43:51 AM

Quote from: Matthew-me on January 27, 2009, 01:50:03 AM
Quote from: Compuart on January 26, 2009, 06:10:56 PM
Anyway, those were really great times. We knew what we wanted and were very driven towards that goal with great enthusiasm.

And it shows in your great work

Amazing Job,
Really you guys could charge for SMF, but you dont.

redone · January 27, 2009, 02:10:54 PM

SMF could charge and people would pay for it I am sure. Truth is though that from the start it was agreed by everyone that it would be free for everyone.

It remains free today as it did then and I never expect to see this change. But it is volunteer run so one thing I did when I started here is become a Charter Member.

I think becoming a Charter Member is the perfect way to say thank you if you ask me.

Charter Membership

clapter · January 28, 2009, 06:41:11 AM

Yes, Unfortunately, I have no money in my wallet.

DirtRider · January 28, 2009, 07:54:51 AM

Do you know who [Unknown] is. I am not wanting to know who he is but just wondering if he is actually [Unknown] or are you just protecting his real identity

Anyway I agree on the charter membership this is why I went for it as well. I know that a lot of the members here maybe are not able to afford it so that is also ok as far as I am concerned

Thantos · January 28, 2009, 01:31:35 PM

A few people know who [Unknown] is. The rest of us respected the desire to remain anonymous.

DirtRider · January 28, 2009, 02:07:36 PM

Quote from: Thantos on January 28, 2009, 01:31:35 PM
A few people know who [Unknown] is. The rest of us respected the desire to remain anonymous.

I think this is very commendable and I respect this, I was just not sure if he was in fact [Unknown] to all

Thantos · January 28, 2009, 07:06:40 PM

Just to be clear: I wasn't saying you weren't respecting it. I meant more that none of us really asked or pressed the issue.

tampaba1 · January 28, 2009, 07:20:57 PM

If you want to see the general forum information about the archivers: creator/company, license/price etc, check out this Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software

Gary · January 28, 2009, 09:06:06 PM

Or better yet, check out this one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Machines_Forum it's about us specifically

clapter · January 29, 2009, 06:31:36 AM

So [Uknown] started smf with Zef Hemmel? Wow one guy we know and the other we dont.

shadow82x · January 29, 2009, 12:19:00 PM

Quote from: clapter on January 29, 2009, 06:31:36 AM
So [Uknown] started smf with Zef Hemmel? Wow one guy we know and the other we dont.

No I think I was wrong. [Unknown] was the original creator of SMF which rewrite from yabbSE. Zef was involved with something at yabbSE.

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Who Owns the website/ who started the whole thing