Hi, I have only worked at PanEris since founding it in 1994.
Brief History
The real breakthough came in 1997 when I was joined by two
other programmers full time and we struck up an informal relationship with an ISP to do all their web programming.
We surfed the boom pretty well, though made little money.
We developed some tools and ways of working which make sense.
(See http://melati.org/ as well as http://paneris.org/).
Currently pretty slow due to most people (3 out of 5 core members) getting real jobs and the remaining two becoming fathers.
However we are still afloat, still supporting our existing customers, still recruiting, waiting for the next interesting project.
The difficulty is and would still be getting customers who are prepared to work in a web-only fashion, just getting people to consistently use a mailing list and to reply to emails in a
timely and coherent fashion is more of a learing curve than I would ever have believed.
The reasons why PanEris is appealing are still true, the flexibility to work where and more importantly when you like
is great, particularly if you have children.
Quite a few of the PanEris projects are 'open' ie you can read every single piece of correspondence on the project.
yours
Tim Pizey
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Hi, I have only worked at PanEris since founding it in 1994. Brief History The real breakthough came in 1997 when I was joined by two other programmers full time and we struck up an informal relationship with an ISP to do all their web programming. We surfed the boom pretty well, though made little money. We developed some tools and ways of working which make sense. (See http://melati.org/ as well as http://paneris.org/). Currently pretty slow due to most people (3 out of 5 core members) getting real jobs and the remaining two becoming fathers. However we are still afloat, still supporting our existing customers, still recruiting, waiting for the next interesting project. The difficulty is and would still be getting customers who are prepared to work in a web-only fashion, just getting people to consistently use a mailing list and to reply to emails in a timely and coherent fashion is more of a learing curve than I would ever have believed. The reasons why PanEris is appealing are still true, the flexibility to work where and more importantly when you like is great, particularly if you have children. Quite a few of the PanEris projects are 'open' ie you can read every single piece of correspondence on the project. yours Tim Pizey