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ProjectLibre progress & plans: Downloads now in 129 countries and growing!

September 14, 2012 - 07:11 am
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It has been quite a couple of weeks for the ProjectLibre team!  The team worked behind the scenes for many months rewriting ProjectLibre and adding many features.  That process will continue until the entire re-write is completed.  It has been very satisfying to finally post the beta for usage.  The response has been great, as of this evening we've had downloads in 129 countries with only 21% of the downloads from the United States.  That is an amazing first 10 days!  We are also pleased with the community feedback with over 500 members of ProjectLibre.org.  Once again, the geographic distribution is tremendous with community members from around the world.  There have been offers of language translations and the efforts have culminated in Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Arabic and other languages.  We are looking for additional translations and can get you the files to translate.  

We released the ProjectLibre beta 4 last weekend.  It corrected some compatibility issues with Microsoft Project 2010.  The feedback we have received is the fixes worked very well.  We also address some other areas which hopefully you have noticed with the latest version.  Our focus this week has been on a few areas including printing, print preview and improved Linux support.  There is a tremendous opportunity for running ProjectLibre within your organization on Linux, Mac and Windows.  The Mac and Linux communities have been enthusiastic but we do need to spread the word!   Please take any opportunity to send tweets, Linkedin messages or Like us on Facebook.   We have been nominated for Project of the Month.  We are in secnd place and need your votes!!!!!!  If we do win it will provide more exposure for the project which is what we need at this point.....

Thank you again for your support and feedback.  We plan on making more improvements and want the feedback.  We are hoping to get some corporate sponsors to help accelerate this process and further kickstart ProjectLIbre.   We are going to be heads down on completing the rewrite which will take a few months.  It is painful but necessary for the project.  It has been a great first few weeks and we'll continue to communicate and innovate with the community! 

All the best,

 

Marc & Team

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