Awakened: The Shadowrun MMO project

This will be my attempt at logging the progress of my pet project:
HTTP://awakenedmmo.org/

This is an LGPL Open Source project. It originated on SourceForge (as every great one does) here: HTTP://sourceforge.net/projects/shadowrunmmo/

We moved off of SourceForge because of their klunky and hard to use forums. As long as we were creating our own forum we may as well do the whole shebang as well. We are using SourceForge SVT repository though. Both because it is pretty good, and it serves to keep the project active for recruiting.

This has taken on a life of it's own, and is moving nicely. It is a open collective, and any opinion is heard and examined. We have taken some terrific ideas and suggestions from the group and run with them. A team of 3 "core" members are the governing body. That is, they carry veto power to keep teh project from getting off it's core mission. Two of the three must agree to veto, removing too much control from any single individual. This is working very nicely indeed.

I am the founder of the project, and listed as Project Manager. This means, essentially that while I have mad skillz in many areas, there are people on the team simply better at their specific task than I am. I am not so proud as to stand in the way of talent.. I want the best person for the given job leading that task! Heck, we even have a QA manager who reviews all work to ensure it meets the standards. (documentation, coding standards, etc)

I will attempt here to keep a running update of significant events. We are past design and are currently coding the server and client. Our artists are bust creating content to populate, and writers are fantasizing their little hearts out for dialog, quests, background, and in general all that makes an RPG worth playing.