Roma Framework: The new way to conceive Web Applications

Roma Framework is an open-source project conceived in April 2006 by Luca Garulli.

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Join the community

The community is composed by:

Users
Developers
Committers.

Users

A Roma's User is anyone who leverages the amazing features Roma offers to develop web applications.

Requisites

Any level of Java Programming knowledge

Privileges

Users may:

read/post mails/messages to the Development Mailing List, the forum and consult the wiki
post Bugs and New Features as anonymous.
subscribe to the Frappr to add yourself to the earth map (cool!) ;-)

Developers

Developers, just like users, enjoy the ease of web application development with Roma Framework, but also wish to contribute to the development of the framework itself.

Requisites

At least a medium level of Java Programming knowledge
A SourceForge account to post Bugs and New Features.

Privileges

All User privileges, plus Developers may:

read/post patches and new features to the Development Mailing List
post Bugs and New Features as recognized developers.
add/modify pages of the wiki

Committers

Committers are advanced Developers with proven knowledge of Roma Framework and a solid track record of engagement in the community. Although only Committers are allowed to nominate and elect new/candidate Committers through voting, anyone may share their opinion on candidate proposals with the community. The nomination process is initiated by publishing a Proposal for Candidacy on the Development Mailing List

Requisites

proven knowledge of Roma Framework
solid track record of engagement in the community

Privileges

All Developer privileges, plus Committers may:

commit changes to Roma Framework Subversion Repository
vote on new feature, radical changes, important things

Project resources

Roma project is hosted under world-wide free accounts:

SourceForge for:
XWiki for its wiki-style website and its documentation
Frappr to display community displacement

Donation

Roma is a free project with a commercial friendly license. We need your contribution in order to improve the work done until now. All money will be invested in the project. Thank you!

Most active committers

Any project is made of people. These are the people behind Roma:

	Luca Garulli	Main ideator, he developed the first prototype in the 2006. He's the author of the modules: Core, Persistence-Jpox, Persistence-Datanucleus, Admin, Users, Scripting-Java6 and View-Echo2
	Luigi Dell'Aquila	Computer Engineer. Roma developer since July 2007. Designer and (co)author of the following Roma modules: Workflow Tevere Engine and GUI, Html View Aspect, Portlet Project, Chart jFreeChart, Service CXF, Etl XPath, Semantic Jena
	Giordano Maestro
	Luca Molino	Developer of Messaging Module (External Mail implementation), Workflow Pojo, Portal Solo. Contribution View-Echo2, Persistence-Jpox, Core, Etl-Xpath and Admin
	Marco De Stefano	Contribution to the modules View-Echo2, Core and Admin
	Paolo Spizzirri	Developer of the first version of Quartz Scheduler module
	Marco Gentile	Developer of check, install and update console wizards

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Mailing list

Register yourself to the Mailing list. This is the main source of information about Roma development. It's the first one step to became a Roma Developer.

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/romaframework-development

Around the world

Register yourself as Frappr user to be displayed as a Roma Framework User, Developer or Committer. Frappr service allows you to display all members on the earth map (it uses Google Maps)