Consortium member, Shuttleworth, funds performance improvement specification

Read Mark Horner's blog entry "Connexions Authoring Performance" for the full detail about the specification they funded for improving the performance of authoring on Connexions. Mark is a Shuttleworth fellow and The Shuttleworth Foundation is a Connexions consortium member. They have been using Connexions, developing new features for Connexions, and funding the creation of specifications for new features that may need additional funding to get off the ground

From Mark's blog:

"... the bottom-line is that Upfront Systems have shown that there are massive potential performance improvements (in some cases 5 times faster) for Connexions on the authoring side and analysed what it will take to implement them. I estimate that the total cost of implementing the specification is $7500."

This is exactly the sort of dynamic engagement we hoped would come out of the Connexions Consortium.

You can read the full reports at:

• Analysis of performance (Open Office format)
• Draft specification to develop the fixes to the problems identified. (Open Office format)