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I need someone to take over the project.

I have just started college again (15 credit hours) and am working 29 hours per week on top of it. I had hoped to be able to do an independent study to develop it, but I just don't have near enough time to do so.

If you:
- are interested yourself and have Delphi,
- know someone who might be interested,
- know of a project which might benefit from some good code added,
please contact me at <A HREF="mailto:damien@mc-kenna.com">damien@mc-kenna.com</A>.... read more

The current plans for this project are:
1. Get support of developers with the time to help the project.
2. Remove all of the custom plugins from the project.
3. Get the project back on track.

Bonzo currently exists as two separate projects:
- Bonzo 1
- needs to be bug-tested.
- needs docs.
- small features added.
- Bonzo 2:
- needs to have its custom components removed so it will run easier.
- bug fixes.
- docs.
- features added to make it usable.... read more

Bonzo was originally started in 1996 by Dan Brooke who had just moved from his Amiga to a new Windows-based computer. Back then Windows 95 was still kind of new and the only Fidonet reader software was DOS-based, so Dan set out to fix this. In the summer of '96 he released Bonzo 1 to a small group of beta testers, including Damien Mc Kenna, and the Fidonet public grew interested in the project.
Realizing that to add many of the features requested by users, after a short semi-public testing period, Dan started Bonzo 2, which was to add Internet (EMail and Usenet) features. Unfortunately Dan never finished it and owing to an increased work load and a shrinking Fidonet scene, never went back.
In the summer of 1997 Damien bugged Dan enough to let him take over the project. The problem at the time was that Damien didn't have the required development software, and it took a good deal of time before this happened. By that time Damien had gotten married and his objectives in life changed somewhat.
Cut to April 2nd, 2000, when, after over 2 1/2 years of the code sitting on his harddrive, Damien decides to offer the code to public via SourceForge.
Tada!