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Does anyone know anything about Gamma!?

GenoPro Gamma is running behind schedule.  First, the development of the module responsible to merge concurrent family trees took significant time to develop, as there were several technical challenges to overcome.  At the beginning of 2008, we paused the development of GenoPro to devote our time on a special project regarding the coming economic crisis.  This special project was supposed to take about one year, however it took a bit longer than originally planned.  Rest assured, GenoPro is doing well and there is no danger to abandon its development.  It is precisely because GenoPro is doing well we could devote some of our time on this special project, with the hope we can make a difference for the people we care about.  While at it, I took some time off my schedule to learn more about what is going around the world, such as the Swine Flu propaganda, the Global Warming conspiracy (search ClimateGate) and the financial crisis.  I don’t want to be pessimistic about the economy, but want to tell you the worse is yet to come.  The recession necessary to correct the economic imbalances has not started yet, and the economic fundamentals are far worse than they were one or two years ago.  Prepare yourself for an Inflationary Depression.  If you want to learn more about the economy and where it is leading, read http://mises.org, or listen to Ron Paul (www.ronpaul.com) and Peter Schiff (www.europac.net).  Both have a huge archive of videos to keep you busy for hours.

About 8 months ago, something changed in my personal life: I found a girlfriend.  Well, she found me, and we are in love.  I have been single most of my life, for many years all I was doing was work, eat and sleep.  I could literally work 12 to 14 hours a day, 7 days per week.  Often, I would pack up food and work 5 days straight without leaving my place.  I had no sofa, no couch, and no TV, so I would not waste any time.  This was the “good old times”.  I was very productive and in a hurry to release “GenoPro 2.0” ASAP (btw, “GenoPro 2.0” was renamed to “GenoPro 2007”).  During that time period, I wrote nearly 300,000 lines of C++ code (which represents about over 11,000,000 characters and/or about 6,000 pages if printed on paper).

Now that I have a girlfriend, things are different.  I spent the whole summer with her – I have no regret, as I have been 15 years (from 1991 to 2007) without any vacations.  My girlfriend is very outgoing, with over 400 friends on Facebook and Kontakte.  She is also the president of her scholar association and we have events for almost every evening.  I am very happy to spend time with her and socialize with her friends.  Her friends likes me very much.   I am now 35, the oldest of a family of 5, the only one without children.  I always wanted to have children.  I also want my children to grow and play with the children of my siblings.  My girlfriend always wanted to have children since she was little girl.

As a result, I have less time for GenoPro.  I work more or less a regular schedule, having less time for development.  We now have 587,247 members, and the support workload increases constantly.  People forget their registration keys, their passwords, change email addresses, have problems downloading GenoPro, cannot found the document they saved on their disk and need help to search their hard disk, have lost everything due to a virus or hard drive crash and need help to re-install and recover their files, and the list goes on.  Each day, I have to take care of responding to emails and answering the telephone, for questions before purchasing the product, wanting a refund or being unhappy about to see his name appearing on http://familytrees.genopro.com.  On top of that, the website(s) constantly need regular maintenance (backups, upgrades, fixes) similar as a house or a car needs regular maintenance.  Once those tasks are completed, I can do development and add new features to GenoPro.  Working long hours makes a big difference in the development schedule, because the first hours of the day are for manitenance and the rest is for development.

I am very embarrassed talking about the delay of GenoPro and don’t want to make any promises about GenoPro.  When I planned the release of the Gamma, I had no plans to meet someone special which would change my life.  I am very happy to work on GenoPro and do my best to improve it, however within a normal work schedule.  My brother is working on a Facebook application to integrate with our collaboration module.  We will announce a “beta” when we deem it is ready for people willing to test it.

Sincerely,
-- Daniel.

Edited: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 by GenoProSupport

I was concerned about GenoPro as I have friends and acquaintances who, knowing my passion for family history, are constantly coming up to me and asking for advice and recommendations. Until recently, I had no hesitation in recommending GenoPro but last month a friend purchased it and I felt almost guilty as there was no response from you and was worried about its ongoing future. As I said before, if financial considerations are a problem, I am sure that most customers would not mind an upgrade fee.

Without wanting to get too political in this forum but as you introduced it, I have to say I am continue to be puzzled by your ongoing support for Ron Paul, a man who among other things minimises the dangers of swine flu and irrresponsibly encourages people not to get vaccinated, and who has a track record for eccentricities. There are many far better qualified Republicans and economists with different views on the economy who I would rather listen too.

Edited: Saturday, November 21, 2009 by bogistad

Please contact your friend and ask him/her to resend the question.  I receive a lot of emails and sometimes an email is accidentally put in the wrong folder.

Everyone has the right to express their opinions.  Ron Paul may be considered excentric by many, however his message is the same as the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution.  The people who wrote The Constitution were also excentric to have faith in individual liberty.

About the Swine Flu, what is your opinion regarding the page at http://www.genopro.com/swine-flu/ 

Edited: Saturday, November 21, 2009 by GenoProSupport