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Fundraising for Zentyal 3.0

The following fundraising campaigns are currently active: whenever a new goal is reached, the development will be accelerated to add the feature as soon as possible to Zentyal 2.3 (that will become the next stable Zentyal release, Zentyal 3.0, in 2012).

You can find the details of each feature below, as well as a link to donate to each feature via Pledgie. As soon as the donations start coming in, these will be shown in the donation bar (badge) next to the feature so from time to time you can check how your favorite feature is doing!

Are you specially interested in one of these features? Don't hesitate to contribute and promote your favorite campaign! If you have any further questions about the campaigns, please leave them in  this Forum thread.

Thin Clients (LTSP Integration)

Click here to lend your support to: Zentyal Thin Clients (LTSP integration) and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

Help to add Thin Clients (LTSP Integration) in Zentyal server! Currently LTSP Integration is not a top priority, but if we manage to raise US $4,200 (3.000€), we can get more resources to focus on the development and include it in Zentyal 2.3 (that will become the next stable Zentyal release, Zentyal 3.0, in 2012).

  • Full integration with Zentyal Users and Firewall modules
  • Auto-login with disable lock, kiosk with timeout modes and rdesktop (Windows RDP access)
  • Thin client wake up and shutdown management
  • Localapps configuration
  • Other LTSP settings configuration: LDM_DIRECTX, LDM_LIMIT_ONE_SESSION, force local proxy usage, etc.
  • Thin client chroot management

Periodic Tasks management

Click here to lend your support to: Zentyal Periodic tasks management (cron) (core feature) and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

Help to add Periodic Tasks management (cron) in Zentyal server! Currently cron is not a top priority, but if we manage to raise US $2,800 (2.000€), we can get more resources to focus on the development and include it in Zentyal 2.3 (that will become the next stable Zentyal release, Zentyal 3.0, in 2012).

This core feature will allow administrator to define Periodic Tasks (cronjobs) from a simple and intuitive interface, integrated on the Zentyal UI and avoiding to edit manually crontab files. The interface will allow specify for each job:

  • Enable or disable the job
  • Day of the week (multi-selection Mon..Sun)
  • Time (fixed time, every X hours, every X minutes)
  • Day of the month (multi-selection 1..31)
  • Month (multi-selection 1..12 )
  • Script to run (the script could be typed in-line or refer to the path of an existing one)

IPv6 support

Click here to lend your support to: Zentyal IPv6 support (core feature) and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

Help to add IPv6 support in Zentyal server! Currently IPv6 support is not a top priority, but if we manage to raise US $16,800 (12.000€), we can get more resources to focus on the development and include it in Zentyal 2.3 (that will become the next stable Zentyal release, Zentyal 3.0, in 2012).

IPv6 support will include:

  • Full network IPv6 support: interfaces, gateways, DNS, routing, multigateway rules, static routes, etc.
  • IPv6 specific features like IPv4-IPv6 tunneling and network autoconfiguration
  • Objects support
  • DHCPv6 and DNS support
  • Firewall and QoS support
  • Enable IPv6 for all modules which have implemented it on upstream

Fundraising for Zentyal 2.2

The  roadmap for the next stable Zentyal release (Zentyal 2.2), that will be released in September 2011 was published in April 2011. Unfortunately, as always, there were many new cool features that Zentyal users, community members and ourselves had proposed and that had to be left out due to simple fact that Zentyal Development Team's resources are limited.

However, instead of just resigning ourselves to this, we decided to launch fundraising campaigns for four new features that Zentyal users had demanded and we had found interesting. If the campaigns succeeded, we would be able to assign more development resources to these new features and include them to Zentyal 2.2.

The candidate features were: Captive Portal, Thin Clients (LTSP Integration), Periodic Tasks management (cron) and IPv6 support. Of these four features Captive Portal module reached the fundraising goal by the due date (1st of June 2011) and it will be included in Zentyal 2.2. Please find the details of the campaign below.

The fundraising campaigns for the other features continues and whenever a new goal is reached, the development will be accelerated to add the feature as soon as possible to Zentyal 2.3 (that will become the next stable Zentyal release in 2012).

Captive Portal

Click here to lend your support to: Zentyal Captive Portal (module) and make a donation at www.pledgie.com !

Help to add Captive Portal in Zentyal server! Currently Captive Portal is not a top priority and it is not included in the Zentyal 2.2 roadmap, but if we manage to raise US $5,600 (4.000€) before June 1st, we can get more resources to focus on the development and include it in Zentyal 2.2.

This new module will allow to enforce clients in the Zentyal network to authenticate first on a special login web page before being able to access the Internet. This module will feature:

  • Full integration with Zentyal Firewall, Users and Logs modules
  • Secure authentication via HTTPS or splash-only portal with URL redirection to a given page
  • Source (clients), destination (servers) and service (ports) exceptions
  • Secure client filtering using IP address, MAC address and session key automatically reloaded on a pop-up
  • Configurable client idle timeout and maximum connections per client