Typica

Version 1.6.2

Special Thanks

Ongoing development of Typica is made possible through the generous financial contributions from the following:

Anonymous Funders Through Gittip

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Typica has reached a point in its development where it can be considered mature with a feature set appropriate for many coffee roasting firms. There is, however, considerable variety among roasting firms in the equipment used, roasting styles, process traceability requirements, languages understood, and other preferences. There is also still considerable room for improvement in many areas. The development of Typica has been on a budget of approximately $0, but software development is not without cost. This is especially the case for cross platform development of software that interfaces with external hardware. These are some of the things that could be done with additional funding:

Improve development and testing infrastructure. This would allow more complete testing of release candidates on all platforms and greatly increase the quality and speed at which new releases could be made available.
Purchase additional measurement devices. Interest has been expressed in using many types of hardware not currently supported in Typica. Some of these suggestions are quite reasonable and the only reason I am not able to include support for them is simply that I do not have a sample of the hardware to test my code against.
Pay for web hosting. While the Internet allows free software to be distributed cheaply, this is not without cost.
Allow more development time. As of this writing, nobody has contributed any improvements to Typica's program code. This has all been designed and written by a single person working on it as time is available. Many of the planned improvements require nothing beyond time to plan an implementation, to write the program code, to integrate it with the rest of the program, and to test that the feature is sound. With sufficient sustained funding it would be possible to devote more time to continuing development, resulting in a more rapid release of features and other improvements to Typica.

Financial assistance toward these ends can be sent (checks payable in US dollars preferred) to:

Neal Wilson
c/o Wilson's Coffee & Tea
3306 Washington Ave.
Racine, WI 53405
USA

All who contribute in this way will be thanked in the Special Thanks section seen above in the next public release, so please indicate if you would like to be identified by your name, your company name, or in some other way.

Anonymous funding can also be made through Gittip. While it is not possible to verify and recognize those who help provide funding in this way, the small weekly payments are easier to plan around than larger one time contributions.

License Information

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONNIFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Parts of Typica are from QextSerialPort which is used under the MIT license as follows:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Typica also makes use of the Qt framework.

Public domain icons are courtesy of the Tango Desktop Project.

Entypo pictograms by Daniel Bruce — www.entypo.com