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Microsoft Visual SourceSafe

I think I should reiterate for the twelve millionth time that I have absolutely know software development experience whatsoever. It's like interpretting hieroglyphics to me, except I'd stand a better shot with the hieroglyphs.

For that reason, I feel awful about brow-beating people into getting work done, and I'm worried that the folks I need don't have the time necessary to complete work on the freelanceFIRST backend. As someone who can't step in and do it myself, I'm not willing to nag people about this work -- especially when the only compensation may be a thank you.

In speaking with a close friend who's recently taken an internship with Microsoft, she started telling me about how she had to check in and check out the files she was working with. I asked her more about that, and it turns out, of course, that Microsoft uses its own product to maintain revision tracking and file ownership things. Of course, this is quite like a large part of what freelanceFIRST was trying to integrate into its infrastructure. The software is Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe.

Would you developer sorts who are aware of what freelanceFIRST is trying to accomplish take a few moments to look over this software and its features and see if it can be adapted to what we're trying to accomplish? While I understand that most folks have an intense distaste for Microsoft's products, their sponsorship of FIRST and my friend's access to their company store make this particular software package attractive to me as a non-developer.

Of course, I'm not really sure if it can do what we want it to do.

Any suggestions or comments? Remember, the budget here is $0 for the time being. Thanks.
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