Open Projects Net dates from early 1998. It has been and remains a community project. Since 1998, its user base has doubled about every 5-7 months. OPN expects to have 4,000 users by the middle of the year and over 8,000 by end of year. Each increase in size has created problems in organization and design.
Growth requires management, and that management is rapidly becoming a full-time job.
The head of operations, Rob Levin , manages the network on a part-time basis. His full-time job allows insufficient time to steer the internal projects which provide tools for growth. He has spoken recently to upper management of various businesses in the Linux community about the possibility of corporate funding. The intent was to find a sponsor to pay his salary so that he could work on the network fulltime. So far, these efforts have proven unsuccessful.