[Vtigercrm-developers] Please help - How does the Open Source development works about VTiger?

[Sutharsan Jeganathan]

Hi All

I am doing development in vtiger to my company that is completely
commercial, somehow I am interested to participate in the community of my
own.  To appreciate and build community participation in a better way, we
need to build better community targets and benefits than commercial
benefits.  I am talking in the point of view of how Red Hat achieved while
Fedora is popular.

Example, build a module from community for Dropbox integration or anything
similar


Thanks
Sutharsan Jeganathan

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Marian Banica <marian at webio.ro> wrote:

> Hei guys,
>
> I think that "some guys from Romania that are asking for money" refers to
> us.
> We've asked Detlef if he is interested to pay for development of this
> feature and after that to make it open to the community.
>
> Just to be clear as Alan says we are developers here. We invest OUR TIME
> in making VTiger to work for us or for our clients. Open source (as we use
> it) it means freedom to use the code, to do what you want and if you want
> to contribute back to the community to do this.
> On other words it will mean that if you want a feature and you are not
> able to do it on your own a good idea is to ask a developer from here to do
> this (for money or for free). If you find a nice one to do it for free for
> you then is perfect. Otherwise as in business you have to pay. (open source
> is not equal with free).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open-source_applications
>
> P.S i really think this question is more related to other mailing list
> then this (vtiger users)
> Marian
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 19/09/12 10:06, mail at dvoges.de wrote:
>> > Dear Alan,
>> >
>> > I write to you, because I see you are very active in the VTiger
>> > Development discussions and I don?t want to spam to all developers. Can
>> > you help me getting on track with VTiger?
>> >
>> > As you could see I had two questions in the last days and I am willing
>> > to fix this by my own, but I don?t know how to start.
>> >
>> > The first question about the build-in backup was answered with: ?Do it
>> > from extern?. To my second question about individual Email SMTP Hosts I
>> > got three answers, 1) Why; 2) It is complicated; 3) Some guys from
>> > Romania want to this for money. Beside this, there was an unnecessary
>> > discussion about blacklists and spamming with mails.
>> >
>> > MY MAIN QUESTION IS: How does the Open Source development works about
>> > VTiger?
>> >
>> > There are two large Sites www.vtiger.com and www.vtiger.de but on both
>> > sides it seems they only want to sell their services. Is there someone
>> > like ?Linus Thorvald? for Linux, who keeps the strings together? I still
>> > don?t know how a version is build and how I can add some code from my
>> side.
>> >
>> > Thanks and greeting from Germany
>> >
>> > Detlef Voges
>> >
>> >
>> > PS: I see nothing bad about earning money with VTiger, but I don?t find
>> > any way to participate.
>>
>>
>> Submit code and/or start reading the Wiki and asking questions.
>>
>> I should think most of us on the list make money from vtiger. It is one
>> of my company's most active products.
>>
>> But we also contribute ideas and code back to the community. That's the
>> way it works.
>>
>> Please keep on the mailing list - I don't use this email account for
>> anything other than mailing lists.
>>
>> Alan
>>
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>
>
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