<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body >David,<br> <br>Thanks for the input. <br><br>Our goal, w.r.t the community, is three fold:<br>1. Deliver a CRM platform that addresses the core CRM functions well and is easily extensible to add new features/modules.<br>2. Provide the right tools (forge, Application portal for users, forums, documentation..) to encourage community participation and interaction.<br>3. Engage with the community<br><br>On the product front, in 6.0 release, we hope to make big strides in making the product modular and extensible.<br><br>More immediately though, we hope to make some improvements on the tools front. In the next 4-6 weeks, we are considering a website revision to address the following areas:<br><br>Documentation:<ul><li>Make it easy for users to find documentation </li><li>Community participation in creating documentation </li></ul>Community Events:<ul><li>Make it easy for members to organize and promote local community events (user group meetings) <br></li></ul>We are also considering moving from gForge to gForge Advanced Server for the vtiger forge. (more on this in a separate post)<br><br>Regards,<br>Sreenivas<br><br><br><br><br>----On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 <b>David fire <aresolimpico@gmail.com></b> wrote ---- <br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(160, 154, 255); padding: 6px;">
hi <br>we are a lot working on vtiger... maybe the biggest problem is the dificulty to add any new function....<br>and the lack of responce from main developers...<br>maybe we should ask them what thay want to do...<br><br>
i think vtiger has a very good potential if we change the actitude.<br>we can make some work groups:<br><br>-documentation<br>-features review<br>-developers (add members)<br>-documentation!!!!<br><br>if the project go larger will be a lot of job, many enterprise will ask for paid support and others will ask special developments...
<br><br>thanks<br>David<br><br><br><br><br><br><div><span>2007/9/24, Graham Miller <<a href="mailto:graham901@webenhanced.com.au">graham901@webenhanced.com.au</a>>:</span><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Joe Bordes wrote:<br>> This email should be a call of attention.<br><br>Totally agree. And timing is probably getting critical. There are many commercial entities now<br>considering investing in open source development but they need to know the project is going to
<br>be there for the long haul.<br><br>> If your goal is to be "The most popular CRM" you need this development<br>> list to be VERY active and have the community adopting your application<br>> for the solution to their problems.
<br><br>We will be rebuilding a large proprietary on-line financial planning application into a CRM as<br>the base platform for user logins, profiles, contact history etc etc. The client is willing to<br>invest in open source software and we will probably want some extra programming resources to
<br>hire along the way that already know the CRM app really well.<br><br>We evaluated the market of open source offerings and found sugar/vtiger to be the best. Noting<br>the sugarCRM license requirements and our need to totally re-brand the application, we decided
<br>that the apparently real open source alternative (namely vtiger) was the right platform and have<br>been watching the list for signs of an active community. So far we have not seen any activity to<br>justify us spending large amounts of time and money further developing vtiger.
<br><br>We wait in hope. But that hope is, unfortunately, fading.<br><br>Graham Miller<br>Technical Director<br><br>For great web site hosting, back end web server programming (Perl, PHP and C), and open source<br>software installation and consulting. Choose WES.
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