Hi,<br><br>My 2 cents point of view.. vTiger team should focus on the CRM platform and functions, while in the mean time, partners could take care of the website and community. It feels that you have far too many things to handle at the same time, and many people, companies are willing to help on it.
<br>So I understand that you want to keep your full hands on vTiger CRM, but giving more responsabilitise to partners would free some team members for other tasks.<br><br>You need to give more responsabilities to people around! And not just saying so, or taking in account comments.
<br>What do people want to see? A better designed website, with community portal and forge more efficient.<br>How would I do it? Post a request for partnership with companies who could restructure the whole website and community portal.
<br>From this point, you could focus just on communications with those partners, and on the development of the next version.<br><br>But still, it's only my own point of view...<br>BTW, Joe, what are the actual outputs from the meeting in Italy? Are things going forward?
<br><br>Regards,<br>Clem<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sreenivas Kanumuru</b> <<a href="mailto:svk@vtiger.com">svk@vtiger.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>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 <<a href="mailto:aresolimpico@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">aresolimpico@gmail.com
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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...
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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></span><div><span>2007/9/24, Graham Miller <<a href="mailto:graham901@webenhanced.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">graham901@webenhanced.com.au
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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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