Hi conrado,
hi feng developer team!...
What will come next?
How will the implementation of everyone's personal modifications go along with the next upgrade?
Please, give us a perspective!
Motivate us to keep reading the forum and the blog, to contribute in the open source project, to spread the words of a fantastic collaboration platform.
Please
markus
Hi Markus,
thank you for your posting.
I second that!
Karl
I am extremely interested in contributing to the project but I have no idea how to do so. I don't want to go off and build additional functionality/fix issues if it is already being worked on in core.
Transparency. The Open Source Way. Code on-line. Involve the community. Post summaries of internal meetings at Feng in regards to project direction. Allow 3rd party developers at least access to a code repository to host modules (more on this later) and collaborate. I suppose actually the community could do this ourselves but I think with Feng's direction and integration with core it would be more beneficial. I guess the way I am wording this is exactly what I would like to see adjusted organizationally. Instead of Feng AND "the community", let's just get to where it is "The Feng Community"! I completely understand your need to generate revenue and drive internal priorities. But please also allow the community to work in parallel or in conjunction with your efforts. I think your pricing strategy is way off-base but that is another story. I'd price it significantly lower and foster adoption, rapid market share growth, and growth in scaling of expenses. There is a lot of competition out there in this market space. Choose your battles wisely. Once you've got em, they'll be hooked ;-)
Of particular interest to me:
-Formal API/Plugins structure!!! This would potentially allow to solve all the following items.
-Synchronization of contacts, calendar, and task via some protocol (ActiveSync, SyncML)
-Improve the time/reporting modules on the way to a more full-fledged billing/invoice module
-Performance, but it sounds as if the core development team is on this one already. Great!
-Lots of minor tweaks to add little functionality here and there ( multiple e-mail/sms entries to use for reminders --in continuation of my "need this on my phone theme ;-)" ) The ability add another e-mail address such as the e-mail to text gateways provided by the wireless vendors would be fantastic and an easy way (I hope). Example: <phone number>@vtext.com for Verizon Wireless would work and send me a text reminder.
I love the work you all have done with Feng Office and can not express how thankful I am for all the hard work, blood, sweat, and tears that have gone into the project to date. Please. Let us help you make it even better going forward.
-Mike