Hi, I also welcome you and Jörg to the project.
Best Regards Stefan Philip Herbert schrieb: > Hello, > > my name is Philip Herbert. I work as a freelance project manager for a > regionally operarting company > in Bonn, Germany. This customer was not using a Groupware Solution at all, > instead there where several attempts with > simple webcalendars. Of course everyone was asking for a Groupware with > synchronisation. When looking for an easy to start > with solution with lots of potential I ended up having a closer look at > eGroupware, focussing on the sync stuff. > > It seemed that in a very basic scenario (1 or 2 supported devices at the user > side), everything really worked well. > A presentation of the entire eGroupware at Stylite convinced us to go ahead. > In the mean time I had read on the list, that the former project member > maintaining the sync code had left the project. > I started to work myself into the sync code to be prepared to be able to > support the users in case there would be problems > coming up. At this stage I started to run a few tests with Funambol Iphone > and Outlook Sync because this was what users where > asking for on the list. > > My passion always has been to work myself into technical details at low > level, so I ended up spending quite a bit of > time analyzing what was happening in the background, and of course finding > potential problems that I did not want to see > on our users devices. > > At this stage I had already aprox. 30 Users using sync without any severe > problems in daily use. > > Release 1.6 was on the way ( the first release candidate was out) and I > started to fix some problems that where causing > issues. This resulted in a patch that ended up in the 1.6 Release. > > Since then I had a lot of ideas and was experimenting, but the exceptionally > high effort for testing, the lack of > usable feedback and the fact that things where working well at the local site > prevented me from going ahead. > > Now Jörg has really put a lot of work into the sync code and I believe that > not being the only person working on the > Sync code is again a very good starting point for future development. > > I believe that an easy to use, out of the box working sync solution is every > important for the eGroupware Project. > > > > --Philip > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Philip Herbert > Carl Knauber Holding GmbH & Co KG > > address Endenicher Strasse 120-140, 53115 Bonn, Germany > email phi...@knauber.de > direct +49 228 512 420 > fax +49 228 512 9420 > mobile +49 177 2488073 > > This message may contain confidential and/or privileged > information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to > receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, > disclose or take any action based on this message or any > information herein. If you have received this message in > error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail > and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. > ____________________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > eGroupWare-core mailing list > eGroupWare-core@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/egroupware-core > -- Stylite GmbH [ open style of IT ] Morschheimer Strasse 15 D-67292 Kirchheimbolanden fon +49 (0)6352 . 70629-0 fax +49 (0)6352 . 70629-30 mailto: s...@stylite.de Geschäftsführer: Nigel J. Vickers, Andre Keller,Gudrun Müller und Ralf Becker Registergericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 30575 USt-ID: DE214280951 www.stylite.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ eGroupWare-core mailing list eGroupWare-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/egroupware-core
