Re: [lcm-devel] Legal Case Manager for Private Practice

[Mathieu L. <ma...@bi...>]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your interest, and sorry for the delay.

About finding good DBAs, for this type of project, I think it would
be a bit difficult to find volunteers. For our project, we had a team
of two PHP/MySQL developers, a web designer (UI/html), testers and
translators (although some shared tasks, some were part time, etc.).

Quite alot of work is required to write such software. If you plan
on having the software used by other lawyers as well, you need to 
do an analysis work, write documentation, do marketing work, organise
trainings, etc.

On the other hand, you could always use Open Office Database (which is
similar to MS Access) and create a system that would be based on MySQL.
This would offer a good migration path, if one day you would like the
system to be web-based, since you could continue using the same database,
but with a different front-end.

I would be a bit curious to know more about your workflow, and which
elements you found useful, which elements you found were a limitation
in LCM. The software is quite flexible and we could always make small
changes (or allow plugins) for specific functions.

Best regards,
Mathieu

Le 2006-12-17, à 10:30:22 -0600, Jeff Tom (jef...@gm...) écrit:
> Hello All,
> 
> My name is Jeff Tom and I am a Texas
> Lawyer<http://www.texasbar.com/Template.cfm?Section=Member_Directory&template=/Customsource/MemberDirectory/MemberDirectoryDetail.cfm&ContactID=292211>and
> former IT developer.  I am interested in creating a php/mysql open
> source Legal Practice Management Software for the private legal sector.  I
> have reviewed legalcase and it truly is targeted for legal advice call
> centers!  Unfortunately, this process flow is not easy adapted to private
> practice and, in fact, is probably not adaptable at all.  Accordingly, I
> think development of case management software for the private sector is
> probably a ground up project.
> 
> Anyways, the primary reason for my email is advice and/or help.  Although I
> feel that I can handle the web portion of my proposed Legal Practice
> Management Software well enough to get it off the ground, I am not a DBA and
> the success of this project in completely dependent on the establishment of
> a solid fully normalized database.  Add to that the fact that I have
> previously used mysql for only one project and it is inescapable that I will
> need the help of a good dba to really get headed in the right direction (i
> have extensive oracle and sql server experience, from a developer's
> perspective, to supplement my mysql ignorance).  To be specific, the most
> important thing I will need the dba to do is help develop a solid normalized
> schema, develop the basic triggers (for timestamps, and stuff like that) and
> possibly a few obvious stored procedures.  Since I am competent with SQL, I
> figure I could probably handle things after it is setup (if i had to), but I
> really need a little help getting the db going......
> 
> That brings me to my question, how do I find a dba that is willing to work
> on this project and is competent?  Seems simple but I cant figure our how
> this works.
> 
> I would sincerely appreciate any advice or help that you may offer.
> 
> Thank you again,
> 
> Jeff Tom

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