Re: [moregroupware-interface] Hi, and welcome

[Ryan V. <xf...@co...>]

On 26/01/2004, at 10:46 PM, Karsten Dambekalns wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I took the freedom to subscribe (all) of you to the list, that weren't
> subscribed yet. I hope you don't mind, and I think that all of you are
> on this group have to be on the list as well.
>
> Since the welcome mail of Alan did only reach a minority, I'll leave
> it as a full quote below (something that I *strongly* discourage
> otherwise!).

A bit of background on myself (K already knows) - I'm the head 
programmer for a company here in Adelaide, Australia that develops an 
application based on moregroupware; we've extended it with extra 
modules such as Point of Sales, Stock Inventory, etc.  I've been 
planning on migrating a whole heap of changes in the core functionality 
and new features (phone messaging/corrospondence, etc) back for months 
now, but I've crashed into many walls time wise - long, long story.

UI design was something we looked at quite a while ago and we hacked up 
much of the existing modules as to be more consistent; same layout, 
buttons for actions had the same naming schemes, and there's draft UI 
documentation I wrote up ages ago, but it's awful at the moment.  
There's many parts we wish to redesign, but I personally want to avoid 
forking the project again, but instead work with and extend 
moregroupware itself so everybody benefits.

I'm currently digging myself out of the time grave I've created after 
Linux.Conf.Au (Video editing + catch up on work I missed organizing the 
conference), but then I go back into doing this full time.  I can 
dedicate a *lot* of time, as my day job is supporting and extending 
this kind of stuff; we've got over 20 clients now running this stuff, 
with plenty more over the horizon, so I'm sure I can be of some use, at 
least, knowing what people working with mgw in the real world want in 
terms of usability and UI.

I'll post back soon, I promise.  Just want to sing out as I'm 
incredibly interested in this stuff, consider myself reasonably 
experienced (I hope!), and definitely want to help out.

R

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