I just downloaded the ProjectLibre and quickly played around with it. I did not test it yet extensively, but I opened my biggest project schedule, which I have and at least it looks, that showed it correctly. So, congratulations impressive piece of work, hope it will develop further. I also submitted comment to one of the tickets (#32)
I do have some general questions thought, just out of curiosity. I am asking them, because I also tried to create certain Project Management tool, though the one of incomparably lower magnitude (re: https://sourceforge.net/projects/miraapt/ ). After I counted how much time and mental efforts it took me, how many things I could have done, if I would not have worked on this project, I just want to understand what motivates the "real" open source SW developers.
Also I always wanted to understand better, how it is possible, that a bunch of enthusiasts manage to create software comparable or better, than commercially available one. This is considering, that presumably you don’t have a luxury of weekly conference calls, team building events; highly paid management, who looks how to improve your processes; you can’t fly to strategy meetings, nobody sets you yearly business and personal development goals etc. This is not to mention, that you also have to earn your bread somewhere else.
So the questions are:
1) Why did you decide to spend your time developing it?
2) Are you also software engineers, when it comes to activities, with which you earn your bread or you are doing something else for living?
3) How many hours a week in average do you spend on this?
4) Do you have families?
Sincerely yours.
Evgeny
Last edit: Evgeny 2012-10-22
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Thank you.
Yes it has been hard working hours for years (we started in 2005). It doesn't really leave time to do anything else. But we are open source and project management enthusiasts so it helps. We will continue our work as long as possible.
Cheers,
Laurent.
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Dear OfficeLibre developers,
I just downloaded the ProjectLibre and quickly played around with it. I did not test it yet extensively, but I opened my biggest project schedule, which I have and at least it looks, that showed it correctly. So, congratulations impressive piece of work, hope it will develop further. I also submitted comment to one of the tickets (#32)
I do have some general questions thought, just out of curiosity. I am asking them, because I also tried to create certain Project Management tool, though the one of incomparably lower magnitude (re: https://sourceforge.net/projects/miraapt/ ). After I counted how much time and mental efforts it took me, how many things I could have done, if I would not have worked on this project, I just want to understand what motivates the "real" open source SW developers.
Also I always wanted to understand better, how it is possible, that a bunch of enthusiasts manage to create software comparable or better, than commercially available one. This is considering, that presumably you don’t have a luxury of weekly conference calls, team building events; highly paid management, who looks how to improve your processes; you can’t fly to strategy meetings, nobody sets you yearly business and personal development goals etc. This is not to mention, that you also have to earn your bread somewhere else.
So the questions are:
1) Why did you decide to spend your time developing it?
2) Are you also software engineers, when it comes to activities, with which you earn your bread or you are doing something else for living?
3) How many hours a week in average do you spend on this?
4) Do you have families?
Sincerely yours.
Evgeny
Last edit: Evgeny 2012-10-22
Thank you.
Yes it has been hard working hours for years (we started in 2005). It doesn't really leave time to do anything else. But we are open source and project management enthusiasts so it helps. We will continue our work as long as possible.
Cheers,
Laurent.