Introduction Philip Herbert

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




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Philip Herbert
Carl Knauber Holding GmbH & Co KG

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