Re: Introduction Philip Herbert

Hi Philip,
welcome, good to have you with us.
Ciao
Klausi
 
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Von: "Philip Herbert"
An: egroupware-core@...
Datum: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:14:53 +0200
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> 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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