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Other Topics => Ideas => : conrado March 12, 2008, 02:31:04 PM
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1. Document templates – We Would like OpenGoo to include document templates. The functionality would be similar to the one you can find in most office suites (such as Microsoft Office and Open Office). It is our aim to include templates for text documents such as budgets letters, curriculums, memos, thesis, reports, etc. Moreover, we are also looking for templates for our S5 presentations (with different visual styles). This task implies developing template support from scratch and researching for a free source of compatible templates. This task is suitable for developers with knowledge on PHP, MySQL and Html. Javascript, CSS and S5 are not required but could be a good complement.
2. Data import and export – We would like to provide a feature that provides the ability to export all the data you have within a project in OpenGoo. This data will be easily imported into another OpenGoo installation. This would mean that you can change your OpenGoo provider very easily. This task is suitable for developers with PHP and MySql experience
3. Mobile device compatibility – We would like mobile devices to have a special interface for OpenGoo. Mobile devices usually have special requirements regarding screen size, bandwidth and processor speed so lots of work is needed in order to adapt the current interface to make it suitable for cell phones and PDAs. We are open regarding which mobile platform we should start with. This task is suitable for mobile developers with PHP knowledge.
4. Document import and export – Currently our text processor only supports Html format. It is within our roadmap to be able to read and write (import and export) the most important formats such as doc, odt, rtf and pdf (write only). This task is suitable for developers with experience in doc, odt, rtf or pdf formats.
5. Microsoft Office Plug-in – A plug-in that is similar to the one Microsoft Office Live Workspaces provides must be developed. It will enable the possibility to open and save documents in OpenGoo within Microsoft Office’s applications. Microsoft Office plug-ins knowledge is required.
6. Forum integration – OpenGoo should include a forum for users to exchange ideas within a company. The task would be to adapt a popular forum engine in order to make it part of the OpenGoo solution. Integration must be transparent, this means users database should be shared, and the look and feel should also be similar among other details. This task is suitable for PHP and MySQL developers. Work with forums and application integration would be valuable.
7. Blog integration – OpenGoo should include a blog for users to post ideas within a company. The task would be to adapt a popular blog engine in order to make it part of the OpenGoo solution. Integration must be transparent, this means users database should be shared, and the look and feel should also be similar among other details. This task is suitable for PHP and MySQL developers. Work with blogs and application integration would be valuable.
8. Wiki integration – OpenGoo should include a wiki for users to post ideas within a company. The task would be to adapt a popular wiki engine in order to make it part of the OpenGoo solution. Integration must be transparent, this means users database should be shared, and the look and feel should also be similar among other details. This task is suitable for PHP and MySQL developers. Work with wiki and application integration would be valuable.
9. Webmail integration – We feel our Web office won’t be complete until we include an email client. Integration with an open source email client is another important milestone in which we would like the community to help us. As in previous tasks, our goal is to make the integration transparent, so user database must be shared, look and feel must be similar and mails that arrive must be available throughout the rest of the system. This task is suitable for PHP and MySQL developers. Work with mail clients and application integration would be valuable.
10. Live communication – Once everyone in a company has access to OpenGoo, it seems like an excellent way to establish live communications between users. Chat is the first idea that comes into our minds, but we could mention audio, video and even other collaboration tools (such as whiteboards) could be very useful to complement this service. This task is suitable for PHP and MySQL developers. Work with different communication mechanisms (chat, audio, and video) and application integration would be valuable.
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Excellent software... I've just installed it as an experiment for an organisation I work with as webmaster.
Some things I would like to see would be skype integration, maybe task/project display as a gant chart and ... damn, there was something else... it will come back to me... but I work a lot with not for profit charities, voluntary and campaigning organisations and there are aspects of this tool that I can see growing into a mature office suite for such organisations. I have some significant PHP and mysql experience, so if life quietens down for me, I will be offering my services :-)
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That was the other idea... some years ago, my father wrote a collaborative ideas development and management application in Delphi which he marketed out to some large companies, based in part on some of the ideas of Dr de Bono. Might there be some room for such a package in openGoo?
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Nice ideas, adam!
A couple of questions:
1) How do you imagine the skype integration?
2) What exactly do you mean by "a collaborative ideas development and management application"? What would that application do? What would be a typical use case?
The gant chart is surely a desirable feature for OpenGoo. It's not on the short term roadmap but it will be there at some point. Are you interested in developing that part?
See you around
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Hello Adam.
Thank you for your contribution!
On the Skype integration, maybe what Skype already provides could suit you needs? It installs a plugin in both Firefox and IExplorer that picks phone numbers and lets you call right away.
I think I once saw a way of taging a skype name that skype also picked up, but I can't remember the details (and I have a cold so I will not do the research today, and maybe somebody else did it recently...)
Maybe OpenGoo can tag skype names that way and display it on the contact info.
One bad news is that when I coincidentally intended to try this plugin on my Firefox (on Vista) last week, it didn't work. And IExplorer still has some issues with OpenGoo. ;-)
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I am with Ignacio here: I am not sure I get the idea.
Any references?
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I would like to see below:
- OpenGoo will be provided data backup/restore from server to PC client (via browser interface or ftp client). This is more important for our user will take more time to input some data on the server.
-OpenGoo will be provided a group of application such as resources reservation. (keep track who is reserve the meeting room , who want to borrow LCD projector.)
-OpenGoo will be provided localize language module to let each administrator to modify some menu label as it need. (to make it easy understand in difference working environment.
I welcome to be a tester of localize language in Thai language.
Thanks to see above soon.
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Hi Sirichai.
The three are excellent ideas, and I can definitely see all three being implemented in OpenGoo, though I can't promise any date.
Right now we are working on reaching the '1.0' version. This should be a very robust, complete, finished version, of the current set of features (plus a few more). After we reach that state, we will start adding new cool features like these.
Also, anyone with the will and skills to develop them is welcome to contribute.
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Additional Ideas:
Create workspace for support employee in your company, structure as below
A)Company name
- Bulletin Board for HR news, SSO news, CEO policy etc...
- IT update (Let IT department show their contribute relate how to use IT in your business, Update topic about virus computer, Tips, Trick etc ....
- Resource reservation
- Project
- such as IT security project
- ISO 9001:2000 internal assessment
- Renovate company website for e-commerce.
- Roll out CRM solution.
B)Only Customer
- customer1
-Project 1
-Project 2
- customer2
-Project 1
-Project 2
C)Only business partner/Vendor
business partner1
- Service 1
- Service 2
business partner2
- Product1
- Product 2
2-After we use OpenGoo for a while, We will encounter active/Inactive data we had input
therefore it will be good if our OpenGoo developer will make option control box to mark
as active or inactive then move to archive database or save to DVD-rom.
3-I have test by input THAI LANGUANG, The result is fantastic display, Well done for localize Unicode function.
4-Please add "sort column" for display in release 1.0.
Thanks
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Sirichai, I don't get your additional idea #1. Isn't that a regular Workspace structure?
3 - Thanks for the compliments.
2 & 4 - Will do.
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Yes, You are right.
That is my offer an idea "how to apply workspace to support basic collaboration in SME business. however, it might be good for other people to kick start ...
One thing, I also would like to add more option.
each workspace may not need all Tab (objects).perhaps you may design an option by let Admin user to hide it.
Now i try find out opensource solution for SME.
There are
-OpenGoo ........................for intranet collaboration.
-SugarCRM or vTiger for intranet (Only Sale,Marketing and Operation)
-Web mail/POP/IMAP for all users in the office.
-CMS (Joomla or other) for intranet act like a company portal.
-Blog(Wordpress) for each group of people who want to share their knowledge
and path way to make center of excellence.(COE)
and starter to capture knowledge management.
-Searching for all above application. (waiting...)
if you have solution , please sharing.
Thanks.
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The option to 'customize' a Workspace, without all the tabs, will be included soon in a future release.
As for being an all-in-one Web solution for SMB (e-mail + ERP + Office), that's kind of the goal for OpenGoo. We are working hard on the e-mail client stuff, and will eventually have some functionality that will resemble that of a blog.
It is a lot of work though. You will have to wait for a bit yet.
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Hello, just started using open goo, after quite a lot of research on the internet... Let me say there are many interesting applications i have found, but what i liked about open goo it's the simplicity, yea there are some other good alternatives, even open source, but we have chosen open goo for our tasks.
My ideas for the open goo would not be so specific... :
- keep it simple, don't invest time in effort in the direction that other have already gone, do it only if the feature is really needed.
- make it suitable for plugins or modules.
- invest the time in features that are innovative and unique or at least rare among open source developments.
- try to make the solution you provide more popular.
- on the long run even the tiny details can make the difference.
Good luck!
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Thanks for the feedback and compliments Alexandru!
I feel you are reflecting the values and spirit of the OpenGoo team with your suggestions. We will try to achieve them all. Only popularity is not entirely under our control. Hopefully, delivering a great product should take care of that. ;D
Hope to hear more from you.
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In reference to my little work to add the support for the text documents of eyeOS
http://forums.opengoo.org/index.php?topic=87.0 (http://forums.opengoo.org/index.php?topic=87.0)
Why don't insert this in the new release?
I know,is not a big idea but is something new, and i like the idea that these two open source project can work together.
What do you think?
I can give you my modifications if you want.
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Yes, we would love to integrate it into OpenGoo. Next release is scheduled for tuesday so I don't think we can make it for that release, but definitely for the following one. You can email me the modifications to ignacio.desoto@gmail.com, along with any explanation that you think would help me to integrate the code :).
Thank you for your hard work.
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i'll do it soon ignacio ... thanks!
;D
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What do you think about skype notifications on new events.
It would be nice to subscribe to special events in workspaces and then autom. be notified by skype when something changes. So you will allways be informed and must not login to OGOO and check status on projects manually.
P.S.:
Ebay does this (skype notification) when an auction is about to end.
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What do you think about skype notifications on new events.
It would be nice to subscribe to special events in workspaces and then autom. be notified by skype when something changes. So you will allways be informed and must not login to OGOO and check status on projects manually.
P.S.:
Ebay does this (skype notification) when an auction is about to end.
Not to dis skype, cause I do use it, but maybe a better alternative (at least to start) is XMPP notification to send notices to gtalk and other jabber accounts?
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How about adding workflow mechanism for document distribution and approval?
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Some great ideas in this thread. My word of warning: beware of feature creep! Before a feature is added ask:
1) can it be done just as effectively outside of opengoo?
Chat, for instance, I question as a new feature because I think so many really good instant messaging programs exist it might be redundant to add it.
2) if not, is there already an existing project which can be accessed via some API?
3) if not, is there already an open source project which can be integrated?
Skype integration is an excellent example of #2. Why re-invent the wheel? Also, the more integrated code is, the harder it is to roll in updates. If the API integration gives all the necessary functionality, it seems like that ought to be preferred.
Of course, the question is at least as important as the answer. For instance, is "issue tracking" really necessary as a whole separate feature in the first place, or would a simple modification of the existing task module work? Is a "user forum" really necessary when we can already use notes w/ threaded comments?
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I pretty much agree with what you said glyf, but I'm not sure folks were asking for Skype "integration" as much as "interaction", which yea, fist your point number 2.
I can already use skype to dial a phone number I see on any web page, but getting certain alerts via IM either in Skype or via xmpp would be nice... Skype should be doable via an API (is there one for Skype), xmpp should be very doable.
As for #3, check out FlashChat - they have done a very good job at making their chat program easy to integrate with just about anything out that has a userbase, from forums to CMS to whatever. And actually, it would be very easy for an OpenGoo user to add FlashChat on their site and have a chat system where uses log in using their OpenGoo un/pw.
While FC isn't exactly FOSS, it does only cost $5 for a site license.
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I'm little disappointed on effort energies and promoting a Proprietary solution (like Skype)... Instead why not implement integration with Open VoIP solutions? like Asterix...
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I'm little disappointed on effort energies and promoting a Proprietary solution (like Skype)... Instead why not implement integration with Open VoIP solutions? like Asterix...
Why not both?
If supporting business users is a possible means of supporting OpenGoo, programs that have the largest market penetration, like Skype, can't be ignored just because it is not open-source.
A program like Pidgin would not see the usage it does if it ignored everything but XMPP.
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Well... if every software developer will promote commercial solutions, of course that the company that own the patents will get more and more money from it...
If OpenGoo will be used by a lot of users, they just stay with the known solution (like Skype) this can be an opportunity to promote much better (personal opinion) and inexpensive technologies, like VoIP...
A groupware that actually push on Open Standards (this need to be the philosophy) instead of giving market to proprietary solutions in my opinion is a good OPEN groupware... Want support for Skype? Pay and get support for it... Like OpenExhange... Want to use Outlook (by MS) pay for the connector, but if you use Open source Mail client you don't need to spend money ;)
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In terms of integrated communication I would suggest looking at something like Openfire/Sparkweb: http://www.igniterealtime.org/
This can cover multi protocol chat, and also help and collaborative chat, as well as VOIP. I already have it setup in an extra panel in opengoo, though I do have some issues with Sparkweb (msn works fine, irc does not). The help chat works fine, you can define multiple help areas and those individuals/groups assigned to answer questions. But if I try and add the help code to the help panel I get an error about defining buttons. Anyone know where that may be done?
I have not tried it yet, but the other interesting collaboration tool that can also link into such a mix, via the Red5 plugin, is openmeetings: http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/
In my view it would be nice to have such an integrated communication framework in opengoo, but would agree with the previous comments about feature creep. Hence, get the basics in place, such as email, then consider what is next.
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Live help request, as per above. You need to log in to access the screenshot.
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5. Microsoft Office Plug-in – A plug-in that is similar to the one Microsoft Office Live Workspaces provides must be developed. It will enable the possibility to open and save documents in OpenGoo within Microsoft Office’s applications. Microsoft Office plug-ins knowledge is required.
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How about a OpenOffice.org plugin?
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5. Microsoft Office Plug-in – A plug-in that is similar to the one Microsoft Office Live Workspaces provides must be developed. It will enable the possibility to open and save documents in OpenGoo within Microsoft Office’s applications. Microsoft Office plug-ins knowledge is required.
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How about a OpenOffice.org plugin?
Or what about the solution with WebDAV, so everything (Microsoft Office or OpenOffice) should work.