[phpGroupWare-developers] Re: Coordination Team restructure

[Sigurd Nes]

Quote:
> The new coordinators will commence their terms on 1 April 2008.


Assuming there is a two week nomination period - I am putting my self forward 
as community builder

Some background:
My interest in phpGroupWare - is that it is a great place to learn programming 
based on examples from the huge code base.
I also find the API a very powerful platform for application development - 
along with the knowledge of very skilled members of the community - I find 
phpGroupWare a goldmine of code and knowledge.

My work is aimed at Facilities Management - which is defined as "a profession 
that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built 
environment by integrating people, place, process and technology"

To make phpGroupWare support this field - I have contributed with the 
applications 'hrm','property' and 'sms' along with some features of the API - 
as ACL2, SHM-support, custom-fields, pdf-export

I started as a novice back in 2001 by porting and twisting 'projects' - and 
threw it all away - and started over in 2002 using the XSLT approach.

The configuration as a FM-system is the whole range of the core apps (except 
email) in addition to 'hrm','property' and 'sms'.

The system has been working very nice for our company - and since then I have 
tried to convince all in my line of work that phpGroupWare would solve all 
their problems.

The problem has always been that "The system might be good - but you are the 
system - what if you died?"

Now - there is a shift - as a private company has seen the potential and is 
delivering professional training and support.

The interest is picking up - and phpGroupWare is seriously being evaluated as 
FM-systems for a number of organisations.

We are getting some funds from various sources - and my goal is to have as many 
implementations as possible and try to motivate the organisations to build 
competence of their own and to sign up to the community.

Regards

Sigurd.

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