Re: Seek more attention; Re: Better tools for community cohesion?

Hi Darald, all,

Installing and running an ERP will always be a complex task. In my view there is a role for packagers to facilitate the process of installation in specific environments. When installing in another environment, one will see him or herself confronted with the same problems that packagers do.

Chris and I recognised that a lot of potential users had difficulty in setting up LedgerSMB. That's one of the big reasons why we created our LedgerSMB hosting business Efficito. With our current EU and US based servers, we can (and do) reach out to both North American and EU based businesses, with customers as far as in the Far East. To get closest to our customers, we're currently looking for a good data center to host our proposition in Malaysia, Singapore or thereabouts. (Does anybody have good experience, please contact me privately.)

Other than the above solutions, we're of course also still very dedicated to making LedgerSMB a very good and easy solution. However, as I said above, that's a challenge, given the number of dependencies we need as an ERP.

Regards,

Erik.

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On Aug 2, 2013 3:59 PM, "o1bigtenor" <..hidden..> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Marjan Waldorp <..hidden..> wrote:
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>> Hi Erik, Chris,,,
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>> If the LSMB project wants to seek more attention, there might be some issues to consider:
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>> 3. Consider rebasing LSMB onto Perl Dancer
>> Perl Dancer is a modern Web Application Framework.
>> It's powerfull, it's hot.
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> If a change (which is chosen because of its 'cool' or 'hotness' factor) introduces extra work to affect the change - - its valueless (IMHO).
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> More people using the software means more people know about it means more developers. There are known issues with LSMB (the large number of challenges in its installation being one!) that make it less than straightforward for anyone to install and use. Make a great product and get the news out and people will come!