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From:
Maciej M. Latek
Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 20:18
Subject: Re: Please, check it out
Samer
First, I must admit that I'm impressed with the way Kune looks and works. I heard that GWT is powerful, but did not suspect that such a small team would be able to accomplish so much: would you care to estimate how many work hours were devoted to this project?
Second, I hope that you do not have expectations of only praise from such an old grizzled man like me, so I will cut short and ask following:
- This thing is to be deployed by the end-user on it's own desktop or would an community server be supported?
- If it is supposed to be deployed by the end-user, you would be hard pressed to point to advantages over other open-source
CMS system (I have some experience with Joomla (great, and those thousands
extensions for it, including all the blogs and social networking features) and one thing for class management moodle, which
sucks). Of course, I might be missing something, but at least you could build a table what is in Kune that is missing from, say, Joomla? Is it just the hippy/anarchist/leftist feel to it with plenty of licences to choose from, or something that GWT enables AJAX/php doesn't?
- One big red flag: can a user subscribe to a page to get automatically notified about the changes to it (like RSS / Trac feeds)? And where is my SVN (right, I know you might be targeting different crowd)?
- Would I be able to use / reuse as plugins other GWT applications? Like stuff from my igoogle homepage?
- How do you expect to compete with assembla where I get all the features and server space for free (for users if not money)?
- Would you be able to point me to a website / existing online community which would be better off migrating to Kune?
As You see, those are mostly framing questions, in terms whom exactly Kune targets and what incremental benefit it offers over existing solutions / whether you can reuse community effort from other projects in an effortless manner. And, of course, those are just my random issues and feel free to disregard them.
Once again, great job and my best regards,
Maciek