[Kolab-devel] Final Estimations - SPL for Kolab Webinterface

[Raphael Langerhorst]

Hello everyone,


Yesterday I had another meeting with my boss and we further discussed the 
Kolab2 webinterface project. I am glad to be able to present you an outline 
and a final budget and timeline estimation.

The outline is here:
http://raphael.g-system.at/tech/kolab/interface.html

I've obviously learned not to present numbers too soon, but since I have 
already made an initial proposal (which was obviously too low budgeted, sorry 
about that) we want to make another more realistic one:


Budget and Timeline:

Budget: 15 000 Euro
Most of functionality (basically usable): within 1st Quarter of 2007 (Feb/Mar)
Additional issues and bug fixing: a couple of months
Finish the project: within 3rd Quarter 2007

With a budget of 15 000 Euro I could work on this project, implement most of 
the functionality by the first quarter of 2007 and continue to solve upcoming 
issues for another couple of months and generally finish the job by the third 
quarter of 2007.
I am confident that this is possible. Additional budget is of course welcome, 
but this is the minimum.


Reasons for working on this:

As hinted in the outline I do believe that we can come up with a much cleaner 
and more maintainable solution this way than to adapt Horde, which is 
important in the long-run (maintainability). At the same time the modern 
technology can provide a much more sophisticated interface.
- without desiring harm for any work done on Horde.


Next Generation Interface:

The proposal also hints at another kind of next-generation interface that 
could be implemented along similar lines. I would be even more eager to work 
on this but I assume there is no funding. Still, if there is I'd be willing 
to work on it - even with about the same budget. Doing both of these 
interfaces would be possible with 25 000 Euro (less than twice the budget).
Something I would recommend if possible.


Functionality:

The functionality covers "generally expected groupware functionality". Details 
for requirements should be discussed.


Personal:

I'm eager to work on this. I am working with Kolab2 since its 2.0 release and 
would enjoy contributing to the project with such a component to make Kolab2 
even more usable and complete. The estimated budget is rather small still, 
but I can do this because of being familiar with the technologies and because 
of personal and corporate interest. A major factor is also the approach 
itself that results in a reasonable low amount of work.


Organising things:

I would propose to do the project through the Kolab-Konsortium in the sense 
that the Kolab-Konsortium gets funding from interested parties and in turn 
the Kolab-Konsortium is funding me/us to work on this project.


Please get in touch with me if you're interested!

Best Regards,
-- 
Raphael Langerhorst
http://raphael.g-system.at
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