Future of Collabtive

[ludo]

Download Collabtive Evolution (xls source here) (jp)

If you look at the 5 last versions, the dowloads number is around 15.000 (excluding 10% of multidownload)
We can estimate to 20% of real users
So... the number of real collabtive users will be 3.000 (not 50.000 !)

It will be interesting to have all the forum activity (excluding no post during the last 6 month)

Eva and phillip what do you think about it ?

[vusis]

I think keep core open source and create a market place for addons; so that anyone including the collabtive team can build proprietary addons

[peterv]

I would continue with the basic open source project, offer a hosted version with more features for people who don't want to or can't install their own and charge a monthly/yearly rate, and sell add on's The extra features in the hosted version, to people using the open source product. I'd buy a module to install default projects right now. How much is it!??

[aaly]

hello there,

iam not one of the most active guys around , nor iam a contributor

however this topic got me interested , i have not read all the replies though but i have some opinions

i saw other groupware software , and *SOME* of them got more tools than collabtive does , however,

i think :

1- there should be a paid/premium/commercial releases that has :
1.A- better bug fixes on demand ( better support in other words
1.B- bundle it with the others services you got , like installation and so on
2- Integrate Collabtive into some famous CMS , the ones those has it all , like joomla,magento,wordpress.... , make a component or plugin , that way : ( i hope iam not in trouble by mentioning another OpenSource's project name if it is some kind of advertising , please remove the brand/name )

2.A you reach more and more devels and users
2.B you don't have to worry about alot of the *TOOLS* that other groupware got , i know you guys might not a joomla guys or other cms but that would be awesome ( NO DOUBT )
2.C Maybe the API would be cool for writing plugins/modules , however 2.B would be more efficient and robust
Donations, are good for paying domains and cheap stuff ( annual stuff )

good luck , regards,

AAly