What’s to come

Well the beta has turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to freedcamp. First of all THANK YOU ALL for being so helpful with reporting bugs, suggesting features, and just giving you opinion and advice. We have carefully read through everything we received, and have assigned To-Do’s and Discussions in honor of every single one of your suggestions. So if you suggested anything there is 90% chance you will see it whenever we remove the beta tag, or much much earlier.

Even though i don’t have time to go through every suggestion and what we think about it, i did want to talk briefly what you will definitely be seeing coming up.

First of all definitely better time management, easier and much more features in that area. That does include a Start-Stop timer, Export your time sheet into CSV files. Ability to bill for past week, past month, current project and so forth. We may play with a desktop app once the API is finished (coming soon).

Secondly we had a lot of great little suggestions about better ways to organize the information presented to you (mainly referring to the dashboards), the idea in the suggestion was to make the dashboard more relevant to what’s happening RIGHT NOW, and whats important to you! That means seeing more of the Todos assigned to you, seeing things that are due today, tomorrow, this week, or just all together. We will use this opportunity to work on the Notification System which does work, but it emails you on EVERYTHING that happens. We have in the works a system that is a glorified subscription system, where you can subscribe to To-Do’s, Discussions. Also people can subscribe you so that you receive notifications. Not sure when this will come in play but hopefully in the next couple of months.

Files, well we have files in our near future. They will integrate with basically everything. Files will have versions, which will save us designers a lot of work… a little system to make sure all version of our files are kept in a safe place. While we are in beta there will most likely be no file size limitations, however once beta tag comes off we will have extremely minimal fees as to having more storage, we simply cannot afford to host Terabytes of information.

Applications, Addons, and Widgets. Although the names and functionality is in one freedcmap project discussion, where we keep shooting comments back and forth; the general idea is one. With our api, and developer authentication it will be VERY easy to make applications for Freedcamp. These applications, addons, and widgets will all contribute to the most customizable experience on the internet. We believe no one person, or 100 can build the perfect Collaboration platform so we will let everyone to be able to create Themes, Widgets, Applications. Of course we expect development to be rather slow at first as people start investing their time in helping out, but since php is the most used language on the internet im sure we will find a way!

Thanks again for all your help, if you suggestion was not listed above do know we have addressed it and it will most likely be implemented!