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should we (Adeft) use basecamp for our Projects or try to do it on this here wiki?  I was going to start here, but seeing you use a different tool has given me pause.....--[[User:Phalseid|Phalseid]] 22:31, 5 Oct 2006 (NZST)
 
should we (Adeft) use basecamp for our Projects or try to do it on this here wiki?  I was going to start here, but seeing you use a different tool has given me pause.....--[[User:Phalseid|Phalseid]] 22:31, 5 Oct 2006 (NZST)
 
:It's your decision to make based on what features each has and what you need, [[Swanson Sanctuary]] uses basecamp because it has various features for project management which are incomplete or missing in XmlWiki and probably won't be developed until we're in the new peerd environment. But from what I hear, basecamp isn't much use for content management. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 23:02, 5 Oct 2006 (NZST)
 
:It's your decision to make based on what features each has and what you need, [[Swanson Sanctuary]] uses basecamp because it has various features for project management which are incomplete or missing in XmlWiki and probably won't be developed until we're in the new peerd environment. But from what I hear, basecamp isn't much use for content management. --[[User:Nad|Nad]] 23:02, 5 Oct 2006 (NZST)
::Yes, the reason I am using basecamp is that it can handle scheduled milestones and allows the assigning of tasks to various users. Everything else it does, including permissions, seems like a bunch of hacks to me. The other reason was that the group i have been working with (Co-creating Work Community) is using basecamp so i have had to join them there to work with them. A lot of people love Basecamp because it is "simple and friendly", but that's because they don't know what "proper software" should look like! These are the reasons i am using it, to tap into the momentum of existing users on it and for it's project management capabilities.  Rest assured i will be helping Aran borgify all aspects of Basecamp into the proper Peer interface as soon as practical, because I don't actually enjoy using it. Feel free to look around the Basecamp we have set up using the guest login.--[[User:Milan|Milan]] 00:30, 6 Oct 2006 (NZST)
 
 
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Latest revision as of 19:38, 11 December 2006

should we (Adeft) use basecamp for our Projects or try to do it on this here wiki? I was going to start here, but seeing you use a different tool has given me pause.....--Phalseid 22:31, 5 Oct 2006 (NZST)

It's your decision to make based on what features each has and what you need, Swanson Sanctuary uses basecamp because it has various features for project management which are incomplete or missing in XmlWiki and probably won't be developed until we're in the new peerd environment. But from what I hear, basecamp isn't much use for content management. --Nad 23:02, 5 Oct 2006 (NZST)

Basecamp critique

The context for this conversation being Jonathan's question to some Basecamp admins:

What features did you want that Basecamp does not have? What was it about
basecamp that made you stick with it?

It's likely that if there's another product out there that does what you
want I may well have looked at it and can tell you which one it is. I must
have now looked at 15 or so of them, and installed about 6 for testing
purposes.
Will's response
  • Good user admin: one page to assign/de-assign people to multiple projects [Reason #1 why Basecamp is a dropkick]
  • Tiered Email traffic. [reason #2 why basecamp sucks].
Wishlist
  • (a) email contains message (no need to click webpage to see message - major drawback of activeCollab).
  • (b) get email for messages but no comments unless you reply or click to opt-in
  • (c) No email traffic at all as an option.
  • Writeboards [Winner feature #1 of Basecamp]
  • Todos, Milestones, Calendar are helpful [Basecamp does an OK job]
  • grouping of people into Client Companies
  • would be nice to be able to shift people between companies rather than delete and recreate
  • Pretty UI would be very desireable