[TYPO3] Is DAM worth its use or is it dead?

[Erik Svendsen]

Hello Benjamin,

> Hey,
> 
> personally, I want to develop the DAM to finally make this thing good.
> Unfortunately my time was limited until now (finally back to speed in
> TYPO3 development), so I look for TYPO3 projects that sponsor my
> development in the DAM extension (it is truly a beast), to fit it
> nicer to the actual core and make it.
> 

Nice! I suppose you are in contact with Michiel (of course you are). The 
funny part of the story is that DAM was a joint idea between Rene and Ben, 
as far as I know. And I have probably the opportunity to sponsor some work.

> I have to use it and it's a shame to show this to my clients since
> it's barely usable (in terms of usability), but I need it for the
> metadata.
> 
> Anyway: Yes, I'd be interested in René's initial presentation. Do you
> have a link or something?
> 
> Fairly enough, I do not recommend DAM yet, but I hope it gets
> developed in the right direction so people can finally like this part
> of the TYPO3 project as well.
> 
> BTW: I think there is no discussion if it's a sysext or not, the core
> team has a lot of other work to do, and this way the DAM development
> would even be slowed down a lot as well, so I don't think this will
> (and should) ever be a sysext. With making DAM integrate nicer to the
> TYPO3 core (which the DAM team will do in the future) there is no need
> to have it as a sysext.
> 

For everyone interested, http://www.linnearad.no/fileadmin/dam.wmv

It's about 73 MB, in 320 x 240 pixels and not very good quality. On TYCON3 
in 2005 (renamed to T3CON after that) the capturing of all the speeches was 
only an experiment. Length, nearly 1 1/2 hour.

Else, I agree when it comes to usability. 

WBR,
Erik Svendsen
www.linnearad.no