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

[ben van 't ende [netcreators]]

Erik Svendsen wrote:
> Hello Benjamin,

Hey Benni, Erik, Guys,

DAM is absolutely an essential part of an Enterprise CMS. We implement it on a 
lot of sites already in combination with mm_filelist that really is a superb 
extension for showing records from DAM. A lot has improved towards 1.1. 
Netcreators also has some projects now where we can develop DAM a little further 
and work towards a 1.1 final. I am making a list of that now. I have seen some 
interesting remarks in this thread. Two things are indeed skinning and 
customizing the backend forms to make it a little more userfriendly. We'll 
consider that after 1.1. I have to laugh a bit about the remark that it is 
barely usable. Usability can be improved, but Rene did a great job building DAM 
as it is.

Anyway I hope Benni can join development. We have got it all in SVN. So........

gRTz

ben



>> 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
> 
> 


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