[Design] Chandler/Cosmo feedback from the business sector

Adam Christian adam at osafoundation.org
Tue Sep 25 14:14:19 PDT 2007


Hello, I have a bit of interesting feedback that you guys may be  
interested in.

My girlfriend works over at an event planning company in the North  
Bay working under one of their many managers keeping track of the  
events the company plans and manages etc. They have a lot of needs  
because they do events all over the world and need the timezone  
works, various events that happen regularly and yearly etc. and have  
a lot of use cases that we try to provide for with the OSAF products.
Currently they once a week prepare excel spread sheets and print them  
out so the manager can tape them to the wall to keep track of who is  
doing what and when. I thought this was ridiculous especially for a  
business of it's size etc. so I had her plug the OSAF products for  
people to take a look at.
They would gladly start using our stuff on a company wide scale if  
there were two more features, one per product.

Cosmo: They really can't use it until there are calendar overlays,  
because it doesn't do the managers any good to have to see what a  
single employee is managing at a time, they need a calendar for each  
employee and then need to be able to overlay to see what everyone is  
doing that week.

Chandler: They feel that this would be a great asset to them, however  
it is really unusable without a month view as scrolling through a  
year of events one week at a time looking for an occurrence of an  
event is a bit tedious.

I know that these are two features that have been talked a lot about,  
and are sorely needed out there for real world use. I thought we  
might be able to bump both these up in priority, because having some  
companies start using the OSAF stuff would be really great.

Thanks!
Adam


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