[Freeswitch-users] WikiPBX Installation

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On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Michael Collins wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Matthew Lockwood <matthew.lockwood at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> That would involve me learning a totally new framework. It'll not  
> the hardest code I'll ever write by far, so I'm okay coding it up on  
> my own. However, I definitely need a lot of help from fabulous  
> designers to actually make the interface pretty and useable. Plus,  
> I'm only one person and will need a lot of feedback to create  
> something that rocks - everybody has a different use case and I  
> can't foresee how everybody will use it, so that kind of feedback  
> will go into re-engineering it.
>
> If you guys are serious about this then I would like to make a few  
> suggestions that might be obvious but for the sake of the project  
> we'll make them explicitly obvious.
>
> First, before deciding what framework to use, it would be good to  
> hold some discussions about what the GUI actually needs to do:
> What are the design goals?
> Will it be just for setting up extensions and the dialplan? Or will  
> it go much farther than that?
> Will you be using mod_xml_curl for everything? If so, what  
> database(s) will you support?
> Are you going to have extra goodies like an IVR builder?
> A 'visual voicemail' page?
> A user portal?
> Management interface to 'spy' on users?
> A CDR/call accounting system?
> FIFO and/or ACD queue management?
> MOH and sound files management?

and conference management

>
>
> It's okay to start small and build your way out, but you need to  
> know before you start building what the grand scheme will be. The  
> larger the goals of the project, the narrower your choices for a  
> framework that can do it all. The simple fact of the matter is that  
> if you want to use a MVC web framework then you have a somewhat  
> limited number of choices. You need a MVC WF that fits your needs,  
> which means it needs to be at least somewhat flexible. If you want a  
> pretty GUI then you need to decide if you want a rich Internet  
> application (RIA) front end like AIR, or do you want something along  
> the lines of XHTML/CSS/JS and use a platform like Dojo which gives  
> you cross-browser widgets and tools. All of this on top of the fact  
> that if you want volunteers to assist you will need to pick  
> something that people either know or can learn quickly.
>
> Oh, and be prepared for people to give you unsolicited opinions  
> about all sorts of things. :)
>
> All that being said, I say go for it. Find what works for you and  
> see what happens. Be sure to use #freeswitch-gui. If this really  
> takes off I'm sure that we could even start a mailing list for GUI  
> development.
>

Once the goals and features decided I think more ppl can join and work  
this out together.

> Enjoy!
> -MC
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