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BROWSING: January 2009

The end-of-project year: Ramping up while winding down 30 January 2009

There is something slightly schizophrenic about working on the last year of a five-year global project. For the past four years, we have focused on developing our software, refining our processes and strategies, and attracting new customers. Our project has been very successful and is gaining momentum. We only just released the third piece [...]

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iHRIS Manage Saves Time Locating Employee Records 29 January 2009

Last spring, the HR management (HRM) department at the MOH in Uganda requested the Capacity Project’s assistance with implementing iHRIS Manage, the Project’s free and Open Source HR management software, to monitor the number of health workers deployed in the country by cadre and district. In response, iHRIS Manage was installed at the MOH and [...]

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Usability in open source software 28 January 2009

In his blog Matthew Paul Thomas offers some thoughts on why free software has poor usability and how to improve it. He makes a good point about free software projects needing a dedicated designer who is not a programmer, as these are often different skill sets. Along with a product manager, documentation manager, QA specialist [...]

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