November 15, 2007
Project OpenMassMailer started
This week I finally managed to start a new open source software project: OpenMassMailer. I saw the need for a simple yet flexible mass mailing solution after realizing that none of the existing open source software in this category could deliver exactly what we needed at the company.
OMM is not planned to become the one-size-fits-all solution for mass mailing. This is exactly what I found to be the problem of the existing solutions. OMM will be targeted at large companies that need a solution which fits perfectly into their workflow. An example? OMM will not feature an HTML editor. Why? Because if you do serious mass mailing at a large scale, you won’t create your newsletters with a sketchy editor in your browser - you have a web design department where the HTML for your newsletter will be produced in high quality using high quality tools.
In essence, with OMM, I want to follow this principle:
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n’y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n’y a plus rien à retrancher.
(Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.)
The homepage of OMM is located at http://openmassmailer.org/.
My plan is to get other developers on board as early as possible. On ARSC, my former project, I worked mainly alone, and this time I would like to create a result of real teamwork.
If you would like to participate, the best place to go is the OMM Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/openmassmailer/.
Everything developers need to know to get started will soon be available on the Trac wiki of OMM.
Filed by Manuel Kiessling at 11:14 am under software, open source, php, mysql, OpenMassMailer
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