- The person who sets up the server could allow people to automatically sign up for accounts by filling in the Web form and validating with email. Perhaps the person who sets up the server could make it open yet limited by doing one configuration step: "Anybody with a @osafoundation.org" email address that validates can create an account" This is a lot like people drop in Wikis into workgroups today.
- There could be another Web form on the server for creating groups out of existing users
- Possibly a default configuration is that anybody could use the group-creation interface
- now Cosmo can advertise those groups to Chandler or other clients via WebDAV :)
Lisa
On Dec 7, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Alec Flett wrote:
Mimi Yin wrote:
Maybe you just send an email to helpdesk and open a ticket ;o)
I don't think, in a small workgroup or small office, that more than one or two people really need to actually manage groups. Verbal "remote administration" is a totally reasonable first cut...I mean if you take our office for example, Philippe would just manage the apps group, and I might have my private, local-to-chandler groups as a part of my address book. If I want someone added to the group, I can just drop an e-mail to Philippe and say "Hey Reid says he's still not in the Apps group, can you add him?" and he can do so using the cosmo web admin interface.
(In fact, I would argue that there should never be chandler-side management of groups beyond the address book - so either the address book's groups could sync with cosmo's groups, or a URL would be sent from cosmo to chandler, that chandler would launch to manage groups.)
Alec
On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
Yep -- with a server that does ACL and CalDAV fully, this should be possible. This is certainly in the rough Cosmo plan.
Lisa
On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Alec Flett wrote:
Lisa Dusseault wrote:So the answer boils down to: yes, for members a cohesive group that has their calendars hosted in the same place, each person in that group will be able to use a single Cosmo URL to find their own calendar and those of the others in the group. Beyond that, sorry._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The reason I ask is perhaps its possible to look up a group, and get back a set of URLs that the client can go check for free-busy information. So if you can look up "OSAF Apps" and get a set of URLs that correspond to the members of the group, perhaps those URLs could also refer to users/urls on other servers as well.
then it would be up to the client to merge this information appropriately.
Alec
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