Yep, I totally agree
I would just like to see the dev-community participate in a groupware project for SME but we try work on 1 product. I have had look at Sherpath and it looks impressive. I installed on SME and it runs quite nicely, still try to get it running completely in english though... What does everybody say? Is it going to be Sherpath? Les Mikesell wrote: >>From: Brandon Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >>This groupware issue has been a long standing problem with SME. I can >>remember many discussion about this topic. Almost every package has been >>mentioned but there has never been a community agreement on which >>package should be chosen. >> > > Is there any reason to want a pre-packaged 'groupware' > solution instead of individual best-of-breed (or at > least the best free version) applications for communication > and scheduling? Email groups work fine for transient > communication, and running them through GNU mailman or > something similar automatically provides an archive with > various views. I'm beginning to like twiki for semi-permanent > documents and as a place to share attached files with > descriptions. Http://software.linux.com shows 61 projects > under office/calendar/scheduling with some (achevio) tuned > for project management, others like web calendar for more > generic group scheduling. There are also 188 apps under > Conferencing. I just started to look at those and ran > across http://cvw.sourceforge.net/ which looks impressive. > Has anyone tried it? > > The usual problem with individual apps is the time it takes > to locate, configure, and install them, but if they are > integrated into SME or a simple RPM install that isn't an > issue, especially if there is some way to integrate the > authentication or at least use cookies so you don't have > to log into each app every time. The advantage is that > you can easily swap an individual component to meet local > needs or replace something that is no longer maintained. > > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > -- Regards Brandon Friedman Cell:083 408 7840 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bfconsult.co.za -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
