On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Wm Stewart wrote:
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:40:39 -0400
From: Wm Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [discuss] Bundle Evolution with OpenOffice? / Need for Free/Busy
Hi, the main issue here is not email, contacts, or calendar applications, it
is the need for a calendar server, providing the backend to support free/busy
functionality so that teams can collaborate.
Contacts and Email and Calendars need to talk together. There are increasing
numbers of solutions to that - let's say the three leading ones are
Evolution, Thunderbird/Lightening, and eGroupWare. However, only eGroupWare
provides the "table stakes" to credibly provide solutions for organizations,
because only it can provide the simple analogue to Outlook/Exchange meeting
functionality so many people are familiar with, "free/busy" functionality to
find open times available among teams.
If you don't wish to use the complete eGroupWare solution including its web
email interface, perhaps because you are using Ubuntu with Evolution so
nicely integrated, I'm unaware of any other FOSS options. Groupwise works
very nicely with Evolution, but it is not FOSS.
We have looked at FOSS solutions, and have decided to build an RFC 2445
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt compliant interface between Evolution
with its nice front-end that understands free/busy functionality, and
eGroupWare which has a good server and FOSS community behind it. This will
provide pure FOSS native free/busy functionality from Evolution.
I joined to let you know about freeopensourcesoftware.org, but there might be
more synergy. Of course we will be releasing our interface as FOSS.
Comments, suggestions, and developer offers to help, very welcome!
Cheers,
Bill
From a slightly different perspective here (as in, different to my
wanting Star Office 5.2 revived :) ), as a user of Debian 4.0, using
Synaptic, I did a earch on the term "groupware", and (as usual) got
many responses:
kolabd
"
groupware server
Kolab is a secure, scalable, and reliable groupware server. It consists
of a number of well-known and proven components for the standard tasks
such as e-mail, directory service, and web service. Kolab adds
intelligent interaction between the components, a web administration
interface, management of free/busy lists, etc. Various clients can
access Kolab, among them Kontact (KDE), Outlook (Windows), and Horde
(web).
This package contains the groupware server program, the LDAP gateway
daemon, as well as the dependencies and documentation to run Kolab.
Web site: http://www.kolab.org/
"
kolab-resource-handlers
"
Kolab free/busy scripts
This package contains scripts for the free/busy feature of the Kolab
groupware server.
Kolab is a secure, scalable, and reliable groupware server. It consists
of a number of well-known and proven components for the standard tasks
such as e-mail, directory service, and web service. Kolab adds
intelligent interaction between the components, a web administration
interface, management of free/busy lists, etc. Various clients can
access Kolab, among them Kontact (KDE), Outlook (Windows), and Horde
(web).
Web site: http://www.kolab.org/
"
phpgroupware
"
web based groupware system written in PHP
phpGroupWare is a fully web based groupware system. It includes
applications
such as email, calendar, todo list, address book, file manager, notepad.
This is only the base package, the modules are shipped separately in
packages named "phpgroupware-<module>".
"
There are many packages listed for phpgroupware.
Perhaps, if people are seeking software to do specific
office-related tasks, like this calendar/scheduling thing that
indicates whether a person is busy or free, they should use their
package manager, to search for the functionality. It may already exist
and be available.
But, I still think that Star Office 5.2 should be revived.....
:)
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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