Hi Alan, interesting options, however small projects or not real FOSS.
eGroupWare might not be perfect, but is it large and all FOSS. And the
missing link is still the free/busy API.
* Cosmo/Chandler looks interesting, but appears to be quite with small
developer base, and has performance issues even for its target of
supporting individuals and "small" groups.
* Davical appears to have a very small community of developers, perhaps
mainly just Andrew McMillan.
* BedeWork is aimed at the education market, but very clean design,
most admirable. So far though, only about a dozen serious users.
Wrt the other options, from a quick scan most are Commercial Open Source,
offering some free code but holding back additional functionality.
Alan Lord wrote:
Wm Stewart wrote:
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What FOSS needs is an analogue for Exchange, a back-end calendar
server with a nice open API supporting free/busy, including to native
user interface applications like Evolution. There are many attempts
at this with eGroupWare listed on their site, making it a nice
candidate and one of the reasons we picked it, but all interfaces we
looked at did not provide a clean API supporting free/busy to the
Gnome standard email application, Evolution. So we are building one
around RFC 2445. Any help very welcome!
Try Cosmo. The Calendar Server part of the Chandler project from the
OSF. http://chandlerproject.org/wikihome
The server is Caldav compliant and has a web UI built-in too so you can
get to it even when away from your typical desktop. Register on the
"Chandler Hub" and that is basically a publicly accessible Cosmo server
so you can try it out.
The desktop portion of the Chandler project is nice but doesn't really
"cut the mustard" for email. We use Thunderbird + Lightning and the
Cosmo server. Works great.
There is another excellent and very lightweight calendar server called
Davical. http://rscds.sourceforge.net/.
And of course there is the mother of all calendar servers Bedework:
http://www.bedework.org/bedework/setup.do
All the above are open source and standards compliant.
If you are looking for really Open Source Groupware apps, there are
quite a few out there that are actually very comprehensively featured. A
bit of judicious Googling will locate them. (Open Groupware, The Horde,
Citadel, SOGo...)
Cheers
Al
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