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> > No, not a waste of time, it is a legitimate issue.  A large part of
> > making a friendly environment for developers is squashing all the little
> > stupidities/inconsistencies every-single-developer is otherwise burdened
> > with (a) knowing about and (b) working around.
> Thanks.  Considering how much is provided by OGO, and the help on this 
> list, AND how easy you and Helge have made getting a working installation 
> going, I'm astounded that OGO is not better known.  

We stink at marketing! :)  Also I think the pool of people who need a
"real" groupware server isn't terribly large.  The worst thing here is
that the current website it pretty darn awful and extremely out of date.

If you want to make a tiny contribution to project marketing I think it
is useful to go to the major Open Source software index [freshmeat] and
rate the project(s) and possibly add a kind word in a comment.  Someone
looking for software will then have some indication that there is
interest in the product.   People often mistakenly get the idea that
OpenGroupware is dead/moribund.

Freshmeat
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/opengroupware_org/>
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/zidestore/>
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/zogi/>

In the same manner Ohloh is an up-and-comer in such things.  You can
"stack" software you use so other people can get a [extremely
unscientific] estimate on the size of the community around a project.
Ohloh also lets you submit reviews.

Ohloh
<http://www.ohloh.net/projects/OpenGroupware>
<http://www.ohloh.net/projects/zOGI>

> Ninety percent of the 
> things that have slowed me down in this evaluation have been to do with 
> getting my own installs of Postfix and Cyrus working, 

WMOGAG has a growing section on Cyrus that will be included in the next
version.  We've been a Cyrus shop since long before OGo.

> rather than problems 
> with OGO.  I'm very happy with everything I've seen.  I'll get round to 
> learning ObjC soon, and start looking at the code too.

Documentation is a bit scant,  I've gathered some up here
<http://docs.opengroupware.org/Members/whitemice/Development/index_html/view> that is more specifically developer focused than what is in WMOGAG.  I've also accumulated a collection of Obj-C related articles and what not;  if your ever interested I'll tarball those and send them off-list.

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