Re: Suggestion for SME...

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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:44 pm, Brandon Friedman wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> Just as a suggestion for SME and the future, and yes we have mentioned
> this before. The absolute killer app for the system is groupware. Now I
> have been testing an opensoure project for a few months now called Kolab
> (http://kolab.kde.org). It works really well and with an Outlook
> connector (bynari or toltec) you can sync and share information very
> easily.
Kolab is a great thing (hey, I'm a KDE devel :-), but it is quite different to 
E-smith.

> There would be a lot of work getting kolab intergrated into SME but
> maybe what we should do is take the concepts and get them to work on
> SME?
I think it might work better if we took the SME additions and bolted them onto 
Kolab. The major functionality that is missing from Kolab is the fileserver 
bits (Samba, ftpd of some kind, and rsync).

If we want to go to in a groupware server direction, it might be better to 
turn SME into a firewall / gateway box, dropping out the non-essential 
functionality.

> Now to get all these wonderful things work, is not going to be easy. I
> would like to know if this would be a worthwhile project or wether is
> will be too much of a change to the SME core functions?
If we (as a group) want to change this much, we should do so now. I think that 
the SME server community could bring a lot to Kolab.

Brad
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