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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Greetings from the Glow project
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-07-24 20:38:58
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Hi Colm,

On Thursday 24 July 2003 18:07, Colm Smyth wrote:
>
> KDE-PIM is one of the better known (and higher quality) groupware
> client suites so I wanted to offer *greetings* from everyone
> here at Glow, and to open the door for some discussions about
> how our two projects could collaborate!

It's good to see other groupware open source projects developing. That's 
an area where we are still lacking some solutions compared to 
proprietary systems. We are definitely interested in productive 
collaboration.

> I would like to welcome you to drop by our site to
> see where we are going; maybe we can brain-storm
> here on e-mail about some ways that our projects
> could co-operate?

Group calendaring might be the top priority item here, because this 
isn't as well standardized as for example the email parts.

You mention a WCAP server on your site. Which server is that? Is there 
an open-source implementation of this protocol? Which other protocols 
are you considering to support? I think the lack of an open-source 
calendar server has hindered client development in the past. It would 
be really nice, if there would be some kind of standard for that which 
is accepted and implemented by different clients. Two candidates would 
be Kolab and OpenGroupware, another one would be a CAP based server, 
although I'm not aware of any working open-source server implementation 
of this protocol.

Another area where cooperation and interoperability testing might be 
very useful is peer-to-peer group scheduling with iMIP. Are you 
planning to support that?

I didn't find anything about contact management on your website. What 
are you planning to support in this area? I suspect LDAP would be the 
natural solution. Here we might want to discuss interoperability of 
LDAP schemes.

> Again, best wishes from everyone here on the Glow
> project and I wish you all well with your ongoing
> development!

Thanks and my best wishes to you as well :-)

Regards,
Cornelius

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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