[GRLUG] groupware recommendation

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 16:57 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> Where I work, the guy who has control over our servers is extremely
>> paranoid of external housing of data. (No, that's not going to change;
>> don't let that debate sidetrack this thread.) We haven't touched
>> external dedicated managed-hardware servers or VPS, much less managed
>> applications. Colo is the closest we've gotten.
>> I'd be very interested to know about groupware recommendations that
>> can be managed in-house.
>
> Well, I'm developing OpenGroupware Coils.  Evolution is the first client
> I test with.  But it isn't a released product/project, yet.
>
> It is a port of the Objective-C OpenGroupware server which is a PITA to
> get installed on modern distributions [GNUStep being a mess].

Yeah, I remember trying to set up the ObjC version last summer. It was
frustrating that D5 marked the dropping of the packages from
Debian/Testing.

>
> Besides OpenGroupware there is Scalable OpenGroupware [which isn't
> OpenGroupware despite the eponymous name], E-Groupware, and Citadel.
> All support GroupDAV and should work to some extent with Evolution - I
> haven't tested any of them in ages.

Citadel exists in the Debian repos. I haven't tried it, though.

>
> I'm not "paranoid" but I do -1 proprietary solutions, such as gmail.
> Placing ones data in a vendor-specified proprietary vat just doesn't
> make sense.

I'd go with that. The wall I keep running into has to do with having
to trust outsiders with access to the data.

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