[GRLUG] groupware recommendation

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 07:02:13PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams 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].

So the difference between the two is Objective-C versus Python?

> 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.
> 
> 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.

Given the nature of the organization I'm setting up, privacy is a great
concern.
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john-thomas
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