announcing the 0.9-20070522 snapshot of SOGo

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

Hi everyone,


Inverse team is happy to announce the pre-release snapshot 
0.9-20070522 of Scalable OpenGroupware.org (alias "SOGo"). We are 
continuously working on the project and much more is to come very 
soon!

[What has changed since the last announcement?]
- Many bugs introduced with the recent LDAP code refactoring have been 
fixed. Notably, users would not authenticate correctly after a few 
minutes because of the user cache.
- It is now possible again to authenticate with an indirect bind by 
specifying the "bindFields" parameter in the user defaults.
- The concept of default user roles has been implemented. Making it 
easier to users to configure their repositories and to configure 
calendars for rooms, projectors or other resources...
- The acl system has been extended to support the IMAP acls.
- Work has begun for supporting well known non-free web browsers.

[What is SOGo?]
SOGo is a flavour of OGo that was redesigned for scalability while 
keeping
the basic and fundamental functionalities of a groupware server. It 
can be
used both as a web application with a user interface which integrates 
well
with the Mozilla application suite, or as a GroupDAV and CalDAV server
which you can then access from your native client application of 
choice.
Inverse groupe conseil has been working on it for nearly one year and
has added many enhancements and features :

- Fresh AJAX-based user interface which mimics the Thunderbird /
Lighthing / Sunbird look and feel while reducing resource usage
- Calendar, address book and IMAP folder sharing
- Exchange and Oracle Calendar-compatible ACLs
- Tasks support and vCard storage support for contacts
- Multiple address books per user and LDAP-based address books
- CalDAV support

[Where can I download it?]
SOGo is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such,
you are free to download and try it the way you see fit and from the
following locations....

The mentionned snapshot is available here:
http://www.inverse.ca/uploads/SOGo/SOGo-20070522.tar.gz

... but SOGo is also available with SVN from here:
http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOGo/inverse/trunk/

[Website]
Inverse has setup a website for SOGo along with its other projects, 
with screenshots and videos:
http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo.html

From this website you can also find information about the Inverse
Lightning Enhancer and for the GroupDAV plugins for 
Thunderbird/Lightning.
Both are distributed under the GPL too!

[Support]
For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing an email
to : support@inverse.ca