[ANN] SOGo-0.9-20070619 released

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

Inverse team is happy to announce the pre-release 0.9-20070619 of 
Scalable OpenGroupware.org (alias "SOGo").

[ What is SOGo ]

SOGo is a flavour of OGo that was redesigned for scalability while 
keeping the fundamental functionalities of a groupware server. It can 
be used both as a Web application with a user interface that 
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 such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning.

Inverse has contributed to SOGo many enhancements and features, such 
as :

- 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

Screenshots of the Web interface for the calendar, address book and 
email modules are available from :

http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-calendar.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-contacts.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-mail.jpg

and of the native interface provided by Mozilla Thunderbird and 
Lightning :

http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-calendar.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-contacts.jpg
http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-mail.jpg

Finally, you can also visit Inverse's website (http://inverse.ca) 
which contains more information about SOGo 
(http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo.html), our Thunderbird 
GroupDAV plugin 
(http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/thunderbird_groupdav_plugin.html) 
and our Lightning Enhancer 
(http://www.inverse.ca/english/contributions/lightning_enhancer_plugin.html).


[ Changes since the last release ]

- new web user interface for managing user preferences
- completely restored and revisited the code for handling all day 
events
- work has begun to convert all transactions of dynamic data to 
json-based transactions (instead of HTML), this will improve bandwidth 
usage and performance as well a W3C DOM compliance
- a bug preventing the users from removing their own events has been 
fixed
- a bug preventing the user to read messages from shared IMAP folders 
was fixed.
- a bug preventing SOGo from building with GCC 3 has been fixed

[ Getting SOGo ]

SOGo is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such, 
you are free to download and try it by either getting the newly 
released snapshot from :

http://www.inverse.ca/uploads/SOGo/SOGo-20070619.tar.gz

or by getting the sources from the official SVN server :

http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOGo/inverse/trunk/

Documentation about the installation and configuration of SOGo is 
available from :

http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo/documentation.html


[ Getting support ]

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

We are continuously working on the project and much more is to come 
very soon!