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Re: Scope of GNU GLUE project [WWW Link]
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Michael Potter |
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Re: Scope of GNU GLUE project [WWW Link] |
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Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:57:34 -0800 (PST) |
I think the GNU Glue project is very interesting, and I think that
"groupware" falls under two different categories here: the asynchronous
aspect, such as e-mail, calendaring, various message-board types of
communication; and synchronous, like IRC, ICQ, audio and video
conferencing and file exchange.
If you are planning to build a "fat client," perhaps it should focus on
the asynchronous aspect of community to compete with MS NetMeeting. I can
see myself wanting to host my own videoconference from my home with
broadband access, but I'm not going to run a mail server or check a fellow
developer's calendar there, I expect to go to the URL of an online
community for those things.
What do you think?
Michael
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Markus Fleck wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > So, what is 'groupware'?
>
> It turns out that the term "groupware" isn't very well-defined. THE GNU GLUE
> project is supposed to build tightly integrated "collaboration groupware",
> rather than traditional "office"-style groupware.
>
> I've written up a longer response at the GNU GLUE Wiki web site,
>
> http://glue.swiki.net/
>
> I should probably refer to GNU GLUE as "collaboration support software", in
> order to make it clear that GLUE won't just copy today's idea of "office
> groupware",
> i.e. a mail/news/todo/calendar/document sharing/address book combo. Other
> projects
> are already in the process of addressing office-style groupware, and are
> doing a
> good job with it. (Looking at phpGroupWare, Evolution, OpenOffice and
> Mozilla.)
>
> Please keep in mind that GNU GLUE is very much an exploratory (and
> experimental)
> project. It's supposed to generalize on the document models of
> Outlook/Exchange and
> Lotus Notes; this will include "traditional" office-style groupware as a
> special case.
>
> Again, if you want to know more about the scope of the GNU GLUE project,
> please read
> my response to this thread at http://glue.swiki.net/.
>
> BTW, what would be the security and session model when using XML-RPC?
>
> Yours,
> Markus Fleck
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