ANN: SOGo 1.0RC6.1

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

The Inverse Team is pleased to announce the release candidate 6.1 of 
Scalable OpenGroupware.org (SOGo).

=== What is SOGo ===

SOGo is a free and modern scalable groupware server. It offers shared 
calendars, address books and emails through your favorite Web browser or 
by using a native client such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning.

SOGo is standard-compliant and supports CalDAV, CardDAV, GroupDAV and 
reuses existing IMAP, SMTP and database servers - making the solution 
easy to deploy and interoperable with many applications.

SOGo features :

* Scalable architecture suitable for deployments from dozen to many 
thousand users
* Rich Web-based interface that shares the look and feel, the features 
and the data of Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning
* Improved integration with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lighthing by using 
the SOGo Connector and the SOGo Integrator
* Two-way synchronization support with any SyncML-capable devices 
(BlackBerry, Palm, Windows CE, etc.) by using the Funambol SOGo Connector

and many more! SOGo and our connectors are completely free.

=== 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/downloads/SOGo/Sources/SOGo-1.0rc6.1.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

You can also try our online SOGo demo at :

http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca/

Finally, you can also download our SOGo Connector for Mozilla 
Thunderbird / Lighthing and our SOGo Connector for Funambol at :

http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo connector.html
http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/funambol.html

These connectors allow a good integration with Mozilla Thunderbird, 
Lightning and your favorite mobile devices.

=== Changes from the previous release ===

* Initial Apple iCal 3 support (http://inverse.ca/uploads/pics/ical.png)
* Courier IMAP support (ACL and folders management)
* Support for calendar tags for eventual multi-calendar sync in Funambol
* Improved the invitation window appearance
* Vastly improved underlying SQL requests
* Minor bug fixes and features enhancements

=== How can I help ? ===

The product is in constant evolution. You can provide your help to make 
SOGo better by contributing on various areas such as :

* Translations
* Testing and bug reports! (you can use http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca)
* CSS and JavaScript adjustments to the Web UI

Feel free to send us your questions. You can also post them to the SOGo 
mailing list:

http://sogo.opengroupware.org/en/support/lists/index.html

=== Getting Support ===

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

Inverse offers professional services around SOGo to help organizations 
deploy the solution and migrate from their legacy systems.