[Evolution] Would Evolution support open groupware?

[Lloyd Llewellyn <subscr001 twilight-systems com>]

> I just read this thread on the Open Office Discuss list
> discuss openoffice org   All of the comments have been CCed to
> evolution ximian com, however, I haven't seen any of that thread.  It is
> apparent that the authors of the thread were under the impression that
> evolution ximian com was an alias for either evolution-hackers helixcode com
> or evolution helixcode com 

Thanks for the info Tom - looks like Ximian updated their web page
(http://www.gnome.org/resources/mailing-lists.html) but not their list
server.

I'll try to summarize: 

Several members of the Open Office discussion list and a couple on the
Evolution list have been discussing an open source groupware project.
The "fantasy" version of how this might happen is archived in this
message:

http://lists.helixcode.com/archives/public/evolution/2001-February/005265.html


In the OpenOffice archives, you can find related threads by searching
for "groupware" in this web page:

http://www.openoffice.org/www-discuss/current/threads.html


Major features:

-  offers services similar MS-Exchange, Lotus Notes, and Novell
Groupwise.

-  allows independent, drop-in replacement of the client / client OS,
groupware package, and back end data store.

-  encourages developers to write clients for the system with a
comprehensive and flexible API


Questions:

-  would Ximian co-sponsor such an effort?  Would they consider writing
to a back end like this?

-  ditto for Open Office?

-  anyone here interested in something like this?


Thanks