[Evolution] Re: [discuss] Scope of GNU GLUE project [WWW Link]

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik ireland sun com>]

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

OK, I probably should have asked 'what does groupware consist of for the
purposes of OGS'. 

> 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.)
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm of course very flattered but I can't recall us actually doing anything
for it...

> 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?

good question 8-)

> Yours,
> Markus Fleck
> fleck gnu org

        Sander

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