FYI, as seen on the AmphoraLight software list.
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Alessio Bragadini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
APL Financial Services (Overseas) Ltd
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Dear list,
It seems that a new initiative is born to develop a middleware component
(like ODBC) which syncs OUTLOOK groupware actions (like appointments, tasks
and contacts) with a groupware server (like Amphora Lite)
Hereby I ask you whether you can participate in this project. We must form a
'winning team' meaning that all required disciplines are needed. Not just
developers or latter project managers.
The Product
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My personal idea is make the product in phases:
phase 1 stabilize: develop the middleware component to interact with Outlook
and Amphora light
phase 2 server enhancements: adjust and make it general to more servers
(like Tutos.org etc.)
phase 3 client enhancements: adjust to comply with other "Outlooks" like
clones for KDE/GNOME
And I agree to make it opensource and XML based.
Btw, take a look at the server/client of
http://www.billworkgroup.org/billworkgroup/home . It's an Exchange server
replacement. It's opensource, but the outlook middleware is "closed
software".
The interesting part is that they don't use XML but Corba to interact
between the middleware and the server.
Required Resources:
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people: project manager, developers, product promoters(?)
technical: IDE, technical resources
collaboration/management/document(versioning) system: CVS? / FTP?
others: a promo website?
Current list of potential participants:
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Indrek J�rve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Knowledge: ....
Roles: ....
Is willing to commit for ... hours/week
Patrick J. Conroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Knowledge: ....
Roles: .....
Is willing to commit for ... hours/week
Roland Knall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Knowledge:
Roles:
Is willing to commit for ... hours/week
Ruben Waitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Knowledge: ....
Roles: ....
Is willing to commit for ... hours/week
Tip:
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I've never tried it, but "WideStudio" is an integrated development
environment (IDE) to build GUI applications
for Linux / FreeBSD / SOLARIS / Windows95/98/ME,Windows NT,Win2K.
Maybe it's worth to use this in our project.
http://www.widestudio.org/EE/index.html
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