Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] OSS groupware, was: linux,conf.au

[Chris Weiss]

>From sitting on IRC and such I know the biggest chalenges, which just happen
to be what will bring us to the "exchange killer" position.

- Either through our own XMLRPC/SOAP based clients or by using evo and olook
plugins to provide a faster interface.  For many things we can do something
like xslt based client forms to make the client light and use caching to make
it fast.

- pda, Outlook, and evo sync, which would grant offline capabilities for
laptop clients.

from the api view point, we also need better ways to achive inter application
linking.  infolog is ok, but it falls short in may ways.  The links need to
use the app interfaces themselfs by way of hooks.  We have the tools in place
to do this, we just need an API way to make it standard.

Dave Hall (address@hidden) wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have recovered from linux.conf.au.  I had a great time.  Listened to
> some interesting sessions.
>
> One of the commmon themes from many sessions i attended was that
> groupware is the area that FOSS falls down.  We need to make sure that
> we are seen as *the* viable option :)
>
> Over the next few days I will start posting some ideas for what we can
> do in head.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>