RE: [Phpgroupware-developers] Offline ideas (was PGW in multi-location setup)

[Dave Hall]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:52 +0200, Mailings - Christian Boettger wrote:
> G'day! 
> 
> > From: Thomas Bott [mailto:address@hidden 
> > Subject: [Phpgroupware-developers] PGW in multi-location setup
> 
> > We are going to integrate pgw and tested it so far in one 
> > location [head office]. Now we are about to begin the next 
> > step and are going to run pgw in a second location. We are 
> > looking for a 2-way-replication for addressbook, calendar, 
> > infolog, ... and a one-way-replication for user-, group, 
> > acl-management. Later on, all 9 locations should replicate 
> > their application data and recieve user-, group- and ACL 
> > information from one location only, the head office.
> 
> 
> Interesting coincitence... We are working on an offline-client concept (and
> implementation) at the moment.
> This looks quite similar: notebooks have their own phpGW installation,
> application data can be synced bidirectional where ACL and user data can be
> changed only on the master server. Works mostly already for mail, contacts
> and calendaring, other modules are planned but not implemented. And it's
> alpha phase, not beta or stable.

To reduce the dependencies (and possibly the footprint), you might want
to consider nanoweb (http://nanoweb.si.kz/) as the httpd.  It has been
sitting in my pile of possibly useful toys for a while :)

This combined with sqlite might make quite a lightweight install for a
laptop, which would be cool.

Cheers

Dave
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Dave Hall (aka skwashd)
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