Re: Scope of GNU GLUE project [WWW Link]

[Michael Potter]

I think the GNU Glue project is very interesting, and I think that
"groupware" falls under two different categories here: the asynchronous
aspect, such as e-mail, calendaring, various message-board types of
communication; and synchronous, like IRC, ICQ, audio and video
conferencing and file exchange.  

If you are planning to build a "fat client," perhaps it should focus on
the asynchronous aspect of community to compete with MS NetMeeting.  I can
see myself wanting to host my own videoconference from my home with
broadband access, but I'm not going to run a mail server or check a fellow
developer's calendar there, I expect to go to the URL of an online
community for those things.  

What do you think?

Michael


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
> 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.)
> 
> 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?
> 
> Yours,
> Markus Fleck
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