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

[Sander Vesik]

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
> address@hidden
> 

        Sander

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