Time to communicate

[Dennis Leeuw]

Hi all,

I am stuffed with work right now, but that made me think of something 
that maybe someone in GNUstep community can use.

The problem at my work is the enormous amount of communication means 
people want to use: Chat, mail, shared calendar, VoIP, video 
conferencing etc.

We as the IT team have a very hard time maintaining security, apps and 
the like just to keep the users happy (note: this is a social company, 
so the word 'no' does not exist).

While GNUstep already has GNUmail, TalkSoup, a calendar and Addresses it 
would be nice if it could be turned into a suite with a VoIP app and 
some video conferencing abilities.

We are currently figuring out Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org) and the 
use over satelite with iaxComm 
(http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm), which looks promising.

But the point is if I could propose a system that has integrated the 
features needed by our users, in a secure way (irc and not msn, iax and 
not rtp, GNUmail and not outlook, etc.) that would help a lot.

One single communication suite which can be highly integrated (e-mail 
address for e-mail and VoIP, E-mail with appointment connected to 
calendar, contact info in Addresses linked to everything, etc.) then I 
think I could sell it in the organisation. First GNUstep + suite on 
Windows and who knows.

I won't make this e-mail much longer, just some thinking that's all.

Thanks,

Dennis Leeuw