Open Source Collaboration Software

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at crschmidt.net
Wed Feb 16 22:09:01 EST 2005


For those few of you out there who haven't heard of it yet, there's a 
new project underway called Hula, which aims to be an Open Source Group 
Collaboration software package.

Hula has a wiki-based homepage, at 
http://hula-project.org/index.php/Hula_Server , and has information on 
how to get the source code from svn at 
http://hula-project.org/index.php/Installing_Hula .

Hula sprung in large part from the NetMail product from Novell, which 
was opensourced to give the project a jumping off point. It is currently 
under development by Novell employees, however, there is a development 
mailing list and instructions on how to create patches to the project.

Some parts which are already working:
  * POP Server
  * IMAP Server
  * SMTP Server
  * Webmail interface, with task and preference management.
  * Web admin interface, still replete with Novell branding.

However, all these things are of beta quality. Development is rapid 
moving though, so it may be an interesting project to keep an eye on for 
those of you who are forced to use Windows for Outlook/Exchange type 
collaboration.

Some pro/con viewpoints:

jwz, on "Groupware Bad": http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
Nat, on "The Hula Project": http://nat.org/2005/february/#15-February-2005

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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