Inverse team is happy to announce the pre-release 0.9-20070824 of Scalable OpenGroupware.org (alias "SOGo").
[ Release 1.0 ] SOGo has evolved a lot during this past year and we will soon be able to make a release 1.0 of our project. Inverse groupe conseil invites you to test is extensively and report bugs. Also, we would be glad to hear about your experience, in particular if you are using it in a work environment. This way, we will be able to provide a free groupware suite with enough functionalities and ease of use that proprietary equivalents will be made obsolete. [ What is SOGo ? ] SOGo is a flavour of OGo that was redesigned for scalability while keeping the fundamental functionalities of a groupware server. It can be used both as a Web application with a user interface that integrates well with the Mozilla application suite, or as a GroupDAV and CalDAV server which you can then access from your native client application of choice such as Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning. Inverse has contributed to SOGo many enhancements and features, such as : - Fresh AJAX-based user interface which mimics the Thunderbird / Lighthing / Sunbird look and feel while reducing resource usage - Calendar, address book and IMAP folder sharing - Exchange and Oracle Calendar-compatible ACLs - Tasks support and vCard storage support for contacts - Multiple address books per user and LDAP-based address books - CalDAV support - Auto-creation of database tables for an easier setup - IMAP-based draft handling (compose, reply, forward and save) - Email printing [ SOGo on the Web ] Screenshots of the Web interface for the calendar, address book and email modules are available from : http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-calendar.jpg http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-contacts.jpg http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/sogo-mail.jpg and of the native interface provided by Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning : http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-calendar.jpg http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-contacts.jpg http://www.inverse.ca/groupware/images/thunderbird-mail.jpg We now have a demo website where you can experience SOGo from the web or with your preferred CalDAV client: http://sogo-demo.inverse.ca/ Finally, you can also visit Inverse's website (http://inverse.ca) which contains more information and videos about SOGo (http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo.html), our Thunderbird GroupDAV plugin (http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/thunderbird_groupdav_plugin.html) and our Lightning Enhancer plugin (http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/lightning_enhancer_plugin.html). Helge Hess has kindly updated his SOGo webpage by mentionning and linking to the Inverse Edition: http://sogo.opengroupware.org/ [ Changes since the last release ] - added the ability to choose the default module from the application settings: "Calendars", "Contacts" or "Mail"; - added the ability to show or hide the password change dialog from the application settings; - put a work-around in the LDAP directory code to avoid fetching all the entries whenever a specific one is being requested; - added support for limiting LDAP queries with the SOGoLDAPQueryLimit and the SOGoLDAPSizeLimit settings; - fixed a bug where folders starting with digits would not be displayed; - improved IE7 and Safari support: priority menus, attendees selector, search fields, textarea sizes; - added the ability to print messages from the mailer toolbar; - added the ability to use and configure SMTP as the email transport instead of sendmail; - rewrote the handling of draft objects to comply better with the behaviour of Thunderbird; - added a German translation based on Thunderbird; - the online documentation was updated; Existing installations should update their database by running the sql update scripts under the Script/ directory. [ Getting SOGo ] SOGo is free software and is distributed under the GNU GPL. As such, you are free to download and try it by either getting the newly released snapshot from : http://www.inverse.ca/uploads/SOGo/SOGo-20070824.tar.gz or by getting the sources from the official SVN server : http://svn.opengroupware.org/SOGo/inverse/trunk/ Documentation about the installation and configuration of SOGo is available from : http://www.inverse.ca/contributions/sogo/documentation.html Please note that this release relies on the latest version of SOPE available in SVN. Also, there might be fixes for bugs in SOPE which we already addressed but that were not yet commited. [ Getting support ] For any questions, do not hesitate to contact us by writing an email to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are continuously working on the project and a full-featured release 1.0 is to come very soon! _______________________________________________ Info-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnustep
