Kolab Summit 2015 Announced 15
First time accepted submitter stilborne writes The Kolab Collaboration Suite, the open source groupware system that scales from "Raspberry PI" installations to 100k+ seat enterprise deployments, has been adopted by companies and governments around the world, making it one of most successful "poster children" for Free Software and Open Standards. In order to chart the next steps forward, the Kolab community has announced the inaugural Kolab Summit to be held in The Hague on May 2-3, 2015. Along with workshops, BoFs and coding break-out sessions, presentations will be given by key developers from a number of open source projects including Kolab, Roundcube, cyrus imap, and KDE among others. Registration is free, and the call for presentations is live for the next few weeks.
Mormonism (Score:3)
"a" and "m" (Score:1)
Single letters make a difference there too: It's "Moronism".
Re:Groupware? (Score:4, Interesting)
Though some consider it an antiquated term in the days of social media, "groupware" typically refers to integrative software for enabling / scheduling communication and collaboration, typically client/server based and often in business settings. Email and instant messaging, calendar and task assignment/scheduling/reminders, PIM / address book, file sharing, sync etc... that all work together are typically involved in groupware solutions. Novell GroupWise, Outlook / Exchange, Zimbra, Google Mail / Apps for business etc... are some of the big names people recognize and offer different levels of support and solutions.
There are also several FLOSS a projects that fall into this category, with Kolab being one that is well integrated and supported.
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Actually, it's an email server, except it's not just email - there's also contacts, calendars, to do lists, etc. It's basically a direct competitor to Microsoft Exchange, but with a FOSS stack. I have it installed on my home server, and it works pretty well.
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I've been using it for little over a year (for the same reason as you - didn't want to put too much info into Google), and would describe it as half-decent. I use it as a diary, essentially - schedule, calender, todo list, etc. I still use Gmail for actual email though, because unless you own the domain outright (i.e. not a subdomain) you can trigger false positives for spam on other servers that results in you mail being dropped.
Pros:
-open source
-free (gratis)
-works
Cons:
-pain to setup - the target audience
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I'm afraid this is true, at the moment. Kolab has never been a workable or even working project, in my opinion. Which is really, really sad.
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Kolab supports multi-domain, in fact even ASP multi-tenancy, environments. And seamless updates and upgrades are part of the enterprise values it provides under support. But naturally one needs to know what they are doing. This is a complex micro-service architecture that is more powerful than virtually any of the competitors. But that power comes at the cost of loads of opportunities to shoot yourself in the foot.
I think is simultaneously the best thing and the second biggest issue[1] about Kolab - it's a very powerful piece of software targeted at sysadmins. You can setup some very complex, enterprise grade configurations with it, but to do that you need to be willing to muck around with postfix, etc. By that same note, you need to have at least basic familiarity with postfix, apache, cyrus, etc. to actually set it up in the first place, which sets the bar fairly high. (I think it took me a week of practicing in a