J_K9 @ Linux

Mira Groupware: Pending Review

Due to the need which has been expressed for a powerful, extensible, easy-to-use Open Source client/server groupware platform (that is certainly a mouthful!), I have submitted the project, designed to compete with existing platforms such as Groove (as explained here), to SourceForge.net for hosting under the name “Mira Groupware.” Here are the details of the submission:

Project submission:

Created:
2007-02-14 18:48

Last modified:
2007-02-14 19:13

Submitter:
J_K9 (j_k9)

Project type:
An Open Source Software Project

UNIX name:
mira

Descriptive name:
Mira Groupware

Public description:
This is an Open Source Groupware platform designed to have powerful project management and collaboration capabilities and yet still be easy-to-use and have an intuitive interface.

Trove categorisation:

• License :: OSI-Approved Open Source :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Intended Audience :: by End-User Class :: Advanced End Users
• Intended Audience :: by End-User Class :: Developers
• Development Status :: 1 - Planning
• Topic :: Communications
• Topic :: Office/Business :: Enterprise
• Topic :: Office/Business :: Project Management
• Topic :: Software Development
• Operating System :: Grouping and Descriptive Categories :: OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language)

Registration description:
The Mira Groupware platform is an Open Source collaboration platform which may be used primarily in organisations and enterprises for project management or as a means of organised communication between people from around the world. It will use a client/server model; the client will be an Internet-enabled graphical desktop application, and the server will be a command-line application which may be run as a daemon (and may possibly have a web administration interface so that its settings may be changed remotely).

Mira will be designed from the ground-up to be easy-to-use and administer. It will sport features such as shared and private calendars, filesharing (as a layer on top of a version control system such as CVS or SVN), both chat (instant messaging, possibly built upon Jabber) and email-like messaging, a shared online whiteboard, and have many other collaboration features. It will allow users to work on their local content offline and then resync with the server when they are next online. Any conflicts will either be resolved or made apparent by the server.

It will also be extensible as it will allow third-party plugins to be created and used to improve its collaboration features.

For more information, please see the following webpage: click here

Current status:
Pending review

The UNIX and Descriptive names, Public description and Trove categorisation may later be changed, so it’s not too problematic if they don’t quite fit the project at the moment (although I think they’re fairly suitable).The Registration description does not go into a lot of depth but does describe some of the aims of the project, so hopefully it will all be read and taken in. If I had written too little, the reviewer may have thought that there was not enough motivation behind the project, and if I had written an essay he or she may just have skimmed over it, so I’m hoping that the length and content will please the reviewer!

I will announce the reviewer’s comment and whether it is accepted as soon as the project’s registration page is updated. Until then, please continue to share your thoughts on this project in the comments section of the original proposition: whether it will be built on top of Lucane or started afresh in a certain language (which), how you imagine certain aspects of the application, what improvements you would like to see in existing solutions, etc. Thank you!