RE: [cobalt-users] eGroups type groupware suggestions?

["William Palumbo ~ RuleSpace" <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent!  The Horde site has or is working on, most everything I need
including a web based project management site!

Regards,
William

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Werby
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 9:17 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] eGroups type groupware suggestions?


William Palumbo ~ RuleSpace <william@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For those of you familiar with what eGroups makes available (sort of an
> online groupware that provides a message area, a calendar, online database
> for contact and other info, page to enter relevant links, a chat area, and
a
> place to set-up your own group polling).

Gotta love web-based productivity tools.  You can find open source code and
apps for all of those features.

> Is there any other software out there (open source would be nice of
course!)
> that comes close to this functionality?

The difficulty lies in integrating all of the components and modifying them
to meet your needs.  The Horde project (http://www.horde.org/) has open
source apps for web-based email, a group calendar and contact info.  I've
never installed it, but it's fairly popular.  It requires PHP and the PHP
Base Library.  Most of the solutions I like involve PHP and MySQL.  At
http://www.phpwizard.net/ there is a chat app and poll app.  I've used the
poll app and I like it.  You can find more useful apps at
http://phpbuilder.px.sklar.com/ and some other sites like it.  There's a
Perl calendar script I like at http://www.mattkruse.com/.

I've just built a member directory app using PHP/MySQL that includes
registration (after completing entry test), random pasword generation, email
notification to user and administrator, user and administrator access to
modify user profile, searchable public and private views (authentication for
private views), and an administrator interface to modify, delete and create
entries.  Someday I'd like to modify it so it's flexible enough for anyone
to use, but right now it has a lot of hard-coding and isn't as modular as
I'd like.

Steven {steven@xxxxxxxxxxxx}


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