Buni Meldware Communication Suite

So the recovery efforts from the other week's hard drive failure are wrapping up. Most services have been restored. We'll now make sure the backup logs go to the private list so that they don't require manual monitoring (embarrassing on my part). ... [More] We're in talks with various a couple folks about switching off our host who shook us down for a measly extra $15/mo fees in the midst of the effort -- and made us get a "quote" for that -- causing a delay in the recovery. At the moment we're required to pay for both our old broken drive and our new not broken drive because we'd have agreed to anything to get back up and running knowing that we could just stop doing business with them later. We lost NO code in this disaster and no code history either. We did loose some interim builds but all the milestones are there. We had to manually recover some blog entries. We lost some wiki content, but most was in google cache. We lost some forum data (very sorry about that). Sadly we'd have probably lost nothing (despite my mess up) had the hosting company read the ticket all the way and done what they had SAID their procedure was (and slaved the original drive while booting from the new one). Yet they instead installed the old drive...and wiped it too. After finally getting a clueful person who apologized and said a supervisor would call and explain the situation (they didn't call -- I had to file another ticket to request a "WTF?" on that to which I got that info and a "investigating ways to prevent this from happening in the future"), he explained that none of this was policy. All in all, I got the impression that they don't know what they're doing and don't "have our back" for what we pay them for. My apologies to everyone, we're still trying to operate infrastructure on a tight budget until the commercial launch and I just plain goofed up combined with the decline in quality of service from our hosting company. We'll get better and I hope our infrastructure will soon match the quality of our software! On a happier note, Aron will be making another LUG tour announcement. Also I wanted to say thanks to the guys and gals at the DCLUG. What a great and very professional LUG. Sorry about the mess with the projector! It was great to see their enthusiasm for the project and very helpful to gather their advice and thoughts on areas for improvement. If you are in DC, I highly recommend stopping by and staying after for the Kabob! I'd worked through the night and passed out in the hotel when I arrived so I hadn't eaten all day...so I made a pig of myself :-) We will have to make some schedule updates to the project as the outage and everyone kicking in to help with infrastructure did set us back a little. We're also likely to add an M9 release, and cut the scope of M8 as there are a lot of great new features that we'd like to release and mature before our first RC. [Less]

Interesting imaginary conversation about using SOAP to build applications. I think we'll stick to a REST-like interface for our webmail for the time being. In other news Panto 0.3 has been released. Wondering what happened to 0.2? I think its in Jamaica watching the cricket.

Interesting imaginary conversation about using SOAP to build applications. I think we'll stick to a REST-like interface for our webmail for the time being. In other news Panto 0.3 has been released. Wondering what happened to 0.2? I think its in Jamaica watching the cricket.

Mark your Meldware-based calendar off for March 21, I'm flying up to D.C.(DCLUG) to give a similar talk to the one Calendar whiz Aron Sogor gave to much accord at CSUEB. Aron Sogor This is the announcement for my DC LUG talk: The March 2007 ... [More] meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 7pm. Andrew Oliver from buni.org will talk about their Linux groupware software "Meldware Communication Suite". He'll discuss front-end and back-end issues, and do a quick tour of installation and features, and discusses integrating their software with popular organizer tools such as webcal and Thunderbird. Under duress, Andrew will break and admit that they even integrate with Outlook. The meeting location is our usual 2025 M street, NW in downtown DC. There will be signs in front of the building. The location is within 3 nearby Metro stops, both on the red (Dupont, Farragut North) and blue/orange (Farragut West, Foggy Bottom [a bit of a hike]) lines. Parking in the area is available for approximately $5; there's even parking in the building itself. Street parking is free after 6:30pm, but scarce. There's a parking lot at 23rd St. between M and L that is not enforced after 7pm (people have successfully parked there for years---no one we know was ticketed or towed yet, but it could happen). The meeting dates for the rest of the year 2007 are: Apr 18, May 16, Jun 20, Jul 18, Aug 15, Sep 19, Oct 17, Nov 21 and Dec 19. For other details, see our home page http://dclug.tux.org ...except I'm proud of our integration efforts. I will come right out and say with glowing pride. Not only does Meldware work with Outlook but the server runs fine on Windows too....maybe I'll tone my pride down on the "Works on Windows" talk for the LUGs huh? I can still flirt with Solaris, OS X and BSD though right? Okay no...stick to message. Meldware: Groupware for Linux baby! [Less]

Mark your Meldware-based calendar off for March 21, I'm flying up to D.C.(DCLUG) to give a similar talk to the one Calendar whiz Aron Sogor gave to much accord at CSUEB. Aron Sogor This is the announcement for my DC LUG talk: The March 2007 ... [More] meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 7pm. Andrew Oliver from buni.org will talk about their Linux groupware software "Meldware Communication Suite". He'll discuss front-end and back-end issues, and do a quick tour of installation and features, and discusses integrating their software with popular organizer tools such as webcal and Thunderbird. Under duress, Andrew will break and admit that they even integrate with Outlook. The meeting location is our usual 2025 M street, NW in downtown DC. There will be signs in front of the building. The location is within 3 nearby Metro stops, both on the red (Dupont, Farragut North) and blue/orange (Farragut West, Foggy Bottom [a bit of a hike]) lines. Parking in the area is available for approximately $5; there's even parking in the building itself. Street parking is free after 6:30pm, but scarce. There's a parking lot at 23rd St. between M and L that is not enforced after 7pm (people have successfully parked there for years---no one we know was ticketed or towed yet, but it could happen). The meeting dates for the rest of the year 2007 are: Apr 18, May 16, Jun 20, Jul 18, Aug 15, Sep 19, Oct 17, Nov 21 and Dec 19. For other details, see our home page http://dclug.tux.org ...except I'm proud of our integration efforts. I will come right out and say with glowing pride. Not only does Meldware work with Outlook but the server runs fine on Windows too....maybe I'll tone my pride down on the "Works on Windows" talk for the LUGs huh? I can still flirt with Solaris, OS X and BSD though right? Okay no...stick to message. Meldware: Groupware for Linux baby! [Less]

So I heard Buni featured on this week's Flex Show. I appreciated the mention...but...they pronounced Buni like "Bungee"? So Buni comes from Swahili. It means "to put together" and is also a type of coffee bean. We have one customer who pronounces it ... [More] "bunny"...the cute little furry things. Well Buni developers are fairly macho and we have one thing to say about that: I don't know how "buni" is actually pronounced in Swahili, but here is a hint on how WE pronounce it: Notice that our ghost isn't one of those cute little Casper types. He is BAD-ASSED. Boo-Knee. Get it? Anyhow, thanks to the Flex Show guys - all in good fun. If you're not interested in our Groupware Server or Client (the Flex part) but are a mere Flex developer looking for a calendar control, you might want to check this out and if you also happen to be in the East San Francisco Bay area (Hayward), you can ask him more about it at his Linux Users Group talk about Meldware. [Less]

So I heard Buni featured on this week's Flex Show. I appreciated the mention...but...they pronounced Buni like "Bungee"? So Buni comes from Swahili. It means "to put together" and is also a type of coffee bean. We have one customer who pronounces it ... [More] "bunny"...the cute little furry things. Well Buni developers are fairly macho and we have one thing to say about that: I don't know how "buni" is actually pronounced in Swahili, but here is a hint on how WE pronounce it: Notice that our ghost isn't one of those cute little Casper types. He is BAD-ASSED. Boo-Knee. Get it? Anyhow, thanks to the Flex Show guys - all in good fun. If you're not interested in our Groupware Server or Client (the Flex part) but are a mere Flex developer looking for a calendar control, you might want to check this out and if you also happen to be in the East San Francisco Bay area (Hayward), you can ask him more about it at his Linux Users Group talk about Meldware. [Less]

Do you use mail filters in your client to route mail between folders? This way you can differentiate between mails sent to a mail list and mails that require your immediate attention or things you are only "sorta" interested in and things you are ... [More] very interested in. In Thunderbird you do this by going to Tools->Mail Filters. As useful as those are, they kind of suck with IMAP as it has to get at least the headers and then move the mail between folders. Wouldn't it be nice if this told the server where to put the mail rather than having to match the conditions on the mails and move them one by one? Well I just committed such a thing to Meldware. You do have to configure it (click Filters at the top of the screen) via the Webmail interface, but it will affect mails as they are delivered on the incoming queue. At the moment there is no way to apply them after the fact, I'm sure we'll handle that eventually, but you can at least filter mail based on headers into various folders and delete mail as appropriate. Thanks to Buni Developer, James Ward for all of his help in getting the UI to work. [Less]

Do you use mail filters in your client to route mail between folders? This way you can differentiate between mails sent to a mail list and mails that require your immediate attention or things you are only "sorta" interested in and things you are ... [More] very interested in. In Thunderbird you do this by going to Tools->Mail Filters. As useful as those are, they kind of suck with IMAP as it has to get at least the headers and then move the mail between folders. Wouldn't it be nice if this told the server where to put the mail rather than having to match the conditions on the mails and move them one by one? Well I just committed such a thing to Meldware. You do have to configure it (click Filters at the top of the screen) via the Webmail interface, but it will affect mails as they are delivered on the incoming queue. At the moment there is no way to apply them after the fact, I'm sure we'll handle that eventually, but you can at least filter mail based on headers into various folders and delete mail as appropriate. Thanks to Buni Developer, James Ward for all of his help in getting the UI to work. [Less]

For the last few months we have been feverishly adding features and tuning Meldware to better perform keeping our nose to the grinding stone. Our 1.0 is getting closer, our project is getting better, but to know how good is good, we need to look up ... [More] and smell the roses. As part of the rose smelling it is time to get more user feedback and get out there to spread the word. To do that there is no better way than get together face to face and talk about what we got and what you looking for. So with no further delay I would like to announce the first stop on our 2007 LUG tour CSU East Bay LUG at Hayward California. And stay tuned as there are many more to come! [Less]