Microsoft has done something useful!

[The Linux Kid]

Hi All.

Pls no flame wars after this message!!

Anyway...

I just got my hands on a Microsoft SharePoint system on my Win2k Pro machine. I am seriously amazed at how good this is!

It is an absolutly awesome group callobration suite! It read all of my users off the system, worked out access rights for them, and now I have a great groupware system available.

I generally would allow people to look at it over my VPN, but it is broken at the moment.

Oh well,

Now to make something like that for Linux.

*Calls to experienced graphics and PHP people if they want to help*
* Explains that I have some idea about PHP so I am not some stupid person*

The Linux Kid

[Trogdor]

I do php. What is it you're looking for?

[The Linux Kid]

I do php. What is it you're looking for?

I guess that I am looking for people to help make something like SharePoint but for PHP and linux.

I made a SF project earlier today and am now waiting for reply, probably tomorrow.

I will post back soon.

Remember, we still need some artists.

The Linux Kid

[Trogdor]

Originally posted by The Linux Kid
I guess that I am looking for people to help make something like SharePoint but for PHP and linux.

I made a SF project earlier today and am now waiting for reply, probably tomorrow.

I will post back soon.

Remember, we still need some artists.

The Linux Kid What is SharePoint? BTW, assuming it is a web application (not running PHP as a shell script), it would be cross-platform.

[The Linux Kid]

Sorry that I wan't too specific. ;)

SharePoint is a Microsoft Group Callobration suite. For Microsoft internet servers only.

I want to make one like that, but is open source and cross platform.

The Linux Kid

[bwkaz]

Want to maybe define "group collaboration"? Like, what kinds of things does the dumb program do, for those of us that are clueless? (:p) Shared calendars or something? Project definition / status-tracking type of stuff? Something else entirely?

Actually, searching freshmeat.net for "sharepoint" found these two projects:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/drs/ (the Document Repository System)

http://freshmeat.net/projects/opengroupware_org/ (OpenGroupware.org)

The first looks like it's trying to be a true SharePoint clone, and the second one, I'm not really sure. Looks like it's similar (license-wise) to either StarOffice and OpenOffice, or Netscape and Mozilla (i.e., either OGW.org has released this program as an open-source version of it's product like Sun did, or it's using the program to further its development like NS used to).

No word on whether either of them uses something as simple as just plain PHP, though...

Searching for "groupware" found about 70 projects. I didn't look at many of them very closely.

[chatins]

Have a little sympathy for the people who have to implement this junk on some of the low life MS products that you are talking about.

From the IT side I think there is a 99% chance you will have your group compromised within days by the usual suspects - worms, trojans, malware, viruses, hackers, and various MS stooges and employees living a double life. ;)

[The Linux Kid]

Sorry, my life has been a bit disorginised lately so I have been a little stupid. lol.

So again sorry that I have been unclear, by groupware I mean things such as shared docs, shared calendars, private calendars for departments and users, tasks, announcements, events, contacts and a mail client.

So I am still waiting on a reply from sf.

The Linux Kid

[Syngin]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware/

[The Linux Kid]

Oh well,

looks like someone else has beaten me to it. They look like they have done a pretty good job of it.

I guess thats the end of my idea.

The Linux Kid

[sploo22]

The great thing about OSS is that you can contribute if you want. Just download the source, improve it and send in a patch. :)

[voidinit]

We use SharePoint at work, and you are right it is great. However, there is nothing I can do with Sharepoint that I can't do with OWL. The Linux Knowledge Base. It's a sourceforge project. Check it out!