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The Hula Project

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2005-02-15 11:03. Evolution

Nat wrote: Today we are thrilled to be launching Hula, a new project to build an open source mail and calendar server. Hula is a really exciting project already in part because we think that we can fill a hitherto-unclaimed spot in the stack of open source applications and in part because we've "primed the pump" by basing it on an existing, functioning codebase: a Novell product called NetMail. NetMail already runs millions of calendars and mailboxes. And so we're starting off with the mundane work of building a functioning server done, leaving us to focus on creating interesting new functionality.

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Nat and Jamie said it best

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-02-16 13:38.

from http://nat.org/2005/february/

"We know the demand is high for a credible piece of software in this space. Ever since we first released Evolution in 2000, people have been asking us where they can find an open source server. The lack of an implementable open calendar server protocol has crippled calendar-server efforts for years; we think CalDAV is finally going to fix that and are getting behind that as our primary fat-client interface for Evolution and Chandler and Sunbird, and maybe Outlook as well.

Our direction is distinct from other open source collaboration server projects in that we're not trying to build every conceivable bit of functionality that someone might consider "collaboration" into the server. Instead, we are focused on building great calendar and mail functionality. The dominant collaboration solutions today (Exchange and Notes) are built on a pre-Internet design and are just no fun to use for real people who live on the web, who collaborate across organizational boundaries (or who don't have organizational boundaries to worry about), who want light-weight tools and URLs for their meetings and their appointments on their cell phone and so on."

"I looked for weeks to find a project implementing an open source version of GMail. I even posted to Google answers in my search. It doesn't exist. Well, today we're starting one, and we're inviting the world's crack JavaScript/DHTML hackers to help us."

from http://jwz.livejournal.com/444651.html

"If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.

When words like "groupware" and "enterprise" start getting tossed around, you're doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some checklist that was constructed by interminable committee meetings among bureaucrats, and you're coding toward an externally-dictated product specification that maybe some company will want to buy a hundred "seats" of, but that nobody will ever love. With that kind of motivation, nobody will ever find it sexy. It won't make anyone happy."

And to get an idea of the sort of use cases Hula looks to target, check out:

http://www.hula-project.org/index.php/Calendaring

Do you see the gap now?

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