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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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Not solving the right problem for me

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-02-16 21:17.

I have what I would consider to be a pretty common use-case: A small, mobile work group (= me+spouse) where each member wants to be able to check and, when needed, coordinate each others calendars; and each member also wants to be able to reach their email and calender data (and possibly other communications data) from multiple locations (on any computer at home; from work; and occasionally from the road).

This needs to be able to run on relatively low-end hardware (made a server from the old PIII desktop) and be reasonably easy to install, manage and tweak by yourself in the prescence of any number of other server-related functionality (if we are downloading the tv schedules anyway, how about a quick perl script to fill our calendars with the times for our respective favourite TV shows?)

We don't have "tasks" or "projects" to keep coordinated, no single identity or single sign- on issues; we can share files with NFS already; and we don't have (and seriously don't want) a complex middleware setup with which to integrate a complicated solution.

What we need (and almost have, already) is a communications hub - a normal mailserver, a simple webmail frontend, and the equivalent for calendars would cover 95% - we are really missing a standalone calendar component today, though.

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