[OGo-Users] Sunbird v0.5 PRE + yummy on Debian (or any other Win32 client)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

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> >Sunbird and Thunderbird both work with the current *DEVELOPMENT*
> >releases of OGo.  You have to use the nightly/trunk packages, preferably
> >after r1949.
>   This is excellent news.  Does a tentative schedule exist for future
> Ogo releases?  I'm wondering if I should wait or roll my own unpackaged
> install.

You can use packages,  just use the nightly packages.

>   By the way, I'm interested in understanding the benefits of CalDAV
> over iCal.=20

In short: iCal is a brain-dead standard for sharing *CALENDARS*.  In a
group of any size or complexity "sharing calendars" is simply horrible,
what you want is a "shared calendar".    A subtle but very significant
distinction.

> From what I've read CalDAV is more efficient at transmitting
> data because whole files aren't being moved, only data immediately
> required gets retrieved by server queries.=20

Well, the difference is a whole lot more than that.  CalDAV works with
*EVENTS*.  IMO, the best explanation in layman terms is that CalDAV is a
"groupware" technology and iCalendar is a PIM technology.

>  I'm assuming CalDAV is "pull"
> rather than "push" - ie. if data is modified from elsewhere the client
> wouldn't update unless it polls the server.  Is this correct?

This is true of both iCal and CalDAV;  the only way around this is some
kind of server-alerted-sync (which maybe the CalDAV spec provides some
specific provision for,  I've never seen it mentioned anywhere).

>   Thanks again to the developers for a very interesting product.  I've
> waited over 10 years since admining my first Exchange server for an
> end-to-end open source Win32-capable groupware solution.

Yep,  when OGo was released in 2003 I actually had the papers on my desk
to get a trial of Lotus Notes/Domino.  OpenMail which we had also been
looking at had just closed up shop [ I think it is back now as Samsung
Connect or some such;  but who cares!  We have an Open Source
solution. :) ]

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