Open Source for Office 2.0

Lars Trieloff, Mindquarry

Lars Trieloff

Lars Trieloff

•Entrepreneur: Founder of Mindquarry (2006)

Lars Trieloff

•Entrepreneur: Founder of Mindquarry (2006)

•Author: DocBook-XML (in german)

Lars Trieloff

•Entrepreneur: Founder of Mindquarry (2006)

•Author: DocBook-XML (in german)

•Open Source Developer: Apache Cocoon, Mindquarry

Collaboration Infrastructure?

Collaboration Infrastructure?

•Knowledge Workers need to collaborate

Collaboration Infrastructure?

•Knowledge Workers need to collaborate

•Requirement 1: An organization that supports collaboration

Collaboration Infrastructure?

•Knowledge Workers need to collaborate

•Requirement 1: An organization that supports collaboration

•Requirement 2: Software that supports collaboration

Collaboration Infrastructure?

•Knowledge Workers need to collaborate

•Requirement 1: An organization that supports collaboration

•Requirement 2: Software that supports collaboration

•Collaboration Infrastructure

Collaboration Infrastructure?

Collaboration Infrastructure?

Collaboration Infrastructure?

Collaboration Infrastructure?

Collaboration Infrastructure?

Collaboration Infrastructure?

Collaboration Infrastructure?

Collaboration Infrastructure?

How to achieve?•Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server

•Microsoft Live Communications Server

•Microsoft Office Groove Server

•Microsoft Exchange Server

•Alternatives?

Open Source Alternatives

Open Source Alternatives

•Roller: Weblog Server

Open Source Alternatives

•Roller: Weblog Server

•Chandler: Calendar Server and PIM

ChandlerProject

Open Source Alternatives

•Roller: Weblog Server

•Chandler: Calendar Server and PIM

•Jabber: Instant Messaging Protocol

ChandlerProject

Open Source Alternatives

•Roller: Weblog Server

•Chandler: Calendar Server and PIM

•Jabber: Instant Messaging Protocol

•Mindquarry: Collaboration Server

ChandlerProject

Apache Roller•Weblog Software

•Multi-Author Blogs

•good for team blogs

•Individual Theming

•Rich-Text-Editing

•Comments, Pings, Trackback

•Based on Java Servlets, Hibernate, Guice

•Supports MySQL, Postgres, Derby, Oracle

•Atom Publishing Protocol Support

•Includes Planet Roller, a RSS-based community aggregator

Inside Roller

Roller Project•7 active committers

•started as a demo project for an O‘Reilly article in 2002

•Adopted by Sun and IBM (Sun hired the lead developer)

•In 2007: Top-level project of the Apache Software Foundatation

Chandler Project•Personal Information Management

•Mail Client

•Calendar

•Calendar Server

•Web-based

•Allows calendar sharing

ChandlerProject

ChandlerProject

ChandlerProject

ChandlerProject

ChandlerProject

Inside Chandler

•Based on Java Servlets, Spring and Hibernate

•Supports MySQL, Postgres, Derby

•Atom Publishing Protocol Support

•Fine-grained Ticket-based Authentication

ChandlerProject

Chandler Project•8 active contributors

•Started in 2001 with Chandler Desktop, Chandler Server started 2005

•Run by Open Source Applications Foundation, a non-profit founded by Mitch Kapor, designer of Lotus 1-2-3

ChandlerProject

Jabber•Instant Messaging Protocol

•Many Servers available

•ejabberd

•Openfire

•Tigase

•Many Clients available

Inside Tigase•Open Source Jabber Server

•one server among a dozen

•Written in Java

•Supports MySQL, Postgres

•StanzaSender and StanzaReceiver allow easy integrating into existing systems

Tigase Project

•Started in September 2004 by Artur Hefczyc

•2 active committers

•hosted at tigris.org open source community

Mindquarry•Open Source Collaboration

•File Sharing

•Desktop Synchronization

•Wiki

•Task Management

•Forum and Mailing Lists

Inside Mindquarry

•Based on Java Servlets (Apache Cocoon)

•Java Content Repository backend, supports Postgres and other databases

•REST API for remote data access

Inside Mindquarry

•Based on Java Servlets (Apache Cocoon)

•Java Content Repository backend, supports Postgres and other databases

•REST API for remote data access

Mindquarry Project•12 active committers

•Started September 2006 by Mindquarry GmbH

•Enterprise Support available from Mindquarry GmbH

•1.0 released in February 2007, 20000+ downloads since then

Mindquarry Project•12 active committers

•Started September 2006 by Mindquarry GmbH

•Enterprise Support available from Mindquarry GmbH

•1.0 released in February 2007, 20000+ downloads since then

Wrap Up

Theme

License

Started

Team Size

Platform

Database

Integration

Blogging Calendar Chat TeamworkASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.12002 2001 2004 2006

7 8 2 12Java Java Java Java

Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres

Chandler Project

Wrap Up

Theme

License

Started

Team Size

Platform

Database

Integration

Blogging Calendar Chat TeamworkASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.12002 2001 2004 2006

7 8 2 12Java Java Java Java

Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres

Chandler Project

Wrap Up

Theme

License

Started

Team Size

Platform

Database

Integration

Blogging Calendar Chat TeamworkASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.12002 2001 2004 2006

7 8 2 12Java Java Java Java

Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres

Chandler Project

Wrap Up

Theme

License

Started

Team Size

Platform

Database

Integration

Blogging Calendar Chat TeamworkASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.12002 2001 2004 2006

7 8 2 12Java Java Java Java

Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres

Chandler Project

Wrap Up

Theme

License

Started

Team Size

Platform

Database

Integration

Blogging Calendar Chat TeamworkASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.12002 2001 2004 2006

7 8 2 12Java Java Java Java

Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres

Chandler Project

Open Source is ready for Office 2.0

Thank you very much for your attention

Lars Trieloff, lars.trieloff@mindquarry.com