kolab - groupware unlike others

Kolab - Groupware unlike othersChristoph Wickert

October 21, 2010

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems

Kolab SystemsServices

Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts

Storage and Security

Technology

Default KolabComponents

Kolab CoreComponents

Alternative KolabComponents

Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

IntroductionAbout me

Christoph Wickert

I Located in Munster, Germany

I Soon in Zurich, Switzerland

I Long time Fedora Contributor

I Senior Engineer at Kolab Systems

I Kolab Server Maintainer

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

IntroductionKolab Systems AG

Kolab Systems AG

I Founded in 2010

I Located in Zurich, Switzerland

I Successor of the Kolab Konsortium

Joint venture ofI Intevation GmbH, Osnabruck, Germany

I KDAB Hagfors, Sweden

I Dr. Paul James Adams, Stirling, Scottland

I Georg Greve, Zurich, Switzerland

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

IntroductionKolab Systems Services

Kolab Systems Services

I Development

I Packaging

I Certification

I Customization

I Hosted Kolab

I Training

I 2. level support for partners

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

IntroductionKolab Community

Kolab Enterprise Network

I 13 Partners

I 6 Countries

I 8 Employees

I 6-8 external developers at partners

I round about 100 in the Kolab Partner Network

I continously rising...

Kolab Community

I Package maintainers

I Content writers

I Users

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

PhilosophyKolab Concepts

The Kolab SolutionI Kolab is not a product but a solution

I Make it modular

I Use the best FOSS tools

I Free Software only

I Freedom of choice

I Make it scalable

Community

I Community matters

I Upstream, upstream, upstream!

I What goes up must come down

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

PhilosophyStorage and Security

IMAP Storage

I Everything is stored in IMAP

I Disconnected IMAP to work offline

I Easy to sync

I Easy to backup

Kolab Security Model

I 3 layers of security: File, Application, Client

I End-to-end encryption in all clients

I Control over private data

I Do not rely on webbrowsers

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

TechnologyKolab Components

Default Kolab Components

I Postfix SMPTD

I Cyrus IMAPD

I OpenLDAP

I Amavisd-new

I ClamAV

I SpamAssassin

I Sieve Mailfilter

I Apache HTTPD

I Horde

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

TechnologyKolab Core Components

AdministrationI Kolab Webadmin

I kolabd

I kolabconf

Mail processing

I kolabfiler

I kolabmailboxfilter

I kolabpolicy

Resource handling

I kolab resourcemanager

I kolab-freebusy

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

TechnologyAlternative Kolab Components

Alternative Kolab Components

I Dovecot with kolab-metadata plugin

I 389 Directory Server

I Sun Directory Server

I Netscape Directory Server

I Novel eDirectory

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

TechnologyClients

Kolab ClientsI Kontact

I Kontact E3.5

I Kontact E5 (also on Windows ans Mac OS)

I Kolab Webclient

I MS Outlook (through connector)

I Mozilla Thunderbird with SyncKolab Add-on

I Novell Evolution (WiP)

I Kontact Mobile (KoMo)

I Roundcube (WiP)

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

TechnologyFuture

Future ideasI More modular

I Easier to package

I New pluggable filter

I MS Active Directory Services

I Configuration frameworks: Gosa, Puppet, (Web)YaST

I XMPP?

I Asterisk?

I ...

I Your feature??

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

Further infoon the WWW

WebI Homepage: http://kolab.org

I Documentation: http://kolab.org/documentation.html

I Wiki: http://wiki.kolab.org

I Kolab Systems: http://www.kolabsys.com

CodeI Server: http://hg.kolab.org/server/

I Kontact client:http://websvn.kde.org/branches/kdepim/enterprise/

Kolab

Christoph Wickert

Contents:

Introduction

About me

Kolab Systems


Kolab Community

Philosophy

Kolab Concepts


Technology




Kolab Clients

Future

Information

Information

Contact

Contactby Mail and IRC

MailI Contact: [email protected]

I Partners: [email protected]

I Me: [email protected]

Mailing lists

I Users: [email protected]

I Developers: [email protected]

IRCI [email protected]