Presentation on Open Source tools for Office 2.0 given at the Office 2.0 Unconference 2007 in San Francisco

1. Open Source for
Ofice 2.0
Lars Trielo, Mindquarry

2. Lars Trielo

3. Lars Trielo
• Entrepreneur: Founder of
Mindquarry (2006)

4. Lars Trielo
• Entrepreneur: Founder of
Mindquarry (2006)
• Author: DocBook-XML (in german)

5. Lars Trielo
• Entrepreneur: Founder of
Mindquarry (2006)
• Author: DocBook-XML (in german)
• Open Source Developer: Apache
Cocoon, Mindquarry

6. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

7. Collaboration
Infrastructure?
• Knowledge Workers need to
collaborate

8. Collaboration
Infrastructure?
• Knowledge Workers need to
collaborate
• Requirement 1: An organization that
supports collaboration

9. Collaboration
Infrastructure?
• Knowledge Workers need to
collaborate
• Requirement 1: An organization that
supports collaboration
• Requirement 2: Software that
supports collaboration

10. Collaboration
Infrastructure?
• Knowledge Workers need to
collaborate
• Requirement 1: An organization that
supports collaboration
• Requirement 2: Software that
supports collaboration
• Collaboration Infrastructure

11. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

12. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

13. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

14. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

15. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

16. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

17. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

18. Collaboration
Infrastructure?

19. How to achieve?
• Microsoft Ofice Sharepoint Server
• Microsoft Live Communications
Server
• Microsoft Ofice Groove Server
• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Alternatives?

20. Open Source
Alternatives

21. Open Source
Alternatives
• Roller: Weblog Server

22. Open Source
Alternatives
ChandlerProject
• Roller: Weblog Server
• Chandler: Calendar Server and PIM

23. Open Source
Alternatives
ChandlerProject
• Roller: Weblog Server
• Chandler: Calendar Server and PIM
• Jabber: Instant Messaging Protocol

24. Open Source
Alternatives
ChandlerProject
• Roller: Weblog Server
• Chandler: Calendar Server and PIM
• Jabber: Instant Messaging Protocol
• Mindquarry: Collaboration Server

25. Apache Roller
• Weblog Software
• Multi-Author Blogs
• good for team blogs
• Individual Theming
• Rich-Text-Editing
• Comments, Pings, Trackback

30. Inside Roller
• Based on Java Servlets, Hibernate,
Guice
• Supports MySQL, Postgres, Derby,
Oracle
• Atom Publishing Protocol Support
• Includes Planet Roller, a RSS-based
community aggregator

31. 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

32. ChandlerProject
Chandler Project
• Personal Information Management
• Mail Client
• Calendar
• Calendar Server
• Web-based
• Allows calendar sharing

33. ChandlerProject

34. ChandlerProject

35. ChandlerProject

36. ChandlerProject

37. ChandlerProject
Inside Chandler
• Based on Java Servlets, Spring and
Hibernate
• Supports MySQL, Postgres, Derby
• Atom Publishing Protocol Support
• Fine-grained Ticket-based
Authentication

38. 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

39. Jabber
• Instant Messaging Protocol
• Many Servers available
• ejabberd
• Openfire
• Tigase
• Many Clients available

44. 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

45. Tigase Project
• Started in September 2004 by Artur
Hefczyc
• 2 active committers
• hosted at tigris.org open source
community

46. Mindquarry
• Open Source Collaboration
• File Sharing
• Desktop Synchronization
• Wiki
• Task Management
• Forum and Mailing Lists

51. Inside Mindquarry
• Based on Java Servlets (Apache
Cocoon)
• Java Content Repository backend,
supports Postgres and other
databases
• REST API for remote data access

52. Inside Mindquarry
• Based on Java Servlets (Apache
Cocoon)
• Java Content Repository backend,
supports Postgres and other
databases
• REST API for remote data access

53. 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

54. 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

55. Wrap Up
Chandler Project
Blogging Calendar Chat Teamwork
Theme
ASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.1
License
2002 2001 2004 2006
Started
7 8 2 12
Team Size
Java Java Java Java
Platform
Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres
Database
Integration

56. Wrap Up
Chandler Project
Blogging Calendar Chat Teamwork
Theme
ASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.1
License
2002 2001 2004 2006
Started
7 8 2 12
Team Size
Java Java Java Java
Platform
Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres
Database
Integration

57. Wrap Up
Chandler Project
Blogging Calendar Chat Teamwork
Theme
ASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.1
License
2002 2001 2004 2006
Started
7 8 2 12
Team Size
Java Java Java Java
Platform
Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres
Database
Integration

58. Wrap Up
Chandler Project
Blogging Calendar Chat Teamwork
Theme
ASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.1
License
2002 2001 2004 2006
Started
7 8 2 12
Team Size
Java Java Java Java
Platform
Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres
Database
Integration

59. Wrap Up
Chandler Project
Blogging Calendar Chat Teamwork
Theme
ASL 2.0 ASL 2.0 GPL v3 MPL 1.1
License
2002 2001 2004 2006
Started
7 8 2 12
Team Size
Java Java Java Java
Platform
Postgres Postgres Postges Postgres
Database
Integration

60. Open Source is
ready for Ofice 2.0
Thank you very much for your attention
Lars Trielo, lars.trielo@mindquarry.com