[svlug] [svlug-announce] SVLUG General Meeting: Meldware--Multi-Platform Groupware Package for Linux

[Mark Weisler]

Join the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) this coming Wednesday
to learn about the Meldware Communication Suite.

This software package provides support for thousands of users
concurrently to send and receive email and to schedule meetings. You can
store all messages and scheduling events in nearly any database and the
system runs on nearly all popular software and hardware platforms.

WHEN:

  Wednesday, April 4, 2007
  7pm-9pm

MAIN PRESENTATION:

  TOPIC:
  Meldware Communication Suite

  PRESENTED BY:
  Aron Sogor, Co-Founder, BuniSoft

 TOPIC SUMMARY:

Aron will introduce Meldware Communication Suite, an
open source, multi-platform groupware package for Linux.
The presentation will give an overview of Meldware, its Mail Server,
Calendar Server, Webmail and Webcalendar as well as its Administration
GUI.

The talk will cover some of the technical details including Meldware's
flexible  email storage using any RDBMS or file system and the
integration between the Calendar server and popular clients such as
Mozilla Thunderbird, Novell Evolution and even Microsoft Outlook.
The talk will wrap up with a demo, a brief description of the Buni.org
communication software development community and a call to action for
BETTER protocol standards in Email and Scheduling.

   ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Aron Sogor has served as a lead engineer for variety of projects for
companies in the telecommunication  sector for companies including
Vodafone and WindRiver Systems.

In the past he presented on subjects such as the open source development
 model and the Meldware Communication Suite at JavaOne, JBoss World, and
AjaxWorld. He has also published on the subject of Integrated Personal
Information Management at ITNG. He started using Linux in 1996, and has
been an addict ever since then.

   NIFTY OF THE MONTH:        To be announced.

   LOCATION:
      Symantec  (formerly Veritas Software Corp.)
      VCAFE Facility
      350 Ellis Street  (near E. Middlefield Road)
      Mountain View, CA 94043

 Directions on how to get there are listed at:

      http://www.svlug.org/directions/veritas.shtml

 We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
 If you have any improvements to make,
 please let SVLUG's volunteers know!
 webmaster {at} svlug -dot- org



POST-MEETING GATHERING:

 If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
 restaurant/diner after the meeting.  We'll announce the restaurant
 selection at the meeting.


We look forward to seeing you there!

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