ISG News has posted a new item, 'Rethinking groupware'
In August of 2010, we introduced our groupware solution for D-PHYS. In the last 11 years the system has served the Department well, but we believe now would be a good time to think about the future of groupware at D-PHYS. Here's an incomplete list of things we noticed over the years:
the groupware system seems to get used almost exclusively as a calendar
for distributed calendars, the world and people's expectations have changed
file and sync formats have come and gone
17 people will have 634 completely orthogonal and incompatible use cases for calendars
the product that won our evaluation round in 2010 is not necessarily the best system for 2021
We have sampled the market and test-installed several candidates, but since our humble ISG-internal calendar only covers one very specific use case, we strongly encourage you to give us your feedback so that the next D-PHYS calendar solution will suit you well. In particular, we're interested in learning
are you using any other egroupware module(s) aside from the calendar? If you don't tell us about it now, a potential replacement may not have this functionality!
what's your current calendar use case? Just a personal calendar? A group calendar? In which configuration?
what's your desired calendar use case? This might be the most interesting thing to learn...
which sync protocols/devices are you using?
what other software/products/services have you been/are you using?
If you would like to help make sure the next evolution in distributed D-PHYS calendars is a success, please join our Matrix room and participate! Thanks a lot.
You may view the latest post at
https://isg.phys.ethz.ch/2021/10/12/rethinking-groupware/
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Christian Herzog
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