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Open Groupware Exchange Standards

Are you sick of writing conversion modules for dozens of data formats or hours of fumbling to get your mail addresses into a new application?

Then this is your project. Join the discussion or - even better - join the team, you´re welcome!

The Problem:
An increasing number of open source projects deals with groupware systems, mail clients, address books, timetables and similar stuff. All these projects will only be spread if it is possible to exchange their data with already established applications. Providing these compatibility features takes an enormous amount of time, reducing the time left for improving the main features. This work is done by all developers again and again, from outlook to one tool and reverse, from LDAP to one tool and reverse to/from Netscape, LotusNotes...

But there are not only problems for developers, the normal user suffers these incompatibilities. I´m sure that you can remember your last time trying to fumble your mail address from your desktop client into the webmailer or similar stuff!

Goal:
The goal is to establish a format or a set of formats for these files that is suitable to function as the standard import/export format in open source groupware applications. Additional modules for conversion to and form existing or commercial formats as outlook or LDAP will provide the necessary compatibility of these applications to the rest of the world.