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Hi,

Just a few words to give some news about the project. So what happens last months !

Instead of following the past months ryhtm of one release each months, I choose to invest time and energy in background tasks to significantly improve quality of Cooperation-iws software. Now the development is on the way to 0.9 release. The new features that will be in this release are:

The switch to Debian Lenny platform for the Cooperation-iws servers release.

The support of SSL connection.

The change of Live architecture, Cooperation-iws servers will now have a persistent home directory.

New professional feature for Cooperation-iws clients like encryption and antivirus tools.

A new wiki with documentation is on the way also.

New releases with anonymous and content filtering proxy, web hosting releases.

Professional class features for companies and associations.

…

See you,

Regards,

Olivier

Internet, place publique, c’est la fureur de la rue, la loi du plus bruyant, du plus voyant, l’endroit ou se mélange sans retenue les aspirations les plus grandes comme les excès les plus vils de la nature humaine.

Internet a été pensé comme un lieu de coopération, il est devenu un lieu de confrontation.

La technologie nous aide à transformer le monde. Le monde est devenu le reflet de notre humanité.

Un Intranet est  un ilot personnel, reflet de notre personnalité et de notre activité. Relevant de la sphère privée, on choisit le moment, l’endroit et l’opportunité de le diffuser.

Internet est une somme d’information. L’Intranet contient notre propre information, notre signification.

Sa maîtrise doit rester à notre portée.

Cooperation-iws est un projet de serveur intranet pour les familles, pour les amis, pour les collègues.

C’ est un outil d’aggrégation d’information. Internet privatif, que l’on emmène avec soi et que l’on utilise où bon nous semble.

Cooperation-iws est nomade.

Cooperation-iws est le fruit du travail de nombreuses personnes, car la pluralité fait notre richesse et notre force.

Ce travail fut bénévole ou rémunéré, mais la propriété a été volontairement partagée.

Cooperation-iws est Open Source.

Bien immatériel et infiniment duplicable, culture commune, qui tisse le lien entre les hommes et les générations.

A bientôt,

Olivier

Hi,

For Christmas 2008, I am pleased to announce the availability of Cooperation-iws 0.7.0. This release contains the following new features:

• Multilingual management for all the applications that have international community, Cooperation-iws web applications are now available in several languages including Europe, America, Africa, Middle East and Asia languages.
• New modules: Dotproject, project management software, Elgg, social networking platform,
• Upgrade of all the applications to latest available release,
• Upgrade of the operating system to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10),
• New groupware release based on Kolab,
• New portal design,
• New release dedicated to Netbook users (Turn your Netbook into Cooperation-iws Server !),

Bugfixes has been made :

• Fix Liveusb installer bugs, add USB hard disk support,
• Fix various web applications bugs.

For this release, you probably have noticed that there is a new domain name:

www.cooperation-iws.eu

There is also a new download mirror, that will have a better bit rate.

0.7.0 release extended presentation slides of Cooperation-iws are available for promotion or curiosity. Enjoy this release, the next shall come at the beginning of february.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009,

Regards,

Olivier

Download area | cooperation-iws-0.7,0-presentation-EN.pdf | cooperation-iws-0.7,0-presentation-FR.pdf | cooperation-iws-0.7.0-quick-intro-EN.pdf | cooperation-iws-0.7.0-quick-intro-FR.pdf

In the  beginning of Christmas and 0.7.0 release preparation, I am pleased to announce the availability of 0.7.0 introduction slides. These slides illustrate Cooperation-iws philosophy.

English language : cooperation-iws-0.7.0-quick-intro-EN.pdf

French language: cooperation-iws-0.7.0-quick-intro-FR.pdf

Regards,

Olivier

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the availability of Cooperation-iws Clients for demonstration purpose. For the moment two flavours are available:

• Webconverger debian derivative client: a light client with only a browser based user interface, aimed for publics terminals or low end terminals.
• Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex client: a fully multimedia, office, communications capable client.

These two flavours are available in the download area.

Regards,

Olivier

Hi,

Just a few words to announce the availability of Cooperation-iws pdf presentations. If you are interested in Cooperation-iws , if you want to promote it, or simply  if you are curious about it.

English language presentation: cooperation-iws-0.5.2-presentation-EN.pdf

French language presentation:  cooperation-iws-0.5.2-presentation-FR.pdf

Regards,

Olivier

Today, as Cooperation-iws popularity become to grow and as trust relationships are only possible when people identify themselves, Cooperation-iws team decided to decline its full identity. Cooperation-iws project founder and main developer is Oliv, whose real name is Olivier Avenel.

Olivier Avenel is French and he lives in the North-West  from France. After a first experience in logistics support in industry, he decided to launch the Cooperation-iws project in march 2008, thinking that open source could significantly improve the way people interacts with each other, the way people cooperates.

For more information on Olivier Avenel, you could see its Linked’in profile : http://www.linkedin.com/in/cooperationiws

See you,

Olivier

I am pleased to announce the availability of Cooperation-iws 0.5.2 release. There are a lot of new features in this release.

First there is not only two demo flavours of Cooperation-iws but Sixteen ! One for each specific purpose. These releases are divided in two groups:

1. The standalone releases, that are self sufficient releases, one for each kind of activity (Personal, Content Management System, Elearning, Data Management, Development)
2. The intranet system releases. These releases include a full set of iso images to build an intranet from scratch: gateway, PBX, administration server, groupware and mail server, Communications server, eLearning, development, data management and Content mangement system. This set of releases dedicate software to separate servers so that load carrying could be efficiently made.

Second, new features have appeared like:

1. A new portal main page for the server based either on Wordpress, or on Joomla.
2. Mail servers with antivirus and spam checking, groupware software.
3. Sphider indexing and search engine.
4. Web 2.0 applications, rss agregator, social networking platform.
5. Video Conferencing system with open meetings, IRC server as well for chating.
6. Monitoring solutions for Intranet system based on Zabbix and Syslog-ng.
7. PBX release for audio and video communications inside the intranet
8. Web logs statistics and analysis tools

Now Cooperation-iws is at a key point of its development, either it become professional either it hang there. So if you feel that Cooperation-iws is usefull for you do not hesitate to send email or comments on the Web to promote it.

0.5.2 release is available at the download page.

I hope to see you soon on the web,

Regards,

Oliv

It happens sometimes that uncertainty dictate choice of life. Cooperation-iws has been early developped on an open source model that was willing to be the most open possible. After months of hard work and especially last weeks, Cooperation-iws has pretty much evolved, and will continue to evolve. Now Cooperation-iws team is thinking about its future. It is why, to avoid all stones in the path of a future professional development, live scripts have been temporarily retired of public availability. Prototype iso images are still available.

Cooperation-iws team strongly believe in the virtue of open source model, and will keep contact with open source community. But now Cooperation-iws is looking for a business model to continue invest time in the project development.

Stay tune on Cooperation-iws web, and be patient untill 0.5.2 release, which shall come in the next weeks.

Regards,

Oliv

The new upcoming 0.5.2 release is already in development and new exciting features are present:

• The new support of Debian Operating System from the project Debian Live: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/. This interesting project is aimed at creating a Debian Live CD from scratch with Live-helper scripts while offering possibility to choose the Desktop (Xfce, Kde, Gnome), the distribution (Lenny, Sid, Etch) and more generally the packages to be installed. For Cooperation-iws Live scripts, only a little part of Live-helper is used and offers for the moment, the possibility to make Gnome, Xfce bare or Desktop (with all the apps) iso, as well as a minimal iso without X window environment (only text mode). The Debian live project is still in beta phase, so all features available are not there.
• The addition of new modules like Open-Xchange groupware module, http://www.open-xchange.com, Clamav Antivirus module and Clamav functionalities for mail server, as well as Roundcube webmail module.
• New support of international mirrors for downloading Operating System related packages (Ubuntu and Debian).
• The support to download web applications files from a local mirror.
• Upgrade of Cooperation-iws web interface, with a new functionnality of search engine and crawler for indexing all the server, based on Sphider:  http://www.sphider.eu/

Everything is already here in the project Subversion repository, and everything could be improved by your contributions and remarks, so do not hesitate to test it before the 0.5.2 release.

The Cooperation-iws Subversion repository is here: http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=9656

To subscribe to support mailing list, this is here: http://developer.berlios.de/mail/?group_id=9656

See you on the web,

Regards,

Oliv

I am pleased to announce the availability of Cooperation-iws 0.5.1 Release. Major changes in this version are:

• A new functionnality of Live USB installer. Now you just need to download a Cooperation-iws demo CD, to boot from it and launch the Live USB installer on the Desktop. This will automatically format and install the CD image into the removable USB media. You might choose to set a persistent partition to save changes on your device. This is a fork from https://launchpad.net/liveusb.
• Live USB creation part of Cooperation-iws live-script has been redesigned. Now you do not need external disk space any more to create a live USB. You might choose to use Cooperation-iws Live-script Live USB install rather than with the installer in the case you have just created a new custom Cooperation-iws Live CD.
• Some Artwork has been made in order to give the Live CD the Cooperation-iws touch.
• New modules have been added. Some are particularly remarkable like:
  • Mail server functionnality: now Web applications could communicate by mail with the users. You might also use a Ciws server as intranet mail server to check mail from your favorite client (Thunderbird, Outlook, …) or from Squirrelmail’s server webmail.
  • OpenGoo module: This is an online office suite, still in beta stage.
  • EyeOS module: this is an online Desktop. You could now have traditionnal desktop functionnalities accessible from your browser.
  • Akoie module: this is an online image editor. Edit your images online with a browser !
• And many more, check the Changes log.

Regards,

Oliv

Well, it is a few time I did not post news on Cooperation-iws. Now for the 0.3.2 release, I feel it is time.

The project exists now for few months, a “little little” baby compared to giants of open source. I can say now that Cooperation-iws has successfully reach the step of Idea to Prototype. CIWS 0.3.2 is a fully functionnal software. Its stability relies on the stability of its components, all software components of CIWS are mature softwares.

The idea beyond Cooperation-iws was to give accessibility to a private web server for people without excessive interest in administration tasks: Power On and Power Off is sufficient.

You may tell me “Why Intranet ?, I can have my own blog on any Internet Portal of my community …”. Well, … , the answer is not simple, let’s just say that web is no more a happy, open minded community (if it has ever been) and that Intranet protects your (sensitive) data.

So now, the future steps will be to hardenned CIWS live scripts, maybe by porting them to more stable platform, and to extend the range of supported web applications.

Feel free to contact me to give some feed-back or simply tell me that you use Cooperation-iws.

See you on the web,

Oliv

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