[Parl-devel] Exchange connector in debian

[Mechtilde]

Hello,

I do some futher steps to use Thunderbird/Icedove as the client to a MS
Exchange Server.

I find out how to use subfolders (created with Outlook) with
Thunderbird. You have to subscribe them.

There is also an active development at exchangecalender. We expect
version 3.3.1 next. I will release the Debian package promptly.

After Jessie will be released I plan to bring calender-exchange-provider
into Jessie-backports.

You find the source code under

https://github.com/Ericsson/exchangecalendar

I met the two core developer at FOSDEM 2015 in Brussels.

Kind regards

Mechtilde

Am 02.02.2015 um 12:15 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> Hi Mechtilde,
> 
> Thank you for your interest in DebianParl,
> 
> Quoting Mechtilde (2015-02-02 11:49:01)
>> I subscribed to parl-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org. So we can continue 
>> there.
>>
>> The package calendar-exchange-provider is already available in Debian 
>> Sid.
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/sid/calendar-exchange-provider
>>
>> All dependencies are also available in Debian Wheezy.
> 
> If Microsoft calendaring would be served using Open Standards (for the 
> data itself - i.e. not only http for transport but e.g. CalDAV) then 
> that is good news indeed.
> 
> Use of proprietary protocols to access Microsoft calendaring is far less 
> interesting, however: Chasing proprietary protocols is both expensive 
> and unreliable.
> 
> Expensive because those in control of the protocols have little 
> insentive to support cometing use of it, and only a smaller fraction of 
> those not in control have interest in developing and maintaining support 
> for protocols required only for a narrow scope.
> 
> Unreliable both because of the tiny interest to begin with (most Free 
> software is strengthened by the "eyeballs" effect - collaboration to 
> sport flaws and peer pressure to do stellar work - and also because 
> those in control can (and evidently do) change procols at any time.
> 
> DebianParl is for individual Parliamentarians/parliamentary workers or 
> smaller teams, who (unlike full Parliaments as institutions) likely 
> cannot afford such reliance on proprietary standards.
> 
> What is realistic on a small budget is use of Open Standards.
> 
> I believe budget for the Greens/EFA pilot project of 10 DebianParl users 
> is only the price of the laptops + price of an additional laptop for me 
> + a few train rides for me + coffee for our meetings.
> 
> I would prefer an eventual larger budget be spent on more laptops (i.e. 
> more users) rather than on chasing proprietary standards at the whim of 
> Microsoft and upgrade policies at the EU institutional level.
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
>  - Jonas
> 
> 
> 
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