[Design] 0.7 Planning (Reframing the issue.)

[Lisa Dusseault]

Another possibility for making this stuff easy comes out of some of our 
thinking for Cosmo.  We'd like Cosmo to be a server that's easy for a 
small work group to drop into place and start running, without a lot of 
integration or configuration required.  Some ideas for how this *might* 
work:
  - The person who sets up the server could allow people to 
automatically sign up for accounts by filling in the Web form and 
validating with email. Perhaps the person who sets up the server could 
make it open yet limited by doing one configuration step:  "Anybody 
with a @osafoundation.org" email address that validates can create an 
account"  This is a lot like people drop in Wikis into workgroups 
today.
  - There could be another Web form on the server for creating groups 
out of existing users
  - Possibly a default configuration is that anybody could use the 
group-creation interface
  - now Cosmo can advertise those groups to Chandler or other clients 
via WebDAV :)

Lisa

On Dec 7, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Alec Flett wrote:

>  Mimi Yin wrote:
>> Maybe you just send an email to helpdesk and open a ticket ;o)
>>
>
>
>  I don't think, in a small workgroup or small office, that more than 
> one or two people really need to actually manage groups. Verbal 
> "remote administration" is a totally reasonable first cut...I mean if 
> you take our office for example, Philippe would just manage the apps 
> group, and I might have my private, local-to-chandler groups as a part 
> of my address book.  If I want someone added to the group, I can just 
> drop an e-mail to Philippe and say "Hey Reid says he's still not in 
> the Apps group, can you add him?" and he can do so using the cosmo web 
> admin interface.
>
>  (In fact, I would argue that there should never be chandler-side 
> management of groups beyond the address book - so either the address 
> book's groups could sync with cosmo's groups, or a URL would be sent 
> from cosmo to chandler, that chandler would launch to manage groups.)
>
>  Alec
>> On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
>>
>>> Yep -- with a server that does ACL and CalDAV fully, this should be 
>>> possible.  This is certainly in the rough Cosmo plan.
>>>
>>> Lisa
>>>
>>> On Dec 6, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Alec Flett wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Lisa Dusseault wrote:So the answer boils down to:  yes, for 
>>>> members a cohesive group that has their calendars hosted in the 
>>>> same place, each person in that group will be able to use a single 
>>>> Cosmo URL to find their own calendar and those of the others in the 
>>>> group.  Beyond that, sorry.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  The reason I ask is perhaps its possible to look up a group, and 
>>>> get back a set of URLs that the client can go check for free-busy 
>>>> information. So if you can look up "OSAF Apps" and get a set of 
>>>> URLs that correspond to the members of the group, perhaps those 
>>>> URLs could also refer to users/urls on other servers as well.
>>>>
>>>>  then it would be up to the client to merge this information 
>>>> appropriately.
>>>>
>>>>  Alec
>>>>
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