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I just installed Kolab on my desktop machine, just to play around with it, and I must say I'm impressed. This is the most integrated groupware-like suite I've ever worked with.
Based on existing open source solutions like

• Postfix
• Cyrus Sasl
• SpamAssassin
• Amavis
• Apache
• Cyrus IMAP
• Mysql
• OpenLdap
• Sieve
• PHP

and others, you get a completely integrated mailserver, userbase, calendars,... with a nice webinterface for administration purposes.

I installed Horde as user frontend, which took some time, but now it's working almost well. Using Horde the user gets a well-integrated web interface to his email, calendars, address books, Sieve mail filters, notes and tasks etc.

This is definately something we should look into at VTK. When using Horde as user interface, we could even allow our users to access their Eduserv email from the same interface etc, which would be really nice. The implementation could easily be done in a multiple steps: first get all email stuff working, then addressbooks, then calendars,...
I wonder whether it could be possible to extend the "standard" Kolab "User" LDAP object so it can also be used for Samba3 LDAP authentication? If that'd be possible, this is definately the application to use on our new server :-)

Screenshots might follow later ;-)

Today, I was in my bed when the (fixed) phone rang. After a few time, I took up, but the line was allready dropped. A few hours later, when I checked my mailbox, there was a paper from UPS telling me they tried to deliver a package from Dell, but I wasn't home. They'll come back monday. Damn! I'm sure, with my order, I asked to call me on my cellular before they should deliver. So I'll have to wait a few days more...

I also was a little bit bad guy for my girlfriend: I wasn't with her much time this week. Shame on me ;-) On monday I had some work at VTK. Tuesday there was the election of the vice-rector (vice-president) of our university. The speeches of them took most of the time, there was only 1 round and decision was made. The candidate of our faculty didn't make it. In the evening, I had to go to Brussels for a meeting with VVS, the Board of Flemish Students to discuss about the (stock taking of the) Bologna process.

Wednesday, in the morning I helped a little bit for the preparations of our triatlon at VTK. In the afternoon, I went to Brussels again for a visit of the Flemish Parliament. Very nice afternoon! The Parliament is a very modern and beautiful building, with lots of art in it. Also very nice people, but a very long, boring speech of Filip Dewinter (about BHV for people following the actual news) in the general meeting, always the same. The offices of Groen! (you can call them extremely left), N-VA and a part of Vlaams Belang (extremely right) are on the same floor, in the same gallery. Nice situation :-) I also heard a lot of funny inside information there. Yeah, it sure was a very nice afternoon. In the evening, there was the weekly badminton followed by fries :-)

Thursday I had lunchmeeting with GSR, the Board of Students at Ghent University about the meeting of that evening (in Brussels once more) with VVS. After a few drinks at a sponsor-event of a student organisation, we left for the long VVS-meeting.

So it was kind of a meeting week and also kind of a Brussels-week. And if thats not enough, I'm going to Brussels again tomorrow.

My lovely girlfriend in doing fine with her final year thesis. It should be finished very soon, so she can start studying for her exams. Wish her good luck please. Wednesday, we have a little party for her birthday, so it'll be a nice week again, and with the days of at thursday and friday, also a very calm one :-)

Oh, before I forget, I also missed two practica of Multimedia Networks this week. The shedule is in an excel-file online at our e-learning application Minerva, but because it's an external file, you cant see when it's changed. You have to re-download en review the file manually. Stupid system. The system for making a reservation for a time slot is also at Minerva, but you can't see when they created new reservation opportunities. Let's hope that two missed ones doesn't have much implications on the results for my exams...