[nycbug-talk] Some thoughts...

[Isaac Levy]

Hi Sasha,

On Mar 31, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Aleksandar Kacanski wrote:

> Hello,
> I just recently joined. I would like to know when is
> the next meeting and how often do we get informed
> regarding meetings and presentations?

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Meetings are every 1st Wednesday of the month.

> I consult for academia and industry. Currently I am
> working and teaching at CUNY.
> I am setting up a network and bunch of labs for the
> transitional high school, part of the project financed
> by several research foundations.
> I am using FreeBSD implementations for FW's (m0n0wall)
> and core services like DNS,SMTP,NTP,SNMP ...ghosting
> backup and recovery ...
> As usual I am trying to get buy in from faculty and
> staff on droping exchange and domain controllers, DNS
> and MS-LDAP for some collaborative environment.
> I am looking into two products, opengroupware and
> OPEN-XCHANGE.
> Anyone had any experience with these two products in
> BSD/Linux environments ... -

I don't have experience with these, but since your on FreeBSD, it's 
easy to test things out from ports installs:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=opengroupware&stype=all

Open-Xchange doesn't seem to be in ports, but their site points to docs 
here for install:

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/peter.schober/OX_on_FreeBSD.html


Good luck, have fun, see you at the next meeting-

Rocket-
.ike