Hu-la-la-la

Since Hula was first announced, the #1 question we’ve gotten has been, “will it work with my postfix/Maildir setup?”

Clearly, it is clueful and savvy users that are interested in Hula!

From what Dave showed us during his demo at the Boston Summit, Hula Lite will be a ball-breakingly, jaw-snappingly, lemur-impersonatingly worthy successor to existing, spotty FLOSS webmail clients. Given previous up-close-and-personal experience with some of them — as both a user and administrator — I couldn’t be happier.

Pia and I will have one soon. :-)

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This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on October 12, 2006 at 16:56, filed under Uncategorized and tagged desktop, FLOSS, GNOME. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

9 Comments

  1. Janne
    Posted October 12, 2006 at 17:24 | Permalink |

    Now, all we need is Hula to be actually released. I have been waiting for it as well. Been waiting for quite some time already…

  2. huats
    Posted October 12, 2006 at 20:16 | Permalink |

    Have you got any link that points to Hula light ? I’d be quite interested too in having a look at it…

  3. huats
    Posted October 12, 2006 at 20:19 | Permalink |

    OK, I’ve found it myself there is a svn repo at https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/hula/trunk/hula-lite

  4. Rick
    Posted October 12, 2006 at 21:48 | Permalink |

    I was just looking through some of the docs on the site and I’m curious to mess around with it. I like the idea of keeping the calendar data in json form text files that you can go through and parse with just about anything.

  5. Alex Valentine
    Posted October 13, 2006 at 06:55 | Permalink |

    The development progress of Hula has been disappointing. When was it announced, maybe two years ago? It still is in ALPHA and doesn’t sync with anything, not even evolution. It seems that Hula is not a priority for Novell.

  6. J.B. Nicholson-Owens
    Posted October 14, 2006 at 15:01 | Permalink |

    Any recordings of this or any of the other stuff from the Boston summit?

    It would be great to see them in Ogg Vorbis+Theora licensed to share; I could distribute them to my friends right alongside all of the cool talks from the 2006 FISL7 I’ve been distributing.

    Thanks for any tips on this. If it’s not too much trouble, email me if you have any input on this (blogs aren’t good at informing people of followups despite collecting the info to make that possible. Given the number of them, the ease of posting to them, it is a lot to ask to bookmark each blog thread and come back later).

  7. J.B. Nicholson-Owens
    Posted October 14, 2006 at 15:03 | Permalink |

    I’ll share my email since this blog won’t display it: jbn@forestfield.org. Plenty of spammers already have it.

  8. jdub
    Posted October 14, 2006 at 15:06 | Permalink |

    Unfortunately, we did not prepare to record the discussions this year. We’ll attempt live streaming and recording of those streams next time around. :-)

  9. Nathan
    Posted October 16, 2006 at 04:59 | Permalink |

    It looks like Hu-La will be nice at some point in the future. I think it is really missing out on a shared address book. Perhaps a quick and dirty way would be to attach contacts to the calendar events.

    I the best shared address book I’ve see is in the horde groupware that came out in the last few months.
    http://horde.org/groupware/