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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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…
Have you got any link that points to Hula light ? I’d be quite interested too in having a look at it…
OK, I’ve found it myself there is a svn repo at https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/hula/trunk/hula-lite
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.
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.
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).
I’ll share my email since this blog won’t display it: jbn@forestfield.org. Plenty of spammers already have it.
Unfortunately, we did not prepare to record the discussions this year. We’ll attempt live streaming and recording of those streams next time around.
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/
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Hu-la-la-la October 12th, 2006 by jdub
to but didn’t have the chance, I think that’s the only excuse I need to make my way to a GUADEC. I think jdub and blizzard did a great job of herding sheep and doing logistical-type things to make Stuff Happen(tm), kudos to the both of you. Jeff was understating how awesome Dave’s demo of Hula was. I am pretty sure I yelled “HOLY FUCKING SHIT!” at least three or four times during the demo. People missed: Havoc, Bryan, Luis (one day doesn’t count!) and Rodrigo.
to but didn’t have the chance, I think that’s the only excuse I need to make my way to a GUADEC. I think jdub and blizzard did a great job of herding sheep and doing logistical-type things to make Stuff Happen(tm), kudos to the both of you. Jeff was understating how awesome Dave’s demo of Hula was. I am pretty sure I yelled “HOLY FUCKING SHIT!” at least three or four times during the demo. People missed: Havoc, Bryan, Luis (one day doesn’t count!) and Rodrigo.