Article “Le logiciel libre en voie de reconnaissance mondiale” dans la banque des savoirs de l’Essonne

Le logiciel libre en voie de reconnaissance mondiale, est le titre de l’article de La banque des savoirs de l’Essonne, à la Une en ce moment, pour lequel j’ai contribué en tant qu’expert du sujet.

La banque des savoirs de l’Essonne est un site de vulgarisation scientifique, qui s’appuie notamment sur l’expertise des enseignants et chercheurs qui travaillent en Éssonne.

Plus de détails sur la première page de l’article.

P.S.: une mention de PicoForge, sur laquelle nous travaillons au mileu de quelques références prestigieuses de l’actualité du Libre, c’est bien, mais je n’y suis pour rien ;)… enfin, si ça nous fait un peu connaître, je ne me plaindrai pas 😉

AJAX interface for phpGW admin module

We’ve had 3 students, Laure Chivot, Franck Duchi and Mathieu Talibart working on improving phpGroupware’s user interface in the admin module, trying to use AJAX techniques.

They’ve achieved some encouraging results using the Yahoo! UI Library (YUI).

You’ll find some screenshots of the results here.

All they have developped is archived in a project on Picoforge at GET/INT (phpgwadmin project), waiting for more work and maybe integration upstream.

Web2.0 workshop ahead in Rennes in early July

I’ll be visiting Rennes (France) in early July for the « Les étés TIC de Bretagne » conference/workshop, which promise 3 days of gathering around Internet and Web2.0 usages in Britanny.

This will be an oportunity for our Contrib 2.0 project to have a workshop, and advance a bit more our research agenda.

In between, I’ll have xen setup to demonstrate some novelties of PicoForge, I hope.

Hello planet phpGroupware

Hello planet phpGroupware !

I’m not a developper of the project, but as a contributor to Picoforge, which uses phpGroupware for its infrastructure, I’m from time to time confronted to internals of the project, so I’ll probably have things to say about it.

At the present time, I’m considering how I can do Apache authentication in phpGroupware for SSO among all Web applications integrated in PicoForge, instead of having the standard PHP/web form login dialog. There seem to have been some code included in phpGroupware, but the stable version doesn’t seem fully ready for that… so I think I’ll have to patch.

And yes, we wanna stick as much as possible to Debian etch’s version of phpGroupware, even though things we’re interested in are probably more or less there in HEAD (special dedicace à Caeies;).