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As of now we are able to finish the following features/enhancements to Collaber

• Member activity information in workspace
  Now every member can know what other members are doing in the workspace. They can know which workspace is active, how many members are there in it, etc
• Improved Discussion Tool
  Editing support for old posts, intelligent tree expansion and other GUI improvements
• Scripting Collaber
  Now Collaber can be automated using JavaScript.

Work in progress

• SIP Integration for Audio calls
• Webservices interface for system integration and external data access.
• Mac & Linux Setup
• Migration to Eclipse 3.3 base

Rajesh Akkineni Uncategorized

Today we made collaber scriptable. We have made new plugin which will allow scripting of Collaber objects. This plugin will consist of a Script Server which listens on TCP port 7690 on localhost.

Any one can connect to it and send commands to run any javascript file. You can do anything in Collaber(almost) by writing appropriate script.

This will open endless possibilities for the developers and administrators.

Interesting thing is it just took one day for us to implement it.

Rajesh Akkineni Coming Up

As a part of Real-Time Collaboration we are going to introduce Audio & Video communication features in Collaber.

This module will be known as SIP Phone. It is basically a SIP phone with audio and video support developed on code from OpenWengo. Initially we will release audio support only. Will add video support later.

This plugin needs you to have an Wengo Phone account.

Rajesh Akkineni New Ideas

In a Workspace we will have members. What ever each member does in the workspace will be informed to all other members.

In a Service there will be service providers and subscribers. Each collaber account can publich any number of services(each different kind). And other contacts can subscribe to these services. Only those subscribed users will be informed of any changes done to the service.

To understand it clearly I need to provide some examples of services…

• Blog service: Other people can subscribe to your blog. When ever you add a new post they will be informed.
• Calendar service: If some one wants to know if you are free on a particular date, or what you are doing on some day,etc they can subscribe to your Calendar service. Your Calendar service automatically talks to all your task and calendar tools in all your workspaces and will update those events on your calendar service.
• Backup service: Using this service you can subscribe to a storage space on your other contacts.

These are just an example services. You can even sell your services to the subscribers. It all depends on what your service is. There is tremendous possibilities of services. So give power to your imagination and develop services for Collaber.

Ooh wait. You need to wait for Collaber 1.0.5 for that.

Rajesh Akkineni New Ideas

In next version of Collaber we are planing to implement some real-time collaboration features. These features include..

• Member activity in the workspace
• Contact status updates
• Simple chat messages
• Navigate together kind of tools and functionality

All of these functionality require the contacts to be online. We don’t need to save all those data in to the network and deliver it at the later time. Because they will loose their validity if they are not delivered at the instant.

To address this problem we want to introduce in memory only high performance networking layer. Using this layer plugin developers can send small chunks of data(most of the time <10k) using an encrypted packet stream. This data will never be stored in files. If the collaber restarts or killed, all the data will be lost. Ofcourse they can be resent at any time.

This communication will only work with members/contacts that are connected either directly or through relay. This uses only TCP. So can not be used for voice packets. We will come back to voice in the future versions.

Rajesh Akkineni New Ideas

We are pleased to inform you that we released Collaber Beta v1.0.4 with the following new features

1. New Improved GUI with different window for each workspace
2. New Start Page for each Workspace
3. Improved access control with ability to create new roles and have a member with more than one role.
4. Bug fixes in Task Took with support for % of completion of task
5. Bug fixes in various other plugins across Collaber
6. Support for creating account with different Relay Server
7. Smiles support in chat tool and chat window
8. New chat message notification in chat window
9. Improved network monitoring

I hope you will like this release…Please let us know your opinion /feedback/bug reports through Collaber Forum.

Rajesh Akkineni Progress