What is Tine 2.0

Tine 2.0 is an effort to create a usable and stable replacement for eGroupWare, the leading opensource groupware server software.

Taken other popular opensource products like KDE and Typo3 as antetype, the Tine 2.0 effort refactors eGroupWare from scratch. The advantage of such a procedure is, to have a mature software for production while preparing a new one which covers the needs of the future market.

How to start?

Please note that Tine 2.0 is in its initial phase and not a product yet.

At the moment three full time developers are working on Tine 2.0 fully backed by Metaways Infosystems GmbH. A growing community around Tine 2.0 is mainly concerned with documentation and improving usability.

Having realised this, you can

take a look at our demo and provide feedback in the forum.
take a look at the documentation base and provide feedback in the forum.
work through the developers 'getting started' section and learn how to code for Tine 2.0.
improve Tine 2.0 by discussion of usability, documentation and coding points in the forum.
improve Tine 2.0 by writing documentation.
And finally of course, improve Tine 2.0 by writing code.

Credo

Tine 2.0 redefines collaboration by activating synergies through high acceptance in your whole organisation. We achieve this by providing an easy to use interface and enjoyable user experience on the basis of a stable, secure and scalable infrastructure.

Standing on the shoulders of giants

After seven years of evolutionary development in eGroupWare, there is a huge knowledgebase of how to do things and also how to never do it again. Tine 2.0 is proud to stand on those shoulders.

Over the times, also the internet environment made huge proceedings. Many standard tasks are no longer needed to be solved by ourselves, but could be easily delegated to third party libraries. The credo of Tine 2.0 is to use external quality libraries and products whenever reasonable.

Friendly, free and open

The aim of Tine 2.0 is to be associated with the group of adjectives like easy, friendly, fun - while still being stable and secure. We believe that doing free and open source is the best way to achieve this goal.

Besides giving our software as opensource, we think that being friendly also means to ensure a positive user experiance and to provide high quality documentation.

News

Meet us in Berlin (2008/05/14)

The Tine Developers Team will be present at the LinuxTag 2008 (May 28th - 31th) in Berlin. We will be there to talk with you and to show a preview of the Tine 2.0 groupware.

If you still have no ticket for the expo, don't hesitate to contact us, we have 15 free tickets for giveaway! If you get one of the tickets, there is one thing you can do for us: visit us at our booth and help us to improve the usability of Tine by doing a short usability test with us.