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| Hula | |
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 Hula's webmail interface | |
| Developer | Novell (NetMail code base) / Hula community |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Groupware |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Repository | none |
Hula was anopen source mail and calendar project based onopen standards announced on February 15, 2005, byNovell.
Hula was an open-source effort sponsored byNovell and developed byDave Camp, Dalton Valliere and Joe Gasiorek, amongst others.
Hula was derived from an existing product by the same software house, calledNetMail, and retained many of the architectural features of that software. However, important components such as the mail store were intended to be re-developed to integrate new functionality (such as search) and new features (such as calendaring, using the calendar server protocolCalDAV).
Hula aimed to expand in three main directions:
It came with a web-based client to access information, but desktop applications were intended to be readily supported.Novell Evolution released with Hula support in version 2.6, and other clients were expected to support Hula closer to Hula's release.
On November 28, 2006, Novell announced that it would no longer have anyone work on it full-time.[4] On January 31, 2007,The Messaging Architects announced an agreement to acquireNetMail and take over leadership of the open source Hula Project from Novell.[5] The Hula project website went down in late 2007. Before it disappeared, it announced the transfer to The Messaging Architects, due to the move of Hula fromNovell.[6]
With the future of Hula unclear to many, asoftware fork of the source code was used to create the independent Bongo Project,[7] and the project joined the Software Freedom Conservancy as a member project.[8] Activity on this fork also seems to have been abandoned.[9] Hula/Bongo should not be confused with proprietary mobile phone games Bongo Thinks, Bongo Knows, and Ask Bongo, all of which rely onin-app payments and SMS text messaging.
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