Rolodap is being developed to allow multiple users the ability to create and modify a common collection of contacts that can be organized into various user created Address Books. This flexability allows users the ability to organize their contacts into customized Books, without actually duplicating any of the contact data. Each contact is stored in an LDAP directory only once, but each contact can appear in several books. This means that contact data only needs to be updated once for everyone to see the updates organization wide.
Each user is assigned a unique login and password (which is also stored in an LDAP directory) to allow tracking of changes and when contacts were created.
Since Rolodap is currently still in development, many changes are likely, so this is a good time to look at what we have done and give us some feedback as to what you would like to see in this application. If you are interested in helping work on the Rolodap project, we could use some help in the areas of writing documentation, testing, and some PHP coding.
The Rolodap homepage is at http://rolodap.sourceforge.net. The homepage contains information about downloading the first tarball release and how to view the Rolodap demo. The most current Rolodap code is also available via anonymouse cvs (see http://sourceforge.net/projects/rolodap/ for details).
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