Design Goals for the Venice Project

Eric J. Bowersox <erbo@users.sf.net> - January 26, 2001

  1. A replacement for the CommunityWare/WebbMe conferencing system
  2. Java/JSP/servlets implementation running under Apache Tomcat, MySQL backend
  3. Multiple communities hosted per server, each with multiple conferences (and other features); users logged into one server can join multiple communities
  4. Conferencing functionality similar to CW/WebbMe:
  5. Enhancements to existing conference features:
  6. Later, replace other CW/WebbMe functions:
  7. Features from CW/WebbMe we won't do:
  8. Blue sky features: