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We blog about many different topics. Sometimes this is news on things that happen on Kopano, or simply something that we felt was interesting to share about how our teams work. Our blogs also reflect on tech- and non-tech news that relates to us or affects us. Stay tuned!

Open Source for Health

What has Open Source to do with Covid-19 vaccines?

In Germany Vaccination against Covid-19 began on December 27, 2020. About 300 million vaccine doses are expected to be available in Germany in 2021 if all […]

January 7, 2021

To be, or not to be … The influence of Open Source on business models

There are interesting news from our competition: The new version 9 of the groupware Zimbra will no longer be available as open source. From the discussion […]

April 17, 2020
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5 Reasons To Use Meet As A Video Meeting Tool In Your Organization

Now that public life has largely moved indoors and family or friends can no longer be visited, video communication is booming, and so is the use […]

March 21, 2020

Digital Collaboration with Kopano at Lernstatt Paderborn

The city of Paderborn, Germany is special. Not only because of its beautiful Romanesque Cathedral, but because of its school system. Why? Nearly 20 years ago, […]

April 17, 2019

The Future of Open Source Collaboration Software

Last Christmas, our family discussions were like all others, with two notable exceptions. When I took pictures, my sister asked my daughter not to publish them […]

January 25, 2019

Fifty Shades Of Open Source: Our Road To 100% AGPL

In this blog post, Brian Joseph takes you on a journey through Kopano's past, sharing the lessons that he and his team learned when they took Zarafa open source.

January 16, 2019

App Developers Can Read Your Email. Now What?

At the beginning of this month, WSJ announced that third-party app developers can read the email of Gmail users. According to Google, we, users, have given […]

July 31, 2018
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New! JSON themes in Kopano WebApp

WebApp theming has been around for a while now and has been a recurring workshop topic on the last few Kopano Conferences. It’s a great tool […]

July 16, 2018
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How To Implement A Design Sprint Within Your Company

Sprints are hot! Ever more often you hear people talking about designs sprints. It seems like every organization is currently sprinting. So is Kopano. But why? […]

July 13, 2018
Open Source Collaboration - Augmenting Teamwork

Open Source Collaboration: Driving Adoption in 2018

At Kopano we love Christmas because Christmas is a time of sharing. And as an open source company, sharing is something we do every day. It’s in our veins. In 2017 we extended and optimized our own collaboration suite and in 2018 we plan to push the overall adoption of open source collaboration. Read more about how we'll do this in this blog.

December 21, 2017