The aim of "Elements of Collaboration" is to give an overview about current collaboration techniques and technology and to show how better collaboration can lead to improved workflows and higher productivity.

Though Open Source is not a religion for him, a creator of Mindquarry project Lars Trieloff really believes that all kind of organizations can learn from the collaborating in the OSS way and that in ten years OSS will be the predominant business model on the software market.

Read the full interview with Lars Trieloff at SourceKibitzer.

Mindquarry is an Open Source collaborative software platform for file sharing, task management, team collaboration and Wiki editing that meshes simplicity and functionality. As a result, knowledge workers are able to connect with team members and share information from wherever they are, effectively improving team-work and increasing productivity within the company.

For knowledge workers who are dissatisfied with the complexity of groupware solutions, Mindquarry is collaborative software that supports self-responsible and distributed team work.

Small workgroups often rely on email as their primary collaboration tool because many groupware solutions require time and expertise to install and configure, and extensive feature sets can be overkill. Mindquarry collaboration software aims to solve these problems.

(Originally published in LinuxMagazine, issue #79, June 2007)