new project: FusionInventory

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

Hi,

During the FOSDEM meeting, a group of people decided to join their
force to create a new independent project called FusionInventory.
FusionInventory project aims to provide a better integration between
the different asset management projects including OCS Inventory, GLPI
and GOSA.

Components:
- FusionInventory Agent (fork of OCS Inventory UNIX agent). We want
it to be the sole agent installed on the machines. Because of that we
improved its internal architecture to be more modular and we will port
it to Windows.
- FusionInventory For GLPI (former GLPI Tracker plugin ). Today's
Tracker is a powerful SNMP/Network discovery extension for GLPI. This
plugin will be the interface between the agent and GLPI.
- FAI and OPSI integration is also planned

Roadmap:
-Feb 2010: Alpha release of the agent including SNMP, WakeOnLan
-Mar 2010: Beta release of the agent including P2P OCS Deployment
-Apr 2010: 2.1 release, Windows support
-May 2010: GOsa² integration including Linux and Windows OS
deployment (FAI and OPSI) and LTSP support

Wish:
The current agent already supports VirtualMachines detection. We wish
to integrate it with GLPI & OCS quickly.

About OCS. We believe in FreeSoftware, standard and interoperability.
OCS Inventory is a major software for our users and it's critical to
keep the compatibility with it. That's why we use OCS network protocol
and XML format. We want to continue to work with OCS Team to keep the
compatibility as good as possible. This IS a major point for us.

Everybody is welcome in this project. Even more if you love
cooperation between projects and are open-minded :). We look for:
-Windows packager of the agent
-Perl & PHP programmers
-Beta testers
-Friendly people on IRC
-YOURSELF!

Contact:
Mailing Lists:
* FusionInventory User:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-user
* FusionInventory Developer:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fusioninventory-devel
IRC:
* #FusionInventory on FreeNode
Projects:
* Agent: https://launchpad.net/fusioninventory-agent


Who we are:
- Myself, former OCS Inventory core Team Member and OCS Inventory
UNIX Agent maintainer
- Benoit Mortier, GOsa² core Team Member, FAI and OPSI contributor
- David Durieux, "FusionInventory For GLPI" core member,
"FusionInventory Agent" contributor, GLPI conributor
- Walid Nouh : GLPI developer / contributor

Best regards