What is Horde?
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The Horde Project is a group of developers who write Web applications
using the Horde Application Framework, itself a product of the
Project.

The Horde Application Framework is written in PHP, and provides the
common tools a Web application requires: classes for dealing with
preferences, compression, browser detection, connection tracking,
MIME, and more.

The Horde Framework, by itself, does not provide any significant end
user functionality; it provides a base for other applications and
tools for developers. You will probably want to install some of the
available Horde applications, such as IMP (a webmail client), or
Kronolith (a calendar). There is a list of Horde applications and
projects at http://www.horde.org/projects.php.

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.


Obtaining Horde
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Further information on Horde and the latest version can be obtained at

  http://www.horde.org/horde/

Information on applications that use the Horde framework can be
found at

  http://www.horde.org/projects.php


Documentation
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The following documentation is available in the Horde distribution:

README                - This file
COPYING               - Copyright and license information
docs/CHANGES          - List of changes by release
docs/CODING_STANDARDS - Coding standards for Horde projects
docs/CREDITS          - Who developed this
docs/INSTALL          - Installation instructions
docs/CONTRIBUTING     - How to contribute to Horde
docs/HACKING          - How to get Horde via CVS

Installation
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Instructions for installing Horde can be found in the file INSTALL
in the docs/ directory of the Horde distribution.


Assistance
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If you encounter problems with Horde, help is available! 

The Horde Frequently Asked Questions List (FAQ), available on the Web
at
 
  http://www.horde.org/faq/

The Horde Project runs a number of mailing lists, for individual
applications and for issues relating to the project as a whole.
Information, archives, and subscription information can be found at

  http://www.horde.org/mail/

Lastly, Horde developers, contributors and users also make occasional
appearances on IRC, on the channel #horde on the freenode Network
(irc.freenode.net).


Licensing
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For licensing and copyright information, please see the file
COPYING in the Horde distribution.

Thanks,

The Horde team
horde@lists.horde.org

$Horde: horde/README,v 2.10 2003/06/04 01:23:23 chuck Exp $
