Lars (left) and Stephan (right)

Just after breakfast, I had a couple of minutes with Stephan (CEO) and Lars (COO) from Mindquarry, an open-source team collaboration software platform. The goal of the company is to deliver knowledge resources to knowledge workers anywhere, anytime it is required. They don’t it as competing with groupware, and don’t deliver email capabilities. Stephan and Lars said that its product collects tools that are unique to collaborate … eg, wiki (for collecting knowledge), shared files (to avoid email attachments), version control on files, synchronization of files to the desktop (via a desktop client on Mac OS, and a Java client on Linux and Windows), mailing lists and online forums, and offline work (for files and tasks today, more to come in the future). Integration of instant messaging, voice mail and web meetings are on the roadmap.

Within Mindquarry, you can track and store conversations with people across different forms of communication, and these can be connected to tasks, documents in the wiki, and more. The product intentionally doesn’t want to put difficult workflows on top of knowledge workers.

Hasso Platner Ventures is an investor.