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+ Lightweight Contact Manager - LiCoM
+-===================================-
+
+LiCoM is a contact manager I started writing because my family, my friends and
+myself were not very comfortable with the many existing address book scripts.
+The demands were:
+- High compatibility with existing e-mail readers
+- Read and write operations
+- Export to vCards
+- Print lists of groups and/or all contacts
+- Multi-user capable
+
+These requirements are tried to be met with the following approach:
+- Data is kept in an LDAP database (the overall layout is shown in "The big
+ picture")
+- The LDAP-server is accessed through perl modules which prodide a high-level
+ interface to the database.
+- On top of these modules a CGI-script has been written.
+
+
+
+The big picture
+---------------
+
+[dc=org]
+ |
+ `->[dc=verplant]
+ |
+ `->[ou=addresses]
+ |
+ +->[cn=Forster Florian]
+ | |
+ | +->[cn=Test Person]
+ | +->[cn=Someone Else]
+ | : ...
+ | `->[cn=Last Person]
+ |
+ +->[cn=Another User]
+ | |
+ | +->[cn=Still More Entries]
+ : :
+