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+<?php
+ $title = "DAViCal Background";
+ include("inc/page-header.php");
+?>
+<h1>Background</h1>
+<p>The CalDAV specification has been under development for a few years now, and at the same time we
+have seen increasing pressure from people and organisations in the open source world to provide a
+solution to their shared calendaring problems.
+</p>
+<p>In evaluating the possibilities for shared calendaring, there are a number of possible approaches, but
+we have elected to follow the path of implementing CalDAV because we believe it is a good specification
+and that it will in due course gain client implementations and provide the richest user
+experience through those client implementations.</p>
+
+<h1>Goals</h1>
+<p>CalDAV is a client-server protocol specific to managing and reporting on <em>collections</em> of <em>calendar resources</em>.</p>
+<p>As such, our intentions in developing this application are as follows:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Simplicity of Prerequisites</li>
+<li>Simplicity of Setup</li>
+<li>Simplicity of Operation</li>
+<li>Web-based Administration</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Simplicity of Prerequisites</h2>
+<p>We have chosen to write this in PHP because we believe that PHP is a widely available web scripting language.</p>
+<p>We have chosen to use the Apache web server because it is also widely available.  This is not necessarily a requirement,
+but no testing has been undertaken in other PHP environments to date.</p>
+<p>We have chosen to use the PostgreSQL database, because it is a free, open-source database, which operates on a very wide set of
+operating environments, and which is <em>fully</em> ACID compliant.</p>
+
+<h2>Simplicity of Setup</h2>
+<p>For the greatest ease use you should consider installing DAViCal on the <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian GNU/Linux</a>
+distribution from the readily available, signed packages.</p>
+<p>We expect to increase the level of automation and simplicity for the Debian target release in particular, although other
+distributions might also become easier at the same time. We do expect slightly greater installation complexity in the first
+few releases as we come to understand the particular problems people experience.</p>
+
+<h2>Simplicity of Operation</h2>
+<p>In general DAViCal should not need significant maintenance to keep it operating.</p>
+<p>Administrative functionality will be kept as simple as possible, within the target of supporting
+organisations of up to several hundred staff.</p>
+<p>The server-side smarts in DAViCal are intended to be fairly minimal in order to support CalDAV
+ only in a manner sufficient to inter-operate with clients, and with the focus primarily
+ on the storage of calendar resources.</p>
+
+<h2>Web-based Administration</h2>
+<p>General administration of the system should be through a web-based application.</p>
+<p>Calendars will not be made available in a web-based view in initial releases.  It is unlikely that calendars will ever be
+maintainable through a web-based client, although the server should support the use of web-based client software which
+works using the CalDAV protocol.</p>
+
+
+<?php
+ include("inc/page-footer.php");