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Suggestion to reorganize/rebrand the “groupware” features of Nextcloud #89

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@sylvaticus

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(following from this discourse thread: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/suggestion-to-reorganize-rebrand-the-groupware-features-of-nextcloud/246359)

Hello, NextCloud is great and it already has all it is needed for a groupware application. Just I think it is badly organized/names (in my humble opinion).

I think the "core" of a groupware application is triad composed of (a) agents, (b) resources and (c) communication channels.

  • "agents" are the users (humans, but perhaps also AI robots) , they have permissions related to resources and to communications
  • "resources" can be the NC shared data, the calendars, the deck boards...
  • "communication channels" are in NC the persistent rooms for chats and audio/video calls in Talk, or the emails

The possibility to integrate them in NC is super and unique, but my experience is that people doesn't realize this is possible because the apps are dispersed and with bad names.
For example, the agents (teams) are in "contacts". The mini-web pages (a resource) is instead named "collectives".
I think there should be a sort of app unifying this, called perhaps "Projects", where the user could easily add agents, resources and communications to the project.
This is absolutely possible now, just that it is too hidden into the individual apps.

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  • Create a "Projects" app that interface the other groupware apps, perhaps providing a dashboard of any given project

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  3. ChristophWurst commented on Jun 30, 2026

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    Thank you for opening the ticket

  4. jancborchardt commented on Jun 30, 2026

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    Hi @sylvaticus, we are actually working on doing exactly this. :) As you say currently the "Teams" functionality is in Contacts, but we aim to move that out into a dedicated app.

    First steps are made in the planning issue at: nextcloud/circles#2543

    And first steps to moving it into its own app are taken at nextcloud/circles#2561

    The goal is that this app does indeed handle the teams and their projects, with the resources attached to them, as an overview. :)

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