Background
Originally Streber started in March 2005 as a prototype of a major upgrade of netoffice.
pixtur stumbled over this project and enthusiastically joined the community a year ago. It seemed a good tool for organizing my own projects and work. Over the time he discovered, that the long project of netoffice history resulted in a confusing, hard to extend code-basis. And although the general graphical user interface was really intuitive some points (like rights-management, cascaded tasks and client-site) were really confusing. So he worked on an interface design concept for a major upgrade, including mock-ups, a user-survey and usability tests. During the implementation of a prototype he made a lot of really drastic changes in the netoffice concept. Together with the missing support from the project founders this gave him enough reason to split and start a new project which he called Streber.
"Streber" is German for a too enthusiastic and overly motivated person. Nobody would like to go out for a date with a streber, but letting him do your home-work is quiet o.k. ;-)