Zeta Alliance handover to bTactic
1. Introduction
Barry de Graaff is out of the Zimbra world and has handed Zeta Alliance project over to bTactic which has been in control since February 23th, 2025.
2. About Zimbra
Zimbra is an open platform solution for Email & Collaboration that lets you manage and control your data the way you want it, while keeping it secure and private. With a modern user interface, Zimbra is easy to use and accessible anytime, anywhere.
3. About Zeta Alliance
Zeta Alliance is an alliance of users, partners, and contributors for the Zimbra Email & Collaboration Platform to help ensure its long term success and health as an open source project.
Zeta Alliance was created around 2014.
4. About bTactic
At bTactic we are experts in free software solutions, open source and cloud computing.
One of the objectives of bTactic is to bring Open Source and Cloud Computing technologies closer to companies and organizations, thus professionalizing their analysis, design, and implementation.
5. bTactic contributions to Zimbra Foss
5.1. maldua-mirror
5.2. maldua-suite
5.2.1. Zimbra Maldua 2FA
5.3. maldua
5.3.1. Zimbra FOSS Builder
5.3.2. Zimbra Foss Downloads Page (from Maldua)
5.3.3. Zimbra Tag Helper
5.4. bTactic org on Github
5.4.1. Owncloud zimlet
5.4.2. Open Drive
5.4.3. zSuitecrm
6. About Zeta Alliance future
This is bTactic’s wishlist for Zeta Alliance:
– Keep what Zeta Alliance is today (Webpage, Nextcloud, Gallery, Repos). Also lists with help of current maintainer.
– Try to revitalize the community
– Figure out a way to make other Zimbra partners to join the project
– Bring AI topics to the table
– Bring Cybersecurity topics to the table
– Make Zeta Alliance more democratic
7. Special Thank You
– Openfactory that keeps managing the user mailing list.
– Xmission has sponsored a VPS for many years that hosted the webpage, the gallery and the nextcloud instance.
– Barry De Graaff
– Many other people that have contributed to the Zeta Alliance project over the years.
8. Technical details:
– bTactic manages:
– Domain
– DNS
– zetalliance.org webpage
– zetalliance.org email
– Gallery
– Nextcloud
– Github organization
– Openfactory keeps managing:
– User mailing list
– freeconferencecall.com will keep managing:
– Tuesday’s Weekly Conference call
