[HLUG] Open source intranet?

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

If you want to do document sharing, use knowledge tree.

It's got two licenses (one GPL, one closed) but it is amazing - it  
will allow full text searching of documents and can even be integrated  
in to SugarCRM amongst other things.

http://www.knowledgetree.com/

M.

Quoting Morven Lewis-Everley <m.lewis.everley at googlemail.com>:

> Thanks for all the advice,
>
> I need something that can be used to manage a lot of files, and also allow
> comments and information to be shared on those files. They are going to be
> all sorts of things, from office documents, to images to audio and video
> files. Also, some sort of versioning software would be useful.
>
> I have tried setting up plone, and its working ok, not really sure what I am
> doing with it now however. It seems the most likely system to allow me to do
> this sort of thing (short of sharepoint... shudder), but does anyone have
> any ideas on any adons or ways of seting up a strict project based file
> sytem through it?
>
> Mo
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:04 PM, dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <
> dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> almost but if you read between the lines of my email
>> you will see i didnt say that i did it, but that i chose it,
>> they wanted to pay someone to do their website (our website)
>> so i stepped back -
>> but it looks as if nothing's changed since then...
>> http://www.tlio.org.uk/
>>
>> my websites havnt changed much since frames came in with netscape2,
>> and since i spent a winter reading a javascript book by candlelight,
>> I've upgraded from notepad to wordpad to edit them
>> but might move to plone or NVU or something
>> when i have the time to unscramble the javascript code I wrote
>> (http://www.phreak.co.uk/stonehenge/psb/stonepix.htm)
>> maybe when i leave windows for ubuntu,
>> i'm half and half now...
>>
>>                   [george]
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:09 PM
>> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Open source intranet?
>>
>> >
>> > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:00:22 -0000, "dicegeorge at hotmail dot com"
>> > <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> said:
>> >> When i was looking into something like this
>> >> I chose plone
>> >> because it seems to work out of the box in simple configurations
>> >> but to be hugely expandable too -
>> >> and i dont like wasting by brane cells learning something limited!
>> >
>> > Hi George
>> >
>> > I never knew you went with Plone. That's good, how are you finding it ?
>> > You're right - there is an awful lot you can do with Plone out of the
>> > box now. The Plone 3 series is much better in this respect than version
>> > 2.1 that I started with. Back then, you would have to use the ZMI, (Zope
>> > Management Interface) which is very obtuse and do quite a bit in there,
>> > for things like moving portlets (side panels), on your page around.
>> >
>> > But this is no longer the case fortunately now ;-).
>> >
>> > Julian
>> >
>> >>
>> >> (which is why i'm going to learn Blender not Google sketchup()
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>                    [george]
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ~                                                   ~
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --------------------------------------------------
>> >> From: "matt stone" <stone.matthew at gmail.com>
>> >> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:09 PM
>> >> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <
>> herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> >> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Open source intranet?
>> >>
>> >> > 2009/1/7 Morven Lewis-Everley <m.lewis.everley at googlemail.com>:
>> >> >> Anyone here have an office intranet using open source software?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I have read Plone is good, does anyone have any experience using this
>> >> >> for
>> >> >> an
>> >> >> intranet?
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > We don't run an intranet here (only 3 staff so whats the point) but
>> >> > for a basic cms couldn't you just roll your own using a framework?
>> >> > There's plenty of good php frameworks which will do what you need or
>> >> > if you want to go the python route django is very good with it's
>> >> > auto-generated admin backend.
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers
>> >> > Matt
>> >> >
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