[HLUG] Open source intranet?

Thu Jan 8 22:16:29 UTC 2009

Morven Lewis-Everley wrote:
> 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.
>   
Hi Morven

In terms of your requirements, I still think Plone would tackle this
with ease.

    * Lots of files - YES Plone has its own built in database the ZODB,
      our ZODB is about 800MB. For very large files, however you can use
      filesystem storage instead, which can give quicker access and
      avoiding bloating the ZODB. The ZODB automatically holds copies of
      the contents history, and so its worth to clean it occasionally.
    * Comments - Yes, its built in. There is also a another Product you
      reqquire more configurability..
    * You can store metadata, via keywords too.
    * Plone has indexing built in, out of the box. This works for Office
      docs, audio, images, text files anything.
    * There is a really good Product that you can use with Plone for
      audio and video too. http://plone.org/products/plone4artistssite/
      There are others too.
    * Versioning is excellent, and is built in. Plone also has 'Working
      copy' support. Ie if you need to edit and work on a page, it will
      allow you to keep a copy up there, whilst you have a copy your
      working on. Its much simpler than copying and pasting copies of
      files to keep something up on the site.

You can even have group spaces, and shared calendering on Plone.

I spoke to Ben mason at Sharkbyte Studios today. He said he has set up a
few intranets with Plone for companies, and the companies have been very
pleased with the results.

> 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?
>   
Hope, this is of some use.

Julian
> 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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