[HLUG] Open source intranet?

[Julian Robbins]

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> If you want to do document sharing, use knowledge tree.
>   
I had a look at this once, looks pretty useful. But does it do all types
of file like audio and video ?/

Julian
> 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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