16 posts from November 2007

CivicSpace is a Drupal based CMS for civic groups

Nov 24, 2007
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CivicSpace is a Drupal based CMS for civic groups

Empower even the smallest civic groups to effectively deploy sophisticated fundraising, communication and advocacy technologies.

CivicSpace On Demand is the easy way to bring individuals and groups together on the Internet.

Promote your cause and communicate with supporters via your website and e-newsletters.
Create and update your website content with no programing skills required.
Offer opportunities to support your cause by making online donations, volunteering or attending an event.
Enable people to interact, with powerful community-building tools like blogs, discussion forums, voting and petitions.
Keep track of all your contacts and your interactions with them in a powerful, integrated central database.

Information

Modules and Features

http://civicspacelabs.org/node/15257

Civicspace Demo

http://csod-demo.civicspaceondemand.org/getting_started

PCLinuxOS - the distro-hopper-stopper

Nov 24, 2007
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PCLinuxOS | The distro-hopper-stopper

Not only a great catchphrase but a great selection of support sites as well !

Eclipse PHP PDT Project

Nov 21, 2007
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The Eclipse PDT project provides a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform.

PS The PHP Development Tools project has now replaced the Eclipse PHP IDE project

Songbird Open Source Media Player

Nov 20, 2007
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http://www.songbirdnest.com/

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.

http://developer.songbirdnest.com/

Drupal Open Source CMS

Nov 20, 2007
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Drupal
http://drupal.org/
http://drupal.org/project/Modules
http://drupal.org/project/Theme%20engines
http://drupal.org/project/Themes
http://drupal.org/project/Translations

Drupal Association
http://association.drupal.org/

Showcase
http://drupal.org/image/tid/41

IBM Drupal tutorials
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/implement.html

Why Open Source ?

Nov 20, 2007
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Squiz

http://www.squiz.net/squiz/open-source

The open source software movement is probably the single most significant development to the software industry ever. Open source software is free. "Freely distributed", "Freely accessible" and "Freely modifiable" - and it is this freedom that makes it so valuable.

CSC
http://www.csc.com/features/2004/247.shtml
The lure of open source software is that it is free—anyone can use it or modify it without license fees, and no vendor can lock users in for fixes and enhancements.

Australian Government (AGIMO)
http://www.squiz.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/20060/MySource-Matrix-White-Branding-Colour-Brochure.pdf
A review of the implementation showed that it met each of the business objectives specified for the project. Additional functionality was subsequently incorporated into the product by AGIMO, Squiz.net and other Matrix users. This has increased the capabilities of the product and is expected to lead to reduced cost and development times for future functionality, as more and more code is available for re-use.

Oxford University
http://www.squiz.net/case-studies/oxford-university-library-services
Aside from being easy to implement, MySource Matrix also proved to be the most cost-effective site publishing solution for Oxford’s library network. Because the CMS is open source, it’s free to use and own, meaning that OULS & SERS have been able to control its development and support spend in a far more effective way than would be possible with alternative commercial systems.

LDAP Directory Servers and LDAP Browsers

Nov 19, 2007
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Apache
http://directory.apache.org/
http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.0/11-what-apache-directory-server-is.html
http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.0/apacheds-v10-basic-users-guide.html
http://directory.apache.org/community%26resources/articles.html

Other
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~gawor/ldap/features.html
http://ldap.akbkhome.com/index.php
http://www.jxplorer.org/

Open Source Intranet CMS's

Nov 16, 2007
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I've been looking for an Open Source Intranet CMS (which must support creation and administration of an internal company directory) and have created the following shortlist:

If you have any other suggestions or can personally recommend one of the above please let us know - obviously there wont be any sites we can look at because they'll be other companies internal corporate intranets !

I've just found a few more (via ohloh.net)

Apache Velocity Project

Nov 15, 2007
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Apache Velocity Project About Velocity

Velocity is a Java-based template engine. It permits anyone to use a simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in Java code.

When Velocity is used for web development, Web designers can work in parallel with Java programmers to develop web sites according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) model, meaning that web page designers can focus solely on creating a site that looks good, and programmers can focus solely on writing top-notch code. Velocity separates Java code from the web pages, making the web site more maintainable over its lifespan and providing a viable alternative to Java Server Pages (JSPs) or PHP.