Building an ODF Intranet Portal? 19
jeevesbond writes "I have been doing some feasibility work on creating a FLOSS Intranet Portal for ODF documents; the first task is to find existing projects that already provide some of the required functionality. The requirements are: version control — including diff and merge capabilities for ODF; integration with OpenOffice for check-in/out as a starting point; a Web-based CMS for group sharing of files (preferably one that can be extended to perform other tasks); and network authentication for the CMS (so users don't have to login twice). The eventual aim is to be able to bundle all this up in some way: 'apt-get odf-portal', for instance. Which FLOSS tools would you use for this job? How would you handle diffs and merges for ODF documents?"
knowledgeTree (Score:4, Informative)
Diffs (Score:4, Insightful)
You'll probably want the download/upload down via webdav. User uploads say via webdav, you notice the upload, unzip it elsewhere, and commit. Should be easy
As a slight twist, you could probably instead have the unzipping done as a pre-commit hook in svn server.
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Thanks for the suggestions though, another avenue to explore!
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You can do version comparisons graphically through OpenOffice.org though - TortoiseSVN contains some scripts to do this - using the change review mechanism, and I've found this very useful
Try this for a start (Score:3, Informative)
Their description:
"Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management."
I'm sure it doesn't do everything you want out of the box, but you wanted FLOSS for a reason, right?
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New: FreePoint (Score:2, Informative)
Coined: FreePoint - The SharePoint Alternative
As a .NET and SharePoint developer, one of the biggest selling points for SharePoint is that integrates with Office, has a fairly easy to use web interface, and allows the user to design their experience and manage their own pages.
Here is the design challenge for a FreePoint tool:
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Re:SharePoint vs OOO (Score:2)
There is no "sharepoint killer."
Concentrating on being "better than product XYZ only GPL" is okay, but it won't ever overtake XYZ. Instead, concentrating on making the product insanely useful to many different niches, one niche at a time is generally a goo
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Thanks for the excellent answer.
I'd actually like to steer clear of too many comparisons with Sharepoint, a clone will always be directly compared to Sharepoint, always living in it's shadow. Although most of your points are important though, a FLOSS product must provide an easy transition from any other system. Working with MS Office will be essential (although to get a feel for how the workflow will operate I thought OpenOffice would be best).
The current working title is: OpenDocumentPortal, how does th
O3spaces (Score:2, Interesting)
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Convert Open Office docs to text? (Score:2)
That would be a good step in the right direction. At least as far as searching the contents.
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Priority: optional
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Maintainer: Nelson A. de Oliveira
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Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6)
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Description: simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text
odt2txt extracts the text out
Emma (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.emma.uga.edu/ [uga.edu]
From the site:
(Electronic Markup and Management Application) enables
* writing, editing and posting compositions
* collaborating on and evaluating texts
* web-based collecting, modifying, distribu
Plone (Score:2, Interesting)