As mentioned in my last blog, I’ve been working in the NGO sector the past few months and also following Alfresco, the first open source Enterprise Content Management system. Through my contacts in Alfresco I’ve been talking about potential partnerships between Alfresco and the NGO sector. First of all, I have to dispel a myth,…
I’ve recently been running a vendor assessment for an NGO (Non Government Organisation, Charity) called NetHope. They are looking to build a collaboration Intranet for all their member NGO’s (there’s currently 18 of them!) to share information and documents. Obviously, I included Alfresco in the vendor assessment, and also Plone, which is heavily supported by…
I’ve installed Drupal, updated some configurations and updated some content. Bascially, I’ve got a website up and running finally! With Drupal its very easy to setup a site like this (it only took me half and hour of tinkering), the time from now on will be spent adding content and actually making this into a…
I’m here on my third day in Seattle, in the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. This place is fantastic, and yesterday I swear I saw Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft) walking down the corridor! We also did a tour of Microsoft’s vision for how we will work in the next 3-7 years, round table video…
Finally, I have a reason to use this blog (as opposed to my personal one for friends only) for something useful, although I will be adding more geek-blogs on open source shortly, as I have been following that with great interest (especially Alfresco). Following up on my blog a few months ago (I’ve pasted it…