Hi, forgive me if this is inappropriate (since I've just joined the list and briefly browsed the archive): Im in a working group with the purpose of suggesting a solution for intranet and internet for a college with 150 employees and 1500 students we are primarely looking for the following functionality: intranet: - calender (outlook type thing) - booking (meeting room, classroms, etc) - news publishing - sharing documents - email program - each employee should easily be able to manage his/her homepage and course pages - forms internet: - website search - forms (online application forms) + some of the same features as the intranet our current website is at www.hig.no and not very functional. The rest of my group is focused on selecting a commercial solution, which is very expensive, so Im trying to figure out if Zope, ezPublish or some other open source system is worth looking in to. Unfortunately, I dont have the time to download and try things out myself. Any thoughts, ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated! /Erik ______________________________________________ veveve dått håige dått enno slæsj tilde erikhå www.hig.no/~erikh
Zope is perfect for what you want to do, the only draw back is the learning curve can be steep. to flatten it a bit I would suggest learning the key points of python first then most of the wierdness of zope will go away. My two cents Dan Erik Hjelmås wrote:
Hi,
forgive me if this is inappropriate (since I've just joined the list and briefly browsed the archive):
Im in a working group with the purpose of suggesting a solution for intranet and internet for a college with 150 employees and 1500 students
we are primarely looking for the following functionality:
intranet: - calender (outlook type thing) - booking (meeting room, classroms, etc) - news publishing - sharing documents - email program - each employee should easily be able to manage his/her homepage and course pages - forms
internet: - website search - forms (online application forms) + some of the same features as the intranet
our current website is at www.hig.no and not very functional.
The rest of my group is focused on selecting a commercial solution, which is very expensive, so Im trying to figure out if Zope, ezPublish or some other open source system is worth looking in to. Unfortunately, I dont have the time to download and try things out myself.
Any thoughts, ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
/Erik ______________________________________________ veveve dått håige dått enno slæsj tilde erikhå www.hig.no/~erikh
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Absolutely. Zope is definitely worth looking into since it can do all of the above and more. I recommend searching Zope.org for some products which will do what you want and more, for example WorldPilot. -- Andy McKay. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Hjelmås" <erikh@hig.no> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: [Zope] zope for intranet?
Hi,
forgive me if this is inappropriate (since I've just joined the list and briefly browsed the archive):
Im in a working group with the purpose of suggesting a solution for intranet and internet for a college with 150 employees and 1500 students
we are primarely looking for the following functionality:
intranet: - calender (outlook type thing) - booking (meeting room, classroms, etc) - news publishing - sharing documents - email program - each employee should easily be able to manage his/her homepage and course pages - forms
internet: - website search - forms (online application forms) + some of the same features as the intranet
our current website is at www.hig.no and not very functional.
The rest of my group is focused on selecting a commercial solution, which is very expensive, so Im trying to figure out if Zope, ezPublish or some other open source system is worth looking in to. Unfortunately, I dont have the time to download and try things out myself.
Any thoughts, ideas and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
/Erik ______________________________________________ veveve dått håige dått enno slæsj tilde erikhå www.hig.no/~erikh
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--On 09 March 2001 14:50 -0800 Andy McKay <andym@ActiveState.com> wrote:
Absolutely. Zope is definitely worth looking into since it can do all of the above and more. I recommend searching Zope.org for some products which will do what you want and more, for example WorldPilot.
And, most recently (thanks Ross L): ---------- Amphora Light 2.2.26 - a www-based groupware server Amphora Light (http://www.amphora.ee/freeware/) is a free open-source www-based groupware server in Python and Zope, offering basic office functionality: calendars, tasks, contacts, discussion, web email in the context of a hierarchical organisation and flexible access rights. Both Netscape and MS IE are supported as clients. It supports synchronization with MS Outlook calendar, tasks, contacts through a separate MS Windows client. ---------- I played a bit with the demo of the full version of Amphora a while and was impressed. My Estonian improved too. Locally we have a growing clamour for some sort of shared calendar/diary system. Various web-based solutions have been looked at (of the ASP kind too - as in Application Service Provider). But users, bless them, generally react that "it's not as good as Outlook". Now I don't know Outlook fully, and I don't think most of our users have seen the full-on Outlook backed by Exchange server, so I find to hard to form a view or make a strong case for a more open, Web-based solution. I note Amphora (and some other Web groupware products) make a deliberate play on "synchronization with MS Outlook" - so clearly it is recognised which player in the marketplace already has a significant foothold. My question/plea: Can anyone share with me a real life example along the lines of "we were Outlook/Exchange users and happily migrated to Web groupware solution X" or "we use Web groupware solution Y in conjunction with a significant number of Outlook users"? If it's got a "Z" in the solution, even better ;-) It's the _shared_ (i.e. not just personal) aspect of the calendar/diary system (and the granularity of the access control to such a shared system) that seems to be a key issue for us - and a differentiating feature between the various solutions (i.e. most are deficient in this area, including I think, WorldPilot - though I would love to be told I was wrong about this). TIA Paul -- The Library, Tyndall Avenue, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TJ, UK E-mail: paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk URL: http://www.bris.ac.uk/
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