Published on Thursday, June 21 2007
In addition to the Optaros whitepaper (“Assembling Enterprise 2.0“) I mentioned the other day, those interested in the topic of Enterprise 2.0 and open source should check out my colleague Jeff Potts’ podcast interview with Ian Howells of Alfresco.
In Jeff’s description:
In this podcast we discuss some of the details behind the Liferay-Alfresco-Roller solution Optaros recently implemented for one of our clients . . .
Or Ian’s:
Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are hot on everyone’s lips at the moment. In this Podcast I interview Jeff Potts, of Optaros, about an Alfresco application they have delivered that brings together:
- Alfresco outside the firewall
- Alfresco inside the firewall
- Alfresco for document management
- Alfresco for Web Content Management
In this Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 project, Alfresco is integrated with:
- Portal – Liferay
- Blog – Roller
- Tagging – Alfresco
Specifically we discuss:
- The goals of the project
- Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and characteristics of these types of projects
- The components used in the solution
- The consumerization of IT – Web 2.0 Components within the Enterprise
- How to find out more
Published on Monday, June 11 2007
(via blog.wohlrapp.com among others)
The folks at SixApart have announced that coinciding with the release of Movable Type 4, there will be an open source edition of Movable Type, which will form the basis for the commercial products.
The Movable Type Open Source Project was announced in conjunction with the launch of the Movable Type 4 Beta on June 5th, 2007. The MTOS Project is a community and Six Apart driven project that will produce an open souce [sic] version of the Movable Type Publishing Platform that will form the core of all other Movable Type products.
I can understand Rod Begbie’s quip (“I’ll take ‘Two Years Too Late’ for $400, please, Alex”) and I too found the inability to spell “open source” correctly rather strange – I guess MovableType doesn’t have built-in spell check, even in 4.0 beta?.
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Published on Tuesday, May 22 2007
Via Jeff and Sebastian comes the announcement that Optaros has become a platinum partner of Alfresco.
Check out the press release or hit the Alfresco Partner page on the Optaros site for more info about what kinds of work we’re delivering on Alfresco’s platform.
Published on Wednesday, May 16 2007
(via Reclaim the Media)
I don’t normally blog here about projects Optaros has been involved in, but I think this article in the Current is too good to pass up sharing: “It’s public radio, but with nearly everything different, including the name”
It describes the new station/site (in which Optaros was involved) from Chicago Public Radio called :Vocalo.
There will be a website, but it would be wrong to say that it’s the station’s website. Really, it’s the website’s radio station.
The name, :Vocalo, is an invention, essentially “Vocal†with an “o†at the end. It rhymes with “Zocalo,†a Spanish word that in Mexico refers to a town plaza and in Colombia refers to the infrastructure that stabilizes a large building. The colon before the “V†is intentional  a trademarked emoticon.
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Published on Wednesday, February 28 2007
Just a quick note about an Alfresco Meetup in Boston in a couple of weeks:
The Christian Science Monitor would like to invite you to attend an Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Meet-up in Boston:
Time: 11am – 3pm (Lunch provided with RSVP)
Place: 200 Massachusetts Ave
The First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston, MA 02115 (map)
Parking: Available on site $5.00
To Attend: Please send RSVP to dannerr at csps dot com.
My colleague Jeff Potts will be speaking about using Alfresco as a platform for application development – you can read more about it at his blog, ecmarchitect.com.
Ironically, I can’t make it as I’ll be in Austin at SXSW (while Jeff, whose actually from Texas, will be here in Boston) – but it should be an interesting even for those interested in ECM, open source, and Alfresco.
