Open Source Tools for Internal Collaboration

Introductions

• People want to learn!
• Shockingly!
  • Eff...
  • Uses some proprietary software!
• Health data!
  • Can't email health records
  • Cant put it on drive! (No agreements with google)
• Bay Nature
  • Google apps for everything.

Glocal Intro

• Internally we've been using
• Identified need
  • Simple queriable db
  • Collaborative editing
  • File sharing
  • Commenting
  • Versioning
  • Media artifacts
  • Consistency of interface
  • Shared authentication among component tools
• Introduction to owncloud a FLOSS WEBDav client.
  • It offers syncing clients for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS
  • It is extensible via 'apps.'
  • Can pull in dropbox and google docs importing of files.
  • Version 6 beta has webODT integration.
    • Mention of a possible feature request... symlink/alias
  • Presenting http://OWNCloud.org integration
• Presentation of Calendar tool.
  • CalDAV based so syncs with most everything (unless you're, each user account has a calendar and users can create calendars.

DocuWiki

• Integrates into OWNCloud
  • Shares media assets with owncloud
  • Media assets added to docuwiki ends up in
  • Each wiki page, can be it's own etherPad!
  • Shared credentials!

Also part of the toolkit

• Owncloud Tasks
• Ethercalc (Ethersheet?)
• Repo sharing

Other tools

• Elgg/Lorea (federated social network, not bad for group discussions and assets sharing)
• Open Atrium (drupal module)