‘Open Source’ posts

Django + Alfresco was a winning combination for retailer’s intranet

Posted by Jeff Potts on 05 Nov 2009

Last week I spent some time with one of our clients talking about what it’s been like to live with their Intranet platform based on Django and Alfresco. The conversation got me really excited about what they’ve been able to do since the original implementation and where they are heading. The client is a well-known, | View post »

Ecommerce Blogroll: Weekly Report November 4

Posted by Noreen Vincent on 04 Nov 2009

Today I am focusing my post on ecommerce blogs talking about the ecommerce platform Magento by Varien. As a Worldwide Enterprise Partner of Magento, my colleagues at Optaros are busy contributing to the Magento community and working with enterprise clients globally (from our offices in Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States) to assemble ecommerce | View post »

Drupal/Alfresco Webinar Redux

Posted by Chris Fuller on 21 Oct 2009

People want intranets that are fun and easy to use, full of compelling content relevant to their job, and enabled with social and community features to help them discover connections with other teams, projects, and colleagues. IT wants something that’s lightweight and flexible enough to respond to the needs of the business that won’t cost | View post »

Alfresco Share microblogging component released as open source

Posted by Jeff Potts on 19 Oct 2009

Back in February (I know, it’s been simmering on the back burner for too long), I did a couple of screencasts on Optaros Labs showing a demo of Alfresco Share (part 1, part 2). In part 2 of that screencast I showed two custom components: Status and Bookmark. Alfresco made Bookmark obsolete by releasing their | View post »

Screencast: Basic Alfresco-Kaltura integration

Posted by Jeff Potts on 16 Oct 2009

Bryan Spaulding, Media Practice Lead at Optaros, and I have been thinking about lightweight digital asset management and Alfresco. Alfresco can manage any kind of asset, including rich media. It has some built-in functionality for doing image transformations and you can easily integrate with open source solutions like ffmpeg to work with video. But many | View post »

Screencast: Drupal Open Atrium with Alfresco CMIS

Posted by Jeff Potts on 13 Oct 2009

I recorded a quick screencast of a simple integration we did to show Open Atrium leveraging Alfresco as a formal document repository via CMIS. This leverages the CMIS Alfresco module we developed and released on Drupal.org. As I point out in the screencast, there’s not much to the integration from a technical standpoint. Open Atrium | View post »

Screencast: Facebook Connect Social Shopping on Magento

Posted by John Eckman on 05 Oct 2009

Here’s a quick (

Free as in What, Exactly?

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Oct 2009

Free Software advocates have for a long time worked to draw a distinction between free of cost (“Free as in Beer”) and free of restrictions (“Free as in Speech” or as I prefer “Free as in Freedom”). The challenge stems from the fact that we use, in idiomatic English, the same word “Free” to refer [...]

Free as in What, Exactly?

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Oct 2009

Free Software advocates have for a long time worked to draw a distinction between free of cost (“Free as in Beer”) and free of restrictions (“Free as in Speech” or as I prefer “Free as in Freedom”). The challenge stems from the fact that we use, in idiomatic English, the same word “Free” to refer | View post »

The Assembled Web: Notes Toward a Manifesto

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Sep 2009

In the spirit of (and heavily inspired by) the original Cluetrain Manifesto and the recent 10th anniversary edition, I offer the following definition and 10 principles of what we at Optaros have been calling the Assembled Web. The Assembled Web is not experienced as a set of discrete web applications and sites, neatly separated from | View post »

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