Inproceedings,
Using Open Source Tools to Support Collaboration Within CALIBRE
Int. Conf. Open Source Software, page 61--65. Genova, Italy, (July 2005)
Abstract
This paper describes the deployment of Plone, an Open-Source content
management system, to support the activities of CALIBRE, an EU-funded
coordination action integrating research into Libre software. The
criteria by which Plone was selected are described, and the goodness
of fit to these criteria is analysed. As a coordination action,
CALIBRE involves 12 partners with different requirements and characteristics.
The CALIBRE Working Environment (CWE) must therefore support a variety
of users with different levels of technical expertise and expectations.
Implementation of the support infrastructure for CALIBRE is ongoing,
and has provided some interesting insights into the benefits of
the use of libre software. Although Plone has not been explicitly
developed as a collaboration infrastructure, with its wealth of
plugins, it has proven highly adaptable for this purpose.
