Adams, Paul and Nutter, David and Rank, Stephen and Boldyreff, Cornelia (2005) Using open source tools to support collaboration within CALIBRE. In: 1st Interational Conference on Open Source Systems, 11-15 July 2005, Genova, Italy.

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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.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	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.
Keywords:	Open Source Software, http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/download.php
Subjects:	G Mathematical and Computer Sciences > G610 Software Design G Mathematical and Computer Sciences > G600 Software Engineering
Divisions:	College of Sciences > Faculty of Science > Lincoln School of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Bev Jones
Date Deposited:	05 May 2005
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2013 08:21
URI:	http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/53

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