Submitted sessions

Opportunities for OSCMS: How & Where the CM Vendors have failed the paying Enterprise

mujahid — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:21:33 -0800

This 30 min session would focus on the view of the enterprise consumer of how OSCMS can be a business enabler.

Some talking points (incomplete & in no particular order)

- Cost per Unit
- Enterprise wide Management Dashboard
- Fill opportunity gaps and glue existing
- Frameworks & Toolkits, not just Consoles & Clients
- Support Open & Common Standards
- Solutions Vs Product approach

Portals and CMS: A match made in heaven?

LuisSala — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:49:29 -0800

In this session we explore the process by which Alfresco and Liferay collaborated to integrate Content Management and Portals. The session will begin with an exploration of the technical details and design-patterns for integration, followed by a demonstration.

The second half will be an interactive discussion on best practices for collaboration among multiple open source projects using the Alfresco/Liferay partnership as a case-study followed by a brainstorming session by which we work on identifying other ways of bridging the gap among the different systems through portal technology.

Elastic CMS Deployments with Amazon Web Services & Server Virtualization Technology

enomaly — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:00:14 -0800

Elastic CMS deployment is a model that allows for a operating system to be packaged as a virtual appliance in conjunction to the core content management system components. As system requirements change the CMS can intelligently adapt itself with little or no human involvement.

Taming the Beast: CMS integration on the desktop with CIFS, Office, Dreamweaver and anything else

paulhh — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:28:14 -0800

We will talk implementation details and demonstrate the desktop integration possibilities with Alfresco's abstract file systems. Others can do FTP and WebDAV, we can also look just like a Windows or NFS share - and that gives a whole new range of options for user interaction.

Scriptable "virtual" Windows executables can do server-side CMS functions, providing a zero-install solution without relying on the web browser.

Learn, Customize and Use Alfresco ECM in 60 minutes

munwar — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:48:09 -0800

Learn from the Author of the book Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation. This 60 minute packed session will take you through the complete cycle of planning, implementing and customizing your ECM installation.

Documentation best practices and strategies

angie — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:26:51 -0800

This session is for the various CMS projects to share their own general documentation best practices strategies. What works? What doesn't? What are we doing well, and what can we do better?

Topics might include something like:

How to balance a low bar to user participation with quality/clarity of documentation?
How to both define and write for all your target audiences?
The great debate: wikis or structured handbooks?
What to do with old / out-dated documentation?
What to do with documentation for a new version of your product?

Enterprise features in Alfresco

angie — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:15:15 -0800

Many commercial and community customers have asked for enterprise features in Alfresco. Learn how clustering, replication, ODF, complex workflow, simple workflow, staging and virtualization were integrated into the system, as well as the architectural approach of making the whole system extensible and exchangeable.