(Karen Coombs was the speaker)
summary – open source is cool!
sometimes it’s not free… there might be a licensing cost
still need hardware and time
advantages: change and expand on the source code if you want to, offers an active developer community – very nice!
Foundational Software:
apache, tomcat – another java-based web server
php, perl, python, ruby – open source programming languages
mysql and PostGres – more robust
Content Management:
Drupal – weblogs.ucalgary.ca – for the students
Plone – Requires Zope application server – stony brook suny runs on plone (health sciences site)
Textpattern – much simpler, fewer features
Bloging Software:
wordpress – probably best-known (LITA’s blog runs in wordpress)
WordpressMU – mu.wordpress.org – alpha stage, multiple blogs
or you can do a wordpress farm to run multiple blogs…
Movable Type – create multiple blogs with multiple authors (UHouston uses this) – another university runs thousands – mt is very scalable
Wiki software:
- mediawiki, PHP Wiki, Pm wiki – usc aiken gregg-graniteville library – runs on a wiki…
maintenance
awstats, w3c link checker, log validator – checks to see if your HTML is valid
other tools
Nvu, opensourcewebdesign – free code
tinymce.moxiecode.com – wysywyg html editor – open source, incorporate into your site. It looks like word. It can be incorporated into a CMS
htdig, Lucene – full text search engines written in Java
Furl and Wikipedia both use Lucine… hmm…
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