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Next Generation Virtual Collaboration Portal. An Integrated OSS CMS-Based Solution. VCP Features. Portal CMS User Login/Profile User Preferences Members List Messages Groups Tags Linker Rank Content Manager Templates. Tools Wiki - Mediawiki Blog - B2Evolution
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Next GenerationVirtual Collaboration Portal An Integrated OSS CMS-Based Solution
VCP Features • Portal CMS • User Login/Profile • User Preferences • Members List • Messages • Groups • Tags • Linker • Rank • Content Manager • Templates • Tools • Wiki - Mediawiki • Blog - B2Evolution • News Feeder - Gregarious • Version Control System - DVCS • Teleconference Suite - Flash/PHP Chat • Automated Caller - Asterisk • Mapping Utility - Google Maps • Search Engine - Lucene/Nutch • Web Crawler - Nutch
Open Source CMS Motivation Current Implementation Home grown CMS using PHP and MySQL Brittle due to API and structural evolution of a myriad of integrated external tools. Leverage off an Open Source CMS with many needed features built in. Drupal Content management framework geared towards configurability and customization. Very large community (> 450K user accounts, > 2K developers) Thousands of user contributed modules (> 3700) Top 3 in market share (along with Wordpress, Joomla)
OpenSim Integration Attempt to integrate a CMS with a 3D World. Access content in response to OpenSim events Drupal as CMS Active Drupal Group on SecondLife integration. http://groups.drupal.org/secondlife Second Life Framework Module http://drupal.org/project/secondlife