On 30/09/14 14:05, [email protected] wrote: > Our company has a presence in several European countries and our collective > bosses would like to set up a Corporate Social Network based on Linux servers > and Clients running on Windows hardware. The system would have to be private > to > the company using the Intranet or our other shared networking capabilities. The biggest challenge I have had in this space is most clients' requirement to have single sign on. If your users are on Windoze then once they are logged into their terminals they do not want to logon to a blog system, a chat system etc. Many/some open source systems can be configured to authenticate to AD but of these, there is only a subset that will work against a properly secured AD (kerberos/GSSAPI).
I assume you have addressed the identity, authentication and authorization issues? > Does anyone have any recommendations? I believe that the management are not > really sure what they want in terms of functionality so are looking for > suggestions. We have discussed this locally and have some varied opinions: > > 1. I like the blog environment, having been a big fan of Groklaw, but that > implementation of Geeklog didn't allow attachments. Wordpress is almost a standard in the blog space and does have many plugins to offer more functionality above blogging. > 2. Some think that a Facebook style of presentation would be ideal, but I've > never used it so cannot comment. Is there an opensource package that can > implement Facebook functionality? Gah! You could look at diaspora? > 4. We think that IRC is too immediate; if your not there you've missed it. If you want to use chat I would recommend you use XMPP (Jabber) in favour of IRC. With many severs you can configure a level of persistence so when you join a room you can scroll back and get the current context; this works well for my users. We extened thiopen souce web portals into some IRC chat rooms with the XMPP server acting as a client (federating the IRC room into an XMPP MUC) with the added benefit of scroll back of the IRC room :-) Obviously the X is eXtensible and you can build on this to add file-transfer etc. on top. > > What else could be used? > You could build functionality on software such as Liferay or Alfreso ... Regards, Si
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