Must have open source applications

Open Source for Small Business: What Works, What Doesn't Created and displayed with open source software + Linux Presented by Brian Jamison Must-Have Open Source Applications

Brian Jamison -->

Co-Founder of OpenSourcery

President of POSSE

Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs

Using open source software to solve business needs since 1995

clients: Sony, Nissan, Energizer, Disney...

Personally using Linux on the desktop since 2001

Hiring Ruby on Rails developers / Linux sysadmins

Overview

What are the must-have apps and why?

Trac

Drupal

Ruby on Rails commerce app

Trac

Basic philosophy:

project management software is too complex

doesn't serve the client

doesn't serve the developer

Trac Project management is not as interesting as design/development

Trac Revision control is not optional

Trac Gracefully handle work out of scope

Trac Manage client signoffs

Trac Answer the client's favorite question: ” Are we there yet?”

Trac Manage client feedback

Trac Clients like to know that you've been working

Trac Installs in 10 minutes

Trac Questions about Trac?

Drupal

Content Management is a pain

Drupal

Lack of content management tools

costs you money

Designers have been heard saying

” It looks like a CMS site”

alternatively

” it's ugly as hell”

Drupal

Ok, you can make it pretty.

But what can it do?

Drupal

Lots o' Modules

”Drupal includes features to enable content management systems, blogs, collaborative authoring environments, forums, newsletters, picture galleries, file uploads and download, and much more.” -A smart person at IBM

Drupal It's reasonably easy to modify modules

Drupal It installs in less than an hour

Drupal Downsides It's in PHP

Drupal Downsides Some modules are b0rken or appallingly bad

Drupal Downsides It's not real intuitive to theme

Some things we've done with it Booking conference rooms Google map mashups Enabling videoconferencing

Drupal Anyone want to see it?

A cart with no name Basic philosophy: Existing open source shopping carts suck spaghetti code difficult/impossible to theme

[Railroad metaphor] cart Ultra-clean default layout No whizzy AJAX crap CSS

[Happy Capitalist Reference] cart Solid ecommerce – extensible to multiple payment gateways

[Gemstone reference] cart Reasonably Rapid Releases Free

[variant of Red] commerce Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL

[hawaiian word for] commerce demo

[symbolic community word] cart What do you want in an ecommerce application?

Thank you!

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Brian Jamison

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