The document discusses must-have open source applications for small businesses. It recommends Trac for project management, Drupal for content management, and a Ruby on Rails ecommerce application. Trac is easy to install and use for tracking tasks and client feedback. Drupal allows adding content and custom modules for features like booking rooms and maps. The Ruby on Rails shopping cart recommends is clean, customizable, and extensible for payments.

1. 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

2. 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

3. Overview What are the must-have apps and why? Trac Drupal Ruby on Rails commerce app

4. Trac Basic philosophy: project management software is too complex doesn't serve the client doesn't serve the developer

5. Trac Project management is not as interesting as design/development

6. Trac Revision control is not optional

7. Trac Gracefully handle work out of scope

8. Trac Manage client signoffs

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

10. Trac Manage client feedback

11. Trac Clients like to know that you've been working

12. Trac Installs in 10 minutes

13. Trac Questions about Trac?

14. Drupal Content Management is a pain

15. Drupal Lack of content management tools costs you money

16. Designers have been heard saying ” It looks like a CMS site” alternatively ” it's ugly as hell”

17. Drupal

18. Drupal

19. Drupal

20. Drupal

21. Drupal

22. Drupal

23. Drupal

24. Drupal Ok, you can make it pretty. But what can it do?

25. 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

26. Drupal It's reasonably easy to modify modules

27. Drupal It installs in less than an hour

28. Drupal Downsides It's in PHP

29. Drupal Downsides Some modules are b0rken or appallingly bad

30. Drupal Downsides It's not real intuitive to theme

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

32. Drupal Anyone want to see it?

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

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

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

36. [Gemstone reference] cart Reasonably Rapid Releases Free

37. [variant of Red] commerce Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL

38. [hawaiian word for] commerce demo

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

40. Thank you! Now hiring Ruby on Rails developers and Linux System administrators! Brian Jamison [email_address] (503) 544-3558

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