Notes from MonadLUG, 14-May-2009, Tim Wessels and Kablink

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Tue May 26 09:03:39 EDT 2009


Five people attended the May meeting of the Monadnock Linux User Group. 
Thanks to Charlie for scrambling at the last minute to secure the 
Peterborough Town Library for the meeting, as our regular venue was 
unavailable. Charlie made the iniital announcements - Ed Lawson presents 
Scribus in June, Charlie OpenBSD in July, no August meeting, and Patrick 
Galbraith returns for another (not-to-be-missed) meeting on MySQL in 
September.

Tim Wessels did the main presentation of the evening. Kablink is the 
Open Source version of Novell's Teaming product, bought from SiteScape, 
Inc., a company that started in Clock Tower Place in Maynard, MA. The 
Open Source version had been known as ICECore previously. Source code 
can be downloaded from http://www.kablink.org and sourceforge. Tim 
discussed some of the history of the project, where and how it is being 
used, possible ways to configure it for workgroup and corporate 
enterprise use. and reviewed some of the challenges and tricks to 
installation and configuration. If you're looking for an Open Source 
competitor to Microsoft's Sharepoint, with the ability to create 
portals, granularly control roles and access, and scale to thousands of 
documents, kablink is worth investigating.

Thanks to Tim for the presentation, Charlie for running the meeting, and 
all for attending!

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com



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