GL as a Corporate Refrence Solution

Authored by: foniksonik on Friday, June 28 2002 @ 01:27 AM EDT

In my Unofficial Opinion you sir need to look at the many strengths of GL and embrace them.

Not all webapps need to be THE webapp of webapps. There is a tendency to try to solve all problems. Unfortunately attempting to address a scope of that nature is inevitably flawed and leads only to mediocrity. \'Jack of all trades, master of none\'.

Get an Exchange Server and then use GL for keeping news/status up to date in an interactive format. GL is a tool for creating \'conversations\' or \'Discussions\'.. now with images and attachments. It does what it does very well. I\'ve only been using it for a week now and I\'ve accomplished many of the goals I set out to accomplish, thanks GL crew.

Of course if you personally want to fund your \'Actions Items\' then I whole heartedly reccommend sending your check in ASAP. I\'m sure Dirk and Squatty and anyone else working on GL would appreciate the income.

If you just want to get a free copy of premium CRM software I think you should check in with the reality police and double check your \'how stupid are they\' setting.

Well that\'s my unofficial opinion.

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Authored by: efarmboy on Friday, June 28 2002 @ 06:57 AM EDT

I\'m not talking about an ERP of WebPortal solutions and your missing my point. This is not a slam but a constructive discussion.

I\'m describing an Intranet/Portal application which I admit GL does not position itself as such. But it can and does I\'m sure - which is one of my questions. These clients have Messanging and Enterprise business applications. They also have share drives from hell and Exchange public folders no one checks.

Customers don\'t always want to pay big dollars for bloated software and an opensource and funcitonal solution is a much better tool.

I was looking for some constructive dialog on this topic as I was trying to be fairly clear that my opjectives were not personal but to be benefical for the GL community.

Your comments are out of line and without any valid background. You missed the point and objective completely.

Blaine

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 28 2002 @ 11:57 AM EDT

Well I hope you are being honest. I apologize for the tone I used. I have seen too many good applications lose sight of their merits and become floundering bloated piles of wishful thinking in the recent past. Primarily by falling prey to the all-in-one syndrome. I have no desire to see that happen to GL. That is my point.

\"Lets add an e-mail client and a full shared calendaring system and a vcard based address book and a Gantt/Pert chart system to go along with the trouble ticket/project manager/bug tracker...\"

The fact is that there is already very good software out there to do these things. Some are integrated some aren\'t, some are web enabled some aren\'t... sometimes it\'s not the tool but the user who needs to be more effective. You say you have Exchange folders that no one checks... well tell them to check them. Send an e-mail with a link. Make it a policy to store shared documents there and nowhere else. Enforce those policies.

I have nothing against adding new functionality to an already very flexible framework. I just think it should be done responsibly from an engineering perspective and not a hype/marketing perspective.

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Authored by: krove on Friday, June 28 2002 @ 08:19 AM EDT

I\'ve recently setup GeekLog as my Company\'s intranet, and it is turning out to be very flexible to additions (namely phpBlocks) and modifications to code.

I have successfully interfaced GeekLog with our Great Plains Dynamics Microsoft SQL database to pull up specific products of which I needed to show images (Dynamics does not have the capability to show images).

My next step will be to write a help-desk plug-in that allows those with access to process requests, queries, etc. (As a company grows and the number of computers a company uses, this can be very beneficial for a one-man IT department.)

As you can see, adding functionality is quite simple, and I\'m sure many of the functions you are looking for will either be written by a third party or will be incorporated into the GeekLog package (i.e. Doc Management).

Despite the few errors I run into now and then (most noteably the no-posting-at-noon bug), GeekLog is really coming of age.

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Authored by: phill on Friday, June 28 2002 @ 09:43 AM EDT

Big thought.

And quite worthwhile.
Geeklog has a bucket load of potential, and, I suspect used widely. I\'ll
be interested to see how many developers out there are willing to
discuss the ways in which they\'ve leveraged it\'s flexibility to develop/
meet paying clients needs.

My contribution.. (for your ideas basket)
IP based privs and themes.
Simple notion, but there you have it.
It\'s obvious how its used, and not too difficult to implement.
ie 1 Box - x sites/depts scaleable ^ (and cost effective).

In fact, i may actually do it one of these days ;)

Cheers.
Phill.

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Authored by: lcox on Tuesday, July 23 2002 @ 07:57 AM EDT

Seems to me that the whole RDF/RSS syndication capabilty is underutilized as an integrating technology for GeekLog.

Using it, you could integrate practically anything without disturbing the architecture of GeekLog.

Secondly, I am likewise interested in this application of GeekLog to corporate infrastructure and think it has great potential.

One of the parts that will give it even more potential is if it gets to critical mass that commercial software developers are interested in plugins for it. In other words, for GeekLog to make a foray into the corporate market, there needs to be a market for 3rd party plugins.

It\'s a chicken and egg thing, I realize, but it also goes somewhat to the root goals of the project and project czars and whether there\'s desire on behalf of the whole community to support a corporate application of the technology.

In the end, nothing stops a determined developer from making it so...that\'s the best part, yes?

I\'d be interested in more conversation about the potential for a 3rd party plugin market that would make it beneficial for a commercial developer to devote 6months to a year of full-time work to make some deep integrations happen.

Maybe this is \"Field of Dreams Marketing\", but it has to start somewhere.

My 2cents,

Landon

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