Building an ODF Intranet Portal?

jeevesbond writes "I have been doing some feasibility work on creating a FLOSS Intranet Portal for ODF documents; the first task is to find existing projects that already provide some of the required functionality. The requirements are: version control — including diff and merge capabilities for ODF; integration with OpenOffice for check-in/out as a starting point; a Web-based CMS for group sharing of files (preferably one that can be extended to perform other tasks); and network authentication for the CMS (so users don't have to login twice). The eventual aim is to be able to bundle all this up in some way: 'apt-get odf-portal', for instance. Which FLOSS tools would you use for this job? How would you handle diffs and merges for ODF documents?"

knowledgeTree

[smoondog]

KnowledgeTree [knowledgetree.com] doesn't do everything you want, but it is an easy to use web application that supports plugins (addons).

Try this for a start

[narrowhouse]

http://dev.alfresco.com/ [alfresco.com]

Their description:
"Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management."

I'm sure it doesn't do everything you want out of the box, but you wanted FLOSS for a reason, right?

New: FreePoint

[WED Fan]

Coined: FreePoint - The SharePoint Alternative

As a .NET and SharePoint developer, one of the biggest selling points for SharePoint is that integrates with Office, has a fairly easy to use web interface, and allows the user to design their experience and manage their own pages.

Here is the design challenge for a FreePoint tool:

• Option to use almost any SQL backend (MySQL,MS SQL,Oracle, etc.)
• Can be set up to use almost any web server
• Can be set up on any OS with web and SQL services
• Integrates with MS Office (you cannot alienate a huge install base)
• Integrates with OpenOffice
• Has a robust OSS workflow engine
• Can be extended with "web parts" (flakes, gadgets, whatever term you like)
• Can be programmed against using Mono, PHP, various languages an frameworks
• Biggy: Works with Active Directory (under Windows) or other such under other OS's.
• And others

Something that takes SharePoint, kills its short-comings, while expanding its usefulness, and opening it up, will be a SharePoint-Killer and get more OSS adopted. (We just had a client switch off a planned OpenOffice deployment after finding out about SharePoint.)

Emma

[oldbox]

The University of Georgia has developed a open source XML-rich framework for writing based on Open office and firefox called Emma that seems to fulfill most of your requirements, and a good deal more.

http://www.emma.uga.edu/ [uga.edu]

From the site:
  (Electronic Markup and Management Application) enables

        * writing, editing and posting compositions
        * collaborating on and evaluating texts
        * web-based collecting, modifying, distributing, rendering and archiving of student and professional writing
        * creating and maintaining portfolios

  puts people and texts together.