1. Next Generation Virtual Collaboration Portal An Integrated OSS CMS-Based Solution

2. VCP Features Tools Wiki - Mediawiki Blog - B2Evolution News Feeder - Gregarious Version Control System - DVCS Teleconference Suite - Flash/PHP Chat Automated Caller - Asterisk Mapping Utility - Google Maps Search Engine - Lucene/Nutch Web Crawler - Nutch Portal CMS User Login/Profile User Preferences Members List Messages Groups Tags Linker Rank Content Manager Templates

3. Open Source CMS Motivation Current Implementation  Home grown CMS using PHP and MySQL  Brittle due to API and structural evolution of a myriad of integrated external tools. Leverage off an Open Source CMS with many needed features built in. Drupal  Content management framework geared towards configurability and customization.  Very large community (> 450K user accounts, > 2K developers)  Thousands of user contributed modules (> 3700)  Top 3 in market share (along with Wordpress, Joomla)

4. Drupal Module Evaluation Login/Profile, User Preferences, Members List, Content Manager, Templates, Blogs, Linker, Search Drupal Core Groups, Tags, News feederQuality modules MessagesQuality modules for subscription-based notifications. So far, no direct user to user messaging. RankInstrument existing modules to tally usage. Implement Rank module using ‘roles’. WikiNo wiki module. However wiki functionality can be built on top of existing content types (usually Books) using wikitools, filters, diff, freelinking. wysiwyg editor option. Version Control (DVS) – upload, checkout, editFile uploads supported in core. Version control api with functional backends for CVS, SVN, Git, and Mercurial. No core DMS. One module integrating KnowledgeTree. Teleconference SuitePrimitive module for chat. Drupal 6 Media sprint in progress. Better media management. Will include php stream wrappers for 3 rd party multimedia repositories, may allow integration with tools such as DimDim. Web CrawlerCrawler to scan key sites and gather new content. Use Drupal cron jobs to run periodically. Google Custom Search API. Mapping UtilityNew GMap module released Mar’09. Automated CallerNo modules. Might have to create a new Astericks wrapper.

5. Drupal-based VCP Prototype

6. OpenSim Integration Attempt to integrate a CMS with a 3D World. Access content in response to OpenSim events Drupal as CMS  Active Drupal Group on SecondLife integration. http://groups.drupal.org/secondlife  Second Life Framework Module http://drupal.org/project/secondlife