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- 2010-08-09 09:56:30
- Using Django as a social/work/... hub in an corporation environment.
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Hey guys!
First, I should shortly tell why I'm posting this message, in which conditions, and then I'll go further on with the details.
So:
- I'm French
- I'M working in an internship in a worldwide corporation that is also based in France, that does not want its name to be mentioned.
- They need some kind of an internal social Hub to coordinate their work and relations
- I love open-source
So that's for short; now let me get into more details :P
This company wants to acquire a much more advanced and user-friendly kind of intranet-based website, much more orientated on the "social" part than the intranet engine they currently use.
I'm also, currently, doing an internship in this corporation, in the IT service (you probably guessed).
They asked me if I didn't have any Idea on how to make their local network more dynamic, more transversal and productive, less formal than a simple project organizer (kinda like CVS, but for entreprise projects).
What they need is a mix that blends Facebook/Yammer, a wiki, blogging, news, and collaborative work.
I immediatly thought about Django, that's got a huge numbers of very powerful modules, all linked together into a stable base.
Although, there are some requirements, and that's why I'm here to ask if Jango can fullfill these requirements. They'll need:
- a good profiling system (users need to have a profile, a bit facebook-like)
- a good integration of all tools used, so then users can have an automatic "feed" on what's going on in the corporation, adapted to the fields of knowledge and to the work of this person
- user-friendly interface (although that is probably fullfilled)
- they are very strongly using MS Office apps, especially Office SharePoint. They'll probably need a SharePoint integration module, if it already exists it's great, but they have a lotta money so they can probably make it done by someone else (and, with luck, they'll realease it open-source).
So do you think that's possible or what? Please comment on the idea, I'd really like to see some open-source softwares in this corporation using a LOT of proprietary softwares :P


