After months of hard work it’s finally here: omCollab, the Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform that powers MIKE2.0 and our BearingPoint internal collaboration site. We have packaged up Mediawiki, Wordpress and omBookmarks (a fork of Scuttle) into a single collaboration platform that can be used to host powerful online communities on the web or inside organisations. It’s a comprehensive collaboration platform which combines the following features in one single, integrated platform:
- Wiki
- Blogs
- Social bookmarking
- Social networking
- Mashups
- Search
Please see omCollab Homepage for full details.
We have released omCollab to the open source community because we want to build the world’s most powerful open source Enterprise 2.0 platform. We will continue to invest time and effort to improve omCollab as it powers MIKE2.0, the open source methodology for Enterprise Information Management. We hope that we can get the open source community engaged to help contribute to omCollab.
If you want to know where we are going, what features we are planning to build and maybe offer your help to achieve this, please check out the omCollab roadmap.
Finally, if you just want to check out omCollab for yourself or maybe even power your online community with it, go to the omCollab download and installation page
August 6th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Excellent work. Blown away by what you’ve accomplished here. We must meet up in London soon. My fault. I’ll arrange something for after the holiday season. Best regards, Simon
August 6th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Have to second Simon comments. You have really shown the way here and kudos for going the extra mile and making it opensource. Love what you have done with Scuttle.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am
I am excited to see omCollab and am in the process of installing it. Currently I am hung up on the installer question “Full path to mysql”. My webhost provider does not give me access to this path, as far as I can tell; it just provides me with an interface to create mysql databases & user IDs. With other PHP environments I have installed, I have not had problems. I am trying to get help from my webhost provider but wonder if you have suggestions how to successfully answer the “full path to mysql” question and get the installer to finish its job. thanks!
August 18th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Hi Bruce
If your site is hosted on a Linux box, the most likely path is “/usr/bin/mysql”.
Otherwise you could trick the installer and *not* provide the full path, hoping that the mysql executable is in the execution environment’s $PATH. In this case you’d just tell the installer to use “mysql”.
Hope this helps!
August 19th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Yes, thanks, “/usr/bin/” did the trick. I have run into a few more installation problems:
1. I had to edit /omcollab/common/omconfig.php and replace one or two “\\” with “//” for the installer to find the files it was looking for
2. I had to edit the names of a couple files & folders to all lowercase (I believe they were something like “APIQueryExplore” and I changed them to “apiqueryexplore”) for the installer to find what it was looking for
After the above two edits, the installer claimed success, and things look mostly OK. Unfortunately, the system won’t let me log in as Admin, and won’t send a password to help me get logged in as Admin because it says there is no email on record for Admin. I have even tried going directly to my MySql interface (provided by my webhost) to edit the wiki user database directly, but no matter how I attempt to hack the database it won’t take it. So I am shut out of administering my own installation… What did I do wrong?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
OK, I figured out the initial “password” for the Admin account and can now configure my installation. So I seem to be off and running.
You still might want to test omCollab install on linux boxes some more–based on my comments previously
thanks for open-sourcing this!