From September 2007 Bagels & Bytes
Discussion Items Mentioned:
- TechNow conference web site – http://technow2007.wordpress.com
- Dell Bostro PCs – http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/vostrodt?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
- Thin Clients – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
- One Communications (VoIP vendor) – http://www.onecommunications.com/default.aspx
- eGroupware – http://www.egroupware.org/ (free enterprise-ready groupware)
- Joomla – http://www.joomla.org (open source CMS)
- Drupal – http://www.drupal.org (open source CMS)
- Plone – http://www.plone.org (open source CMS)
- Bravenet – http://www.bravenet.com (for free web page plug-ins)
- WebEx Web Office – http://www.weboffice.com/
- Adobe Acrobat Professional – http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/ (for publishing electronic forms)
- eSteam – http://www.esteam.net/ (web-based data collection/analysis software for human services)
Links to Articles Passed Around:
- Professional Certification – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_certification
- Are Computer Certifications Hyped Too Much? – http://www.cramsession.com/articles/get-article.asp?aid=37 (requires free registration at site)
- Comparing Open Source CMSes: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone – http://www.idealware.org/articles/joomla_drupal_plone.php
Funny I Should Mention This:
I had an email from Joe Mertz over at the computer science department of the Heinz School at CMU sitting in my inbox when I returned to the office this morning. He requested that I share this message with our B&B group:
“I still have a few student consultants available via the Technology Consulting in the Community program that is running from September 11 – December 14 this fall. Word on the program went out earlier in the summer via the Bayer Center email newsletter. But if anyone at the Bagels and Bytes could use some of this type of technical support, please let them know. Information details for potential community patners can be found at: http://cmu.edu/tcinc/CPs/InfoForCPs.html.”
Next Meeting:
At our October 3 meeting, Brad from Universal Information Systems, a local tech vendor, will be there to give us a Windows Vista demo. (We’re finally getting our Vista demo!!)
We also hope Joe Glackin has survived Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force’s recent office move and will give us a full account of how it went.
The meeting is, as usual, from 8 am – 9:30 am. We will be meeting at Achieva once again.
