1. Open Source for Small Business: What Works, What Doesn't Created and displayed with open source software + Linux Presented by Brian Jamison Must-Have Open Source Applications

2. Brian Jamison -->

Co-Founder of OpenSourcery

President of POSSE

• Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs

Using open source software to solve business needs since 1995

• clients: Sony, Nissan, Energizer, Disney...

Personally using Linux on the desktop since 2001

Hiring Ruby on Rails developers / Linux sysadmins

3. Overview

What are the must-have apps and why?

Trac

Drupal

Ruby on Rails commerce app

4. Trac

Basic philosophy:

project management software is too complex

doesn't serve the client

doesn't serve the developer

5. Trac Project management is not as interesting as design/development 6. Trac Revision control is not optional 7. Trac Gracefully handle work out of scope 8. Trac Manage client signoffs 9. Trac Answer the client's favorite question: Are we there yet? 10. Trac Manage client feedback 11. Trac Clients like to know that you've been working 12. Trac Installs in 10 minutes 13. Trac Questions about Trac? 14. Drupal

Content Management is a pain

15. Drupal

Lack of content management tools

costs you money

16. Designers have been heard saying

It looks like a CMS site

alternatively

it's ugly as hell

17. Drupal 18. Drupal 19. Drupal 20. Drupal 21. Drupal 22. Drupal 23. Drupal 24. Drupal

Ok, you can make it pretty.

But what can it do?

25. Drupal

Lots o' Modules

Drupal includes features to enable content management systems, blogs, collaborative authoring environments, forums, newsletters, picture galleries, file uploads and download, and much more.-A smart person at IBM 26. Drupal It's reasonably easy to modify modules 27. Drupal It installs in less than an hour 28. Drupal Downsides It's in PHP 29. Drupal Downsides Some modules are b0rken or appallingly bad 30. Drupal Downsides It's not real intuitive to theme 31. Some things we've done with it Booking conference rooms Google map mashups Enabling videoconferencing 32. Drupal Anyone want to see it? 33. A cart with no name Basic philosophy: Existing open source shopping carts suck spaghetti code difficult/impossible to theme 34. [Railroad metaphor] cart Ultra-clean default layout No whizzy AJAX crap CSS 35. [Happy Capitalist Reference] cart Solid ecommerce extensible to multiple payment gateways 36. [Gemstone reference] cart Reasonably Rapid Releases Free 37. [variant of Red] commerce Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL 38. [hawaiian word for] commerce demo 39. [symbolic community word] cart What doyouwant in an ecommerce application? 40. Thank you!

Now hiring Ruby on Rails developers and Linux System administrators!

Brian Jamison

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