CloudEngine is free and open-source software. Install it on a server and create an instant social website structured around Clouds, Cloudscapes and CloudStreams. CloudEngine powers Cloudworks.
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Presented: DevCSI developer day, 17 February 2011. http://wiki.2011.dev8d.org/w/Session-L45 | http://getcloudengine.org
Strategize a Smooth Tenant-to-tenant Migration and Copilot Takeoff
CloudEngine at Dev8D 2011
1. Get Cloud Engine Cloudworks, open-sourced www. getcloudengine.org Nick Freear, The Open University Dev8D 2011
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11. Get Cloud Engine Cloudworks, open-sourced www. getcloudengine.org Nick Freear, The Open University Twitter: @nfreear n.d.freear AT open.ac.uk
Notes de l'éditeur
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial License - except photos/logos slide 4/ 'Who?' Other links: Dev8D, http://wiki.2011.dev8d.org/w/Session-L45 Project blog: http://cloudengineblog.wordpress.com Mailing list... OULDI blog: http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI Nick's twitter: http://twitter.com/nfreear NOTE, CloudEngine and Cloudworks are not related to cloud computing!
Screen shot of a CloudEngine home page. Aurora theme, by Stephen Turvey / Yep Design, http://stephenturvey.co.uk/
A formal 'mission' would be: Develop software to make creating social web sites easier Keep the essence of Cloudworks Keep it small and lightweight Make it flexible, extensible, usable, accessible. What CloudEngine is not: Not a 'Swiss army knife', eg. a general purpose Content Management System/ CMS. Not a desktop tool!
Top photo: Copyright Juliette Culver, of J.Culver. People: Juliette Culver collaborated with Gráinne Conole on initial devlopment. Prof. Gráinne Conole is the academic lead on Cloudworks and the OULDI project. Juliette was lead developer until November 2010 - she's now on maternity leave. Mum & baby doing well! Rebecca Galley helps build the Cloudworks community Nick Freear is acting lead developer on Cloudworks and CloudEngine. Richard Lovelock is a welcome addition to the development team, working on Direct Messaging among other things. Other contributors: Stephen Turvey / Yep Design - graphic design, Cloudworks & Aurora themes. Martha Vasilidou - Greek translation. 3rd party developers - CodeIgniter, TinyMCE...! Tools - Bitbucket.org Funders: The Open University JISC via OULDI project EU via EUPT3 project
Notes: Direct-private messaging is new in CloudEngine 1.1.0-beta - the work of Richard Lovelock. Internationalization - Danish coming soon! CloudEngine/ Cloudworks - built with accessibility in mind. Cloudworks - 4000 registered users, 160+ countries... Clouds - one person starts, others collaborate with extra content, comments, embeds, links... Cloudscapes - group Clouds around a theme or event. We think of this as a social site, centred around objects, not people(!)
Currently CloudEngine prefers Apache. We're keen to support Microsoft IIS etc. Also, other database systems... API currently provides JSON/XML responses - currently GET. Mercurial repository, on Bitbucket.org
A lot of the current roadmap was 'set' at an away day we went on, 20 Sep 2010, http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2202 Other things: An 'extensions' / contributed-code repository Pluggable authentication - eg. OpenID, single signon Integration - consume feeds, etc. Moodle...?
Screen shot of Direct messaging - inbox page, on Cloudworks Direct messaging - new feature in CloudEngine 1.1-beta Private, multi-recipient By Richard Lovelock http://flickr.com/photos/cloudengine/
This slide is a bit rough...! Some of the big potential gains from open-sourcing: Internationalization Photo - CC-by-nc-sa, by Ethelred the Unusual/ Simon Petts, http://flickr.com/photos/8032014@N04/476887602/
Ideas for integration - consume feeds, data etc. Eg. integrate with Moodle....? Pluggable authentication. Extensions...