Forum OpenACS Q&A: Knowledge management module status ?

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1: Knowledge management module status ?
Posted by Mohan Pakkurti on 05/22/01 09:18 AM
hej all,

A while back there was mention of work on a KM module similar to
the Siemens sharenet project. Is there any new information about
this effort? I am interested to know if this is an ongoing project,
who is working on it, and how the project is going.

Thanks for any info.

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2: Response to Knowledge management module status ? (response to 1)
Posted by Ben Adida on 06/01/01 06:16 PM
There is currently no explicit KM project under way under the OpenACS
umbrella. There is certainly interest in getting such a project built
on OpenACS 4.x. If you're interested in pitching in, either in overall
design or development, you should by all means let us know!
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Posted by Carsten Clasohm on 06/01/01 06:54 PM
There is some new information about the Knowledge Library of Siemens ShareNet: It will be ported to ACS 4 Tcl during the next months, and the result will be made part of the ACS.
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Posted by Ben Adida on 06/01/01 06:59 PM
Carsten, can you give us more details? Is this work being done by
ArsDigita? What is the timeline? Will it be truly open-source? Why not
consider building it for OpenACS 4.x? After all, ACS 4 Tcl is, as
ArsDigita has described, "over."
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Posted by Michael Feldstein on 06/01/01 08:31 PM
Carsten, this is terrific news. If ArsDigita (or anybody else)
makes a KM application available as part of the ACS, there are
many in the community who are eager to jump in and work on
improving it.

I agree with Ben, though, that it would make sense to develop on
OpenACS if the project is being done in 4.x Tcl. You'll get a lot
more community support that way, since OpenACS Tcl has a
future while ACS Classic Tcl doesn't.