Who is KARL? and what does he know about Knowledge Management

Who is KARL?
and what does he know about
Knowledge Management?
Jim Glenn, Director of Technical Services
INDIANA LINUX FEST 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Who
am
I? Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• Jim
Glenn
Six
Feet
Up
Director
of
Technical
Services
also
known
as
KARL
Champion

• E-‐mail:
jim@sixfeetup.com
• IRC:
jim_SFU
• Phone:
317-‐861-‐5948
• TwiTer:
@jimbglenn
• KARL:
#karlproject


Who
is
Six
Feet
Up? Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• Development
and
Hos^ng
• Find
us
at
conferences
and

Provider
groups
such
as:
• Focus
on
CMS,
KMS,
and
•Indiana
Linux
Fest
Web
Apps
•IndyPy
• Located
in
Fortville,
IN
•PyCon
• Major
Player
in
Open

Source
Technologies
such
•BSDCan
as
•KMWorld
• Plone
(CMS)
• KARL
(KMS) • Currently
Hiring!
• TwiTer:
@sixfeetup

hTp://www.sixfeetup.com/


Today’s
Presenta^on Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• What
is
a
KMS?
• What
is
KARL?

• Walkthrough
KARL

• Technologies
behind
KARL
• Gefng
Started
with
KARL


Knowledge
Management
System Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• Focuses
on
allowing
an
organizaôn
to
convert

informaôn
into
knowledge
• Support
the
creaôn,
capture,
storage
and

disseminaôn
of
informaôn
in
organizaôns.

• Enables
collaboraôn,
co-‐creaôn
of
content,

and
efficient
use
of
informaôn
resources
• Serves
as
a
knowledge
repository
for
the

organizaôn
that
is
searchable
and
easy
to

access.
hTp://bit.ly/dFWV2f


Diﬀerences
between
KMS
&
CMS Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• Informa^on
versus
Knowledge
• Exchange
vs.
Push
• Edi^ng
Tools
• Authorship
• Frequency
of
Updates
• Privacy

hTp://bit.ly/i5GrYs


KARL
as
Knowledge
Management
System Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• Open
source,
web-‐based
product
for

collaboraôn,
organizaônal
intranets
and

knowledge
management
• First
developed
in
2006
by
OSF,
and
was

introduced
to
the
market
as
open
source
in

2008.
• In
use
by
organizaôns
of
various
sizes,
Oxfam

GB,
OSF,
Six
Feet
Up

hTp://bit.ly/apm4Y


Development
Vision
of
KARL Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• A
simple
set
of
well-‐integrated
tools
• Accessibility
and
usability
for
everyone
in
a

distributed
organiza^on
• Capability
to
collaborate
securely
with

individuals
who
are
external
to
an
organiza^on
• Enterprise-‐level
quality
through
solid

architecture
vision,
stringent
tes^ng,
agile

planning,
and
a
strong
focus
on
performance

hTp://bit.ly/apm4Y


Staff
versus
Affiliates Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• KARL
Staff
refers
to
employees,
staff,
or

members
of
your
organizaôn.
• KARL
Affiliate
is
an
individual
that
has
been

given
access
to
KARL,
but
are
from
"outside"
of

your
organizaôn.

hTp://bit.ly/e1qgnw


High
Level
Overview
of

Indiana Linux Fest 2011
Permissions
for
KARL

KARL
Staff KARL
Affiliates
Have
access
to
the
Office

Intranet
Pages
Have
access
to
public
only
if
a
member
of

communiês community
Have
access
to
private
only
if
a
member
of only
if
a
member
of

communiês community community
Have
access
to
view
users
only
of
users
that
are

under
“People” members
in
common

communiês
Have
access
to
“About
KARL”

community
(Help)

hTp://bit.ly/e1qgnw


Matrix-‐Based
Structure Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• Communiês
offer
a
collaboraôn
space
for

groups
of
individuals
• Online
office
spaces
offer
a
distribuôn

method
for
sharing
informaôn
to
offices
of

staff
members
• KARL
offers
a
unique
way
to
organize
content

via
a
matrix
composed
of
horizontal
"online

office
spaces"
and
ver^cal
topic-‐based

"communiês".
hTp://bit.ly/apm4Y


Communiês Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• Unlimited
communiês
can
be
created
by
Staff
• Similar
to
social
network
communiês
with

tools
for
blogging,
wiki,
shared
calendar,
and

file
management
• Moderators
can
invite
affiliates
• Offers
a
shared
space
to
collaborate
on
a

project

hTp://bit.ly/apm4Y


Try
the
Live
Demo Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• hTp://karldemo.com

• or

• hTp://www.sixfeetup.com/demos


Technologies
KARL
is
Built
On Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• Python
2.5+
(hTp://python.org)
• Repoze.bfg
(hTp://repoze.org)
• Buildout
(hTp://buildout.org)
• Python
Paste
(hTp://pythonpaste.org)
• ZODB
(hTp://zodb.org)
• WSGI
applica^on
(hTp://wsgi.org)


Developer
Site Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• KARL
Project
(hTp://karlproject.org)


Checkout
from
SVN Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Seeing
what’s
included Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Core
KARL
and
Customiza^on
Packages Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Virtualenv Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Bootstrap
the
Buildout Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Running
the
Buildout Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Buildout
Running Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Buildout
Complete Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Star^ng
Supervisor Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Indiana Linux Fest 2011


Ques^ons? Indiana Linux Fest 2011

• E-‐mail:
jim@sixfeetup.com
• IRC:
jim_SFU
• Phone:
317-‐861-‐5948
• TwiTer:
@jimbglenn
• KARL:
#karlproject
• Web:
hTp://www.sixfeetup.com


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