The Art of Telecommuting

Published by pris54 (Admin) |leftontheweb.com and blog.calevans.com| 12 Nov, 2009

I've been telecommuting for the past 5 years, sometimes successfully and some other times not. Telecommuting has pros and cons, the key to minimising the disadvantages is a good, fluid communication, something that can be achieved if we change our mindset and "switch" to telecommute mode.

Telecommuting is marking a slow but clear tendency, if you haven't yet then best getting on this wave now =) Two excellent articles, "Telecommuting is the next black" and "Remote Developers", the first citing the second. You are advised to read them if you are considering telecommuting seriously.

OpenAtrium

Published by pris54 (Admin) |OpenAtrium| 01 Nov, 2009

As the site states: Part intranet, part do-it-yourself project with a kick of open source hotness. Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that has group spaces to allow different teams to have their own conversations. It comes with six features - a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard to manage it all.

But you're not limited to just those features. Open Atrium is completely customizable. If you want a feature that's not on that list, you can add it yourself. Read the documentation, specifically the How to Build a Feature section, to find out how to do it.

Want more features? The fun really starts when people start sharing the features they build for their own Open Atrium with everyone else. Then everyone doesn't just have access to six features but also a bunch of others that are easy to plugin to the basic Open Atrium package.

Creative Commons - License your creations

Published by pris54 (Admin) |Creative Commons| 26 Sep, 2009

A wide range of licenses to apply to your projects. The text below is from CC site:

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