Metadot: The World's Most Popular Open Source Portal Server

Metadot Portal Server provides a very large number of content management and collaboration functionalities in modules called gizmos (portlets) that are available out of the box such as:

* Discussion Forum
* File and Content Management
* Task / To-Do List
* Calendar
* Poll
* FAQs
* User Personal Website
* Group and user-based access control
* My News Page - like My Yahoo
* Email Notifications
* URL management
* Rich text Editor (from interactivetools.com)
* Site themes and templates
* and many more features!

TWikiTM - Enterprise Wiki & Collaboration Platform

Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system. It is a Structured Wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Users without programming skills can create web applications. Developers can extend the functionality of TWiki with Plugins.

TWiki is a mature, full featured web based collaboration system:

• Any web browser: Edit existing pages or create new pages by using any web browser. There is no need for ftp or http put to upload pages.
• Edit link: To edit a page, simply click on the Edit link at the bottom of every page.
• Auto links: Web pages are linked automatically. You do not need to learn HTML commands to link pages.
• Text formatting: Simple, powerful and easy to learn text formatting rules. Basically you write text like you would write an e-mail.
• Webs: Pages are grouped into TWiki webs (or collections). This allows you to set up separate collaboration groups.
• Search: Full text search with/without regular expressions. See a sample search result.
• E-mail notification: Get automatically notified when something has changed in a TWiki web. Subscribe in WebNotify.
• Structured content: Use TWiki Forms to classify and categorize unstructured web pages and to create simple workflow systems.
• File attachments: Upload and download any file as an attachment to a page by using your browser. This is similar to file attachments in an e-mail, but it happens on web pages.
• Revision control: All changes to pages and attachments are tracked. Retrieve previous page revisions and differences thereof. Find out who changed what and when.
• Access control: Define groups and impose fine grained read and write access restrictions based on groups and users.
• Variables: Use variables to dynamically compose your pages. This allows you for example to dynamically build a table of contents: include other pages; or show a search result embedded in a page.
• TWiki Plugins: Enhance the TWiki functionality with server side Plugin modules. Developers can create Perl Plugins using the TWiki Plugin API. Some example Plugins:
  • ActionTrackerPlugin: Keep track of action items in meeting minutes and notify assignees by e-mail.
  • CalendarPlugin: Show a monthly calendar with highlighted events.
  • ChartPlugin: Create charts to visualize TWiki tables.
  • DatabasePlugin: Get access to data in a database.
  • HeadlinesPlugin: Build news portals that show headline news based on RSS news feeds from news sites.
  • TWikiDrawPlugin: Use the TWikiDraw Java Applet to create editable drawings embedded in topics.
  • SlideShowPlugin: Turn TWiki pages into web-based presentations.
  • SpreadSheetPlugin: Add spreadsheet formulae like $SUM($ABOVE()) to TWiki tables.
  • XpTrackerPlugin: Track Extreme Programming (XP) projects.
  • more...
• Application Wiki: Contributors use the TWiki platform to create web applications. The TWiki Variables, Plugins and sample applications offer a rich environment where domain-specific applications can be built efficiently by contributors with moderate skill sets. Developers can create new Plugins to enhance the functionality of TWiki even further. Some example applications:
  • Call Center Status Board: Simple status board where time and person can be picked from a list.
  • Change Request: Generic change request application.
  • Meeting Minutes: Keep track of meeting minutes with action items.
  • Search Book Titles: Simple application to search a library of books.
  • Simple FAQ: FAQ with all questions on one page and an automatic TOC.
• Templates and skins: A flexible templating system separates program logic and presentation. Skins overwrite template headers and footers; page content is unaffected.
• Managing pages: Individual pages can be renamed, moved and deleted through the browser.
• Managing users: Web based user registration and change of password.
• What's new: See recent changes of TWiki webs. The change log can also be exported in XML RSS format for news syndication.
• Statistics: Create Statistics of TWiki webs. Find out most popular pages and top contributors.
• Preferences: Four levels of preferences: TWikiPreferences for site-level; WebPreferences for each web; user level preferences; and page level preferences.
• Conflict resolution: Content is merged automatically if more than one user is edit a page at the same time. In rare cases where a conflict cannot be resolved automatically, users are warned and guided to resolve the conflict manually.
• Referred-By: Find out back-links to a page.
• ... plus many more features not listed here.