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Get ready to collaborate and build content with Alfresco! Jarrett Sloan of the Boston Computing Review will walk us through the fundamentals of Alfresco - from installation to configuration and use. Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system built by the industry experts drawn from Documentum, Vignette and Interwoven. Some people have labeled it a respectable Sharepoint competitor. Please see below for the following meeting agenda

* also - please note that it is very important to RSVP due to the Prudential's security protocols

Meeting Agenda

What is Alfresco?
-Who founded Alfresco
-Platform
-Architecture
What can Alfresco be used for?
-Document Management
-Web Content Management
-Collaboration
How and where to get Alfresco
How to install
-Tomcat
-MySQL
-JRE
-Starting Alfresco for the first time
-Extension Directory
-Files worth pointing out
-MySQL class
-Where to download jar from
-Where to place jar on your server
Tour Alfresco
-Feature of Alfresco
-Feature of Share
-Feature of WCM component
-How the three relate
-AVM vs. Regular content store
Focusing on Collaboration
-Benefits
-Comparison to SharePoint
-Setting up your first Share site
Resources to get up and running with Alfresco
-Community forums
-Community site (Ran off Alfresco of course)
-Books

Join us to take a look at the nuts and bolts of blogging platforms that have changed the way in which individuals publish to the world. We will review WordPress and Moveable Type - platforms that you can host, in addition to hosted solutions like Blogger and MSN Spaces. We will compare and contrast the administration, easy of use, customization, user interface development capabilities of each solution.

In addition to the platform review we will also take a look at organizations offering ways in new companies like HubSpot are turning blogging engines into marketing machines for targeted lead generation. If you have another platform that you would like to speak about let us know, as we would love to learn!

We will provide drinks and snacks. Help here is definitely welcome as well, so drop us a line if you can help out.

We are pleased to announce that Chris Wildgoose from Knowledge Stream will be presenting about the Semantic Web. Here is a synopsis of the lecture that Chris will be leading.

"The web has proliferated at an unprecedented rate since its founding in the early 90?s. Since that period, the web has progressed from a simple network of servers housing static content into a global network that supports highly complex e-commerce interactions. Today the buzzward is web 2.0, but the opportunity for the future, as articulated by Tim Burners-Lee himself, lies in the so-called ?Semantic Web?. Let?s use this discussion forum to first understand what the world of the ?Semantic Web? will look like. Next, lets identify and understand the key technologies that will support this new world. Technologies such as RDF, OWL, SPARQL and a more semantic RSS will become important. Lets talk at a high-level what these technologies can accomplish , with an eye toward its applicability to solving real world problems. Finally lets spend some time identifying some actual problems that help in this."

Get the espresso flowing, it is time for some more development!

If you are looking for a good introduction to practical JSP development look no further. Even with the wide range of development tools receiving a lot of hype right now Java Server Pages (JSP) are still a king in the world of web application development and offer an awesome set of components to help build solutions.

After getting up to speed through this introduction other frameworks that can be incorporated when developing JSP based solutions (JSF, Struts, Hibernate, etc). Come with an open mind and leave knowing the nuts and bolts of what it takes to develop great JSP solutions!