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Digital Creations Information System

We need a computing service that is available to the people we want, when we want it. This document describes the needs of such a beastie, plus a proposal.

Here are some use cases for the total environment, whether it is one on machine or two (spread across no man's land):

  • UpdateExpenses. How does a staff member capture an expense item, get it into the system, get it to the office manager, and have it visible to management? Need to reconcile expenses with projects and/or budgets.
  • PostSOP?. Rob creates an SOP called "How to post expenses". Three months later, Paul wants to read it. How does he find it?
  • KeepMeetingMinutes. Staff meetings should leave behind an artifact.
  • PostStaffStatusReport. Each week staff members should update their short list of weekly commitments. Team meetings should be an act of reviewing these status reports. Management should be able to find previous status reports.
  • PostCustomerStatusReport?. Each week we should post and email a roundup of important information for customer projects. The customer or management should be able to easily find previous status reports.
  • PostOperationsIssue?. When something misfires around the office, what do people do about it?
  • FloatProposal?. Let's say a small group wants to author a plan to make ZEO Open Source. How is this done?
  • CoAuthorPressRelease?. Paul and Lois use Word to generate press releases. How can they work together?
  • CheckEmailRemotely?. Paul is at Linuxworld and wants to
  • LookupContact?.
  • AssignToDo?.
  • UpdatePersonalCalendar?.
  • PostFlashMessage?. A flash message is something of high urgency. How can this important message be distributed?

Needs

  • All the real and virtual names should be resolveable by anybody in the world.
  • People from Digital Creations should be able to sit down at any connected web computer in the and catch up on their mail.
  • People should be able to use email and other PIM functions while disconnected.
  • We should be able to access our intranet site, and other sites, using WebDAV? and FTP.
  • URLs? to information on that machine should be permanent and have a high quality of service.
  • The content should be backed up extremely well, as important information will reside in their.
  • We should be automatically updated if the URLs? no longer respond.
  • I'd like my phone log to be visible to everybody in the company, probably as a Wiki document.
  • I'd like everybody to update their goals for the week, probably as a Wiki document.
  • I'd like everybody to post their calendars, either as a Wiki document or as something in Worldpilot.
  • We need ONE SINGLE definition of people, customers, projects, etc. that is consistent with the business and accounting perspectives.
  • Everyone should get an ICQ number and be asked to be "Connected" during the day.
  • Commercial support needs to be correlatable to other things.

Proposal

I propose we take spike or some other internal computer and either put it outside our soon-to-be new class C, or else we make the important ports visible through the firewall.

  • Have Zope listen on the FTP port.