Tiki Suite

This project was first presented at the Confoo 2011 Web Conference

in Canada. Please check the slides. A second presentation was given at the RMLL 2011 conference in France

. Please check the slides

. Third presentation is at OSCON 2011

2012-04 news: We improved Tiki-Kaltura integration

Status as of 2012-02: After successful testing with ClearOS 5.2, we are now awaiting the final stable release of ClearOS 6.x
(now in Beta

) as the basis of version 1.0 of Tiki Suite. ClearOS 5.2 is awesome but is a distro with components from 2007-2008, and we prefer to build Tiki Suite on version 6.x

Tiki Suite is:

A dozen of Free/Open Source Server and Desktop apps which offer the features for
what 80% of the people use 80% of the time
for a typical small or medium organization. The Tiki Suite will be especially awesome for decentralized and knowledge-centric organizations.

Tiki Suite: A suite of Free and open source collaboration, office productivity & publishing software for small & medium-sized organizations

, featuring Wiki + CMS + Groupware + Commerce + Accounting + Document Management + CRM + Web conferencing + Desktop sharing + PBX VOIP Telephony + Instant messaging & presence + Video management + E-learning, etc. The Tiki Suite includes and builds upon a selection of server, desktop and mobile components with a concerted effort to greater interoperability. The idea is to offer a well integrated set of tools for what most people need most of the time.

Key components include Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, ClearOS Enterprise

, BigBlueButton web conferencing

, FreeSWITCH

, Kaltura video management

, ejabberd XMPP instant messaging server

, Cyberduck WebDAV/FTP client

, Jitsi SIP/XMPP client

and LibreOffice

.

Background information: The typical installation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is on shared hosting

, which makes it popular and accessible, however, it limits what features can be implemented. This has not stopped Tiki from becoming the FOSS Web Application with the most built-in features. However, there are things you just can't do in PHP/MySQL (ex.: Videoconferencing) and there are things for which we judge more future proof to partner with another (preferably PHP) open source project (ex.: Piwik).

Also, some people are installing Tiki on vanilla LAMP instances

. Since they don't have the experience of hosting companies, they often don't know how to setup/tweak/optimize a vanilla server for web hosting. It would be nice to have (ie.: point to and not necessarily maintain ourselves) nicely documented examples of things that are currently outside the scope of Tiki. In some other cases, there is a need for high-performance. Here, it can be good to share best practices and configuration tips.

Preliminary schema

This will not work on shared hosting and will require VPS

or dedicated server

hosting. Actually, you will need several dedicated servers. To keep things simpler, the plan is to keep some of the component on distinct servers (ex.: Kaltura and BigBlueButton are easy to deploy to a server, but it gets trickier if you try to put both on the same server).

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