Portal - PHPNUKE

I start to browse sourceforge and freshmeat to get know a suitable application that can be use in my office . i realize that there a thousand application at here . There are all free application and only needs an effort to try and evaluate it ..

I'm interested to deploy portal . So staff in my office could share info and news among them . i've tried several package . Finally i made my mind to try phpnuke .

The installation is quite straight forward . same like moodle . I just need to download the package , extract the package , chmod and chown , dump the database , then i'm ready ..

I also need to customize the phpnuke for the modul and theme . This is the part that takes longer time compare to installation . I've to collect the related information that suitable and it eat a lot of my time .

The funny part is , this is not actually part of my action plan / scope of work . But i did it for myself . I believe i could show to people that opensource is a right choice . Most of people think i take a tough decision since i can just simply use microsoft sharepoint to complete the task . But i told them , if you could save the money and improve your skills , i think it is worth it ..

Finally my head department and supervisor agree to launch the portal officially . I'm so glad and proud of it . After a struggle of 3 month , i can show to people my work .. Of course some of the critic and condemn my effort . For me , the important is people are now aware that Opensource is taking over the environtment . I just need to make sure the operation is smooth so people will get confidence .
During this time , opensource usage in my office is 10% . I aimed to make opensource usage at least 35% during the end of my action plan .

........Ganbarimasho .......