What

A plan to deploy Tiki Suite "as is" for a company of 20-30 employees. Document everything along the way, and gather experience on interoperability and additional components. This company will dogfood internally, with the goal of offering as a service to their customers.

When

• September-October 2013

Budget

Absolute minimum

Install and configure the base packages as-is, without 3rd party packages. We configure all three systems with built-in features and configure them to all work nicely together.

These three packages have so many features, it's just insane 😊

• https://doc.tiki.org/Features
• http://www.bigbluebutton.org/
• http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html

They also manage internally the complexity of interoperability of a huge number of components, libraries, etc

• https://dev.tiki.org/External+Libraries
• http://www.bigbluebutton.org/components/
• http://www.clearfoundation.com/Foundation/integrated-code.html

  
  

We need 2 root servers (virtual servers are fine) on which we will install

• ClearOS + Tiki (1 gig RAM, 10 Gig disk)
  • https://tiki.org/Tiki+on+Clearos
• BigBlueButton
  • https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/081InstallationUbuntu
  • Alternatively, for the test, we can get a hosted account at http://hostbbb.com/ and just need one server.

Low-hanging fruit

Here, we implement desired things that are not part of the base packages, but have already been implemented by others, following and improving the documentation. We must also think ahead for the new possibilities offered by HTML5 (like WebRTC, etc.). We get in touch with the various projects and by the end of this phase, we'll have clearer idea of the road ahead.

Webmail

Horde/Kolab has been deprecated and is no longer supported. This policy may change in a future ClearOS 6 release.

"The default groupware and mail solution is now based on Zarafa technology."
http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/release_info/clearos_community_6.3.0/final_release_information
http://www.clearcenter.com/support/documentation/clearos_professional_6/6.3.0_release_notes

If this is not suitable for us because the community edition has limitations, we can look into Kolab and RoundCube

• http://kolab.org/news/2013/07/16/kolab-3.1-alpha-released-irony
• http://www.clearfoundation.com/component/option,com_kunena/Itemid,232/catid,40/func,view/id,46421/limit,10/limitstart,20/

Phone system

• http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/howtos/freeswitch_with_sipxecs
• BigBlueButton: We can add a 1-8xx phone number so people can call in from Skype and regular phones

  
  

Presence

To be discussed

• http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/howtos/ejabberd

Better inetgration between Tiki and ClearOS

Under the hood, a new engine for supporting web applications is also in development.

Dreaming

Once we have experimented enough with the various components, we can start improving interoperabiliy, adding missing features, and thinking of large scale deployment and maintenance

• Tight integration of users, groups, search, etc. between all systems
• Configuration Management and Systems Orchestration so we can deploy this automatically
• Make Tiki Webmail awesome (and associated features like Contacts and Calendar)