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Whether in accounting, politics, or software - there’s been an increasing amount of lip service paid to transparency. What a great word to fit into a sound bite. It conjures up images of light, and by slight extension, truth. Nobody wants to be in the “dark”, so transparency must be good, right? In general, sure. But why - other than the feel good factor, why should anyone care about transparency?

Having personally observed this force at play in Open Source for the last year now, I see the key benefits of:

• Holding people accountable - if all the facts are exposed, there’s little to no wiggle room for any misunderstandings: intentional or not. Pass thru the data and minimize the “spin”. Allow people to make decisions based on real data.
• Fostering discussion - as a corollary to the above: examining data allows for questions, interactions, and analysis from several angles. Any results are more keenly understood, with less assumptions.

These are the true benefits, and more importantly obligations of transparency.

Specific to software, it’s what RFPs and POCs have attempted to sift out for years. Nothing facilitates it better than Open Source.

You have access to everything in the company, from the source code on up. Download the product, see it in action, read thru the docs — and — directly compare what it does to your key business requirements.

A recording of Today’s Tech Talk Live session is now available.

Today we discuss Alfresco Share, Alfresco Surf Platform, customized dynamic constraints and answer attendee questions on a variety of topics.

View the recording at:
http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p81993176/

Alfresco Tech Talk Live is a series of regularly scheduled sessions where attendees get to guide the discussion. Alfresco will host the sessions along with a panel of subject matter experts who will be prepared to answer your questions.

Today’s topics will include:

• Introduction to Alfresco 3.0 Labs including Alfresco Share
• Introduction to Alfresco’s new Surf Platform
• Introduction to the Alfresco Network
• Much more!

Learn more at: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/live

Join us at: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/live

The Alfresco engineering team has been working really hard on our new 3.0 release and we’re ready to show you the goods during tomorrows Tech Talk Live.

Topics will include:

• Introduction to Alfresco 3.0 Labs including Alfresco Share
• Introduction to Alfresco’s new Surf Platform
• Introduction to the Alfresco Network
• Much more!

Please check out John Newton’s announcement of 3.0 Labs to learn more.

As always, we’ll be ready to answer YOUR questions, so
mark your calendars and join us tomorrow, Friday at 16:00 GMT/UTC,
12:00pm EDT, 9:00am PDT.

Join us at: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/live

Learn more at: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/live

Alfresco Tech Talk Live is a series of regularly scheduled sessions where attendees get to guide the discussion. Alfresco will host the sessions along with a panel of subject matter experts who will be prepared to answer your questions.

Today’s session will be cut down to 30 minutes, but we welcome one and all to join!

Learn more at: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/live

Join us at: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/live

Recordings of the last two Tech Talk Live sessions are now available at:

Session 5: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p24609688/

Session 6: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p23762131/

Alfresco Tech Talk Live is a series of regularly scheduled sessions where attendees get to guide the discussion. Alfresco will host the sessions along with a panel of subject matter experts who will be prepared to answer your questions.

Learn more at: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/live

Join us at: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/live

Due to a scheduling conflict, we’re canceling today’s Tech Talk Live session. We will have the next one on Friday, July 18th.

Alfresco Tech Talk Live is a series of regularly scheduled sessions where attendees get to guide the discussion. Alfresco will host the sessions along with a panel of subject matter experts who will be prepared to answer your questions. While the bulk of the discussions will focus on Alfresco technology, we’ll also be dedicating some time to open source and the technology space in general.

Learn more at: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/live

Join us at: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/live

Here’s a little JSP page that fetches the contents of a remote Web Script.

Assumptions: You have a Tomcat server installed and configured. Note that you may need to edit conf/server.xml to change the port bindings so as not to conflict with the Alfresco Tomcat server. Download sample server.conf for port 8888.

Instructions:

• First, download the JSP
• Next, download the Apache HTTPClient
• Also, download the Apache Codec Library
• Now, copy the HTTPClient and Codec JAR files to the common/lib directory on your Tomcat server.
• Finally, copy the JSP to any deployed webapp or create a webapp from scratch.

The code is a variation of an HTTPClient sample.