Create SharePoint alternative

[akuckartz]

The suggestion is to create an alternative to SharePoint based on CLAW.

From an interview with Mark Leggott:

I think there’s no reason Islandora could not be a very popular enterprise project. ... There’s a definite need out there and I think it could be a direct competitor to systems like Sharepoint. There’s just not enough business intelligence at the moment in the community about how to do that. https://blog.echidna.ca/early-days-islandora-part-one-interview-founder-mark-leggott

Currently a license for SharePoint Foundation 2013 is included (for "free") with Windows Server licenses. Microsoft has announced that this will no longer be the case in a few years. The demand for an alternative therefore is increasing. That is an opportunity for Open Source.

A first step is to compile a set of features which are required but missing in CLAW.

[whikloj]

That is an interesting idea...not sure it fits with the goals of Islandora. But if you could compile the mentioned list of features which are required but missing it would make it easier to understand the gap.

[dannylamb]

The whole re-architecture with 8 was about being able to handle the large-scale enterprise use case. I checked out wikipedia for SharePoint and it appears to have a lot of different uses (which sounds a lot like Islandora if you ask me). I don't know about all of them, but "Enterprise content and document management" (straight lifted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharePoint), seems like something in our ballpark. So I'll just echo @whikloj here and say than any use cases you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

[mjordan]

I'll offer a use case:

Title (Goal)	Share active documents among committee members
Primary Actor	user
Scope	Drupal
Level	Medium
Story	I am the chair of a committee and want to use my institutional Islandora instance to share confidential files among the committee members. Only members of the committee should have read and write access to the files. The files are active documents: some of them will be edited several times by various committee members. Reason we're not using Google docs for this is that the documents contain sensitive information and my employer's policies prohibit using external cloud services for these types of documents :smile:. Once the committee's activities have completed, I want to remove write (i.e., replace) access to all of the documents.