We’ve been busy during the holidays updating the different Nuxeo community websites:

• The forum (as I already announced) has moved to a new forum engine that should be more robust that the previous one:

  http://forum.nuxeo.org/

• The documentation site has a new home page with, we hope, a clearer roadmap to navigate through the documentation:

  http://doc.nuxeo.com/

  We’ve also have written a new ”beginner’s page” (aka: “everything you need to know about Nuxeo in 5 minutes”):

  https://doc.nuxeo.com/x/vYFH

  And a ”business FAQ” that should be helpful when responding to a RFP:

  https://doc.nuxeo.com/x/uAwz

  We’re still busy updating other parts of the documentation.

• There is now a ”home page” that aggregates info from the community sites (forum, blogs and documentation), and also provides the key links for newcomers.

  http://www.nuxeo.org/

• You can also subscribe to the RSS feed that provides updates similar to the “wall” provided by nuxeo.org (with a bit of additional filtering):

  http://www.nuxeo.org/rss

I hope you will find these enhancements useful. Of course there might be some issues since everything is still new, so feel free to report (in the comments below, or in the mailing list / the forum) any problems or suggest enhancements.

We have made a new .deb package of Nuxeo DM for Debian and Ubuntu.

It’s available for Debian 5.0 “Lenny” (and probably works for Squeeze too), and for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid” and 10.10 “Maverick”.

So I was today speaking at the ICSSEA conference on software engineering about our experience building Nuxeo EP.

The slides are below:

You can’t create great software without both a vision and discipline. Specially when it’s open source software.

This is the reason why I accepted the invitation to write (with some of my colleagues) and present a paper at the ICSSEA 2010 conference this week in Paris.

The slide decks for the two presentations I did during Nuxeo World 2010 last week are now online on SlideShare (alongside all the other Nuxeo World 2010 presentations).

Towards Semantic ECM: Report on the IKS and Scribo Projects

In this presentation, done with my colleague Olivier Grisel, we’ve presented how semantic technologies can impact the ECM landscape, and showcased recent developments, based on collaborative R&D carried out with the Scribo and IKS consortia, that have been recently been integrated, as add-ons, to Nuxeo DM.

(You may prefer to download the slides directly in PDF form.)

This presentation kicked off our “Open Source Semantic ECM European Tour 2010”, with another similar presentation scheduled tomorrow at the Semantic Co-Lab in Paris, and another one in two weeks during the IKS Early Adopters Workshop in Amsterdam.

Mobile ECM Apps with Nuxeo EP

In this presentation, which I did with my colleague Benjamin Jalon, we presented the results of recent experiments putting ECM on a mobile phone, using two radically different approaches: mobile web apps and mobile native apps.

(You may prefer to download the slides directly in PDF form.)

Watch this place for news about the availability of a Mobile ECM add-on for Nuxeo DM and possibly other Nuxeo products.

We have announced today the release of Nuxeo EP 5.4 (or 5.4.0).

To celebrate this achievement, we have issued several announcements:

A press release for a functional / business audience: http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/news/announces-new-marketplace

A second, more technical press release: http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/news/nuxeo-upgrades-osgi-infrastructure

It’s not a secret that over the last few years, we’ve been at Nuxeo busy producing more and more screencasts, webcasts, video clips to help people understand the value and better leverage our products (Nuxeo DM, DAM, and CMF), technologies (Nuxeo EP) and support offering (Nuxeo Connect, including Nuxeo Studio).

You can find most of these videos on our Nuxeo Blip.TV (nuxeo.tv) channel and our YouTube channel, but for your convenience, I will in this blog post highlight the videos that should be most useful to you to get acquainted with, or increase your knowledge of, our products.

Who we are and what we stand for

This 2 min musical slideshow was produced to be broadcasted at this year’s Open World Forum. It gives a very short introduction on who we are, what problems we are trying to solve, and how we are solving them:

• Nuxeo open source ECM intro clip, 2010 (2 minutes).

There are many misconceptions in the business world about the risks and benefits of open source. In this webinar, we address them in the context of ECM, a discipline traditionally dominated by proprietary vendors, focussing on Nuxeo’s roots since the year 2000 as an open source software vendor:

• 8 Things You Should Know About Open Source ECM (50 minutes).

This longer webinar is focussed on our core vision: that it best to address the ECM needs of our customers, not by providing monolithic and hard to customize and integrate ECM suites as other software vendor usually do, but by starting from an ECM platform, modular and extensible, providing the right applications on top of it, and ensuring maximal ease of integration with your other content oriented applications through the use of open standards such as CMIS:

• ECM as a platform (55 minutes).

Nuxeo DM (Document Management)

This 2 min “trailer” was produced to introduce Nuxeo DM 5.2 when it was released. It is a short, dynamic and entertaining way to discover how to manage your documents with Nuxeo DM.

• Nuxeo DM 5.2 Trailer (2 minutes).

These short clips showcase the most commonly used features of Nuxeo DM:

• Nuxeo DM - Managing document properties (metadata) (3’15”).

• Nuxeo DM - Managing permissions / access rights (part 1) (1’19”) and (Part 2) (1’53).

• Nuxeo DM - Managing documents lifecycle (1’09”).

• Nuxeo DM - Search (1’33”).

• Nuxeo DM - Virtual navigation (1’31”).

• Nuxeo DM - Notifications (0’50”).

• Nuxeo DM - Audit trail (0’37”).

• Nuxeo DM - Workflow (Part 1) (1’59”) and (Part 2) (1’28).

• Nuxeo DM - Publishing documents to the file plan (sections) (2’38”).

These short clips focus on various aspects of desktop integration with Nuxeo:

• Nuxeo DM - Drag’n’Drop from the Desktop (56”).

• Nuxeo DM - Microsoft Office integration (1’36”).

• Nuxeo DM - Microsoft SharePoint integration (2’30”).

Short clips on collaboration features:

• Nuxeo DM - Forum (1’16”).

• Nuxeo DM - Web sites / Blogs / Wikis (4’54”).

• Nuxeo DM - Tagging (1’37”).

• Nuxeo DM - OpenSocial integration (1’23”).

Some advanced features:

• Nuxeo DM - Annotations (3’30”).

• Nuxeo DM - Managing emails (1’35”).

• Nuxeo DM - Emails management enhancement in 5.3 (1’02”).

• Nuxeo DM - Using workspaces templates (1’10”).

• Nuxeo DM - Using MS Word templates (12 min).

A few longer webcasts:

• What’s New in Nuxeo DM 5.3 (35 minutes).

• Drive your document production with Nuxeo (24 minutes) - showing a realistic use case of document production, in the e-learning industry, involving multiples actors working together to create training material.

Nuxeo DAM (Digital Asset Management)

This short clip highlights the new features in Nuxeo DAM 1.1:

• Nuxeo DAM 1.1 (2’50”).

This longer webinar was produced when we launched Nuxeo DAM in March 2010:

• Debuting Nuxeo Digital Asset Management (50 minutes).

Nuxeo CMF (Case Management Framework)

This short webcast was produced when we launched our case management framework in July 2010. Nuxeo CMF adds functionality to Nuxeo EP to support the flow of related content items that needs to be handled, managed and analyzed in a case-centric metaphor. This includes classes of applications such as: invoice processing, contracts management, correspondence management, personnel file management, incident tracking, etc.

• Nuxeo Case Management Framework (4’25”).

Nuxeo Studio

Nuxeo Studio is our innovative graphical configuration workbench dedicated to help technically savvy business users, solution providers, and system integrators to rapidly configure the Nuxeo platform (EP) or products (DM, DAM, CMF), adapting the platform to their organization’s or client’s unique requirements, without extensive training.

This webinar, featuring an extended demo, introduce Studio:

• Enforcing Enterprise Policies with Nuxeo Studio (1 hour).

We’ve also started producing a few videos that highlights the features of Nuxeo Studio. Here are the first ones:

• Nuxeo Studio - Branding (i.e. changing the look of your application) (2’22”).

• Nuxeo Studio - How to create validation button (2’41”).

Upcoming features

• Nuxeo Marketplace - Sneak Peek (4’26”) - Nuxeo Marketplace will be a complete solution catalog offering plug-ins, templates and applications created by Nuxeo developers, partners and customers.

Feedback is welcome

We’re now producing about one new webinar / week, and if there is any topic you would like us to cover in a next episode, please tell your wishes in the comments and we will see how we can fulfill them.

I have created last week a new video clip (2 min) presenting Nuxeo. It was on display during the last Open World Forum as part of the “Open IT Showroom”, an effort to showcase the open source vendors and service providers during the Forum.