[David]

I am interested in using commons in a box as an intranet for an organization I am part of. I am wondering if anyone has any experience using it in this way?

I am curious if anyone has experience using it with any of these Word Press plugins:
https://kinsta.com/blog/project-management-plugins/?PageSpeed=noscript

Like the ability of each group being able to manage projects together, like wiggio.com

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

[Matthew K Gold]

Very interesting, David. I don’t know of any projects using CBOX as an
intranet, but please keep me/us apprised of your experiments. I am very
interested in finding compelling use cases for CBOX and this is certainly
one of them.

The PM plugins you linked to provide some opportunities and some
complications. CBOX depends heavily on BuddyPress groups; of the plugins
listed in the article you noted, only CollabPress seems to integrate well
with BuddyPress (n.b. this observation is made without having tested these
plugins). And even there, a lot depends on how these plugins integrate
across groups.

Again, please experiment and please keep us in the loop.

Best,

Matt

[David]

Mathew,
I will keep you apprised. It seems as though someone out there must have
been interested in using groups in this manner. It seems like having
tools to coordinate a “team” makes sense.
Hope someone has some experience. I will look for a buddy press project
managment plugin to start with. You are right that compatibility is
important.

[Christian Wach]

@seeker I’ve tried CollabPress in the past, but it is somewhat limited in its functionality and development on it seems to have been very slow for the past year. I’d be interested in your findings – it’s one of the most common requests I hear from folks with CBOX installs.

[sam brown]

I started with <strong style=”font-weight: 400; color: #000000;”>BuddyPress Courseware but just couldn’t get it to work. It also hasn’t been updated for a couple of years but it looks like some one may take the project over.  I am looking for space for students  to <span style=”color: #545454;”>recording </span><span style=”color: #545454;”>training and experience progress. </span>My gut feeling is that there’s a solution in groups, collabpress, gravity forms and events manager and whilst search for that combination I came across this:  http://www.pootlepress.com/2012/06/how-to-build-an-intranet-with-wordpress/ .

[Alex Armstrong]

I’m also interested in intranet-type features. I’m evaluating CBOX for an academic community that includes working groups and committees and it would be a great help if they could do some lightweight project management.

[Matthew K Gold]

The CUNY Academic Commons includes many committees, but we have not (as
yet) developed project management features for CBOX. In CUNY, groups tend
to use a mix of file uploads, collaborative documents, and forum posts to
stay connected. In some groups I’m part of, we post links to google
spreadsheets that we use for task assignments/tracking.

At present, further development on project management features for CBOX
groups is not something that the Commons team has on its development
roadmap, but this is a free software project and I hope that others will
consider working on it!

[Alex Armstrong]

Fair enough. As you suggest, it’s quite feasible to use third-party tools alongside CBOX.

Is the roadmap public somewhere? It would be interesting to see what you have planned.

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