this is a section for collecting info about Project Minerva.
Latest thoughts on what Minerva is:
The "good parts" of Athena, to wit:
- Universal file system (Alfresco a possible candidate)
- Easy web publishing, via Virtual Web Hosting Service that integrates w/file system
- "Team spaces", via a set of options that you can install on your virtual web host that does stuff in an MIT way.
- We saw a demo of "Clearspace" by Jive, but it didn't excite us. It does the kind of thing we are looking for, but we'd like something more open source.
- Requires a jazzy console to pull all the pieces together.
- Must include a "discuss" alternative, plus a wiki and blog plugin.
- uses MIT authentication (X509, Kerberos)
- Sloan is desperate for this, and is in danger of buying Sharepoint to do it.
- Virtual computing resources, like Amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing, for the more general case.
Another piece is a Zephyr-quality chat, for now under the MITchat project.
We may someday take on email, integrating it like Zimbra.