Sensorica's information and knowledge management system

This paper describes the information and knowledge management system of Sensorica and his evolution

Open Sensorica's main Google doc on Information and knowledge management.

Attempt to improve Sensorica's CMS

Lead by Fredy. Attempt failed, because Sensorica affiliates didn't manifest their interest in changing the systems. After some considerations and input from Daniel, François, Jonathan and Tiberius, Fredy decided to test Cynin.

Important characteristics for the chosen system:

• KISS principle in Wikipedia: "Keep it simple, stupid"
• Experience, expertise and intuition are important (know-how)
• Find and adapt a system, avoid building a system from scratch.
• Open Source: The software will be open source
• Easy to use and to maintain
• Programming language: Python, ruby or some similar (Fedy: not PHP).

Notes

• I do the account sensorica.knowledge@gmail.com for send the mails using SNMP.
• Emails for groups
• Desktop client not install :(
  • Installing adobe air ...

The first system

Since the inception of Sensorica, beginning of 2010 Tibi deployed a a Google-based CCC infrastructure inspired by his work within the Multitude Project.

• For written information, Google Docs (later become Google Drive) was implemented. Docs were used to describe ventures, to document R&D work, ideas and designs, to document the organization itself and its processes, etc.
• Picasa Web was adopted to manage pictures.
• Youtube was adopted to manage videos.
• Diigo was adopted for information mining and was used as knowledge base.
• 3D warehouse was used in combination with Google Sketchup for 3D modeling and product design.
• SPICE programs were used for electronics design. Files were shared with DropBox.

Everything was integrated within a Google Sites. See Sensorica's website

• A special page template was created for ventures, which integrated multimedia content produced in that context. See all ventures here.

• A special page template was created for activities, called activity clusters, which integrated multimedia content about different types of activities like software, electronics, 3D modeling...

• Other special pages were created to aggregate other types of information
  • The Sensorica how-tos page is used to share know how with the world.
  • The Sensorica education section was created to allow Sensorica affiliates to learn new skills within the network.