Submission by www.bolinos.com In order to integrate all computer-based resources used into a standard and versatile multimedia package, we chose to co-develop a multimedia authoring environment using worldwide standard open-source software packages: Apache, PHP and MySQL.Based on private and professional works from the authors dating from 1995 and after, the resulting web operating system and its applications offers "non-power-users" the means to publish multimedia online and on CD-ROM, while enabling simple handling of users, user-groups, agendas, forums, collections, ... with no previous extensive web-knowledge. For more than three years now, the non-fulltime two person basic workforce has managed to produce, what we believe to be an economically, ergonomically and logically sound product.
