The Berlin State Library — Germany’s largest academic library—and the Central and Regional Library Berlin — the country’s largest public library — have been developing concepts and strategies for several years to position Discourse as a comprehensive open-source alternative to enterprise intranet solutions such as Microsoft Teams/Sharepoint/Office368 or Atlassian Confluence.
This initiative spans a wide range of focus areas, including:
- UX / design
- Knowledge management
- Co-determination procedures with staff councils
- Data protection and privacy
- Mapping of flat hierarchies
- Interfaces to document-management systems (DMS)
- Training and documentation frameworks
- Operating models
- Deletion and retention policies
- Multi-tenant capability
- Technical-debt management
- Digital toolkits
- Process management
- HR and organisational development
- Internal communications
- Digital sovereignty
I am currently drafting a manifesto that outlines our core approach and expect to publish it here within the next few days.