Posted by dhiraj 3 years 20 weeks ago

multilingual collaboration software

i18n capable Collaboration Software

I am excited to announce version 3.1 of Cyn.in, our flagship collaboration software. This release focuses on providing multi-lingual (i18n) capabilities across the Cyn.in web interface. Cyn.in v3.1 includes an out-of-the-box support for 43 languages. Newly supported languages include German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi and Chinese among many others. See the detailed list below.

Cyn.in now lets users quickly switch to, and set their preferred language using the nifty language selector. Cyn.in will also auto set your language if you have set a default content language in your web browser. This should prove to be valuable for enterprise deployment scenarios with large and diverse userbases. The language selector displays the name of the language in English and the native language, making the identification of the desired language easy for non English users. 

Businesses are exploring newer geographies more than ever before, and teams are needed to collaborate across geographic, cultural and linguistic boundaries. The new i18n capabilities in Cyn.in will facilitate multinational enterprises to connect teams across the globe seamlessly.

Cyn.in is now available in the following languages:

ISO 639-1 code Language Name Native Language Name
af Afrikaans Afrikaans
sq Albanian Shqip
be Belarussian Беларускі
bg Bulgarian Български
ca Catalan Català
zh Chinese 中文
hr Croatian Hrvatski
cs Czech Čeština
da Danish Dansk
nl Dutch Nederlands
en English English
et Estonian Eesti
fi Finnish Suomi
fr French Français
gl Galician Galego
hi Hindi हिंदी
hu Hungarian Magyar
is Icelandic Íslenska
id Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia
ga Irish Gaelic Gaeilge
it Italian Italiano
ja Japanese 日本語
ko Korean 한국어
lv Latvian Latviešu
lt Lithuanian Lietuviskai
mk Macedonian Македонски
mt Maltese Malti
no Norwegian Norsk
pl Polish Polski
pt Portuguese Português
pt-br Portuguese (Brazil) Português (Brasil)
ro Romanian Română
ru Russian Русский
sr Serbian српски
sk Slovak Slovenčina
es Spanish Español
sw Swahili Swahili
sv Swedish Svenska
th Thai ไทย
tr Turkish Türkçe
uk Ukrainian Українська
vi Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
cy Welsh Cymraeg

Other Highlights of the v3.1 release:

  • Cyn.in v3.1 now is based on the latest stable release of Plone - v3.3.2.
  • Works better with IE8 - Compatibility mode now enables proper functioning of Javascript and the main application tabs
  • Smart Collection Criteria Editing now works without any constraints. All broken Javascript / HTML errors have been fixed
  • Smooth Upgrade - Catalog rebuilding had errors due to which the internal search would have to be rebuilt after an upgrade. This has been fixed.
  • Pure LAN based installation enabled - active Internet connection is NOT required to install from ISO CD any more.

You can check out the complete list of fixes for 3.1 here: http://odn.cynapse.com/projects/cynin/issues?query_id=13

I'd like to thank our amazing community for contributing towards the translation. Some of the new languages have been translated via the Google Translate API, so validity might be a imprecise. With the help of our customers and the community, we expect to progressively improve the quality of the translations and further add new languages. We cordially invite all translators and native language speakers to assist us improve and add to the various translations of Cyn.in. Only your help can make Cyn.in the most popular collaboration software in your region and language.

What do you think of the new Cyn.in v3.1? Head over to the Cynapse Community to share your feedback or to contribute towards the language translation.

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Posted by romasha 3 years 22 weeks ago

Businesses of all sizes are adopting Cyn.in to enhance organizational performance and drive success in an intensely competitive, connected economy. While technology is only one part of the what makes Enterprise 2.0 useful and relevant, designing strategic practices for deploying it in the enterprises, providing guidance and training, ensuring widespread adoption and driving positive business results truly propels these technologies to success.

 

Download the pdf version of this presentation.

We have renewed the Cynapse Partner Program to help customers gain value from their investment in Cyn.in and are inviting partners to join in. The Cynapse Partners will work with customers to get them up and running on Cyn.in and assist with accelerating performance, provide guidance, training and support and cater to customer's requirements.

Adding Cyn.in to their portfolio, will help resellers and system integrators drive the benefit of SaaS and open source to their customers. ISVs and Solution providers can custom build addons to extend Cyn.in or integrate it with their applications and solutions to build a substantive offering for customers. While OEMs and product companies can combine Cynapse products as an offering with their software / hardware product to add additional value. Based on our trends for every $1 spent on software, there is a potential services revenue of $4.

For further information visit: http://www.cynapse.com/partners

If you are looking for a Cynapse Partner near you, let us know of your requirements and we'll connect you to the most suitable partners.

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Posted by dhiraj 3 years 25 weeks ago

I'm happy to announce that Cyn.in 3.0.5 is now available for download and installation. We've fixed over 40 stories in this update, and this includes some cool new features and some UI improvements as well. :)

Release Highlights

We've been listening to our customers, partners and the Cynapse community and one of the key points we've noted is that even though Cyn.in is conceptually designed to fit completely behind a logged-in scenario, a lot of people have mentioned that it would be nice if they could publish out content to anonymous users, anyway. If you have an open-ended community with Cyn.in for your organization, then this feature could be advantageous in increasing participation and overall awareness about your objectives.

Anonymous Publishing in cyn.in with v3.0.5

So keeping the design principles of Cyn.in within mind, we have worked on making this possible in the default workflows that ship with Cyn.in. You'll now be able to set up your Cyn.in site such that you can selectively publish content to be visible to anonymous visitors (and search engine crawlers). Do note that we've kept the anonymous publishing flows a bit conservative, with the intent of having secure default settings. No content will automatically become published to anonymous, instead it must be initiated by user action. This action is intentionally restricted to the Site owner and Space editor roles.

New Features

  • Cyn.in 3.0.5 for the first time has out-of-box support for Publishing content to anonymous users. This is part of a redesigned workflow that provides Cyn.in site owners and Space Editors the option to publish interesting content for direct consumption by anonymous visitor. More details on how to set this up are available on the (now anonymously accessible) Cynapse community site at: http://www.cynapse.com/community/home/cyn.in-users/setup-cyn-in-for-anonymous-access
  • UI Changes: A new User menu is integrated into the top Adder bar. The toolbar now has all the key actions that you as a user of the system need to have. When being accessed anonymously, the entire top bar transforms to a single line message to login or register. The site logo now moved to the side bar, gets more prominence while users can focus on the top toolbar.
  • Google Chrome Frame support: For those users who'd prefer to use Google Chrome within their Internet Explorer, they now can. This is another attempt to fight the horrors created by Internet Explorer 6! For die hard IE fans, who face speed issues with Cyn.in, this should help.
  • Based on latest Plone: Cyn.in 3.0.5 is based on the latest stable release of Plone, 3.3.1 so all fixes of Plone are included.

Key Fixes

  • Due to a low-level problem between specifically the Webkit engine (that's Google Chrome, Safari, iPhone, Android and so on) and JQuery UI the browser was not rendering Cyn.in properly. Fixed.
  • The handling of #permalinks like the ones that show up in the Comments portlet was breaking Javascript on these URLs. Fixed.

The full list of fixed issues for 3.x series of Cyn.in can always be seen grouped by version, here .

You can download the new community appliance from here: http://www.cynapse.com/downloads/cynin-community-edition

To upgrade your Cyn.in installation to the latest version while retaining your current data, follow the instructions at Upgrade Cyn.in 3.x Community Appliance

Look forward to hearing your feedback!

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Posted by apurva 3 years 27 weeks ago

The new Cyn.in version 3 is finally here and I am excited to announce its public availability. Cyn.in v3 brings with it great new features, tons of fixes and performance improvements and an all new user interface.

It has been an exciting year for us since the last major release of Cyn.in. I have been overjoyed with the response and adoption of Cyn.in within organizations spanning across nearly every major vertical and every continent across the world. From successfully enabling a company wide collaboration platform for businesses with over 50,000 employees to connecting together a 4 person strong startup, we have applied Cyn.in to a broad spectrum of requirements and learnt a great deal in the process.

Cyn.in v3 Main Home Screen

Our key motivation while designing Cyn.in v3 came in from the needs of our customers and the community. Demanding market situations have caused businesses to push collaboration tools harder towards increasing efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. Cyn.in v3 was designed with a focus to speeden communication and facilitate rapid and seamless knowledge sharing.

A great new user experience:

Cyn.in evolves and changes the way knowledge workers communicate with each other, and in some cases, especially in very large organizations, this change could curb widespread adoption. The all new user experience has been redesigned from ground up to eliminate the learning curve and accelerate value discovery.

DiscussionsDiscussion boards:

One of the most asked for features has been discussions independent of the contextual discussions as comments. The new discussions application in Cyn.in is the perfect tool to initiate conversations and fluid knowledge exchange.

Video / Audio streaming:

You can now share video and audio content with your team using Cyn.in. Its like having a secure internal Youtube for your organization. Uploaded media can be further embedded into other Cyn.in applications like wikis and blogs.

Quick AdderThe Quick Adder bar:

The "Add New" interface in v2.1was simple but wasn't ALWAYS available. With v3, you can add spaces or content from anywhere, with a click. The Quick Adder bar is always available at the top of every Cyn.in screen enabling you to create new content in a space of your choice. If you are looking at starting a conversation or just asking a question, use the discussion text box to post it without navigating away from the page.

Faceted Search and FilteringFaceted search and filtering:

Knowledge workers spend the likes of one day per week searching for people or information - connecting to people through people while looking for answers. V3 introduces faceted search and navigation to speed up information retrieval and allow users to filter down quickly to the answers they need. Faceted filtering allows you to multi-dimensionally slice-n-dice information in a manner that best accommodates your specific needs.

Customizable applications in a  space:

Customers told us they wanted more flexibility in the Spaces - freedom to select application types in a space. Now you can turn on/off any application in a Space and even define the default view of the Space. That means in a Space you can enable discussions and files or disable wikis. Or, you can turn off the dashboard and choose any application to be the default view of that Space.

Crowd Rating and VotingCrowd rating / voting:

Encourage conversations and capture innovative ideas by getting peers to rate / vote for content in the site. Top rated items bubble up to the top and by applying the "wisdom of crowds" concept, top rated items can complement decision-making processes resulting in better decisions.

Cyn.in - On Demand now exclusively hosted on Amazon EC2

Amazon Web Services LogoGet your own dedicated virtual servers in the cloud hosted exclusively with Amazon Web Services. We will not be offering shared instances of Cyn.in from this release. Each Cyn.in On Demand package with now provide a dedicated server instance in the cloud. This makes Cyn.in On Demand a true 'Appliance in the Cloud' offering and provides much stronger control and security to our customers. We will continue to provide the shared instance offering to our existing customers for the next one year.

Lots more - These are just some of the interesting features introduced in Cyn.in v3. Check out the list of Cyn.in v3 features here. Along with new features, we have worked hard towards improving speed and stability of Cyn.in and squashed hundreds of bugs in the process

A select set of customers have been using v3 actively in the production environment for a while now, and their response has been encouraging to say the least. We look forward to hearing your feedback.

Presenting the brand new Cynapse.com and the Cynapse Community!

Customer feedback and the open source community are the top innovation drivers at Cynapse and have been instrumental in the success of Cyn.in. We intend to take this interaction to a whole new level with the brand new Cynapse.com with a unified community built using Cyn.in integrated with the versatile Drupal CMS.

In the true spirit of open source, we invite Cyn.in users, enthusiasts and developers from across the world to come and share your ideas, provide feedback about Cyn.in, discuss and ask questions in our Cyn.in powered Community.

Check out the latest Cyn.in v3 features   |  Download Cyn.in v3  |  Join the Community

 

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Posted by romasha 3 years 36 weeks ago

Plone, the Open Source Content Management System that is the fundament of Cyn.in, has been compared with Microsoft Sharepoint multiple times. An interesting comparison has been published recently by Franscesco Ciriaci, owner at Reflab and a Plone Evangelist, based on the compatibility of Plone and Sharepoint with different platforms and browsers.

Check out the Plone vs. Sharepoint 2007 comparison here:
http://francescociriaci.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/plone-vs-sharepoint-round-2-a-by-platform-feature-comparison/

This makes Cyn.in is leaps and bounds ahead of Sharepoint in terms of enterprise collaboration, because Cyn.in starts where Plone stops. While Plone is a generic web application platform, Cyn.in delivers an integrated, out-of-the-box collaboration suite for the Enterprises that has all the benefits of Plone and enables free form communication and collaboration with a strong focus on enterprise information security needs.

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