Metadot Portal Server is a Perl/MySQL-based open source portal server that provides content and community management user customizable news page dashboard like My Yahoo. Users can have their own public website area to share information. Includes built-in features like files management, discussion, calendar, poll, HTML editor and XML/RSS syndication, user & group management and monitoring tools, look and feel customization (CSS and templates). It can be extended in functionality by adding Metadot Gizmos plug-ins.