[ale] collaborative work environment

[John]

Alfresco CE (open core) can work for you on the DMS side. It can be used 
as a shared drive, WebDAV or through a weenie web xface with full 
document versioning checkin/out. For source code version control, you 
want either GIT or BZR - a real VCS.

You can easily load both Alfresco and bzr/git onto the same, modest VM.  
If you are using a non-secure network (networks are not "insecure"), 
then you definitely want a VPN or other protected access method for 
Alfresco.

For conversations ... perhaps an internal usenet server?  The old ways 
aren't bad.  Or you could place conversations into Alfresco.

Aside: Google-Docs isn't an option for many companies that don't want an 
advertising company having access to internal information without a 
legal agreement and strict penalties for any failures.


On 11/09/2010 12:12 PM, John Pilman wrote:
> I am looking for a set of tools to help in an upcoming project.  I
> will be working on a team of four to eight people all of whom work in
> different cities.  Our normal routine is to spend a lot of time on the
> phone, two parties at a time.  We have a common file server, but
> document control is difficult since everyone gets copies the documents
> and modifies them locally.  Of course we use email for correspondence
> and document archiving as well.  Our documents are mostly the word
> processor and spreadsheet varieties.  We do have some drawings which
> are usually shared as PDFs.
>
> I would like:
> a group chat which archives conversations so newcomers can review the
> past conversations
> a file server which
>       marks editable documents as 'Checked Out because someone is
> editing them' or 'Available to be edited'
>       tracks changes and/or keeps chronological backups
>       notifies users of added or updated documents
>
> It would be nice to have:
>      online editing of word processor and spread sheet documents
>      a Linux based solution that I can host in house
>
> Our word processor documents have objects inserted, jpegs, usually.
>
> I have looked a little at Google Wave and irc for the chat part, but I
> don't have much experience with either and would like to get your
> ideas.
> TIA
> ...John
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>    


-- 
JD Pflugrath
  Value | Results
Direct: 678.685.8882
Ofc: (866) 963-2546
Managing Director
Algoloma Systems, LLC