On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 11:58 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. So far.... > > sillaj: too simple > > dotproject: seems like it might be buried in there, but way too complex, > undocumented, the demo is down, ... > > opentimetool: looks like it might do the trick - unfortunately, I can't > read German, and both the English documentation and demo are sketchy. > Guido - since you indicated that you're using it in production, you us > it - can you tell me if it provides for timesheet approval by a supervisor? > > It really is funny - I've gone through the wikipedia lists, as well as a > lot of other lists of "10 best open source project management tools" and > such --- you'd think that with all the folks who do various kinds of > project-oriented work there's be something out there that does basic > corporate-style time-sheet processing, you know: > - enter your time data by project > - submit at the end of the week > - supervisor approval > - export in a form that can be ingested by quickbooks or some other > accounting/billing package > - keep an audit trail (or at least a basic log) > > Fairly simple-minded vis-a-vis project management software, but seems to > be hard (impossible?) to find - except in commercial products or > services. (Plus a few "pretend open-source" things out there - i.e., > really crippled community versions of commercial products.) > > Pieces of this also exist as Drupal and Wordpress plug-ins - but no cigar. > > Sigh... might have to write one. Seems like a natural for some form of > forms/workflow engine that provides spreadsheet functionality - any > suggestions there? <snip> >From my brief foray into it, I think you are right. The web2project demo is up and looks just like dotProject only much faster - to the point we may consider converting. It will give you a feel for what either of those projects can do. It is really more project management than timesheet management. Good luck and let us know the final result - John
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