Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system
Alfresco certainly looks impressive and its concepts fit well with the other software architecture my client is currently using. Thank you everyone for your valuable input. On 4/12/07, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:12:04AM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: There are a number of content management systems that can do this but the simplest method is probably via the already suggested Alfresco. Alfresco is a document management system. There's a number of handy features such as revision control, document checkout's, access control lists, etc. snip If you are after a content management system that can be edited online and form manuals on the fly, the collaborative books feature of Drupal, a php based CMS, is really well suited to online, collaborative document authoring. You may also want to consider Drupal over Alfresco if the scope of the project is likely expand in future - Drupal has large number of modules that to extend it's functionality. -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in | free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Open source document/content management system
Hi list, I have a real live project to handle and I'd like to do it using an open source solution. The o/s is MS, unfortunately. My challenge is to come up with a user friendly solution that'll store various policy and procedural snipits that have been used in the past for management, project, marketing manuals as well as documents to satisfy various iso standards which in a lot of places are duplicated and/or hard to find or search for. The governing directive is that these snipits be easily edited/updated and be able to reform as the original documents and be capable of forming new manuals. I hope I've stated the case clearly but feel free to query. Your suggestions/comments will be gratefully received. TIA John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system
I mucked around with quite a few till I found wordpress. www.wordpress.org fairly simple setup however I'm running it on Linux. But there is a MS version too. Ben John wrote: Hi list, I have a real live project to handle and I'd like to do it using an open source solution. The o/s is MS, unfortunately. My challenge is to come up with a user friendly solution that'll store various policy and procedural snipits that have been used in the past for management, project, marketing manuals as well as documents to satisfy various iso standards which in a lot of places are duplicated and/or hard to find or search for. The governing directive is that these snipits be easily edited/updated and be able to reform as the original documents and be capable of forming new manuals. I hope I've stated the case clearly but feel free to query. Your suggestions/comments will be gratefully received. TIA John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I have a real live project to handle and I'd like to do it using an open source solution. The o/s is MS, unfortunately. My challenge is to come up with a user friendly solution that'll store various policy and procedural snipits that have been used in the past for management, project, marketing manuals as well as documents to satisfy various iso standards which in a lot of places are duplicated and/or hard to find or search for. The governing directive is that these snipits be easily edited/updated and be able to reform as the original documents and be capable of forming new manuals. A simple and nasty method is to use a system like subversion. I suggest, however, that you take a look at Alfresco: http://www.alfresco.com/ -- The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors. - Bill Gates, 1991 pgpplJcXcxscX.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 20:31 +1000, John wrote: The governing directive is that these snipits be easily edited/updated and be able to reform as the original documents and be capable of forming new manuals. There are a number of content management systems that can do this but the simplest method is probably via the already suggested Alfresco. Alfresco is a document management system. There's a number of handy features such as revision control, document checkout's, access control lists, etc. There is also the ability to have uploaded documents (which can be of any document format) or inline-edited HTML documents - using a WYSIWYG editor. The ability to form manuals later would in this case be reliant upon the original file formats you were using. That's Alfresco at it's simplest, at least. If you are after a content management system that can be edited online and form manuals on the fly, the collaborative books feature of Drupal, a php based CMS, is really well suited to online, collaborative document authoring. You can also upload binary files with revision control to Drupal. The appropriate choice would depend on where your focus was. Alfresco is better suited to managing documents of many file types, that are worked on in their programme of origin, whereas Drupal and it's collaborative books is better suited content intended to be viewed via a web browser. There are a number of other choices out there too. Hope that helps. -- Craige McWhirter Managing Director McWhirter [consulting] http://mcwhirter.com.au/ - 0415958783 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system
I'd add a vote for alfresco. For more informal stuff, maybe a wiki. Xwiki for example. Stu On 4/11/07, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I have a real live project to handle and I'd like to do it using an open source solution. The o/s is MS, unfortunately. My challenge is to come up with a user friendly solution that'll store various policy and procedural snipits that have been used in the past for management, project, marketing manuals as well as documents to satisfy various iso standards which in a lot of places are duplicated and/or hard to find or search for. The governing directive is that these snipits be easily edited/updated and be able to reform as the original documents and be capable of forming new manuals. I hope I've stated the case clearly but feel free to query. Your suggestions/comments will be gratefully received. TIA John -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Director Polonious Pty Ltd (m) 0403 470 123 Polonious Support Numbers: Sydney: 61-2-9007-9842 Chicago: 1-312-212-3952 This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system
John wrote: Hi list, I have a real live project to handle and I'd like to do it using an open source solution. The o/s is MS, unfortunately. My challenge is to come up with a user friendly solution that'll store various policy and procedural snipits that have been used in the past for management, project, marketing manuals as well as documents to satisfy various iso standards which in a lot of places are duplicated and/or hard to find or search for. The governing directive is that these snipits be easily edited/updated and be able to reform as the original documents and be capable of forming new manuals. Have you considered using a wiki? Something like mediawiki would give you a very easy to learn interface for editing and updating, revision control, and the ability to create/include templates; although other wikis may be more suitable. Wikis allow easy page creation, redirection and deletion too. All the best, J -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system
* On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:12:04AM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: There are a number of content management systems that can do this but the simplest method is probably via the already suggested Alfresco. Alfresco is a document management system. There's a number of handy features such as revision control, document checkout's, access control lists, etc. snip If you are after a content management system that can be edited online and form manuals on the fly, the collaborative books feature of Drupal, a php based CMS, is really well suited to online, collaborative document authoring. You may also want to consider Drupal over Alfresco if the scope of the project is likely expand in future - Drupal has large number of modules that to extend it's functionality. -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in | free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
