Online collaboration
Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need to have a repository of data, where people can upload and download the work they've done. It needs to be tracked and (automatically) documented. It also needs to have a good user-facing interface, the people using it will be graphics designers, not programmers. Any ideas? Thanks. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Online collaboration
If FOSS is what you are looking for, then you have drupal based solutions. Recently I'ved discovered a closed source system by IBM that does a lot more then this, and it has an amazing user interface (between facebook and google+). http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/ You also have MS sharepoint. That's all the stuff I know about in this area. Ido On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need to have a repository of data, where people can upload and download the work they've done. It needs to be tracked and (automatically) documented. It also needs to have a good user-facing interface, the people using it will be graphics designers, not programmers. Any ideas? Thanks. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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There's tons of FOSS groupware/cms solutions out there, but I assume you already knew that and were looking for our experiences with the different solutions. Since I have only read reviews I can only refer you to articles like these: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/7289/1 http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090921133533625/Groupware.html http://zoomzum.com/8-best-alternatives-to-microsoft-sharepoint/ http://blog.arunace.com/11-alternatives-to-microsoft-sharepoint/ Regards, Eliyahu - אליהו 2013/4/8 ik ido...@gmail.com: If FOSS is what you are looking for, then you have drupal based solutions. Recently I'ved discovered a closed source system by IBM that does a lot more then this, and it has an amazing user interface (between facebook and google+). http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/ You also have MS sharepoint. That's all the stuff I know about in this area. Ido On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need to have a repository of data, where people can upload and download the work they've done. It needs to be tracked and (automatically) documented. It also needs to have a good user-facing interface, the people using it will be graphics designers, not programmers. Any ideas? Thanks. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
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On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 3:08 PM, ik ido...@gmail.com wrote: If FOSS is what you are looking for, then you have drupal based solutions. Well, free as in speech, not necessarily beer. The money to purchase a service/software does exist and is accessible... Recently I'ved discovered a closed source system by IBM that does a lot more then this, and it has an amazing user interface (between facebook and google+). http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/ You also have MS sharepoint. That's all the stuff I know about in this area. Ido On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Mord Behar mord...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need to have a repository of data, where people can upload and download the work they've done. It needs to be tracked and (automatically) documented. It also needs to have a good user-facing interface, the people using it will be graphics designers, not programmers. Any ideas? Thanks. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Online collaboration
On 2013-04-08 14:52, Mord Behar wrote: Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need to have a repository of data, where people can upload and download the work they've done. It needs to be tracked and (automatically) documented. It also needs to have a good user-facing interface, the people using it will be graphics designers, not programmers. Any ideas? Thanks. Need your definition of collaboration, i.e: more details abut how you are thinking of working out the "collaborating on various tasks". And how secure/in-house does it have to be -can you use google/github as a platform? It's free for small biz open source, how many people are you? If you are thinking of a repository style collaboration, you can go the "github way". If you need it in-house see:Gitorious, Gitlab, Gitolite, Gitosis, Gitweb. OR are you looking for a more "non programmers" thing like Owncloud, Sogo, Zimbra. Do you wont/need/like a wiki, blog, or something else for docs? HTH, v ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Online collaboration
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, vordoo vor...@yahoo.com wrote: On 2013-04-08 14:52, Mord Behar wrote: Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need to have a repository of data, where people can upload and download the work they've done. It needs to be tracked and (automatically) documented. It also needs to have a good user-facing interface, the people using it will be graphics designers, not programmers. Any ideas? Thanks. Need your definition of collaboration, i.e: more details abut how you are thinking of working out the collaborating on various tasks. And how secure/in-house does it have to be -can you use google/github as a platform? It's free for small biz open source, how many people are you? It needs to be in-house. That's the point. Until now we've been using a plethora of cloud services, and we want to move it all in-house. If you are thinking of a repository style collaboration, you can go the github way. If you need it in-house see:Gitorious, Gitlab, Gitolite, Gitosis, Gitweb. OR are you looking for a more non programmers thing like Owncloud, Sogo, Zimbra. Owncloud came up in the discussion, does anybody here have some experience to share? Do you wont/need/like a wiki, blog, or something else for docs? Something else. Wikis and blogs are too cumbersome for what we need. Which is mostly just to track tasks and changes made to files. HTH, v ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Online collaboration
For tracking versions with comments, either subversion or git are easy to setup, git tends to be easier I believe, but is a distributed system, so people can forget to push changes. It is good if you want to commit off-line though and it is easier to branch with git. Both have gui interfaces, and at least with windows and linux it is possible to integrated into the file explorer (tortoisesvn/tortoisegit in windows, rabbit vcs under nautilus/gnome, probably other options as well). For collaborations and tickets, trac is pretty minimal and simple, but good enough for most stuff http://trac.edgewall.org/ For knowledge base, a wiki system is usually best. Hope that helps On 04/08/2013 03:04 PM, Mord Behar wrote: On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:50 PM, vordoo vor...@yahoo.com mailto:vor...@yahoo.com wrote: On 2013-04-08 14:52, Mord Behar wrote: Hi I'm looking for an open source solution for collaborating on various tasks, mostly graphics related. I have access to a LAMP stack, so installing server-side software shouldn't be a problem. The problem is, I don't know what software we need. We need to have a repository of data, where people can upload and download the work they've done. It needs to be tracked and (automatically) documented. It also needs to have a good user-facing interface, the people using it will be graphics designers, not programmers. Any ideas? Thanks. Need your definition of collaboration, i.e: more details abut how you are thinking of working out the collaborating on various tasks. And how secure/in-house does it have to be -can you use google/github as a platform? It's free for small biz open source, how many people are you? It needs to be in-house. That's the point. Until now we've been using a plethora of cloud services, and we want to move it all in-house. If you are thinking of a repository style collaboration, you can go the github way. If you need it in-house see:Gitorious, Gitlab, Gitolite, Gitosis, Gitweb. OR are you looking for a more non programmers thing like Owncloud, Sogo, Zimbra. Owncloud came up in the discussion, does anybody here have some experience to share? Do you wont/need/like a wiki, blog, or something else for docs? Something else. Wikis and blogs are too cumbersome for what we need. Which is mostly just to track tasks and changes made to files. HTH, v ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il mailto:Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
