On 01/26/2009 08:03 AM, Web Kracked wrote: > > I know this is way off topic, but in response to my efforts > to get our local City Government to switch, one of their > responses/questions was stated as; > > "If you know of any open source software that is available or becomes > available that is designed for municipal management (fire, police, clerk, > tax collection, etc.), please feel free to share and we will certainly > take a look at it." > > So everyone out there, > please let me know is you have heard of any free and/or open source > software packages that could be used for their needs. Someone > out there must have written a package or portal modification to suit the > needs of a municipal government. > > Best to respond to this email off the list. But I have to ask it here, > since the > readership is all over the USA and the world. Someone may have seen or > heard > of a package that fits their needs, hopefully. > > Tim Lungstrom - Web Kracked > [email protected] > > thanks.
As much as I hate to say this, I'd be *very* cautious about promoting OOo in those environments. And certainly not before understanding what is already in place in the way of forms used by those departments. Most municipalities, in particular fire, police, etc., have custom, or bought, designed forms in MS Word or other, that, at this time simply cannot be transfered over, or even reasonably used with OOo. A prime example is: See: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79720 [Protect Document but allow input field entry - MS Word to OOo] and it gets worse, as that leads to the long outstanding: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33737 [Allow for in-place editing of input field (turn off pop-up)] So, as much as I promote OOo, I can pretty well guarantee that you'll quickly lose the municipality form shoot out. Even if you were to completely redesign at form in OOo you'd lose; no clerk, police office, fireman et al would stand for not being able to simply click the box, or select from a dropdown,without the ability of having protected form sections, and the ability to tab between the form fields. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
