[ale] collaborative work environment

[Jim Kinney]

KnowledgeTree is a document repository that supports check-in/out locking
and versioning.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:12 PM, John Pilman <jcpilman at gmail.com> 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
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