[CLUE-Tech] Distributed collaboration

[ian]

Sounds like the need for a checkin/checkout system.. Version control basically

CVS won't do what your talking about.  Its built on the idea that everyone
can have a local copy. 

Products like LiveLink and Documentum are good for this kind of thing. I don't
know of any OSS products that do document and version control that well.

You might want to look into either (a) making your own document management
system with those requirements you stated or look into some products that
do document / content management such as Zope or phpGroupware.

You can put pretty simple interfaces on any of these solutions through
web portals.


ian

On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 08:23:02AM -0600, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got an interesting situation.  I belong to a group of individuals
> who are trying to put together a distributed collaboration effort.  By
> this I mean that there are a number of individuals throughout the front
> range area which need to share documents, but those documents need to be
> semi- to completely-secure. These people will not be techies so it has
> to be simple, but the documents need to be controlled to a certain
> extent so that we know where each document is and who's got it as well
> as the "production" of the efforts involved.
> 
> I'll know more about the process as time goes on, but I've got until the
> end of the year to put this together.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Kevin
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