[brlug-general] open source document management?

[CM Banker]

Scott, I'd like a backgrounder on the TWIKI thing as well.  I
experimented with a wiki setup and simply had issues or putting it
into practical use.  It seems that for a wiki to work, one would have
to define it in excruciating detail or risk it coming scattered in
normal usage.

-Craig

On Nov 20, 2007 5:36 PM, Scott Harney <scotth at scottharney.com> wrote:
> Shannon Roddy wrote:
> > I'm debating on punting and just setting up a table updated by hand.
> > It would be *really* nice to find something that would allow other
> > users to post docs and metadata about the doc...  I guess I just need
> > to find time to evaluate the ones google brings up.  not enough hours
> > in the day....
> >
> I'm not exactly sure what you're usage scenario is, but if it's just
> internal documentation, we use TWiki in my shop.  most people write
> straight into the Wiki which does automatic version control.  We hooked
> authentication into LDAP, of course.   some people do upload non-html
> attachment, eg Word docs, pdf, etc.
>
> It's simple, but it works.
>
>
> > On Nov 20, 2007 3:08 PM, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote:
> >
> >> We're using Plone right now as kind of a documentation repository. I
> >> like it and wanted to use it as a DMS, but I didn't find it that handy
> >> for uploaded files
> >>
> >>
> >> CM Banker wrote:
> >>
> >>> Plone is a CMS but has most of the elements of a DMS with the
> >>> exception of integrated scanning & tagging (ala Paragon Filenet).
> >>>
> >>> It is multi-platform.
> >>>
> >>> On Nov 20, 2007 9:00 AM, Tim Fournet <tfournet at tfour.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> There are a couple that I know of that you may want to consider:
> >>>> knowledgeTree and Alfresco. Alfresco is more of a CMS, but is built to
> >>>> work well for document management
> >>>> I haven't chosen one for myself yet, but it is on my to-to list.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Shannon Roddy wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I can't remember if this has come up before, but anyone know of a good
> >>>>> open source document management package out there?  Hopefully with the
> >>>>> ability to specify different access controls per file.  Yes, this
> >>>>> would be running on Linux/Apache.  ;-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> While I am at it... any suggestions on web based calendaring?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -Shannon
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