I understand what google docs offers but it comes with the need for an email address that i can not make students have, the inability for me to control who has access to which files, and no way to get teachers access without each student configuring that on their own. My teachers have enough to worry about. They will not use a solution that is more difficult then what we already use. Any solution has to be a clear upgrade with advantages for it to be adopted. Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad
John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 11/05/11 6:29 PM, Doug Coats wrote:
Thanks for all of your thoughts. I will look into gollem. The clients at school are windows 7. At home the clients might be any number of OS's. Eventually we might be using some sort of tablet devise probably Android based.
see, another problem with a 'file' based solution is editing software... ok, you have windows7 at school... what format are the documents in, MS Office 2010 ? Users at home are going to have a motley mix of older versions and other platforms, possibly not have the same font sets, etc etc. The Google App approach bypasses this entirely, the client editing software is the browser and the google app Ajax stuff. The documents are the same regardless of what platform the user is on.
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On 11/5/2011 10:43 PM, Doug Coats wrote:
I understand what google docs offers but it comes with the need for an email address that i can not make students have, the inability for me to control who has access to which files, and no way to get teachers access without each student configuring that on their own. My teachers have enough to worry about. They will not use a solution that is more difficult then what we already use. Any solution has to be a clear upgrade with advantages for it to be adopted. Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad
Try a search for "document management system open source."
Greetings,
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Doug Coats dcoatshca@gmail.com wrote:
Your own instance of liferay/alfresco community edition exposed to internet with the usual safegaurds perhaps...
BTW, taking this example, what exactly are the usual "safeguards" apart from enabling selinux in permissive mode and enabling firewall with only http and ssh ports open?
Some apps behave ugly in selinux enforcing mode. Any pointers?
TIA
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On 11/06/2011 04:23 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
Greetings,
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Doug Coats dcoatshca@gmail.com wrote:
Your own instance of liferay/alfresco community edition exposed to internet with the usual safegaurds perhaps...
BTW, taking this example, what exactly are the usual "safeguards" apart from enabling selinux in permissive mode and enabling firewall with only http and ssh ports open?
Some apps behave ugly in selinux enforcing mode. Any pointers?
TIA
Which apps are behaving ugly with SELinux is in enforcing mode? Could you give me pointers to bugzillas?
On 11/05/2011 09:43 PM, Doug Coats wrote:
I understand what google docs offers but it comes with the need for an email address that i can not make students have, the inability for me to control who has access to which files, and no way to get teachers access without each student configuring that on their own. My teachers have enough to worry about. They will not use a solution that is more difficult then what we already use. Any solution has to be a clear upgrade with advantages for it to be adopted. Sent from my ASUS Eee Pad
How about OpenGoo, AKA Feng Office? (http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengoo/) It purports to provide a Google Docs-like experience but can be self-hosted. The community edition might give you a lot of what you want.
YMMV!
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