Re: Introduction and Topic for a Grant-Writing Collaborative Project
Hi Michael
Zope might well be a good option for this as it does have a very strong workflow permissions system with excellent versioning so would be good for collabotative versioning. There are also plugins that let you easily publish content from open office and other programs, kedit or vim for example. I am not sure if you have looked at Plone yet see plone.org, but that is a CMS built on Zope that lets you use the power of Zope with a lot less effort that having to learn the ZMI. Zope has the advantage of being very easy to install if you have a debian server. I know other CMSs that have some good collaborative tools, I use drupals collaborative books feature for example it doesn't have the integration with products like Open Office. However if you don't really want to publish your content on the web a groupware solution is probably more suited to what you want. You might want to look at phpgroupware, get the latest version from CVS as the latest stable is quite old or phprojekt or y
ou could look at tiki which is a CMS/Groupware solution that might be able to do what you need.
Cheers
John
The Wilderness Society, Sydney
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:52:58 -0500
"Michael Maranda" <michael@kacschgo.org> wrote:
> Well, I'm here on the list too. Been lurking as I don't have any
> programming background.
>
> I am interested in promoting Open Source solutions in the non-profit
> arena and for the community in general.
>
> I am a member of a group in the Chicago are called NPOTechs. Visit our
> web site at NPOTechs.org. This group coordinates volunteer efforts to
> support non-profits and schools with tech issues.
>
> I am also part of the management of a non-profit. Been here almost 4
> years, mostly doing development work. That is, grant writing. :)
>
> I am interested in developing tools that make the work life and the work
> process better for people I have to work with, so I was considering how
> to modify some sort of Content Management Framework tool to allow
> coordination and collaboration of the grant writing/development process.
> I see two places where I myself could make use of this... Firstly
> directly in my organization where we have multiple departments offering
> really different services and programs-there I want to have persons in
> the department involved in identifying potential funding sources and
> developing the proposal with my oversight and with the help of others
> including my one development staff.
>
> The second place I would utilize this is to coordinate similar
> activities in the context of an organization that has 1 staff and a (an
> unpaid) working board... I'm on the development committee of that board,
> and we need to collaborate a distance.
>
> Basic elements in common to both include some sort of internet based
> access. Secure document repository with permissions for different
> access. Secure area for subgroups to be able to collaborate on
> documents and make notes. We should be able to upload revised documents
> too, in a common word processing format. We should have a bulletin
> board area adjacent to each project or otherwise logically accessible.
> I was thinking a closed wiki might work.
>
> I've been researching Zope as a basis for these activities, but it seems
> I have a steep learning curve ahead.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> -Michael
>
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