[ale] Question: Transparent document sharing over the Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks to all for your suggestions.
The only issue that exists with setting up a wiki ..
or anything else that requires some manual human
"commit/update" action .. is that  it may not occur.
For example ... if my travelling colleague forgets to
post the latest revisions .. we will be working and
reviewing docs that are not the latest.

Hence I was hoping to be able to have this sync
process occur transparently without requiring manual
interaction.
Some of the suggestions have given me a few ideas that
I need to explore and understand better.
I'll post if something works out really well.


--- Jay Loden <jloden at toughguy.net> wrote:

> Well, since I don't see anyone else suggesting this:
> 
> Maybe a wiki?  I've heard of several businesses out
> there using wikis or forms 
> of them. They have shared document capability,
> revision history, and capacity 
> to deal with word documents as uploaded files. 
> 
> You could set up a server with something like Plone
> ( http://plone.org ) or a 
> wiki on it and they can log in from the road and
> edit/revise/share documents 
> with full revision history. Depending on the exact
> needs of the group, you 
> could even have them edit the documents as wiki
> pages, and make an export 
> function that turns the wiki page into an rtf file
> for use with Word. 
> 
> That way they can edit online, export, edit offline,
> and merge changes back in 
> with simple copy and paste. I'm more familiar with
> Plone than a straight 
> wiki, but I know Plone has the capability to copy
> and paste formatted text 
> from a word document and preserve the formatting. 
> 
> It might be more complicated than what you're
> looking for, but it would 
> certainly fit the bill, and it'd be pretty
> scaleable.
> 
> -Jay
> 
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 02:29 pm, Jason Smith wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is not strictly a Linux question as much as a
> > general technology question.
> >
> > Problem : Transparent document sharing
> >
> > 1. I have a few colleagues who often travel to
> client
> > sites.
> > 2. While away and also while in the office, they
> > create documents on their (Windows) laptops.
> > 3. I would like to set things up so that the
> latest
> > version of project related documents on their
> laptops
> > are available to the rest of the (local) team.
> > 4. It would be best if this happened
> > transparently/automatically ;as requiring someone
> to
> > manually check in their documents does not seem to
> be
> > effective.
> > 5. While working on their laptop they are not
> always
> > connected to the Internet ... so the
> synchronization
> > mechanism needs to occur whenever they do connect
> to
> > the Internet.
> >
> > Solutions
> > 1. I was thinking of simple solutions like a
> script
> > that woke up every 5 mins and would scp the
> documents
> > over / send an email with the document as an
> > attachment and so on.
> >
> > Are there more elegant non-obstrusive ways of
> doing
> > this ?
> >


Thanks,
Anonymous Coward


		
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