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OpenGoo is now called Feng Office, and they won't even tell you how much it costs until you have an account with them!

My initial impression: The marketing people at Feng Office will kill the product. Don't get started with a technical product that is connected with people who have no technical knowledge.

Oh yeah...just grab yourself a Linux server and install OpenGoo...

http://www.opengoo.org/

We've started using opengoo in the 3 man IT department at my school for internal documentation and project management (with calendar, task lists and milestones), assigning a separate workspace for each project. You can upload files (such as photos, office documents) then check them out with versioning, or just write and edit simple documents (in html with an editor straight in it. I've even published one specific workspace to a subcontractor, so they can see where we're at with our end of things with one particular project we have running with them over the summer. It's really pretty impressive, and entirely free if you self host on LAMP/XAMP and open source to boot.

We do still have a mediawiki which was our previous documentation store, but having to convert everything to wiki syntax for formatting was a bit of a pain (especially tables), so I'm likely going to migrate everything across to opengoo so everything is in one place and easily accessible.

What do I need to read and where do I need to go to get android running on one of those old oneTs? Or whatever - it's a testing ground, sold to a very generic audience. I would love to be able to run an ubuntu distro on there, although android sounds worth trying on a netbook.

One thing about netbooks though is they are half way between a phone and a computer, so they shouldn't need to be so complicated - both in interface design and in expectations. Another is this reliance on google docs or youtube and other commercial free-as-in-beer (I never thought I'd say that) services that just don't seem to have a proper funding model in a very unstable economy.

We really need to develop distributed software models that we can use to keep this kind of thing going. Projects like opengoo, or various mesh network wifi projects and organisations seem really useful, and ones that could easily adapt towards it, but I think the netbook will eventually be their playground...

I would love to find out for sure if at 30-50 watts we're finally at something I can attach an exercise bike or a couple of solar panels to and actually get enough power to run it. In environmental terms it would be a huge breakthrough. And I wouldn't spend so much time reading email.

OpenGoo.....

http://www.opengoo.org/

Works FANTASTIC. can be worked from afar easily with a netbook and an iPhone.

I'd give crews phones for comms, and netbooks that can be tethered to the phones so they dont hate you by being forced to type and read things on a useless phone screen.

Plus your people can use a local wifi location to use the netbooks for check-in/faster access.

P.S. Also look at http://celtx.com/ for your screenwriting and other production needs. It also works offline so they can collaborate on any scripts for segments easily.

I use Opengoo, an opensource suite. I don't use the online editing function, but I *DO* use the checkin/checkout/versioning of the suite. And documents, etc. can be placed in separate workspaces and tagged accordingly with only identified individuals having access to only what they need.

I have it hosted at my hosting company, which takes care of all my backup needs.

Check it out at http://www.opengoo.org./

http://demo.opengoo.org/en_us/index.php

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OpenGOO kicks the crap out of SugarCRM when it comes to useability. I was ableto switch an entire office over to it with a crapload of buy-in by the secretaries and other non techie users simply because of how easy it is to use.

http://opengoo.org/

There is absolutely a big market for this. That is what 37signals and Google, among others, are proving with their web apps.

The benefits of web office apps are many and great. I do not intend to discuss them here, since it is too long a topic. For instance, the same site links to a very interesting article on the subject.

What is holding this evolution of the systems right now are the genuine security and confidentiality concerns from managers and sysadmins. As many stated, most companies will not trust their data to servers that leave a minimum possibility for security breaches. That is what makes Google Apps (and the likes) not a viable option for many.

I do not yet clearly understand the goals of this project, but I hope they intend to make the resulting applications open source, and easy to install.

One project with that goal in mind is OpenGoo, with which I am involved. What the project intends is to form a community from existing open source project members to leverage their work in the pursuit of this ambitious goal that we believe can not be achieved by one single OS project alone.

Please contact me if you want to get involved or have any ideas or suggestions for the project.