Re: [libreplanet-discuss] [fossil-users] [OT] Who's interested in project management & collaboration tools? And...

[Miles Fidelman]

Hi Mary-Anne,

Thanks for the comments.

Mary-Anne Wolf wrote:
> > That's kind of what I'm wondering.  On the one hand, everybody I know
> > does something that looks like project management - who doesn't have a
> > to-do list, or a checklist or two sitting around; and an awful lot of us
> > work in groups that have action item lists.  But do people think of that
> > as project management?
> Depending upon just what sort
> of project management you want to do,
> you might check out
> http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview
> or
> http://drupal.org/
> before you build another one.
>
> (Jira is free for Open Source projects.)
>
> If you decide to build another one,
> you should likely have an answer to how or whether
> your solution does what these solutions already do.

Actually, my motivation stems from being really unhappy with centralized 
solutions.  I'm basically going the other way:

- everyone has their own copy of an action item list and supporting 
documents
- updates are replicated via a peer-to-peer, asynchronous protocol

Essentially, the look and feel of sharing a Google Doc, Google 
Spreadsheet, or Wiki Page; but where everybody has a local copy, can 
work offline, make private annotations, and so forth.

For a lot of people, a Google Spreadsheet, or one of the new web-based 
checklist sharing packages is just fine.  This is for those of us who:
- like our own copies of things, and/or,
- need to work disconnected a lot of the time (on airplanes, responding 
to disasters, and so forth)

Thanks,

Miles



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