[ubuntu-uk] OT: Web Collabaration

[Alan Bell]

you are being a little obscure about the context for this and type of
person and organisations involved, but Mahara might be what you are
looking for, it is for managing an individual's learning portfolio and
it integrates with Moodle. You might also want to look at Shibboleth
http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/ for a kind of federated
multi-institution access control and identity system as a possible
alternative to openID.

Alan.

Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Folks
>
> Before I ask the question, my hand is firmly in the air admitting to the
> fact that apart from some HTML coding, I have no web programming experience.
> With that being said, I'm looking for a FOS project, Operating System
> independant, that will allow a number of different organisations to
> collaborate on a single system.  These organisations would be filling in
> data against an individual, and the individual would need to be able to see
> all the data relevant to them only, from each organisation.  The data being
> represented would be one of three different types - membership including
> personal information, current qualifications and when testing is next
> required, and activity scheduling.  Individual's privacy and security is
> paramount, so the system would need to be protected by a secure login -
> OpenID would be a fine option I believe.
>
> If there were modules that would allow, for instance, mailing of upcoming
> activities and training sessions that would certainly be a boost, or even a
> module to allow for printing of such items, or getting really carried away,
> texting.
>
> I have a feeling that Droople falls into this category, and certainly seems
> to have a multitude of modules, but is rather scary for someone like me
> starting out from scratch  Are there other alternatives that would offer
> such a collabaration?
>
> I have no objection to learning more about a particular project, but I don't
> really want to spend a number of months on one project to find out that it's
> limitations or direction don't actually match what I'm looking for.
>
> So, to add to the wish list, something that does not require an in depth
> knowledge of web technologies, but can be merely bolted together, some
> configuration and form design done in a nice GUI environment and is happy to
> reside on either a VPS or an actual physical box.  Lastly, the ability to
> link instances of the project across different remote independant servers
> would be nice.
>
> I've used MS's SharePoint system at a previous job, and this appears to have
> the basics I'm looking for, but it has it's own set of problems, apart from
> the obvious one!
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian
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