[ubuntu-uk] Organising, searching and emailing

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 17/09/09 23:54, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 2009/9/17 Dianne Reuby<pramclub at yahoo.co.uk>:
>> Our Volunteer Co-ordinator has returned to Uni, so I'm lumbered again.
>> Except now we have quite a few volunteers to deal with. I want to be
>> able to:
>>
>> * keep their contact details, availability, and skills list
>> * search the list for availability and skills
>> * email those who meet the search requirements (I plan to do mass emails
>> of general news for all volunteers through the website, so I only want
>> to email certain volunteers when necessary)
>>
>> I've been looking at options, but my main problem is that if I get lucky
>> and find another sucker :) to take it over, they'll probably be using
>> Windows so I need something that lets me export the data from Ubuntu if
>> necessary.
>
> How about using Google Docs? Then as long as they have a browser, it
> does not matter much what OS the eventual incumbent uses. Also, you
> can share docs, so multiple people can get involved :-)
>

You could also use a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) application. 
It might be a bit *overkill* but something like vtiger 
(http://www.vtiger.com) is free software, runs on Windows or Linux as a 
web application in the LAMP, MAMP or WAMP stacks, and will enable you do 
everything you need and quite a bit more.

It is multi-user too.

HTH

Alan