On Thursday 29 Sep 2005 13:26, John Steventon wrote:
Hi,
Having seen the testing round starting it reminded me this resource was still around.
I wondered if anyone had any information about open source solutions in two areas?
1. A governor' management system for clerks to Governors - basically organising governors, meetings, minutes, details, etc. I have heard of some commercial ones, often MS Access based, but nothing open.
I use eGroupWare at my school in conjunction with Mambo for document management. eGroupWare has a nice set of user levels so that people in certain grouos can receive meeting alerts and specific e-mail and a project tracking function can be used to keep everyone in the loop over on-going issues and where they are in time/resolution. On Mambo, you can set docs to be available only to registered users and you can time delimit them so that minutes will be available only t those who should see them and when they reach their time limit, they are no longer published. They are both relatively easy to set=up and constantly being improved. The forums are also excellent.
2. Anything in the document management area that automatically makes managing minutes, policies etc. easier, filing, finding, time managing and so on from the point of view of of the Freedom of Information Act where policies and data has to be managed and kept for variable periods.
A little vague I know but not something that I'm aware of all the ramifications as to what might be needed, but I wondered if anything like these had ben thought of / entered the school management open software arena yet?
Regards
Paul
John
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