[BLUG] Democratux / OpenOfficeholders

[Rick Dietz]

I am in the planning stages of migrating the local Monroe County  
Democratic Party over to Linux and OpenOffice.

Fileserver - The idea right now is use Fedora for our main fileserver  
(but I'm not picky -- openSuse is swell too).  I would like to get  
something like Alfresco (http://www.alfresco.com/) running for  
centralized document management purposes.  We have long have a  
problem managing files.

Workstations - The user population is not always computer literate,  
so it needs to be pretty easy.  I am looking at Ubuntu for 6-8  
workstations in the Headquarters.  Open Office will go on each  
machine, as will Firefox and maybe a few other apps.  A lot of our  
operations (volunteer management, walk/mailing list creation, etc)  
will be web-based this coming election cycle.

I'm writing to ask two things... 1) whether anyone has any thoughts  
about this plan, and 2) whether anyone would be interested in helping  
out.  I will probably be working on this throughout next weekend.

Even if you don't care about politics you could help get yet another  
organization off of the M$ crack.  We are a completely volunteer  
organization of course and appreciate all of the help we can get.

Thoughts?
-Rick

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rick dietz
email: rick_at_oacea.com
http://rick.oacea.com