[ILUG] Site wide Notice board

[Rafiq Maniar]

Hi,

I took a look at that Orange Valley Systems software to see what sort of
requirements you're looking for.

It seems like it could be easily achieved by using a LibreOffice
presentation? That's something a secretary could change because they
essentially already know how to use the software! It seems to have all the
'features' of this proprietary software, it's just not marketed as such an
niche purpose.

Honestly I'm amazed that people would pay for something that could be
implemented so easily with software that's in every business
(MSOffice/PowerPoint if not LibreOffice!)

Rafiq



On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Mick O'Toole <mickotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Kae but I was trying to avoid going down the route of using phpBB or
> similar.
>
> I guess I was hoping that there would be dedicated software out there that
> could do what I'm looking for. At the moment we're
> using proprietary software from Orange Valley Systems but I'm trying to get
> away from the proprietary software and on to something Open Source.
>
> Thanks for the feedback though.
>
> Mick
>
> On 23 August 2011 14:46, Kae Verens <kae.verens at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > you can always install a web server on an internal machine, and
> > install a bulletin board such as PHPBB on it.
> >
> > websites don't always have to be publicly available
> >
> > kae
> >
> > On 23 August 2011 14:19, Mick O'Toole <mickotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Afternoon folks,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to implement a site wide notice board that can be easily
> > updated
> > > by the company secretary.
> > >
> > > Has anyone on the list any experience will implementing this using Open
> > > Source software?
> > >
> > > Each screen is attached to a computer that is on the LAN. I'd like to
> use
> > > some dedicated software rather than displaying a website.
> > >
> > > The display will be used to show company announcements etc.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Mick
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