Goozzee An easy-to-use knowledge management solution
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Goozzee Description

An easy-to-use knowledge management solution Goozzee project's goal is to offer an easy-to-use knowledge management solution, suitable for small teams or companies.Unlike most existing knowledge management software, Goozzee's classification system isn't based on hierarchies or tags: it uses Topic Maps, which allow a much more advanced and flexible knowledge classification.Goozzee is in fact a mix of the features of three kinds of applications:· Topic Maps authoring/browsing tools: Goozzee offers a very easy-to-use Topic Maps implementation, with topics, associations, occurrences (aka documents), roles, association types and scopes.· Wikis: Goozzee is NOT a wiki. But it fills the same need: fast and easy documentation creation, and easy links between pages.In Goozzee, each topic can be compared to a Wiki page, where you can type your documentation and share it immediately with other users; the Topic window offers a real WYSIWYG text editor, so you don't even have to fight with some wiki syntax, and linking your topics together - or creating new ones - is a matter of a couple of seconds, using contextual menus or even drag'n drop.· Document Management Systems: Goozzee's Document Management functionnality is - and will remain - pretty simple. Any kind of document can be uploaded into the repository. Each document is assigned a scope and access rights, and can be linked to any number of topics. In the near future, a check-in/check-out system will also be added to prevent editing conflicts between users.But Goozzee doesn't offer any workflow engine. And it probably never will.How does it work ?Unlike many Knowledge Management/Document Management systems, Goozzee isn't web-based, but client/server.The repository is stored in a Mysql database. (In the future, support for other databases will be added.)A client software must be installed on each user's machine. This software is written in C++, using the wxWidgets library, which allows easy ports to many operating systems. For now, only two operating systems are supported : Linux and Mac OSX. A Windows version should be available by the end of 2008. Requirements: · GCC · wxWidgets · MySQL What's New in This Release: · This is a major release. Even though it doesn't bring many new functionalities, it introduces some serious modifications : · First novelty, Windows support. I have been using this version for my professional · needs during 6 months before making it public, and it's fast and very stable, so · much that I will definitely keep on using it as my only professional documentation · repository. This version was dvelopped and tested on Windows XP, but I guess it · should work on Windows 7 too. · Second : simpler, unified look, whatever the operating system. The OSX and Linux · Looks were too bloated, while the default Windows look seemed dull, with grey buttons · over grey backgrounds. Now all the buttons appear as flat squares (making the main · window less bloated), and colours are customizeable, on a 'per database' · basis, so that you can define a specific colour scheme for each of your · repositories.. · Third : better security. On former releases, all Goozzee users connected to the · database using the same default Mysql user/password. That was not very clean. And · Goozzee users were only a bunch of records in one of the database tables, with their · passwords un-encrypted. From now on, each Goozzee user connects to the database with · his/her own Mysql user/password, and thus passwords are encrypted inside Mysql's · system tables. · Fourth : single-user mode. For those of you who don't need to share their · knowledge bases with other users, or want to avoid the somewhat complex setup of a · mysql server, it's now possible to run Goozzee using an embedded Mysql server · that does all the repository creation for you, locally on your computer. You just · need to create a new repository connection in Goozzee's configuration window, · and select the 'EmbeddedMysql' plugin. This will automatically create a · single user repository in your home directory. Beware that this feature isn't · available on Linux yet. And some minor changes, such as : · Each user can now change his/her password, using the Preferences window. · The layout of the prints has been improved, showing the toic name in the header, · and the page, goozzee version and date on the footer. · On the search window, less search criterion are selected by default, and the user · needs to enter at least 3 characters as a search string. This is meant to avoid too · greedy queries on the databse that would penalize other users. · In the topic creation window, the list of proposed classes is now sorted · alphabetically.

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