Group Collaboration Software

**Xorcist** · 13-11-2002, 05:59 AM

Just wondering, if and when we get a small dev group together, how we plan on sharing all our information. I was introduced to Groove by a friend. Seems to do a pretty decent job at inter-group communication and file-sharing. If anyone has any other suggestions please share. Note, the preview version of this software is free to use, while still being very flexable.

iLLUNis · 13-11-2002, 11:28 AM

The drawback is the fact that we will have actually to buy this software... :? PC Anywhere does about the same as a few more out there but all of them require payment....IRC could be an option...or even here with the small chat we have and posting in a special forum that BlueCat is going to create....

...any ideas anyone else?

**Traveler** · 13-11-2002, 12:18 PM

Perhaps http://sourceforge.net/ can help out here?

**TheLion** · 13-11-2002, 12:22 PM

I believe most group-projects are done on sourceforce... The Quake2 engine conversion was done entirely by using sourceforce and that turned out quite well!

Don't know... just an observation, any other program/service like IRC would do just fine too, but where will you put the files

**Viro** · 13-11-2002, 02:39 PM

Have some one run a CVS server?

**Xorcist** · 13-11-2002, 11:16 PM

I'm pretty sure the preview version of Groove will do everything we would need it to do, without any sort of purchase. It allows for a single group workspace, which is all we really need. I already have the preview version installed on one of my machines for collaboration with my RtcW clan, and we've never had any problems. I could just as easily install it on a seperate PC for collaboration with our game dev group. I'll double check on it if anyone is interested, but I'm pretty sure there would be no cost involved.