Hi Org users As Orgmode is such a fantastic tool, I'm sure that there are some of you who have experience in using Orgmode to organize more than your individual lives. As far as I'm aware of the powers of Orgmode, it mainly aims at individuals, less to groups of people or to the "management-type of person" who needs to have the business of a whole organization in mind. I may be wrong here, since I'm just an ordinary user who probably knows about 10% of the Orgmode possibilities.
I'm not talking about a Groupware solution based on Orgmode, since I don't think that it would be viable to push lots of staff-members into learning Emacs and Orgmode. But maybe we can discuss even that. I'm running a university department with about 20 staff-members, assistants, student-assistants and so on. As I'm living in Emacs and Orgmode, I wish to have the organization structure of the whole thing in view with Orgmode. I have only few ideas how to achieve that. Maybe there are some of you who already have a working solution. What is needed is for example: - A special Agenda-view to view presence/absence/holidays of staff-members. - Delegations (including deadlines). - Responsibilities (organigram structure) [could be done with org-mindmap]. - Special dates relevant to the (or some) institute-members (but not necessarily relevant to the user himself, since these would show up in the personal agenda anyway). For example, I would like to see an overview of all courses given by our teaching staff in a weekly agenda view. I think dozens of items can be added here. Each item individually will be no problem for Orgmode, that's clear. The main problem is, that organizing a personal life and organizing a group (institute, family etc.) follow different logics. They will have different sets of tags, todo-keywords, agenda-views and so on. These different logical structures need to be separated, but be accessible by parallel setups, maybe through some kind of switch. I don't think a different set of org-files would be sufficient. For example aganda-views, Groupware software like eGroupware has switches to view either a personal calendar (your own or of other members) or a common calender showing all dates of all associated persons simultaneously. That's the direction I'm thinking of. I'm looking forward to a discussion on this topic or maybe hints to already extant solutions I don't know about. Greetings, Sven _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
