Hi I'm looking for ideas on how to create a great work environment for a sports group. We want to be able to create documents and save them directly into a shared folder (or subfolder). Google Drive is an obvious choice but while you can give edit rights to an entire folder I don't know that you can give create rights. We don't want people to have to login using a single google account either, that's not an efficient way to work - although I know a group who does that. All the group have google accounts and facebook accounts and it would make sense to use a google related service. Over time the people involved will change and we don't want to have issues with someone moving away from the group (ie no longer involved in the sport) having to transfer a whole heap of files, change the way we work etc. Any ideas on what we should be doing?
If there are no create rights perhaps just have an admin for the group. Or would that be too much of an inconvenience?
What about password protecting a folder? You could read documents via a browser and edit/upload documents via FTP.
I'll throw owncloud into the round http://owncloud.org/ Code (markup): It's basically a do-it-yourself dropbox / google drive. You can add users, set permissions, see logs etc.
That sounds tricky for our non-tech users and who ever might come along after me. I'll check out the rent concept from owncloud - we want to reduce the reliance on any one committee member, but we also don't want to increase costs
Dropbox is the best option. It's free and will provide 100% read and write access to all in your group. Check it out.