ir0b0t's Journal: Linux Law Office: Next Steps

Linux is working out well on my desktop machine in my law office. I haven't had to boot my XP partition for about two weeks now. The system does everything my former XP system used to do except run Quickbooks. Gnucash imports from Quickbooks so that problem ends this week.

Next steps? I'm going to add features to the office and then figure out a way to share the info with other interested lawyers and other professionals working on social justice issues. I'm leaning toward a website so that when I attend the next NLADA conference, I can show lawyers at the OSI cybercafe what the system will do.

Before the year is out, I expect to add intra-office text messaging, remote login, automated backups and envelope addressing. That last one is particularly galling right now. My secretary has to address all envelopes on her machine with MS Word because Open Office won't address envelopes correctly.

The sharing forum will likely be a website with user accounts and lots of disclaimers.