For years now my team has struggled with file sharing. It's always a juggling act between file size and maintaining the highest level of security possible. Throughout much of the development of
REM, for instance, we'd have to post various assets online and have people download them quickly so they could be removed from the websites before a serious security risk developed. The process isn't very safe, but when file sizes are sometimes in excess of what a typical email inbox can handle, we aren't left with much of a choice.
I was recently reading through an old back-issue of Information Week (I tend to re-read magazines quite a bit), and a
particular article caught my eye. They talk about an open source team collaboration application called
Mindquarry. According to the application's website, Mindquarry acts as a platform for file sharing, task management, and team collaboration.
I'm wondering if this is exactly what we've been looking for, or if it's a program that'll do nothing more than clutter my desktop. Basically, we need a secure (and preferably 100% free) method of transfering files, communicating, and posting various development notes back and forth, and it needs to be quicker than the often tedious task of uploading stuff to various websites. And not everyone has a website to post assets to... another problem we've faced in the past and that this can apparently remedy.
So I guess my question is this: Is Mindquarry the software solution to our data sharing needs? Or is there another program out there that's safer and more game development-related?
