File sharing with a group of a few thousand?

[slackerinabox]

7,500 idiot folks and thousands upon thousands of files? Periodic intervention? You're looking at a full time job.

Lots I don't need to get into here, such as our company already has a delegate system (Employee X is the messaging delegate for communities a, b, c). We had a similar system in place using memberf.use and only got maybe a dozen file uploads a month (with message posts ranging from 100 to 2,000 depending on the group).

FTP is great but we're not dealing with a techie group here.. Looking into sharepoint. Drupal is tempting as well

 

[ShawnD1]

Yes but Sharepoint allows for version control, as do many other systems. And this is important for collaboration.

I'm going to be straight up - we don't use version control. By "we" I mean everybody. I work with a system that has some kind of version handling, but absolutely nobody uses it. Things just get different files names. The PDF I created 5 minutes ago is version 2.04. We stick with what we know.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Lots I don't need to get into here, such as our company already has a delegate system (Employee X is the messaging delegate for communities a, b, c). We had a similar system in place using memberf.use and only got maybe a dozen file uploads a month (with message posts ranging from 100 to 2,000 depending on the group).

FTP is great but we're not dealing with a techie group here.. Looking into sharepoint. Drupal is tempting as well

Try Alfresco, free variation of sharepoint.

 

[lxskllr]

Try Alfresco, free variation of sharepoint.

I don't know anything about it, but it being libre software gets my vote. I wouldn't tie my data up in any kind of proprietary package if I could help it.

 

[xSauronx]

Yes but Sharepoint allows for version control, as do many other systems. And this is important for collaboration.

it also integrates very well with MS office apps, IE, office web apps (if you want) and offers other features like workflows, infopath form integration and tools that can assist in project management.

but again....whatever you go with, with that many users and documents, its going to be a full time job if people actually use it. it's important, imo, for something that large to pick something that has available support and thorough documentation so that whoever ends up doing the job isnt left with nothing but their dick in their hands when something doesnt work right, or outright breaks.