[KLUG Members] Meeting 2005-09-13 - Open Reports: The Open Source Reporting Solution

[listserv at kalamazoolinux.org]

Reports, creating them, running them, distributing them - are the bane
of every developers, users, and administrators existance. But people
LOVE their reports. Many commercial solutions exist to try and ease the
agony of report creation and management; most famously (or notoriously)
is "Crystal Reports". Open Reports is the Open Source answer to
reporting. Using the renowned Jasper reports format and libraries Open
Reports provides a power report server that runs reports on the server
side, while letting you develop reports in a client-side GUI assemble-it
manner. And not just any reports, but beautiful and colorful reports.
Output can be delivered right to a user's browser window as PDF, to
their desktop as XLS, or as plain old CSV - all from the same report.
Access to reports can be restricted (on the server!) to certain users
and groups - and just for kicks a powerful schedular is built in too. 

Our presenter:

Adam is a network administrator in Grand Rapids, but the network he
deals with is all over Michigan, with a couple of hundred workstations,
running Linux and other Operating Systems. Adam has been a regular
contributor to technical discussions on our main mailing list, both
presenting and solving some of the most challenging networking and
configuration problems. You can read more about Adam at his website or
his technological doings as Whitemice Consulting. 

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Coming to three meetings qualifies you as a full member of KLUG, 
meaning that you can participate in the process of making formal 
decisions, including voting for officers.

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The meeting is 7:00 PM THIS TUESDAY at:
The Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce in beautiful downtown Kalamazoo.
Maps, directions and more info can be found on the KLUG web site:

    http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/

Everyone is welcome, and there is no cost to attend!

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