You may be interested in our free Open Source CAD, Tickets by name, available at noted URL, and in wide use in volunteer emergency response groups such as ARES teams.
It's been available for several years now, and I'm gonna shoot my (NON-EXISTENT) marketing VP as soon as I finish this.
AS
You wrote "... With all of the money spent on parts for the dispatch system, it would be nice to see some open source programs being used for dispatchers. I do volunteer work in emergency services here and we routinely use programs that cost several thousand, but ..."
Re yr comment" ...I know I certainly would like some better stuff that wouldn't drain our departments budget and might work better then what we have now."
Bob's Cards file was originally included in our free, Open Source CAD system, Tickets by name. See list at
http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-cad
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Re: Free Open Source CAD
You may be interested in our free Open Source CAD, Tickets by name, available at noted URL, and in wide use in volunteer emergency response groups such as ARES teams.
It's been available for several years now, and I'm gonna shoot my (NON-EXISTENT) marketing VP as soon as I finish this.
AS
You wrote "... With all of the money spent on parts for the dispatch system, it would be nice to see some open source programs being used for dispatchers. I do volunteer work in emergency services here and we routinely use programs that cost several thousand, but ..."
Re: Open Source CAD
Re yr comment" ...I know I certainly would like some better stuff that wouldn't drain our departments budget and might work better then what we have now."
Bob's Cards file was originally included in our free, Open Source CAD system, Tickets by name. See list at
http://groups.google.com/group/open-source-cad