Archive for May, 2007
Diigo daily 05/31/2007
Posted by Graham Perrin on 31 May 2007
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concurrent collaborative authoring and editing with a focus on ODF
Posted by Graham Perrin on 31 May 2007
My recent thoughts on this subject were offered to the MacFusion-devel group.
Focusing for a moment on Thoughtslinger,
- a preference for Java is explained in the FAQ, and they don’t (or didn’t) rule out future Mac and Linux builds
- comments at the SolidOffice blog note the absence of styles but acknowledge the fact that the technology is beta.
Defocusing from Thoughtslinger, thinking beyond styles, I wonder:
- how will collaborative concurrent authoring environments cope with sound and vision within ODF documents?
These thoughts are relevant to my co-management of an Access Grid node at Freeman Centre.
I encourage the addition of sound and vision to NeoOffice and OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X but understand that QuickTime integration is, for the Aqua port of OOo, further down the timeline (I raised the question at the Mac OS X Port meeting on 25th May, their response came just after the log was committed).
Update, 3rd June: I’m about to make my first foray into Coventi. Whilst it promises to be great for collaboration, I’m not sure whether it allows concurrent edits to a page. More on Coventi to follow…
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Diigo daily 05/30/2007
Posted by Graham Perrin on 30 May 2007
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Diigo daily 05/29/2007
Posted by Graham Perrin on 29 May 2007
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OpenOffice.org without X11: surprising progress on the Aqua port
Posted by Graham Perrin on 28 May 2007
The Aqua port of OpenOffice.org, which does not require X11, has made surprising progress.
A few days ago I was pleasantly amazed to stumble across a disk image with an experimental version that was way ahead of anything I expected so soon after Sun’s 3rd May announcement.
A torrent will be seeded, I plan to be amongst the first to join.
I gather that the torrent will not appear at any of the following:
- http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/
- http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.html
- http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/aqua-prerelease/index.html
— instead, the torrents will have their own pages.
See also:
- AquaBuild at OpenOffice.org wiki
- AquaToDo at OpenOffice.org wiki
- Mac OS X Port meeting logs
- OpenOffice.org Mac OS X Delivery Schedule - Aqua
- User:Ericb/Top10 of Issues at OpenOffice.org wiki
I remain an everyday user of NeoOffice.
For what it’s worth: my number one wish for NeoOffice.org and/or OpenOffice.org is to enable sound and vision — primarily for Impress.
(Microsoft’s ideas of video compatibility, and the failures of OLE and PowerPoint packaging, are utterly bonkers.)
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