Re: Couple of Items for thought

Hi Dustin,

On Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2003, at 18:01 Uhr, Dustin Machi wrote:
> 1. I have a webservices based contact server that I would be interested
> in donating/integrating with OO.

We are not OO, we are OGo. Please do not mix up OpenGroupware.org and 
OpenOffice.org, while we intend to work together, we are separate 
projects.

> I am unsure if
> webservices is an approach you are considering  for some of this
> groupware.

Definitely. Actually what you describe sound exactly like what the OGo 
contact module already does, so I wonder what additional value you 
provide.

> 2.  In addition to this contact service, I have interest in a 
> particular
> feature set.  I am not sure if this would be included in what others
> call "groupware" but in this case I do nonetheless.  I have the need to
> establish a collaborative writing environment.  Being involve in
> research we often have dozens of people furiously writing away until 
> the
> last minute to fulfill the writing needs for grant deadlines (much like
> I am doing now....although I appear to be procrastinating writing this
> email).  This creates a document versioning nightmare for the final
> editors.  I am looking for a solution to this problem.  While I realize
> that there is versioning support within OO, it doesn't seem to meet my
> needs very well (networked document, multiple users, granular
> checkout).  I would like to see if there is any interest in adding
> (or changing) functionality to allow for a versioning document
> repository.

Yes, this is partly covered by the OGo document repository. But the 
functionality contained in it could be GREATLY expanded by directly 
working on the OOo XML format.
We could have compound documents, we could have "intelligent" diffs, we 
could export to a website using OGo Publisher.
So while we have no short term roadmap on that it definitely is what we 
consider office integration and what we would like to work on together 
with OOo and other OpenSource office projects.

We need to focus first on getting the OGo project properly up and 
running. Then we are going to collect suggestions to publish some 
possibile areas for development and hopefully some contributors working 
on it.

best regards,
   Helge
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