[Scribus] [related] Collaborative Work with OpenOffice: PengYou

Mon Jun 4 18:14:51 CEST 2007

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From: "Christoph Sch?fer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>
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Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Scribus] [related] Collaborative Work with OpenOffice: PengYou


> Am Donnerstag, 1. Februar 2007 18:25 schrieb Matt Donnelly:
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>> Ben Green wrote:
>> <blockquote cite="midop.tm3aojws0bw284 at pea.lan" type="cite">
>>   <pre wrap="">On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:37:02 -0000, Ben Green <a
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>>     <pre wrap="">The english page doesn't seem to work and I don't fully
>> understand the French, though it seems there is a client server thing, 
>> and
>> that clients are integrated into openoffice.org and Microsoft office. 
>> Can't
>> really work out if this is anything more than a remote file system 
>> manager.
>> Any clues?
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>> Apologies, I have now read all the linked articles. It is an remote file
>> manager with versioning integrated in the office suites. Versioning of
>> edited file seems to just use the office suites own versioning system. I
>> would say this was of limited use for an end-to-end publishing solution,
>> but don't really know what to write up on the wiki page, which if anyone
>> hasn't looked is really growing rapidly.
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>> Thanks, Ben. Anyone else have an opinion?<br>
>> <br>
>> The wiki does indeed seem to be growing. Now that we have more ideas on
>> there, I propose that, given the use case I posted on the wiki and the
>> "learning curve" and "business" realities I included, we start to work
>> on some high-level end-to-end publishing concepts that integrate the
>> best tools and practices (plus reaching out to/collaborating with other
>> open source projects?). This I think will focus the discussion --
>> nothing like trying something to see that it doesn't quite work ;-)<br>
>> <br>
>> So I think that as we sketch out solutions, and get past the blue-sky
>> phase, we'll see where the work needs to focus. Then we can somehow
>> vote on the best proposal and develop a project plan of sorts, letting
>> different people work on different parts. I know technical ability
>> won't be our biggest challenge...<br>
>> <br>
>> This of course requires the creation of a core team of people who would
>> commit to seeing this project come to life. Maybe we compile a list of
>> people, their skill sets, interest areas, etc.?? Out of this could
>> evolve a core steering group to keep the project on track. <br>
>> <br>
>> I think we'd need this core group, too, as a sort of "evaluation
>> committee" of Scribus developers (Andreas?) and others to sort through
>> the different proposals we get. <br>
>> <br>
>> I see my role as providing refinements to the use case and even playing
>> the role of the (non-technical) end user to keep focus on usability.
>> I'm not a programmer by any stretch, but I do care about getting this
>> solution out there.<br>
>> <br>
>> I'm a newbie at project management, so other suggestions are of course
>> welcome. But we should definitely move forward.<br>
>> <br>
>> Thanks to everyone for your interest and support so far. Let's keep
>> moving forward.<br>
>> <br>
>> ~Matt<br>
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> Matt, please don't send html mail to mailing lists.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Christoph
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