I am requesting the Board of Directors to take an official vote on this proposal, and I'd just like to explain some of the reasons and possibilities that make me agitate for Alfresco within the LibreOffice project.
Cedric Bosdonnat has been implementing CMIS connectivity within LibreOffice - the recent press release about version 3.6 makes mention of the Alfresco connectivity. This is an important hitherto-missing capability within LibreOffice for enterprise users. While the CMIS connectivity is by no means exclusively targeting Alfresco, it's worth considering that Alfresco has no other real equivalent in the Open Source realm at the moment, in its particular niche, in terms of its maturity and functionality. But communication between LibreOffice and an Alfresco repository provides capabilities that equate to Microsoft Office's interaction with a SharePoint server. This can be a significant consideration for enterprise adopters of LibreOffice. To support the current development work on CMIS connectivity for LibreOffice. it would be a good time to have an internally-operated Alfresco platform. If TDF had its own internally-operated platform, Alfresco uptake within the LibreOffice project would probably be greater than at present. Until now, it has been used/experimented with by the English docs team and a few of the localization projects, but would be a great choice for TDF's administrative needs, and for other teams such as Design. But people would undoubtedly feel better if it was self-hosted by TDF. I've long said that there are natural synergies between the LibreOffice project and the Alfresco project, and I really think it would be beneficial to both projects if a relationship was cultivated. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
