Hi Ben
The Primary Answer is 'Yes'. But the trems get blurred, as the years go
by. 'Open source' was a different thing when you knew about machine
code, those days when the 'architecture' mattered more than the 'patent'.
Now we have to guess too much, or pay too much.
Open Source should be just that, open to all, sourced from everyone.
We all need to undertsand it, create it, absorb it, know it, feel it.
The next question is:
How do we do that?
Dolan
Benjamin Horst wrote:
Even though we already use proprietary applications, I agree that
anything new we implement should strongly prefer open source.
I think both O3Spaces and Alfresco are open source, or have open
source editions, which would be the way for us to go if we did choose
one. (There may also be others, but these are the two of which I'm
aware.)
The primary question is still: Would one of these enhance our ability
to collaborate in developing marketing, art, and other collateral for
all of the subprojects? (I believe it would, but perhaps someone can
suggest a better or easier alternative?)
-Ben
On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
This is a sweet/sour area. On one point, sure we want to endorse
OOo-ODF related products and have a mutual benefit. On the other
side, we get into the same situation on theLinux kernel system when
they had a proprietary application to manage their code.
Thats what generated GIT as a FLOSS alternative. Althought this said,
I am aware OOo already uses a proprietary application using Collabnet.
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:01:07 -0600, Benjamin Horst <[email protected]>
wrote:
For something akin to version control but more user-friendly, I
suggest we take a look at Alfresco or O3Spaces. Both are open source
enterprise content management systems that compete directly with
Sharepoint, and both have been good friends to OOo in the past.
Maybe one of the companies would be willing to set up and manage a
site for us, in exchange for the obviously-strong promotional
benefits they could get from the donation.
Alfresco: http://www.alfresco.com/
O3Spaces: http://o3spaces.com/
Does anyone have contacts at one of these companies and would be
willing to ask them about it?
-Ben
On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:18:32 -0600, eric.bachard
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Sankarshan :-)
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay a écrit :
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:16 PM, eric b <[email protected]>
wrote:
Can you please tell us more about the Education flyer ? As
Education
Project co Lead, I'm very interested, to know what such flyer
does contain.
This does bring up a need for having a central repository of such
print-ready material.
Probably, but the first step must be: every subproject proposes
something and then, after agreement, this is put on the central
repository.
Here we read " there is already one .. " and everything made
behind the door. No way to discuss the content nor anything else :
it does not make sense.
Again, this is one of the roles of Education Project to create a
flyer for Education. And if marketing project wants to help, this
will be great to work together.
Sure but this was done before the Education project had any
sustainable ammount of users. Plus this was a marketing goal of
promoting OOo in schools. And you did send an email about it, so
you were aware of the development. I dont have the time to go into
rescuing that email but the flyer was not very good as far as
quality is concern.
Could perhaps be handled via a version control as well (if not
already being done). That way, sub-projects can
perhaps have their own materials ready and waiting for a checkout.
+1 : the idea of use a version control is great : it will bring
readability and maintainability.
VC is hard in OOo, people need SSH/Tunneling rights to access the
site CVS, plus there is already people doing flyers with out
version control working great for them.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=96373
ps: As regards the Mozilla hand-out, I always like a B+W version as
well. Saves a lot on print run costs :)
+1 for the cost
Regards,
Eric Bachard
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CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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