> Google Docs might work. It does for docs, spreadsheets, presentations,
> drawings.

Personally I like Google less and less – I've never been a fanatic either, 
especially because they now want us become silly phone users just buying what 
their phone OS will tell us to buy in a near future… Moreover the terms of use 
for their online services are abusive too, eg. you give them a perpetual right 
to use your own work for free (OK we don't mind in this case but I don't like 
this way to proceed). They're also spying on your web activity as soon as your 
Google account is open ‑ Gmail or whatever G-stuff, even if you're just 
browsing from another tab of your web browser… Of course most people are not 
aware because strangely Google doesn't advertise much about this ;).

> Fine. How to I get it to speak English or Spanish? :)

Didn't find the answer for Framapad. There are alternative online servers in 
English listed on http://etherpad.com/ without the need to create an account. I 
haven't read the conditions of use yet for these services. This page also tends 
to show that Google saw the underlying software Etherpad as a potential 
competitor for its online office suite ;).

To me the best solution would be to host the service on our server to remain 
independent. Unfortunately they chose Java + Scala technologies and I cannot 
host this yet because our server is a standard Php/MySQL server, with 
optionally Ruby. So I propose that someone look at the terms of use of 
alternative Etherpad services.

As a workaround we can also open a new (public) page on our website to write 
the presentation. Note that I adapted a javascript code 2 or 3 years ago that 
can turn a standard Wikipedia page into a presentation thanks to Firefox and 
its GreaseMonkey extension (see http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6372). I 
can certainly adapt it to Spip pages. Using the Scrapbook extension you should 
even be able to get an offline version of the presentation.

I must confess that the latest one is my preferred solution finally. This may 
also ease translation into many languages.

> I need, we all need a basic outline of topics to cover.
> I started but in Spanish. Just would like to see what has been done.
> I'll work on an outline in English today.

Ok, we're waiting for your outline translation then.

JM.

_______________________________________________
Doudoulinux-dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev

Reply via email to