Hi :)
The people at Alfresco seemed keen to collaborate with us and might be willing 
to help us with that.  They had at least a little experience working with ODF 
formats about a year or so ago.  I don't have a contact person there though.
Regards from 
Tom :)  





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> From: Marc Paré <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected] 
>Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013, 15:27
>Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Academia
> 
>
>Le 10/05/13 07:01 AM, Italo Vignoli a écrit :
>> On 05/10/2013 03:47 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
>>
>>> I was going to suggest that we need to add the fact that cooperative
>>> work can be done on institutions' clouds with LibreOffice ability to
>>> integrate through CMIS. This is a really big advantage for LibreOffice
>>> for institutions running their own clouds can then make use of
>>> LibreOffice. We will have to list all of the clouds that have been
>>> proven to work with LibreOffice, there is a list somewhere, and, if not,
>>> we can make one up at the same time as the brochure.
>>
>> CMIS is not focused on cooperative work, but on document exchange with
>> content management systems (or document management systems). Basically,
>> you can load from and save to CMIS compatible servers, such as Alfresco
>> and Sharepoint, but you cannot do it cooperatively (one user at a time)
>> as GoogleDocs (which is using a non locked proprietary document format
>> in order to achieve this feature).
>>
>> A list of CMIS compatible software can be found on Wikipedia.
>>
>
>Thanks for adding this.
>
>From the feedback that I get from my end, the academics have all 
>responded positively for this type of "collaboration", they do not like 
>to have "many at once" on a file as they see too much wasted time being 
>done by students. They have more use for the ability to edit one file by 
>one user, and then have another user able to edit the same file later 
>on, and then another user do the same etc.. But, that may be only the 
>view of my local contacts here who work in the music field at the 
>university level (undergraduate and graduate levels). However, this has 
>interested them enough to consider perhaps moving to LibreOffice from 
>MSO ...
>
>The only negative, is that they would like to see a working example on 
>our servers, and, I imagine that the IT staff at the universities would 
>also like to see a working model, which, at this point, we do not 
>provide. IMO, this should be on our "should have list" ... setting up 
>any kind of (cloud) server with CMIS capability and to allow users the 
>testing of LibreOffice CMIS and file exchange.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Marc
>
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