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 :)
>________________________________ > 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 > >-- >Marc Paré >[email protected] >http://www.parEntreprise.com >parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) >parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org > > >-- >To unsubscribe 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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- To unsubscribe 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.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
