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On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote:

> I thought about this sometime in the past. I think the ODF toolkit is a
> great differential with other ODF related projects. Unfortunately I havent
> seen that much popularity of the framework.
>
> ODF itself has somewhat being slow on the OASIS groups so I think that
> might also impact negatively on ODF efforts.
>
> I guess I agree with the following.
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Svante Schubert <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I still have not given up the hope to convince Open-Xchange to merge
>> their changes on ODFDOM [1] back to the Apache main trunk.
>> The editing via operations is implemented, although not yet the ODF
>> changes as we are specifying at OASIS ODF Advanced Document
>> Collaboration SC, but they are mappable.
>>
>> The main problem to convince them is to monetize the feature of an ODF
>> ecosystem.
>> How much additional money will a company earn, when many Internet
>> applications (e.g. CMS) use ODF? How much is it worth to invest now in
>> ODF?
>>
>> As you know we are currently working in the OASIS ODF SC on an
>> interoperability that is not longer only on ODF document level (exchange
>> by floppy disc), but allowing to dispatch/synch on fine granular change
>> level (diffs via Internet).
>>
>> I will start another marketing campaign for ODF over the next weeks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Svante
>>
>> [1] The changes can be found at
>>
>> https://code.open-xchange.com/#repositoryPanel;a2e57e47-3285-4db4-8399-36757716d4ff
>> In the office repository the ODFDOM project can be found in a
>> subdirectory at
>> /office/com.openexchange.office.odf/odfdom
>>
>> Am 07/10/14 um 16:59 schrieb Rob Weir:
>> > I think it is time to have a candid discussion about this project and
>> > what we want to do with it.
>> >
>> > On the positive side, we did have a release back in July.  Also, we do
>> > seem to have users, as evident from the questions on the users list.
>> >
>> > But as a Mentor, I'm noting that we're in the habit of being late for
>> > IPMC reports, and appear to have not had any list discussions or code
>> > commits in a few months.   We don't seem to be making progress towards
>> > graduation or growing the community.
>> >
>> > You can read more about the Attic here:
>> >
>> > http://attic.apache.org/
>> >
>> > Anyone have thoughts on this?
>> >
>> > Note:  moving to the Attic does not prevent us from then putting the
>> > codebase onto Github and maintaining it that way.   This might make
>> > more sense for a project that has only 2 or 3 developers sporadically
>> > working on it.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > -Rob
>>
>>
>
>
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