On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Drew Jensen wrote:

> What is being called for is the ability to say - there is one ( or more ) 
> email clients that works closely with the other modules in the package.

Other than the ability to use OOo to create webpages that masquerade
as email, what functionality does OOo need, to better integrate with
email clients?

> That a small business looking to switch could have a point of contact ( 
> OpenOfficce.org the organization ) that can do more then just say - ok here 
> is our piece, now go find the other pieces on your own and good luck...rather 
> ..here is our package, here is another package that we know how to work with 
> and here are some tools to put the pieces together.

> OpenOffice.org form a partnership, of sorts, with the organization that 
> delivers that communications piece

In theory, OOo currently has that with Mozilla.

>a single source implementation

If you mean wrapping OOo with Thunderbird, Pidgin, etc, I think that
between the OpenDisc Project, and the TTCS OSS-WIN Project, that is
covered.  What is missing, is one stop tech support for the packages
included on those CDs.

If, OTOH, you meant that the OOo Documentation Project should cover
things like using the Thunderbird Contact Manager from within OOo,
then the issue is finding somebody willing, and able to write that
documentation.

If, on the gripping hand, you meant including Thunderbird, Pidgin, etc
with OOo, for downloading, maybe Kami can be talked into doing that
with OxygenOffice. Though how many people will be willing to download
is 400 MB file, even if it is a complete office suite.

(Current file sizes for Windows.  OxygenOffice - multilingual version
348 MB, Pidgin - English 10.4 MB, Thunderbird - English 7 MB, Freemind
8 MB, Inkscape 34 MB, GANTTProject 10 MB, Plone 26 MB, GIMP 16 MB,
Scribus ?.  Going by the components listed on the Wikipedia article
"comparison of Office Suites, that covers everything that is
expected.)

xan

jonathon

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