[Scribus] [related] Collaborative Work with OpenOffice: PengYou

Thu Feb 1 23:33:39 CET 2007

Am Donnerstag, 1. Februar 2007 18:25 schrieb Matt Donnelly:
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> Ben Green wrote:
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>     <pre wrap="">The english page doesn't seem to work and I don't fully
> understand the French, though it seems there is a client server thing, and
> that clients are integrated into openoffice.org and Microsoft office. Can't
> really work out if this is anything more than a remote file system manager.
> Any clues?
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> Apologies, I have now read all the linked articles. It is an remote file
> manager with versioning integrated in the office suites. Versioning of
> edited file seems to just use the office suites own versioning system. I
> would say this was of limited use for an end-to-end publishing solution,
> but don't really know what to write up on the wiki page, which if anyone
> hasn't looked is really growing rapidly.
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> Thanks, Ben. Anyone else have an opinion?<br>
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> The wiki does indeed seem to be growing. Now that we have more ideas on
> there, I propose that, given the use case I posted on the wiki and the
> "learning curve" and "business" realities I included, we start to work
> on some high-level end-to-end publishing concepts that integrate the
> best tools and practices (plus reaching out to/collaborating with other
> open source projects?). This I think will focus the discussion --
> nothing like trying something to see that it doesn't quite work ;-)<br>
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> So I think that as we sketch out solutions, and get past the blue-sky
> phase, we'll see where the work needs to focus. Then we can somehow
> vote on the best proposal and develop a project plan of sorts, letting
> different people work on different parts. I know technical ability
> won't be our biggest challenge...<br>
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> This of course requires the creation of a core team of people who would
> commit to seeing this project come to life. Maybe we compile a list of
> people, their skill sets, interest areas, etc.?? Out of this could
> evolve a core steering group to keep the project on track. <br>
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> I think we'd need this core group, too, as a sort of "evaluation
> committee" of Scribus developers (Andreas?) and others to sort through
> the different proposals we get. <br>
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> I see my role as providing refinements to the use case and even playing
> the role of the (non-technical) end user to keep focus on usability.
> I'm not a programmer by any stretch, but I do care about getting this
> solution out there.<br>
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> I'm a newbie at project management, so other suggestions are of course
> welcome. But we should definitely move forward.<br>
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> Thanks to everyone for your interest and support so far. Let's keep
> moving forward.<br>
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> ~Matt<br>
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Matt, please don't send html mail to mailing lists.

Thanks a lot!

Christoph