Hi David, On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 18:35 +0800, David Nelson wrote: > Many of you guys may not be aware that the LibreOffice project has an > Alfresco ECM platform at http://alfresco.libreoffice.org (the Alfresco > Explorer interface) and http://documentation.libreoffice.org (the > Alfresco Share interface).
I heard about it, but never checked that ;) > In addition, there is a currently-dormant project on the Alfresco > Forge [1]: an OOo plugin for Alfresco, to allow one to interact with > an Alfresco repository from within the office suite (download, upload, > edit documents; etc.). I know at least 3 plugins to connect OOo / LO with Alfresco. * One was developped by Sun (proprietary) * One was developped by StarXpert (initiated by me) http://www.starxpert.fr/spip/Alfresco-Extensions#opal. I'm not sure how active that one is... though I'ld bet it's nearly dead. * One was mimicking the MSO plugin (the one you pointed to) > I feel it would be generally extremely useful functionality for > LibreOffice to get this plugin working properly. We would have a > perfect test bed and pilot user base: the LibreOffice Afresco > platform, which is currently being used as a docs repository and > workflow facility by the LibreOffice English docs team. > > I've been in contact with Jeff Potts (Alfresco's Chief Community > Officer) and Paul Holmes-Higgin (Alfresco's VP of Engineering), and > Jeff is setting-up a confcall for the week of June 27 with Roeland > Hofkens, one of the admins of the said Alfresco Forge project, which > I'll be attending. > > Are there any devs here who would be willing to get involved as well? I'ld love to be in that kind of project again :) > @Michael Meeks, Thorsten Behrens: > Jeff Potts also wrote me that, "We'd also like to make a strong > suggestion to make LibreOffice a CMIS consumer so that LibreOffice > users would be able to easily open and save documents as well as set > metadata on documents that live in a CMIS-compliant repository like > Alfresco. More info on CMIS can be found here [2] and here [3]. Maybe > there's an opportunity for us to help each other out?" > > Could I ask what your thoughts and suggestions would be about this? I would be in favor of that possibility more than any of the other ones. Dan Corneanu has been working on a nice extension to implement a CMIS protocol provider. His work can be found here on gitorious though it isn't completely finished IIRC. http://gitorious.org/libreoffice-cmis I'ld go for pushing that extension further to get it integrated in LibreOffice. That would also ease the switch to any other CMIS-enabled ECM. -- Cédric Bosdonnat LibreOffice hacker http://documentfoundation.org OOo Eclipse Integration developer http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
