Dear all, I believe this is the right list for this message. If it is not, please point me to the right list (and accept my apologizes).
For several reasons (let me skip them), at my University we are thinking about starting a project involving ODF and we would like to know if there is already something similar to what we would like to produce and it the LibreOffice community could have some interest in it. The project is about providing LibreOffice with a "Google Docs-like" simultaneous editing capability, but with some improvements and a bazaar (or git) flavor. In our vision, each user has control about a "section" of the text (for simplicity, we are aiming mainly to text documents) and every changes made to the document are propagated to all the users currently on-line (with an experience similar to "Google Docs"). The difference with Google Docs is that the document is not in some fuzzy "cloud," but on the user's disk and the user can edit it while off-line, encrypt it, ... If the user does some changes while off-line, the other copies will receive the updates as soon as the user returns on-line. Different copies will exchange updates in a peer-to-peer fashion, without the need of a centralized repository (the bazaar/git flavor). This feature is my "personal itch" since I would actually use to write "many-hands" documents together with colleagues. Moreover, it would be an important feature of LibreOffice, not shared by other editing solutions. We are aware that there are many technical issues. For some issues we have solutions, for others we are still "combing our ideas." However, before going beyond the "idea combing" stage, I would like to ask the following questions: 1. Are you aware if this type of capability is already available (I do not think so) or currently developed? 2. Has the LibreOffice community some interest in this idea? If it has, this would give us a stronger motivation. 3. Do you have some general suggestions for us? Especially about interfacing the rest of the developers. Thank you for any help you can give us. Regards, Riccardo _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
