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Hi,

there is good news: OASIS has already real-time collaborative editing
(RTCE) in the pipeline.
Last year a sub-committee "Advanced Document Collaboration" was founded
within OASIS.

The lesser good news is that the SC is currently struggling to find the
optimal solution.
Yesterday, I wrote a status summary
<http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office-collab/201110/msg00008.html> to
the SC mailing list and a proposal for change-tracking focusing
compatibility with collaboration will follow.
If you are curious on details, just follow the links from the link above..

The protocol to be used will be not be part in the first step, as it is
a different layer, but I would consider working systems as
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_sharing
part of the 100$ laptop (or laptop for every child) campaign, see
http://sugarlabs.org

Regards,
Svante

*From: *timofonic timofonic <timofonic@gmail.com
<mailto:timofonic@gmail.com>>
*Date: *17 October 2011 00:24:59 GMT+01:00
*To: *marketing@global.libreoffice.org
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*Subject: **Re: [libreoffice-marketing] What about Real-time
collaborative editing (RTCE) in LibreOffice? A simple user POW proposal*
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Hello.

It's just an idea I want to promote, because I think it can be more
interesting than some people think. Anyone can foorward the idea I
expressed to anyone that can help to make it reality, I just want to
become reality as an user of Libreoffice and other text editors. OASIS
seems a good candidate for this, even other office suites or advanced
text editors.

The point of RTCE is not just for office applications, but any text
editor targeted at not just very simple functionality. So this can be
a wide standard in terms of possible adoption, and maybe even add
interoperability with online projects like EtherPad.

Regards.


On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk
<mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
Hi :)
I think it might be good to forward this to OASIS.  THey already
have collaboration between various projects to produce OpenDocument
Format specifications.  I think that is part of what is being called
for here?  A specification that can be shared by the various
existing OpenSource office applications?
Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Fri, 14/10/11, timofonic timofonic <timofonic@gmail.com
<mailto:timofonic@gmail.com>> wrote:

From: timofonic timofonic <timofonic@gmail.com
<mailto:timofonic@gmail.com>>
Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] What about Real-time collaborative
editing (RTCE) in LibreOffice? A simple user POW proposal
To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
<mailto:marketing@global.libreoffice.org>
Date: Friday, 14 October, 2011, 16:04
Hello to everyone.

I'm just an user of LibreOffice, no developer at all. But I
think
maybe this can be an interesting discussion with the more
skilled
people involved into the project.

Since the apparition of SubEthaEdit for Macs, the
real-time
collaborative editing (from now on referred as RTCE)
started to rise
from these days. The Web 2.0 phonomenom made RTCE even more
known with
Writely and EtherPad, then Google bought both (but EhterPad
now
remains as a FOSS project) to integrate resources to the
Google Docs
online Office suite.

There are editors that already support RTCE, like AbiWord
(by using
AbiCollab extension), ACE, Emacs (by extensions like Rudel
or others)
and Gobby. Unfortunately there aren't a strong open
standard protocol
shared among them, so interoperability is a big issue
there.

RTCE is something thinked before in OpenOffice and seems
also taken in
account in LibreOffice as future ideas to develop, but the
approach
and ideas behind it were primitive or their importance is
still not
enough considered.

http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crazy_Ideas#Simple_server-based_collaborative_editing

There's an open RTCE protocol named Infinote ( http://infinote.org ),
a redesign of the Obby protocol that is part of Gobby and
implemented
in libinfinity. There's a server implementation named
Infinoted and
the protocol is already user by some third party
applications but the
popularity is quite low at this moment.

There's "jarn.xmpp.collaboration"
(http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jarn.xmpp.collaboration), a
XMPP protocol
extension targeted at RTCE. The protocol is still quite
young, but
still actively developed.

The use of an open protocol standard would not just help
interoperability between different projects, but also
improve the
protocol for being more flexible and powerful over time in
the same
way of ODF.

While interoperability with existing projects is very cool
and nice,
this isn't going to resolve the issue in the long term.
Those projects
will stay incompatible between them, and each new project
may choose a
new protocol that LibreOffice developers would need to
implement it.

I understand an initiative like this isn't easy at all,
because it's
not only developing a powerful and well documented RTCE
protocol. Like
in the example of Infinote, that means nothing if the
protocol isn't
adopted and promoted widely by other related projects.

This is a proposal from the user point of view, but I hope
to make
some people think about it. In my opinion this could be a
"killer app"
for LibreOffice and also gain popularity in
education/business/government environments too.

I'm supossing this concept would require developer efforts,
lots of
PR, contacting with other organizations and such. Make
people agree on
standards seems not easy, but I think is possible if people
do the
necessary effort (as showed in ODF).

With a bit of research from my illiterate perspective, I
already found
other theorical and practical proposals and experiments on
RTCE. So I
think more skilled people can investigate further on the
tecnical side
of this if there's enough interest on it.

Please think about this proposal and give your opinions.
 I hope my
thinking can be at least a bit useful to the community to
start an
interesting discussion about the topic.

Regards.

PS: I think this can be even more interesting to
investigate from now
on since the appearing of the LibreOffice Online project.

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