Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Academia

Hi :)
The people at Alfresco seemed keen to collaborate with us and might be willing to help us with 
that.  They had at least a little experience working with ODF formats about a year or so ago.  I 
don't have a contact person there though.
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com>
> To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 10 May 2013, 15:27
> Subject: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Brochure-type: Academia
>
>
> Le 10/05/13 07:01 AM, Italo Vignoli a écrit :
> > On 05/10/2013 03:47 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
> >
> > > I was going to suggest that we need to add the fact that cooperative
> > > work can be done on institutions' clouds with LibreOffice ability to
> > > integrate through CMIS. This is a really big advantage for LibreOffice
> > > for institutions running their own clouds can then make use of
> > > LibreOffice. We will have to list all of the clouds that have been
> > > proven to work with LibreOffice, there is a list somewhere, and, if not,
> > > we can make one up at the same time as the brochure.
> >
> > CMIS is not focused on cooperative work, but on document exchange with
> > content management systems (or document management systems). Basically,
> > you can load from and save to CMIS compatible servers, such as Alfresco
> > and Sharepoint, but you cannot do it cooperatively (one user at a time)
> > as GoogleDocs (which is using a non locked proprietary document format
> > in order to achieve this feature).
> >
> > A list of CMIS compatible software can be found on Wikipedia.
>
> Thanks for adding this.
>
> From the feedback that I get from my end, the academics have all 
> responded positively for this type of "collaboration", they do not like 
> to have "many at once" on a file as they see too much wasted time being 
> done by students. They have more use for the ability to edit one file by 
> one user, and then have another user able to edit the same file later 
> on, and then another user do the same etc.. But, that may be only the 
> view of my local contacts here who work in the music field at the 
> university level (undergraduate and graduate levels). However, this has 
> interested them enough to consider perhaps moving to LibreOffice from 
> MSO ...
>
> The only negative, is that they would like to see a working example on 
> our servers, and, I imagine that the IT staff at the universities would 
> also like to see a working model, which, at this point, we do not 
> provide. IMO, this should be on our "should have list" ... setting up 
> any kind of (cloud) server with CMIS capability and to allow users the 
> testing of LibreOffice CMIS and file exchange.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc
>
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