[development] OpenOffice.org

[Victor Kane]

Actually, if you think about it, it is not an ooffice service you need.

All you need is an OpenOffice client!!! That can talk to the services
module.

The Drupal Services module already has a node service.

The only need for customization may be with certain complex node types...

Here the medium is not in the messge.

Victor

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Balazs Dianiska <csillagasz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you imagined this interaction between OOo and Drupal over a
> protocol like XML-RPC, SOAP etc, then I would recommend taking a look
> at the services module (drupal.org/project/services), writing an
> ooffice service (containing the methods for Drupal) in my opinion
> would be an elegant way to go.
>
> b
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts
> <Louis.Suarez-Potts at sun.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 2008-05-14, at 23:27 , Larry Garfield wrote:
> >
> >> There is a Google Summer of Code project to build a document importer
> >> module
> >> for Drupal that can handle, among other formats, ODT.
> >>
> >> http://groups.drupal.org/node/10890
> >
> > Nifty.
> >>
> >>
> >> While the student is not allowed to accept additional money beyond what
> >> Google
> >> offers (I think), having access to ODT experts is something I can only
> >> think
> >> is a good thing.
> >
> > Quite. And certainly a supporting community can help. I cannot allocate
> > resources at OOo but can certainly invite students and others to the
> > relevant lists and introduce people; and can also see if there is
> > sufficiently strong interest within Sun (my employer and OOo's primary
> > contributor and sponsor) to act on a Drupal integration. But much of the
> > effort would really have to come from our communities, no?
> >
> > best
> > Louis
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> >>>
> >>> [This is a re-send of a message I sent originally to the
> >>> infrastructure list.]
> >>>
> >>> Hello all!
> >>>
> >>> Allow me to introduce myself: I'm the community manager of
> >>> OpenOffice.org, a role I've held for the last 7.5 years. My interest
> >>> here is to see if there is interest in developing an OpenDocument
> >>> Format filter for Drupal or (better yet) some ways of integrating or
> >>> at least linking OOo to Drupal. The reason? Lots, including both
> >>> public and private enterprises, want a CMS + productivity suite (such
> >>> as OOo) combo. Drupal has huge market share and is flourishing; so
> >>> does and is OOo.
> >>>
> >>> How is integration imagined? It could be close or it could be even
> >>> something as simple as an extension. We have now many extensions, and
> >>> there is no reason why everything has to be a single package--this is
> >>> the Internet age, not the isolated desktop age.
> >>>
> >>> If people are interested, let's talk. My guess is that an obstacle to
> >>> good intentions is reality: shortage of resources. But I also am
> >>> relentlessly optimistic and hopeful, and believe if we can present a
> >>> good case then companies may want to allocate those resources, which
> >>> is to say, people and money.
> >>>
> >>> Ciao,
> >>>
> >>> Louis
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD
> >>> Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> >>> OpenOffice.org
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Larry Garfield                  AIM: LOLG42
> >> larry at garfieldtech.com          ICQ: 6817012
> >>
> >> "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
> >> exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an
> idea,
> >> which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to
> >> himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
> >> possession
> >> of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."  --
> >> Thomas
> >> Jefferson
> >
> >
>
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