[Owncloud] Quick question

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Wednesday 18 August 2010 18:06:20 Jos van den Oever wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 17:24:12 pm Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > I know there is some work going into collaborative editing. I just bumped
> > into the article below, which might be interersting - as in, it talks
> > about algorithms which help resolve the issues you have when creating a
> > real-time collaboration framework. It's about google's wave - while the
> > product is dead, there are some clever solutions in there which are
> > described in some whitepapers:
> > http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/operational-transform
> > 
> > Article:
> > http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2010/03/novell-pulse-and-google-wave.htm
> > l
> > 
> > Just FYI, not sure if it's very interesting to anyone right now ;-)
> 
> Hi Jos,
> 
> Thanks for the link. This is certainly on our radar, perhaps even using wave 
> or a similar protocol. I was not aware of Novell Pulse yet. If you know some 
> people looking at sending ODF over wave, we are certainly interested in that 
> protocol and would like to have a go at implementing it.

I could see if I can ask the engineers working on this - maybe they do ODF, maybe not... If you guys are interested, I can definately try to find them.

> Wave on its own is 
> not enough to do collaborative editing of ODF documents. There needs to be 
> agreement on how to do it for the ODF file format which is a zip file containing 
> mostly XML files. The operational transformation algorithm part is a good 
> candidate for being part of the solution.

YESS, so I deserve my t-shirt!

> Cheers,
> Jos
> 
> 
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