Re: [Fsuk-manchester] Libre Office collaborative coding project

[Sam Tuke]

On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 10:47 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Andrew Gladwell wote:
> > Might it be worth looking at this project and either deciding to bolt 
> > Libre Office on, or to take some lessons from this approach?
> 
> I'm not sure I follow. How would you bolt Libre Office on to Diaspora?

There are already similar efforts in the works. See Unhosted Libre
Office [1] (Unhosted was born on the Diaspora Dev list [2]), and Web ODF
[3].

> > One problem I immediately foresee with diaspora is the need to run your 
> > own server all the time, as I understand it. [...]

That's not so. You can host your own if you choose, or host it on a
friend's server, or host it on generic web-hosting, or, as I would do,
on a freedombox. There are and will also be publicly hosted Diaspora
servers where you can register an account, but using it in this way
undermines the point of the project to a large extent - to be a
*decentralised* social network.

Thanks,

Sam.

1. http://vimeo.com/21387223
2. http://blogs.fsfe.org/fellowship-interviews/?p=299
3. http://www.webodf.org/

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