Hi :) Google-docs has no database program. We have something that is nearly for widespread usage. Google devs could use to gain experience of what might be good for a small-scale database program suitable for an office suite.
We need to attract a lot of devs to work on Base or else just watch it fall apart as regressions continue to occur. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 22/9/11, Thorsten Behrens <t...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: From: Thorsten Behrens <t...@documentfoundation.org> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Recruitment for Base (Was Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?) To: "David Nelson" <li...@traduction.biz> Cc: marketing@global.libreoffice.org, "Michael Meeks" <mme...@novell.com> Date: Thursday, 22 September, 2011, 11:13 Hi David - always helps to Cc people you address, otherwise things may linger in my inbox for a while, depending on where I focus on. David Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Ian Lynch <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I know that the PostgreSQL developers are interested in closer > > integration with OOo from direct talks with them and we will be > > looking at this in more detail and we have realistic chances of > > getting significant funding resources. > > This sounds like one possible good move for LibreOffice: Base as as a > front end and PostgreSQL as the engine at the back. > Just get the postgresql connector working, and included into the Oracle SGA grant. Code old-ish & may need minor tweaks. Base has always been reasonably backend-agnostic. > Although, like Tom, I'd love to see TDF get something moving with > Google (one of our supporters, no?) and work on Google Docs > integration. > What does GDocs have to do with Base specifically? > Michael, Thorsten, could you maybe explain to us what the problems > and prerequisites would be for the above? > No real probs there - only that all of this is not addressing Base core development. ;) Cheers, -- Thorsten -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
