KG01- see comments inline On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 <x-apple-data-detectors://48>, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Phillip Rhodes > <motley.crue....@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Per Rob's email about the "Help us brainstorm ideas for Apache > > OpenOffice 4.0" I was perusing the Google Moderator doc[1] and came > > across this suggestion: > > > > "Provide social capabilities within core editors to share selection, > > page/sheet/slide, or entire document with popular services including: > > micro-blogs, social networks, curation communities, and file sharing > > services." > > > > I think there's a lot to be said for this, and wouldn't mind getting > > involved with such an initiative. Posting this to try and spark some > > discussion around this suggestion. > > > > My own comment, in response to Kevin's Moderator post was this: > > > > "I like the idea of having something like this. If we had something > > like that, I'd like a somewhat generic / extensible framework, so it > > can be wired into pretty much any service, including services that > > don't even exist today." KG01 - Agreed, a generic and scalable framework would be great. > > > Any thoughts on what "social integration" for AOO should look like, > > and is anyone else interested in this? > > > > [1]: https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=2011d5 > > > KG01 - I feel that there is enough momentum here to start capturing some usage scenarios. I can create a page on the wiki to capture some scenaios. Perhaps we could run a session at the upcoming November conference to validate and prioritize the scenarios. > We (IBM) did a proof-of-concept along these lines for a demo at a > conference last January. Here is the general use case. It was an > extension to Impress that would allow the user to send the current > slide to the activity stream of an OpenSocial container. It converted > the slide to a JPG, presented a dialog for the user to enter a comment > and then used the OpenSocial REST API to send this to the server. The > slide could then be viewed on the server via the containers web > interface. Other users could comment on it. When the document > re-loaded into Impress the container would be queried and the latest > comments would be retrieved and integrated into Impress, into a side > panel. > > So the net result was a user could post a slide with a question like > "What do you think of this slide?", have it be shared with their > friends, and then receive comments back from them. It demo'ed well > and seems to have some merit. KG01 - there it is, our first usage scenario :) > > One idea would be to integrate such support and generalize it to Calc > and Writer. Another idea might be to support other, non-OpenSocial > social networks. The key seems to be the ability to convert a portion > of a document into a snippet that is web-renderable (HTML or JPG) and > track context. Oh, and a lot of OAuth ;-) > > Regards, > > -Rob > > > (Disclaimer: my interest is partly - but not exclusively - motivated > > by commercial concerns, as I am a founder of a startup that's working > > on open source "Enterprise Social Networking" / "Enterprise 2.0" > > products, and would be interested in exploring ways AOO could work > > with our product(s)) > > > > > > > > Phil >
