Do I understand right that OpenOffice is used just to convert formats? In
what format are documents translated?
Also, there is a mention of "Yegor's library" in the task - What is this
library?

2012/3/30 Alexei Fedotov <[email protected]>

> Hi Dmitry,
> nice to hear from you
>
> 1) tasks are relevant;
> 2) sure, if complexity is not a problem,
> 3) JODConverter is actually openoffice interface
> http://code.google.com/p/jodconverter/
>
> --
> With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями,
> Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов,
> http://dataved.ru/
> +7 916 562 8095
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Dmitry Zamula <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > My name is Dmitry, I'm on my fifth year of information technologies at
> the
> > National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and
> > Optics of St. Petersburg, Russia. I would like to participate in GSoC
> 2012.
> > I am familiar with Java and surrounding technology (Spring, EJB,
> Hibernate
> > etc.). I have one year experience in commercial developments.
> > I want to ask you for some clarifications, about one of proposed ideas:
> >
> > "performance: maybe we can set up dedicated OpenOffice service, so we
> > won't need to have one for each openmeetings installation; in this
> > case we can monitor document conversion errors and stream them to
> > Apache OpenOffice project;
> >
> > another approach to document handling is replacing OpenOffice with
> > Zimbra, or Google Wave (which is Apache Wave), or Yegor's library; most
> of
> > them have problems with Excel though"
> >
> > Before submitting the application, I would like to clarify, whether the
> > task is relevant today? Is it possible to use it as a summer project in
> > GSoC? Do you need any proof of my competence in programming (like test
> > task)?
> > I would like to ask a question about the task - As far as I understand
> > whiteboard displays a static image of the document without the
> possibility
> > of editing. Openmeeting uses JDOConverter to convert formats. But I do
> not
> > quite understand the role of OpenOffice in the process.
> >
> > _________________________________________________________
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dmitry Zamula
>

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