Hello everyone, I'm wondering whether there has been any real attempt or plans to embrace the Cloud with Scribus power. I'm thinking about something similar to http://musescore.org and http://musescore.com
MuseScore has started similar to Scribus strictly as a specialized DTP program, much more specialized though obviously as they are doing music sheets only. You could and still can download their software to run it locally on any major platform, and it feels a lot like Scribus. Then, integrated into the software, they allowed you to connect to a personal MuseScore account and have your music sheets uploaded. From your account you could share the music sheets. A year or more ago they then made the obvious move (according to a newsletter I received; their website [1] says 2009---whatever; here's [2] a more in-depth explanation) and announced they will provide a separate Cloud platform on a commercial basis. Anyway, I've seen something (not quite that) similar [3] has been discussed on this list before. So, are there any other, maybe recent, developments about a Cloud service? Maybe there's not as much need to share documents as there is with sheet music. But for small communities, non-profit associations, schools, and the like that struggle with making a recurring publication of a sort of newspaper there is no real solution of a simple collaborative platform to compile and review the content they compile. They usually can't afford employing a dedicated publishing team, or they come up with content in terrible document formats, tragically formatted, to then have it handed on to a design agency that gets the job done for a few bucks or so. Usually too much money, but seriously: who wants to do that stupid job of bringing a terrible mix of that delivered content into a nice form? In the end they blame it on you when the whole issue or some single articles "should have looked differently". What I don't see as a sufficiently sensible or useful scenario is to put the whole program online, a desktop application in the boundaries of a web browser, e.g. [4]. That's, uhm, excrements of a male cow. (Sorry!) Is there any possible way to store a Scribus document on a server and expose the single parts of the document in a sensible way as "articles" of a blog, e.g. categorized or tagged to make clear it belongs together? My scenario would be to allow online collaboration in a way blog posts are written, optionally supported by an editorial workflow. Any thoughts or opinions? Feedback greatly appreciated, Peter [1] http://musescore.com/team [2] http://musescore.org/en/node/8099 [3] http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus-dev/2011-October/001310.html, http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.scribus.devel/1295 [4] https://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2011-10-10-lool-demo.webm
