LUG Radio appearance and correction [Fwd: Factual Correction to Season 3 Episode 18 - Collaborative Editing]

We were mentioned on LUG Radio!
http://www.lugradio.org/episodes/53

They mistakenly believed that we were using Libobby (from Gobby) to
power AbiCollab. I sent the show this email to correct them - it is
correct to the best of my knowledge. Maybe we'll get another plug in
the correction? :)

(and I even plugged Sum1's amazing SoC contributions to DocBook!)

Have a great day!

Ryan

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Hello there! Just started listening to LUG Radio after hearing about it
for a long time on Planet GNOME. I've added your feed to my Rhythmbox
and started listening with the oldest one on the feed.

I am involved with the AbiWord project and thought you might like to
know a clarification. You mentioned AbiWord's collaboration feature
under development several times. This feature is indeed under
development, and actually works at the moment and is being polished
right now. What I heard in your show that was inaccurate was the
reference to libobby. While re-using that code was considered early in
the process, we do not use that library right now. AbiCollab is a
collaborative protocol that transports AbiWord "Change Records" (part of
the internal representation of the document) over a standard XMPP
("Jabber") transport (all you need is two Jabber accounts on some server
- one for each editor). It currently supports editing all structures
that AbiWord supports (as far as I know), and support for multi-colored
cursors/carets (typing insertion pointers) - one for each attached
AbiWord editor - was added recently. Currently work is being done on
making "Undo" make sense and do what would be expected - only undoing
changes performed locally. Anyone who would like to download the CVS
source code and give it a try is welcome to - if you drop by #AbiWord on
irc.gimp.org, there will probably be someone there who can help you with
it (after you read the build docs of course :D ) and possibly even give
you a demo. In the way of dependencies, rather than libobby, AbiCollab
only depends on the Loudmouth Jabber/XMPP library. The build
dependencies are all available in Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper" and most likely
FC5 as well (I personally use Ubuntu).

On the subject of creating documentation, we have a Google Summer of
Code contributor who has been working with the project for a while, and
he has recently overhauled and greatly improved the DocBook
import/export support. Most of these changes will be available in the
2.4 stable series, however, the full impact of the Summer of Code will
be felt best in the upcoming 2.6 release and the 2.5 development alpha
and beta releases preceding it.

Thanks for mentioning AbiWord - it's a great project that I strongly
believe in, and I'm looking forward to the release of 2.6 which will
feature this great new collaboration technology!

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller