Re: LUG Radio appearance and correction [Fwd: Factual Correction

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> 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!)
>

Thank Ryan! Very accurate email.

cheers

Martin

> Have a great day!
>
> Ryan
>
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> Subject: Factual Correction to Season 3 Episode 18 - Collaborative
> Editing
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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
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>
> --
> Ryan Pavlik
> AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
> www.abisource.com
>
> "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 5 15:09:14 2006