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 (DIR) Post #AcmYaYzu2MOqtPfPLU by webmink@the.webm.ink
       2023-12-13T23:36:09Z
       
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       #A Vision for LibreOfficeI am standing for election to the board of The Document Foundation (TDF) again. The most important thing TDF needs is a vision for LibreOffice. Here is the outline a vision I would propose to the Trustees and Board if elected, obviously collaboratively with them.Where are we choosing to go?TDF exists to serve the public globally, not the needs of any corporation.Consequently TDF should not be directing donated money to give any company an alternative to Microsoft Office, nor to give any service provider an alternative to Google Docs, nor to unnecessarily subsidise the companies benefiting from each.Online Office is a service for cloud providers and corporate users, but is of limited value in serving the mission of TDF, so TDF should limit engagement with it to deploying a copy as a stepping-stone for TDF's evolution.LibreOffice Desktop needs to be able to interoperate with it however, both via file format and in real-time.P2P LibreOfficeWhat we most need is peer-to-peer collaboration built in to desktop LibreOffice without the requirement for a cloud providerIdeally it should be interoperable with Collabora Office too, via real-time connectionWe need this on a platform-neutral basis so every version is interoperableWe should also start looking beyond the “document” paradigm. Even e-mail attachments are becoming rarer; we need to consider distributed filesystems, fediverse systems and other content containers.So as a minimum we also need support for distributed filesystems such as IPFSTDF should be spending its significant cash reserves to make LibreOffice a future-proof and accessible tool for every citizen in every country and every language, not on tenders to corporate suppliers to fix bugs that they need fixed but can't fix economically.Possible paths to P2PThis could be achieved by taking the remote access capability from Collabora Online and integrating it it into desktop LibreofficeIt would need redesign to make it work for ordinary users without technical intervention, possibly using IPv6 libraries such as LibreCast.If a browser-accessible build were available (WASM seems possible), it might also be feasible to allow a user without LibreOffice installed to collaborate peer-to-peer — in response to an individual invitation — with just a browser.To discuss this post please reply from Mastodon etc. (search for the URL) & include @webmink@meshed.cloud as WriteFreely still doesn't display replies. More.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcmwhZ1Al0Bvsp8DvE by amerika@noagendasocial.com
       2023-12-14T04:06:31Z
       
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       @webmink@the.webm.ink @webmink@meshed.cloud ...that it works for basic tasks?