I'd like to welcome Gregory Haynes who will be working to bring collaborative editing to KDE this year. Collaborative editing consists of multiple people working on the same document at the same time and being able to see each others changes in real-time. Having this in KDE will be fantastic and a huge step forward in terms of what is possible when it comes to working with other people.
Greg is relatively new to the KDE community, but has already enough Qt related experience to make this happen. One thing that impressed with his application was his enthusiasm coupled with very good attention to detail and a clear plan of what to do. Personally I am very excited and can't wait to see the first results. I'm sure it will be just pure awesomeness.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
KollabFrame - Concurrent Collaborative Content Creation
KollabFrame - The vision
Imagine a world where computers are everywhere. A world where documents, images, videos, audio files and other content are available to be edited on any device in collaboration with others. Now imagine being able to do this concurrently. Share and remix. Brainstorm ideas. Write books. Role play. Take notes. Code. Create mind maps. Draw. Create music. All as part of a group that makes changes together in real time. This world is not too far from the future and making this happen is what KollabFrame is about.
KollabFrame is a new project that will attempt to pull together the various pieces of technology currently available or in planning and build a framework for collaborative content creation. This framework might end up as another pillar of KDE or as part of one of the existing ones. Where it ends up inside KDE however is not so important. What is important, as Aaron Seigo so aptly put it in his KDE 4.0 release event speech, is that it is about making this technology available to all KDE applications and cooperating with other projects outside KDE to achieve this.
Now that you know what it's about make sure check out the existing pages and join the mailing list if you are keen.
Imagine a world where computers are everywhere. A world where documents, images, videos, audio files and other content are available to be edited on any device in collaboration with others. Now imagine being able to do this concurrently. Share and remix. Brainstorm ideas. Write books. Role play. Take notes. Code. Create mind maps. Draw. Create music. All as part of a group that makes changes together in real time. This world is not too far from the future and making this happen is what KollabFrame is about.
KollabFrame is a new project that will attempt to pull together the various pieces of technology currently available or in planning and build a framework for collaborative content creation. This framework might end up as another pillar of KDE or as part of one of the existing ones. Where it ends up inside KDE however is not so important. What is important, as Aaron Seigo so aptly put it in his KDE 4.0 release event speech, is that it is about making this technology available to all KDE applications and cooperating with other projects outside KDE to achieve this.
Now that you know what it's about make sure check out the existing pages and join the mailing list if you are keen.
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