Collaborative Work with OpenOffice: PengYou

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Feb 2007 18:37 UTC, submitted by liquidat

"Quite some time ago I was searching for the possibility to have a server side storage for documents, and to work on them together with others. Sure, in principal you can realize that with KOffice and kparts where you access and store all data over ssh on a server. But first of all that is not supported by OpenOffice, and it would be cool to have this also with some kind of web interface to check the versions of the documents, etc. So I continued my search - and found PengYou."

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Well, very interesting!

by alcibiades (4.12) on Thu 1st Feb 2007 20:31 UTC

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Thanks for this one, very interesting. It could be exactly what is needed in the right circumstances. If for instance you have a lead author with collaborators, this could be a low cost turn-key way of delivering them all just what they need.

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Pengyou

by youcha (2.08) on Thu 1st Feb 2007 21:39 UTC

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it means Friend in Mandarin Chinese.
I couldn't resist, my chinese beginner course is good for something.

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RE: Pengyou

by CrazyDude0 (-0.48) on Thu 1st Feb 2007 22:36 UTC in reply to "Pengyou"

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how about FungYou

Edited 2007-02-01 22:36

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RE: Pengyou

by cyberkoa (2.56) on Thu 1st Feb 2007 22:43 UTC in reply to "Pengyou"

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You are right.

Initially I thought it is a project headed by Chinese but to my surprise , it is not. All the members seems like is Italian.

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It looks interesting

by systyrant (3) on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 00:43 UTC

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As a WordPerfect user (ok you can stop laughing) I'm always on the lookout for open software than will work with WordPerfect. I have to admit I was a little bummed when I saw that it integrates with Word and OpenOffice, but not WordPerfect.

I would love to see it work with WordPerfect, but I also realize that most people are Microsoft Office users and if they choose to move away from Office it will probably be to OpenOffice.

It did look like a nice setup though. The fact that it integrates with the program itself is nice as well.

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google documents

by nburana (1) on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 03:46 UTC

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Google documents/spreadsheets (docs.google.com), I think formerly writely, is also a good colaboration tool.

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RE: google documents

by edomaur (1.48) on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 08:28 UTC in reply to "google documents"

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the problem i have with writely, is that you cannot work on a disconnected computer. PengYou is juste fine for this, view it like a document workflow oriented cvs where you commit the changes you've made.

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