X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/4f326b40b417733f65d1ca9e8c389940f4d3e8bd..6f6d23be6ebd4848682ddc55f8ce0ef9c62d4b59:/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss b/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss index e1fb36a941..f21c6eeefa 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2010/06/06.rss @@ -577,6 +577,37 @@ continue.</p> xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga xulrunner-1.9</p> + + + + + Officeshots taking shape + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Officeshots_taking_shape.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Officeshots_taking_shape.html + Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:40:00 +0200 + +<p>For those of us caring about document exchange and +interoperability, <a href="http://www.officeshots.org/">OfficeShots</a> +is a great service. It is to ODF documents what +<a href="http://browsershots.org/">BrowserShots</a> is for web +pages.</p> + +<p>A while back, I was contacted by Knut Yrvin at the part of Nokia +that used to be Trolltech, who wanted to help the OfficeShots project +and wondered if the University of Oslo where I work would be +interested in supporting the project. I helped him to navigate his +request to the right people at work, and his request was answered with +a spot in the machine room with power and network connected, and Knut +arranged funding for a machine to fill the spot. The machine is +administrated by the OfficeShots people, so I do not have daily +contact with its progress, and thus from time to time check back to +see how the project is doing.</p> + +<p>Today I had a look, and was happy to see that the Dell box in our +machine room now is the host for several virtual machines running as +OfficeShots factories, and the project is able to render ODF documents +in 17 different document processing implementation on Linux and +Windows. This is great.</p>