Re: GOCollab

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 16:18 -0400, Matthew R. Colyer wrote:
> I saw a post to planet.gnome.org about GOCollab, I have been very
> interested in the field and have been working on it for a year and a
> half. There has been alot of research into this area and I wanted to
> make sure you guys are aware of it. SubEthaEdit is based off of the
> algorithms stated in the following paper:
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/sun98achieving.html
>
> You can see a working prototype here (it uses MS word):
> http://reduce.qpsf.edu.au/coword/
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> I put together a very rough version in Python that didn't actually
> work correctly but you can read about it here:
> http://students.olin.edu/2007/mcolyer/projects/collaborate/
>
> I have been rewriting the base from scratch and I now believe it to be
> alot more robust/correct. There is a test suite for it but no gui or
> network connectivity. I have attached a tarball of the current state
> of what I have.
>
> I would really love to see GNOME succeed with this and would love to
> help architect a solution. I am not sure the best way to participate
> but I am willing to hear what you all think.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> --Matt
>
> PS the code attached is written solely by myself and licensed under
> the GPL, I am lazy and haven't attached the license.
>

Hi Matt,
        Thank you VERY much for this! It's great to see the research
that has already been done in this field.

I'll take some time to digest all the information in this email.

Thank you also for your offer to help! It would be great to get this
working with a real-world application like a word processor.

I will also look at the code you've written.

Tomas Frydrych, another AbiWord hacker, is also very interested in this
work and started to develop a communication protocol. You can find a
working draft of his communication protocol description at the link:

http://www.abisource.com/~tf/

I suggest you scan through the abiword-dev archives here:

http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/

and particularly through the May, 2005 archives to see the state of our
discussion. You are clearly ahead of us in many respects and we would
value your contribution. Feel free to subscribe to the abiword-dev
mailing list to continue to participate.

Cheers

Martin

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Received on Mon May 30 04:06:31 2005