new ideas on OO from Hacking Week

Hacking week from opensuse is comming soon. from now on, there are two ideas about OOo.
* collaborative editing for OO
allow multipule people to work together on the same document in OO at the same time in the same visual space.
the OO internals need to be examined because it does not use a "piece table" implementation underneath the word processor which would make this easier.

* more intuitive UI for OO
simplify and trimming down the OO UI so that an user can more easily grasp it. sources of inspiration maybe include google docs, the ribbon interface in MS Office 2007 and more.

There is my idea about OO from Soc proposal: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2007/proposals#OpenOffice.org_Based_Workflow_Framework

OpenOffice.org Based Workflow Framework

The one feature that is now begging for attention from OpneOffice.org is the colloboration and workflow. The workflow system should leverage on the Xforms support in OpenOffice.org and combine it with other Open Source Products like Shark ( http://www.enhydra.org/workflow/shark/index.html ) and JaWe ( http://www.enhydra.org/workflow/jawe/index.html ) to create an integrated Xforms based workflow system. The product should have a centralized server component and a client component. The server component interfaces with Process repositories and Process Instance repositories and has Java based Administration and Definition tools. The client component could be a toolbar which sits as an addon into the office suite. The goal of this project is to provide document workflow from within OpenOffice.org.