What should be promoted is the concept of *community* corporations, which is discussed in detail in the book Going Local, by Michael Shuman. They operate just like normal corporations, only they require a residency restriction on stockholders to anchor the corporation to the community. This prevents it from taking flight when it wants cheaper labor or weaker regulations available elsewhere. When the workers, owners and customers are all primarily part of the same community, business decisions require more thought and consensus besides what will raise the bottom line. It is a fascinating hybrid of capitalist and socialist values, having the best of both (competition, private ownership, decentralization, sustainable economics) without the bad (govt. bureaucracy/corruption, central planning).
The reason KDE's dialogs don't allow file management is because they are not file managers; I have several users in my organization that can *only* manage files using the Word dialog. The dialog should only serve the purpose of opening a file, and relegate other operations to Konqueror. I am interested in your idea of a "history" view, though. Do you mean like the "Recent Files" entry in the File menu of apps?
{Star|Open}Office(.org) has a full-suite of document revision functions, as well as versioning. It's been there since OpenOffice.org 1.0. Now granted, there is no SharePoint server, but it's easy as hell to integrate that into an existing Intranet/Web application.
Funny idea. I'm the IT manager at a library, and I gotta say that most of the librarians have no idea how to organize information on a computer. They rely on existing structure (existing records, MARC classification schemas). So, no, librarians probably aren't the best ones for the job. Newer fields, like Informatics, are probably better suited.
KDE's KOffice is developing a *complete* suite of applications to replace MS Office. In your case, please investigate Kexi (www.koffice.org/kexi/), a true Access replacement.
What I would like to see is SuSE (or someone else) take KDE to the level Ximian is pushing GNOME. SuSE would have the clear advantage of being an end-to-end solution provider, and could integrate KDE deeply with the rest of the OS. A (more) polished, integrated KDE desktop targeted to enterprise (and even small) businesses...especially if they can extend the capabilities of the Kiosk framework (esp. for organizations serving the public, like schools, libraries, etc.). Tight OpenOffice integration would be integral, too. I'd do it if I was a millionaire...
KOffice is already actively working to support the OpenOffice XML file formats. David Faure is even on the OASIS team working to standardize on the OO.o specification. This is the important area of focus, to allow for true integration into the KDE desktop. Besides, down the road, KOffice will be much more advanced than the OpenOffice.org suite. Check it out for yourself: www.koffice.org.
I have been waiting to release news of this until the project and website was actually completed, but I guess there is no better time or place than now to point this out to everyone. I have been working with these issues for several years and luckily stumbled across this excellent piece while searching for community resources at the local library.
New Community Networks: Wired for Change by Douglas Schuler
The book was published in 1996, long before most people even USED the Web, much less thought of it as a vehice for social change. I found out that the book had since been out of print, and since then have established communication with the author and volunteered to convert the book to XML so that it can be indexed and searched full text on the Web. Although that is not yet finished,
you can read it at the current site on the Seattle Community Network's website:
The entire book is online, and you can probably find a paper version at used bookstores or the library. I hope one day to be able to distribute the text to others if Doug has the license returned back to him. Everyone involved in the Open-source and other democratic technologies needs to seriously get this book - it was WAY ahead of it's time
Some of you may have never even HEARD of the term community network before; I hope this helps you to see the immeasurable value it can provide society.
As far as the development of Democratic Technologies, I myself am getting ready to go public with my very own ".org" - CommunityCode, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing, promoting, and supporting democratic technologies, namely an advanced information system that promises to be everything Napster and Gnutella have missed.
I will post more about CommunityCode as developments occur. The website, www.CommunityCode.org should be up soon, when we get the hardware setup, etc. Anyone interested in this project can contact me at my email to find out more.
Drum N Bass is THE music to program to - it locks my brain in digital mode...Muziq, Photek, Metalheadz, Amon Tobin, Digital, Endemic Void - hot shit, lemme tell ya. Sometimes I just want to rave around in my cubbyhole!!!:-D
Yes, get the new GNOME packages - just download them to a directory, then, switch to root, do "rpm -Uvh *" and a clean GNOME upgrade should ensue. LOTS of good updates, features, and fixes. Then, sit back and be productive!!
..and a very good one at that. It has all the features you could ever want outside of Xemacs:-), and I must admit, their drawing module it quite powerful. One of it's best strenghts is that I think it has the best compatibility with M$Office - that was one of their main goals.
This sounds great! Two things I'm interested in (1) What the HELL is Staroffice written in, and what GUI toolkit does it use (someone said some weird QT derivative, (2) It's a nice GUI, and if it was extracted and made into a GUI/API Framework, possibly companies could use it to port their apps to linux easier. Nonetheless, I use Staroffice 5.1 everyday under linux, and it's great - a good, solid, well-featured app. Only thing is, will Stardivision be under Sun, or will all those developers just disappear...
Have you looked into VDKBuilder? It's coming along very well (just passed the one year anniversary mark - congrats Mario & team!). It's all opensourced, and is based upon a library (VDK) that is similar to Borlands OWL/VCL (hence then name). It's got an editor, project manager, widget inspector, and GUI builder. The only thing it lacks up to this point is a good bugger (which I'm sure is on the way). Why not give it a try? http://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/vdkbuilder/i ndex.htm
Someone wrote: "I'd rather see a new group formed to make a GPL or "free" GIS system for linux. Most GIS systems that are commercially available are overpriced (due to the factt hat they are marketed for Municipalities only, government has gobs of money, let's steal it from them attitudes) and almost nothing is available for Unix/linux..."
Well, there is a very, very, very powerful GIS application developed for our beloved OS - it's the GRASS GIS system. Check it out at www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/ and see for yourself. It has way too many features to name here, but it was developed by the Army Core of Engineers and put into public domain. The potential for this system is huge, and more developers could be used to make GUI frontends, etc.
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What should be promoted is the concept of *community* corporations, which is discussed in detail in the book Going Local, by Michael Shuman. They operate just like normal corporations, only they require a residency restriction on stockholders to anchor the corporation to the community. This prevents it from taking flight when it wants cheaper labor or weaker regulations available elsewhere. When the workers, owners and customers are all primarily part of the same community, business decisions require more thought and consensus besides what will raise the bottom line. It is a fascinating hybrid of capitalist and socialist values, having the best of both (competition, private ownership, decentralization, sustainable economics) without the bad (govt. bureaucracy/corruption, central planning).
Probably since it uses Mozilla's addressbook API (and some other shared code, I believe).
Eron
The reason KDE's dialogs don't allow file management is because they are not file managers; I have several users in my organization that can *only* manage files using the Word dialog. The dialog should only serve the purpose of opening a file, and relegate other operations to Konqueror. I am interested in your idea of a "history" view, though. Do you mean like the "Recent Files" entry in the File menu of apps?
{Star|Open}Office(.org) has a full-suite of document revision functions, as well as versioning. It's been there since OpenOffice.org 1.0. Now granted, there is no SharePoint server, but it's easy as hell to integrate that into an existing Intranet/Web application.
Well sure, but it hasn't successfully been done on a desktop OS yet.
Funny idea. I'm the IT manager at a library, and I gotta say that most of the librarians have no idea how to organize information on a computer. They rely on existing structure (existing records, MARC classification schemas). So, no, librarians probably aren't the best ones for the job. Newer fields, like Informatics, are probably better suited.
No wonder you find the online docs difficult to navigate...you must not be paying attention ;-). See the article on dot.kde.org...you will find:
* Model/view classes for list box, tree view, icon view and table
Hopefully this will solve your problem.
Eron
KDE's KOffice is developing a *complete* suite of applications to replace MS Office. In your case, please investigate Kexi (www.koffice.org/kexi/), a true Access replacement.
Eron
What I would like to see is SuSE (or someone else) take KDE to the level Ximian is pushing GNOME. SuSE would have the clear advantage of being an end-to-end solution provider, and could integrate KDE deeply with the rest of the OS. A (more) polished, integrated KDE desktop targeted to enterprise (and even small) businesses...especially if they can extend the capabilities of the Kiosk framework (esp. for organizations serving the public, like schools, libraries, etc.). Tight OpenOffice integration would be integral, too. I'd do it if I was a millionaire...
KOffice is already actively working to support the OpenOffice XML file formats. David Faure is even on the OASIS team working to standardize on the OO.o specification. This is the important area of focus, to allow for true integration into the KDE desktop. Besides, down the road, KOffice will be much more advanced than the OpenOffice.org suite. Check it out for yourself: www.koffice.org.
It's already being developed...http://www.koffice.org/kexi/
Cheers,
Eron
that XP is trying to look more like KDE ;-).
I have been waiting to release news of this until the project and website was actually completed, but I guess there is no better time or place than now to point this out to everyone. I have been working with these issues for several years and luckily stumbled across this excellent piece while searching for community resources at the local library.
New Community Networks: Wired for Changeby Douglas Schuler
The book was published in 1996, long before most people even USED the Web, much less thought of it as a vehice for social change. I found out that the book had since been out of print, and since then have established communication with the author and volunteered to convert the book to XML so that it can be indexed and searched full text on the Web. Although that is not yet finished, you can read it at the current site on the Seattle Community Network's website:
Click Here To Read It!The entire book is online, and you can probably find a paper version at used bookstores or the library. I hope one day to be able to distribute the text to others if Doug has the license returned back to him. Everyone involved in the Open-source and other democratic technologies needs to seriously get this book - it was WAY ahead of it's time
Some of you may have never even HEARD of the term community network before; I hope this helps you to see the immeasurable value it can provide society.
As far as the development of Democratic Technologies, I myself am getting ready to go public with my very own ".org" - CommunityCode, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing, promoting, and supporting democratic technologies, namely an advanced information system that promises to be everything Napster and Gnutella have missed.
I will post more about CommunityCode as developments occur. The website, www.CommunityCode.org should be up soon, when we get the hardware setup, etc. Anyone interested in this project can contact me at my email to find out more.
Drum N Bass is THE music to program to - it locks my brain in digital mode...Muziq, Photek, Metalheadz, Amon Tobin, Digital, Endemic Void - hot shit, lemme tell ya. Sometimes I just want to rave around in my cubbyhole!!! :-D
Yes, get the new GNOME packages - just download them to a directory, then, switch to root, do "rpm -Uvh *" and a clean GNOME upgrade should ensue. LOTS of good updates, features, and fixes. Then, sit back and be productive!!
..and a very good one at that. It has all the features you could ever want outside of Xemacs :-), and I must admit, their drawing module it quite powerful. One of it's best strenghts is that I think it has the best compatibility with M$Office - that was one of their main goals.
This sounds great! Two things I'm interested in (1) What the HELL is Staroffice written in, and what GUI toolkit does it use (someone said some weird QT derivative, (2) It's a nice GUI, and if it was extracted and made into a GUI/API Framework, possibly companies could use it to port their apps to linux easier. Nonetheless, I use Staroffice 5.1 everyday under linux, and it's great - a good, solid, well-featured app. Only thing is, will Stardivision be under Sun, or will all those developers just disappear...
Have you looked into VDKBuilder? It's coming alongi ndex.htm
very well (just passed the one year anniversary mark - congrats Mario & team!). It's all opensourced, and is based upon a library (VDK) that is similar to Borlands OWL/VCL (hence then name). It's got an editor, project manager, widget inspector, and GUI builder. The only thing it lacks up to this point is a good bugger (which I'm sure is on the way). Why not give it a try? http://www.guest.net/homepages/mmotta/vdkbuilder/
Well, there is a very, very, very powerful GIS application developed for our beloved OS - it's the GRASS GIS system. Check it out at www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/ and see for yourself. It has way too many features to name here, but it was developed by the Army Core of Engineers and put into public domain. The potential for this system is huge, and more developers could be used to make GUI frontends, etc.