[Building Sakai] Anyone running headless OO.org in production or pilot?

[Steven Githens]

On 10/04/2010 10:58 AM, Nate Angell wrote:
> I'm no help on your OO question, but your use case reminds me of
> another I just encountered that you might want to consider also—maybe
> Assignments2 is already thinking about this.
>
> When grading multiple inline submissions, instructors would like to
> see side-by-side versions with highlighted diffs. The over-under
> versions without diffs in Assignments now make comparison more
> difficult.
>
> Happy to write up as a Jira if it makes sense.
>
>    

Neat, please write it up as a feature request. If you have an MS Paint 
or napkin doodle you can attach as well that would be great.


-s

> - Nate
>
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Steven Githens<swgithen at mtu.edu>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm curious if anyone here is running a headless openoffice daemon in
>> production or pilot in conjunction with Sakai (or even with different
>> project).  I'm curious about how you've added it to your deployment
>> setup, whether you run it on the same node as Sakai or on a different node.
>>
>> It's something I'm investigating to fill in some functionality, and
>> curious how others have gotten it into their deployment environments,
>> since it's more than just a jar file to ram into tomcat.
>>
>> Apache POI is nice for really specific tasks, but for anything that
>> needs to keep some aesthetics and be more general it seems to be the way
>> to go.  Google uses it for stuff, and other open source projects (like
>> Etherpad) use it as an engine for exporting things in various office
>> formats and PDF's.
>>
>> What I'm currently looking at is allowing instructors in Assignments 2
>> to optionally edit student feedback offline in a format other than HTML
>> and then upload that and have the conversion be halfway decent. (which
>> OO.org is pretty good at).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
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