[eLML Users] Minutes of the eLML Meeting from December 12th 2008

[<joe...@id...>]

Dear eLML-Users,
A very short minutes of last weeks eLML Meeting. Thanks for all the =20
people who attended the meeting:
Olaf Schnabel (ETH), S=E4mi Wiesmann (ETH) Roland Streule (PTO Projekt), =
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Thomas Comiotto (MELS, Sandra Roth (MELS), Thomas Grossmann (GIUZ), =20
Susanne Bleisch (FHNW), Michael Ziege (MELS), Res Zangger (ESO =20
Projekt), Jo=EBl Fisler (MELS), Petra Kauer-Ott (GIUZ), Alberto Sanz =20
(MELS), Caspar N=F6tzli (ELC), Lukas St=E4hli (RWI), Bernhard Fuchs =20
(KLPHS), Patrick Kammerer  (ESO Projekt)

1. Alberto Sanz made a short demo of his ODF-Transformation. Some of =20
the meeting participants would be interested in testing and using it. =20=

The majority argued that a real benefit would be a "2-way-=20
communication" meaning that you could not only transform eLML to ODF =20
but also transform the edited ODF document back to eLML. This would =20
mean to continue developing the Open Office Editor Andre Locher =20
started last year. Unfortunately there are no financial resources at =20
the moment for that but we will see. Another concern is that the ODF =20
document cannot be directly imported into Word 2007. You need a =20
converter and this converter is not always working properly. Hopefully =20=

this will be fixed during the next months.
Planned release date is March 2008.

2. Thomas Comiotto presented the beta version of his XML editor. The =20
editor is programmed as a firefox plugin and it can be easily =20
installed with a double-click. It works both integrated into Lenya/=20
UniCMS or as a standalone Editor. There are some extensions for eLML =20
but eg. the GUI for bibliography or glossary is not finished yet. =20
Multimedia assets are only supported in the UniCMS version at the =20
moment but will soon be working in both version. There is a WYSIWYG =20
view and an outline view, other views could be implemented (eg. by the =20=

projects) by adapting an XSLT file. The modalities for becoming a =20
betatester were discussed and some of you already contacted Thomas and =20=

received a beta-version. There seems to be a problem in Windows XP on =20=

some machines but this should be solved soon. Release of the Lenya/=20
UniCMS editor will be on March 7th 2008. Release of the standalone =20
eLML editor should also be around this time (we would like to present =20=

it at the OLAT conference in late March).

After the demo there was a discussion about the strategy, the future =20
of this tool and the importance of eLML with the editor for the =20
University of Zurich. Unfortunately there is not much I can say at the =20=

moment about this because the future employment of Thomas Comiotto =20
after July 2008 is not within my competences. But I am very positive =20
that we will find a reasonable solution. I'll keep you updated.

3. The last points (open requests and varia) were skipped due to the =20
long demo and discussion. Please go to =
http://sourceforge.net/projects/elml/=20
  and post your comments to the open requests there. I will try to =20
"clean up" or close open requests in the first two January weeks.

Bye
Jo=EBl

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Jo=EBl Fisler
Universit=E4t Z=FCrich - Informatikdienste (ID)
Multimedia & E-Learning Services (MELS)
Winterthurerstrasse 190 (Y12 F64)
CH-8057 Z=FCrich

Phone: +41 44 63 55252 or "joelfisler" (Skype)
Mail: joe...@id...
Web: http://www.id.uzh.ch/org/mels.html
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