[news.eclipse.technology.ecesis] Re: Copyright issue

[Ross Gardler <rgardler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jean Couillaud wrote:
> I just downloaded ECESIS and looked at the content, it seems interesting 
> and I would be willing to participate as well if there was a way to do 
> it nicely.

I have not managed to get ECESIS to run at this point as I am running on 
Eclipse 3 and it does not appear to work on that platform. However, I am 
interested in this project because of the overlaps with our own. Sooner 
or later I will download Eclipse 2 so I can look at this project.

> First of all, maybe it could be wise to use an open source format for 
> presentation sources.
> I am specifically thinking about OpenOffice.org Presentation format.
> This format is an open source format and OOffice can generate 
> proprietary format files which would allow anyone to see the files (in 
> .sxi for ooffice users and other formats, PowerPoint, StarDraw, 
> StarImpress for those who prefer these formats)

Our own project is an Eclipse based RCP that allows one to create 
learning objects from content in multiple input formats and generate it 
in multiple output formats, as well as package it as a SCORM Content 
Package.

One of our supported input formats is OpenOffice (writer and Impress). 
We also intend to support MS Powerpoint and Word (actually we already do 
but it requires some manual intervention to  make it work at present).

We also support a number of other input formats, such as Docbook, wiki, 
and XHTML.

It is my hope that we can integrate our editing system with ECSESIS 
delivery system.

From your post it would seem that the internal format for content here 
is some non-standard format. This is not necessarily a problem if we 
integrate our code (http://www.burrokeet.org) as we can use it to 
convert from the other input formats to the requires ECSESIS format.

Ross