[news.eclipse.technology.ecesis] Re: Copyright and translation issues

[Jean Couillaud <couillaud@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ross Gardler wrote:
> 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.

In fact, I did not run the plugin, I rather looked at the accompanying 
ppt files

> > 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.

I am sorry I lead you to a misunderstanding, I know nothing of the 
internal format apart from the presentations which are powerpoint files.

Once again, I do not have a lot of time to work on the plugin, but I 
will always have time to participate in the translation effort.
Maybe we could create a "subproject" for translation purposes ...

> Ross