I'm interested in this statement:
"You can't have people running local Plone's in most situations."
Why not? Speaking only from a system resource perspective, if you can
run Word on a system you can run Plone.
Before I got into Zope and then Plone I was a Lotus Notes programmer for
a couple of years. The dropdead feature of Notes was always the
replication engine. I used to live in Madison, WI and develop for a
company in Minneapolis, MN. Everything was done locally an replicated to
the server. Notes had the concept of the "Local Server". I've often
wondered if Zope could be adapted to a store and forward concept of a
local server. (BTW my connection at the time, 10 years ago, was dial-up
14.4 or 33.6 Kb)
Then main issue is conflict resolution. If that can be worked out so
that no content is lost that would be a killer option. Of course since
we're talk low speed connections in most cases it would work even better
if some sort of delta concept could be worked out to only send the
changes. This could be a side benefit of the change history mechanism.
I don't know enough about Zope internals to know if this is even
feasable. Andy do you know?
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Unfortunately offline is here to stay for quite a long time, and for
organisations that go into places with poor internet connectivity a
common problem that isn't going to get solved soon. Gosh I have
problems getting online in the north of england :)
The moving of data on and offline is relatively straightfoward and a
known problem. You have to snyc the content up and down at some
point, lock it and so on. That's all doable, but I don't know of
anyone working on that in Plone. If anyone is, let me know.
One of the big problems is that you lose a huge amount of
functionality when you take people out of Plone. You can't have
people running local Plone's in most situations. So to edit a peice
of content, I couldn't use say Kupu... so instead people rely on rich
editors and before we know it everyone's using Word and we have
another problem.
This is compounded by complex, structured content types. At it's
simplest, how do you edit a Plone event offline? iCal or Outlook?
They will load files and then save them internally, so you can't
really use those. You either have to limit it down "we'll only edit
Word or HTML documents", find standard rich editors (eg Word or XML
editor) or use some made up syntax (eg ExternalEditor and the way it
adds metadata).
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