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From: Jens Lechtenboerger <lechten@wi.uni-muenster.de>
To: Feiming Chen <feimingc@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with sharing emacs-org presentation
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:39:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8h2vcvr.fsf@wi.uni-muenster.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALDEXBz_4=OP-h5gjQoQ+FuMPAtP5CVGUJcysB46Cr6p=4HdXg@mail.gmail.com> (Feiming Chen's message of "Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:14:37 -0400")

On 2018-10-25, Feiming Chen wrote:

> I gave a talk on emacs-org in a local workshop (Government Advances
> in Statistical Programming) in Washington D.C. yesterday.  I'd like to
> share the slides and org source file with the community (see attached).

Thanks for sharing!

I wonder why you stress the following:
- Not good for collaborative use (unlike Microsoft Office).
- Good for private, non-collaborative use.

My view is the opposite: Org mode is excellent for collaboration as
it is plain text, suitable for diff/merge in Git repositories.
Thanks to the separation of contents from style,
cross-organizational collaboration is possible, which I find *very*
hard with any office tool:  Changing a document master leads to all
kinds of layout destruction.  Switching to a different corporate
identity is just hard with what-you-see-is-what-you-get tools.

In contrast, Org mode can be a basis for what is called Single
Sourcing [1] in the context of technical writing.

You can see my approach towards Open Educational Resources with Org
mode at [2].

Best wishes
Jens

[1] http://rockley.com/articles/Single_Sourcing_and_Technology.pdf
[2] https://gitlab.com/oer/OS

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-31  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-25 19:14 Help with sharing emacs-org presentation Feiming Chen
2018-10-30  8:42 ` Grant Rettke
2018-10-30 19:01   ` Martin Schöön
2018-10-30 19:43     ` Julius Dittmar
2018-10-31  7:21       ` Eric S Fraga
2018-11-01 18:51         ` Joseph Vidal-Rosset
2018-10-31  6:39 ` Jens Lechtenboerger [this message]
2018-11-03  2:30   ` Feiming Chen

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