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On 2012-04-20, at 13:36 , Rob Weir wrote:

> This was mentioned in the ODF Plugfest today, in Louis's presentation,
> an interesting use of OpenOffice configured to run on the iPad:
>=20
> =
http://blog.rollapp.com/2012/04/rollapp-launches-free-beta-openoffice.html=

>=20
> Rather than recompiling for a tablet, it looks like they are taking a
> remoting approach with virtualized UI.  This allows them to run apps
> like OpenOffice unmodified.
>=20
> -Rob

Thanks, Rob, for mentioning this. The basic fact is that we need to have =
ODF on the mobile, iOS or Android or whatever, as there is no realistic =
alternative to the billions coming to computers over the next decade, if =
not sooner.

My presentation, which I'll send to the ODF site, argued that tablets =
and the like are requisite because they use less resources in comparison =
to desktops. As at present native apps able to edit ODF on the tablet =
are not too visible (to a degree they exist or will emerge into the =
light soon) and even when they do emerge might require, at least for the =
current period, more powerful and thus more costly and hotter machines, =
"Cloud" solutions (Web software services) coupled with thin clients =
(read: tablets) seems the best "interim" solution (as Ross states in =
another threaded email).  But this is also the way things are going, to =
the happiness, no doubt, of former Sunnies: network is the computer, eh?=20=


=46rom an open source development perspective, there are logistical =
issues here but again none is particularly problematical, as long as =
those wanting to collaborate have a way of doing that and know they do.

-louis