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Distributed Software Development 2017-09-30

Antonio Pošćić, Ivan Ačkar Project Vision 2017-09-30

WikiPres Project Team Croatian side: Swedish side: Antonio Pošćić – Project Leader Ivan Ačkar Zvonko Žibrat Swedish side: Adnan Gohar – Team Leader Florian Uunk Paolo Di Francesco Rabia Durrani Supervisor: Ivana Bosnić 2017-09-30

Why WikiPres? Need for collaborative means for creating presentations Methods for editing, correcting and annotating presentations by a third-party Familiar and user friendly environment of a Wiki Quick online collaborative content editing (with support for editing history) 2017-09-30

Who Will Use It? Project teams (e.g., distributed development, this very presentation) Educational content creators – teachers, students, etc. Presentations available for public use and open to editing (humanitarian associations, etc.) 2017-09-30

Solution Idea (I) Solution based on a widely spread, flexible and feature-rich Wiki software – MediaWiki Create a plug-in for MediaWiki – easier installation Implement ODP → Wiki and Wiki → ODP conversion Design a filter for OpenOffice.org to allow for direct export of ODP files to Wiki 2017-09-30

Solution Idea (II) Extend existing editing modes of MediaWiki with presentation- specific tools Simplify content creation and editing – different layouts Two different ways of user interaction Annotation and commenting of presentation slides Actual editing of presentation slides 2017-09-30

Technologies and approach Various technologies used MediaWiki API, PHP, XML/XSLT, HTML/CSS, Wiki Markup Java, OpenOffice.org filters OpenDocument Format Approach based on the transformation and manipulation of OpenDocument Presentation files (basically XML to Wiki Markup) 2017-09-30

Possible Risks Involved Reduce project size and complexity – implement basic functions first Unclear project boundaries and requirements – investigate the usual usage scenarios and implied features In-depth knowledge of used technologies needed for a stable and efficient implementation 2017-09-30

What It's All About... Photo Credits: Kelsey Lynn & Pacific Lutheran University 2017-09-30