1. NOTICE!
These materials are prepared only for the students enrolled in the course Distributed Software Development (DSD) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Mälardalen, Västerås, Sweden and at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia (year 2009/2010).
For all other purposes, authors’ written permission is needed!
The purpose of these materials is to help students in better understanding of lectures in DSD and not their replacement!

2. Distributed Software Development

3. Antonio Pošćić, Ivan Ačkar
Project Vision

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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.)

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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)

10. 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

11. What It's All About...
Photo Credits: Kelsey Lynn & Pacific Lutheran University