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[Bolesław Tokarski <boleslaw.tokarski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, Bjoern, that was awesome :)

I mean, I had no update on Office compatibility options for quite a long 
time. Ideally, I would go with migration from MS Office to LibreOffice, 
wiki, LaTEX, whatever. The choices are really broad, but at this point I 
need to pick my fights.

Some processes in my company require (more or less) that some 
documentation is put into a .docx file. Plain dumb, no collaboration 
option, no way of tracking the latest version, merging changes, 
whatever. Although I believe I saw some MS Office functionality that 
allows to keep track of changes, that is used very seldom and is flawed 
by just the fact that it is optional.

In a perfect world I would be writing text files, merging the branches 
of that with git and creating PDF documents from that. Sounds much like 
LaTEX, though I think it should be feasible with wiki-style documents as 
well. I do not think I saw any Wiki engine that used git as its backend, 
though. Anyone did?

Office compatibility is actually quite good and I am going to let it be 
for a while. The Ubuntu to Windows machine balance is 1:34. I am going 
to advocate it more so it is more recognised before putting any stark 
conditions.

I know LibreOffice has XML (text) documents as its backend, just zipped. 
Perhaps LibreOffice already did something like git version control for it?

> I have met quite a few people involved in the Linux migration in the 
> City of Munich, both at the LibreOffice conference and at the UDS 
> (they are going to use Ubuntu now). They might share some of their 
> real world experiences. I will ask them to join. 

Certianly :) More people, more fun :)

Cheers,
Ballock