https://www.zotero.org/blog/feature-spotlight-zotero-microsoft-word-integration-alpha/ Collect, organize, cite, and share your research Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:56:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 https://www.zotero.org/blog/feature-spotlight-zotero-microsoft-word-integration-alpha/comment-page-1/#comment-432 Cathedrals and Bazaars | Epistemographer Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:15:13 +0000 http://www.zotero.org/blog/feature-spotlight-zotero-microsoft-word-integration-alpha/#comment-432 [...] On the Word plugin: it seems to have come out of nowhere mainly because it did come out of nowhere. One of our developers, who’s currently in college, needed to write a paper and came back with a working Word plugin. This wasn’t a top-down directive so much as him saying “Hey, this’d be cool,” and pulling it out of thin air (he’s actually got quite a reputation around CHNM for suddenly producing incredibly cool bits of code). As for the OpenOffice functionality, when Kari wrote “We do indeed have plans to add support for OpenOffice—it should happen sometime in 2007” the meaning behind that was “We’ve been talking to Bruce and others, and we’re hoping to work with them later in 2007 to get a similar plugin running for OpenOffice.” The statement was more opaque than it might have been, but it doesn’t belie a master plan evolving within CHNM to exclude OpenOffice folks (heck, we’d love it if someone else would step up and start building that functionality, rather than waiting for us to do so). [...] [...] On the Word plugin: it seems to have come out of nowhere mainly because it did come out of nowhere. One of our developers, who’s currently in college, needed to write a paper and came back with a working Word plugin. This wasn’t a top-down directive so much as him saying “Hey, this’d be cool,” and pulling it out of thin air (he’s actually got quite a reputation around CHNM for suddenly producing incredibly cool bits of code). As for the OpenOffice functionality, when Kari wrote “We do indeed have plans to add support for OpenOffice—it should happen sometime in 2007” the meaning behind that was “We’ve been talking to Bruce and others, and we’re hoping to work with them later in 2007 to get a similar plugin running for OpenOffice.” The statement was more opaque than it might have been, but it doesn’t belie a master plan evolving within CHNM to exclude OpenOffice folks (heck, we’d love it if someone else would step up and start building that functionality, rather than waiting for us to do so). [...]

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