This originally started as a comment on the Predictons for 2006 thread, but after submitting it I realised it was just far too long and out of place to be a comment, so i created this node.
Someone had mentioned open document support, and me and others made some cryptic comments regarding to some ideas I'd had recently.
My basic idea is to create a file access layer for drupal, that exports all content into standards based files.
This would mean we have to fully develop our export mechanisms (ie: RDF, RSS, ICAL .. and later on OpenDocuments) and also create an equal set of import mechanisms.
By doing this layer properly, we gain the ability to consume all the formats we output. Meaning we can import any ical etc. on the net cleanly onto a drupal site and it also gives us a very convenient place to handle our RSS aggregation too.
I am not going to try to gloss over the fact that implementing this _right_ is probably going to be fairly difficult, but the benefits to doing so are truly incredible and will very definitely be worth the trouble.
One of the final goals is that you will be able to mount your site via webdav (or webdave as I always mistype it *g*) and be able to edit the content using your desktop applications (anything that properly supports the standards really.) And that's really only one of the possible benefits.
DDEV is the official local development tool of Drupal. And like Drupal, DDEV depends on the support of the open source community.
