Danese Cooper - Open
Source Diva, Intel Corporation |
OpenOffice.org has been
a huge boon to the so-called “Developing
World”, places where technology penetration (even just
electricity
penetration) is relatively shallow and the hard-currency GDP is
relatively low. Yet much of the Developing World has not yet
understood that in the FOSS software commons, “Participation
=
Ownership”. Listen to a report on the current state
of global
participation in the FOSS ecosystem, garnered from first-hand
observations by Danese Cooper, former Chief Open Source Evangelist for
Sun Microsystems and now Sr. Director of Open Source Strategy for Intel’s
CSO Group. |
Biography: Danese Cooper
has a 15-year history in the software industry
and has long been an advocate for transparent development
methodologies. Danese worked for six years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. on
the inception and growth of the various open source projects sponsored
by Sun (including OpenOffice.org, java.net and blogs.sun.com). She was
Sun's Chief Open Source Evangelist and founded Sun's Open Source
Programs Office. She has unique experience implementing open source
projects from within a large proprietary company. She joined the OSI
Board in December 2001 and currently serves as Secretary &
Treasurer. As of March 2005 Danese has joined Intel to advise on open
source projects, investment and support. She speaks internationally on
Open Source and Licensing issues. |
Developing for OpenOffice.org
Martin Hollmichel -
OpenOffice.org Project Lead of Tools, Porting and External Project, Sun
Microsystems |
The session will
introduce on how to contribute to OpenOffice.org. There are many different way on how to contribute to the project, we will look on different aspects:
Target: New Developers |
Doing QA at OpenOffice.org
Joost Andrae - StarOffice program manager, Sun Microsystems |
Overview
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Biography: Born in 1965.
In the late 80's I had my first experiences
with RDBMS, SQL, software distribution, marketing and support on
products running on DOS, OS/2 and Windows. Later I did Informix 4GL
programming (at different companies) on SINIX and BSD UNIX. Since 1995
I'm working on the StarOffice product which later open sourced as
OpenOffice.org. I started as a QA engineer doing QA & testing
in
Calc, Chart, Math and on Sun ONE Webtop. Later I've been doing QA
&
Coordination within StarOffice development at Sun Microsystems in
Hamburg, Germany. My current position is StarOffice Program Manager as
part of the StarOffice Operations team within StarOffice. |
Addons : From production to end-users
Laurent Godard -
Directeur Technique, Nuxeo - Indesko |
OOo scripting and addon
production is just an other way to bring value to OOo by attracting new
developpers. OpenOffice.org brings a lot of possibilities regarding scripting. With the 2.0 release, a lot of new languages are available and the addon installation is now available at end users level It is now time to take benefits of this capabilities and organize ourselves to make addon production and use more and more easy. Building the scripting project through 3 main branches is a way to attract new developers in OOo world's and bring value to end users. These 3 branches are :
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Biography: The speaker
is technical director of Indesko, building
solutions for workflows and document management with OpenOffice.org for
large companies. Involved in the OOo community for many years and
author of various well know tools such as DicOOo, FontOOo, OOoWikipedia
..., the speaker is dedicated to macros writing in various language and
known as a reference regarding OOo API use. He is also the co-author of
the only french book dealing with OOo macros and API. He is now deeply
involved in the scripting project. |