Definitely time to start discussions on ApacheConNA in April (in Austin) and OpenOffice's participation.
Back in November, Rich Bowen suggested we think more about "project tracks" and gathering appropriate talks/topics for these tracks. See: http://markmail.org/message/mlq5njhec4daqxkt With this in mind, I thought it would be fun to highlight OpenOffice's 15 years of "open source" goodness (our 15 year open source anniversary date is actually Oct. 13, 2015 -- see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#History) Maybe talks of the following nature would be appropriate: * How did the ODF get established and why was this needed for an opensource office development project * Details on the development architecture of the suite -- how was this established with respect to ongoing maintenance? Were different considerations needed to take StarOffice to OpenOffice? * Challenges faced by open source projects/products in gaining acceptance by business enterprises. * Why downstream developers used OpenOffice source code. What did they give back. These are just a few ideas on this topic -- we need more! What does anyone think? I would like to circulate and idea list along with an "invitation" to submit talks/ sessions to "dev", "users", "announcements", our social networks and anyplace else -- university contacts, etc. Considering our download stats put us at 700,000+ downloads per week, many folks know we're here. Let's hear from some of them. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out." -- Lou Reed --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
