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| <h2>Community Articles: Opinions, Interviews, Analyses</h2> |
| <p><i>Last updated 25 July 2001</i> </p> |
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| <p>The following is a list of the "Editor's Columns" (now called: Community Articles) |
| that have appeared on OpenOffice.org. They are all still open for discussion. |
| If you wish to comment, critique, or otherwise engage the issues, please submit |
| your comments to the OpenOffice.org discuss list, which you can find on the |
| mailing list <a href="//mail_list.html">page</a>. To |
| post a message, however, you must first be subscribed.</p> |
| <p>I am also open to suggestions. Send your story or interview ideas to <a href="mailto:louis@openoffice.org">louis@openoffice.org</a>. |
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| <p>13 July 2001 <i><a href="ec13July.html" target="_blank">The |
| OpenOffice.org Infrastructure Upgrade, Part II.</a> An introduction to the upcoming |
| infrastructure upgrade.</i> |
| <p>2 July 2001 <i> <a href="ec29June.html" target="_blank">The |
| OpenOffice.org Infrastructure Upgrade, I.</a> An introduction to the upcoming |
| infrastructure upgrade.</i></p> |
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| <p>8 June 2001 <i><a href="ec8June.html">Interview: Richard M.Stallman.</a></i> |
| A conversation with the brilliant and fascinating founder of the Free Software |
| movement. |
| <p>31 May 2001 <i><a href="ec31May.html">Whiteboard Projects</a>. </i>The first |
| of a two-part examination of what could be called the people's project space: |
| the Whiteboard. |
| <p>21 May 2001 <i><a href="ec21May.html">Interview: Kevin Hendricks.</a></i> A |
| conversation with one of OpenOffice.org's most interesting contributors.</p> |
| <p>11 May 2001 <i><a href="ec11May.html">Fear of an Open Source Community.</a></i> |
| What is Microsoft so afraid of? An analysis of Craig Mundie's Open Source fears. |
| <p>1 May 2001 <i><a href="ec1May.html">Interview: Frank Hecker</a>.</i> Instrumental |
| in moving Mozilla code to an open-source framework, Frank Hecker discusses in |
| this interview the process and logic of the move. |
| <p>23 April 2001 <i><a href="ec23Apr.html">Interview: Guy Capra, of the Francophone |
| Project</a>.</i> More than anyone, Guy Capra has spearheaded the creation of |
| the Native Language Development Project and of his Francophone module. His background |
| is also fascinating. |
| <p>12 April 2001 <i><a href="ec12Apr.html">What Must Be Done: The Mac OS X Port</a>.</i> |
| A call to arms: Mac users and developers must unite to build the port of OpenOffice.org. |
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| <p>27 March 2001 <i><a href="ec27Mar.html">The International, II</a>.</i> An analysis |
| of the resolution of the issues surrounding the creation of the Native Language |
| Development project. Useful for anyone curious about OpenOffice.org's innovative |
| strategy in becoming truly global.</p> |
| <p>15 March 2001 <i><a href="ec15Mar.html">The International</a>.</i> |
| An analysis of the controversy relating the proposals for the Native Language |
| Development project, which is a step beyond mere localization.</p> |
| <p>9 March 2001 <i><a href="ec9Mar.html">Creating the |
| New Open Source</a>.</i> In which I debate some of Sander Vesik's views. </p> |
| <p>1 March 2001 <i><a href="ec1Mar.html">Interview: |
| Sander Vesik</a>.</i> Sander Vesik is one of the chief release engineers; he |
| is also forthright and direct in his opinions about Open Source and what needs |
| to be done.</p> |
| <p>22 February 2001 <i><a href="MSFTArticle.html">Allchin's |
| Demagoguery, by Bill Roth, guest contributor</a>.</i> A needed criticism of |
| Microsoft's new slick retreat of hoary anti-American propaganda.</p> |
| <p>15 February 2001 <a href="ec15Feb.html"><i>Interview |
| with Wilfredo Sánchez.</i></a> The former senior engineer of Apple's |
| Darwin project describes his work for Apple and his reasons for his involvement |
| in Open Source.</p> |
| <p>9 February 2001 <a href="ec8Feb.html" target="_blank"><i>Organizing |
| Open Source.</i></a> An analysis of what is entailed by "open sourcing" code. |
| If you are curious about the process of Open Source, start here.</p> |
| <p>1 February 2001 <i><a href="ec1Feb.html" target="_blank">Open |
| Source and Its Culture</a>.</i> A declaration of areas of interest. Open Source |
| is a large, catch-all term of recent vintage (1998); its community, its culture, |
| its process all need clarification and analysis. This essay sets the terms.</p> |
| <p>23 January 2001 <i><a href="communityaction.html" target="_blank">Community |
| Action</a>.</i> A brief, and somewhat controversial, description of the OpenOffice.org |
| community of developers in action, with comparisons to the Mozilla.org project.</p> |
| <p>16 January 2001 <i><a href="ec16Jan01.html" target="_blank">Quo |
| Vadis OpenOffice.org?</a></i> What are OpenOffice.org's goals? Its ambitions? |
| Its focus or foci? This essay briefly touches on these and other, related, points.</p> |
| <p>9 January 2001 <i><a href="thebuild.html" target="_blank">The |
| 613 build: problems and opportunities</a>.</i> The 613 build was a bad-luck |
| build. But it also proved to be one of the most popular, as community members |
| rushed to the challenge. This essay explores that history.</p> |
| <p>3 January 2001 <i><a href="SunsOpenDoor.html" target="_blank">Sun's |
| open door</a>.</i> The inaugural essay, a reflection on Sun's ambitious project.</p> |
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