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| <h3><font color="#CC6600" face="Courier New, Monospaced">Spotlight: On Developers and Technology</font> </h3> |
| <p>Our new feature will focus on persons and issues of interest to the OpenOffice.org |
| community. To kick off the feature, we are delighted to present Jörg Brunsmann, |
| who lives and works in Germany and is the first external committer to the project. |
| Welcome Jörg! <br> |
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| <p>We asked Jörg to provide some insights into why he chose to join the OpenOffice.org |
| community and what he finds important about the project. As you can read, his |
| responses are generous and enthsiastic.</p> |
| <p><i>Why did you choose to join the OpenOffice.org community?</i><br> |
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| OpenOffice.org gives me the opportunity to learn about and work on emerging |
| technologies. In the not too-distant future the Internet will be accessed by |
| mobile individuals using a variety of high-bandwidth devices. This is where |
| the new Web services architecture fits in very nicely. Making these services |
| available for OpenOffice.org users and making OpenOffice.org components available |
| as Web services for other users is what I'm interested in. The great people |
| of the <a href="http://udk.openoffice.org/">UDK OpenOffice.org sub project</a> |
| had this on their to-do list but with a low priority. They gave me the opportunity |
| to get involved in this area. Thus far we're dreaming up ways to improve the |
| Web pages, thinking about a SOAP Apache module and defining component APIs. |
| And since it's a very young technology we learn something new every day. <br> |
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| I would like to encourage other people to find their place in the OpenOffice.org |
| world. Unlike other open-source projects the OpenOffice.org crew is very qualified, |
| friendly, values your input and really wants outside people to contribute. It's |
| true the source code is big. But that only means there's more opportunity. <br> |
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| If this sound all too nice, let me assure you that as with every big software |
| development project not everything is perfect. There's a lot to do on documentation, |
| new source code to write, and we must maintain and improve existing source code. |
| Software development and documentation is difficult and sometimes frustrating |
| work. But if things go as planned, the work is great. It even makes it more |
| fun to cooperate with people over the Internet. </p> |
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