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| <h3><font color="#CC6600" face="Courier New, Monospaced">Spotlight: On Developers |
| and Technology</font> </h3> |
| <h4>Spotlight Two</h4> |
| <p>Spotlight focuses this week on the <a href="//mail_list.html" target="_blank">mailing |
| lists</a>, in particular on the "Groupware" thread in the "<a href="ttp://www.openoffice.org/www-discuss/current/" target="_blank">discuss</a>" |
| list that has engaged many of contributors, who debated not just the technology, |
| but what even constitutes "groupware," and its relationship to OpenOffice.org, |
| a question that implicitly invokes discussion about the project's goals and |
| strategies. (The editorial column, "<a href="ec16Jan01.html" target="_blank">Quo |
| Vadis OpenOffice.org</a> of 16 January 2001, touched on the early phases of |
| this discussion.) The thread is quite extensive, and curious readers are encouraged |
| to review the thread index. For a rough summary of what Groupware more or less |
| includes (note the caution of the phrasing), readers might want to look at <a href="//www-discuss/current/msg01753.html" target="_blank">this |
| message</a>. </p> |
| <p>The thread is itself a combination of several others: an initial discussion |
| related to mail and messaging functionality (the "Say it isn't so" |
| thread), an <a href="//www-discuss/current/msg01163.html">appeal</a> |
| to the community for those features and functions they would like to see in |
| the next major release of OpenOffice.org, a <a href="//www-discuss/current/msg01211.html">discussion</a> |
| related to future integration of OpenOffice.org software with handheld computers, |
| the bold cross-fertilization of a <a href="http://www.ximian.com/" target="_blank">Ximian.com</a> |
| mailing-list <a href="//www-discuss/current/msg01387.html" target="_blank">post</a> |
| to OpenOffice.org's own lists (a move that was <a href="//www-discuss/current/msg01803.html">cheered</a> |
| by the community), to the thread that synthesized many of the issues into one: |
| the Groupware thread, <a href="//www-discuss/current/msg01531.html" target="_blank">initiated</a> |
| at the end of January and which served as a sort of manifesto for the project.</p> |
| <p>On 13 February, <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/13/1854219.shtml">Slashdot noticed</a> |
| the discussion: what a sign of arrival!</p> |
| <p> </p> |
| <p><b>Previous Spotlights</b></p> |
| <p><a href="spotlight1.html" target="_blank"><i>Spotlight |
| One, 5 February 2001:</i></a> Jörg Brunsmann, the first external committer |
| to the OpenOffice.org project.</p> |
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