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| <div class="abstract" id="a1445"> |
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| <p class="title">What's New in OpenOffice.org 3.0?</p> |
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| <p class="by">Christian Jansen, Bettina Haberer (User Experience |
| Engineer / Sun Microsystems, Inc.)</p> |
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| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> From Mac OS X Support to tables in Impress. |
| OpenOffice.org 3.0 offers a wide range of improvements. This demo |
| will showcase the highlights of the new and improved features of |
| OpenOffice.org 3.0.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Christian Jansen is an User Experience |
| Engineer at Sun Microsystems. During the last 9 years, he played a |
| major role in designing the user interfaces of OpenOffice.org, |
| Mozilla Lightning and Web Based Applications. He holds a degree in |
| Communication Design from the 'Hamburger Akademie für |
| Kommunikationsdesign und Art Direction'. Bettina Haberer is a User |
| Experience Engineer at Sun Microsystems since 6 years and works on |
| the user interface of OpenOffice.org and StarOffice in several |
| projects.</p> |
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| <div class="abstract" id="a1449"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">The OOo Global Community</p> |
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| <p class="by">Zaheda Bhorat (OpenOffice.org Advocate / Marketing |
| )</p> |
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| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> A story of OpenOffice, past and present told in |
| pictures and a short movie, with contributions from the community |
| around the world.</p> |
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| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Zaheda Bhorat has been an Open Source advocate |
| since managing the OpenOffice.org project and community while working |
| for Sun Microsystems Inc. She took the project from inception to a |
| 1.0 release. With her experience of building communities of |
| contributers, she created one of the first open source marketing |
| projects with a global team of passionate volunteers to promote both |
| open source and launch the office suite. She also managed the |
| NetBeans Open Source community and the Sun marketing team responsible |
| for NetBeans 3.6. Zaheda lead the development and growth of online |
| communities, in Europe, at Apple Computer in the '90s with AppleLink |
| and eWorld, evangelizing the shift to online publishing prior to her |
| open source work. Zaheda has 15 years software industry experience |
| and holds a BSc in Computer Science. Zaheda works for Google managing |
| the Open Standards Office, now living in California.</p> |
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| <div class="abstract" id="a1403"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">OpenOffice.org and the ODF ecosystem</p> |
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| <p class="by">Loeschky, Dieter (Senior Engineering Manager / project |
| lead ODFToolkit project / Sun Microsystems / ODFToolkit project)</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> The presentation will give an overview on the |
| ODF 1.2 roadmap and it's implementation in OpenOffice.org 3.0. |
| Another focus will be on the growing ODF ecosystem and how |
| OpenOffice.org fits in. Additionally the talk will give an overview |
| on integrations of OpenOffice.org with 3rd party applications which |
| complement the ODF ecosystem.</p> |
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| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Dieter is running the OpenOffice.org |
| development teams at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He is project lead of the |
| ODFToolkit project at OOo.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="abstract" id="a1514"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Panel Discussion: ODF Interoperability |
| Perspectives</p> |
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| <p class="by">Aslam Raffee (CIO / Department of Science and |
| Technology, South Africa)</p> |
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| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> Through a series of short presentations and a |
| panel discussion, members of the OASIS ODF TC and OASIS ODF Adoption |
| TC will host a discussion of ODF interoperability from several |
| perspectives, including the view from a government deployment in |
| Belgium (using OpenOffice.org and MS-Office with plugins), an |
| introduction to the new ODF interoperability initiative in OASIS and |
| reports on other interoperability initiatives from major vendors and |
| service providers working with and committed to ODF. Aslam Rafee will |
| moderate the session, with participation from the following experts: |
| Robert Weir, Software Architect, IBM, Co-Chair of OASIS ODF TC; Bart |
| Hanssens, Interoperability Expert, FEDICT (Belgian Fed.Gov.); Florian |
| Reuter, Novell; Malte Timmermann or Dieter Loeschky, Sun; Jeremy |
| Allison, Software Engineer, Google, Lead Developer, Samba;</p> |
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| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Aslam Raffee is the CIO of the Department of |
| Science and Technology, South Africa and Chairperson of the Open |
| Source and Open Standards Workgroup of the Government IT Officers |
| Council (GITOC). He is also a member of OASIS ODF Adoption TC.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="abstract" id="a1369"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">OpenOffice.org as the lynch-pin of the Malaysian |
| Public Sector OSS Master Plan</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Eric Yeoh (R&D Engineer / OSCC Mampu)</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> Originated from cabinet decision of the |
| Government of Malaysia, the Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan |
| was launched on 16 July 2004 to create and enhance value using OSS |
| within the Public Sector ICT framework in providing efficient, secure |
| and quality services. MAMPU was tasked to establish and operate the |
| Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC), which is the single point of |
| reference to guide, facilitate, coordinate and monitor implementation |
| of OSS in the Public Sector. OpenOffice.org is a key component of the |
| master Plan and we will share our methodology, lessons learnt in |
| migrating, using, training and selling OpenOffice.org and OSS |
| solutions to the Government of Malaysia.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> I am a R&D Engineer with OSCC MAMPU, a |
| government agency tasked to implement the Malaysian Public Sector OSS |
| Master Plan. My areas of research include but not restricted to |
| end-user computing, Windows/Linux interoperability via |
| Samba/OpenLDAP, host/network security and messaging.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="abstract" id="a2001"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">The full adoption of OOo in the Cambodian education |
| System</p> |
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| <p class="by">KHENG Piseth, KHOEM Sokhem ( / KhmerOS)</p> |
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| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> The Cambodian Ministry of Education mandated, |
| in january 2008, that all public educational institutions must use - |
| for teaching the use of computers - OpenOffice in Khmer language. The |
| announcement was done together with the presentation of the new |
| official ICT textbook of the Ministry, which mainly teaches |
| OpenOffice (together with other FOSS programs). The 350-page |
| full-color textbook has been one of the key factors that have led to |
| adoption of OpenOffice. It has been the last of a number of actions |
| that have led to the end. As the Ministry of Education is concerned, |
| OpenOffice started to exist in 2004, when it included the use of FOSS |
| as part of its "ICT for Education" policy, as an effect of lobbying |
| from the KhmerOS project, which was at that time translating |
| OpenOffice to Khmer. For two years, OpenOffice started being used |
| non-officially in many of the schools. As it was the only software in |
| Khmer language, it was easy for the teachers to teach it. The KhmerOS |
| project provided tranining materials (slides), but lack of LCD |
| projectors forced teachers to use their own methodology. In 2007 the |
| Ministry and the Open Institute (NGO that houses the KhmerOS project) |
| signed an agreement to work together to develop ICT in Education and |
| to write together a 5-year Master Plan for the implementation of ICT |
| in Education. The Master Plan is still in the process of being |
| written, but the close cooperation, together with the ICT Textbook |
| (developed and distributed free of charge to all schools by the Open |
| Institute), together with a campaign to train all the ICT teachers in |
| all upper secondary schools created sufficient trust in the Ministry |
| to mandate the change to OpenOffice. The keys to this sucess have |
| been: close cooperation with the Ministry, working on policy from the |
| beginning, development the training materials, doing teacher |
| training, and integration of this work with the needs of the Ministry |
| and the country. Another key factor has been having donor countries |
| (Spain and Germany) that have funded salaries and book printing.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> KHENG Piseth, FOSS Application Training |
| Coordinator at KhmerOS KHOEM Sokhem, Open Source Engineer- |
| Coordinator of the Localization team at KhmerOS</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="abstract" id="a1496"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">OpenOffice.org in Spain</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Corrius, Llavina (Catalan Native Language Project |
| Leader / Catalan Native Language Project)</p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> The Spanish Government and also several |
| regional governments in Spain use and support OpenOffice.org in the |
| Public Administration. That creates a very interesting ecosystem of |
| companies and volunteers that are working together to create several |
| different versions of OOo to suit the needs of each Spanish |
| community. Among them, the Catalan Translation team, leaded by Jesús |
| Corrius, has distributed more than 2 million copies of OpenOffice.org |
| during the last 8 years. In the session, I'll give an update of the |
| status of the OpenOffice.org Community in Spain and also try to |
| explain the success of the Catalan Translation team.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Born near Barcelona in 1979, Jesús Corrius i |
| Llavina holds a degree in Computer Science and another in Audiovisual |
| Communication. He's a professional C++, Python software developer |
| currently working for Fluendo. He's a member of Softcatalà and |
| the Catalan Native Lang Project Leader.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
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| <div class="abstract" id="a1506"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">BrOffice.org in the Brazilian public |
| administration</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Ferreira Filho, Claudio (President / Lead NLP pt-BR / |
| BrOffice.org / OpenOffice.org NLP pt-BR)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> The initiative to adopt BrOffice.org in Brazil |
| began in 2004, when the Free Software adoption effort started inside |
| the Brazilian Federal Government. The goal was to migrate all types |
| of software, both desktops and servers. Beyond that initiative, other |
| approaches began, like standardizing of documents' formats, but the |
| process revealed itself as extremely slow and with collateral |
| results: the low level of satisfaction after migrations and for |
| various factors the inability to fulfil the basic requirements. This |
| year, the Brazilian Federal Government organized the Free Software |
| Implantation Committee, which is responsible for the definition of |
| the strategies to effective migrate. The main initiative detected by |
| this committee to consolidate de process is the adoption of |
| BrOffice.org. This work presents the migration success cases of |
| different federal departments with their interactions with the |
| community and the building of a market inside Brazil, the strategies |
| adopted by those departments and their concerns regarding the |
| sustainability of Br/OpenOffice.org project. Besides that, it also |
| tries to present the Committee actions, its planning and strategies, |
| side by side with the BrOffice.org and ODF Alliance community |
| activities inside Brazil to create an ideal environment for that |
| migration, such as, amongst other, standardization of ODF at ABNT |
| (Brazilian Organization of Standards), work of the BrOffice.org user |
| groups in the various states to encourage the creation of laws |
| supporting ODF, not only in the states but also for the whole |
| country.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Gratuate in Information System, work with IT |
| since 1988, and with Linux since 1994. In opensource world, initiated |
| in 2001 with localization of OpenOffice.org for brazilian portuguese, |
| and created the brazilian communities of Mozilla and PostgreSQL. |
| Today, living in Galicia - Spain, working in Tegnix ITC, a |
| specialized company in free software migration projects and still |
| participates in the brazilian and galician open-source projects and |
| initiative</p> |
| </div> |
| |
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| </div> |
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| <div class="abstract" id="a1499"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Community Development; Marketing; Fund Raising: 3 |
| Pillars of the future of OOo</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Mamun, Mohammad Anwarul (Head of IT / Dhaka Broadband |
| Network Ltd.)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> Though there are considerably a large community |
| exist on OpenOffice.org, Marketing the community and product itself |
| need to be more versatile for the greater adoption of OpenOffice.org |
| worldwide specially for the developing countries where OpenOffice.org |
| adds more extra values than the developed countries. Fund rising is |
| another imperative aspect for keeping this project self sustainable. |
| This paper will concentrate on these issues along with some thoughts |
| to solve these concerns that may help to increase the market |
| penetration rate of OpenOffice.org faster.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> I am working at Dhaka Broadband Network Ltd. |
| as Head of IT. Besides this, bearing the responsibility of The OSS |
| Movement (an organization to foster the Free Open Source Software |
| movement in Bangladesh) as president. Also, engaged with OpenDoc |
| Society, Bangladesh chapter as chairman.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
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| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1498"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">OpenOffice.org Participation - Past and Next |
| Steps</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Hollmichel, Martin (Release Manager of OpenOffice.org, |
| Lead of the OpenOffice.org porting, tools and external project, |
| member of the Community Council and the Engineering / Sun |
| Microsystems)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> The presentation will give an outlook what is |
| planned for the next releases of OpenOffice.org and explains on how |
| to contribute to the roadmap. What is the release status meeting, the |
| quarterly reviews of the projects.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> joined StarOffice group in 1994 as Release |
| Engineer, now Program Manager for OpenOffice.org working for Sun |
| Microsystems</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1401"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Porting OpenOffice: Now on Aqua</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Herbert Duerr ( / )</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> OpenOffice.org's Aqua port will be officially |
| released with OpenOffice.org 3.0. The presentation gives an overview |
| about what has been achieved. How it was achieved is a story that |
| might be especially interesting for developers: The code refactoring |
| needed for this complex base layer is noteworthy. Especially the |
| constraints of not breaking existing ports, not breaking applications |
| and not breaking even ancient use cases, while refactoring to allow |
| using the new platforms modern capabilities and at the same time |
| regularly releasing high quality multi-platform milestones were very |
| challenging. The presentation provides an insight into the lessons |
| learned in this effort.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> With a background in electronics engineering |
| Herbert spent most of his career in software devolopment and systems |
| integration. He graduated from the University of Karlsruhe, worked at |
| the FhG, then IBM and now at SUN on topics from system storage, micro |
| mechanics, optical systems, image processing, performance analysis, |
| typography, i18n and graphics.</p> |
| </div> |
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| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1409"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">New features in Calc 3.0</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Nebel, Niklas (Spreadsheet Project Lead / Sun |
| Microsystems)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> I will show the new features in Calc 3.0, and |
| talk about the ideas behind these features, how we implemented them |
| and what obstacles we came across. Highlights are: * Collaboration |
| through shared files * Implementation of the OpenDocument Formula |
| specification * Import of Excel 2007 files * Optimization Solver * |
| Usability improvements</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Niklas Nebel has been involved in the |
| development of StarOffice Calc since 1994 and has been project lead |
| of the spreadsheet project since the start of OpenOffice.org.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1444"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">The Presenter Console</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Fischer, Andre (Software Engineer / Sun |
| Microsystems)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> The talk about the Presenter Console, one of |
| the major new features of Impress, has three parts: What: An overview |
| of the features of the Presenter Console: Live preview, notes, slide |
| overview. Why: Explain some of the decisions that lead to the |
| extension in its current form: Non-standard UI vs. native platform |
| look; C++ vs. Java; Extension vs. integration into the existing |
| Impress code. How: Details about the implementation. Lessons learned |
| during the course of implementing my first major extension. Using the |
| canvas for every graphical output even for painting UI controls like |
| scroll bars and buttons. Support for theming.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Born 1969 in Cologne, Germany, I studied |
| computer science in Bonn and obtained a Ph.D. with a thesis on |
| automatic building recognition from aerial images. Since Nov. 2000 I |
| am employed by Sun Microsystems where I work on the Impress UI.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1457"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Visualize Writer Document Structure for Productive |
| Development</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Jian Hong,Cheng (STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER/Technical |
| Leader / IBM)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> This presentation introduces a tool that can be |
| used to picture the node types and structure,frame types and |
| structure, portion types, and other data relations information in an |
| OpenOffice writer document. Because of plentiful data types and |
| complicated relations in a writer document,developers are easily |
| plunged into disordered situations when tracing them and their |
| relations. Under certain scenarios,when operating these complex |
| contents,the nodes structure or frame structure or data relations may |
| be damaged unexpectedly,which lead to serious problems. And |
| generally,these problems are difficult to solve. For example,when |
| opening a given special document,and doing the addition/deletion |
| operations for the text of "End of Footnote" and "Start of next |
| page",Writer will meet serious problem. The reason is that the sample |
| file has an abnormal setting about footnote height. The height of |
| footnote is set to be a pretty tiny value: ?0.2? inch which may not |
| be high enough to contain a single normal text string. This setting |
| makes a huge barrier when formatting the document content, and |
| also,this document is displayed in a very strange way. For |
| example,each footnote can not be displayed in its own page, but in |
| the following page. In this case,if the text input into the text |
| field of "End of Footnote" or "Start of next page" is too long and |
| can not be displayed totally in a single page, it has to be spanned |
| to cross pages when formatting. Actually,the process will not affect |
| the document nodes structure. During said formatting process,all |
| footnotes will be reorganized within multi-frames. In order to deal |
| with the multi-lines of the footnote, a method named |
| SwFlowFrm::PasteTree(...) will be executed to connect all text |
| strings inside a single footnote. Please refer to the code segment. |
| ... else { if ( 0 == (pStart->pPrev = pParent->Lower()) ) |
| pParent->pLower = pStart; else pParent->Lower()->pNext = |
| pStart; } ... Said code will move a sub tree whose root is ?pStart? |
| into the node ?pParent? as a child. If the "pParent" does not have |
| any child,the "pStart" will be the only child of it. And if the |
| "pParent" has already a child, the "pStart" will be the sibling |
| child. But if the "pParent" has more than one child nodes,the former |
| child node and its sibling nodes will lost their relationships to the |
| whole tree. Thus,any modification of the tree will not affect the |
| former child node and its sibling nodes any more. In this case, the |
| content of the ?pParent? will be moved backward again and then, the |
| "pParent" will be destructed later. Because the relationship of said |
| nodes are lost, there will be no any operation happening on those |
| said nodes. So the upper node pointer of such nodes is still pointing |
| to the memory where the ?pParent? has been in. A dangling pointer |
| appears. Serious problem will happen at any time. When facing such |
| serious problems appeared during document formatting,developers have |
| to make the data structure and relations clear first,and then plunge |
| into code ocean to trace the complex formatting process step by |
| step,that's a real big headache and will take too much time. And |
| now,with the help of this tool,developers can easily make the data |
| structure and relations clear and catch the destroyed data and |
| certain structure difference changed within certain |
| process,especially such as formatting process,undo/redo process and |
| so on. Thus,developers are able to find out the root cause quickly |
| and work out solution in time. This tool makes Writer developers more |
| productive. Simultaneously,the development of the tool and real |
| example details will also be introduced in this presentation.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> 1.Three years of IBM Lotus Symphony |
| Presentations Development,Technical Leader 2.Two years of IBM Lotus |
| Symphony Documents Development,Technical Leader 3.Years of OpenOffice |
| Study</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1432"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">The state of the OOo SCM migration project</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Rechtien, Jens-Heiner (Release Engineer / Sun |
| Microsystems)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> OpenOffice.org is looking for some time now for |
| a new SCM (Source configuration management) tool to replace CVS. Due |
| to the rapid changes in the SCM tooling landscape over the last years |
| there is no obvious best replacement for CVS; at least four SCM tools |
| (Bazaar, Git, Mercurial and Subversion) emerged as serious candidates |
| for hosting the OOo source code repository. The OOo engineering |
| steering committee decided to migrate to Subversion first but to |
| re-evaluate the three DSCM systems within a year to account for new |
| developments. This presentation will discuss the current state of the |
| SCM migration project.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1434"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Building Windows OOo on Linux: Madness, or The |
| Way?</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Holesovsky, Jan (Developer / Novell, Inc.)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> Producing Windows OOo builds is very painful - |
| not everyone has that operating system, setting up the build |
| environment for OOo is non-trivial, and the build takes too long. On |
| the other hand, the Windows builds are essential, far too many users |
| demand them, and also they are necessary for the QA purposes. This |
| session will discuss the possibilities to cross-compile the OOo on |
| Linux using the free (as in free beer) Microsoft compiler in Wine, |
| and also other ways to speed up the Windows build.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Jan is with OpenOffice.org since 2003, |
| employed by SUSE/Novell. Previously he graduated from the Charles |
| University, and worked as a YaST2 developer during the studies. His |
| first experience with developing office software was back in 1998-9 |
| when he programmed the drawing part of KTTV, a Linux word processor |
| and a vector drawing program for lecture notes. In OOo, he focuses on |
| KDE integration, x86-64 porting, build/SCM related problems, etc.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1418"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">VBA Interoperatbility roundup</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Noel Power (Project Lead VBA interoperability / |
| Novell)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> I'd like to present a summary of the project, o |
| where we are o how it works o what's currently supported o new |
| features we currently are working o some demos</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Noel Power: Working as part of Novell's |
| Openoffice developement team. Responsible for improving VBA |
| interoperability by enabling Excel macros to run natively within |
| Openoffice</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1478"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Due to Popular Demand - SVG Import!</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Strba, Fridrich and Behrens, Thorsten ( / )</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> With superb ODF support, there are other open |
| standards that suffered from some neglect in stock OOo - Scalable |
| Vector Graphics (SVG) is one of them. With a vast collection of |
| vector clipart now available in this format, this was a serious gap. |
| The authors will showcase what the import can (and cannot) do, and |
| entertain the interested audience with a brief history of SVG |
| importers for OOo. Following that, the technical challenges are |
| presented, that were encountered when mapping SVG to ODF, accompanied |
| by a walk-through of the filter component.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Fridrich Strba is a Christian male, married to |
| the most beautiful woman in the known universe and has two wonderful |
| children. Having obtained Master's degrees in Computer Science and |
| also in International Relations, he is a Software Engineer at Novell, |
| Inc. working on OpenOffice.org. In the evenings, he becomes |
| TrainedMonkey and randomly types on the keyboard. The result of this |
| evening activity is a highly optimized code that you can find inter |
| alia inside libwpd, libwpg and libwps. Thorsten Behrens is a |
| self-confessed hacker, and prouds himself of approximately the same |
| set of formal achievements as Fridrich. He wants to take the |
| opportunity and mention that he's now also happily working for |
| Novell!</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1430"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Handling insanity a sane way: Robust binary |
| documents parser, strategies & tools</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Strba, Fridrich (Software Engineer / TrainedMonkey / |
| Novell, Inc. / OpenOffice.org Project)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> Office suites have to deal with a fair amount |
| of binary data from untrusted sources. This kind of data and the code |
| to parse it might be a source of security issues. This session would |
| like to give the example of libwpd. How we managed -- after several |
| security advisory -- to develop a strategy to code and test a robust |
| parser that handles in a sane way even the most insane input data. |
| This session will give an overview of our regression-testing |
| framework as well as of tools that we use to try to tear the parser |
| down.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> A Christian male, developing for different |
| FOSS products. Working on OOo since before the 2.0 release, first as |
| benevolent contributor, then as a Software Engineer at Novell.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1513"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Interoperability --- expectations, promises, |
| problems and solutions.</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Florian Reuter ( / )</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> In this workshop we will present the lessons |
| learned about expectations, promises, problems and solutions with |
| respect to interoperability. We will discuss the status quo of |
| interoperability --- including demos of current filters --- as well |
| as show stoppers for interoperability by example. Additionally we |
| will provide ideas for solutions and we are open for any kind of user |
| feedback. We consider the workshop to be successful if the attendees |
| feel that we understand their interoperability problems and also we |
| where able to communicate how we want to address them.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> Florian Reuter --- Novell Inc.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1489"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">Python Extension Development</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Darabos, Daniel (Lead developer / MultiRacio Ltd.)</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> After developing extensions in Python for one |
| year we would like to share our accumulated experience with other |
| developers in the form of an open-source toolkit and this workshop. |
| If you have a neat idea for an extension, there is a good chance that |
| it will be shaping up nicely by the end of the workshop!</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> As lead developer at MultiRacio Ltd. since |
| 2001 I have been extending OpenOffice.org in various ways. I'm also a |
| Python enthusiast and 27.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <p><a href="wednesday.html">Back</a></p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="abstract" id="a1352"> |
| <div class="header"> |
| <p class="title">OpenOffice as a report engine</p> |
| |
| <p class="by">Luis Filipe Ferreira Fernandes Domingues (CTO at |
| Seara.com / )</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="content"> |
| <p><em>Abstract:</em> Combining OpenOffice and other OpenSource |
| solutions, like Smarty, an excellent template engine, we can easily |
| develop a template engine for our applications. Full PHP source code |
| will be provided, as well as demonstration of an invoicing system, |
| built in PHP that uses OpenOffice+Smarty as a template engine.</p> |
| </div> |
| |
| <div class="bio"> |
| <p><em>Biography:</em> CTO at Seara.com Webdeveloper</p> |
| </div> |
| |
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