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| <td colspan="3"><p><strong>Give a Door – Get a House</strong> <strong>:: |
| <a href="http://contributing.openoffice.org/">Developers Wanted</a></strong><a href="http://contributing.openoffice.org/"></a>!</p> </td> |
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| <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">What is OpenOffice.org?</span></p> |
| <p class="Stil12">For <strong>users</strong>, <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> is |
| the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. It |
| has been <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/index.html">downloaded</a> more than <strong>100 million times</strong> to |
| date and reaches a broad audience across fields of applications, |
| languages, and cultures.</p> |
| <p class="Stil12">For <strong>developers</strong>, OpenOffice.org |
| is much more than that. OpenOffice.org provides a complete, open |
| and free development platform that provides cross-platform compatibility |
| and great extensibility.</p> |
| <p class="Stil12">With more than 7 million lines of code, 28 single |
| <a href="http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html#components">projects</a>, 100 localized <a href="http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html#languages">languages</a>, and around 1,000 <a href="http://contributing.openoffice.org/">contributors</a>, |
| OpenOffice.org is one of the <strong>world's leading open source |
| community</strong> in terms of size, vibrancy, and vitality.</p> |
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| <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">The OpenOffice.org |
| Philosophy</span></p> |
| <p class="Stil12">We design and create, as a community, an easy |
| to use and feature rich office suite running on all major platforms |
| based on open standards like OpenDocument and XML.</p> |
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| <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">UNO, you know!</span></p> |
| <p class="Stil12">At the core of OpenOffice.org is the <a href="http://api.openoffice.org/">OOo |
| API</a>, |
| commonly referenced as UNO - Universal Network Objects. The UNO |
| API is designed to bind to several languages including Java, |
| Python, C++, and Javascript allowing developers to interact with |
| and extend the use of the office suite.</p> |
| <p class="Stil12">Use web services to connect to the internet, use |
| COM and OLE to connect to other applications on the system, or |
| access system resources directly through CLI.</p> |
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| <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">Share your Code</span></p> |
| <p class="Stil12">Share your code to the world with <a href="http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org">the |
| OO-Snippets-Project</a> – a code repository for developers |
| on different components and different languages.</p> |
| <p class="Stil12">Whatever it is, C++, Java, Basic, or Python: you |
| will be able to see how developers contribute day in and day out |
| with different snippets of reusable code.</p> |
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| <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">Extend, Expand |
| and Customize</span></p> |
| <p class="Stil12">With the Extensions feature, you don't need a |
| high level of understanding of the UNO API to start extending |
| OOo into places you didn't think possible.</p> |
| <p class="Stil12">Use your own tools to expand functionality and |
| even better, easily integrate with other applications you develop |
| by using common standard protocols.The OpenOffice.org Extensions |
| capability is so powerful that you can already find a growing body |
| of commercial and free extensions in <a href="http://extensions.openoffice.org">the |
| OpenOffice.org Extension Repository</a>.</p> |
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| <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">ODF — Open |
| Standard</span></p> |
| <p class="Stil12">Users create millions of documents using office |
| software every day. Safeguard the future of these documents by |
| using the power, flexibility and openness of <a href="http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/">Open |
| Document Format (ODF)</a>. ODF is the only open and ISO standardized office document |
| format to date. Use ODF and guarantee<br> |
| compatibility of your company's knowledge with future waves of |
| technology.</p> |
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| <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">Powerful Scripting</span></p> |
| <p class="Stil12">OpenOffice.org comes with <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide">OpenOffice.org |
| Basic</a>, |
| an object oriented language with which you can access components |
| deep within the UNO API in the form of services. </p> |
| <p class="Stil12">The ease of use of OpenOffice.org Basic, combined |
| with the power of the UNO API, creates an environment for both |
| rapid and powerful development and integration.</p> |
| <p class="Stil12">Not a Basic fan? What about the popularity of <a href="http://framework.openoffice.org/scripting/release-0.2/javascript-devguide.html">Javascript</a> or the elegance of <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Python">Python</a>? The OpenOffice.org scripting framework |
| gives you flexibility to choose your development language, while |
| giving you complete access to native libraries in different languages.</p> |
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| <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil15"><span class="Stil16">Read the Fine Manual</span></span></p> |
| <p class="Stil12">Comprehensive documentation is available in <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DevGuide">the |
| Developers' Guide</a> explaining the internals of OpenOffice.org |
| and hidden secrets of the powerful API. You are always welcome |
| to the IRC development channel for 24x7 support, where experienced |
| developers mentor newcomers. </p> |
| <p class="Stil12">The OpenOffice.org website also holds a complete |
| list of <a href="http://support.openoffice.org/index.html">support</a> mailing lists for developers, on all components |
| and all technologies. <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">Join</a> and <a href="http://contributing.openoffice.org/">participate</a> in specialized technical |
| conversations with experienced OpenOffice.org developers.</p> |
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