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From: eric b <eric.bachard@free.fr>
Subject: Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:28:23 +0100
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org

Hi Rob,

Le 12 mars 12 =C3=A0 13:50, Rob Weir a =C3=A9crit :

> I jest,of course.
> But seriously, there are some claiming that "all" of the =20
> OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache =20=

> has zero experience with this code base.


IMHO we should not spend too much of (our precious) time about that.


>   I know this sounds crazy, but how can we best refute that statement?


As Tino Rachui teached me : the better answer is always the technical =20=

answer. So let's produce our first release.

After all, we are OpenOffice.org, and we do a very good work !


> Here's my idea:  Respond to this note and tell me how many years =20
> experience you have working with OpenOffice.


(my personal problem is to find more time to contribute. I'm very =20
busy at work for the next two weeks :-/  )


>  This could be in any capacity, as a coder, tester, documentation, =20
> marketing, forum volunteer, whatever.  Please count relevant work =20
> with related projects, such as Symphony, BSD ports, OOo4Kids, ODF, =20
> etc. as well. How many years were you doing this before the project =20=

> came to Apache?
>

Disclaimer : everything I did was as simple volunteer, without being =20
paid, and you can take what you need in in the list.

2003 : first participation as simple contributor.
   ...
(some contributions between )
   ...
2011 : supporting Apache OpenOffice since the begining

The most important I learned in OpenOffice.org (code, tools and =20
everything) was with Philippe Lohmann, Pavel Janik, Oliver Braun, =20
Stephan Schaefer, Tino Rachui, Herbert Duerr and some other nice guys =20=

help  (apologies for the one I forgot).

As OpenOffice.org core dev (since 2005) :

- I participated to ~ 50 child workspaces (see :  http://=20
wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Ericb ), OpenGL transitions on =20=

Mac OS X, the Apple remote implementation (Mac OS X too), I hacked a =20
bit the packaging processn, contributed  to the Impress annotation =20
mode (continued in OOo4Kids)

My most important concern with OOo4Kids is about performance issues =20
with poor old slow machines, without much of RAM

Other important contributions :
- Google SoC mentor since 2006, 4 times for OpenOffice.org (last was =20
for Go-Oo and EducOOo), I mentored more than 20 students, and trained =20=

around 15 people who became OpenOffice.org Domain developers =20
(something equivalent in Apache OOo could be "Commiters") and I =20
promoted online courses "ClassRooms" about OOo core source code, and =20
everything around sharing the knowledge with developpers.

As the main developer of OOo4Kids and OOoLight ( Mac OS X, Linux, =20
Windows, 18 locales (recently Polish)), and ready to share my =20
knowledge with Apache OpenOffice people, I think I know a lot in OOo =20
surce code.

The part I know the most in OpenOffice.org source code are : sal, =20
solenv, vcl, framework, draw (shells and UI like slideshow),  =20
Impress, svtools, sfx2, packaging process on all OS's). I can build =20
and work on all OS's, including portable version on Windows and Linux =20=

ARM (armel and Debian armhf). My recent work in progress concerns =20
Writer and Draw shells (and more in fact).

Funny :  I have no Java skills  :-)


> If I get a good number of responses I'll put together an =20
> infographic on this.


No problem. Feel free to take what you consider interesting for your =20
paper  :-)


Regards,
Eric

>

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