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Wednesday, 09 Apr 2008
Changes within the OpenOffice.org distribution
Joost Andrae

Because OpenOffice.org really grows there is a high demand for localized builds and in reverse this means that more and more localizations need their binaries hosted on the mirror network. Missing disk space on the OpenOffice.org mirror network made it necessary to remove legacy builds (eg. all 1.x builds) from the mirrors. Together with Florian Effenberger and Stefan Taxhet we asked several mirror admins if they're willed to provide an archive to host such legacy builds. Fortunately we got positive feedback from several mirror admins and now we're happy to get the archives load balanced. If you're interested into the archive then take a look at this document.

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Development at a Glance - Weekly Update CW15
Dieter Loeschky

Here is my weekly update on what is hot in our development teams in calendar week (CW) 15.

IN FOCUS

A PIM for OpenOffice.org – What's going on?

“ In 2006, a Personal Information Manager (PIM) has been added to the roadmap of OpenOffice.org. Users constantly asked for this feature, and it's still seen as a key missing piece towards a full OpenSource Office solution. The PIM targets to complete OpenOffice.org's productivity offering by providing an integrated E-Mail, calendaring and addressbook client. “

Please find the current status here:
Source: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/a_pim_for_openoffice_org

One of our teams is working since 2006 on this project and I will reflect their work in this weekly schedule. Please find the first update at the end of this blog.



WEEKLY SCHEDULE


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A PIM for OpenOffice.org – What's going on?
Daniel Boelzle
In 2006, a Personal Information Manager (PIM) has been added to the roadmap of OpenOffice.org. Users constantly asked for this feature, and it's still seen as a key missing piece towards a full OpenSource Office solution. The PIM targets to complete OpenOffice.org's productivity offering by providing an integrated E-Mail, calendaring and addressbook client. The roadmap presented at OOoCon 2007 lists it as one of the highlights of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 release.

So, what has happened and is going on in this project, what's the current status?
Back in 2006, a team of Sun's StarOffice engineers joined the Mozilla Calendar Project in order to improve and contribute to its products: Lightning, a calendaring add-on for Thunderbird and Sunbird, a standalone calendar client (sharing the same code base). Especially Thunderbird/Lightning seems to perfectly fit the needs:

By now, we have contributed to several releases of Lightning and Sunbird. Not only in terms of code – but also in terms of feature and roadmap planning, user interface design, testing and release engineering. We first focussed on improving the core product(s) rather than an integration story with OpenOffice.org, implementing features, but also fixing bloody bugs.
The product(s) already offer a pretty decent feature set like nice event and task handling, a today pane for Thunderbird, popup alarms, good timezone support, E-Mail based invitations, support for various remote protocols, e.g. WebDAV (ics files), CalDAV, WCAP (Sun Java System Calendar Server) or Google Calendar. With the latest Lightning 0.8, a new task mode has been added, providing fine-grained control over tasks.

What I like most on Thunderbird/Lightning is to have both E-Mail and an aggregrate of all my various calendars in one application: public holiday calendars, my Sun work calendars and all people I am subscribed to, my private calendar, my wife's Google calendar, the team's calendar...

Check it out! It's certainly not final, but we like to know what you think about it. Moreover if you have fresh ideas about an integration with OpenOffice.org or want to help another way, let us know.

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