OpenOffice.org @ FOSDEM 2008

It's FOSDEM time, only 5 days until the FOSDEM conference 2008 will open the doors and OpenOffice.org will be there. That is great and we will have our own developer room and an OpenOffice.org booth there. I invite all of you who will attend the conference to come to our booth and become informed about the upcoming release OpenOffice.org 2.4 and future plans for OpenOffice.org. Give us your feedback, learn how you can help to improve the project or learn where you can start best and where you get the necessary info. Come to our developer room and learn about the new three layer office structure for OpenOffice.org 3.0.0. Learn about internals behind our graphical system layer (GSL), learn about the formular compiler, learn how to create a new wizard, learn how to integrate in OpenOffice.org, learn about porting on the basis of the important Mac OS X port, learn the basics around OpenOffice.org programmability and last but not least learn how to develop your own extension for OpenOffice.org. As I always say, the extension developer from today will be the core developer of tomorrow.

Meet us in Brussels, bring up your ideas, discuss and hack with us and feel the power of open source not only in the context of OpenOffice.org. Join the OpenOffice.org community as a developer, a technical writer, a QA volunteer or whatever. The project will always benefit from more volunteers and you can help to improve one of the biggest and most important open source projects in the world. Just think about a Linux desktop without OpenOffice.org or one of the derviated office suites. We may not develop the coolest piece of software, who knows, we simply work on everyday software that is used by millions of users day by day and exactly this is really satisfying!

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Comments

Jon Pritchard said:

There is probably a better place for this question but why is information for the interested end user - on current releases in the form of release notes and also future releases in the form of readable, targeted, roadmaps so thin on the ground? I would consider myself quite good at tracking down information but the OpenOffice.Org website in particular makes my heart sink.

Posted by Jon Pritchard on February 19, 2008 at 05:30 PM CET #