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Friday, 13 Nov 2009
Missed the OpenOffice.org Conference? Enter Christoph's Time Machine!
Frank Loehmann

UX @ OOoCon

Do not miss your opportunity to enter Christoph's time machine, if you could not attend this years OOoCon in Orvieto. Even if you have attended, it gives you the possibility to see the conference from a non-developers point of view. Enjoy!

Best regards,

Frank


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Monday, 09 Nov 2009
Back from Orvieto
Joost Andrae

Some words regarding the QA Camp last Thursday at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Orvieto, Italy:

Last Thursday many interested people met in Orvieto to talk about QA related topics. People came from all around the world.

Just to mention some of them:

Takamichi Akyiama [known as Tora] (OOo, Japan)
Shinji Enoki (OOo, Japan)
Makoto Takizawa (OOo, Japan)
André Schnabel (OOo, Germany)
Jaqueline Rahemipour (OOo, Germany)
Sophie Gautier (OOo, France)
Goran Rakic (OOo, Serbia)
Rudolf Ferenc (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Doug Bash (Seattle, USA)
Uwe Luebbers (Sun, Hamburg, Germany)

We talked about:

Quaste (a web application to compare VCL Testtool results),
QA-Track (a web application to register the release status of released builds),
Convwatch (a tool that can compare the document layout of different OOo versions via bitmap subtraction), about API/unit tests, about Automation by using the VCL Testtool, about TCM (a web application to store localized versions of test cases), about TCS (test case specifications), about the need of manual tests with input method editors (IME), about iTeams (Jaqueline talked about her experience with working together with Writer developers on a rework of the numbering feature in Writer), about CWS work (Sophie reported about her experience with CWS chartuseability01 and her work together with Chart developer Ingrid Halama). Rudlof Ferenc mentioned his team's work on OpenOffice.org source code analysis. And we talked about many many more things in detail..

All in all I think it was a very informative meeting and every attendee was able to take home new ideas and some information he/she was not aware of. The QA Camp was planned as an open house event but to my surprise most of the attendees stayed the whole three hours (!) and discussed and discussed.... :-)

I want to thank everybody making this event a success ! Especially I would like to thank the organizational team of this conference !

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Tuesday, 13 Jan 2009
ooocon2008 videos on library.network.com
Malte Timmermann

If you are interested in streaming versions of all recorded sessions
from OOoCon2008, you can find them here:

https://library.network.com/CatalogQueryServer/app.jsp#tags/ooocon2008

The conference program including most of the slides can still be found here:

http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme.html


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Monday, 29 Dec 2008
The video : the complex world of QA on OOo
Thorsten Ziehm

The video of my presentation at the OOoCon2008 is live since some days. If you want to know more about the “The complex world of Quality Assurance on OOo” take a look at the video and the presentation file.

Thanks to Peter Junge and John McCreesh for releasing all videos of the conference.

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Tuesday, 23 Dec 2008
ODF@WWW - Video of my Talk at the OOoConf 2008
Kay Ramme

As promised, just a quick heads up regarding the video of my talk at the OOoConf 2008. I uploaded it to Sun Learning eXchange, to make it more convenient to view ... and if I had known how, I would have placed it inline ;-)

Best regards

        Kay

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Friday, 12 Dec 2008
ODF@WWW - Heading for 0.1
Kay Ramme

In my last posting I promised to notify you, the moment the video of my ODF@WWW talk on the OOo Conf 2008 becomes available. Peter Junge from RedFlag CH2000 just forwarded it to me, so I assume that it will be available to the public soon.

Meanwhile I was not lazy, some basic pages of the ODF@WWW project are there, the mailings lists have been created (though there is not much traffic yet), I nearly have fixed / implemented / changed most things to get a 0.1 ready and we now even have a picture of some core team members (Lutz, me, Stefan):

As Frank Peters recommended at the OOo Conf, we should directly use a ODF-Wiki to work on and to develop the ODF@WWW stuff. For exactly that reason I am heading for 0.1. The current version has been deployed at http://odf-at-www.services.openoffice.org , documentation is not complete yet and I am 100% sure there are issues.

If you want to help with the projects documentation etc. just drop me a note, I create an account for you on this brand new ODF-Wiki (account management is still missing ... as many other things ;-)

Have fun

        Kay

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Friday, 14 Nov 2008
ODF@WWW - OOo Conf 2008
Kay Ramme

It took me a moment to catch my breath again coming back from this years OOo Conference. The Conference really was a great success and I would like to very much thank all the people (Flora, Peter, Mr. Hu, ...) and companies (IBM, Novell, Redflag CH2000, Sun, ...) who made it happen and who took care of all these little things people come up with during such an event.

Back to ODF@WWW. I luckily had the chance to present on ODF@WWW, which I enthusiastically did. You can download my presentation either as or as . For the ones which were not able to participate (and I think you really missed something :-),  you may want to take a look at the recorded talk, I am going to post it here the moment it becomes available.

One important milestone for the ODF@WWW thing now has actually been achieved. Since last week ODF@WWW is an Official Incubator Project :-) You find it's home page at http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org.


Best Regards

         Kay

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Wednesday, 12 Nov 2008
Back from OOoCon 2008
Joost Andrae
This year's OpenOffice.org conference in Beijing, China was a success. The OOoCon 2008 was held within the Peking University (PKU). Community members and interested people came from all over the world. Meeting project members from countries like from Japan, Malaysia, Korea, China, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Brazil, Germany, UK, Sweden and from several other countries made this conference so interesting. The OpenOffice.org conference is the most important event to meet with other project members. I attended a lot of conference tracks and talked to a lot of interesting people. Besides the conference program we often were invited to dinners and we had some time to walk through this bombastic city and after the conference I was able to visit the Chinese Great Wall. This architectural world wonder is really impressive.

I'd like to thank everyone from the organizational team from Redflag 2000. They did a tremendous job to coordinate this conference behind the scenes. Anyone interested into my presentation about the distribution and about the release process of OpenOffice.org can download it from here.

I'm looking forward to next year's conference wherever it will be.

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Tuesday, 11 Nov 2008
Poster of Sun Microsystems' Attendees on OOoCon 2008 in Beijing
Frank Loehmann

Many attendees of the OOoCon in Beijing asked us if they can get the poster showing all attendees from Sun Microsystems. Unfortunately we had only two copies in Beijing. So please find the poster for download in PDF format here:

http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_poster.html#OOo2008

Best regards,

Frank

P.S. Please also have a look at our flyers for OOoCon 2008:
Development: http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_flyerDev_final.html
Education: http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_flyerEdu_final.html

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Monday, 10 Nov 2008
Review - QA at OOoCon 2008 in Beijing
Thorsten Ziehm

I'm back in Germany from the OOoCon 2008 in Beijing, China. For me it was an amazing and interested conference. Not only because I found some new friends, I think. No, it was amazing, because some companies came to me and asked me, if I can help them to bring quality into their products which based on OOo. Wow, last year in Barcelona I was contacted only when somebody want to talk about code quality!

In my eyes quality is and will be more important for software products as in the past years. And I think, the QA community on OOo is doing a tremendous job!

At my presentation and the other presentations about Quality Assurance I mentioned in my last blog, there were round about 40-50 interested people in the meeting room. I was gladly surprised about this feedback.

For example in and after my presentation I was asked by people from IBM, how they can adapt Child Work Space (CWS) handling in their development process and how they can use the VCL TestTool for making general Quality Assurance on Lotus Symphony. In another discussion I was asked if the crash reporter tooling can be used also for other branded versions of OOo to get analyzed instabilities in their builds.

I also meet very often with employees by RedFlag 2000. They are also interested in changing their development process and how they can use the TestTool to bring in the needed quality in their products. The most interested number I have heard at the conference was for me, that RedFlag 2000 has 65 person for testing and QA. They aren't working all for OOo, but such a big QA department for software was a surprise to me. I hope I and the members of my team could give them useful tips and tricks.

It's the right time to work on quality for all of us, I think. Especially when other big companies are willing to contribute their changes to OOo and bring in QA resources to the QA project.

Beside the mass of interested discussions it was interested for me, that some guys are thinking the guys from QA are bad guys, aren't we? But ... perhaps sometimes I like to be the bad guy! - smile -

If you are interested in what's the complex world of QA on OOo is, here you can find my presentation file with many links in it and perhaps the video of my presentation will be on-line soon too. Then I will send the link in a comment to this blog.


Beside the business I could also say, that the trip to the conference was an impressive experience for me. The Chinese people I met and all members of the RedFlag 2000 and IBM team which organized the conference, were so friendly and open-hearted. Only the mass of the Chinese people in the streets were strange for me.

For example I do not want to drive car in Beijing. To drive taxi is like you are driving in a computer game. I never saw the “game over” but sometimes it was near that. In Germany every second it will crash thousand times in one street, when every driver cross the lines like a taxi driver in Beijing. So when you are in Beijing you have to take a taxi – which is very cheap for European measure – and you will find out, how it is possible to drive in totally chaos. But it works!

As pedestrian you are the fair game in the road traffic. Everybody is trying to overrun you! When you want to cross the road and your traffic light is green, the cars do not stop for you when they want to turn to one's right or left. Sometimes you find a crossing guard with a flag in his hand. But he only stops the cars, bicycles and other pedestrians when a foreigner like me try to cross the road. Then the Chinese people do not know, why they have to stop. So they do not stop or they are looking all on you. Nice feeling!

The food and meals I got were all very well and some were amazing – except the food in the canteen of the Peking University we got at the first conference day (only the banana I could eat). Also the culture to share all meals with everybody on the table assists to be more risky with the food. So I tried out nearly everything and sometime I do not want to know what is was. Only the chicken legs I didn't taste. And the best is to go out for food with some kindly Chinese people. So thank you Lihua and Meiying for ordering the soup without the chicken head and foots etc. I enjoyed our meal on Suturday.

Thanks to everybody for the successful OOoCon 2008 in Beijing.

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