a follow up to blog: OOo QA Internship programm

I am proud to introduce the results from the three month individual project of the Hitek school students, which is an important and closing part inside the oo qa internship program: Sample Music Database

p.s. a lot of further info & stuff you get on the students sites

screenshots from a students sample database:

.. at the end i would like to quote Nadejda, a student from the project:

"I'd like to say THANK YOU, OOo Openoffice for this project! Thank you for opportunity to learn so many new things! The time of internship was a great time! Sometimes it was very hard but I enjoyed it. I will miss you. Good luck OOo Openoffice!"

bye Chris

tags: community ooo open open-source openoffice.org opensource qa quality software sun

a follow up to blog: About one year of OOo QA Reloaded

The QA Reloaded Project and the general Mentoring and Participation Concept covers a lot of possibilities to connect and synchronize the OOo QA community with the SUN QA to optimize the quality of the OOo QA productivity suite. It range from small, specialized groups like the Database QA Team who currently overtake parts of daily QA work, to the new internship program, which should be the main topic for this blog.

The history of Internship in OOo QA area started after an open mail from a representative of the Hitek Computer School - Vancouver (Canada), which is a private educational institution focused on intensive training in Software QA and Software Testing, with a question if we, the OOo Team Leads, can afford their students a practice inside OOo QA.
In principal we already had worked out such an offer inside the OOo QA Reloaded Mentoring concept, but in this case we had several students for a limited time, who need rules, lessons and leading, so our concept had to be enhanced into this direction to not exclude such community groups and keep the community vibrant. So after a lot of mail traffic, we agreed to start a first test run with two former students, which should overtake the leadership of the following student groups, after passing a basic QA training. This was also a good occasion to create and test a new concept and fit it to the belongings of student- or similar groups.
After the course Natalia and Oleg became Group Leads (GL) for their student groups (group1,group2) and joined OOo QA Teams (Calc,Writer) as Team Members. With their acquired rights and knowledge, they also start to lead their groups trough the lessons (replaced the former, more general participation step rules) which include the general techniques and QA knowledge on OOo, with a big practical contingent. We started with ten student and eight finished this basic course. To complete the program, we added an individual project to give the students the possibility to get creative, show what they can and also have a work sample for their further job applications. Unfortunately Oleg had to give up the leadership of his group, because of private reasons, and so Natalia overtook the responsibility for all students. Because of this circumstance we decided to make only one common project and create three groups with three members. At the 25 May all groups had started with the project, which will last three months: Music Database.

bye Chris

tags: community ooo open open-source openoffice.org opensource qa quality software sun

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

Mailing lists

• announce@odf-at-www.openoffice.org
• users@odf-at-www.openoffice.org
• dev@odf-at-www.openoffice.org

Blog Postings

• 23 Dec 2008 - ODF@WWW - Video of my Talk at the OOoConf 2008
• 12 Dec 2008 - ODF@WWW - Heading for 0.1
• 14 Nov 2008 - ODF@WWW - OOo Conf 2008
• 26 Sep 2008 - ODF@WWW - Becoming an (Incubator) Project
• 01 Sep 2008 - ODF@WWW - Some State
• 22 Jul 2008 - ODF@WWW - Going forward ...
• 04 Jul 2008 - ODF@WWW - Simply Install
• 27 Jun 2008 - ODF@WWW -How it works
• 19 Jun 2008 - ODF@WWW (An ODF Wiki)

tags: document odf ooocon open opendocument openoffice openoffice.org video wiki

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

Mailing lists

• announce@odf-at-www.openoffice.org
• users@odf-at-www.openoffice.org
• dev@odf-at-www.openoffice.org

Blog Postings

• 12 Dec 2008 - ODF@WWW - Heading for 0.1
• 14 Nov 2008 - ODF@WWW - OOo Conf 2008
• 26 Sep 2008 - ODF@WWW - Becoming an (Incubator) Project
• 01 Sep 2008 - ODF@WWW - Some State
• 22 Jul 2008 - ODF@WWW - Going forward ...
• 04 Jul 2008 - ODF@WWW - Simply Install
• 27 Jun 2008 - ODF@WWW -How it works
• 19 Jun 2008 - ODF@WWW (An ODF Wiki)

tags: document odf ooocon open opendocument openoffice openoffice.org wiki

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

tags: document odf ooocon open opendocument openoffice openoffice.org wiki

tags: document odf open opendocument openoffice openoffice.org wiki

Just as to give a brief overview on ODF@WWW.

This is the YouTube video I uploaded a while ago, it has been watched roughly a 3000 times :-) Recently I uploaded it to the Sun Learning eXchange as well, quality seems to be much better. The genuine version can be found on http://mediacast.sun.com as 720p here.

Here an article by Dmitri Popov published on linux.com and some references to it:

http://www.openforumeurope.org/press-room/latest-news/turn-openoffice-org-into-a-web-editing-tool-with-odf-www
http://www.topix.com/business/accounting/2008/08/turn-openoffice-org-into-a-web-editing-tool-with-odf-www

These are the blog entries I posted on GullFOSS:

ODF@WWW - An ODF Wiki http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_an_odf_wiki
ODF@WWW - How it Works http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_how_it_works
ODF@WWW - Simly Install http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_simply_install
ODF@WWW - Going Forward http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_www_going_forward

They have been viewed some thousand times, unfortunately I don't have the numbers at hand.

There are some other blogs, which jumped on my postings (some are foreign, such as Rumanian or Japanese :-)
- http://habrahabr.ru/blog/webdev/45432.html
- http://ptsefton.com/2008/06/20/an-ice-like-odf-based-web-publishing-system.htm
- http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/830
- http://www.zimbio.com/Open+Office/articles/102/ODF+Wiki
- http://opentechpress.jp/opensource/08/08/11/0211238.shtml
- http://ptsefton.com/2008/06/20/an-ice-like-odf-based-web-publishing-system.htm
- http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/28/odf-www-wiki/

Some comments from various mailing lists and personal mails on ODF@WWW:

- "Wow this is really amazing, finally someone came up with some of my pipe dreams :)"
- "It's an excellent idea, and it is, as you pointed out the tip of the iceberg: what you demoed is the future of OOo."
- "This is great! For wikis to really get used by normal users for company intranets, they need this kind of easy-to-use interface, just as you've developed here!"
- "Outstanding functionality, congrats! I think this is the future ..."
- "This is quite clever indeed. However, to make it really cool it ..."
- "Awesome! (Hey, and the soundtrack was great too)."
- "OHMYGOD! M$ is gonna be so over it!"
- "We really appreciate what you're doing."
- "It’s a great start, and I am looking forward to what Ramme develops next with this project."
- "This is way cool."
- "Congratulations for implementing the ODF@WWW feature. It is really amazing."

Here are the installation instructions and here is the code.

Last but not least I got deployment requests from prominent web sites :-) , which I certainly would like to satisfy, unfortunately the ODF@WWW not is not yet production ready.

 Regards

Kay

tags: document odf open opendocument openoffice openoffice.org wiki

tags: community ooo open open-source openoffice.org opensource qa quality software sun

Bob Sutor commented IBM's "no" vote for the ECMA Office Open XML file format a month ago in his blog as follows: "ODF is about the future, Open XML is about the past. We voted for the future." (see here for the full blog entry).

This comment reminded me of a similar statement I made myself a couple a times in the past: "ODF is designed for the future, not the past.".

tags: iso26300 odf office oox open opendocument xml