Mittwoch Januar 30, 2008
$175,000 for OpenOffice.org and ODF Innovations
OpenOffice.org just announced the participation rules for the "OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program" which belongs to Sun's community awards program. The total prize money dedicated to OpenOffice.org sums up to $175,000. I'm curious to see what ideas people come up with. Since I'm co-charing the OASIS ODF Adoption TC, I personally would love to see proposals leveraging ODF and XForms. J. David Eisenberg's documents might be useful for starters. I could also imagine cool things by leveraging the ImageMagick tools. But I guess, just by looking at submitted issues and RFE's, people will be able to come up with many new cool ideas.
( Jan 30 2008, 03:18:15 PM CET )
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Hi, to help spread the news about this I have also submitted the article to Digg.com:
http://digg.com/software/OpenOffice_org_Offers_Cash_Prizes_to_Boost_Innovation
Gesendet von Jure Repinc am Januar 30, 2008 at 04:03 PM CET #
Will it be possible to get some money for projects that further ODF, but are not part of OpenOffice?
Gesendet von Inge Wallin am Februar 01, 2008 at 03:46 PM CET #
I'm not a member of the program/award committee and thus you have to ask that committee for a definitive answer, but my understanding is that you indeed have a chance of getting money for ODF projects that are not part of OpenOffice.org. I guess the key question is, will the larger ODF ecosystem including OpenOffice.org benefit, or not. Thus, something like cool developer tools and API's for ODF would probably qualify. But again, the official committee would have to answer.
Best regards,
Erwin
Gesendet von Erwin Tenhumberg am Februar 01, 2008 at 04:37 PM CET #