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Back from OSCON

I was happy to attend OSCON 2005 after 2 years of absence. Many thanks to Eric for looking after the Sun booth and to Matthew and Adam for their presentation of OpenOffice.org in the booth theater. Given the short lead time the talks and the OOo BoF went quite well.

You will know what many visitors asked: "When will OpenOffice.org 2.0 be final?"
The first quick answer is "it's ready when it's ready". But I'm not convinced that this is how open-source software development works - especially not for large projects like OpenOffice.org. So we have a closer look at timed release cycles for future versions. But I think it's too early to discuss whether we should see a release every 6 or 12 month. A change from a feature driven to a time driven model needs some more preparation.

For OpenOffice.org 2.0 there is some work to do though. Despite the chitchat about a delay for OpenOffice.org due to a "StarOffice marketing decision" we should care about the remaining steps to finalize and launch OpenOffice.org 2.0. Let's support those who help to iron out the remaining issues, keep track of the status or prepare a second beta.
Instead of annoyance OpenOffice.org could use participation in several areas. This is includes the QA project which welcomes every member giving a hand to the issue review or the OpenOffice.org marketing project which needs to update the available material to 2.0.

A reasonable idea came up during the discussions about the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005.
Wouldn't OOoCon be the perfect time and place to throw a release party?

Posted at 08:39AM Aug 08, 2005 by Stefan Taxhet in OpenOffice.org  |