Space: Apache OpenOffice Community (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS) Page: 2012 Dec (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2012+Dec)
Change Comment: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Draft December Edited by Andrea Pescetti: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms and in dozens of languages. Issues for Board Awareness The graduation process, as expected, was non-trivial and involved migration of multiple resources. Infra was very helpful, but the process is taking longer than expected and we aren't completely done yet; the main issue is that we are still unable to edit our websites, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5603 Community Development/Outreach Progress A major effort is ongoing to recruit new volunteers for the project, through announcements on the website, blog posts and calls on the ooo-announce list. We managed to recruit volunteers for translation (about 20 new languages), Quality Assurance and Marketing. The dedicated mailing lists are now seeing a strong increase in traffic and diversity of posters. We continue to use social networking accounts – Google +, Facebook – to collect feedback and ideas from our user base. A Google+ community was recently started. An initiative called "Ask OpenOffice" was launched too, to collect the top 10 non-support questions from our users: they will be answered in a blog post, to help users reach a better understanding of OpenOffice at Apache. We have several volunteers ready to attend FOSDEM (February 2013, Brussels, Belgium) where the Apache OpenOffice project will have a dedicated track for developers ("devroom") and, pending final approval by FOSDEM, a stand for the whole conference. We also submitted talks for the ApacheCon NA in Portland and we'll have several volunteers attending it too. Project Development Progress The next OpenOffice release will be labelled 4.0. Plans are to release it in Q1 2013 or shortly after. Volunteers are stepping up to take responsibility for the major new features, opening wiki pages to document their progress and inviting other potential developers to join. The project will also release new languages for OpenOffice 3.4.1 (the current stable version), with a translation deadline set to end of 2012 and a release expected in January 2013. The project will release an updated source package (identical to the current 3.4.1, but with new translation files) and binary packages for the added languages only. The project added 3 new committers since the graduation date. Community support forums remain popular with users. The mailing lists for user support and localization are quite active, and those for QA and marketing are fast growing. As Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list, ooo-dev, remains very active. Change your notification preferences: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/users/viewnotifications.action
