Hi Peter A warm welcome, looking forward to see your thoughts.
On 9 July 2014 17:30, Peter Kelly <pe...@uxproductivity.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been following OpenOffice and ODF's evolution for quite some time > now, and am interested in getting involved in the community, as I think > there's some areas I could contribute to. I've previously had many > discussions about this with Louis Suárez-Potts, who suggested I introduce > myself here. > > Briefly, my (recent) work has been on word processing for mobile devices - > specifically, UX Write, an iOS word processor based on HTML5. This is a > shipping product that's been on the market for a couple of years now and > has many thousands of users. From the very beginning I've focused heavily > on supporting open standards, and have an intimate understanding of HTML5, > OOXML, and ODF as a result of my work on the project. I've written a lot > about the design of the app at http://blog.uxproductivity.com. > > I note the currently-limited OOXML support in OpenOffice, and would like > to learn more about the current work being done on this, and contribute to > these efforts. I've previously written a mostly complete .docx <-> HTML > filter in UX Write, which supports almost all features, and uses > non-destructive updates for preserving unsupported elements on save. > Currently I am early stages of adding ODF support, and am familiar enough > with the spec to understand the relationship between the two formats pretty > well. > > There's also a ton of thoughts on my mind about bringing OpenOffice/ODF to > mobile, but in the interests of brevity I'll leave those for a separate > mail :) > Best place for that would be our wiki https://wiki.openoffice.org > > I'd like to begin contributing to OO by helping document the word > processing aspects of OOXML and their relationship to ODF, ideally in the > wiki. The official specs of both formats serve poorly as an introduction, > and I think a more gentle explanation would be of use. If you would like to > see this, I'd be happy to register on the wiki and begin writing. > I hope pescetti or another admin can create an account for you. rgds jan I. > > -- > Dr. Peter M. Kelly > Founder, UX Productivity > pe...@uxproductivity.com > http://www.uxproductivity.com/ > http://www.kellypmk.net/ > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > >
