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On 07/09/2014 08:30 AM, Peter Kelly 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 :) > > 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. A gentler explanation would certainly be appreciated! Thank you for this effort and welcome! > > -- Dr. Peter M. Kelly Founder, UX Productivity > pe...@uxproductivity.com <mailto: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) > - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." -- George MacDonald -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTvrp1AAoJEJ8zlgVF1GcuqjoH/R0JwO8+iseRgQV5cwyIFVv5 ckGtR8AphgPtzavtAc96sHTZeAHF5tGcGdBFJKuVsoL+uYKKHx4PHKaRR0QZFaYL 1iMQ2zOS0bJAb8uVjpKC0UvlfhNZa2Z4zMRbVAUJlwBPrwSkTfS148li9IGnLfNH 13EIUgghrTPwyhlx8eQUAG3ASlyy1KVcEYfsMYD44YbyVGVR/qM8U8XEtEc1i031 /uw6WhxfvZCsj9gwLA7lyYfh+cY1zzvD0cjgovFfZHyz9YLRMzcWgf8Ne00bRcQl aaSs0wie3iS+/6691xWQuu75YK8JVo5u9x/hVdnMbUKv1lBIzS1mCxFmLuOAWDw= =/Ubn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
