On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Definitely time to start discussions on ApacheConNA in April (in Austin) > and OpenOffice's participation. > > Back in November, Rich Bowen suggested we think more about "project > tracks" and gathering appropriate talks/topics for these tracks. > See: http://markmail.org/message/mlq5njhec4daqxkt > > With this in mind, I thought it would be fun to highlight OpenOffice's > 15 years of "open source" goodness (our 15 year open source anniversary > date is actually Oct. 13, 2015 -- see: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#History) +1 good idea. > > Maybe talks of the following nature would be appropriate: > > * How did the ODF get established and why was this needed for an > opensource office development project > > * Details on the development architecture of the suite -- how was this > established with respect to ongoing maintenance? Were different > considerations needed to take StarOffice to OpenOffice? > > * Challenges faced by open source projects/products in gaining > acceptance by business enterprises. > > * Why downstream developers used OpenOffice source code. What did they > give back. a perspective of our first 15years and an outlook for the future How will desktop based office systems adopt to responsive design in mobile devices why is openoffice important for document standards outlook for AOO 2015 and beyond > > These are just a few ideas on this topic -- we need more! > > What does anyone think? > > I would like to circulate and idea list along with an "invitation" to > submit talks/ sessions to "dev", "users", "announcements", our social > networks and anyplace else -- university contacts, etc. please remember talks must be submitted to the cfp page. thanks for taking the initative rgds jan i > > Considering our download stats put us at 700,000+ downloads per week, > many folks know we're here. Let's hear from some of them. > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "There's a bit of magic in everything, > and some loss to even things out." > -- Lou Reed > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > <javascript:;> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > <javascript:;> > > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
