Hi - Awesome. These are the kinds of questions that should energize the project. Base is a problem, but there are many Java bridges that can be plugged if we open up the configuration.
Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone On Sep 2, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Phillip Rhodes <motley.crue....@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you excuse the comment from an outsider, I suggest the question you >> need to answer is: What can Apache OpenOffice offer that related >> projects like LibreOffice cannot? > > That's a good question. The one obvious thing, which matters to some > people, but not others, is "be licensed under the ALv2". > > From a feature standpoint, I don't think there is anything we can do that > somebody else couldn't do - in principle. However, different projects can > evolve in different directions based on the choices made by the > developers. What I'd like to see AOO do a bit (and I hope to help with > some of this) is to develop tighter integration with the "big data" world, > which largely revolves around the ASF anyway. This obviously applies > mainly to Calc. But there, I'd like to see easier and more direct ways to > share data between Calc and, say, a Spark cluster, or Impala, etc. I'd > also like to see more in the way of accessing external API's and using 3rd > party languages like R. Integration with Arrow is something that could be > interesting. And something that was talked about a while back, but I > think went largely unfulfilled, was the idea of adding more "social" > integration into AOO. I'd still like to see us do some things there. > > Now if any of that came to fruition, it's possible that other projects like > LO might simply choose to integrate those features into their codebase > (which they're welcome to do). But maybe they'll decide their interests > are elsewhere and choose not to. Who knows? > > > Phil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
