ApacheCon Europe, held last month in Budapest, was a wonderful occasion for the OpenOffice community to gather and discuss the state of the project and future developments.
Videos and presentations from the conference are now available. See below for some presentations from the OpenOffice track.
Pictures are available too, courtesy of Michal Hrin.
OpenOffice At Apache: 2014 And Beyond - Andrea Pescetti, Apache OpenOffice PMC ¶
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It's already two years since OpenOffice graduated as a Top Level Project at Apache. We have more than 100 million downloads and a stable, working community at Apache. In an overall "state of the project" talk, we will see what we accomplished so far, what worked, what can be improved... Full Description - Slides
Doing The Write Thing: Document Editing Made Mobile (the Corinthia Project) - Louis Suárez-Potts, Age of Peers, Inc. & Peter Kelly, UX Productivity ¶
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At the Denver ApacheCon last April, I presented on the evolution of OpenOffice, and the need for a good quality, compatible solution for mobile devices. Participants suggested establishing a project in Apache Labs to address this problem... Full Description - Video - Slides
Anatomy Of An Apache OpenOffice Extension - Pedro Giffuni, Apache Software Foundation ¶
Developing code within the huge, and sometimes daunting, Apache OpenOffice code can sometimes be very difficult, specially if you only want to add a very specific piece of code that few people want. As part of an ongoing effort to improve the Operation Research capabilities within Apache OpenOffice, I will try to document the different parts of an Apache OpenOffice extension... Full Description - Slides
How to Turn Your Favorite Programming Language Into An AOO Macro Language - Rony Flatscher, WU Vienna ¶
Apache OpenOffice (AOO) defines a scripting framework that can be exploited to add any programming language to Apache OpenOffice as a macro language. This presentation introduces the necessary overview and knowhow to become able to assess the effort to add your own favorite programming language to AOO... Full Description - Slides
The OpenOffice Localization Community - Andrea Pescetti, Apache OpenOffice PMC¶
The sun never sets on the OpenOffice localization community. Volunteers from all continents help translating OpenOffice, its documentation and its website into dozens of languages... Full Description - Slides
Addressing File Format Compatibility in Word Processors - Louis Suárez-Potts, Age of Peers, Inc. & Peter Kelly, UX Productivity ¶
A well-known XKCD comic parodies the industry's solution to standards proliferation: a new, "universal" standard to replace all its predecessors. We all know where that leads. In this talk, I'll discuss an alternate approach that deals with the mess without creating more of it, in the context of word processing... Full Description - Video - Slides
The Municipality Of Trieste Apache OpenOffice Migration - Davide Dozza ¶
In 2013 the Municipality of Trieste (Italy) decided to migrate to Apache OpenOffice. The main goal was to adopt ODF as the document standard format for all the 1800 users on about 1550 PCs... Full Description - Slides
Collaborated Editing On ODF - Svante Schubert, OASIS ODF Advanced Collaboration Subcommittee ¶
The OpenDocument format (ODF) consists of compressed XML
files. ODF is read and written by many Office applications; the Apache
ODF Toolkit (incubating) provides the ability of an easy automated
access... Full Description - Slides