We look forward to meet you Gordon :-) Best,
Charles. Le lundi 08 octobre 2012 à 15:03 +0100, Gordon Guthrie a écrit : > Folks > > I'm coming through to the Libre Office Conference next week for the > first time, yay! > > I am coming for a couple of reasons. > > There are very few people in the world who write spreadsheet software > and I would like to meet other people who do - instead of being the > freak at Tech Events :( > > But also, more seriously, we have a next-generation spreadsheet server > written: > http://vixo.com > > It is not really a competitor with Libre Office as it is pure web. But > it does implement 150 Libre Office compatible functions. I know that > Michael Meeks is working on a Libre Office rival to Office365 - but > that still has to have an offline mode (I presume?). > > One of our challenges is how do we get distribution - what is the road > to a million users. One of our former employees went on to work at > CouchDB and is now at Mozilla - so there is one camp saying we should > consider open source. > > We have another camp (investor-led) going: "No, no, no, hey wait, what > about MySQL? Erk, yes, no, yes, no, aargh!". > > So I am also looking to pick people's brains on the subject of open > sourcing: pros, cons, how to go about it, partnerships, incubation, > etc. > > But also it will be fun to talk about Excel-compatible error handling, > implementing number formats properly and other fun tech stuff. > > So if anyone is happy to spare some time to talk to me about these > things please send me an e-mail. > > In return I am happy to spend some time 'under the hood' showing some > of the cool tech we use and how we do stuff, again email me. > > Looking forward to it. > > Cheers > > Gordon > > > PS and it is my first time in Berlin as well! (teenage son on half > term is very excited!). > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/conference/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
