There is still a remaining positive point, or some light at the end of a long tunnel, and that is that Sun developers have agreed that bibliographic 'improvements' should be in OOo version 3. No date is yet set for version 3 but I would guess that it is more than a 12 months away. As far as I can tell The Sun developers are still flat out bug fixing version 2, and they have not started a new round of enhancement planning.
I have put in two submissions to give talks at the OOo conference in Lyon, France in Sept 2006 where I hope to promote the Bibliographic Project. I am depended upon getting a subsidy for the Australia-France airfare. We should hear if this is accepted or not in the next few weeks. Regarding private funding, I have been somewhat reluctant in the past, the principle reason reason was that we probably needed several thousand dollars, and I was worried that if people sent in less that the amount needed, I would be left holding not enough money and people pissed off because nothing was happening. Perhaps we could set up scheme where people can make pledges for funding. And the pledges would only be collected when we have a enough pledged for the task ? If the pledged amount was not delivered by a certain time it could be refunded, or kept, depending on the donor's wishes. Anyway I am will to discuss ways and means. regards David On Thursday 15 June 2006 3:04 am, Matthew Yates wrote: > Wow, this series of e-mails is depressing. I am a > professor at the University of Rochester and use > Openoffice daily, so along with Matt Price and Bruce > D'Arcus, there are at least a few people interested in > using Openoffice in academia. I've been following > this issue for some time (I'm the one who suggested > the failed attempt to get funding from the NSF CCLI > program). Bibliographic support is the ONLY reason I > do not use Openoffice exclusively and have my students > use it exclusively as well. I otherwise love it. But > right now I use Endnote on Linux using Codeweavers > Crossover office to add/remove citations to papers I > write. I must then us MS Word to do the final > formatting of the bibiography before submitting for > publication. > > I was really hopeful a year or so ago that better > bibliographic support would be built in by now. I am > disturbed that people seem to be giving up now, but I > am not sure what can be done to help. If Sun > developers will not be able to work on this, could > they provide a reasonable estimate of coding man hours > needed based on the specs (and perhaps a cost > estimate)? Could the community (me included) try to > raise funding that could be ear-marked for this > project? If enough money could be set aside, then > perhaps the development could move forward. As with > many people, I have little free time for this, but it > is an important issue for me and I would like to help > somehow. > > -Matt > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ------------------- David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
