On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 13:17 +0000, John McCreesh wrote:
[snip]
> Created issue 8379 for this
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=83739
I was thinking about this again while walking the dog this afternoon...
I guess we have four possible targets for this flyer:
(a) entry level hackers who could write and share macros
(maybe? have we a repository for these?)
(b) intermediate level hackers who could write extensions
(c) expert hackers who could contribute to core OOo
(d) hackers/systems integrators who could use OOo componentry
in their own applications
Is this correct? are (a) and / or (d) in scope? does (b) now replace
(a)?
(I'm assuming that other contributors - e.g. translators - are out of
scope of this particular document, although we do need to market to them
too.)
Why should any of these people want to contribute?
- OOo is the leading open-source office suite - your code could be used
by tens
of millions of grateful users tomorrow (including your
boyfriend/girlfriend, mum,
dad, kids, colleagues...)
- Your extensions just look like regular OOo - you can't see the join
- OOo allows you to code in your language of choice
in addition, for (c)
- OOo is a complex system, developed over 20 years, and supported by
talented volunteers and professional developers sponsored by some of
the most respected names in IT (Sun, IBM, Novell, RedFlag, etc)
- Understanding the code is challenging but the community will go to
great
lengths to support motivated and capable individuals
- Getting your code accepted is a testimonial your abilities as a
professional
software engineer.
Do we need to get some of this into the Flyer?
John
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John McCreesh
Marketing Project Lead
OpenOffice.org
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