Alexandro,
Excellent document.
It was easier for me to add my changes directly in the document. You
find the edited document as a new attachment to bug #83739
It is unclear to me why the image on the second page shows Google Docs.
Especially the Google Docs Extension is from the Extension development
perspective a bad example (Swing Dialogs instead of OO.o dialogs)
A logo of the Weblog Publisher might be better due to the fact that this
Extension follows the Extension design rules.
Regards
Kay
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:25:10 -0600, John McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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 included pieces from all 4 markets. From integrators, to core
developers, to extension developers and macro developers. We could
develop aditional flyers for each of them.
(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.)
We could post it to the native-lang and see if it flies.
Why should any of these people want to contribute?
I really think projects like code-snippet need a revamp so we can have
much more code than what we had there. I was about to mention oooforum
since it has a large repository of snippets while codesnippets haven't
really pick up as much. Then again I think we should acomodate this
emails for the developers to notice. i.e. send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc.
- 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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