Hello, Peter and all1 (I believe Peter is now subscribed.)
On 2014-07-09, at 11:30, Peter Kelly <pe...@uxproductivity.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been following OpenOffice and ODF's evolution for quite some time now, > and am interested in getting involved in the community, as I think there's > some areas I could contribute to. I've previously had many discussions about > this with Louis Suárez-Potts, who suggested I introduce myself here. I've been communicating with Peter now for about two years, since I first came across UX Write when looking for good iOS document editors. (This was before iWorks' free versions and before MSFT's any versions.) I was particularly looking for ODF editors, not just viewers. And I wanted something that was native and "good enough": not complete, not a suite, just able to read, edit and save text documents. I didn't find an ODF editor. But I did find UX Write and the more I looked into it, the more impressive it seemed. When I wrote to Peter, I grew even more intrigued. I thought his vision of managing document editing was invigorating. > > Briefly, my (recent) work has been on word processing for mobile devices - > specifically, UX Write, an iOS word processor based on HTML5. This is a > shipping product that's been on the market for a couple of years now and has > many thousands of users. From the very beginning I've focused heavily on > supporting open standards, and have an intimate understanding of HTML5, > OOXML, and ODF as a result of my work on the project. I've written a lot > about the design of the app at http://blog.uxproductivity.com. > > I note the currently-limited OOXML support in OpenOffice, and would like to > learn more about the current work being done on this, and contribute to these > efforts. I've previously written a mostly complete .docx <-> HTML filter in > UX Write, which supports almost all features, and uses non-destructive > updates for preserving unsupported elements on save. Currently I am early > stages of adding ODF support, and am familiar enough with the spec to > understand the relationship between the two formats pretty well. > > There's also a ton of thoughts on my mind about bringing OpenOffice/ODF to > mobile, but in the interests of brevity I'll leave those for a separate mail > :) > > I'd like to begin contributing to OO by helping document the word processing > aspects of OOXML and their relationship to ODF, ideally in the wiki. The > official specs of both formats serve poorly as an introduction, and I think a > more gentle explanation would be of use. If you would like to see this, I'd > be happy to register on the wiki and begin writing. The reading for contributing to AOO is actually kind of interesting, as is the history of Apache. The Apache Way we hold by frankly makes sense, as it puts first and foremost the community and then ensures that community processes are followed through. Enjoy :-) I should note, as a disclaimer, that whereas before I was advising Peter informally, I am now more formally associated with his company, as an equity owner. > > -- > Dr. Peter M. Kelly > Founder, UX Productivity > pe...@uxproductivity.com > http://www.uxproductivity.com/ > http://www.kellypmk.net/ > > PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key > (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966) > Best, Louis
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