Hello, My name is Tom and I'm writing a paper on what open source projects do to attract developers. I've been hanging out on IRC and asking around but I was told to also ask around on the lists (sorry for cross posting). I'm very interested in OO.o initiatives in this area.
Specifically, are there things that are done in terms of helping developers adapt OO.o to their needs (the extension framework is one example of this, but I'd love to hear of others), what is done to help ensure that 3rd party developers are involved, what is done to help ensure that these developers *feel* involved, what "cool" technologies are available to OO.o developers (outside of the platform Independence of the OO.o code and plethora of language bindings), and what is done to make entry into the OO.o environment easier? I'm also curious how can OO.o be embedded in other apps? Has this been done often? I would really appreciate any information, Tom P.S. I've used the Netbeans to make a simple hello world plugin and it's great!
