Rollen Easter schrieb: > I am a retired professional engineer who did a good bit of > programming in conjunction with structural engineering. On retiring I > had my own company to produce database programs in dBase, Clipper, > and C++. I have also done a good bit of Access programming. These > served very well in augmenting my reduced pension after retiring > early. > > > Now I am looking for something to fill my 'indoor' time. I very much > like the idea of OpenOffice as I understand it. In the old > programming days a hacker was one who helped anyone who needed help. > We encouraged and helped even our competition. I hate what has > happened to the field. > > I am now downloading 2.2 and will try it out. I have put Open Ofice > on several computers of folks who could not afford MSOffice and it > appears to have served the purpose well. > > Do you have some advice on how I migh be of help? I have the Old > Borland Turbo C++ package and Delphi but never had any good use for > them and did not explore very far. Thanks for your kind offering. First you should know that OOo development on Windows needs the MS Visual Studio C++ compiler. Fortunately the "free" (as in "free beer") MS VSC++ 2005 Express is suitable. A document with building instructions is available.
If you wanted to contribute to some of our projects: welcome on board! Perhaps you should check the websites of our projects, the developers should have "ToDo" lists posted there. You can start at http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html As you have some experience with Access programming I assume that especially our "Base" developers would be interested. You can meet them at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
