Hi Grant, Terry, *
Terry schrieb:
Grant Fuller wrote:
A logical progression for OpenOffice would be the addition of a
monthly planner calendar that can be saved on the hard drive as well
as uploaded to a web site. The Google free calendar is of no value
when one is away from an internet connection. I am not a programmer so
I can't be of much help there but I am a graphic artist and could
offer some ideas for appearance. www.grantfuller.ca
If you are interested in designing and improving artwork for
OpenOffice.org, don't hesitate to join our small group:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/about-participation.html
There is an announcement about that project here:
http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/mozilla_lightning_and_OOo.html
You may be able to glean something relevant. The last paragraph on the
page mentions contributing but I saw nothing there about graphics, not
that I looked that closely.
Application graphics seems to belong to the marketing project.
At least we're working on them and try to provide them for further usage.
It is not mentioned as part of the graphics project.
graphics.openoffice.org is a developer project, dealing with the
graphically based applications Impress, Draw and Chart (heavily worked
on the latter - testers welcome!)
You could start looking here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Art
Or even on the main page of the Art project:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/
I asked on this list if anybody would think it to be a good step to get
the Art Project an individual project, with a main page
http://art.openoffice.org
As nobody replied at all, I decided to devote my time to other open
tasks on my to-do-list.
[...]
As usual, the way in is disguised and difficult
There are efforts to ease this way mainly by using the wiki and
improving web pages (there is a vivid discussion on updating central OOo
pages on [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
But I ask everybody who found his/her way through the underwood to help
others on their way by addressing the right people (if they can be
found) with ideas on improving it...
OpenOffice.org is a huge project with lots of mailing list - nobody can
be subscribed to all of them. So we need a better information flow
between the mailing lists and projects.
- part of the closed,
bolted, chained open door policy.
We're working on the chains as well - first step is better information,
improved discussion culture (including trying to understand the reasons
why someone wants to do something /have something done) and more direct
contact (via IRC, mailing lists, OOo Con and so on) between the
different contributor groups.
So I'm optimistic for the future (even if it is still a loooong way to
go)...
Best regards
Bernhard
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