Hi, this will add another dimension to the OpenOffice.org project and it has the potential to attract more and other developers and other contributors as well. It's a quite ambiguous goal but we all love challenges. :-)
Again a big +1 from me. Seems to be a good day for starting new projects! :-) Ciao, Mathias Dieter Loeschky wrote: > Project Proposal : ODF Toolkit > > Scope Summary > The scope of the "ODF Toolkit" OpenOffice.org project is: > > 1. To improve the ability to use OpenOffice.org as a programming > framework for creating and processing ODF documents rather than to use > it as a desktop application. This will be achieved by transforming an > appropriate subset from the OpenOffice.org source code basis, and by > adapting it to the new purpose. > > 2. To provide a home for components that can be used for processing ODF > documents and that are either based on the new ODF Toolkit, or > complement it. > > Both together will constitute the ODF Toolkit, which is a toolkit for > office document creation and processing based on ODF. > This toolkit will share its source code with the OpenOffice.org desktop > application where ever this is reasonable. > That is, based on the OpenOffice.org source code, there will be the > OpenOffice.org suite, and an ODF Toolkit, which is tailored to > processing office documents outside traditional office desktop applications. > > Developers interested in moving beyond office suite functionality to > areas that express files as ODF, however "beyond" is imagined, are > invited to join. We envision this project as giving all a hint of the > potential of OpenOffice.org source and ODF. > > > Project Proposers > The project is proposed by: > Dieter Loeschky > Jürgen Schmidt > Kai Sommerfeld > Kay Ramme > Michael Brauer > > Regards, > Dieter > -- 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]
