On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Leonardo Alexandre Ferreira Leite <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ideas for Growing the ODF Toolkit Community > > Hi guys, > > I'm new here in the list. > I have submitted a bug report [1], and a question about it (I'm trying to > fix it). > But no reply was given to me.
I think what you discovered is accurate. What I do in my code is start with a document template, an ODF file that has my default styles already defined. Then my code loads that document, modifies it and writes out the final document. I think it is is a lot easier to manage styles in OpenOffice than in Java code. > I know it was not an easy question, but maybe replying newcomers > is a good way to help "growing the whole thing". > And I'm sorry if I did not pay attention to some required rule... > This is a good point. > Just a note: a new release would be great... > I could not use the current versions downloading the JARs, > because there are some crazy dependencies that brings trouble (I did not > remember exactly the problem now). > The only way was downloading the repo, mvn install, > and declaring dependency on my project's pom. > By the way, a "maven release" would be great too > (using an online maven repository). > Someone (Svante?) published the libraries to Maven Central here: http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g%3A%22org.apache.odftoolkit%22 But that looks like an older version. -Rob > thanks, > Leonardo Leite > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ODFTOOLKIT-349 > > > > > > On 1 January 2014 16:09, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd like to see if we can grow the community a bit more in the next >> month or so. We've been a very quiet project compared to some. We >> have just two public mailing lists, no blog, no new articles written >> about us. If we can better publicize the project then we will grow. >> >> I think of a pyramid. At the base are the users, those who get some >> benefit from using the ODF Toolkit. Some fraction of the users will >> contact the project, maybe submit a bug report. They also help spread >> the word about the project to their colleges. Some fraction of these >> "engaged" users will then send a patch or express interesting in >> helping with the project. That's the next level up on the pyramid. >> And some fraction of those developers will become committers. >> >> The idea of this analogy is if we grow the base, we grow the whole >> thing, including contributors and committers. >> >> So a suggestion on how we can make a big advance: >> >> 1) Let's get out a new release in January. >> >> 2) In parallel we can revise our "get involved" page: >> >> http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/get-involved.html >> >> For example, do we have any specific ideas for what new developers >> can/should work on? Obviously bug reports. But do we have a "wish >> list" of possible enhancements/features that we should list? It makes >> it easier for a new volunteer if we can point to some ideas. >> >> If others can contribute ideas I can edit them on the website. >> >> 3) To attract more users we need an up to date tutorial or demo. >> Maybe what we have is fine? Or do we need something "sexier"? >> >> 4) With the new release I can help publicize the Toolkit and the >> project on my personal blog. And we can all help in this area with >> Twitter, etc. If we want we can request a project blog via >> blogs.apache.org. This have many readers as well. >> >> Any other ideas? >> >> -Rob >>
