Welcome back Herbert. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Maho NAKATA <[email protected]> wrote:
> Congratulations, and I'm very happy to hear that you'll work > with again OOo. We Japanese community respect you very much. > Thanks > Nakata Maho > > From: Herbert Duerr <[email protected]> > Subject: Reintroducing myself to the OOo community > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:02:58 +0200 > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to reintroduce myself as participant in the OpenOffice > > community in my new role as an IBM employee. Even before that change I > > worked on OOo for over ten years. You can find out more details about > > me at http://de.linkedin.com/pub/herbert-duerr/32/794/a05 where my > > professional profile is hosted. > > > > My specialities are i18n, text, graphics, platform integration, > > algorithms, performance, debugging, keeping backward compatibility and > > careful refactoring. These are incredibly huge topics by themselves, > > but I'm not afraid to delve into other areas when I see the need. > > > > Most of the key players in the OOo/LO world know and respect me. I am > > happy that I can continue to work fulltime on our favourite project > > and I like it even more that this open source work happens under the > > well-run framework of the renowned Apache foundation as I appreciate > > its proven and meritocratic structure. I especially understand the > > foundations point of view on licensing which allows companies to > > contribute for the common good who otherwise couldn't dare to touch > > such a project if it had a more restrictive license. > > > > I have many ideas on how to improve our productivity suite and am > > ready to do what needs to be done. Here are some of the topics in > > their most terse form: regexp remediation, assisting symphony > > integration, interoperability, layout stability, portion to lower > > layers, text justification, performance/scalability, better system > > integration esp. for graphics, optional OpenType features, unicode > > variation selectors, coretext, harfbuzz, 64bit win and mac, better > > filters and many more. I invite you to cooperate at least in these > > areas as they will benefit all related projects. > > > > Best regards, > > Herbert Duerr > > > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org fingerprint: E62B CF77 1BEA 0749 C0B8 50B9 3DE6 A84A 68D0 72E6
