Hi David,
Let me point out that we do not work Hierarchial. This might be strange,
but thats how it is. The focus is on your desicion. You decide the
amount, and the activity. There is no responsibility to do anything,
only the respect from those that are interested in OpenOffice when you
get involved. We currently have no company that is looking for any
positions. :P
I understand that a lot of people have difficulties with this approach,
so I try to give some lead. And usually Recruitment is quite quiet,
since it has only the purpose to be an entrypoint for newcommers to give
some orientation and space. We hope that they join the community and get
involved there. If there is in need or you have some Questions that you
feel fit on recruitment then feel free to do so. The Recruiters (where I
think I am the most active one) will try our best to support.
In general the Bugzilla Bugtracker has a lot of tasks where one can find
something to do. (I think over 3K open request, a lot of them Rubbish,
old whishes or whatever).
We currently have following dev Topics in Discussion:
# There is the general Idea to do some generic Code maintenance by
replaceing the good ols C arrays with the more modern Container based
approches.
# TOP Community Issue is that under certain conditions OpenOffice writes
rubbish to disk, destroying all users work. It is currently in Analysis.
# Our Microsoft compatibility sucks. There is the Idea to integrate
OOXML from Apache POI. This is kind of difficult since we use a SAX API
and POI does not support that, plus has limitations.
# We still use 20 year old dmake. Damjan is migrating to gmake toolset,
maybe this could be supported.
# pushing next Release to public: i think we have work to do to iron out
bugs so we cann call it stable. The dream is we manage it this year. (So
far we also dreamed of releasing 4.1.4 in Q1 maybe Q2.)
I recommend to try build OpenOffice first. The build Process has a charm
on its own and the Code is also not very intuitive. So participating is
not easy task.
In all questions the dev Mailing list is the place to talk to.
Since all Volunteers are doing this in their freetime, sometimes you
need to have patience and be persistant. If you assume that everybody
has around the time for this Project as you, you are not so far from the
truth I believe.
You are free and welcome to help as you think best. Sorry to stress that
a bit. ;)
If none of the active topics suits you I can try and dig some other
stuff out. No issue. Could take a while thought.
I hope this helps you and you have interest enough to make your way into
the Project. :)
So data sientist?! Well I am happen to be active in that Area (roughly
lol). So what you are looking into? SAS or more in python and R ? - Just
courious.
Have Fun!
All the Best
Peter
On 22.10.2017 20:08, David Larson wrote:
I have been waiting for some time to see message activity here that
makes sense. It has been pretty quiet. Thanks for your reply.
I am an experienced software engineer with skills in C, C++, Assembly,
Java, SQL and so on, in addition to constantly learning new skills.
Let me turn your question around. I am willing to take a chance to
help volunteer a little of my time to make OpenOffice better. What do
you want me to do? I don't have much spare time while I strive to
pivot my career toward data analysis and find a job opportunity near
me (or remote access) that doesn't include hidden age discrimination.
Do you have a list of tasks available? Are you interested in adding
new tasks such as fixing the spreadsheet filtering bug? I signed up
expecting to see some activity and instructions on how to get started
helping that I could focus on a task to help such as debugging, fixing
something, code reviewing, mentoring making unit tests or even
reproducing bugs. My last email was both to declare OpenOffice as
still being a worthwhile product and suggest possible ideas that occur
to me.
Getting to know people with similar interests but different
perspectives while helping is a plus. Nobody knows my
accomplishments except my former job coworkers because I haven't been
a social media type person trying to promote everything I do and I
haven't yet placed any of my personal projects on public github
repositories. I prefer to spend most of my time focused on
accomplishing the next something.
Best regards,
David
www.linkedin.com/in/davidmlarson
twitter @dynadml
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*From:* Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org>
*Sent:* Sunday, October 22, 2017 10:24 AM
*To:* recruitment@openoffice.apache.org; David Larson
*Cc:* arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com
*Subject:* Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl
Hi David Larson,
What do you want? This list is ment for people who are interested in
joining OpenOffice to improve the application OpenOffice.
Nothing more nothing less.
Do you want to join or are you looking for coworkers?
All the best
Peter
On 21.10.2017 14:45, David Larson wrote:
> I use openoffice portable so its handy when I need it but out of the
way (not using computer resources when I don't use it). I do the same
with the chrome browser as it launches too many processes for my
tastes. I don't use Microsoft Office as its too integrated with the
OS. I want my computer to be like a transformer Lamborghini not an
overburdened bus. I put 32gb of ram in each of my computers and I
still feel that way as I have my own plans for the data space.
>
>
> One slightly annoying behavior of openoffice to fix is sometimes
when I start it the first time it complains about needing to clean up
and quits before starting but it works the second time I try, however
then it tends to state it is recovering documents I last worked on
when I already have them saved and puts them into a read only state.
In addition, there is document formats that probably need to be added.
On the ancient side, there is Wordstar which I discovered I still have
old resumes written in and have to resort to a different tool to
recover their valuable content. On the current side, I am suspicious
that the latest Word like formats supported are getting stale with the
Office fans out there. Hopefully these are not beyond our reach. I
don't personally care about spreadsheet file formats at this time as I
only use them for my own experiments nor for presentation formats
usually although I may care for those soon. I do care about some
recent new spreadsheet misbehaviors with moderately sized data sets I
have been seeing which I don't like... mostly regarding auto filters
that cause weird results that are difficult to undo. This problem
interferes with my efforts to develop the information I need for a
special new kindle book on SQL. Do we have a comprehensive list of the
latest formats, bugs, and important features that should be supported
but may not be?
>
>
> Note I am willing to use github for public projects and I am using
Atlassian Bitbucket for my private projects as I can have 4 coworkers
in it for free in that we can use to get started saving the world from
data overload.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 12:44 AM
> To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org
> Cc: arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl
>
> CCing R J for the answer below. When someone is new, please reply to
> list+sender. R J, you may want to subscribe to the list, see
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> On 20/10/2017 David Larson wrote:
>> Hi R J,
>>
>> What programming languages are you learning/using and what are your
interests?
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Arjay Woodmaster <arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com>
>> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:50 AM
>> To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org
>> Subject: Introduction of: R J Wahl
>>
>> Hi I am R J Wahl.
>> I am from South Africa.
>> I am interested in general programming, computers and heavy metal.
>>
>> I decided to look at open source projects as a learning curve towards
>> becoming a better programmer.
>>
>> Thanks
>> R J Wahl
>>
