[dev] Contribution Ideas
Hey, My name is Patrick McDonald, I'm a student at Longwood University, and for my software engineering class the professor has assigned us a project that requires us to make a contribution to an open source project of our choice. I decided to work on OpenOffice, since I'm fairly familiar with the software. He suggested I do something simple, such as adding functionality to the Writer's formula bar or something along those lines. With that in mind, I'd like to ask if there's any particular formulas you would like to see supported by the formula bar, or barring that if there are any other ideas that you have that would be at around the same level of difficulty to implement. Thanks for any responses, and I look forward to helping improve OpenOffice. -Patrick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [dev] Contribution Ideas
Hello Patrick, On Monday 18 October 2010, 21:52, Patrick W. McDonald wrote: Hey, My name is Patrick McDonald, I'm a student at Longwood University, and for my software engineering class the professor has assigned us a project that requires us to make a contribution to an open source project of our choice. I decided to work on OpenOffice, since I'm fairly familiar with the software. He suggested I do something simple, such as adding functionality to the Writer's formula bar or something along those lines. AFAIK Writer's formula bar is not accessible to API clients, this means you will have to deal with OOo source code, what is no good idea to your assignment: you should try to use OOo API for your task (so you don't need to mess with OOo source code). For example, it is possible to add new functions to OOo Calc, developing an add-in (very easy to do with the OOo API plug-in for NetBeans IDE). With that in mind, I'd like to ask if there's any particular formulas you would like to see supported by the formula bar, or barring that if there are any other ideas that you have that would be at around the same level of difficulty to implement. Thanks for any responses, and I look forward to helping improve OpenOffice. Please join the mailing list for API related topics, and the one for extensions development. You can subscribe by sending an e-mail to the following addresses and following the instructions in the mail you get back: dev-subscr...@api.openoffice.org dev-subscr...@extensions.openoffice.org You can ask there about any doubts concerning your OOo-API-based project. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [dev] Contribution Ideas
Hello, FYI, there is the OpenOffice.org Education Project, welcoming students, and proposing applications (but not extensions, see Ariel answer in this case). The idea is to work with students and profs from a given school, and solve a problem discovering OpenOffice.org source code. Our communication is based on IRC and mailing lists + weekly IRC meetings and project reviews. If you are interested, please have a look at: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Effort One of our projects is OOo4Kids, and we have a lot of Fun with that : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/WelcomeStudents And if you want to discuss directly online with us, there is #education.openoffice.org channel, on irc.freenode.net server. Regards, Eric Bachard Le 19 oct. 10 à 02:52, Patrick W. McDonald a écrit : Hey, My name is Patrick McDonald, I'm a student at Longwood University, and for my software engineering class the professor has assigned us a project that requires us to make a contribution to an open source project of our choice. I decided to work on OpenOffice, since I'm fairly familiar with the software. He suggested I do something simple, such as adding functionality to the Writer's formula bar or something along those lines. With that in mind, I'd like to ask if there's any particular formulas you would like to see supported by the formula bar, or barring that if there are any other ideas that you have that would be at around the same level of difficulty to implement. Thanks for any responses, and I look forward to helping improve OpenOffice. -Patrick - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org -- qɔᴉɹə Education Project: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org Blog : http://eric.bachard.org/news
[dev] Contribution for OO.o
Halo, in my OO.o Base project I need to save into associated table a computed value, which was described in form numeric field. But this value is not shift into table by using icon in navigation bar, nor by push button with form refresh action, nor by macro using executeDispatch service with statements .uno:RecSave and .uno.NewRecord, nor by SQL statement. But may be I did not find correct way how to do it. And Now: 1. Can you help me with this problem? 2. If his probem cannot be realized by actual OO.o Base tools (as it is possible in database applications DB, Paradox, MS Access), I would like to try develop appropriate tool for OO.o Base or correct another current one. In that case I would need help where to start. I be able to write code in OO.o Basic, Java and Java Script. Svatopluk Bláha
Re: [dev] Contribution to the PDF Import filter for Writer
arkarell wrote:
Hello,
I'm an engineer specialist on documentary process, I worked nine years
in Xerox company and I'm now freelance in my own society named Arkarell.
I worked a lot on xml related technologies (and even SGML at the
beginning) like xslt or xsl-fo.
I focused my work on publishing part of industrial system of production
of technical documentation.
In this context, I used extensively the openoffice.org solution as
publishing desktop software with its underlying format OpenDocument.
I've been working on a open source digital library named Castore
http://www.emn.fr/x-info/bn/ for a french engineering school ('/Ecole
des Nines de Nantes/') for which I've implemented a conversion tool of
text documents into structured xml with use of OpenDocumentText as a
pivot format. The input formats contain PDF and then my work on PDF
includes a conversion of PDF into ODT format.
I've already begin this work which is based, for parser part, on xpdf
library.
I keep reading the information about your pdf import filter and today I
tested your very new extension of import PDF into draw dated June 11. I
think I can help you for this feature
because I have motivation, time, some budget and, I hope, some knowledge
to help moving forwards.
Could you explain to me how can I contribute to OpenOffice.org on this
filter ?
Thanks in advance.
Arnaud Malguy
/Arkarell
Moëlan sur mer - France
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[dev] Contribution to the PDF Import filter for Writer
Hello,
I'm an engineer specialist on documentary process, I worked nine years
in Xerox company and I'm now freelance in my own society named Arkarell.
I worked a lot on xml related technologies (and even SGML at the
beginning) like xslt or xsl-fo.
I focused my work on publishing part of industrial system of production
of technical documentation.
In this context, I used extensively the openoffice.org solution as
publishing desktop software with its underlying format OpenDocument.
I've been working on a open source digital library named Castore
http://www.emn.fr/x-info/bn/ for a french engineering school ('/Ecole
des Nines de Nantes/') for which I've implemented a conversion tool of
text documents into structured xml with use of OpenDocumentText as a
pivot format. The input formats contain PDF and then my work on PDF
includes a conversion of PDF into ODT format.
I've already begin this work which is based, for parser part, on xpdf
library.
I keep reading the information about your pdf import filter and today I
tested your very new extension of import PDF into draw dated June 11. I
think I can help you for this feature
because I have motivation, time, some budget and, I hope, some knowledge
to help moving forwards.
Could you explain to me how can I contribute to OpenOffice.org on this
filter ?
Thanks in advance.
Arnaud Malguy
/Arkarell
Moëlan sur mer - France
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[dev] Contribution to Open Office
Hi , This is Nand Kishore Sagi from Freehold, NJ. I chanced across open office while updating my java version. While browsing through the web site I found that there were openings available for developers. I was intrested in pursuing this opportunity. Please let me know how do I move on to join the team and become a active contributor. Thanks and Regards Nand Kishore Sagi 703-342-8507
[dev] Contribution
Dear Friends, I am Ganesh Dattatreyan Iyer from India. I am using Open-office 2.2.0 and have found it as a good replacement for MS-Office. My Details are as below: Work Profile : VB Programmer Company : Fast Facts Computer Systems Ltd Place I live in : Dombivli ( suburb closer to Mumbai) , India I also work on GNU Linux at my home and a keen follower of Open Source activities. Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and many others have motivated me through their works. I would definitely like to contribute to Open Office as a developer or as a writer. Please guide me accordingly. Regards, Ganesh Dattatreyan Iyer
Re: [dev] Contribution
Hello Ganesh, thank you for your interest in OpenOffice.org . As a programmer, there are two main options for you. -Either join the VBA project (http://vba.openoffice.org and http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VBA) - Help with the localization . OpenOffice.org is localized in many Indic languages (Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, and much more). See here: http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html Or help by working in two projects... :-) In any case, don't forget to register and sign the JCA. Welcome to OpenOffice.org, Charles-H. Schulz. Ganesh Dattatreyan a écrit : Dear Friends, I am Ganesh Dattatreyan Iyer from India. I am using Open-office 2.2.0 and have found it as a good replacement for MS-Office. My Details are as below: Work Profile : VB Programmer Company : Fast Facts Computer Systems Ltd Place I live in : Dombivli ( suburb closer to Mumbai) , India I also work on GNU Linux at my home and a keen follower of Open Source activities. Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and many others have motivated me through their works. I would definitely like to contribute to Open Office as a developer or as a writer. Please guide me accordingly. Regards, Ganesh Dattatreyan Iyer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] contribution
Lawrence Quinn schrieb: hi, I would like to help this (these) project(s). I have skills as both a programmer and a technical writer. If you have needs in either area, let me know. Lawrence Quinn thanks for your interest in our project. The best place to get informed about OOo development is http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page You should also have a look on our projects at http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html Many projects have a to do list on their project pages so please visit the project(s) you find interesting. If you want to know more about a project please write a mail to the dev mailing list of this project. Best regards, Mathias -- 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]
[dev] contribution
hi, I would like to help this (these) project(s). I have skills as both a programmer and a technical writer. If you have needs in either area, let me know. Lawrence Quinn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [dev] Contribution to OpenOffice
Hello Uday, There are many contribution areas. A good place to start is to look at the wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page There is work for many kinds of skillset and commitment levels and many areas of interest. Assuming you have a dev machine, suggest using Linux - OpenSuse 10.1 is excellent, free, and many of the helpful developers who hang out on IRC #go-oo can help you with it. Core development contributions would be in C/C++. Or you can use Python to add plug-in components and features. If you are handy with a debugger, you can fix some bugs, especially the ones you find personally irritating. You can help with performance improvements. How about CTL (Indic languages) layout handling? You can also help the developer community itself by developing and maintaining tools and scripts using Perl or Python. The Buildbot: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Buildbot could benefit from some additional features. The best way to start is to hangout on IRC, setup the dev machine, download the source, build and use Openoffice.org and then pick a task or area. At any of the points above, feel free to ask for help. Ciao Dhananjay -Original Message- From: Uday Tashildar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 6:52 AM To: dev@openoffice.org Cc: Uday K Tashildar Subject: [dev] Contribution to OpenOffice Dear sir/madam, I am interested to contrib in programming section for open office. Pls help me to get started. Thanks Uday - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] Contribution
Hi Steve, see api.openoffice.org, especiall the Developer's Guide and the IDL reference and udk.openoffice.org if you want to delve more into the details of UNO. Those two projects also have mailinglists (dev-mailinglist), where you can get/provide further information. 2006/6/27, Steve High [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings I am interested in helping in the continued awesomization of OpenOffice. My specialty is LAMP environment programming, and I would be interested in creating some sort of API that would allow the creation/editing of OOo documents remotely via a web interface. If this is not feasible, I would like to help out in any way I can. Please point me in the right direction, because I have never participated in an open collaboration before. Thanks -steve high -- -- (42) -- -- Best Regards Christian Junker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] Contribution
Greetings I am interested in helping in the continued awesomization of OpenOffice. My specialty is LAMP environment programming, and I would be interested in creating some sort of API that would allow the creation/editing of OOo documents remotely via a web interface. If this is not feasible, I would like to help out in any way I can. Please point me in the right direction, because I have never participated in an open collaboration before. Thanks -steve high -- -- (42) --
Re: [dev] Contribution request from a newbie programmer
On Sun October 23 2005 10:02, gurkan wrote: Hi! I am a newbie programmer and I want to contribute this project. I don't know where to start. I need some help to choose a field to contribute. Thanks for your interest... Hi Gürkan, How about helping with the scripting project http://scripting.openoffice.org ? -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] Contribution request from a newbie programmer
Hi! I am a newbie programmer and I want to contribute this project. I don't know where to start. I need some help to choose a field to contribute. Thanks for your interest... Gürkan İndibay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
