Hello Andrew, * I try it a second time Andrew Jensen schrieb: > Hi to all the Base users out there. > > A few minutes ago I sent an email on the dev list, directed to the > product management staff for the Base module. The crux of the email > was regarding the conspicuous absence of any mention of the Base > module in general and the Sun Report Builder in specific at the just > finished OOoConn 07.
The Sun Report Builder is released with version 2.3.0. Now we need a documentation how to use it. Therefore we need somme people who have enough experience with database and knowledge how to do a documentation. > > However, asking a question like that to the folks in the development > community is only half the answer. The other half is to ask it of the > user community. Where were we? The problem is: Also in the German community we are only a few people having the knowledge about databases. Do you want to participate on writing the documentation? > > It seems that hardly a week goes by that I don't see somewhere > mentioned how OpenOffice.org is a project with problems. That it is > too tightly controlled by SUN, not inclusive enough of contributors, > etc. etc.. With almost as great a frequency there is talk in the blogs > and press, and from the OO.org council, about how this is changing, > how the process is being opened up and more effort put into creating a > community based culture for the project. > > This is all fine and good, but for it to succeed then the community > must avail themselves of this offer of inclusiveness. My question then > is simple. How do we go about doing that? > > Where are the extensions writers for Base? Who is able to write them? Where are the small > pre-canned database applications? Who is able to write them? How do we go about helping to get > those types of things together? When a conference is being planned and > a call for papers is made, how do we insure that someone from our > community responds? How do we get input to the other groups, > marketing, website development and most important User Experience? For User Experience. Do you know e.g. for Base http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/DatabaseTeamsite/ooQA-TeamDatabase.html > > There are individuals here that are doing things as individuals, is > there some way we can leverage that to work together towards common > goals? We are doing the individual things for the common goals. > > Food for thought and I hope to hear from people with ideas. I'm thinking about this: a wiki page where we collect all informations which already exists independent of the written language. Who helps? Who has more ideas? Regards Mechtilde -- Dipl. Ing. Mechtilde Stehmann ## Observer OpenOffice.org: lang/DE ## Freie Office-Suite für Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris ## http://de.openoffice.org ## Meine Seite http://www.mechtilde.de ## PGP encryption welcome! Key-ID: 0x53B3892B --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
