[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]
Subject: What the ODF Focus Area could be ...
|
Hi everyone, When we were in the
early planning stages for the ODF Adoption TC and the Focus Area I had a vision
that looked like the Office Developer Center … where you could find technical
articles on development tasks that would not only show you how to do something
but at a higher level give you a better understanding for the power of the
application. Where you could find developer’s blogs talking about the
latest new features and how to make use of them, where you might even find
tutorials for everyone from novice to expert. Yesterday an email arrived in my
inbox that sent me there once again: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/default.aspx This is the Microsoft Office Developer Center. There are a
few dozen people that are responsible for most of the content. Granted we only
have a fraction of that focused on ODF, but if we could put together some of
these types of resources we could show the world just what you could do with
ODF. Of course anything you build from the MS site you would actually be able
to use in Office; unfortunately we couldn’t say the same for ODF
development (that is, an application built on top of ODF may not necessarily
support that particular functionality). IBM DeveloperWorks hosts similar content – maybe
they’ll let us at least reference their articles related to ODF
development? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-editodf.html … or this ancient article on xml.com http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/02/07/openoffice.html It seems that if people really want it ODF to succeed
they’d be willing to invest some time and effort into building these
types of articles – whether they’re members of the TC/OASIS or not.
Aren’t developers anxious to show off their skills? Shouldn’t we
give them a place to do it? Can we encourage those
involved in the development of OO to post articles here? Is this outreach that could
be done at OOcon? Just a thought. ----------------------------------- Mary P
McRae Manager
of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org phone:
603.232.9090 |
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] | [List Home]