Slide 1 OOoCon 2005 Entering the OpenOffice. org Community

Slide 2 Agenda About the speaker Overall project structure Communication flow Native Lang Confederation and projects Licenses Q & A

Slide 3 About the speaker Sophie Gautier Project lead francophone project Community Council member for the Native Lang Confederation André Schnabel Project lead QA Former co-lead germanophone project Community Council member for accepted projects category

Slide 4 OpenOffice. org - the project One of the largest Open Source communities Contributors and developers all over the world OpenOffice.org in numbers: subscribers at our mailing lists (without announce lists) posts at mailing lists per week (without automated lists) >90 Projects in 3 categories >650 people and companies signed the JCA Almost pure Online Community

Slide 5 Structure – Project CategoriesAccepted Incubator Native Lang

Slide 6 Structure - ProjectsAcceptedIncubator Native Lang De Fr Ja Itsl l10n...Wordprocessor Spreadsh eet Marketing... statsbizdev distributio n

Slide 7 marketin g qadoc Structure - Sub-projectsAcceptedIncubator Native Lang De Marketing distributio n SchoolsArts mirrorsCD-ROM p2p

Slide 8 Community CouncilAccepted Incubator Native Lang Community Council ESC SUN Community

Slide 9 Communication Online communication via Mailing lists IRC Website Individual blogs Offline communication (when possible) OOoCon Local Conferences Open Source events in general Local meetings

Slide 10 Communication – global listsAccepted Incubator Native Lang Social Users dev Discuss

Slide 11 Communication – inter project listsAcceptedIncubator Native Lang De Marketing distributio n Social Users dev Discuss dev Leads com

Slide 12 qa art oem users dev Communication – project listsAcceptedIncubator Native Lang De Marketing distributio n Social Users dev Discuss dev Leads com dev

Slide 13 #qa.OpenOffice.org #OpenOffice.org #OpenOffice.org-de Communication – IRCAcceptedIncubator Native Lang De QA distributio n IRC-Network: FreeNode (irc.freenode.net) #ooonlc

Slide 14 Native Lang Projects - focus “working on all aspects related to the localization and support of OpenOffice.org, including localization, QA, support, documentation, and marketing.” (quote from the mission statement) 1 st – make OOo available in a given language (localization, QA and if possible builds) 2 nd – grow the community User Developer Contributor Your “local point of contact”

Slide 15 N-L projects – sharing membersAcceptedIncubator Native Lang De Fr Ja Itsl l10n...Wordprocessor Spreadsh eet Marketing... statsbizdev distributio n

Slide 16 Why are licenses important? Free Software principles Basis for sharing code and content: © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © © CompanyCommunity

Slide 17 Project licenses Code GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) Sun Industry Standard Source License (SISSL) (dropped for OOo 2.0) Documentation Public Documentation license (PDL) JCA (not a license but an agreement)

Slide 18 Q&AQuestions? © Copyright 2005, Sophie Gautier © Copyright 2005, André Schnabel Public Documentation License Notice The contents of this Documentation are subject to the Public Documentation License Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may only use this Documentation if you comply with the terms of this License. A copy of the License can be found at The Original Documentation is "Entering the OpenOffice.org Community". The Initial Writers of the Original Documentation are Sophie Gautier and André Schnabel, Copyright © All Rights Reserved. Initial Writer contact(s): Contributors are: