1. Slide 1 OOoCon 2005 Entering the OpenOffice. org Community

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

3. 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

4. Slide 4 OpenOffice. org - the project One of the largest Open Source communities Contributors and developers all over the world OpenOffice.org in numbers: 16.000 subscribers at our mailing lists (without announce lists) 3.000 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

5. Slide 5 Structure – Project CategoriesAccepted Incubator Native Lang

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

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

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

9. 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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. 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”

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

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

17. Slide 17 Project licenses Code GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html Sun Industry Standard Source License (SISSL) (dropped for OOo 2.0) Documentation Public Documentation license (PDL) http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html JCA (not a license but an agreement)

18. 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 http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html.http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html The Original Documentation is "Entering the OpenOffice.org Community". The Initial Writers of the Original Documentation are Sophie Gautier and André Schnabel, Copyright © 2005. All Rights Reserved. Initial Writer contact(s): sgauti@openoffice.org, andreschnabel@openoffice.orgsgauti@openoffice.organdreschnabel@openoffice.org Contributors are: