1. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Community ● Rafaella Braconi – Program Manager - Globalization – Sun Microsystems ● rafaella.braconi@sun.com, coni@openoffice.org rafaella.braconi@sun.com coni@openoffice.org

2. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Agenda Globalization - Rafaella Braconi (30 minutes) QA matrix - Monica Badia (30 minutes) TLIS – Dimitrios Dalossis (30 minutes) Documentation - open discussion - Uwe Fischer (1 hour) StarOffice Localization Process – Technical Overview - Joerg Jahnke (1 hour) Open Translation Website - Brigitte Le Grand (30 minutes) Help review project - Plus and Deltas - Next steps – Berit Bonde, Sven Klawitter (1 hour)

3. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Sun Globalization (G11n) ● A group +/- 200 people organization spread all over the world responsible for localization and internationalization of various Sun products and services > Development >Testing >Translation >Linguistic Quality Assurance >Doc Production >Program Management

4. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Program Manager... ● Act as primary interface with the base product team on all l10n related issues (translation, testing, engineering) ● Provide roadmaps, schedule and project projections for long term planning needs ● Work closely with Central Engineers on high level l10n plan and schedule (translation, testing cycles, bug fixing, etc.) ● Co-ordinate base team requirements with g11n l10n teams ● Participate as core member in the p-team meetings for GO/No GO decisions ● Contact for l10n escalations...your contact in case of OpenOffice.org localization issues

5. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Localization - Overview StarOffice is localized into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese S., Chinese T., Korean, Japanese, Dutch > GUI – software messages > Online Help > Extras – samples and templates* > Docs* *not opensource

6. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Localization – Collaboration Areas Translation Linguistic Review L10n testing – TCM Testing

7. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Collaboration - Mutual Benefits One localized product Terminology consistency Increased testing coverage Increased language quality

8. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org DE Review Project Important milestone in the collaboration between DE OO.o Community and Globalization All common Online Help components between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org have been quality- assured by joint effort Details on the review project can be found at: www.ooowiki.de/ReviewOnlineHelp Basis for a long term cooperation

9. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Project Statistics Timeframe: November 1 st – January 31st Approx. 500 bugs sumbitted by Community Approx. 450 bugs fixed Approx. 50 bugs still open

10. Globalization Meets DE OpenOffice.org Thank you! Jacqueline Rahemipour Andre Schnabel Mechtilde Regina Henschel Rainer Bielefeld Thomas Hackert Phillip Nothdurft Tina Krogull Guido Ostkamp Ian McDonnell Berit Bonde Sven Klawitter Dimitrios Dalossis...

11. ● Rafaella Braconi Globalization and OpenOffice.org