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Active Projects of OpenOffice.orgThis page lists some of the main projects of OpenOffice.org categorized by function. Participation in projects is the way work is carried out in OpenOffice.org.
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| Project | Short Name | Description | Project Leads |
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| ODF Toolkit | odftoolkit | The home for the development of components creating and processing the ODF regardless of their relation to the office suite. | Dieter Löschky Jürgen Schmidt Michael Brauer |
| Word Processing | sw | The word processing application Writer the formula editor Math. | Mathias Bauer, Frank Meies |
| Spreadsheet | sc | The spreadsheet application Calc. | Niklas Nebel, Eike Rathke |
| Graphic Applications | graphics | The Graphic applications like Impress, Draw and Chart. | Kai Ahrens, Christian Lippka |
| Graphic System Layer | gsl | The Graphic System Layer (GSL) project is an umbrella project to provide graphic output on different devices. Graphic output refers to a range of operations starting from simple line drawing to complex raster operations. | Philipp Lohmann, Thorsten Behrens |
| Base / Database Access | dba | Base is OpenOffice.org's database application. Additionally, this project provides the other applications with access to a variety of relational data sources in various formats. | Frank Schoenheit, Ocke Janssen |
| API | api | The application programming interface. | Juergen Schmidt, Steffen Grund |
| Application Framework | framework | This project contains modules that define the general behaviour of the OpenOffice application components ( Writer, Calc etc. ) | Mathias Bauer, Carsten Driesner |
| Build Tools and Environment | tools | The tools used in the build process and the build environment. | Martin Hollmichel |
| Quality Assurance | qa | Quality Assurance: testing and qualifying all builds of OpenOffice.org. | NAKATA, Maho, Caio Tiago Oliveira de Sousa, Joost Andrae |
| UNO Development Kit / Component Technology | udk | Object model development and component technology. Includes the old OI and Scripting projects. | Kay Ramme, Stephan Bergmann |
| User Experience | ux | Enhancing the user experience in every way | Frank Loehmann |
| User Interface | ui | Common user interface for OpenOffice.org applications. | Oliver Specht |
| Utilities | util | Utilities used in development. | Hennes Rohling |
| XML Project | xml | The OpenOffice.org XML project is the home of of XML related features of OpenOffice.org, like its OASIS OpenDocument/ISO/IEC 26300 file format implementation. It further provides some XML base implementations, like XML parser and printer components. | Michael Brauer, Svante Schubert |
Extension Development
| Project | Short Name | Description | Project Leads |
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| Extensions | extensions | The purpose of this project is to help produce, organize and deploy extensions. An extension is a third party tool that brings OOo new functionality. This can be done through addons, addins, deployed by UNO packages. Extensions also covers templates and galleries. | Laurent Godard, Jürgen Schmidt |
| External | external | This project will host all the external code allowed. | Martin Hollmichel (acting) |
| Universal Content Broker | ucb | Allows the applications to transparently access content with different structures. | Matthias Huetsch, Andreas Bille |
| Bibliographic Project | bibliographic | To provide integrated bibliographic functionality in OpenOffice.org. | David Wilson, Bruce D'Arcus |
Language Development and Support
| Project | Short Name | Description | Project Leads |
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| Localization | l10n | The major target of the L10N and I18N project is to provide tools and workflows for localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n). | Rafaella Braconi, Pavel Janík, Eike Rathke |
| Native Language Confederation | native-lang | The Native-Language Confederation includes the communities of users, developers, documentation writers and marketers contributing to OpenOffice.org in their own languages worldwide | Charles H.-Schulz, Louis Suárez-Potts |
| Lingucomponent | lingucomponent | Lingucomponent is charged with creating dictionaries, thesauri, and other related tools. | László Németh |
Distribution
| Project | Short Name | Description | Project Leads |
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| Porting | porting | Porting to new platforms. Includes Mac Porting Project . | Martin Hollmichel, Shaun MacDonald |
| Installation | installation | Creating the installation set. | Ingo Schmidt |
| Distribution | distribution | The purpose of Distribution Project is to establish policy and consolidate areas and links relating to the distribution of OpenOffice.org. Distribution includes the Mirrors Project, CD-ROM Project, OEM Project, and P2P Project. | Louis Suárez-Potts |
Helping Users
| Project | Short Name | Description | Project Leads |
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| Documentation | documentation | End-user documentation for the various components making up OpenOffice.org. | Scott Carr, Frank Peters |
| User FAQ | user-faq | To help OpenOffice.org users get the most out of OpenOffice.org in the easiest way possible. | CP Hennessy |
Promotion
| Project | Short Name | Description | Project Leads |
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| Marketing | marketing | The project for furthering the growth and use of OpenOffice.org technology. Efforts include: developing collateral, logos, public outreach. This project includes the Art sub-project which is responsible for all OpenOffice.org artwork. | John McCreesh, Florian Effenberger Cristian Driga |
| Website | website | The OpenOffice.org website; the project for establishing the appearance of the Project. | Louis Suárez-Potts, Christian Lohmaier |
Any registered member of OpenOffice.org may join any public project and we encourage you to do so. To learn how to join, see the Help. If a project is not listed here, it may well be in the Incubator or Native-Lang category. A more or less complete list of all projects is automatically created via the ProjectList servlet.
You may also wish to view the mail list archives and subscribe to a project relevant mailing list. You can do that from the project or from our main Mail List page.
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