Talk: Developing for OpenOffice.org

Abstract:

OpenOffice.org is one of the biggest Open Source project out there. It has its origins in a 25 years old proprietary product known as "StarWriter for DOS" and consists of many millions of lines of code, some as old as the original product some being brand new, but mostly C++. Over the time many different people worked on the OOo source code, some left and some joined the project. To keep the product under control some rules and processes are used. This presentation gives a brief overview of OOo and its development paradigm.

About the speaker:

Kay Ramme has worked for former StarDivision GmbH resp. Sun Microsystems GmbH for the past ~12 years, enjoying the challenges of the transition from a startup to a large corporation. Kay's current position is that of a technical architect for StarOffice (Sun's commercial variant of OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org)), as well as being the lead of OpenOffice.org's component model Uno (http://udk.openoffice.org). Current challenges include multi-threading, platform integrated packaging as well as overhauling the graphical user interface (GUI). Kay started programming about ~28 years ago on a CBM Pet, had a TI, switched to Atari later on, and arrived somewhat later in the PC world, using Linux 0.9x at home, while using AIX and SunOS respectively Solaris at the University, where he received a masters degree in computer science.