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Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013: Call for Talks

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Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) is coming again to FOSDEM in Brussels, for the first time as an Apache Top-Level Project. Our community has a new structure, friendly and open, and new developers are especially welcome.

We invite submissions of talks for the Apache OpenOffice devroom, to be held on Saturday, 2 February 2013, 9.00 to 17.30.

If you have something interesting to say about Apache OpenOffice or the ODF format from a technical point of view (code, extensions, localization, QA, tools... but also less known functions or creative ways to use the program) please share it with us!

It doesn't need to be long or serious, short and funny contributions are very appreciated too. Just make sure to specify an estimated length for your talk (10, 20, 30 minutes), as well as a proposed title, description and a few lines about yourself.

Deadline is Sunday, 23 December 2012. Accepted talks will be published by 10 January 2013. Limited funding may be available for accepted speakers in need.

Please add your talk proposals to the table below. You will need an account on this wiki: if you don't have one, just sign up.

You can send any questions to our development mailing list: dev@openoffice.apache.org

Practical information

The Apache OpenOffice devroom will be held all day Saturday 2 February 2013, Brussels
The room setup will include microphone and projector
More details about FOSDEM 2013 are at https://fosdem.org/2013/

Submitted talk proposals (deadline: Sunday, 23 Dec 2012)

Copy the last table below and add your talk proposal!

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Title	Building a dictionary for Apache OpenOffice
Speaker	Andrea Pescetti
Duration	20 minutes
Description	We will go through the steps needed to create and maintain a dictionary for Apache OpenOffice, including how to package it for the Extensions web site and how to include it in the builds available for download from the official site.
Speaker Information	Andrea Pescetti is a long-time OpenOffice volunteer and maintainer of the Italian dictionary used in Apache OpenOffice

Title	New possibilities with DrawObjects in the next version of AOO
Speaker	Armin Le Grand
Duration	30 minutes
Description	A live demo showing enhancements for DrawShapes in the next version of AOO, and some more fancy actions and tricks with them
Speaker Information	Armin Le Grand is a core developer, working on AOO for over 15 years, specialized on DrawingLayer stuff

Title	Tips and Tricks for Extension Developers
Speaker	Juergen Schmidt
Duration	30 minutes (extended version 60 minutes)
Description	Extension are a powerful way to connect the office to other applications or systems to extend the existing functionality with completely new stuff. The talk will highlight some nice ways to integrate via extensions into OpenOffice and make use of existing features to provide a smooth and seamless integration. ...
Speaker Information	Juergen Schmidt is a core developer, working on OpenOffice since the beginning, specialize din UNO, API, extensions

Title	Programming AOO/LO: The Universal Network Object (UNO) Framework
Speaker	Rony G. Flatscher
Duration	20 minutes
Description	This talk gives a bird eye's view of the programming model of Apache OpenOffice (AOO) and LibreOffice (LO). It should help interested developers to get conceptually jump-started with developing AOO/LO applications.
Speaker Information	Rony G. Flatscher works as a professor for Business Informatics (German: "Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the WU Vienna. Some of his lectures enable interested Business Administration students to learn programming and to create programs that take advantage of AOO/LO.

Title	Programming AOO/LO: "UNO_API_info.rxo": A Tool for Creating On-the-fly and Hyperlinked UNO-Documentation
Speaker	Rony G. Flatscher
Duration	20 minutes
Description	This talk introduces and demonstrates a free and opensource tool of a student from WU that allows creating hyperlinked documentation for UNO objects a programmer has in hands, but also for UNO types supplying the fully qualified name. Using the dispatch interface any AOO/LO language can take advantage of this great and helpful functionality aimed at developers.
Speaker Information	Rony G. Flatscher works as a professor for Business Informatics (German: "Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the WU Vienna. Some of his lectures enable interested Business Administration students to learn programming and to create programs that take advantage of AOO/LO.

Title	Scripting AOO/LO: Introductionary Word Processor ("swriter") Nutshell Programs
Speaker	Rony G. Flatscher
Duration	20 minutes
Description	This talk introduces and demonstrates to developers how easy it is to create Apache OpenOffice (AOO) and LibreOffice (LO) word processor documents and how to interact with them.
Speaker Information	Rony G. Flatscher works as a professor for Business Informatics (German: "Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the WU Vienna. Some of his lectures enable interested Business Administration students to learn programming and to create programs that take advantage of AOO/LO.

Title	Scripting AOO/LO: Introductionary Spreadsheet ("scalc") Nutshell Programs
Speaker	Rony G. Flatscher
Duration	20 minutes
Description	This talk introduces and demonstrates to developers how easy it is to create Apache OpenOffice (AOO) and LibreOffice (LO) spreadsheet documents and how to interact with them.
Speaker Information	Rony G. Flatscher works as a professor for Business Informatics (German: "Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the WU Vienna. Some of his lectures enable interested Business Administration students to learn programming and to create programs that take advantage of AOO/LO.

Title	Scripting AOO/LO: Introductionary Presentation ("simpress") Nutshell Programs
Speaker	Rony G. Flatscher
Duration	20 minutes
Description	This talk introduces and demonstrates to developers how easy it is to create Apache OpenOffice (AOO) and LibreOffice (LO) presentation documents and how to interact with them.
Speaker Information	Rony G. Flatscher works as a professor for Business Informatics (German: "Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the WU Vienna. Some of his lectures enable interested Business Administration students to learn programming and to create programs that take advantage of AOO/LO.

Title	Having Fun Creating Guide Posts for Presentations Programmatically
Speaker	Rony G. Flatscher
Duration	10 minutes
Description	This talk introduces and demonstrates the free and opensource results of a student's work at WU that allows creating various kinds of guide posts in the slides of any Apache OpenOffice (AOO) and LibreOffice (LO) presentation. (Guide posts allow the audience to become able to see from the slides how far a presentation has proceeded.)
Speaker Information	Rony G. Flatscher works as a professor for Business Informatics (German: "Wirtschaftsinformatik") at the WU Vienna. Some of his lectures enable interested Business Administration students to learn programming and to create programs that take advantage of AOO/LO.

Title	Uncommon ways to use OpenOffice on the management of large construction projects.
Speaker	Andreas Weise
Duration	20 minutes
Description	This talk shows three macro-driven examples: an easy way to produce timetables as Gantt charts, create and calculate a cash outflow plan for a project, visualizing a construction site with draw.
Speaker Information	Andreas Weise is civil engineer and long-time user of StarOffice and OpenOffice. He's developed lots of applications and macros using Starbasic, python and java.

Title	Your talk title
Speaker	Your name
Duration	10, 20, 30 minutes?
Description	Your talk in 1-2 paragraphs
Speaker Information	Something about yourself and your experience with Apache OpenOffice