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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Willing to help
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2007-07-25 10:33:55
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0707251227070.27426 () calcifer ! valdyas ! org
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Sergio Hernandez wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm willing to help to the KDE Office project. I read & write well in \
> English and Spanish. I'm Industrial Engineer. I have some programming \
> experience under MS Visual Basic & Visual C#, but I'm learning C++ & QT4 \
> in order to be useful to the community. I've been developing solutions \
> based on MSOffice & Visual Basic for Applications during the past decade \
> (mostly on Excel). So I have, as user and independend solution provider, \
> an idea what users expect from a Office suit. I'm a "Windows refugee" \
> trying Linux distros during the last year, until I finally decide to use \
> Kubuntu, so I'm using Feisty for 3 months now. So, how can I help?

First, check out the necessary sources:

qt-copy
kdesupport
kdelibs
kdepimlibs
koffice

from the KDE subversion repository. Getting them compiled may be the \
biggest hurdle, but it certainly isn't as bad as it may seem at first. You \
may need to install quite a few development packages from feisty \
beforehand: but many koffice developers use feisty and will be able to tell \
you which packages exactly.

After that, it's a matter of deciding which part you find most exciting. We \
                can use help 
everywhere: file filters, the presentation and and the diagramming tool, \
user interface  clean-ups. There's always something interesting to do. \
There is lots of (fragmented) developer documentation at \
http://wiki.koffice.org. Currently really important are odf loading and \
saving: Jan Hambrecht, Sebastian Sauer and Thomas Zander are the gurus for \
that.

It's easiest to stay in contact with the other developers if you join the \
koffice-devel mailing list and try to hand out on the #koffice channel at \
irc.freenode.org. 


Have fun and welcome!

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