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Subject:    KOffice potential, a call for developers
From:       Raphael Langerhorst <raphael-langerhorst () gmx ! at>
Date:       2005-01-08 13:07:04
Message-ID: 200501081407.05905.raphael-langerhorst () gmx ! at
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Hi all,

I post the article here for review, I'll submit it to dot.kde.org a 
few hours later today.

Article title: KOffice development

from the human-resource-management-dept.

KOffice is one of the youngest office suites available. And it is 
built on KDE. This advantage brings enormous potential in terms of 
integration, performance and even scalability which are vital for 
business deployments. You can help to utilize these capabilities and 
bring the full potential of KOffice to life.

The functionality KOffice has already reached in its short life is 
incredible if we consider the small number of developers that made 
this happen. And still, KOffice has a great performance despite all 
the functionality already implemented. This makes it even usable on 
quite old hardware.

Because KOffice is built directly on KDE, it can offer the best office 
experience on a KDE desktop. Even full OASIS document format support 
is targeted for the next release (1.4) which is the same file format 
as OpenOffice.org 2 will have. This will make data exchange with 
OpenOffice.org seamless!

Much work has already been done, but KOffice simply needs more 
developers to fully utilize and implement the potential it has. Many 
central office components like KWord, KPresenter, Kivio and KSpread 
are already quite stable but still have a few glitches here and 
there. Karbon14 (vector graphics) and Kugar (report generator) are in 
a less good shape because of lack of developers. Also smaller 
components like KFormula, KChart or KDGantt could use some attention.

And KOffice has many more applications to offer that will hopefully be 
included in next major releases: Krita (Pixmap Graphics), Kexi 
(Database Frontend) and KPlato (Project Management). All these 
applications are in development, have a huge potential ... and could 
use more human resources.

As you can see, KOffice is close to offer a very complete office 
environment, probably the most feature complete office suite 
available, completely integrated and completely free.

If you are interested in helping to make this happen, feel free to 
have a look at the webpage and contact the developers mailing list. 
Both developers and documentation writers are very welcome. There are 
also easy-to-get-started jobs available. And if you don't have a CVS 
account, don't worry, just send you patches to the mailing list and 
we will apply your improvements to KOffice.

-- 
Raphael Langerhorst, JID: raphael@jabber.pilgerer.de
G System, The Evolving Universe - http://www.g-system.at
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