From koffice-devel  Wed Jul 11 03:01:54 2007
From: Sebastian Sauer <mail () dipe ! org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:01:54 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: announcement
Message-Id: <200707110501.54843.mail () dipe ! org>
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On Monday 09 July 2007, Jeff wrote:
> I suppose I might as well announce myself.
> My name is Jeffrey, and I am a student of both theology and computer
> science. Although I have not actually written code for a serious project
> yet, I intend for that to change soon, and I have a fairly extensive
> knowledge of at least 10 different programming languages.
> I am thinking about writing a digital ink/notebook app (like One Note) on
> top of the koffice2 libraries.  I know that I want to use the .odt format
> for storage, possibly with some extension, but other than that I've not
> much decision on what to do.  But I do know that shapes should help me
> much. _______________________________________________

If you are interested in the technology KOffice provides, you may also like to 
take a look at wiki.koffice.org which is filled with rather interesting 
stuff.

Before you actualy start to write something new from the scratch, I would 
suggest to join an existing project. This has 3 advantages;
1) Code is already there and probably even working. So, you are able to learn 
by reading how others did it and you may even be able to ask the developers 
themself about the code. At least for me that was always the most effectiv 
way to learn something :)
2) You will see fast results since to write a fix for something or extend the 
app where you miss functionality is muchhhh easier then to go the long way to 
start a new project from scratch and get basic things working. Specialy at 
the beginning where just noone may use the result it can be a frustrating 
task + if noone joins your project you may stick to learn only by reading 
documentation, books, etc. rather then using the great knowledge other 
developers may have and
3) The developers of the project you may like to join will be happy and maybe 
on your way the results will be direct used by an already existing userbase.
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