Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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- Side-tracked by yast2 bits, brushed up my flaky
shell a little. Lunch, interesting conf call.
- Some wonderful news: Today, Sun
released their proprietary VBA macro migration plugin as Free
Software, and committed to working with Novell to integrate it with
our code, to improve interoperability for all OO.o users. This is really
good news, and (I think) part of Sun's increasing focus on OO.o
vs. StarOffice. I'm looking forward to seeing the fruit of the
collaboration, and getting this integrated up-stream quickly. Also VBA
interop is an area where new hackers can quickly get involved, writing
the mapping code is not only immediately rewarding, but is often easy
particularly porting & integrating Sun's existing helper API. In
conclusion: this is excellent news for users, and I'm extremly happy
to welcome Sun to the OpenOffice.org VBA interop. project with Andreas
Bregas set to join as co-lead. It's just great to work together on this.
Thanks too to Juergen for all his work making this happen. Oh, and for
those that care: as part of the up-streaming process, this piece will
become fully pluggable.
- Mike Fabian fixed my fontconfig crasher, tested it
works beautifully; wonderful.
- Got poked by two people internally asking about Sun's
"announcement of OpenXML support" - it -appears- that they're mistaken
and talking about
the MS Office ODF Plugin - which of course is totally
different. To re-emphasise our position: while I'm thrilled that Sun's
MS Office plugin is re-using the OO.o code-base: the best way
to get perfect interoperability is to use OO.o on both Win32 and Linux
and exchange documents in ODF format. ie. if it's at all possible: abandon
that MS beast, and move to a Free software alternative; don't just
plug some Free-software into it to tame it slightly.
- The wonderful wife produced a pudding this evening: nice,
had to skip 1/2 of the 1st course to write mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
