Open Life

So I participated in the FLISOL 2007 event in LinuxCabal. My talk was about development of extensions in Linux. The talk was pretty good, but I guess the audience was too much of a newbie to connect with the talk.

My talk was pretty technical yet it was just a descriptive talk, i didnt got into specifics of the development of extensions in OpenOffice.org (spanish).

The talk guide the audience throught UI of OpenOffice.org to use the macros and the different bindings to languages that UNO support.

I showed the file structure of OpenOffice.org to let users know how to load the code either locally or remotely.

Here is an example in Python:

import uno

localContext = uno.getComponentContext()
resolver = localContext.ServiceManager.createInstanceWithContext(
                                          "com.sun.star.bridge.UnoUrlResolver", localContext )
ctx = resolver.resolve( "uno:socket, host=localhost,             
                                      port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext" )

and how to add Python from the command line:

>
> /opt/openoffice.org2.2/program/unopkg add Wavelet.uno.zip
> 
> /opt/openoffice.org2.2/program/unopkg remove Wavelet.uno.zip
>

Finally I gave the description of the IDL reference in OpenOffice.org and how the interfaces interact with uno.

Unfortunately there were 2 things that went wrong, one is that OOo wouldnt show the IDE for Basic, and the samples I played around about the language which was ok in a sense since I wouldnt be able to finalize my presentation.

I put some code in basic, difference between a plain script in Basic and a more powerful script with connectivity to API.

Sorry for the spanish but this was originally posted in a spanish mailing list, however if you don't know about this just click the links since most of them are in english. So here is a tracking of what OpenOffice.org adoption has happened throught 2007.

January 2007

- Predicciones de Louis para el 2007 :
http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2007/01/expectations-2007-01-02.html
- El Ministerio Frances de Agricultura y Pesca ahorra 1.5 millones de
euros con OpenOffice.org http://linuxfr.org/2007/01/11/21901.html
- Lanzan version 1.1 del modulo de integracion entre OOo y Eclipse
http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=38
- Se lanza un nuevo proyecto especifo para herramientas de ODF
http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) en sudafrica se
muda a OpenDocuments http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1335
- Organismo gubernamental en Misiones (region en argentina) adopta ODF
http://www.ccpm.misiones.gov.ar/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=38
- Italia reconoce estandar de OpenDocuments como un estandar oficial para
documentacion ofimatica.
http://www.uni.com/uni/controller/it/comunicare/articoli/2007_1/odf_26300.htm
- OpenDocument Fellowship lanza una lista compilada con los gobiernos que
estan adoptando OpenDocuments
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/government/precedent

February 2007

- Gobierno de educacion de Francia entregara 200,000 memorias USB con
Software Libre para windows incluyendo Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org,
Mozilla Thunderbird, y el reproductor VLC
- Gobierno estatal de Texas y Minesota para pasar una ley para aprovar
OpenDocuments.
- Laboratorios de computo en sudafrica corriendo 100% de software libre:
http://inpics.net/isolemamba/
- Sun Anuncia plug in para Microsoft Office para guardar OpenDocuments
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-07-2007/0004522369&EDATE=
- Se aprueva como estandar opendocument version 1.1 en OASIS
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/02/opendocument_v11_is_now_an_oas.html
- Propuesta para un instalador grafico en UNIX, creado en Java:
http://installation.openoffice.org/
- Brasil implenta 50,000 equipos con OpenOffice.org
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8553667891.html
- La ciudad de Zaragoza se migrara 3,000 equipos a OpenOffice.org
http://somoslibres.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1129
- Barcelona gana sede para la conferencia mundial de OpenOffice.org
http://blog.janik.cz/archives/2007/02/20/T09_17_17/
- OpenOffice.org gana 39,192 votos para incluir OpenOffice.org
pre-instalado en sus maquinas: http://www.dellideastorm.com/
- Nueva propuesta de estandarizacion de OpenDocument format en el gobierno
de Inglaterra http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/OpenDocument/
- Ministro de Justicia del gobierno de Finlandia sobre migracion a
OpenDocuments
http://www.om.fi/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=application/pdf&blobheadername1=Content-Disposition&blobheadername2=Content-Length&blobheadervalue1=inline;%20filename=MoJ_OOo_migration_2007_02_19.pdf&blobheadervalue2=361647&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1171362719936&ssbinary=true&SSURIapptype=BlobServer&SSURIcontainer=Default&SSURIsession=false&SSURIsscontext=Satellite%20Server
- El gobierno de sudafrica discute sobre la possibilidad de mudarse
completamente a Software libre:
http://www.info.gov.za/speeches/2007/07022211451001.htm

March 2007

- FINA (gestor de informacion) se integra con OpenOffice.org
http://www.fina2.net/
- California se unira a la iniciativa de implementar OpenDocuments:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_1651-1700/ab_1668_bill_20070223_introduced.html
- Estiudio en alemania menciona que se ha experimentado un ahorro de 76%
por escritorio en las dependencias que han hecho el cambio a software
libre, contra las que no http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85977
- Ebay Alemania anuncia un concurso de desarrollo entre OpenOffice.org y
el API de Ebay: http://entwickler.ebay.de/konferenz/wettbewerbe.html