As this is my first blog at Gullfoss I like to give a short introduction of myself. I am a member of the User Experience team of Sun Microsystems in Hamburg and I am working on OpenOffice.org in different areas. Today I would like to introduce the upcoming OpenOffice.org template browser. A typical user scenario is a quick search for a single template and to use it immediately.Currently we have templates available only as template ...

It is rumored that adding new features to OpenOffice.org is very hard or close to impossible for volunteer developers if that feature is not already a part of ODF, the file format OpenOffice.org uses for its documents. I think this is unfounded rumor, but understanding that needs some explanations. ODF is under control of the ODF Technical Committee(TC) at OASIS, an important non-profit consortium that drives the development of open standards in the industry. This ...