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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 17:58:11
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In terms of donation, how much would you be willing to spend on an actual commercial office suite? I think I can put at least £100 UKP towards the product itself, plus another third for development - £133 for the bounty. 
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:12:05
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If you look to another "to Amiga" porting effort - Mozilla - and drop all of the "heavy" stuff (we may not get those high numbers, so let's drop the top three) 4200+2000+500=6700 and remove it from the actual bounty we may get 8950$ - 6700$ = 2250$
We too have around 100 donators and it should come out quite equal to what Mozilla has earned. Let'make it real |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:15:25
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Realistically, how much is needed to port this? _________________ 2017 Camaro 2SS |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:29:33
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Interesting question 
I don't know, the license is free (to what i know), but the work, time and effort a coder brings into such a project is immense, so you'd better ask someone who actually pays programmer to do exactly this. Maybe ask Hyperion 
You could also ask wht such a port would be WORTH to every single user that actually use it afterwards. I have seen OO on Windows and installed it a few times, too. Never used it extensively, because of the missing time, but i know that this would at least be the proggy that would be on my second place of all proggys i have on my HD. So for me it would be worth a LOT, don't ask for numbers. To be honest, if EntilZha would ask me for a number to start, i would give it to him (As long as it's in my financial possibilitys!)  |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:30:20
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I'm still waiting for the code to check out of CVS, 1.2Gb and counting so far :( Take a look at this. The system abstraction layer needs to be ported and that should be it but no guarentees until we start looking through the code. The other thing is to modify the Linux PPC buildscripts which for someone with good knowledge of AmigaOS 4 (Rogue, EntilZha?) |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:35:14
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I have used OOo quite extensivly at work as I am evaluating it for replacing MSOffice.
I can easily say that it is a very competent Office package, and almost matches MSOffice.
I have used the new version 2 test build and the new database module is really quite impressive, not quite up to MSAccess ease of use but getting there.
If a port to OS4 is done I can safely say that it would be as big a milestone as Mozilla/Firefox!
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:37:02
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:40:23
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Oops, I thought he meant coding wise... Well the dual LGPL/Odd sun license allows from free access to the source and distribution of binaries but good programmers are expensive and rare. Say two OS 3.x devs need boards, at £517 inc UK VAR+P&p from Stellar Dreams that's £1034. We have had two offers of free webspace etc. so far. A port would be worth a lot I supect, people say that they can get by with whatever they use tat the m oment and maybe they can, maybe they prefer it but I bet lots of them would install OpenOffice for those occassions when you need good word/excel/powerpoint compatability. And what about the new Access equivelent. |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:54:18
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Could the boards not be bought at "cost price" for developers of such a project? Surely a deal could be struck.
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:54:38
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I second that, it's quite amazing how things seems to evolve right now, let's hope some people don't change their minds on this topic.
For me i can say i'd do nearly everything to make this port reality. Sadly as i stated earlier in this thread the only thing i can add to this effort is bountx, as i don't have coding experience and to start learning it now, would definitely don't do anything good to this project.
Plus as i'm off to work most of the time (where i neither have access to internet nor to a computer at all) i too can't add me to the people donating time  |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:56:11
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Hmm, does this mean you are positively connected to the point of this subject?  Then you are absolutely right here  |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 18:58:49
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Well, i see it from this point, too. Make the bounty thought clearer. It is the intention to gather the bounty for e.g. developer hardware, isn't it? |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 19:12:02
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That depends on the general consensus, pay the moneey to the devs that do the port or use some of it to buy hardware for devs that need it? Personally I would favour the second one as it would actually help development of other programs for OS4 and mioght actually be more of an incentive to participate |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 19:14:37
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Right. Would be more helpful to whole project. But we should probably first get the thing going before we buy some hardware stuff.  |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 19:18:03
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I think now would be a good time for some people to be apointed to set up and maintain the website, server, mailing list, cvs/svn reposiotry etc. Get a nice website up and running, outline what needs to be done and what money will be used for etc. |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 19:21:28
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Easy, was there an announcement from EntilZha that he will actually try it? If so, then i missed it and please take my apologies otherwise we shouldn't "force" him by starting the project in some kind of way. EntilZha may have already has some ideas regarding this effort, so at least we should wait until he fires it up, don't you think? |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 19:25:15
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| Ok, first of all, thanks for the massive feedback. I wasn't really expecting this.
I agree that with a team like that, it should be possible to do an OpenOffice port. So I really suggest we start it now.
I would suggest that we assemble all people interested on a mailing list and discuss how we proceed. We also must make an assessment of the individual programmers and their expertise/level of experience etc, appoint a project manager, etc...
So how do we proceed from here ? _________________ Thomas, the kernel guy
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 19:26:00
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No, no announcment I saw but there has been huge support for the idea from developers and this discussion seems to have run its course so I thought that infastructure and admin people should be appointed. It isn't forcing EntilZha to start the project as if he doen't want to there are other devs who have volentered |
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 19:28:17
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Uh, who said that I would organize it ? I just asked for interested people...
Honestly, I don't have the time to manage this. I'll gladly contribute, but only as a coder... I don't have management skills, either, so it's definitely something for somebody else..._________________ Thomas, the kernel guy
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Re: [Poll] Poll: OpenOffice: Are you interested in joining a porting effort Posted on 6-Jan-2005 19:29:25
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Olegil can setup the mailinglist, i can also setup a forum on amigadev, if needed even make it "team only" for further discussions.
After that, i suggest we start to organise ourselves & find a manager _________________ Amon's digital home |
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