Last Updated: 10 February 2005
Waves and Rivers: Massively Connected Society & Open Source |
Simon Phipps |
Open source development, collaborative standards creation, the Java community, web services - each of these have been motivated by the desire for software freedom, and all have been consequences of the world becoming 'massively connected'. But each phenomenon has stood alone as its respective community has striven to achieve its goal of freedom through community. This session considers the origins of the 'massively connected' phenomenon, compares the approaches to promoting software freedom described above and proposes a new model exemplified by OpenOffice.org. |
Biography: Simon Phipps speaks frequently at industry events on technology trends and futures. At various times he has programmed mainframes, Windows and on the Web. Currently the Chief Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, Inc., he was previously involved in OSI standards in the 80s, in the earliest commercial collaborative conferencing software in the early 90s, in introducing Java and XML to IBM and most recently with Sun's open source strategy. He lives in the UK, is based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in California and can be contacted via http://www.webmink.net. |
Technical Writing Using OpenOffice.org Writer |
Jean Hollis Weber |
OpenOffice.org Writer is a strong competitor to Microsoft Word for both drafts and final layout (desktop publishing) of many technical documents, because it combines some of the best features of Word and FrameMaker. Indeed, Writer does several things better or easier than each of them. This session will cover some of the author’s experiences using OOo Writer’s many features of particular interest to technical writers, including:
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Biography: Jean Hollis Weber has over 25 years of experience planning, writing, editing, indexing, and testing user manuals and online help for computer software and hardware. Two years ago she switched from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org for all her work. Jean has written several books, including “OpenOffice.org Writer: The Free Alternative to Microsoft Word,” which was created using OpenOffice.org and published by O’Reilly Community Press in July 2004. Jean is active in the OpenOffice.org community, particularly the OOoAuthors project. She also maintains several Web sites, including one for technical editors (http://www.jeanweber.com/) and one about OpenOffice.org (http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/). |
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