The Linux Link Tech Show had Andrew Pitonyak this wednesday speaking about
OpenOffice.org, the macros, extensions and other related and unrelated
things.
The show was pretty fun and laid back and I will recomend it for people to
listen to it. You can download the episode in OGG Vorbis format here:
http://tllts.org/mirror.php?fname=tllts_280-01-07-09.ogg
Show notes here:
#280 - 01/07/2009 - total running time 147:56
2:13 - Andrew Pitonyak from the openoffice.org project is joining us
tonight, Pat is around tonight, what Andy does for the project?
4:50 - how evil was Staroffice?, getting rid of unused code, macros in
openoffice, macros not ready for the average user?, what are dispatches?
19:40 - using macros to automate tasks, running Windows in a virtual
machine, send your hatemail to Linc, render farms using visualization?
37:30 - Turbo Tax online works fine in Linux, Moneydance commercial Java
based financial software, Andy researched financial software for Linux
44:12 - definition of a macro, Michael Meeks does OO development for
Novell and made a comment that "OO was sick", Sun controls OO
53:00 - OO extensions vs add-ins, Andy wrote the book "OpenOffice.org
Macros Explained", Andy has a lot of Perl programming
62:48 - importing visio files into openoffice, integrating graphics into
OO, OO extensions website has a of useful add-on tools available
71:20 - OO runs on Solaris, Sun is a very big company, "it's not a
standard unless M$ says it's a standard", M$ is good at marketing and
suppressing the competition
88:00 - M$ knows hot to entice people to start using their products,
versions of OO packed by Linux distros, Sun version is the latest version
of OO
99:00 - spending time with the family, Andy has 2 young kids, your private
place, going Hi-Def, go learn how to properly use OpenOffice
105:00 - wrapup (Linc will be out next week, more sucky music from Dann)
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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