Hi, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Andre Fischer and I am another one of the former Sun/Oracle employees who found a new home at IBM. You may know me as AF (<at> openoffice.org).
Next month I will be working on OpenOffice for eleven years. About two years on the Chart then on Draw/Impress. In the last years I focused on maintaining and extending the slide show. Some of my more visible work includes: - The presenter console extension (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen) - The slide sorter, both in its pre and post 3.4 form. But probably only a few people have yet seen the new (and shiny) re-implementation. It is only available in current developer builds. - The drawing framework (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Drawing_framework). OK, maybe it is not that visible but as I took great pains to document it properly, I bother you with it anyway. - The project renaissance prototype for a new GUI. Look for the v0.18 link on the project homepage (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Prototyping) for the running version. It has some nifty features and can even load some simple Impress documents. I am looking forward to working in and with the Apache OpenOffice community and to become a committer again. At the moment I am concentrating on IP clearance so that we get a good 3.4 release soon. Best regards, Andre
