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Attend this session and you will learn alot about Apache OpenOffice. We plan to build a panel comprised of our Apache OpenOffice members to hold an interactive, educational and entertaining session

Submitted by Kay Schenk

Audience level: Beginner

OpenOffice: from Bureaucracy to Meritocracy

Abstract

This talk, from a 10 year volunteer of OpenOffice, will explore the challenges faced by migrating OpenOffice, the community and services, from a bureaucratic framework to the more flat framework of the Apache meritocracy. The conversion and integration of OpenOffice to the Apache Software Foundation was particularly challenging due to the size of both the hardware infrastructure which had been in place for the project, and the larger "ecosystem" of global volunteers and businesses.

The talk will hopefully answer some of the larger questions that have arisen since OpenOffice's life at Apache especially those dealing with release timing and life expectancy.

It is more an overview of events as seem from personal perspectives rather than an in-depth technical discussion of some of these aspects.