Including OO templates in fc4

[Ian Laurenson]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 14:02, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
[snip]
> This is not a fedora specific issue.. this is an upstream OOo project
> issue... one important enough to take upstream and discuss with
> upstream developers FIRST.
[snip]

This discussion has been taken upstream to OpenOffice.org see:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=47529
so I hope you Fedora Core developers don't mind my sharing some ideas
here.

I do not have any official position or responsibility within
OpenOffice.org - simply a keen member of the community. I have been
actively writing macros and documentation for OpenOffice.org. See:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/

An initiative by Daniel Carrera has been to put together a package of
templates, art and macros for OpenOffice.org. See:
http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/dcarrera/download/contribute.html
While this is a reasonable stop-gap measure, I personally don't see it
as a good long term solution. My proposed idea follows.

Write a template and extension installer. This is being worked on at the
moment and the expertise that you people could bring to this project
would be of immense value. I have put together a first attempt at a
wizard to help people select available templates and extensions, and at
the click of a button download and install them. The draft wizard can be
found here:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43532

Part of this system is the ability for users to rate and review
templates and extensions. Thus if the Fedora Core team wanted to include
OpenOffice.org templates and extensions then they could use the rating
and reviews and a basis for which ones to include.

The idea has been positively received and expanded upon by Jürgen
Schmidt a Sun employee as can seen here:
http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=12326

I look forward to your discussion and input to a template and extension
installer for OpenOffice.org.

Thanks, Ian Laurenson