Categories: Focus Areas, Incubator Areas, Native-Lang Confederation
Focus Areas of Apache OpenOffice (Legacy Projects of OpenOffice.org)
The following Apache OpenOffice Focus Areas provide core technical development as well as key user information. To learn how you can get involved in any of these areas of Apache OpenOffice, please see Getting Involved. The best way to get started with participating in any of these areas is to review posts and subscribe to the Apache OpenOffice development mailing list described on the Mailing List page. If a previous OpenOffice.org project is not listed here, it may well be in the Incubator or Native-Lang category.
| Focus Area | Short Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| API | api | The application programming interface. |
| Application Framework | framework | The framework for applications. |
| Bibliographic | bibliographic | Building an integrated bibliographic function in OpenOffice.org. |
| Build Tools and Environment | tools | The tools used in build process and the build environment. |
| Database Access | dba | The database access for the applications. |
| Documentation | documentation | End-user documentation for the various components making up OpenOffice.org. |
| External | external | This project will host all the external code allowed. |
| Graphic Applications | graphics | The graphic applications such as Draw and Impress. |
| Graphic System Layer | gsl | The Visual Class Library and other modules. |
| Installation | installation | Creating the installation set. |
| Lingucomponent | lingucomponent | Creating dictionaries, thesaurii, and other related tools. |
| Localization | l10n | Localization. This project includes Internationalization (i18n). |
| Marketing | marketing | The project furthering the growth and use of OpenOffice.org technology. Efforts include: developing collateral, logos, public outreach. |
| Porting | porting | Porting to new platforms. |
| Quality Assurance | qa | Quality Assurance: testing and qualifying all builds of OpenOffice.org. |
| Spreadsheet | sc | The spreadsheet application. |
| Universal Content Broker | ucb | Allows the applications to transparently access content with different structures. |
| UNO Development Kit / Component Technology | udk | Object model development and component technology. Includes the old OI and Scripting projects. |
| User Experience | ux | The main goal of the User Experience Team is to make OpenOffice.org the best office suite in terms of usability, productivity and enjoyment. |
| User Interface | ui | Common user interface for OpenOffice.org applications. |
| Writer | sw | The Word Processing Application |
| XML File Formats | xml | Extensible markup language file format. |
