[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Creative Commons Releases Add-in Support for OpenOffice.org
Jon Phillips
jon at creativecommons.org
Tue Dec 4 13:46:32 EST 2007
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 15:42 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> Apologies for the late reply...
> comments inline
>
>
> On 2007-11-15, at 03:24 , Jon Phillips wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 23:43 -0500, Gavin Baker wrote:
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> >> Very happy to see this. But...
> >>
> >> When I try to enable the plugin, I get the error: "Could not create
> >> Java
> >> implementation loader"
> >>
> >> Can someone help me decipher what that means? I'm guessing I lack
> >> some
> >> dependency (but any such dependencies aren't documented on the wiki).
> >>
> >> Sincerely, your faithful CC bug tester :)
> >>
> >> P.S. Someone may want to close these open issues in the OOo tracker:
> >> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29404
> >> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=66656
> >>
> >> P.P.S. Any OOo cross-publicity for this? I'll suggest it for their
> >> newsletter.
> >
> > Good idea, Louis and Russell, how can this best be promoted on OO.o?
>
> The easiest and most effective is to send a note to our Marketing
> list. You need to be subscribed so if you don't want to be, I can do
> it. We on OOo can also get it out to our public lists and newsletter
> blog. But, what exactly are we announcing? the addon? Then that should
> be listed on OOo's extensions page, which I cite below.
>
> Once you have it up there, I can notify the various public lists of
> the useful new extension.
Yes, can you and Russell please promote this now on the lists...it is a
great thing to show in comparison to the Microsoft Office CC plugin.
> >
> > Also, how can we get this to ship by default with OO.o? Or, is that
> > more
> > of a packagers question on the distros?
>
> That won't happen too easily. If you just want to make it so that user
> Jane can simply add the feature, then fine: it's like an extension
> (plugin..). But amending the installation sets is a lot more
> problematical and we generally prefer promoting extensions over that.
> See, for a list of our extensions, http://extensions.services.openofficeorg/
Excellent...Nathan, added it here:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ccooo
> >
> >
> >> P.P.P.S. Any distros going to package this by default?
> >
> > I know the OO.o packager for gentoo, so could ask there, but lets find
> > out best approach on plugin inclusion...
>
> I'd really rather that all distros distribute the same build and then
> make whatever additions available as the user prefers. Gentoo can do
> what it wants, but then calling it OOo (with no modifier) seems to be
> asking for confusion ;-)
Makes sense.
> >
> >
> > Do plugins for OO.o sometimes get pulled into the core app? Or ship
> > with
> > the releases?
>
> Well, the thinking now is less bloat makes Jane happier and plugins,
> however small, can add to the avoirdupois, and before you know, you
> got bloat.
>
> There is also the really crucial advantage of keeping plugins/
> extensions/addons (nearly all synonyms of each other) separate: easier
> by far to maintain. See our extensions page and also our development
> page for how to get it up there:
>
> http://extensions.openoffice.org/
>
> and this really ought to be made available up on our extensions
> repository.
>
>
> >
> >
> > Jon
>
> Best
> louis
> >
> >
> >> Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
> >>> PDF attached; text below
> >>>
> >>> San Francisco, CA — November 14, 2007
> >>>
> >>> Today Creative Commons released an Add-in for OpenOffice.org which
> >>> allows users to select and embed a Creative Commons license in
> >>> documents. Based on work completed as part of the Google Summer of
> >>> Code
> >>> by Cassio Melo, the add-in supports Writer (word processing
> >>> documents),
> >>> Calc (spreadsheets) and Impress (presentations).
> >>>
> >>> Google Summer of Code provides students with funding to work on open
> >>> source software between May and August. During summer 2007, Cassio
> >>> worked on developing the basic OpenOffice.org add-in. Cassio was
> >>> mentored by Nathan Yergler, Creative Commons CTO, and generously
> >>> supported by Google's Open Source programs. “Cassio provided a great
> >>> foundation for us to build on and maintain. I'm thrilled to
> >>> finally be
> >>> able to offer support for OpenOffice.org,” said Yergler.
> >>>
> >>> The Add-in is available without charge, and is licensed under the
> >>> GNU
> >>> General Public License. Download information and links to source
> >>> code
> >>> are available at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
> >>> OpenOfficeOrg_Addin.
> >>>
> >>> About Creative Commons
> >>>
> >>> Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in
> >>> 2001, that
> >>> promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works,
> >>> whether
> >>> owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses,
> >>> Creative Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and
> >>> educators the
> >>> choice of a flexible range of protections and freedoms that build
> >>> upon
> >>> the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to
> >>> enable a
> >>> voluntary “some rights reserved” approach. Creative Commons is
> >>> sustained
> >>> by the generous support of organizations including the John D. and
> >>> Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Hewlett
> >>> Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as members of
> >>> the
> >>> public. For more information about Creative Commons, visit
> >>> http://creativecommons.org.
> >>>
> >>> Contact
> >>>
> >>> Nathan Yergler
> >>> Chief Technology Officer
> >>> Creative Commons
> >>> nathan at creativecommons.org
> >>>
> >>> Press Kit
> >>>
> >>> http://creativecommons.org/presskit
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> Gavin Baker
> >> http://www.gavinbaker.com/
> >> gavin at gavinbaker.com
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