Open Office file formats (Oasis-open) and gnumeric

[Russell McOrmond <russell flora ca>]

  Since gnumeric already has Quattro Pro importing, I suspected I should 
post this here.  Any help appreciated.

  I haven't yet checked out the source to see who the author of the import
filter is, and hope to talk to this person about licensing issues and
whether this group of students might be able to re-use that code.  If the
result is to be able to be imported into OpenOffice.org then there is a
license incompatability between the GPL and that projects duel/dual
LGPL/SISSL.

  I am also interested to hear more of GNUmeric and GNOME Office 
interaction with the Oasis-open TC, and whether this XML-based standard 
will be supportd by GNOME Office.

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office/

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:33:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Russell McOrmond <russell flora ca>
To: csd corel com
Cc: devsup corel com
Subject: Open Office file formats (Oasis-open) and Corel. (fwd)


  I sent a letter to the person listed on the OASIS-Open TC, but did not 
receive a reply.

  I am wondering if I can be put in contact with someone at Corel who may 
be able to help this project.  We would be specifically interested in 
someone from the Quattro Pro team as the work to be done is a file 
converter between the spreadsheet formats.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:13:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Russell McOrmond <russell flora ca>
To: Tom Magliery
Subject: Open Office file formats (Oasis-open) and Corel.


  I would like to introduce myself.  I am a private-sector sponsor of a
group of students from Algonquin that will be working on WordPerfect <->
Open Office file format conversion.  I note you are a member of the
OASIS-OPEN TC for the Open Office format, and wonder if you would be the
correct person to be in contact with for this project.

http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=579157&listName=dev

  We are wondering what the future holds for Word-Perfect suite and the
Open Office file format.  Will the XML standard become the native format
over the existing Word-Perfect file format?

  Any comments and pointers to people willing to help would be 
appreciated.

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