Bruce Elgort

“With the donation of OpenOffice.org to the ASF, the Foundation, and especially the podling project, was given a daunting task: re-energize a community and transform OpenOffice from a codebase of unknown Intellectual Property heritage, to a vetted and Apache Licensed software suite,” said Jim Jagielski, ASF President and an Apache OpenOffice project mentor. “The release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 shows just how successful the project has been: pulling in developers from over 21 corporate affiliations, while avoiding undue influence which is the death-knell of true open source communities; building a solid and stable codebase, with significant improvement and enhancements over other variants; and, of course, creating a healthy, vibrant and diverse user and developer community.”

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Gab Davis and Paul Mooney talk about their new Connections101.net website, a project to document the steps involved with building an IBM Connections server from scratch using a “module-based” approach. In the podcast they discuss:

• What motivated you to do this in the first place?
• What kinds of questions are customers asking about Connections?
• Is it really that complicated of a product to set up?
• What is the difference between Connections101 and the IBM wikis?
• Do IBM Lotus Notes and Domino customers already have an entitlement to IBM Connections?
• And much more…

You can contact Paul and Gab directly via their websites (pmooney.net and turtleweb.com) or on Twitter at @pmooneynet and @gabturtle.

Episode 153 runs 35:00.

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