Adapting Apache OpenOffice for adoption in Regione Emilia-Romagna
Maurizio Berti – Tech ValueGiovanni Grazia – Regione Emilia-Romagna
FOSDEM 2015
RER figures
~ 4200 desktops (win7, some still XP …)
~ 3600 workers
10 departments, 5 agencies
Ongoing migration to ODF and OpenOffice(completion due by March 2015 - Technical partners: Tech Value, YACME)
Distribution: A00 4.1.1 + extensions
Released – Alba 1.4.6 – Insert landscape pages easy
– Italian dictionary, thesaurus, hyphenation patterns
– Pagination - It eases the way you can add page numbers to a document.
– PDF Import for Apache OpenOffice
Personalized– RER configuration
– MSOffice Preview
WebDAV lock anyone?
AOO doesn't support native WebDAV lock– Apache OpenOffice → ~lock.<filename>.ods#
– Sharepoint → PROPFIND command
An open issue
Apache OpenOffice– 125194 - Cannot work with shared documents on Sharepoint
webdav
– 29152 - WebDAV locking needs to be implemented
LibreOffice– Bug 39529 - WebDAV access doesn't lock the file
– Bug 72157, 82744 - LibreOffice does not release WebDAV file lock on document close
Different clients same problem
AOO and LibO use differents webdav client libraries– AOO → Serf library (Alv2)
– LibO → Neon library (LGPL)
lock support is not natively implemented in the UCB (Universal Content Broker)
Available for all
AOO → implicitely code migrates to LibO
LibO → license incompatibility with AOO
explicitely compatible: dual licensing → Apache License + Mozilla Public License
How do I get that info?
Ok, cool... what's format again?1
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Are you telling me who's using ODF?No way I'm asking that.
Users say...
integrated extension
map who is using ODF in Italy*1
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results available as Open Data
Do something!
Census of PA supporting ODF
– Launch October 2014
– Collected 33 valid answers
– Published in open data (CC-BY)
http://dati.emilia-romagna.it
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