OpenOffice.org developer encourages student involvement
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007Michael Leibowitz, OpenOffice.org developer, gave an overview of the tools and processes used in developing OO.org. Particularly he concentrated on the steps a developer must take to get a patch into the project. A video of the presentation can be found on Google Video.

Eclipse Foundation members Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Ward Cunningham came to OSU to give a presentation in Professor Budd’s Open Source Development class. The title of the talk was “Software Creativity the Wiki Way.” Ward Cunningham is, of course, the inventor of the wiki-web concept, as well as being coinventor (with Kent Beck) of CRC cards, and part developer of the ideas of extreme programming. After the talk Bjorn blogged some nice comments on the experience, which you can read