Al Hoang

OpenOffice has gotten a decent following.   I’ll admit it’s a
pretty impressive project to take on Microsoft Office.  However,
I’m not that interested in Office of any kind. 

However, I have been looking into DocBook and LaTeX for documenting
structured documents that I would like to write.  However, both
are just formats and the toolchain to get DocBook and LaTeX to do
something is very large and complicated.  It makes me want to go
back to a Word Processor since the paradigm is very well understood and
I can live with some of the misgivings.  What would be nice is a
combination of the ease of use of a Word Procesor combined with the
ability to dump to a structured text format. 

And OpenOffice has been slowly moving towards that end.

An OpenOffice to DocBook Tutorial

SourceSupport sounds like a
really neat idea.  The basic idea is that a group of people
interested in a software port of X to Y or a new feature to be added
vote on it.   If a coder is interested they can take the
challenge and get paid by PayPal.

Not sure if it will take off or not but here’s a way to give people who
are relying on open source software to inspire people to add features
that the Open Source project designers cannot fulfill for some reason
or another.

Go to SourceSupport page