Mobile Office Open Source Projectbased on KOffice
Suresh ChandeNokia Maemo Devices Applications R&D
Finland
About me#1. Technical Product Owner- Mobile Office Nokia Maemo Application R&D #2. Nokia India University Relations RepresentativePast: Over 11 years @ Nokia research center
Contact: suresh chande : [email protected]
Outline
- Mobile Office- KOffice Open Source Project- FreOffice on Maemo N900 – Live Demo- Open Mobile Office Platform for Innovation
Mobile Office Key Office Applications - Document, Spreadsheets & Presentation (Forms, Workflows)
Office moves into areas beyond enterprise use - Schools and Education field - Government Environment
Standards: Open Document Formats and OOXML
Desktop office alone in 2007 was worth 12b$.
Mobile End User Needs
- Mobile View these documents and sparingly Edit existing documents- Users would like to take notes using multi-media- Encounter Office applications are received via Email or access using Browser- Users may like to make Minor Edits or Comments to the documents on the move.- Users want office applications Free of Cost
KOffice Open Source Project
Approximately 70 contributor released
KOffice 2.0 June 2009
Free Software = Free Office = Open Source = KOffice
- KOffice is part of KDE set of applications - A Qt based Office application suite for desktop environment. Established in 2001- KOffice has a suite of 12 office applications including: KWord, KPresenter, Kspread- KOffice renders ODF & MS Formats- KOffice releases, 2.0 - Jun'09, 2.1- Nov'09 - KOffice 2.2 to be end user ready in May 2010
KOffice Suite of applicationsKOffice Workspace: , also named KOShell, consists of a friendly workspace to allow you to work on several KOffice applications at the same time. KWord: is a frame-based word-processing and desktop publishing application.KSpread: is a scriptable spreadsheet program which provides both table-oriented sheets and support for complex mathematical formulas and statistics. KPresenter: is a presentation application. KIVIO: is a diagram and flowchart application integrated to other KOffice applications.
KEXI is considered as a long awaited Open Source competitor for Microsoft Access, Filemaker and Oracle Forms. Karbon is the scalable vector drawing application in KDE.Krita is a painting and image editing application for KOffice. KPlato is a project management application. KChart is the KOffice chart drawing application. KFormula is a formula editor for KOffice. Kugar is a KDE tool for generating business quality reports which can be viewed and printed.
KPresenter- Presentation Application supports:* Open Document Format - ODP* MS Presentation 2000 2003 2007(OOXML)
KWord- Presentation Application supports:* Open Document Format - ODT* MS Word 2000 2003 2007 (OOXML)
KSpread- Presentation Application supports:* Open Document Format - ODS* MS Excel 2000 2003 2007 (OOXML)
FreOffice on Maemo N900
KOffice for Mobile Usage
- The user interface is not suitable for mobile interaction - KOffice does not have touch based user interface- KOffice for Education
Worked with KOffice community members to make FreOffice
- Ported 3 key KOffice applications: KWord & KPresenter to Maemo 5 Environment- Developed Maemo 5 specific UI Wrappers on top of KOffice core engine- Contributed towards maturing existing Microsoft Office format filters and developed Office 2007 Filters- Created a large document test set & identified key issues to be fixed before making it end user ready.
KOffice Viewers on Maemo 5
KOffice Viewers on Maemo 5
Live Demo
Whats next ?- FreOffice project to be published to KOffice trunk- FreOffice to be available via Maemo Extra in December 2009- Open innovation to develop mobile office FreOffice- Make Office viewers on Maemo 5 end user ready by fixing and closing all bugs by March 2010
Open Mobile Office Platform for Innovation
- KOffice community thinks of being the next web kit specializing in Office domain. - Next key areas of interest in the community are:
– Collaborative Editing– End user readiness
- FreOffice Mobile Usecases– Text 2 Speech integration– OCR–
Got an Idea or Interested in this project ?
- You are welcome to join the project and contrib-ute to make a free office software. Access to the sources @ www.koffice.org- Be our early end user for the freoffice by down-loading alpha release version from Maemo Extras (coming soon..)
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