[odf-discuss] Templates, fonts, clip-art

[Daniel Carrera]

On Fri, 2006-01-09 at 11:50 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> AFAIK, the clip art is from the OpenClipArt project; the 
> templates are those available on the OOo site and from 
> WorldLabel; and the documentation is mostly from the OOo site and 
> includes all the OOoAuthors material. I forget where the fonts 
> came from.
> 
> It's good that the OOo Premium people have collected all this 
> material into one CD,

Actually, it looks like they just took my work :)  A few years ago I
tried hard to push an "OOo Premium" at the OOo project. I collected the
books, clip art, labels and many public domain photos. I packaged them
all and tried to get OOo to make an OOo Premium distribution with all of
that. As you might imagine, it went nowhere.

My "OOo Premium" idea actually predates OOoAuthors. I was discussing it
with the CD ROM project, trying to figure out what OOo Premium would
need. I realized that a major missing component was a user guide. So I
decided I'd go ahead and get one written. That's what led to my initial
user guide post on the documentation project, which you'll remember.

After the Authors guide was done, and OpenClipart was done (which, btw,
I was also one of the founders for - also thinking of OOoPremium), I
packaged everything and put it on the OOo website, in my personal
directory.

Notice that they even took the title "OOo Premium" :)  That title was
actually chosen by the CD ROM project. We had several proposals like
"OOo Pro", and several proposed logos, and I setup a web-based voting
program (I later reused some of this to make the vote for the OOo
schools mascot - which later became Otto; and I later reused some of
that to make the voting programs for the OOo codenames project).

Personally I'm glad that someone else has gone ahead with the idea. No I
realize that the OOo project will never, in a million years, go ahead
with an interesting idea like that. And I sure don't have time to do
this, so I'm glad someone else is doing it.

Cheers,
Daniel.
-- 
"I AM in shape. Round IS a shape."
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