While the KDE Project has successfully provided a compelling, feature-rich, and attractive desktop environment for either home or corporate users, there is still a big need for an integrated and user-friendly office suite. Since its beginning of development in 1998, KOffice tries to fill this gap, by providing a bundle of applications designed for daily office needs. This talk will try to highlight and live-demo key features of each application bundled in KOffice, covering KWord (word processor), KSpread (spreadsheet) with integrated KChart (charting component), KPresenter (slide presentation), Kivio (flowchart and business diagram), Karbon14 (vector drawing), Kugar (reporting tool), and Kexi (database). The talk will also describe the technologies used by KOffice, such as its XML document format, KParts-based component technology, advanced storage and printing system, rich text component for word processing and presentation, as well as filters for importing and exporting foreign file formats. Last but not least, will be discussed also the native support for OpenOffice.org/OASIS document format.
Ariya Hidayat is a university researcher, also a programmer by heart. His research is about the development of high data rate optical communication system, but every now and then he enjoys spending his spare time to explore the wonderful programming world. With a motivation to improve his coding skills, he has joined the KOffice development team since 2001 and contributes a lot of differents bits here and there, from few KWord's conversion filters to assorted improvements of other applications. Currently he's responsible for the maintenance of KSpread, the KOffice's spreadsheet application. He lives in Paderborn, a small but yet fascinating city in Germany. While not hacking for KOffice, he loves to listen to music and play sports.
David Faure is a French KDE Developer working for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB and Trolltech.
Maintainer of the file manager / web browser (Konqueror), works on the KDE libraries (component technology and network transparency) and on KOffice (framework, KWord).
He wrote series of articles on KDE programming for Linux Magazine France, a chapter for the OPL KDE development book, and tutorials for the IBM developerWorks website.
He is also part of the OASIS technical committee defining a standard file format for office suites.
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die handelsakademie 1 mit technologieschwerpunkt
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mehreren freien projekten teil. seit juni 2002 ist er aktiver
entwickler und maintainer von kexi -- der datenbanklösung in koffice
