Adapting Apache OpenOffice for adoption in Regione Emilia-Romagna

Maurizio Berti – Tech ValueGiovanni Grazia – Regione Emilia-Romagna

FOSDEM 2015

Regione Emilia-Romagna

340 municipalities9 provinces4.452.782 inhabitants

Regione Emilia-Romagna

340 municipalities9 provinces4.452.782 inhabitants

RER figures

~ 4200 desktops (win7, some still XP …)

~ 3600 workers

10 departments, 5 agencies

Ongoing migration to ODF and OpenOffice(completion due by March 2015 - Technical partners: Tech Value, YACME)

Distribution: A00 4.1.1 + extensions

Released – Alba 1.4.6 – Insert landscape pages easy

– Italian dictionary, thesaurus, hyphenation patterns

– Pagination - It eases the way you can add page numbers to a document.

– PDF Import for Apache OpenOffice

Personalized– RER configuration

– MSOffice Preview

MSOffice Preview

MSOffice Preview

Sharepoint and OpenOffice

WebDAV lock anyone?

AOO doesn't support native WebDAV lock– Apache OpenOffice → ~lock.<filename>.ods#

– Sharepoint → PROPFIND command

An open issue

Apache OpenOffice– 125194 - Cannot work with shared documents on Sharepoint

webdav

– 29152 - WebDAV locking needs to be implemented

LibreOffice– Bug 39529 - WebDAV access doesn't lock the file

– Bug 72157, 82744 - LibreOffice does not release WebDAV file lock on document close

Different clients same problem

AOO and LibO use differents webdav client libraries– AOO → Serf library (Alv2)

– LibO → Neon library (LGPL)

lock support is not natively implemented in the UCB (Universal Content Broker)

Where are we now?

→ Patch is underway... 80% complete

→ Now pre alpha

→ Expected 3rd week of Feb

Available for all

AOO → implicitely code migrates to LibO

LibO → license incompatibility with AOO

Available for all

AOO → implicitely code migrates to LibO

LibO → license incompatibility with AOO

explicitely compatible: dual licensing → Apache License + Mozilla Public License

readonly

modify

ODF

no ODF

No problem!

How do I get that info?

Ok, cool... what's format again?1

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3

Are you telling me who's using ODF?No way I'm asking that.

Users say...

integrated extension

map who is using ODF in Italy*1

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3

results available as Open Data

Do something!

Integrated extension

Integrated extension

Census of PA supporting ODF

– Launch October 2014

– Collected 33 valid answers

– Published in open data (CC-BY)

http://dati.emilia-romagna.it

Like to join?

ggrazia@regione.emilia-romagna.it maurizio.berti@techvalue.it