Google Tech Talks February, 25 2008 ABSTRACT We all love to hate large software systems. They are hard to build, hard to evolve, and don’t work very well. Why is this? A lot of reasons, some social, some technical, and some socio-technical. We believe that OSS provides an excellent source of data to test hypotheses about the factors that affect important phenomena/outcomes in software projects. Our group at UC Davis, comprising bio-informaticians, organizational behaviourists, physicists, and software engineers, is using a range of different approaches to the analyze the veritable torrents of data pouring out of open source projects to understand how things work in OSS, and what tools and techniques can help. One important issue is IMMIGRATION: how do new people join projects, and how can we help the difficult intellectual and social challenges they face. We present two results: 1.a) Can we build “recommender” tools that help programmers deal with “information overload” by helping them focus their attention? 1.b) Such tools have always been evaluated with user studies. Can we do something more quantitative? 2) What are the factors influencing immigration of new developers in Open source projects? Joint work with: V. Filkov, A. Swaminathan, G. Hsu, and students C. Bird, Z. Saul, and A. Gourley We gratefully acknowledge support from NSF (Science of Design and Human and Social Dynamics Programs), the IBM Faculty Fellowship Program, and the GrammaTech and SciTools …
Monthly Archives: August 2015
How can I change an open office document into Microsoft Word?
I need to send a file to someone, but I have open office and they have word, therefore they can’t open it. They’re weird about downloading stuff and refuse to download open office, any way I can change it into a word file?
Answer — open the file in Open Office and then save is as a *.docx. Docx is the Windows Word file format. That way Windows users can open it.
Using VoxEnable for Open Office Text Speech Control
Have you heard of VoxEnable, a Windows software application that uses voice commands to activate a range of applications. You can do all sorts of things such as opening, editing, creating and exporting. All of these concepts are possible within your application. Check out this demo with Open Office.
A demonstration using VoxEnable and your voice to control open office text software
Ubuntu Edge: Explained!
Announced by Canonical Ltd. on 22 July 2013, Ubuntu Edge was a proposed “high concept” smartphone. Through, Indiegogo. Canonical sought to crowdfund a production run of approximately 40,000 units through Indiegogo. It had the highest target of any crowdfunded project to date, $32,000,000 over a one-month campaign. The Edge was not intended to go into mass production after the initial run, but rather to serve as a demonstration for new technologies for the industry. The Edge fell short of its funding goal, raising only $12,809,906, with 5682 pledges to purchase the standard model of the handset.
The Edge was designed as a hybrid device, which would function as a high-end smartphone (with both Ubuntu Touch and Android), or—when used with a monitor, keyboard and mouse—be able to operate as a conventional desktop PC running Ubuntu. The Ubuntu Edge was also designed to support dual boot, and was to run along with Android.
Ubuntu Edge: The superphone that dual-boots Ubuntu and Android – too good to be true? Indiegogo Campaign: http://igg.me/at/ubuntuedge/x/4049572 Mark Shuttlew…
OpenOffice Calc – Tutorial – Removing Duplicate Data (Deduping) by Phillip J Rhoades
Do you know how to get rid of those pesky duplicate rows in a spreadsheet? Follow this tutorial to find out how
This is a tutorial for OpenOffice Calc openoffice.org showing how to remove duplicate data (deduping) by Phillip J Rhoades http Video recorded in gtk-RecordMyDesktop recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net Editing in Blender http Synfig synfig.org and Avidemux http