Fedora BrOffice.org
Summary
Due to a brand layer introduced in OpenOffice.org 3.0, Fedora will have for the first time the BrOffice.org brand for the office suite. This spin is intended to be a Brazilian Portuguese localized spin that provides the legal brand for OpenOffice.org in Brazil. It will be based on Fedora Desktop Spin.
Owner(s)
- Name: Igor Pires Soares
- email: igor -at- fedoraproject.org
Detailed Description
Regarding bug #358021, the inclusion of BrOffice.org in Fedora is a important change for Brazilian users. We will have a legal supported trademark that replaces "OpenOffice.org". This allow us to create a spin focused on Desktop application and provide a standard .ks that can help Brazilians to build their own spins including BrOffice.org.
We have a potential local server provided by one of Brazilian Fedora Ambassadors to host spin binaries. Fedora Infrastructure doesn't need to worry about this at first, but if we have a place for BrOffice.org Spin at http://spins.fedoraproject.org/ it would be even better. The correct use of Fedora brand is what we need the most here.
Except for the substitution of Abiword, Gnumeric and Gimp by BrOffice.org Writer, BrOffice.org Calc, BrOffice.org Impress and BrOffice.org Draw we will focus on keeping this spin as similar as possible to the Fedora Desktop LiveCD, opinions are welcome. At first the spin will be for i686 arch only. A x86_64 version will depend on ISO size.
Kickstart file available at http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob_plain;f=fedora-livecd-broffice.org.ks
Benefit to Fedora
Red Hat Brasil helps local Ambassadors with LiveCDs and DVD medias. With BrOffice.org Spin, Red Hat Brasil will be able to print and distribute Fedora BrOffice.org LiveCDs to Ambassadors.
Prosecuting Counsel of Tocantins State uses Fedora and BrOffice.org in their Desktops, so we will provide a spin which fit their needs. Therefore, BrOffice.org is the default office suite in Brazilian Labor Justice. This spin will help such organizations to test Fedora and BrOffice.org.
ABNT, the Brazilian standardization agency, approved ODF as the standard format for documents. Those users who want to try Fedora, BrOffice.org and ODF will have a LiveCD made for them.
Kickstart File
This Spin has already been accepted for Fedora 10, and the kickstart is therefore in the spin-kickstarts GIT repository at http://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/browser/fedora-livecd-broffice.org.ks
ISO Name / FS Label
- FS Label: Fedora-10-i686-Live-BrOffice
- ISO Name: Fedora-10-i686-Live-BrOffice.iso
Dependencies
Scope / Testing
OpenOffice.org brand layer is already in Rawhide. We need to build the spin and assure that there is no overlap between the traditional OpenOffice.org brand and BrOffice.org one. For instance, we don't want to have both OpenOffice.org Writer and BrOffice.org Writer in the spin, just the last one.