Here is my presentation made at Foss.in @ Bangalore recently. Again I did this presentation using KOffice on my N900 device. This application should be available end of January 2010. The source code should be available from KOffice, it is currently under review board.

1. Mobile Office Open Source Project
based on KOffice
Suresh Chande
Nokia Maemo Devices Applications R&D
Finland

2. About me
#1. Technical Product Owner- Mobile Office
Nokia Maemo Application R&D
#2. Nokia India University Relations
Representative
Past: Over 11 years @ Nokia research center
Contact: suresh chande :
suresh.chande@nokia.com

3. Outline
- Mobile Office
- KOffice Open Source Project
- FreOffice on Maemo N900 – Live
Demo
- Open Mobile Office Platform for
Innovation

4. Mobile Office
Key Office Applications
- Document, Spreadsheets & Presentation (Forms,
Workflows)
Office moves into areas beyond enterprise use
- Schools and Education field
- Government Environment
Standards: Open Document Formats and OOXML
Desktop office alone in 2007 was worth 12b$.

5. Mobile End User Needs
- Mobile View these documents and sparingly
Edit existing documents
- Users would like to take notes using multi-
media
- Encounter Office applications are received via
Email or access using Browser
- Users may like to make Minor Edits or
Comments to the documents on the move.
- Users want office applications Free of Cost

6. KOffice Open Source Project
Approximately 70
contributor released
KOffice 2.0 June 2009

7. Free Software = Free Office = Open
Source = KOffice
- KOffice is part of KDE set of applications - A
Qt based Office application suite for desktop
environment. Established in 2001
- KOffice has a suite of 12 office applications
including: KWord, KPresenter, Kspread
- KOffice renders ODF & MS Formats
- KOffice releases, 2.0 - Jun'09, 2.1- Nov'09
- KOffice 2.2 to be end user ready in May 2010

8. KOffice Suite of applications
KOffice Workspace: , also named KEXI is considered as a long awaited
KOShell, consists of a friendly Open Source competitor for Microsoft
workspace to allow you to work on Access, Filemaker and Oracle Forms.
several KOffice applications at the same Karbon is the scalable vector drawing
time. application in KDE.
KWord: is a frame-based word- Krita is a painting and image editing
processing and desktop publishing application for KOffice.
application. KPlato is a project management
KSpread: is a scriptable spreadsheet application.
program which provides both table- KChart is the KOffice chart drawing
oriented sheets and support for complex application.
mathematical formulas and statistics. KFormula is a formula editor for
KPresenter: is a presentation application. KOffice.
KIVIO: is a diagram and flowchart Kugar is a KDE tool for generating
application integrated to other KOffice business quality reports which can be
applications. viewed and printed.

9. KPresenter
- Presentation Application supports:
* Open Document Format - ODP
* MS Presentation
2000
2003
2007(OOXML)

10. KWord
- Presentation Application supports:
* Open Document Format - ODT
* MS Word
2000
2003
2007 (OOXML)

11. KSpread
- Presentation Application supports:
* Open Document Format - ODS
* MS Excel
2000
2003
2007 (OOXML)

12. FreOffice on Maemo N900

13. KOffice for Mobile Usage
- The user interface is not suitable for mobile
interaction
- KOffice does not have touch based user interface
- KOffice for Education

14. Worked with KOffice community
members to make FreOffice
- Ported 3 key KOffice applications: KWord &
KPresenter to Maemo 5 Environment
- Developed Maemo 5 specific UI Wrappers on
top of KOffice core engine
- Contributed towards maturing existing
Microsoft Office format filters and developed
Office 2007 Filters
- Created a large document test set & identified
key issues to be fixed before making it end user
ready.

15. KOffice Viewers on Maemo 5

16. KOffice Viewers on Maemo 5

17. Live Demo

18. Whats next ?
- FreOffice project to be published to KOffice
trunk
- FreOffice to be available via Maemo Extra in
December 2009
- Open innovation to develop mobile office
FreOffice
- Make Office viewers on Maemo 5 end user ready
by fixing and closing all bugs by March 2010

19. Open Mobile Office Platform for
Innovation
- KOffice community thinks of being the next web kit
specializing in Office domain.
- Next key areas of interest in the community are:
– Collaborative Editing
– End user readiness
- FreOffice Mobile Usecases
– Text 2 Speech integration
– OCR
–

20. Got an Idea or Interested in this
project ?
- You are welcome to join the project and contrib-
ute to make a free office software. Access to the
sources @ www.koffice.org
- Be our early end user for the freoffice by down-
loading alpha release version from Maemo Extras
(coming soon..)