KOffice for Maemo 5 is an Open Source project to be available on maemo.gitorious.org. It is the UI Layer on top of KOffice Open source project making KOffice suitable for Mobile devices. This makes KOffice on Maemo 5 the first Office to be available in the mobile devices which can handle both ODF and MS Office formats. Currently only Document and Presentation is available. we invite contributors to join this project and as well as KOffice to make this end user ready.

1. MOBILE OFFICE BASED ON KOFFICE
FOR MAEMO 5
Suresh Chande(schend), Maemo Devices R&D
11th October, Maemo Summit 2009, Amsterdam
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2. Office Applications (Document, Spreadsheet & Presentation)
Office applications are used in:
Schools and Universities
Governmental Organizations &
Enterprises
Office tools are used for documenting
with rich formatted text and
multimedia.
Desktop Office in 2007 had a market of
12B$ [Gartner]
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3. Mobile Office user expectations
Mobile users need to View these documents and
sparingly Edit them
User Encounter Office applications via Email
attachments or via Browser
Users may like to make Minor Edits or Comments to
the documents on the move.
Users want office applications Free of Cost
Users are also Willing to Pay minimal for Office
applications on the mobile
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4. KOffice
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5. KOffice on N810
KOffice demonstrated by Marijn
Kruisselbrink on Diablo Platform at
FOSDEM
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6. KOffice - Overview
KOffice 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
~70 Active contributors over year
contributed towards 2.0 release, June
2009
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7. Nokia's Contribution to KOffice
Initial Understanding of how community
works
Consulted experts from community and setup
project with KO GmbH
Began by adapting and bridging KOffice to
mobile limitations
Started testing of KOffice core engine for
supported features & created a large test suite
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8. Nokia's Contribution to KOffice
Ported KOffice applications namely KWord &
KPresenter to Maemo 5 Environment
Maemo 5 specific UI Wrappers developed on
top of KOffice
Contributed towards towards existing
Microsoft Office format filters
Developed basic framework for Microsoft
Office 2007 Filters
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9. KOffice on Maemo 5
•KWord
•KPresenter
•KSpread (Next)
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10. KOffice for Maemo 5 Demonstration
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11. Next Steps in the collaboration
Maemo 5 KOffice UI will be open sourced with GPL
License at (soon): http://maemo.gitorious.org/
Application can be downloaded from
Maemo Extras-devel (soon)
Developed basic framework for Microsoft 2007
Filters will contributed back to community main
trunk (soon)
More effort needed to mature available features
from Mobile devices
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13. KOffice Application Suite
KOffice Workspace, also named KOShell, consists of a friendly
workspace to allow you to work on several KOffice
applications at the same time.
KWord is a frame-based word-processing and desktop
publishing application.
KSpread is a scriptable spreadsheet program which provides
both table-oriented sheets and support for complex
mathematical formulas and statistics.
KPresenter is a presentation application.
KIVIO is an easy to use diagramming and flowcharting
application with tight integration to the other KOffice
applications.
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14. KOffice Application Suite
KEXI is considered as a long awaited Open Source competitor
for Microsoft Access, Filemaker and Oracle Forms.
Karbon14 is the scalable vector drawing application in KDE.
Krita is a painting and image editing application for KOffice.
KPlato is a project management application.
KChart is the KOffice chart drawing application.
KFormula is a formula editor for KOffice.
Kugar is a KDE tool for generating business quality reports
which can be viewed and printed.
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