Editor's Column
1 March 2001
Interview: やすりを削る人／削る機械 Vesik
Over the course of two days, I interviewed OpenOffice.org’s 解放（する） engineer, やすりを削る人／削る機械 Vesik. As the 解放（する） engineer, やすりを削る人／削る機械 作品 with Armin Theissen in Sun's offices in Ireland to 調整する 解放（する）s of OpenOffice.org builds. I 最初 planned for this interview to go into the "スポットライト" section of the OpenOffice.org home page. But because やすりを削る人／削る機械 raises some important points about Open Source that transcend the more biographical nature of the スポットライト, I feel that this space is more appropriate.
As always, please feel 解放する／自由な to 与える／捧げる your 返答s to the OpenOffice.org "discuss" 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）. ーするために 地位，任命する your 返答, you must subscribe. You can also e-mail me, Louis.
Every open-source 事業／計画（する） has its own defining 特徴. What 特徴 about OpenOffice.org drew you to it?
I 現実に worked at Sun before October 13th [2000] when the 場所／位置 (and 事業／計画（する）), as far as source code is 関心d, was 開始する，打ち上げるd. But in general I guess it was the 指名する 承認 of 'StarOffice' and its 可能性のある [that drew me].
How would you 述べる your 役割 in OpenOffice.org?
Imagine taking one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な pyramids, say the Pyramid of Cheops, and 除去するing all but, oh, 20 無作為に selected 石／投石する 封鎖するs. You could probably think of a wide variety of 形態／調整s based on just those 20 石／投石するs and the position of the 石／投石するs in the structure might thus かなり 変化させる. It's really hard to say at this point where I am going to be in the OpenOffice.org 計画／陰謀 of things when they finally develop. I just hope the 過程 does 選ぶ up some 速度(を上げる）. For now, I'm mostly a 解放する／自由な-floating 石／投石する.
It's difficult いつかs for those not familiar with the workings of an open-source 事業／計画（する） to understand just how positions are 設立するd and defined….
OpenOffice.org isn't really an open-source 事業／計画（する）, and definitely not from the developer base point of 見解（をとる）, having only one 非，不，無-Sun committer. 井戸／弁護士席, this doesn't sound nice when taken on the 額面価格. Yes, the code definitely is 解放する／自由な, but the developer community and structures associated with that just 港／避難所't developed yet.
What do you mean, then, by an open-source 事業／計画（する）? Is it the community that makes the difference? For what you 暗示する is that an open-source 事業／計画（する） relies for its 身元 as such on community 関与.
There are a 広大な／多数の／重要な number of shades of gray between '全く Open Source' and 'の近くにd source'. Somewhere in the spectrum are things like さまざまな FSF 事業／計画（する）s [解放する／自由な ソフトウェア 創立／基礎], Sun JDK source, Ghostscript, Mozilla[.org], OpenOffice.org, GNOME, KDE, Linux, and many others. [Whether] a 事業／計画（する） is open or not doesn't depend so much on the license but how the whole 事業／計画（する） 作品. The license is only a small part of that, and not always the most important. There are GPL-licensed 事業／計画（する）s that are really more の近くにd than the JDK, [but] that also 活発に kill forks.
How would you go about making OpenOffice.org more of an open-source 事業／計画（する）? That is, what needs still to be done?
I really do think only new people coming to the 事業／計画（する） and 活発に throwing their 負わせる behind the 事業／計画（する） can do that. So far, this has only really happened in porting.
How would you recommend a new community member should go about joining a 事業／計画（する）?
It really depends on the 事業／計画（する）, but I think in general [that they could] start [by] asking questions, finding stuff out on [their] own (and [requesting] documentation for the 暴露するd parts), and making patches that 直す／買収する，八百長をする bugs or 追加する new functionality. Oh and not going away just because it seems nobody is 支払う／賃金ing attention and answering 支援する.
For 見込みのある members, what elements about OpenOffice.org might 控訴，上告 to them?
Availability of 正規の／正選手 binary snapshots, a wide variety of not yet filled 役割s, [and] having what you do 現実に go to the desktops of a large number of 使用者s on several 壇・綱領・公約s.
Previous columns
22 February 2001 Allchin's Demagoguery, by 法案 Roth, guest contributor
15 February 2001 Interview with Wilfredo Sánchez
9 February 2001 組織するing Open Source
1 February 2001 Open Source and Its Culture
23 January 2001 Community 活動／戦闘
16 January 2001 Quo Vadis OpenOffice.org?
9 January 2001 The 613 build: problems and 適切な時期s
3 January 2001 Sun's open door
