Maintainer for Swedish dictionaries for Apache OpenOffice.

[Herman Kullberg <he...@hotmail.com>]

Hi.
When I was downloading the extension "Swedish dictionaries for Apache OpenOffice" I saw that help was needed to maintain the dictionary, and if I could help in any way I would be glad to do so. I can do whatever really. Here follows just a little presentation of myself.
Currently I'm a 20 years old new student of Högskolan Jönköping in a smaller town of Sweden, I just started my second term. I'm reading Computer Engineering with an orientation to software development, and after a lecture about open source I got myself interested. 
Hope I can be of any help and I have understood how to communicate the right way.
Best regards.
Herman 		 	   		  

Re: Maintainer for Swedish dictionaries for Apache OpenOffice.

[Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>]

Herman Kullberg wrote:
> Hi. When I was downloading the extension "Swedish dictionaries for
> Apache OpenOffice" I saw that help was needed to maintain the
> dictionary, and if I could help in any way I would be glad to do so.

At the moment the extension is unmaintained, so it would indeed be very 
nice to have someone taking care of it!

A bit of history: when we prepare the official releases of Apache 
OpenOffice, we bundle dictionaries (the Swedish version comes with the 
Swedish dictionary). For licensing reasons, dictionaries must be hosted 
on our Extensions site http://extensions.openoffice.org/ and this is why 
we have the extension hosted at 
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/swedish-dictionaries-apache-openoffice

The kernel of the extension (the oxt file you download is actually a ZIP 
file that you can decompress) is composed by the .dic and .aff files. 
This is where you add the missing words, for example. They are Hunspell 
files and you can research more about it, or even use the GUI developed 
by Marco, see https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

So, finding a maintainer means finding a native Swedish speaker who can 
update the .dic (frequent) and .aff (less frequent; these are the 
grammar rules) files and upload a new release of the extension from time 
to time.

Well, take a look, play a bit with it, ask any questions (don't worry 
about this!) and if you feel like taking over the Swedish dictionary 
just create an account on the Extensions site and give me the username 
so that I can have the extension reassigned.

Regards,
   Andrea.

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