Financial spreadsheet templates in .ods format

[sp...@wasatchecon.com]

I have put together a collection of OO Calc spreadsheet files with
templates for common financial analysis worksheets. I basically found the
worksheets at public sites on the web in Excel format and have saved them
to ods format and reviewed to make sure the calculations still function
properly.  I think having templates like these accessible at the main OO
site could help encourage migration to Calc from other spreadsheet
products.

Is a template "repository", so to speak, being considered; and what would
be needed as far as license/attribution?

Cheers,


Scott Peterson
Wasatch Economic Research
Portland, OR 

RE: Financial spreadsheet templates in .ods format

["Dennis E. Hamilton" <de...@acm.org>]

Scott,

The is a template repository for OpenOffice.org already.

Not sure how contribution works.

See <http://templates.services.openoffice.org/>.

 - Dennis

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Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 16:01
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Subject: Financial spreadsheet templates in .ods format

I have put together a collection of OO Calc spreadsheet files with
templates for common financial analysis worksheets. I basically found the
worksheets at public sites on the web in Excel format and have saved them
to ods format and reviewed to make sure the calculations still function
properly.  I think having templates like these accessible at the main OO
site could help encourage migration to Calc from other spreadsheet
products.

Is a template "repository", so to speak, being considered; and what would
be needed as far as license/attribution?

Cheers,


Scott Peterson
Wasatch Economic Research
Portland, OR 

Re: Financial spreadsheet templates in .ods format

[Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:00 PM,  <sp...@wasatchecon.com> wrote:
> I have put together a collection of OO Calc spreadsheet files with
> templates for common financial analysis worksheets. I basically found the
> worksheets at public sites on the web in Excel format and have saved them
> to ods format and reviewed to make sure the calculations still function
> properly.  I think having templates like these accessible at the main OO
> site could help encourage migration to Calc from other spreadsheet
> products.
>
> Is a template "repository", so to speak, being considered; and what would
> be needed as far as license/attribution?
>

I'd recommend checking with the original author of the spreadsheets
(the Excel format version) and see what conditions they have on
redistribution/attribution, etc.

> Cheers,
>
>
> Scott Peterson
> Wasatch Economic Research
> Portland, OR
>