About KOfficeSource GmbH
KOfficeSource GmbH is a consulting company with highly regarded experts in their field. KOfficeSource GmbH offers professional services around the open source OpenDocument-based KOffice office suite. KOfficeSource GmbH will allow KOffice to be used in companies and organizations that demand high quality support and training for OpenDocument deployment.
The OpenDocument file format is the ISO standard document format for office applications. OpenDocument is being mandated by more and more governments and organisations, among them the governments of the Netherlands, South Africa, and Norway. It is the only vendor neutral file format of this kind and has been designed by a mixture of vendors, user organizations, and library representatives.
Services
KOfficeSource GmbH will initially offer the following services to the market:
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Migration and conversion to OpenDocument
Consulting regarding migration from proprietary and closed formats to open formats in general and OpenDocument in particular.
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Consulting around the OpenDocument Format
The founders of KOfficeSource GmbH have extensive knowledge about the OpenDocument Format, both from a standardization point of view and technical implementation.
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Training on OpenDocument and KOffice
This includes both user training and developer training for developers interested in creating extensions and customizations of KOffice.
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Customization of KOffice
KOffice is the most flexible and customizable office suite in existence. KOffice makes it easy to create tools suitable for a certain line of business, such as tools for movie script writers, lawyers or school education. It is also easy to extend the functionality in any direction that an organization needs or integrate it with existing tools.
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Custom programming
KOfficeSource GmbH has expertise on Qt, the toolkit that is the basis of the Linux desktop KDE as well as the internals of KOffice. We can therefore quickly create new components that fit into the rest of the suite or new features of existing components.
About the Founders
CEO: Tobias Hintze
Tobias founded his first own company in 2000, focusing on maintenance for computer networks and some smaller software developing projects. Later, he founded "threllis GmbH" in 2006 as sole shareholder as an IT company selling services and equipment for IT infrastructures, including NOC-services like hosting and colocation. Tobias is also involved in the ROCK Linux project as a lead developer and has his technical expertise mainly in UNIX-systems, networking, and security.
CTO: Boudewijn Rempt
Boudewijn has a MA in comparative linguistics from Leyden University in Holland. He founded Kura, an Open Source application for this field, currently maintained at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in München. His career in the IT industry has put him in positions as a developer, architect and project lead on such diverse projects as a mobile agent platform, traffic analysis and interactive computer graphics.
Boudewijn is currently the release manager for KOffice and the maintainer of the Krita paint application within KOffice. Krita received the award for the best application at the KDE conference Akademy in Dublin 2006.
Sales & Marketing: Inge Wallin
Inge has a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Linköping University in Sweden. He co-founded Cendio AB in 1992, a company which today is the oldest Open Source company in the world, at least as far as he knows. Inge worked as CEO for 9 years and is now a senior systems engineer. He is a member of the board of directors of Cendio AB and previously Ingate Systems AB, a leading vendor of firewalls.
Inge has contributed to a large variety of open source projects. During the last few years, he has concentrated his efforts to KDE where he has been mainly active in the educational effort kdeedu and KOffice. He is currently the maintainer of KChart in KOffice, and has been functioning as the KOffice marketing coordinator since 2005.
