I recently spoke with Jürgen Schmidt about the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4, and what went into that process. Here’s that interview.

Apache OpenOffice is proud to announce the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4. While much of the effort in this release was in replacing, or rewriting, components that weren’t under the Apache license, the team still found time to put in a number of exciting new features.

The video below highlights a few of those.

(The video was created as part of my work at SourceForge. SourceForge is helping out with mirroring the Apache OpenOffice downloads, and is also hosting the templates and extensions websites.)

Apache Cocoon 3.0 is a major rewrite of Cocoon 2.2. I recently spoke with Simone Tripode about the 3.0 release, as well as about the entire Cocoon project and his involvement in it.

You can listen to our conversation HERE, or you can get it in the iTunes store.

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I’m very sorry for the delay. Not as much time to edit audio at home with a 1 year old as there was at the conference. If you are interested in helping with the editing process, please contact me.

Here are all of the sessions from ApacheCon NA 2011, in Vancouver.

Track A – Modular Java

• OSGi for mere mortals – Bertrand Delacretaz
• Apache Celix – Universal OSGi? – Alexander Broekhuis
• Deployment With Apache Karaf and ACE – Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Provisioning distributed OSGi applications in a cloud – Guillaume Nodet
• Using OSGi to Build Better Software: Lessons from a Telemedicine Software for Smartphones and Desktop Systems – Doreen Seider

Track E – Innovation and Emerging Technologies

• Rapid application development for dynamic cloud applications – Bram de Kruijff, Marcel Offermans
• Whirr: Open Source Cloud Services – Tom White
• Fast Feather Talks: Wookie & Rave – Sander van der Waal
• Breaking Down Widget Silos with a friendly Wookie – Ross Gardler
• .NET @ Apache.org – Ted Husted
• Apache Commons Nabla: on the fly bytecode transformations for algorithmic differentiation – Phil Steitz

Here’s the audio from all (well, most, anyway) of the tracks on Thursday at ApacheCon North America 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Thanks go to Hugh Brown and Bertrand Delecretaz for their assistance in editing these tracks, so that it didn’t take me all day today.

Plenaries

• Keynote | The Apache Way Done Right: The Success of Hadoop – Eric Baldeschwieler
• Lightning Talks

Fast Feather

• Arivata
• Callback

Track A – Enterprise Java

• Apache ServiceMix future – Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• An architecture for enabling multi-tenancy for Apache Axis2 – Afkham Azeez
• An Interactive Example of Enterprise SOA, Apache Style – Hadrian Zbarcea
• ActiveMQ In Action: Common Problems and Solutions – Bruce Snyder
• Security Problems (and Solutions) for Service Oriented Applications – Daniel Kulp

Track B – Data Handling – Big Data

• The Past, Present and Future of NOSQL – Emil Eifrem
• Scaling Hadoop Applications – Milind Bhandarkar
• The other Apache technologies your big data solution needs – Nick Burch
• Apache Mahout for intelligent data analysis – Isabel Drost
• Dr. Mahout: Analyzing clinical data using scalable and distributed computing – Shannon Quinn

Track C – Community

• The Secret Life of Open Source – Ted Husted
• Talking people into creating patches – Isabel Drost
• Navigating the Apache Incubator – Brett Porter
• Life in Open Source communities – Bertrand Delacretaz
• Chefs with Feathers: The Sakai Project – Carl Hall

Track E – Servers (HTTPD)

• Apache httpd 2.4: The Web Server for the Cloud – Jim Jagielski
• mod_lua for beginners – Eric Covener
• The Power of the mod_proxy Modules – Paul Weinstein
• Hardening Enterprise Apache Installations Against Attacks – Sander Temme
• Out and About with Apache Traffic Server – Leif Hedstrom

Track F – Content Technologies

• If you have the content, Apache has the technology – Nick Burch
• Apache Tika: 1 point Oh! – Chris Mattmann
• ManifoldCF for Content Acquisition – Karl Wright
• Interoperability with CMIS and Apache Chemistry – Florian M�ller
• Handling RDF data with Apache Jena – Paolo Castagna

We’re holding ApacheCon NA 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia this week. Here’s most of the sessions from Wednesday. I’m not posting these as regular podcasts, because I’m not so sure you want to be inundated by 20+ hours of audio all at once.

These are raw, unedited recordings of the sessions, provided as is, with no commentary.

Plenary Sessions

• Jim Jagielski – State of the Feather (This one starts a little late. It took me a moment to get my gear working).
• Keynote – David Wheeler – Building in Security and Innovation

Track A: Apache In Space

• A look into the Apache OODT ecosystem – Chris Mattmann (This one appears to be missing something at the beginning. Not sure what happened.)
• Introduction to the OODT Process Control System Operator’s User Interface (OpsUI) – Andrew Hart
• Using OODT @ JPL data systems – Emily Law
• Using OODT to Support Data-driven Clinical Decision Support – Andrew Hart
• Supercharging your Apache OODT deployments with the Process Control System – Chris Mattmann

Track B – Data handling & analytics (Lucene & friends)

• Lucene 4.0 – next generation open source search – Simon Willnauer
• Bet You Didn’t Know Lucene Can… – Grant Ingersoll
• Apache Solr: Out Of The Box – Chris Hostetter
• Solr Flair – Erik Hatcher
• Solr Power FTW: Powering NoSQL the World Over – Alex Pinkin

Track C – Business

• The Business of Open Source – Panel
• How to talk to your Boss about Open Source without creating a Monster – Tim O’Brien
• Opening Sourcing Commercial Software – Apache Traffic Server – Bryan Call
• Open Source enables Open Innovation – Bertrand Delacretaz
• Can I depend on Software built By Volunteers? – Ross Gardler

Track E – Servers

• Using Tomcat-Native with Comet/Asynch call in Servlet 3.0 – Jean Frederic Clere
• Apache TomEE: Tomcat with a Kick – David Blevins
• Developing Java EE and Enterprise OSGi Applications with Apache Geronimo – Kevan Miller
• Apache Geronimo 3.0 Deep Dive – Kevan Miller
• Building a scalable multi-tenant Application Server on the Cloud using Tomcat, Axis2 & Synapse – Afkham Azeez

Track F – Innovation & Emerging Technologies

• Web Technologies in Java EE6 : Servlet 3.0 and JSF 2.0 Whats New ? – Rohit Kelapure
• Wicket meets Scala and CouchDB – Bruno Borges
• Apache Rave: Enterprise Social Networking Out-Of-The-Box – Ate Douma, Matt Franklin
• Fast Feather – OODT, RADiX, Hadoop 1, 2, 3
• Fast Feather – Axis2

The Apache Commons is a collection of reusable components to extent the Java programming language. I spoke with Gary Gregory about what these projects offer. You can listen HERE, or on iTunes.

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Nick Burch is chairing the Content track at ApacheCon, and is also running the Fast Feather track where new projects can introduce themselves.

You can listen to the interview HERE or on iTunes.

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