Hi :) Devs involved in writing code for LibreOffice can often be paid devs working for various companies as well as volunteers who write for the love of it. It's better to get involved with the whole team rather than writing in total isolation away from everyone. Also any code that you write that gets accepted into the main branch will then go through quality control and be tested on hundreds of thousand or even millions of real-world bare-metal machines so that you can be sure it works. The code you write would be released under OpenSource licences so that people could modify it in the future to keep it up-to-date. An alternative might be to write an Extension to just add a few things or change a few things around. This way you could release it under a proprietary licence so that no-one can update it without your permission and so that no-one can see your code. Some people charge money for Extensions they make under a proprietary licence. One advantage with this approach is that when the main branch of LibreOffice gets upgraded you can hopefully use the new version of LibreOffice and just plug-in your add-on/Extension (the Extension might sometimes need a few tweaks). Also the Extension might work with OpenOffice so that people might be able to choose which they use. The main disadvantages of going the Extensions route are that you commit yourself to maintaining the code or watch it slip into disuse and obscurity. Also it's difficult to get people to alpha/beta-test. So, it's better to get involved with the whole devs team even if that still means you quietly get on with your own projects within that group. Regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/libre-draw-source-code-needed-tp3637484p3644604.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted