OPENOFFICE.ORG ANNOUNCES VERSION 2.0 PUBLIC BETA 2 29 August, 2005 - 16H00 UTC
The OpenOffice.org project is pleased to announce that the second public beta release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is now available for download. OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 is immediately available in Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese, for Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris. Additional platforms and localisations will follow shortly. This second public beta release is the result of many months' work improving upon the first public beta announced in March, 2005. OpenOffice.org 2.0 introduces a new database module, implements the OASIS OpenDocument XML file format and a myriad of other new features and capabilities. The redesigned interface and enhanced document filters combine to make the application even more interoperable with other office suites and easier to use and learn, regardless of operating system. This beta release is made available in order to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production deployment at this stage. OpenOffice.org Conference - 2005 The release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 comes one month before the annual OpenOffice.org Conference, to be held in Koper - Capodistria, Slovenia, from 28 to 30 September. The conference, organised by the Slovenian and Italian OpenOffice.org project teams, follows the successes of the last two years, OOoCon 2003 in Hamburg and OOoCon 2004 in Berlin, and is intended to bring together all people who are interested in the development, deployment and use of the software suite. For further information regarding the conference, please visit http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/index.html. Beta Availability The beta version and it's source code can be downloaded from http://download.openoffice.org/2.0beta2/index.html. Feature Guide A more detailed guide to the features can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html. Error and Bug Reporting In order to help us release OpenOffice.org 2.0 sooner, users of the Beta 2 release are encouraged to join the OpenOffice.org project and report any bugs, issues or errors at http://qa.openoffice.org/. For ongoing updates regarding beta releases of OpenOffice.org 2.0, please subscribe to the OpenOffice.org Announce mailing list at http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#general. About OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org is a fully featured open-source productivity suite available as a free download for major computing platforms in over 45 languages. Data is stored in an XML file format standardised for office documents by the international body OASIS. OpenOffice.org is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers with its main sponsor and primary contributor being Sun Microsystems. OpenOffice.org operates from http://www.openoffice.org. GLOBAL CONTACTS Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (8) 9474-3021 John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)131 523 9218 Louis Suarez-Potts OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 © 2005 OpenOffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
