All,
FIVE YEARS OF OPENOFFICE.ORG, MORE TO COME
13 October, 2005 - 1400 UTC
On this day, five years ago, the fledgling OpenOffice.org community
provided the first public access to the source code donated from
StarOffice by Sun Microsystems. The OpenOffice.org community had
recently been formed, and declared it's intent "to create, as a
community, the leading international office suite that will run on all
major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data". Since
then, the popularity and functionality of the OpenOffice.org office
productivity suite has grown exponentially and has had a major impact
not only in the greater Open Source community, but for all users of
office productivity software, worldwide.
The last five years have not only seen significant improvements in the
software, but also a notable growth in the community and a number of
organisational changes. These changes include the tremendous growth of
the Native Language Confederation, which now numbers thousands of
contributors, the establishment of a Community Council, and the
Engineering Steering Committee, both of which go a long way to improving
communication and transparency in one of the largest open-source
communities. OpenOffice.org developers and contributors number in the
thousands and they live in every part of the globe. From its early days
to now, OpenOffice.org has been international in scope and mission.
Significant contributions from many organisations including Novell, Red
Hat, Debian, Propylon, Intel and primary sponsor Sun Microsystems,
ensure the ongoing presence and support of OpenOffice.org. Independent
contributors also make a considerable impact in terms of code
development, marketing, translation, documentation and web presence.
The OpenOffice.org community looks forward to the continuing the
expansion, enhancement and innovation of technologies within the suite.
One thing is certain, there is more to come.
Thanks to all,
The OpenOffice.org Community
About OpenOffice.org
The OpenOffice.org Project is an international community of volunteers
and sponsors including founding sponsor and primary contributor, Sun
Microsystems. OpenOffice.org develops, supports, and promotes the
open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org. The project can
be found at http://www.openoffice.org/. OpenOffice.org fully supports
the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS
Standard and is available on major computing platforms in over 60
languages.
Global Marketing Contacts
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Louis Suarez-Potts
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