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OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER
Volume 04 - Issue 5 - 11/2006
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Contents
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1. Announcements
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* OpenOffice.org 2007 Conference - Call for Location
* Welsh OpenOffice.org released
* Norwegian Native-Lang project wins language prize
* OpenOffice.org Mac porter meeting at Google office
2. Success Stories
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* OpenOffice.org at the French National Assembly
* OpenOffice.org on 35,000 computers at the Canary Islands state schools
3. Featured News
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* OpenOffice.org wins 2006 LinuxJournal Editors' Choice Award
* "20 percent intended to install the free OpenOffice"
* Corel to support ODF
* Italy considers ODF for national standard
* Team from China for QA
4. Tips & Tricks
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* Bruce Byfield about printing spreadsheets
* "Inserting music notation in OpenOffice.org"
5. OpenDocument News Roundup
6. Clippings
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Announcements
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OpenOffice.org 2007 Conference - Call for Location
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"We are collecting applications from teams who are willing to organize
OOoConf 2007. To give you an idea about what we are looking for, you can
take a look at last year's proposals:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/proposal.html##PROPOSALLYON
Interested teams should send their applications to the mailing list
mailto:conference@marketing.openoffice.org following the guidelines
below."
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=305
Welsh OpenOffice.org released
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"Alun Pugh, the minister for culture, Welsh language and sport added:
"The launch of this office software is a major advance within the IT
strategy developed by the Welsh Language Board as part of the Assembly
government's strategy for the language, Iaith Pawb."
Speaking at the launch, Ned Thomas, academic director of the Mercator
Centre, said that Agored was the result of a convergence of opportunities
allowing the funding of a translation project under the Objective 1
programme, which would mean that the Welsh public sector could consider
OSS as a commercially viable alternative to proprietary software.
On that note, Gavin Beckett, Bristol city council's IT strategy manager,
provided a brief overview of the migration of 5,500 users within the
council from Microsoft Office to Sun Microsytems' StarOffice – a move
which the council estimates will save 60% on software costs over the
next five years."
http://www.pingwales.co.uk/2006/11/24/Agored.html
http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/8622
Norwegian Native-Lang project wins language prize
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"Here's a rough translation of the jury decision: "The jury has chosen
to award an IT project that through large community contributions, expert
knowledge, and extensive project cooperation has created an office suite
in Norwegian, Bokmål and Nynorsk, which is user-friendly and keeps to
high language standards.""
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006/11/norwegian-native-lang-project-wins.html
OpenOffice.org Mac porter meeting at Google office
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"he main developers of the Mac OS X port for OpenOffice.org project
meet to work together over a weekend
- show, analyse, work on current development version,
- share our knowledge in workshops (e.g. for debug )
- define tasks and objectives
- meet, collaborate and have fun coding."
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006/11/openofficeorg-mac-porters-meeting.html
Team from China for QA
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"On November 24, Zhiyue Cao from National Application Software Testing
Labs (NAST)/Beijing Software Testing & QA Center (BSTQC), announced to
dev@qa.openoffice.org that they will participate in QA works for
OpenOffie.org."
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006/11/team-from-china-for-qa.html
Success Stories
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OpenOffice.org at the French National Assembly
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"The project, backed by MPs Richard Cazenav and Bernard Carayon of the
UMP party, will see 1,154 French parliamentary workstations running on
an open source OS, with OpenOffice.org, Firefox and an open source
email client."
http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39164312,00.htm
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/presse/divisionpresse/m01.asp
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED],0.html
OpenOffice.org on 35,000 computers at the Canary Islands state schools
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"mEDUXa is a Free Software GNU/Linux distribution developed for
educational purposes that is part of the MEDUSA project. It will be
deployed in 35,000 computers distributed in 1100 schools, which
represents 325,000 possible users (25,000 teachers and 300,000 students).
the Canary Islands state schools. Teachers and students will be able to
use it through a dual boot, accessing it by a boot loader."
http://www.grupocpd.com/archivos_documentos/info_meduxa/lanzamiento_meduxa_1/#
Featured News
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OpenOffice.org wins 2006 LinuxJournal Editors' Choice Award
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"OpenOffice.org delivers just the right combination of openness, power
and similarity to Microsoft Office that it provides the features and
familiarity people want in an office suite without the drawbacks of
proprietary document format or proprietary code. It may not always
import Microsoft Office files perfectly, but it does so without the
crashes that sometimes plague suites like EIOffice when importing large,
complex Microsoft Office files. Overall, OpenOffice.org has a way to go
before it reaches its potential, but it still provides the best
combination of features and compatibility, along with the distinct
advantage of being an open-source project."
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9368
"20 percent intended to install the free OpenOffice"
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"Visitors to PCAdvisor.co.uk certainly weren't convinced about the need
for an office suite upgrade according to a poll we ran during October.
Two-thirds of you said you'd stick to your current office suite for the
foreseeable future, with another tenth of you planning to upgrade to
Office 2007.
A further 20 percent intended to install the free OpenOffice, while just
3 percent had earmarked Tesco's Complete Office as a purchase. Only 13
percent of the more-than 2,000 people who voted in our poll were prepared
to pay money for an office suite upgrade."
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=531&blogid=4
Corel to support ODF
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"Because it is free, truly open and certified as an ISO standard, many
customers see ODF as the most promising format for the future of office
productivity."
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20061129005508&newsLang=en
Italy considers ODF for national standard
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"Italy looks to be adopting ODF ISO/IEC26300 as their National Standard
very soon."
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/11/go_italy_adopt_.html
http://www.uninfo.polito.it/SC34/SC34_Norme.htm#26300
Tips & Tricks
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Bruce Byfield about printing spreadsheets
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"Spreadsheets are primarily used online. For this reason, printing them
can be challenging even to experienced users. However, OpenOffice.org
offers more help than most spreadsheets with printing, starting with the
introduction of page styles. In this entry, I'll explain how Calc page
styles can help with printing spreadsheets. In Part II, I'll continue by
explaining the other tools available for printing in Calc."
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000128
"Inserting music notation in OpenOffice.org"
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"OOoLilyPond is a macro for OpenOffice.org that simplifies the
integration of music notation in OpenOffice.org Writer of Impress. It
can be used to write a book on music theory or to write down exercises
for music instruments or voices which need to be commented with lots
of text."
http://ooolilypond.sourceforge.net/
OpenDocument News Roundup
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MySQL AB joined ODF Alliance
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"I just noticed that MySQL AB also joined the ODF Alliance. AFAIK, the
alliance now has more than 340 members. "
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/mysql_ab_joined_odf_alliance
Interview regarding ODF viewer for Symbian OS
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"Richard: So how did you identify the demand for a mobile OpenDocuments
application?
Maximilian: I believe that OpenOffice is going to spread widely. SUN and
IBM are pushing it. I see it being adopted by many businesses and in the
government sector, where they are switching from Microsoft Office to
OpenOffice because of licensing costs. So it just seemed like a good
idea to create OpenDocument support for Symbian OS and it appears to
have been a good decision. I've had feedback from as far away as
Australia, where one company has asked about a corporate license, as
have several others. So there seems to be a demand for OpenDocument
support on Symbian OS.
Richard: As OpenOffice is an open source application, was this an
advantage?
Maximilian: Not from a code point of view, as we could not use the open
source code in any way. However, the fact that the OpenDocument
specification is freely and fully available was a great benefit.
We did look at whether it was feasible to use any of the open source
code; I still have it here on my laptop. However a mobile device is
very different from a PC, I'm sure that if we had used the original
code we would have not achieved the performance we have, Mobile Office
is pretty fast. So it is written from scratch in native Symbian C++."
http://www.symbianone.com/content/view/3941/
Switzerland: ODF considered for government use
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"The Swiss organization eCH created a draft proposal that recommends
ODF for government use. "
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/switzerland%3A_odf_considered_for_government
Clippings
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* Sharepoint alternative released by O3Spaces
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=23993
* New German open source study
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/News/d977bc8c-8b22-4bee-9fbd-156fcec74d46.html
* OpenOffice.org Aqua (without X11) making progress
http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2006/11/openofficeorg-aqua-without-x11-respect.html
* Microsoft does not wait for ECMA approval
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/microsoft_does_not_wait_for
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