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OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER
Volume 05 - Issue 03 - 09/2007
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Contents
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1. Announcements
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* IBM joins the OpenOffice.org Community
* OOoCon and OpenOffice.org 2.3
2. Success Stories
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* 20,000 OpenOffice.org seats in Vietnam
* OpenOffice.org on 180,000 seats in Macedonia
* OpenOffice.org Free Software Proves a Success at WalMart
3. Featured News
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* OpenOffice.org Conference 2007 - Pictures, Videos, Slides
* Vietnam meets Extremadura to learn about open source
* Interview with Joost Andrae from the OpenOffice.org QA Project
* Mac Port Status
* Looking for an Outlook Replacement?
* The progress of CJK functions
* We won MacGeneration Trophy 2007!
* Drilling down data in Data Pilot
4. Tips & Tricks
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* Smart Tags Step-by-Step Tutorial
* Developing an OpenOffice.org Extension
* OpenOffice.org Wiki by Categories
* Check out the OpenOffice.org Extension Repository
5. OpenDocument News Roundup
6. Clippings
All news for this month can be found at:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_ooonewsletter_archive.html
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Announcements
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IBM joins the OpenOffice.org Community
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"IBM is very pleased to be joining the OpenOffice.org community. We are
very optimistic that IBM's contribution of technology and engineering
resources will provide tangible benefits to the community membership and
to users of OpenOffice.org technology around the world,” said Mike Rhodin,
General Manager of IBM's Lotus division. "We're particularly pleased to
be teaming with the community to accelerate the rate of innovation in
the office productivity marketplace. We believe that this relationship
will improve our ability to deliver innovative value to users of IBM
products and services. We also believe that the collaboration will lead
to an even broader range of ODF-supporting applications (ISO 26300)
and solutions that draw from the OpenOffice.org technology."
http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_release.html
OOoCon and OpenOffice.org 2.3
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"On Monday, OpenOffice.org 2.3 was released. Because of an oversight,
we didn't send out an announcement to this list, though we did to our
PR list, and it has since been picked up by many in the press.
OpenOffice.org 2.3 is a *must* download. It not only includes a
security fix, but also has some very cool new features. And, it works
nicely with our growing number of extensions, hosted on our splendid
new extensions site."
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=336
Success Stories
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20,000 OpenOffice.org seats in Vietnam
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"More than 20,000 computers used at Party agencies nationwide will
replace Microsoft Office software with OpenOffice open source office
software. ... Cost savings is only one of the reasons for this change.
The major target of the replacement is to improve the ability of the
Vietnamese IT circle because the use of open source products like
OpenOffice will create a new market for Vietnamese IT companies,
according to Mr. Loi."
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/20_000_openoffice_org_seats
OpenOffice.org on 180,000 seats in Macedonia
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"When completed, Macedonia's Computer for Every Child initiative will
have deployed approximately 160,000 NComputing virtual PC terminals and
20,000 NComputing enabled PCs (which each also support a student on the
attached monitor) running Ubuntu. Besides Ubuntu 7.04, each NComputing
server/PC comes with NComputing's Terminal Server software and
OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution, and Wine."
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7546509093.html
OpenOffice.org Free Software Proves a Success at WalMart
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Conference delegates watched a message from John Lin, General Manager,
Everex: "On July 18th 2007, Everex launched its first 'Back to School'
PC with OpenOffice.org 2.02 into WalMart stores throughout the United
States. The response was fantastic. Not only did Everex receive rave
reviews in the media, but consumer interest resulted in a three-fold
increase in web traffic to everex.com. Feedback from WalMart was also
very positive: they have requested all our future units include
OpenOffice.org productivity software. Everex would like to thank
everyone involved in OpenOffice.org for their help and support, and
congratulations again for providing the world with such a wonderful
product."
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/9/emw554712.htm
Featured News
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OpenOffice.org Conference 2007 - Pictures, Videos, Slides
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For all you weren't able to attend this year's OpenOffice.org, the
following resources will be most interesting:
Videos
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http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/media/index-2007.html
Pictures
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ooocon2007
http://picasaweb.google.de/floeff/OpenOfficeOrgConference2007/
http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/gallery/2007/
http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/show/
Slides
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http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday.html
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/thursday.html
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/friday.html
Impressions
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http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2007/09/ooocon-impressions.html
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/09/openofficeorg-conference-2007.html
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/my_resume_of_the_ooocon
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/openoffice_org_conference_in_barcelona
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/even_more_impressions_from_ooocon
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/impressions_from_ooocon_2007
http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/life/2007/Sep-24-4.html
http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/life/2007/Sep-24-3.html
http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/life/2007/Sep-24-2.html
http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/life/2007/Sep-24-1.html
http://kohei.us/2007/09/24/back-from-ooocon-2007/
http://florianreuter.blogspot.com/2007/09/back-from-openoffice.html
Vietnam meets Extremadura to learn about open source
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"I just came across this Spanish article. Apparently the Vietnamese
government met with people from Extremadura (Spain) in order to exchange
ideas and experiences around the adoption of open source. It's great to
see governments start their own kind of "community building"! BTW, more
information about Extremadura's open source efforts can be found in
this video."
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/vietnam_meets_extremadura_to_learn
Interview with Joost Andrae from the OpenOffice.org QA Project
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"I finally found the time to upload my very first podcast. Two weeks
ago I interviewed Joost Andrae from the OpenOffice.org QA project. You
can get the audio podcast in two formats. The mp3 version can be found
here, and the ogg version is provided here. If you want to join the
OpenOffice.org QA project, you can find more information on the
OpenOffice.org QA project page. Enjoy the podcast!"
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/interview_with_joost_andrae
Mac Port Status
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For those who did not attend OOoCon 2007, but would like to know
the latest status about the Mac port, should check out the Mac
related OOoCon slides:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_769.odp
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_158.odp
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/thursday_161.odp
Looking for an Outlook Replacement?
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People looking for an Outlook replacement might want to check out
the OOoCon presentation about the Mozilla Lightning extension:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/thursday_70.odp
The progress of CJK functions
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"Recently in OOoCon 2007, I made a talk about the CJK (Chinese,
Japanese and Korean) functions what I have been working on. I think
it is better to show the progress to the world. If you have any hot
issue about CJK functions, please let me know."
http://linpeifeng.blogspot.com/2007/09/progress-of-cjk-functions.html
We won MacGeneration Trophy 2007!
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"OpenOffice.org has been choosen as the best open source software,
by the users, and won the MacGeneration Trophy 2007!
Some photos, with Manuel Naudin, our OpenOffice.org expert,
who helps us during Apple Expo.
Many thanks to the users, who voted for us, and MacGeneration who
organized the Trophy."
http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2007/09/we-won-macgeneration-trophy-2007.html
Drilling down data in Data Pilot
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"This feature is about supporting a drill-down of a data field cell
in Calc’s Data Pilot feature. Excel already has an equivalent feature in
its Pivot Table functionality, and what I’m doing initially came out of
a request from current and former Excel users who rely on that feature."
http://kohei.us/2007/09/25/drilling-down-data-in-data-pilot/
Tips & Tricks
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Smart Tags Step-by-Step Tutorial
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"Last week I attended the OOoConf 2007 in Barcelona and gave a
presentation on how to develop smart tag extensions for OpenOffice.org.
It was a nice experience to meet people who are interested in what I'm
working on. In case you don't know what smart tags are, have a look at
this short introduction."
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/smart_tags_step_by_step
Developing an OpenOffice.org Extension
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Since extensions is an easy way to get started with OpenOffice.org
development, quite a few OpenOffice.org Conference sessions explained
how extensions are developed. Here are a few useful links:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/thursday_48.odp
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/thursday_149.odp
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/thursday_74.odp
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/thursday_770.odp
OpenOffice.org Wiki by Categories
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"Categories can be assigned quite easily to our wiki pages by adding
[[Category:Whatever makes sense]] to the wiki code. Some people have
already figured this out, hence we have 187 categories in use
(for 3187 wiki pages).
I leave it up to you to draw certain conclusions. But I would like to
encourage you to apply categories wisely and to resolve obvious
redundancies and clean up oddities.
Here is the list sorted by name and below sorted by number of pages:"
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ooo_wiki_by_categories
Check out the OpenOffice.org Extension Repository
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You should check out the OpenOffice.org Extension Repository.
I'm impressed! The repository has been online for just a few days
now, but new extensions seem to be coming in at a nice rate. If you
want to develop your own extensions, you should check out the
OpenOffice.org Conference presentations.
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/check_out_the_openoffice_org
OpenDocument News Roundup
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New ODF organization being founded in the Netherlands
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A new ODF organization, the OpenDoc Society, is being founded in the
Netherlands. According to the Dutch article below, the new organization
has already support from 25 organizations. The Dutch homepage of the
OpenDoc Society can be found here.
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/new_odf_organization_being_founded
ODF Camp at OOoCon 2007 was a success
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"As Rob Weir reports in his blog, there was an ODF Camp at OOoCon 2007
led by Rob which focussed on interoperability between different ODF
implementations. Unfortunately, I had to leave the ODF Camp for a few
hours due to customer meetings, but from my point of view the ODF Camp
was a huge success. The ODF Camp was the very first event of this kind
so far and therefore nobody knew exactly how to best approach the
issue, but I think everybody got a much better understanding of the
different aspects related to interoperability. People agreed, that
there should be more events like the ODF Camp at OOoCon 2007 going
forward."
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/odf_camp_at_ooocon_2007
ODF Alliance has now about 450 members from 53 countries!
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Wow! I just heard that the ODF Alliance has now about 450 members
from 53 countries. The support for ODF is definitely growing world wide.
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/odf_alliance_has_now_about
The Netherlands adopt ODF
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It's a great day for ODF! The Netherlands just decided to adopt ODF.
I'm only aware of details available in Dutch so far, but the key
information about this information can be found on this web page and
in this PDF file. Here is a quote (Dutch) from the PDF file:
"stapsgewijze invoering van de open standaard ODF (Open Document Format)
voor het lezen, schrijven, uitwisselen, publiceren en ontvangen van
documenten (uiterlijk januari 2009 door alle ministeries en
mede-overheden ondersteund) op weg naar grootschalig gebruik van open
document formaten voor overheidstoepassingen."
Thus, ODF will be introduced step by step for reading, writing,
exchanging and publishing document, and by 2009 all ministries should
support ODF. Again, great news!
http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/the_netherlands_adopt_odf
Clippings
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* IBM composes new Office rival with Lotus Symphony suite
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=open_source&articleId=9037358&taxonomyId=88&intsrc=kc_top
* Lotus Symphony: a first look
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/productivity/0,1000001108,39289518,00.htm
* First Impressions: Symphony, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,137663-c,linux/article.html
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