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OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER Volume 07 - Issue 23 - 05/2009 Please send news clippings to: d...@marketing.openoffice.org ######################################################################### Contents ######################################################################### 1. Announcements ================ * OpenOffice.org Bloggers 2. Success Stories ================== * Gribskov: Municipality uses OO.o and saves a million DKK per year 3. Featured News ================ * H Open: OpenOffice 3.1: The new features * GullFOSS: OpenOffice.org User Survey 2009 Data Available * GullFOSS: Ideation and what's next in the Renaissance Project * The Register: OpenOffice 3.1 ready to lick Microsoft's suite? * Computerworld: OpenOffice.org 3.1: The next generation 4. Tips & Tricks ================ * Andrew Ziem: OpenOffice.org New User Orientation * Solveig Haugland: OO.o 3.1 Chart Feature: What to do with zero values * Solveig Haugland: How to set up a score card for your Iron Chef party 5. ODF News =========== * Rob Weir: Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability * IBM, Microsoft quibble over Office 2007's new ODF support * ODF Alliance: Microsoft’s ODF Support Falls Short * Data.gov: Unlocking the Federal Filing Cabinets ######################################################################### Want to help OpenOffice.org? Find out hot to contribute or see our To Do List!! http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/To-Dos/index.html ######################################################################### Announcements ######################################################################### OpenOffice.org Bloggers ======================= A Planet is a web page which consolidates posts by a number of bloggers. There are a number of OpenOffice.org Planets: the OpenOffice.org Planet is the widest collection, with people blogging on a wide variety of OpenOffice.org topics. http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html Success Stories ######################################################################### Gribskov: Municipality uses OpenOffice and saves a million DKK per year ================================================================== The Danish municipality of Gribskov has saved two million DKK, about 270,000 euro, over the past two years by switching the public administration and schools to OpenOffice, Michel van den Linden, responsible for IT in the municipality says in an interview with the Danish IT news site Computerworld. http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-municipality-uses-openoffice-and-saves-a-million-dkk-per-year Featured News ######################################################################### H Open: OpenOffice 3.1: The new features ============================================================ OpenOffice 3.1 offers a whole range of new features. Instant eye catchers are the improved anti-aliasing for graphics, better chart functionality, and the new text highlighting in Writer. http://www.h-online.com/open/OpenOffice-3-1-The-new-features--/features/113234 GullFOSS: OpenOffice.org User Survey 2009 Data Available ============================================================ The data collected by the current OOo User Survey 2009 has been published at the OOo wiki. The data is based on more than 125K submissions by our users within the last three months. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Phase_1:OOoUser_Survey2009 GullFOSS: Ideation and what's next in the Renaissance Project ========================================================= I'd like to share my experience with using some ideation methods I learned in Berlin for UI brainstorming, and to give a short preview of what is about to happen in the Renaissance Project and for what reason. http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/ideation_and_what_s_next The Register: OpenOffice 3.1 ready to lick Microsoft's suite? =============================================================== OpenOffice.org remains the most popular open source answer to Microsoft's ubiquitous Office suite, and in these recessionary times, the appeal of "free" software is stronger than ever. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/11/openoffice_3_dot_1_review/ Computerworld: OpenOffice.org 3.1: The next generation ====================================================== The latest version of the open-source office suite OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just arrived, and it's a good one. While some of the improvements are visible to the naked eye, I found that the most important changes were hidden under the hood. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=&articleId=9132829&taxonomyId=&intsrc=kc_feat Tips & Tricks ######################################################################### Andrew Ziem: OpenOffice.org New User Orientation ===================================================================== This is your new-user orientation. [...] Read on to discover support, tutorials, community insights, templates, clip art, extensions, and blogs. http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/openofficeorg-new-user-orientation.html Solveig Haugland: OO.o 3.1 Chart Feature: What to do with zero values =============================================================================== If you're missing data, you have three options now: skip the data, assume zero, or compute a logical continuation. http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2009/05/openofficeorg-31-chart-feature-what-to-do-with-zero-values.html Solveig Haugland: How to set up a score card for your Iron Chef party ===================================================================== Here's the point where MAX, COUNTIF, data validity, and conditional formatting, come together to tabulate voting results. The project also involves chocolate and squash. http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2009/05/how-to-set-up-a-score-card-for-your-iron-chef-party-or-tabulate-other-votingscoring-situations-in-op.html ODF News ######################################################################### Rob Weir: Update on ODF Spreadsheet Interoperability =================================================================== I created a test document in each of those editors and then loaded each test document in each of the other editors. I showed what worked, what didn't, and made some suggestions on how interoperability could be improved. http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html Computerworld: IBM, Microsoft quibble over Office 2007's new ODF support ======================================================================== In the latest bout of sniping in the long-running feud over document format standards, IBM this week claimed that Microsoft Corp.'s Excel 2007 corrupted formulas and data in spreadsheets created in the OpenDocument Format. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9132634&intsrc=news_ts_head ODF Alliance: Microsoft’s ODF Support Falls Short ================================================= The OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance today cautioned that serious deficiencies in Microsoft’s support for ODF needed to be addressed to ensure greater interoperability with other ODF-supporting software. http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/microsofts_odf_support_falls_short/ Data.gov: Unlocking the Federal Filing Cabinets ================================================ With the new government site Data.gov, Mr. Kundra is showing off the value of standard data formats as well. The government, of course, has been publishing information on paper for centuries, and in electronic form for decades. The USA.gov portal has links to hundreds of Web sites the government runs about all of its agencies and programs. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/datagov-unlocking-the-federal-filing-cabinets/ Unsubscribe ######################################################################## To unsubscribe send an e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@openoffice.org Newsletter Archive ######################################################################### Past issues of the OpenOffice.org Newsletter can be found in the archive of the announce mailing list: http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=announce Contact Information (regarding this newsletter) ######################################################################### d...@marketing.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@openoffice.org
