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OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER Volume 07 - Issue 25 - 07/2009 Please send news clippings to: d...@marketing.openoffice.org ######################################################################### Contents ######################################################################### 1. Announcements ================ * OpenOffice.org Bloggers * OpenOffice.org Conference 2009 - Call for Papers * Social Desktop Contest 2. Success Stories ================== * ZDNet Asia: Malaysian public sector bolsters OSS adoption 3. Featured News ================ * Telefonica Spain offers professional OO.o support * German OpenOffice.org conference on economic and management * OO.o won a SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards * CourierPress: Microsoft feels pressure for 'free' software * Networkworld: Open Source vendors band together against Microsoft * Prototyping a New User Interface for OOo - July Status Update 4. Tips & Tricks ================ * OpenOffice.org Calc: The Mysteries of DataPilots Revealed * ghacks.net: Open and edit PDF files in OpenOffice * Solveig Haugland: Creating Keyboard Shortcuts in OpenOffice * Solveig Haugland: Reusable Information in OpenOffice Writer 5. ODF News =========== * Computerworld: New IT-standards in the Norway [translated] * Battle for multi-billion dollar e-governance projects hots up * ODF in FISL 10 6. OpenOffice.org solution of the month ======================================= * TeamDrive Plug-in for OpenOffice ######################################################################### 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 OpenOffice.org Conference 2009 - Call for Papers ================================================ The OOoCon Team are now accepting proposals from potential OOoCon 2009 speakers. For full details click on the 'Call for Papers', 'Track Policies', and 'Timeline' links. http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009 Social Desktop Contest ====================== The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the desktop shell itself. Here is the challenge: create and submit applications, widgets, plasmoids or web services etc. as part of the contest and win one of our wonderful prizes. http://www.socialdesktop.org/contest/ Do you have something to share? =============================== If you do, then this conference is the place to do it! We particularly welcome proposals from developers with information to share with fellow developers, ranging from how to get started on simple extensions, to the deepest most complex technical aspects of the OpenOffice.org codebase. Success Stories ######################################################################### ZDNet Asia: Malaysian public sector bolsters OSS adoption ================================================================== ...295 agencies have deployed OpenOffice.org, totaling almost 20,000 installed seats and saving the Malaysian government over 18.8 million ringgit (US$5.4 million) in licensing fees... http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62056398,00.htm Featured News ######################################################################### Telefonica Spain offers professional OO.o support ================================================= Article and support available in Spanish only ! http://www.vivalinux.com.ar/biz/telefonica-openoffice-respuesta-profesional German OpenOffice.org conference on economic and management =========================================================== The first German OpenOffice.org conference dedicated to public administration will be held in the thermal city of Wiesbaden, Germany, on 6 and 7 October 2009. http://www.osor.eu/events/german-openoffice.org-conference-on-economic-and-management http://www.oookwv.de [Page of the conference. [German]] Cross-project Open-Source Meeting [German] ========================================== The open source meetings, organized jointly by OOo and Mozilla http://www.opensourcetreffen.de [German] OO.o won a SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards ================================================== -> Best Project for Government http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/ CourierPress: Microsoft feels pressure for 'free' software ============================================================ ...Microsoft's real struggles are over how to price this product and how to handle the online component. Give away too much Office online and the company risks giving away a huge financial portion of its business... http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/jul/17/microsoft-feels-pressure-for-free-software/ Networkworld: Open Source vendors band together against Microsoft ================================================================= ...The coalition calls itself Open Source for America and its motives are seen as specifically targeting government no-bid renewals of Microsoft products... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/43780 GullFOSS: Prototyping a New User Interface for OOo - July Status Update ================================================================= The prototyping phase, to create a new user interface for OpenOffice.org, has ended last week.... ...and try the prototype yourself (Java 6 required). It is not only about Impress, we are working on a UI for the entire OOo. You will be asked to give feedback when closing the prototype. http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_a_new_ui_july Tips & Tricks ######################################################################### LinuxJournal: OpenOffice.org Calc: The Mysteries of DataPilots Revealed ======================================================================= If you're coming fresh from Microsoft Excel, you might wonder where the Pivot tables are in OpenOffice.org Calc. The problem is, they're masquerading under the name of DataPilots http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-calc-mysteries-datapilots-revealed ghacks.net: Open and edit PDF files in OpenOffice ================================================= I get this a lot “How can I open and edit PDF files without having to purchase a costly application like QarkXPress”? Before OpenOffice extensions came about my answer to that would be “Not easily”. http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/28/open-and-edit-pdf-files-in-openoffice/ Solveig Haugland: Creating Keyboard Shortcuts in OpenOffice =========================================================== However, in OpenOffice.org you can set your keyboard shortcuts pretty much any way you want. You can even assign shortcut keys to styles. This means that... http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2009/07/creating-keyboard-shortcuts-in-openoffice-including-assigning-keyboard-shortcuts-to-styles-a-great-f.html Solveig Haugland: Reusable Information in OpenOffice Writer =========================================================== Here are the two very nice shortcut features that let you slap in a bunch of text with just a couple keystrokes. http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2009/07/inserting-stored-reusable-information-in-openoffice-writer-one-of-the-most-useful-features-in-openof.html ODF News ######################################################################### Computerworld: New IT-standards in the Norway [translated] =================================================================== The Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration and has completed step two in a long-term effort to determine the recommended and required it standards that public companies should take: For the exchange of documents as attachments to e-mail between government and users, it is mandatory from 1.1.2011 to use document formats PDF or ODF http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.idg.no/computerworld/article137544.ece&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=ISO-8859-1 Business-Standard: Battle for multi-billion dollar e-governance projects hots up ======================================================================== The battle over standards for the multi-billion dollar e-governance projects is once again hotting up. IT majors like IBM, Sun Microsystems and Red Hat have shot letters to industry bodies http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/battle-for-multi-billion-dollar-e-governance-projects-hots-up/363310/ ODF in FISL 10 ============== The FISL 10 (International Forum of Free Software) was for me the best FISL ever. ...President of Brazil Lula wearing a ODF cap... http://homembit.com/2009/07/odf-in-fisl-10.html OpenOffice.org solution of the month ==================================== TeamDrive Plug-in for OpenOffice The new TeamDrive OpenOffice Plug-in allows users to collaborate easy right out of OpenOffice.org. TeamDrive enhances OpenOffice.org with an automatic version control system. http://www.teamdrive.net/en/teamdrive/openoffice-plugin ******************************************************************************** This section introduces a single solution which provides a OO.o integration or based on OO.o technology. 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