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09/2009
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1. Announcements
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* OpenOffice.org Bloggers
* Come to Italy for the OpenOffice.org Annnual Conference
2. Success Stories
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* ZDNet Asia: Malaysian public sector bolsters OSS adoption
3. Featured News
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* NotebookReview.com: OpenOffice 3.1 Review
* Datamation: Open source software can save India $2 bn
* Infoworld: Track key trends in Windows systems->OO.o market share 12%
* GullFOSS: Results of the Renaissance Prototype Survey
* GullFOSS: List of features of OpenOffice.org 3.2
* SIL.org: OpenOffice accepts Graphite software for version 3.2
4. Tips & Tricks
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* TechRepublic: How do I install extensions in Open Office 3.1?
* gHack: Use OpenOffice Impress for flash card learning
* ComputerActive: Make your own business cards in Openoffice
* Solveig Haugland: Printing a selected print range in OpenOffice Calc
5. ODF News
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* 2nd ODF 'plugfest' Nov 2-3 in Orvieto, Italy
* ODF To be obligatory in Norwegian Public Sector
* Malaysia approve odf as a national standard
* ODF Workshop and CONSEGI 2009
6. OpenOffice.org solution of the month
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* MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org
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Announcements
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OpenOffice.org Bloggers
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The OpenOffice.org Planet has the widest collection of OO.o content with
community members blogging on a wide variety of helpful topics.
http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html
OpenOffice.org Conference 2009 is in Orvieto/Italy
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Registration officially has opened for the OpenOffice.org annual
international conference 2009 (OOoCon), to be held in the beautiful and
historic city of Orvieto, Umbria, Italy.
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=401
http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009
OpenOffice.org release 2.4.3 available for download
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The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the release of
OpenOffice.org 2.4.3, a minor update to the legacy OpenOffice.org 2.x
series.
http://download.openoffice.org.
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.4.3.html
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=400
Andreas Bartels describes the concepts for a new User Interface
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Andreas Bartels lead of the UX project and Florian Effenberger
describing in a video the concepts for a new user interface and a FAQ
addresses the questions and concerns raised so far.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance/FAQ#Interview
Do you have something to share?
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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
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DK: Lyngby-Taarbæk moves schools to OpenOffice
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The administration of the Danish municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk is
installing OpenOffice on some 1700 school desktop PCs [...]
The first school where OpenOffice will be installed is the Lindegård school.
http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-lyngby-taarbek-moves-schools-to-openoffice
Featured News
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NotebookReview.com: OpenOffice 3.1 Review
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For the vast majority of users, OpenOffice 3.1 will prove utterly
interchangeable with Microsoft Office 2003. Only power users --
particularly those of us who build slick custom Macros or who have
memorized every keyboard shortcut -- will be hindered by OpenOffice's
particulars.
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5249&review=openoffice+3.1+review
Datamation: Open source software can save India $2 bn
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As Indian consumers and enterprises evaluate the option of upgrading to
Microsoft’s much-touted operating system (OS) Windows 7, to be
officially launched on October 22, the free and open source software
(FOSS) community has fired yet another salvo at proprietary software.
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/open-source-software-can-save-india-2-bn/369858/
Infoworld: Track key trends in Windows systems -> OO.o market share 12%
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A dashboard widgets on this page to track the actual state of Windows
usage across the globe. The data is updated daily based on data from the
exo.performance.network's nearly 20,000 monitored PCs
http://www.infoworld.com/windows-pulse
GullFOSS: Results of the Renaissance Prototype Survey
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53% answered that they agree or agree totally that the current version
of OpenOffice.org need a UI redesign. 32% answered that they disagree or
disagree totally. This tendency supports the idea of project Renaissance.
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/results_of_the_renaissance_prototype
GullFOSS: List of features of OpenOffice.org 3.2
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Some weeks ago I announced here that I will finalize the feature-list
for this release soon after the last build with the last features is
ready for use. I am ready and you can check the wiki page, if you are
interested in all feature announcements for OOo 3.2.
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/list_of_features_of_openoffice
SIL.org: OpenOffice accepts Graphite software for version 3.2
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Graphite is designed to be an extensible mechanism adequate to handle
any orthographic phenomenon that might arise in any writing system based
on any modern script.
http://www.sil.org/sil/news/2009/graphite-in-open-office3.2.htm
Tips & Tricks
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TechRepublic: How do I install extensions in Open Office 3.1?
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...With the latest OpenOffice you can expand the capabilities of this
outstanding office suite by adding various types of extensions...
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1599
gHack: Use OpenOffice Impress for flash card learning
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If you are currently taking classes, or are in any situation where you
need to learn a large amount of facts you may have taken it upon
yourself (or are wanting) to create flash cards to help you with the
learning process.
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/24/use-openoffice-impress-for-flash-card-learning/
ComputerActive: Make your own business cards in Openoffice
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If you need some business cards quickly and don’t want to have to wait
for them to be printed, why not make some of your own?
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/q-and-a/2249319/own-business-cards-business-4550178
Solveig Haugland: Printing a selected print range in OpenOffice Calc
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When you have an enormous spreadsheet, you don't always want to print
the whole thing every time. You want to print just a chunk. Also, when
you have an enormous spreadsheet, you don't want to have to re-specify,
every single time, exactly which range you want to print.
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2009/09/printing-a-selected-print-range-in-openoffice-calc-spreadsheets.html
OO.o TNT : Those Drawing Icons
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The Drawing toolbar has icons for drawing shapes. In Writer, you must
first enable the Drawing toolbar by View - Toolbars - Drawing, or by
clicking the Show Draw Function icon on the Standard toolbar. In Draw,
you see this toolbar by default near the bottom of the document window.
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/all_those_icons
ODF News
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2nd ODF 'plugfest' Nov 2-3 in Orvieto, Italy
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The second in a series of events bringing together ODF implementers to
fine-tune their interoperability capabilities and develop test
scenarios, recommendations and best practices will take place November
2-3, 2009, in the Italian city of Orvieto.
http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=plugfests:200911_orvieto:info
ODF To be obligatory in Norwegian Public Sector
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Beginning on January 1, 2011 it will be obligatory to use ODF or PDF
when exchanging documents as e-mail attachments between government
institutions and users in Norway
http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/fad/press-centre/press-releases/2009/new-obligatory-it-standards-for-the-stat.html?id=570650
Malaysia approve odf as a national standard
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ODF was approved by the Malaysian national standards body SIRIM
http://mszt.hu/angol/general.htm
ODF Workshop and CONSEGI 2009
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...participating in the ODF Workshop and CONSEGI 2009 and I would like
to share with you here some things that I saw, heard and spoke there...
http://homembit.com/2009/09/odf-workshop-and-consegi-2009.html
OdfAlliance.org: Impressions from the ODF Workshop in Brazil
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The growing public-sector support for ODF was on display at the 3rd
International ODF User Workshop, which concluded last week in Brasilia.
The event—organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SERPRO
http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/odf_brazil_workshop/
OpenOffice.org solution of the month
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MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org
The MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org installs a native MySQL database
driver. It is faster, seamless integrated, easier to administrate and
there is no need to install and setup a JDBC or ODBC driver separately.
It was never easier to use MySQL databases in OO.o Base.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/mysql_connector
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