The Community Needs your Help !
There are dozens of opportunities to support the
community and you do not have to be a developer to help out. Here are
just two out
of many examples:
Are You
Interested in
Marketing?
Go ahead an help the OpenOffice.org marketing project!
Help spread the word and by the way it
looks good in your resume.
Do You like to
Write Articles or Short Manuals ?
The documentation project is always looking for new and exciting
articles.
Don't be shy and start volunteering today!
Success Stories
OSOR: OS resource centre awards Kongsberg
municipality
Kongsberg uses the open source suite of office
applications OpenOffice.org in the municipal offices and at schools. Read
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Featured News
Linux Journal: 3 recent
OpenOffice.org extensions
These days, many extensions are
language-specific or clipart collections that most people will never
use. Read
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eWeek: Ditch Microsoft,
Save £269m Says Hungarian Open Source Group
Despite a struggling economy and
public debt, the Hungarian government continues to spend millions on
Microsoft licenses when cheaper alternatives exist, open source
groups say Read
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eGov: Danish Municipality of
Rødovre Expects OpenOffice.org To Reduce Costs Over Long Term
The municipality announced on 6 November 2009
that, as from the next week, it will start to use OpenOffice.org
alongside
its proprietary alternative. Read
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epmonthly: Why I Dumped
Microsoft Office
Its been a while since I did a computer-related
post. For those of you who didn’t read my old blog, I’m kind of a
computer geek. Read
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Freelance: Free Spell Checkers
and Grammar Checkers for Writers
A good grammar and spell checker is required if
you write for a living. Although it can't replace a careful proofread
of your work Read
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GullFOSS: Improved websites to
download OO.o builds
The current setup of websites for downloading OO.o
installation sets provides builds for several languages and operating
systems. Read
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GullFOSS: Odt2DAISY - create
DAISY Digital Talking Books with OpenOffice.org!
Vincent Spiewak has finished his OpenOffice.org
extension for converting ODF text documents to DAISY Digital Talking
Books Read
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GullFOSS: Videos: Clayton,
Rafaella and You?
Did you know that OOo has its own YouTube channel?
Check out the interesting and informative new videos available for your
viewing and listening pleasure. Read
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Tips & Tricks
Linux Journal: Graphic
styles in OO.o Draw and Impress
One of OpenOffice.org's greatest
strengths is its emphasis on styles. Some users balk at styles,
claiming they are restrictive, but no other feature repays a little
organization with so much ease of use and saving of time. Read
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ComputerActive: Guide to
using OpenOffice.org templates
OpenOffice.org Writer is a great word
processor and we often recommend it as an alternative to Microsoft Word
if all you need to do is create simple documents. Read
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Linux.com: Lesser Known,
But Very Helpful Features in OpenOffice.org Writer
Anyone using Linux (or any operating
system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office
suite. Read
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Solveig Haugland: How to
do a holiday letter using mail merge, and print labels for the
envelopes
've tried to make it as complete as
possible without actually rising up out of the browser and knocking you
over the head with painful details. Read
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Solveig Haugland:
Modifying raster shape colors with the RGB and Brightness tools in
OpenOffice.org Draw
If you want to change how a drawing
shape looks, you can easily use the border and fill shapes. Read
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OpenDocument (ODF)
OSOR: Chair of Denmark's
standards committee:
'Microsoft is lying'
Mogens Kühn Pedersen, chair of the
Danish Standards Committee, says Microsoft is lying when it says it
will implement ISO OOXML in the next version of its suite of office
applications.... Read
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Second ODF Plugfest: Notes from the First Day
The second ODF Interoperability Workshop held in
Orvieto gathered together more than 30 ODF experts, developers and
stakeholders from public administrations to improve ODF
interoperability. Read
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Solution of the Month
Screenwright(R)
screenplay formatting template
This free Writer template, winner of a cash prize
in
the Sun Microsystems/OO.o Community Innovation Program
Awards competition, will format your movie script to industry
standards. Other formatters include: sitcom, theater/stage play, and
audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film. A4 and
Letter versions. Read
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Please Note:
This section introduces a single solution which
provides a OO.o integration or based on OO.o technology. The idea
behind it is to
support vendors who have an OO.o integration.
Drop us an email, if
you want to have your solution listed.
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