You can help the community, it
is easy and fun!
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 and 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!
Notes
from
the
Community
projects
l10n: Basque language
were tested and have passed QA
Next OOo 3.2.0 RC5 for Basque lang were tested and
have passed QA and became a stable release. Read
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This month in
the Community Council
Notes from the Community
Council Minutes
The Community Council minutes are available
here.
Success Stories
More than 500 Extensions in the Extension
Repository
Extensions are powerful tools to extend the
functionality in OO.o. There are extensions available which adds new
dictionaries, templates and new features. How
to
install
an
OO.o
Extension.
Link to the Extension
Repository.
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Featured News
ITWorld: CeBIT 2010 Day
Two: Down to Business
The Open Source Pavilion was
seriously crowded, and not by the usual people hawking Linux
distributions. Instead, applications and infrastructure vendors showed
a wide array of operating system-agnostic applications focused on both
mainstream applications (the tiny OpenOffice.org stand was crowded). Read
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PCWorld: 10 All-Time
Greatest Free Downloads and Services
In our 15 years of choosing the best
free stuff, we’ve spotlighted the superstars. Read
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eWeek: OO.o 3.2 Offers Modest
Update, Better Startup Speed
the open-source OpenOffice.org productivity suite
delivers a handful of file format compatibility enhancements alongside
feature tweaks for the suite's Calc spreadsheet application and
continued gains in startup speed for the suite as a whole. Read
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Register: OpenOffice 3.2 - now
with less Microsoft envy
Oracle has pledged to continue OO.o and plans to
keep the entire Sun team on hand, running OO.o as an independent
business unit. Read
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Register: OpenOffice is the new
David Hasselhoff
According to the study, over 20 per cent of
Germans, Czechs, and Poles run OpenOffice or other open-source
productivity suites, while the UK and US lag behind at a mere 9 per
cent apiece. Read
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Computerworld:What we know
about Oracle Cloud Office, OO.o
Product announcements have raised questions Oracle
and OpenOffice.org don't want to answer. Here's what we know.
Read
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TechCrunch: 300,000,000
Downloads Later, OO.o Ships
Version 3.2
..simultaneously announced that the software has
been downloaded an impressive 300 million times in total since its
public debut in April 2002. Read
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GullFOSS: Netbeans plugin for
editing VCLTesttool scripts
I have written a Netbeans
plugin for editing test scripts for the VCLTesttool. Read
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»
GullFOSS: Extension deployment
Currently, extensions programmers have no access
to the deployment process of an extension. Read
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Tips & Tricks
UbuntuGeek: How To
install OO.o 3.2 in Ubuntu
This tutorial will explain how to
install latest version of OO.o in Ubuntu Read
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Linux Journal: Quick and
Dirty with Open Office Base
As with any database application, and
even ones as simple as this one, it helps to draw a diagram of the
objects that you intend to manage and the interrelationships between
them. Read
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WorldLabel:
OpenOffice.org: The Need for Style
A style is a collection of formatting
instructions that you set once and then apply as needed throughout a
document. For instance, in Writer, you might create a title style for
italicizing the names of all the books mentioned in your document. Read
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Solveig Haugland: Data
type issues in spreadsheet-based mail merges in OO.o, or why your mail
merge doesn't work with 3.2
Let's say you're putting together a
mail merge listing the fees people in the county have to pay for
getting their new cat license.
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Solveig Haugland:
Formatting OpenOffice spreadsheet cells with DD/MM/YY
Let's say you want the day first, so
that 12/1/10 is January 12th, not December 1st. You do this under
Format > Cells. Read
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»
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OpenDocument (ODF)
Mobiletor: Blackberry
Internet Service 3.0 Documents leaked
..Seemingly, ODF documents will gain
support for presentations, text, and speadsheets. In fact, long awaited
handling of WM radio will now be endured in attachments. Read
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ZDNet Asia: Denmark
adopts ODF and PDF/A
Central government bodies in Denmark
will have to use open document formats, including the OpenDocument
Format (ODF), from 2011, the Danish parliament has ruled. Read
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ComputerWorld: OOXML not
suitable for Norwegian government, says study
Microsoft's XML-based office document
format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use,
according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public
Management and eGovernment (DIFI). Read
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GullFOSS: ODFDOM 0.8 -
New Release of the ODF Java Library
In biggest feature aside of a more
than a dozen patches for ODFDOM 0.8 is the complete revised new ODF
table API.
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