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
OO.o at American Library
Association 2010 National Conference
OpenOffice.org will be hosting booth 410 at this
years American Library Association 2010 National Conference/Expo.
June 24-29, 2010 in Washington DC, USA.
General conference information can be found at http://bit.ly/chhb1x
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For those interested in following our planning you can find us on the OpenOffice.org
wiki. The OpenOffice.org organizers thank the good folks at World
Labels for gracelessly sponsoring this event.
This month in
the Community Council
Community Council
Elections
- Olivier Hallot and Eike Rathke have been
confirmed to represent "you" in the Community Council.
The current elections and the underlying process is documented here.
- In the next Community Council meeting it will
be decided how to proceed with regard to the "Product Development
Representative". Most likely, the whole elections for this role will be
re-done. Thus, other community members might consider their nomination.
The Community Council minutes are available
here.
Success Stories
Petrobras deploys OpenOffice.org in 90
thousands desktops
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, a 123 Billion oil and gas
corporation - initiated the deployment of BrOffice.org (or
OpenOffice.org in Brazil) in all its desktops, estimated up to 90.000
machines. Marcia Novaes, the Petrobras IT department project
coordinator, stated “We also defined
the change of our internal document standards and we adopted ODF"
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Featured News
8 Advanced OpenOffice.org
Add-ons
OpenOffice.org is a great office suite for Linux
and pretty much any other operating system, but can always use
improvement. This is especially true for templates and clip art. Read
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TamsPalm: X Server and
OpenOffice on Palm Pre
A group of hackers now ported the X Server to the
Pre, and used it to run an OpenOffice build. The video below shows the
thingy in action: Read
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GullFOSS: What's the Status of
Project Renaissance?
Have a look at the most recent
monthly status update presentation to see for yourself how Impress is
shaping up. Read
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GullFOSS: QA weekend 2010 in
Essen, Germany
I'm back from this year's QA weekend in Essen,
Germany. There were several discussions about various QA related
topics and deep discussions related to the QA team of the German native
language community. Read
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»
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Tips & Tricks
New-line search &
replace in OO.o Writer -- the lazy way
... file has hard new-line characters
after every line, and a double new-line between paragraphs. I could
cursor to the end of each line, delete it, and type in a space... Read
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LinuxJournal: PDF Export
in OpenOffice.org
The latest versions of OpenOffice.org
provide, for no cost, most of the features available in Acrobat
Standard for $299: Read
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»
eHow: How to Convert
OO.o Files to Microsoft Office
OpenOffice programs use special file
formats (such as .odt for files created with the word processor). As a
result, Office cannot read directly such files: Read
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»
Softpedia: Create Talking
Books with Odt2daisy for OO.o
Odt2daisy is an OpenOffice.org
extension created to enable visually impaired individuals export
documents in DAISY 3, a talking book format designed specifically for
those with seeing disabilities or some type of reading problems. Read
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»
Solveig Haugland: How to
hide lines if a field is empty
When you do mail merges, especially those
involving addresses, some people have apartments and some don't. If you
are using an Address2 field in the address block, you need to hide that
line if it’s empty. Read
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Solveig Haugland: How to
select an image that you put in the background of an OO.o Writer
document
It's easy to put an image in the
background, behind text. Right-click on the image, choose Wrap > In
Background. Read
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»
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OpenDocument (ODF)
Is Microsoft reneging on
its OOXML standards promise?
Will Office 2010 have fully
'standards-based' OOXML support - and does it need it? Read
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Anderson: MS Office 2010
offers choice of ODF or MS XML formats
I was surprised to see the following
dialog after an in-place upgrade of Office 2007 to Office 2010: Read
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How To Read ODF documents
on Symbian
I tested it using Funambol email push
and sync client on my Nokia E71 and the results are quite good. Read
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»
Peter Korn: Access for All -
1st International AEGIS Conference in Seville, 6-9 October 2010
The AEGIS project has announced that
the first International AEGIS Conference - titled "Access for All in
the desktop, web and mobile field: an end-user and developer
perspective" - will take place in lovely Seville, Spain on October 6-9,
2010. Read
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»
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Solution of the month
Cooperate. Collaborate.
Share
Sironta is a P2P application that enables the
collaboration with any other user, in any place as if they where
together in the same room. Sironta runs smoothly in Windows, Linux and
Mac.. 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.
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you want to have your solution listed.
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