[ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org Newsletter - June 2010

[Kay Koll]

Title: OpenOffice.org Newsletter

JUNE 2010 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? Here's your chance to do it hands-on. Join the Marketing Project. It is important, fun work and it looks good on your résumé. Do you like to write articles or short manuals? The Documentation Project is always looking for new and exciting articles. Don't be shy. Start volunteering today! Find out how to contribute Do not miss the videos on Facebook  OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 Released The OpenOffice.org Community today announces the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, the newest version of the world's major free and open productivity suite. Read More » OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 is available in many languages for all major platforms at http://download.openoffice.org This month in the Community Council Stefan Taxhet and Christoph Noack agreed to work out a request to the ODF Icons team to iterate on the design and/or processes. The Community Council minutes are available here. back to top Success Stories OSOR: Over a hundred schools using open source in Finland Over a hundred schools across Finland are using open source for all of their desktop PCs, according to Opinsys, an open source services provider.  Read More » back to top Featured News OSOR: Ministry of Justice and law courts consider open source desktop Turkey's ministry of Justice, all of its institutions and all law courts are considering to move or partly move to a complete open source desktop, according to judge Cengiz Tanrikulu. Read More » FursøAvis: Furesø drops Bill Gates [Translated] Furesø municipality schools go away from MS Office and move to OpenOffice.org. Savings of DKK360,000 a year. Read More » LinuxPlanet: 6 Advanced OpenOffice.org Extensions Luckily, the open source community provides a great repository of extensions and add-ons. Read More » Infoworld: Open source innovation on the cutting edge Think open source doesn’t innovate? Here are seven projects exploring exciting new directions in computing -for free. Read More » GullFOSS: Thanks for Suggesting Better Default Settings  Many thanks go out to everyone who added one of the 90+ suggestions for the Better Defaults collection. Read More » GullFOSS: Renaissance Video on YouTube  If you want to skip the presentation and just go to the video, then feel free to do so. For those of you who haven't seen it yet, the most recent status presentation is online here. Read More » back to top Tips & Tricks LinuxJournal: Creating diagrams in OO.o Draw and Impress OpenOffice.org's tools for creating diagrams are easy to ignore. For one thing, their controls are extremely small. Read More » Solveig Haugland: Make your OpenOffice forms open with the focus in the first field ... click this Automatic Control Focus icon Automaticcontrolfocus so that when users open the form, the cursor (the focus), is in the first field in the tab order. Read More » back to top OpenDocument (ODF) ODF Turns Five This month marks the fifth anniversary of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) as an industry standard.  Read More » Simon Phipps: Open Data: Fantastic, But Not Enough In an unusual move for such a significant news item, the UK government announced over the weekend that they were ordering all government departments to embark on a voyage of transparency.: Read More » back to top In this issue Notes from the Projects Notes from the Council Success Stories Featured News Tips & Tricks OpenDocument (ODF) Announcements OpenOffice.org Bloggers The OpenOffice.org Planet has the widest collection of OO.o content with community members  blogging on a wide variety of helpful topics.  Read More » Summer Internship Program Students from all over the world are invited to take their first steps in OpenOffice.org development. Read More » News to Spread ? Please send news clippings to : d...@marketing. openoffice.org Unsubscribe If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter  please unsubscribe You're receiving this newsletter because you signed up at  announce@openoffice.org New email address? Unsubscribe with your old address and subscribe with the new address Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe Instantly.