[ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org Newsletter - April 2011

[Kay Koll]

Title: OpenOffice.org Newsletter

APRIL 2011 Help to Improve the Usability of OpenOffice.org! Do you have ideas and suggestions to improve the user interface or are you interested to design the interface for new features? The User Experience Team wants to continue to make OpenOffice.org the best open-source office suite in terms of usability, productivity and enjoyment. Would you like to see OpenOffice.org speak your language? The Localization Project welcomes language contributors in the areas of translation, review and testing. Do you like to write articles or short manuals? 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. Share your documents! OpenOffice.org gives you the power to make great documents: both functional and good looking. Let others know how amazing documents can look. Upload your documents to the Template Repository and inspire other OpenOffice.org users. Don't be shy. Start volunteering today! Find out how to contribute Do not miss the videos on Facebook  Notes from Community Projects OpenOffice.org Community Supports Victims of the Quake Alexandro Colorado and Peter Junge have called for donations for the Contributor Kazunari Hirano and the victims of earthquake in Japan. Every donation that indicates the intended purpose with "Earthquake Japan" or similar keywords will go directly to Kazunari. Community Presence at CeBIT 2011 in Hanover, Germany The community was this year again at the CeBIT, the biggest technology trade show of the world. A group of community members were at the booth and answered the questions of many users. It was a large success. Community Presence at Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011 Members of the German OpenOffice.org community attended the LinuxTag in Chemnitz, Germany. Once again they helped users, introduced the new features and distributed the popular OpenOffice.org postcards. Thanks team! Translation Call for OpenOffice.org 3.4! The Localization schedule for the 3.4 release has been announced. Translation deadline for release 3.4 is April 27th.  Don't miss it! back to top Tips & Tricks About: Different Ways to View Slides in OOo Impress Use the view that works best for You. Read More » HelpDeskGeek: Change AutoCorrect Options in OOo Writer Although AutoCorrect is a useful feature most of the time, it can produce some strange errors that are more annoying than the errors it is supposed to fix in the first place. Read More » eHow: How Can I Make Posters With OOo? Create a poster that fits your needs using the free Draw software from OpenOffice.org.  Read More » BrightHub: OOo Templates for Business Card Designs This guide has a few templates you can download and use for free. In this guide, you will also learn how to open these templates and edit them. Read More » WorldStart.com:  Gallery Display Relocation If you use a lot of graphics in your OpenOffice.org documents, you’re probably in a love/hate relationship with the built-in graphics Gallery.  Read More » Herongyang:  Digital Signature Adding a digital signature to an ODF document; viewing details of certificates; intended usages of certificates; storing certificates with their private keys in PKCS12 files.  Read More » back to top OpenDocument (ODF) ODF 1.2 is finalized! It was officially announced on last Saturday the approval of the ODF 1.2 Committee Specification by the OASIS ODF TC.  The next step is the approval of the ODF 1.2 by OASIS, and that ballot should be initiated in a few days.  Read More » OSOR: European Parliamentarians participate in Document Freedom Day Members of the European Parliament and their assistants are participating in this year's Document Freedom Day, a 'grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats.  Read More » MSDN: Change Tracking in ODF The time has come, thanks to the creation of the ADC SC (Advanced Document Collaboration sub-committee) of the OASIS ODF technical committee. The Statement of Purpose for the ADC SC emphasizes the importance of change tracking.  Read More » back to top this issue Notes from the Projects Tips & Tricks OpenDocument (ODF) Announcements OpenOffice.org Bloggers The OpenOffice.org Planet has the widest collection of OOo content with community members  blogging on a wide variety of helpful topics.  Read More » News to Spread ? Please send news clippings to : dev@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.