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
LiMux review 2009
LiMux has achieved one very important goal. The
ODF Format is Munich’s primary used internal document exchange standard
... [and the] standard office workplace consists of OO.o, Mozilla
Firefox and Thunderbird Read
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Featured News
Computerworld: Making
Government IT Better - and Open
As I've noted many a time, the UK
government has been one of the most backward when it comes to adopting
open source solutions.. Read
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Toronto Sun: Feds open to
computer reboot.
The Canadian government could save
up to $18 million a year by adopting OpenOffice.org software instead of
continuing to deal with traditional suppliers who charge licensing fees
for computer applications. Read
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eGov: Dutch Government Aims To
Increase Open Source In Key IT Projects
The Dutch Government wants to increase the use of
open standards and open source in some of its key IT projects, minister
for Foreign Trade Frank Heemkskerk. Read
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OpenOffice.org Tops "The Best
of PRWeb" for 2009
PRWeb, the online news distribution service of
Vocus today announced that an OpenOffice.org news release was named the
winner of The Best of PRWeb contest. Read
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The H: Vienna: Windows and
Linux to coexist
Rather administrative staff will have the choice
of running either Windows and Microsoft Office or Linux and
OpenOffice.org
on their desktop. Read
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ChannelWeb: The 10 Coolest
Open-Source Products Of 2009
According to Frank Basanta, director of technology
for Systems Solutions, a New York-based integrator, OpenOffice.org is
seeing more adoption because of its increased interoperability with
Office
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Computerworld: Is OO.o a
Threat? Microsoft Thinks So
One of the unusual aspects of open source is the
fact that the software development philosophy spills over into the way
that the project is run. Read
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GullFOSS: Project Renaissance
Impress Improvements - Found the required slide layout yet?
As
indicated in the previous posts, we have started to redesign a few
really basic
interactions in OpenOffice.org Impress in order to reduce the overall
complexity of the UI. Read
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GullFOSS: New UI for
OpenOffice.org? When?
I know some of you read the title and thought “Oh
cool! I'm dying for a new user interface (UI). When will it finally be
ready?”.
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Tips & Tricks
Computeractive: Edit or
remove the header in OO.o Calc
I use the OO.o Calc spreadsheet
to type lists. When I print these lists, the page always prints with
the words 'Sheet 1' at the top and 'Page 1' at the bottom, even though
these do not appear as I am typing. Read
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Accessing ABAP Web
Services from OpenOffice.org
This Wiki article tries to explain
how ABAP Web Services can be accessed from OpenOffice.org. 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: The
somewhat variable helpfulness of the Function List in Calc, and how to
get the full syntax
I'm a big fan of the function list
palette, as a list of functions. Choose Insert > Function List and
the palette of all functions will appear. Read
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Solveig Haugland: Copying
multiple sheets at once in Calc spreadsheets
If you try to select several sheets
in a spreadsheet, then right-click to copy, all but one come
unselected. Read
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OpenDocument (ODF)
Governments Increasingly
Turn to OpenDocument Format as ODF Alliance Marks Unprecedented 2008
The ranks of governments adopting the
OpenDocument Format (ODF) continued to grow, as did the depth and range
of ODF applications, according to the annual report published by the
ODF Alliance. 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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