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 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!
OpenOffice.org
3.2
is available for download
The OpenOffice.org Community today
announced the release of the latest version of OpenOffice.org 3.2.
Version 3.2 gets to work faster, offers new and improved functions,
offers better compatibility with other office software, and fixes bugs
and potential security vulnerabilities.
A full guide to new features is available at
OpenOffice.org.
Success Stories
iTWire: LCA 2010: Kiwis to give FOSS desktop a
go
The solution put together includes Ubuntu as the
desktop O-S, Firefox as the browser, OpenOffice.org as the office suite
and Alfresco as the content management system. Read
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Danish Parliament says: ODF is in, OOXML can
apply later!
The Danish Parliament has decided to create a list
of allowed standards. The standards MUST be implemented before end 2011.
(Translated)
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Featured News
Ethiopian: Is
OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So
Microsoft: ... OpenOffice.org now
figures almost as largely in the competitive landscape as does
GNU/Linux, and the fact there are no less than *13* “district Linux and
Open Office Compete Leads” focussing on what is described as “one of
the biggest issues” for no less a person than Steve Ballmer. Read
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NYTimes: Oracle to Live
the Life Quixotic With Sun Products
For one, Oracle plans to keep
putting support behind OpenOffice.org, a free, open-source productivity
suite that competes with Office from Microsoft. Read
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webmasterpro: International
OpenOffice.org market shares
OpenOffice.org suite and its derivatives has
market share of more than 20% in Poland, Czech Republic and Germany.
10% and higher in 11 countries. Read
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SoftSea.com: OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is a free, Open Source alternative
to MS Office with a Word compatible word processor, a complete Excel
compatible spread sheet program and a Power Point like presentation
software and drawing program and also allows saving to PDF file.
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LinuxMag: Norwegian
Broadcasting Moves to OO.o and ODF
Norway's national broadcasting and TV facility NRK
is intent on using the Open Document Format as a standard and is
therefore changing its clients over to OO.o. Read
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ZDNet: OpenOffice complaints
from Danish "Students"
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
LinuxJournal: Designing
Pages in OpenOffice.org Writer
The average person may change the
paper orientation from portrait to landscape, or narrow the margins to
squeeze more words into a page, but not much else. Read
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DMITRI POPOV: Managing
Bibliographies with OO.o and Zotero
If OpenOffice.org’s own bibliography
feature doesn’t really cut it for you, you have several choices. 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)
The H: Munich
administration switches to ODF Format
deputy project leader Florian
Schießl has posted on his blog, open source OpenDocument
Format (ODF) is now the main document exchange standard, with PDF being
used for non-editable files.
Read
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Register: Danes ditch
Microsoft, take ODF road - at last
The Danish Parliament has agreed to
ditch some Microsoft-based software in favour of the ODF standard from
April next year. 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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