To those who do not know, BrOffice.org is the community name, product
and NGO in Brasil, the Brazilian extension of OpenOffice.org. Due to
trademark problems, we had to adopt a new name in Brazil, in order to
avoid litigation problems to users and developers.

Due to the name change, we maintained the compilation process in Brazil,
making the integration with Sun Microsystems only in 2007, the same year
we managed to integrate OOo and BrOo, in the OOo Council.

Our projects:
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In Brazil we have various activities within our project, such as:

- Translation of the product innovations in the user interface and the
help system, for the versions 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 (roughly 30.000 words), as
well as the extensions developed by Sun, such as the report generator
(Sun Report Builder) and the Sun Presentation Minimizer.

- We have worked in quality assurance of the releases published in the
current year, as well as interact strongly in the reporting of errors
detected by the user community.

- Maintain the high availability of the project portal, managing it so
as to maintain its quality and adherence to the community interests.

- Vero (VER)ificador (o)rtográfico (spellchecker, it means "truth" in
italian). It served as a basis for the pt-PT and es-CH spellchecker. It
has now over 8.5 million words.

- Clipping - search, classification and publication in our portal of
news about OOo, BrOo and ODF, in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese
and Portugal Portuguese and galician.

- Open Office (Escritório Aberto) - this project aims at cataloguing
monography models, accounting documents, account management, stoq and an
stock and a number of other templates, from areas such as accounting and
administration, among others. It now has over 80 models available.

- Programming - Development, in Brazil, of modules and extensions for
OOo/BrOo

- Zine - electronic magazine, published monthly. The magazine is
produced entirely using BrOffice.org (writer and draw). The images are
processed using Gimp and Inkscape. 30.000 downloads of the first 5
editions have been logged. The January edition, in only 4 days,
accounted for 4.000 downloads.

- BrOffice User Groups (GUBRO) - creation of user groups at a regional
level, with the aim of linking the Broffice.ORG organization and the
BrOo community with state and city governments, besides universities and
local businesses. Started in 2007, it is now present in 18 of the 27
Brazilian states. Two of them are in full activity, organizing
partnerships with the government and academia, and obtaining resources
for the project. It is also responsible for a kind of publicity through
a social network.

NGO BrOffice.org - Brazil Project
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With the organization of an association, in the form of a corporation,
other actions have stated materializing:

- Donations - through the "BrOo Friends" and "Invest in BrOo", of U$
1.950,00.

- The organization worked with US$ 21,000 em 2007 through sponsorships.

- Worked in the OOXML, managing to obtain a negative vote from Brazil in
the ISO, and it continues to work in the process;

- Worked in the process to block the acquisition of 44 thousand
Microsoft Office licenses in 2007 and contributed in the elaboration of
the technical/legal report which resulted in the cancellation of this
process by the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service.

- The 2º BrOo Nacional Meeting assembled approximately 1.100 people in
24 Brazilian state capitals, Paraguay and Galícia, Spain. Through
videoconferencing, we had the participation of Michael Bemmer, from
Hamburg, a Sun Microsystems Director and Jonh McCreesh, from Scotland.
The main difference between this meeting and OOoCon, is that we had to
envolve more than 130 people for its organization, creating the same
infra-structure in every one of the participating cities. In all, 26
locations were set up, with coffee break and gimmicks were given to
participants in 15 of them. It took three months to organize all the
participating locations.

Community Work
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As a community, we started a series of international initiatives, such as:

- National Broo Meeting, bringing the Brazilian and Galician communities
closer.
- Latinoware - Free Software meeting for Lating America, with the
participation of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Three other countries
have shown interest in participating and will start working in order to
participate in the 3º BrOo National Meeting. At Latinoware there has
also been a closer contact with South America communities, as was the
case with Colombia, which started a popularization process.
- Vero - Spellchecker partnership with Portugal.
- Zine - The electronic magazine was also launched in Galician. The work
started in October, 2007, and was launched in January, 22nd, 2008. The
magazine is also been translated into German and French. Conversations
have been started with Florian Effenberger, but for absolute lack of
time, we have been unable to continue this initiative. In Galicia we are
forming partnerships to make the project self-sustainable.
- Digital Inclusion with BrOo material - basic informatics material
using BrOo/OOo, translated into Spanish and used in Argentina and Paraguay.
- The BrOffice.org has more than 100 participants in all its projects.

Market
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On a market level, we can mention:

- Most public examinations in Brazil now require Broffice.org knowledge;

- ODF is the recommended format inside the Brazilian Government and BrOo
is the recommended tool (OOo should not be used due to trademark
problems, in accordance with a legal analysis of the National Institute
of Technology Information - ITI);

- In 2007, 750 thousand downloads of the Broffice.org suite have been
done. 95% for the Windows Platform and 5% for Linux. This information
relates exclusively the Brazilian mirrors which supply statistics
information to BrOffice.org. We have mirrors which do not supply the
download information. It is important to mention that, for Linux, the
packages come from repositories of their respective distributions. In
Debian, for instance, 1.261 packages are installed. By means of our
statistics, based on our research, we have 10 million desktops running
BrOo/OOo, which represents about one quarter of the desktop market in
Brazil.

- Our portal (www.broffice.org), averages 5 thousand visitors a day,
with a 170Gb/day data flow. Our server works most of the time with its
CPU capacity running at 100%.

- We have more than 9.000 registered users in our portal.

Well, i think that's all.

Bests

Claudio

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