Wonderful! Great job all. And particular congratulations and thanks to the courageous crew that got this going. Heroes!
I support the fundamentals that Joe Rotello has suggested. I haven't looked at the details or the implications of each element. However, TDF has the opportunity to capture the attention and imaginations of a lot of people with the right messaging. Thank you all Carl On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> wrote: > The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3 > > The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download > > The Internet, January 25, 2011 - The Document Foundation launches > LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed > by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking > LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well > over one hundred today. This has allowed us to release ahead of the > aggressive schedule set by the project. > > Not only does it ship a number of new and original features, LibreOffice 3.3 > is also a significant achievement for a number of reasons: > > - the developer community has been able to build their own and independent > process, and get up and running in a very short time (with respect to the > size of the code base and the project's strong ambitions); > > - thanks to the high number of new contributors having been attracted into > the project, the source code is quickly undergoing a major clean-up to > provide a better foundation for future development of LibreOffice; > > - the Windows installer, which is going to impact the largest and most > diverse user base, has been integrated into a single build containing all > language versions, thus reducing the size for download sites from 75 to > 11GB, making it easier for us to deploy new versions more rapidly and > lowering the carbon footprint of the entire infrastructure. > > Caolán McNamara from RedHat, one of the developer community leaders, > comments, "We are excited: this is our very first stable release, and > therefore we are eager to get user feedback, which will be integrated as > soon as possible into the code, with the first enhancements being released > in February. Starting from March, we will be moving to a real time-based, > predictable, transparent and public release schedule, in accordance with > Engineering Steering Committee's goals and users' requests". The LibreOffice > development roadmap is available at > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan > > LibreOffice 3.3 brings several unique new features. The 10 most-popular > among community members are, in no particular order: the ability to import > and work with SVG files; an easy way to format title pages and their > numbering in Writer; a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer; improved > ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management; and Microsoft Works and > Lotus Word Pro document import filters. In addition, many great extensions > are now bundled, providing PDF import, a slide-show presenter console, a > much improved report builder, and more besides. A more-complete and detailed > list of all the new features offered by LibreOffice 3.3 is viewable on the > following web page: > http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/ > > LibreOffice 3.3 also provides all the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.3, > such as new custom properties handling; embedding of standard PDF fonts in > PDF documents; new Liberation Narrow font; increased document protection in > Writer and Calc; auto decimal digits for "General" format in Calc; 1 million > rows in a spreadsheet; new options for CSV import in Calc; insert drawing > objects in Charts; hierarchical axis labels for Charts; improved slide > layout handling in Impress; a new easier-to-use print interface; more > options for changing case; and colored sheet tabs in Calc. Several of these > new features were contributed by members of the LibreOffice team prior to > the formation of The Document Foundation. > > LibreOffice hackers will be meeting at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 5 and > 6, and will be presenting their work during a one-day workshop on February > 6, with speeches and hacking sessions coordinated by several members of the > project. > > The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org > > The home of LibreOffice is at http://www.libreoffice.org where the download > page has been redesigned by the community to be more user-friendly. > > > *** About The Document Foundation > > The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the > OOo Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization > within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better reflection > of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a > more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past > investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will > encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate > activity across the community. > > > *** Media Contacts for TDF > > Florian Effenberger (Germany) > Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: [email protected] > Olivier Hallot (Brazil) > Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: [email protected] > Charles H. Schulz (France) > Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: [email protected] > Italo Vignoli (Italy) > Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: [email protected] > > -- > Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> > Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation > Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 > Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
