gmane.comp.openoffice.announce.general

Final Reminder on OpenOffice.org mailing list and email forwarder shutdown

Rob Weir — 2012-03-15T01:00:37

Please note that the legacy mailing lists for the OpenOffice.org
project will be retired effective March 16h.  New mailing lists have
been created, at Apache, for users as well as project participants.

If you wish to continue to receive occasional email updates from the
project, for new releases,etc., then please subscribe to our
announcement email list by sending an email to:

ooo-announce-subscribe< at >incubator.apache.org.

Information on other mailing lists for the project can be found here:
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html

Also on March 16th we will shutdown the legacy email forwarder for the
openoffice.org domain.  If you have and use an openoffice.org email
address alias, then please note the important information described on
the following page:

https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/retirement_of_openoffice_org_email

We thank you for your past interest and support of the OpenOffice.org
project and look forward to your continued support at Apache.

Rob Weir, on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee

=====================

Fwd: Now available: Apache OpenOffice Announcement List

Kay Schenk — 2011-12-29T17:15:22

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Now available: Apache OpenOffice Announcement List
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:29:21 -0500
From: Rob Weir <robweir< at >apache.org>
Reply-To: ooo-dev< at >incubator.apache.org
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

The Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee is pleased to
announce the availability of our new Announcement mailing list.  This
is a low-volume list which will be used to announce the availability
of OpenOffice betas and releases, to issue security bulletins, and to
report similar relevant information.  This is not a discussion list.
It will be used only for authoritative announcements regarding Apache
OpenOffice.

We encourage all OpenOffice users and other interested parties to
subscribe to this list by following these steps:

1) Send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscribe< at >incubator.apache.org

2) Wait a few minutes and then check your inbox for a confirmation email.

3) Respond to the confirmation email

(If you ever want to unsubscribe, send an email to:
ooo-announce-unsubscribe< at >incubator.apache.org and respond to the
confirmation email.)

More information on this list, and other Apache OpenOffice project
lists can be found here:

http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html

Regards,

-Rob

OpenOffice.org 3.4 Beta available for download

Marcus Lange — 2011-04-13T09:53:11

Dear All,

we are happy to announce that OpenOffice.org 3.4 Beta is now ready for 
download.

This Beta Release is available in English and 69 additional languages 
which can be installed as language packs (localizations are still ongoing).

Feel free to download, test and give feedback. The best way to test is 
under real life conditions. OpenOffice.org is a community effort and 
your input will help to make OpenOffice.org 3.4 even better!

The Beta testing period ends on May 2nd. Take advantage of this 
evaluation period to take a closer look at the new SVG import, the 
improved ODF 1.2 support and other enhancements
(http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.4)
and help to find open issues. These are the preferred ways to provide
feedback:

* send a mail to the dev< at >qa.openoffice.org with the subject line
   starting with *Beta 3.4*
* submit an issue in BugZilla
   http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html.

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/all_beta.html

Enhancements:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.4

Feedback:
* http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html
* dev< at >qa.openoffice.org

Release notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.4beta.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/3.4beta_md5sums.txt

Happy testing!

OpenOffice.org Newsletter - April 2011

Kay Koll — 2011-04-08T07:07:19

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>

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 <http://ux.openoffice.org/> 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 <http://l10n.openoffice.org/> 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
<http://marketing.openoffice.org>.
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
<http://templates.services.openoffice.org> and inspire other
OpenOffice.org users.

Don't be shy. Start volunteering today!

*Find out how to contribute <http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html>
Do not miss the videos on Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg-How-to-contribute/165622009630>*

Notes from Community Projects

*OpenOffice.org Community Supports Victims of the Quake
*Alexandro Colorado and Peter Junge have called for donations
<http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/users/archive/2011-03/message/290>
for the Contributor Kazunari Hirano
<http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12298764/> and the victims of earthquake in
Japan.
Every donation <http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html> 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 releasehas been announced
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Translation_for_3.4>.
Translation deadline for release 3.4 is April 27th. Don't miss it!

Tips & Tricks

*About: Different Ways to View Slides in OOo Impress*
Use the view that works best for You. Read More »
<http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/openofficeimpress/ig/OpenOffice-Slide-Views/>

*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 »
<http://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/change-autocorrect-options-in-openoffice-writer/>

*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 »
<http://www.ehow.com/how_6622594_can-make-posters-openoffice_.html>

*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 »
<http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/publishing/articles/112048.aspx>

*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 »
<http://www.worldstart.com/openoffice-org-gallery-display-relocation/>

*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 »
<http://www.herongyang.com/PKI/Digital-Signature-OpenOffice-org-3.html>

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 »
<http://homembit.com/2011/03/odf-12-is-finished.html>

*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 »
<http://www.osor.eu/news/eu-european-parliamentarians-participate-in-document-freedom-day>

*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 »
<http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dmahugh/archive/2011/03/16/change-tracking-in-odf.aspx>

this issue

* Notes from the Projects <#Council>
* Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
* OpenDocument (ODF) <#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 » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>

News to Spread ?

SpreadtheNewsPlease send news clippings to :
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openoffice.org <mailto:dev< at >marketing.openoffice.org><#>

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OpenOffice.org Newsletter - March 2011

Kay Koll — 2011-03-14T15:11:17

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>


        March 2011


    Share your awesome documents!

OpenOffice.org gives you the power to make great documents: functional 
and good looking. Let others know how amazing documents can look. Upload 
your documents to the Template Repository 
<http://templates.services.openoffice.org> and inspire other 
OpenOffice.org users.

Do you like to write articles or short manuals?
Here's your chance to do it hands-on. Join the Marketing Project 
<http://marketing.openoffice.org>.
It is important, fun work and it looks good on your résumé.

Would you like to see OpenOffice.org speak your language?
The Localization Project <http://l10n.openoffice.org/> welcomes language 
contributors in the areas of translation, review and testing.

Don't be shy. Start volunteering today!

*Find out how to contribute <http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html>
Do not miss the videos on Facebook 
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg-How-to-contribute/165622009630>* 



    Notes from Community Projects

*Welcome at the OpenOffice.org site based on Project Kenai*

The move to the new framework is finished 
<http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home>. Registered users 
have already received a notification email.
Please send us any feedback on the new platform.

The project page <http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home> 
provides useful information about data migration and pointers to 
feedback channels.

Test Case Management Tool has moved to a new infrastructure

The Test Case Management tool 
<http://quaste.services.openoffice.org/tcm/tcm_login.cgi?tcm_config=newooo>, 
shortly known as TCM, has moved to the integrated infrastructure of OOo. 
TCM - which hosts l10n test cases to quality assure the language versions.

*Alpha Release 3.4 is ready testing and localization
*

On the way to the 3.4 release, the Alpha release 
<http://download.openoffice.org/next/> is ready to testing and 
localization. Use the feature list 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.4> 
for testing of the new features or for translation purposes.

back to top <#top>


    Featured News

OSOR.EU: Estonia: Ministry saves millions by using open source office

The Estonian Environment Ministry has saved millions of Euros over the 
past ten years by using OpenOffice.org says Meelis Merilo, the head of 
the IT department at the Ministry. Read More » 
<http://www.osor.eu/news/ee-ministry-saves-millions-by-using-open-source-office>

back to top <#top>


    Tips & Tricks

WikiHow: How to Add Clip Art to OpenOffice.org

Learn how to easily add great Clip Art free of charge. Read More » 
<http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Clipart-to-OpenOffice.org>

OOOTNT: 3D Stereoscopic Text in Draw

If you are happy enough to own anaglyphic glasses with colors in red and 
cyan, you can easily create your own 3D text scenes in Draw Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/3d_stereoscopic_text_in_draw>

OnlineTechTips: Export a Writer Document as a PDF

Learn how to export an OOo Writer document as a PDF.
Read More » 
<http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Editing_using_open_office>

WorldStart.com:  Writer: Quickly Creating a Sheet of Labels

Learn how to create a sheet of blank labels in a word processing program 
like Writer. Read More » 
<http://www.worldstart.com/create-a-sheet-of-labels-in-openoffice-writer/>

WorldStart.com:  Selecting Blocks of Text in Writer

When we select text in OOo Writer, we're used to the selection starting 
at one point and then proceeding down (or up, depending upon the way you 
drag your mouse) across entire lines... like this. Read More » 
<http://www.worldstart.com/selecting-blocks-of-text-in-openoffice-writer/>

GullFOSS:  ODF Mime Type Icons Redesign

The iTeam has been working through the issue and one particularly 
significant change in design was agreed upon in order to reach the 
required usability improvements. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/odf_mime_type_icons_redesign>

GullFOSS:  FreeBSD release builds now available as RCs

Installation sets and language packs for FreeBSD are available for a 
longer time, but were a bit hidden for the public. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/freebsd_release_builds_now_available>

back to top <#top>


    OpenDocument (ODF)

ODF PLUGFEST UK FEBRUARY 24/25 - MAIDENHEAD - Report

The 5th Open Document format (ODF) Plugfest was held in Maidenhead last 
week. Normally these events only attract an audience of the committed 
technical experts who work together in the area of open standards and 
open source software (OSS). However, this time there was a difference. 
Read More » 
<http://www.openforumeurope.org/data/odf/odf-plugfests/odf-plugfest-uk-2013-february-24-25-maidenhead>

The H: Latvia: ODF Acceptance Mandatory

A Latvian government official had made the announcement that, from now 
on, all government departments in Latvia must accept documents in ODF 
Read More » 
<http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Latvia-ODF-acceptance-mandatory-1173340.html>

back to top <#top>




        this issue

    * Notes from the Projects
      <#Council>
    * Featured News <#Features>
    * Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
    * OpenDocument (ODF) <#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 » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>


      News to Spread ?

SpreadtheNewsPlease send news clippings to :
dev< at >marketing.
openoffice.org <mailto:dev< at >marketing.openoffice.org><#>


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OpenOffice.org Newsletter - January 2011

Kay Koll — 2011-01-28T11:08:46

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>


        January 2011


    OpenOffice.org 3.3 available for download

The OpenOffice.org Community announced the release of the latest version 
of OpenOffice.org. Version 3.3 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 
<http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.3/index.html>

Download OpenOffice.org 3.3 <http://download.openoffice.org>


    Get involved and help millions of users worldwide!

Contributing to OpenOffice.org is an easy way to make an impact on 
millions of users worldwide. Do you have awesome tips? Are you good at 
languages? Here are two examples of easy ways of helping other and 
making OpenOffice.org better:

Do you like to write articles or short manuals?
The Documentation Project <http://documentation.openoffice.org/> is 
always looking for new and exciting articles.

Would you like to see OpenOffice.org speak your language?
The Localization Project <http://l10n.openoffice.org/> welcomes language 
contributors in the areas of translation, review and testing.

Don't be shy. Start volunteering today!

*Find out how to contribute <http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html>
Do not miss the videos on Facebook 
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg-How-to-contribute/165622009630>* 



    Notes from Community Projects

*OpenOffice.org Site is moving to New Infrastructure*

We are preparing the move of the OpenOffice.org main site to a new 
infrastructure. Project Kenai provides the framework that is already the 
basis for sites like kenai.com <http://kenai.com>, odftoolkit.org 
<http://odftoolkit.org> and major parts of netbeans.org 
<http://netbeans.org> andjava.net <http://java.net>.

A staging site <http://testopenoffice.org> allows a preliminary insight. 
For more information on how a Kenai-based site works, about the data 
migration and feedback channels visit the project page 
<http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home>.

Improved Localization Process thanks to the Continuous L10n

The OOo process has been changed into a continuous process that enables 
l10n turnarounds cycles at every milestone. This process was presented 
<http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/207> at the 
OOoConf In Budapest: and is the outcome of Gregor Hartmann, Ivo 
Hinkelmann and Rafaella Braconi working on the so called "Continuous 
L10n" project. Read More » 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ContinuousL10n>

New Pootle Server

An upgraded version of the Pootle Server has been set up on a new 
powerful machine exclusively dedicated to the l10n project. This has 
increased the performance and translation process. Read More » 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NewPootleServer>

back to top <#top>


    Featured News

Developer: Cuba Migrating to Open Source Linux and OOo

The government of Cuba has set a strategic goal in 2011 to migrate most 
of its computers to open source software. Read More » 
<http://www.developer.com/daily_news/cuba-migrating-to-open-source-linux-and-openoffice.html>

back to top <#top>


    Tips & Tricks

ubuntuforum: HOWTO: Create a Recipe Cookbook in OOo

This HOWTO: will guide you through the process creating a Recipe 
Cookbook in OOo. Read More » 
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1638893>

wikieducator: Wiki Editing using OpenOffice.org Writer

Open Office is an ideal way for new WikiEducators to get started with 
content development right away. Read More » 
<http://wikieducator.org/Wikieducator_tutorial/Editing_using_open_office>

Online Tech Tips:  Track Changes Made to a Writer Document

Learn how to turn on and use the track changes feature in OOo Writer. 
Read More » 
<http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/track-changes-made-to-an-openoffice-writer-document/>

Online Tech Tips:  Turn On Security Options and Warnings

OOo Writer has a number of security options and warnings to help protect 
you. Read More » 
<http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/turn-on-security-options-and-warnings-in-openoffice-writer/>

World Start:  Printing a Worksheet Just Like You See It On The Screen

Sometimes I find that in order to accurately edit something, I need to 
see it in hard copy form... Read More » 
<http://www.worldstart.com/printing-a-worksheet-in-openoffice-calc/>

back to top <#top>


    OpenDocument (ODF)

Open Document Format Plugfest coming to the UK

The event, which will take place on the 24th and the 25th of February at 
the Maidenhead Town Hall in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, 
Read More » 
<http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Open-Document-Format-Plugfest-coming-to-the-UK-1154323.html>

back to top <#top>




        this issue

    * Notes from the Projects
      <#Council>
    * Featured News <#Features>
    * Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
    * OpenDocument (ODF) <#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 » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>


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The OpenOffice.org Community Announces the Release of OpenOffice.org 3.3

Peter Junge — 2011-01-27T08:28:26

*OpenOffice.org 3.3 Ready for Download*

--Free Productivity Suite Used by More than 100 Million Now Includes
Enterprise Features--

Hamburg, Germany, 26 January 2011--- The OpenOffice.org Project today
announces the release of OpenOffice.org 3.3, which includes features and
improvements addressing current and future user requirements, regardless
of scale. Stepping into a new arena, OpenOffice.org 3.3 brings to
enterprise users, both in public and private sectors, improved
compatibility with Microsoft Office, spreadsheet and presentation
enhancements, and superior security and collaboration options. A full
list of what the Project's Community have accomplished can be found at
<http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.3/>.

OpenOffice.org 3.3 marks a milestone in the suite's maturation. Ten
years after the Project was initiated, the suite has grown from being
the “free alternative” to the default and even preferred choice for the
more than one hundred million who have come to value the quality,
reliability, and extensibility of the application, as well as the
flexibility given by the the suite's file format, the OpenDocument
Format (ODF), the leading open standard for office documents.

To download OpenOffice.org 3.3 for free: <http://download.openoffice.org/>

There is a lot that is new and enhanced in OpenOffice.org 3.3. But not
least, it is also simply faster, both in startup time and in overall
operation. Some of the of new elements include:
 * embedded standard PDF fonts
 * new document security and collaboration options
 * provisions for one million rows in a spreadsheet
 * new options for CSV (Comma Separated Value) import in Calc
 * ability to insert drawing objects in Charts
 * improved slide layout handling in Impress
 * a common search toolbar

Andrew Southworth, Network Coordinator, Canadian Labour Congress, wrote,
“It's never been just about the savings. The Canadian Labour Congress
selected OpenOffice.org in support of what it does and how it goes about
doing it. It's the full support of the ODF that frees us from committing
to any one vendor. And it's the extensions, the enterprise elements and
the open-source code that gives all those we represent and work with in
Canada, from schools to hospitals to libraries to private sector
corporations the freedom of real productivity — without being locked
into a particular company's vision of how you should work. Saving money
on software is great. But OpenOffice.org, with its support of the ODF,
is more than about the bottom line. It's about the freedom to choose the
best.”

A full guide to new features is available at
<http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.3/>. The security
bulletin with full details of the potential vulnerabilities fixed is at
<http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html>.

OpenOffice.org is fully supported by the worldwide Community and by
professional companies, both large and small. Oracle proudly continues
the sponsorship of the Project building the application and welcomes
contributions from all.

* Press Kit: OpenOffice.org <http://marketing.openoffice.org/press_kit.html>

* The Case for OpenOffice.org: <http://why.openoffice.org>

** Contact
Peter Junge (UTC +08h00), Beijing, China
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
pj < at > openoffice.org

- International Marketing Contacts:
<http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html>
 
**About OpenOffice.org**
The OpenOffice.org Project is composed of an international team of
volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, translate, document,
support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite,
OpenOffice.org®. The Project, sponsored by Oracle, spans the globe, and
its community includes members from all sectors. Thanks to the efforts
of the Community, OpenOffice.org software may be downloaded and used
entirely free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial. All are
encouraged to join the Community and participate in the making and
promotion of the suite and file format.

OpenOffice.org software uses the OpenDocument Format OASIS Standard
(ISO/IEC 26300), as well as supporting file formats used by such as
Microsoft Office, and is available on major computing platforms in over
100 languages. OpenOffice.org software is provided under the GNU Lesser
General Public License version 3 (LGPL v.3). It offers all users the
license of using what works and working with what's there, all for free.

OpenOffice.org Newsletter - December 2010

Kay Koll — 2010-12-08T13:36:58

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>


        December 2010


    You can help the community. It is easy and fun!

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:

Hunting issues is fun!
You hate ignoring issues?  Help us to get them fixed.
Join the QA project 
<http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/Docs/QA-Reloaded-HowToStart.html>!

Would you like to see OpenOffice.org speak your language?
The Localization Project <http://l10n.openoffice.org/> welcomes language 
contributors in the areas of translation, review and testing.

Don't be shy. Start volunteering today!

*Find out how to contribute <http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html>
Do not miss the videos on Facebook 
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg-How-to-contribute/165622009630>* 



    This month in the Community Council

    * Stefan Taxhet took over the role to lead the task to define a new
      communication and collaboration strategy.
    * NLC project <http://native-lang.openoffice.org/> applied an
      "Inactive Projects" status for mothballed projects.
    * Andreas Bartel reported that a new iTeam
      <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF_icons_i-team> was
      created to work on the icons.
    * OOo Internship Project 2010
      <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Internship>
      ended at Nov 14th. All agreed that it was a successful project
      that we should repeat. The project summary will be available soon.

The Community Council minutes are available here 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Minutes>.

back to top <#top>


    Featured News

Rob Weir: The Legacy of OpenOffice.org

When I hear the word "fork", I reach for my gun.  OK.  Maybe it is not 
that bad.  But in the open source world, "fork" is a loaded term.  It 
can, of course, be an expression of a basic open source freedom.
<http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoffice-org.html>Read 
More » 
<http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoffice-org.html>

OSOR: Scientific study into migration proves value of open source

Martti Karjalainen, who studied one of Europe's largest open source 
transitions, concludes that a large-scale migration to an open source 
office suite is feasible, resulting in substantial benefits, including 
cost savings. Read More » 
<http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-scientific-study-into-migration-proves-value-of-open-source>

SkylineView: Openoffice.org: Never buy Microsoft Office again

It's midnight, and I'm freaking out. I suddenly realized at the very 
last moment that the PowerPoint presentation I had been working on my 
school's computer won't work on my PC at home for one large reason: I 
don't have a copy of PowerPoint installed. Read More » 
<http://www.theskylineview.com/opinion/openoffice-org-never-buy-microsoft-office-again-1.1745893>

GullFOSS: gbuild: To boldly go where no build system has gone before ...

Since the first announcement of plans to replace the old build.pl/dmake 
build system with a new solution, one of the focus points was the 
correct handling of dependencies. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/gbuild_to_boldy_go_where>

GullFOSS: Initializing an I-Team for the improvement of the ODF-icons

Since the release of OpenOffice.org 3.2 we received a lot of very 
qualified feedback for the new ODF icons. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/initializing_an_i_team_for>

GullFOSS: New Chart features in OO.o 3.3 Beta (3 parts)

Series of three blogs about the new features in Chart.
First 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_chart_features_in_openoffice3>, 
Second 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_chart_features_in_openoffice4> 
and Third 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_chart_features_in_openoffice5> 
article

back to top <#top>


    Tips & Tricks

wikiHow: How to Add Clipart to OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a great, free, office suite. Learn how to add new 
Cliparts to OpenOffice,org. Read More » 
<http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Clipart-to-OpenOffice.org>

GullFOSS: Increased flexibility in choosing OOo installation path on 
Windows

Starting with OpenOffice.org 3.3, it is possible again to modify the 
complete installation path on Windows, including the directory 
"OpenOffice.org 3 Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/increased_flexibility_in_choosing_ooo>

eHow How to Export a PostScript in OpenOffice.org

You can save your OOo files into PostScript ".ps" format.
Read More » 
<http://www.ehow.com/how_7423452_export-postscript-openoffice.html>

back to top <#top>


    OpenDocument (ODF)

NLnet foundation sees ODF as a key technology for the future of our society

ODF spawned a collective move away from company-dictated file formats 
that can only be adequately opened by a single application from a single 
vendor. Read More » <http://www.nlnet.nl/themes/2008odf/>

Implementation of OOXML: What Governments Need to Know

OOXML Confusion Derives from Creation through the ISO/IEC Approval 
Process to Today's Multiple Versions. Read More » 
<http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/OOXML_GovsNeedKnow_Oct2010.pdf>

back to top <#top>




        In this issue

    * Notes from the Council <#Council>
    * Featured News <#Features>
    * Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
    * OpenDocument (ODF) <#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 » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>


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OpenOffice.org Newsletter - October 2010

Kay Koll — 2010-10-24T09:06:23

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>

October 2010

Oracle Demonstrates Continued Support for OpenOffice.org

Oracle underlined that it maintains support for the leading ODF-Based
Open Source Productivity Suite and further demonstrated its commitment
to the OpenOffice.org community. Read More »
<http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/177158>

10^th Anniversary of OpenOffice.org

Ten years ago, on 13 October 2000, Sun released the source code to
StarOffice under open-source licenses. Formidable in size and complexity
and positioned against a seemingly overwhelmingly dominant competitor,
OpenOffice.orgBirthday Cake <http://www.openoffice.org> was seen as at
best, foolish, at worse, boring, fit only for office drones. Browsers,
it was said, have more fun.
But we, the OpenOffice.org project community, showed these skeptics to
be wrong. We showed the world that a free office productivity suite
using open standards, especially what later came to be known as the
OpenDocument Format (ODF), is more desirable, more powerful, and more
transformative than any browser could be. We, the OpenOffice.org project
community, gave the world a set of tools that allows all to participate
as equals in the fields of commerce, science, education, government, to
name but a few.
We have given the world the tools to do things and to work together.
With OpenOffice.org, people produce - and their productions are theirs
to keep and do with as they will. That is real freedom.

It is a freedom that today perhaps 100 million people enjoy. In some
regions, our product's usage is greater than 20 percent of the office
suite userbase. How have we done this? And without spending the expected
billions on advertising and other marketing efforts? To a great extent,
OpenOffice.org, the application made by us, the community, sells itself,
and its good news is spread through word of mouth, not via billboards
and the like. Its professional quality and performance is tremendously
persuasive. OpenOffice.org works on all platforms and in over a hundred
languages, and perhaps most important, it also works well with other
suites: our code and our use of the ODF means there is no vendor
lock-in. Users, from those in government offices to individuals at home,
are free to choose what is best for them without the anxiety they'll be
stuck with something they do not much like but costs a lot.

They have chosen OpenOffice.org, and we are sure they will continue to
do so in even greater numbers over the next ten years. They choose it
today it not simply because it costs them nothing to download from our
site, but because of its professional quality and flexibility - as well
as its reassuring consistency. Over the last ten years, we have
regularly released small and large versions incorporating new features,
functionality, and design, all tested and qualified for any user
environment. This fall, we are releasing OpenOffice.org 3.3, and the
beta is available for community testing. Expect more releases-and also a
lot more extensions.

With extensions, there is virtually no limit to what the application can
do, and every day the community makes more available under a variety of
licenses. These address individual, as well as enterprise, needs.
Support, services, and training, offered by Oracle and other large and
small companies, is globally available in a host of languages; these all
complement the free community support and constitute a portion of the
large and growing OpenOffice.org ecosystem.
And our momentum is building, as the size and complexity of the
community contributing to the project grows and as more see in
OpenOffice.org a future they want to be part of. It's a future of
freedom that we commit to, as a community that includes Oracle as well
other enterprises, and countless thousands of independent contributors.

Our first ten years have proven the strength of our vision and
technology against every imaginable challenge; the next - well, who can
say? Only this: we commit to making the tools of productivity, growing
the community, and improving the product - open to all to inspect, use,
improve, distribute, and we invite the world to join us in our commitment.

Look-out

The OpenOffice.org Community has almost finalized release 3.3 and has
started with the work next release with focus on usability improvements
(=> Project Renaissance
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance>), compatibility,
and enterprise integration.

This month in the Community Council

* Jürgen Schmidt has finalized the work of the Community Council
communication
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Meeting_Guidelines>
guide lines
* Collaboration with Community improvement
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/collaboration_in_the_OOo-community>
project has been initiated. Volunteers wanted

The Community Council minutes are available here
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Minutes>.

Tips & Tricks

Online TechTips: Add a Header to an OOo Writer Document

Some features in Writer, OpenOffice.org's word processing application,
operate differently than they do in Microsoft Word. Learn how to add a
header to an Writer Document. Read More »
<http://www.online-tech-tips.com/ms-office-tips/add-a-header-to-an-openoffice-writer-document/>

Linux Journal: Interactions Between Programs

...the complete OpenOffice.org is much smaller than any version of MS
Office (and that you don't save nearly the space you expect by
installing only the components you actually use). Read More »
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-interactions-between-programs>

eHow: How to Compress Photos in OpenOffice.org

Keeping these files at a manageable size is important for efficiency of
data transfer and minimal use of storage space. A file that can be read
by many operating systems for free is useless if it's too huge to send
efficiently. Read More »
<http://www.ehow.com/how_7252376_compress-photos-openoffice.html>

WorldStart.com: Using the Delete Key in OpenOffice.org Calc

Have you tried the Delete key when using OOo Calc?
What happened?
Well, that depends upon where you were... Read More »
<http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/using-the-delete-button-in-openoffice-calc>

Linux Magazine: Add Instant Word Count Feature to OOo Writer

While the Writer's Tools extension for OOo is developed and maintained
by your truly includes the Visual Word Count tool, it does have one
serious drawback: it uses a modal window, i.e., you can't do anything
until you close the Visual Word Count window
Read More »
<http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Add-Instant-Word-Count-Feature-to-OpenOffice.org-Writer>

Linux User: OOo Base -- No Frills Document Management

A no-frills personal document management system can come in handy in
many situations. Read on to find out how OpenOffice.org Base can really
come into its own... Read More »
<http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/openoffice-org-base-no-frills-document-management/>

eHow: How to Add Across Multiple Sheets

The application allows you to take one sheet of data and add it to
another sheet of data. Combining data sheets sounds like a tricky task.
Read More »
<http://www.ehow.com/how_7194973_add-across-multiple-sheets-openoffice.html>

OpenDocument (ODF)

FFII: European Parliament wants Open Document exchange format for
electronic business

Today the European Parliament plenary adopted a report on completing the
internal market for e-commerce prepared by Spanish rapporteur Pablo
Arias Echeverría (EPP). Read More »
<https://press.ffii.org/Press%20releases/European%20Parliament%20wants%20Open%20Document%20exchange%20format%20for%20electronic%20business>

Interop Demo Illustrates Breadth and Power of ODF to Handle Enterprise,
Academic and Gov. Needs

Last week, OASIS held the ODF 1.2 Interoperability Demonstration to
showcase support for ODF 1.2 and the interoperability across eight
implementations. The Demo showcased both open source and commercial
software applications processing ODF documents
Read More »
<http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/interop_demo_illustrates_breadth_and_power_of_odf_to_handle_enterprise_acad>

Trond's: Defining Open standards

I have met those who claim defining open standards is next to impossible
and hurts innovation. Neither is true. Usually, those who say it is hard
to do have something to lose. Like a monopoly or something. Or, could it
be that they find it hard but others find it easy? Read More »
<http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/2010/09/defining_open_standards.html>

In this issue

* Notes from the Council <#Council>
* Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
* OpenDocument (ODF) <#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 » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>

ODF Plugfest in Brussels

This international plugfest will be held in Brussels on the 14th and
15th of October 2010.
Read More » <http://www.odfplugfest.be/>

OpenOffice.org Hackfest 2010

The hackfest in Hamburg targets primarily developers, to have fun and
work together on the source code. Read more here
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Hackfest2010> and here
<http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/09/24/more-about-the-openofficeorg-hackfest/>.

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OpenOffice.org Newsletter - October 2010

Kay Koll — 2010-10-24T09:06:23

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>

October 2010

Oracle Demonstrates Continued Support for OpenOffice.org

10^th Anniversary of OpenOffice.org

Look-out

This month in the Community Council

The Community Council minutes are available here
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Minutes>.

Tips & Tricks

Online TechTips: Add a Header to an OOo Writer Document

Linux Journal: Interactions Between Programs

eHow: How to Compress Photos in OpenOffice.org

WorldStart.com: Using the Delete Key in OpenOffice.org Calc

Linux Magazine: Add Instant Word Count Feature to OOo Writer

Linux User: OOo Base -- No Frills Document Management

eHow: How to Add Across Multiple Sheets

OpenDocument (ODF)

FFII: European Parliament wants Open Document exchange format for
electronic business

Interop Demo Illustrates Breadth and Power of ODF to Handle Enterprise,
Academic and Gov. Needs

Trond's: Defining Open standards

In this issue

* Notes from the Council <#Council>
* Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
* OpenDocument (ODF) <#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 » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>

ODF Plugfest in Brussels

This international plugfest will be held in Brussels on the 14th and
15th of October 2010.
Read More » <http://www.odfplugfest.be/>

OpenOffice.org Hackfest 2010

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Ten Years: OpenOffice.org

Louis Suarez-Potts — 2010-10-14T21:55:22

All, a belated happy birthday!

But we, the OpenOffice.org project community, showed these skeptics to be wrong. We showed the world that a free office productivity suite using open standards, especially what later came to be known as the OpenDocument Format (ODF), is more desirable, more powerful, and more transformative than any browser could be. We, the OpenOffice.org project community, gave the world a set of tools that allows all to participate as equals in the fields of commerce, science, education, government, to name but a few.

We have given the world the tools to do things and to work together. With OpenOffice.org, people produce - and their productions are theirs to keep and do with as they will. That is real freedom.

It is a freedom that today perhaps 100 million people enjoy. In some regions, our product's usage is greater than 20 percent of the office suite userbase. How have we done this? And without spending the expected billions on advertising and other marketing efforts? To a great extent, OpenOffice.org, the application made by us, the community, sells itself, and its good news is spread through word of mouth, not via billboards and the like. Its professional quality and performance is tremendously persuasive. OpenOffice.org works on all platforms and in over a hundred languages, and perhaps most important, it also works well with other suites: our code and our use of the ODF means there is no vendor lock-in. Users, from those in government offices to individuals at home, are free to choose what is best for them without the anxiety they'll be stuck with something they do not much like but costs a lot.

They have chosen OpenOffice.org, and we are sure they will continue to do so in even greater numbers over the next ten years. They choose it today it not simply because it costs them nothing to download from our site, but because of its professional quality and flexibility - as well as its reassuring consistency. Over the last ten years, we have regularly released small and large versions incorporating new features, functionality, and design, all tested and qualified for any user environment. This fall, we are releasing OpenOffice.org 3.3, and the beta is available for community testing. Expect more releases-and also a lot more extensions.

And our momentum is building, as the size and complexity of the community contributing to the project grows and as more see in OpenOffice.org a future they want to be part of. It's a future of freedom that we commit to, as a community that includes Oracle as well other enterprises, and countless thousands of independent contributors.

Our first ten years have proven the strength of our vision and technology against every imaginable challenge; the next - well, who can say? Only this: we commit to making the tools of productivity, growing the community, and improving the product - open to all to inspect, use, improve, distribute, and we invite the world to join us in our commitment.

Happy Birthday, OpenOffice.org!

On behalf of the OpenOffice.org Project,

Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Development Manager
OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation — 2010-09-28T06:58:32

OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation

The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project

The Internet, September 28, 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a major change in the project’s structure. After ten years’ successful growth with Sun Microsystems as founding and principle sponsor, the project launches an independent foundation called "The Document Foundation", to fulfil the promise of independence written in the original charter.

The Foundation will be the cornerstone of a new ecosystem where individuals and organisations can contribute to and benefit from the availability of a truly free office suite. It will generate increased competition and choice for the benefit of customers and drive innovation in the office suite market. From now on, the OpenOffice.org community will be known as "The Document Foundation".

Oracle, who acquired OpenOffice.org assets as a result of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, has been invited to become a member of the new Foundation, and donate the brand the community has grown during the past ten years. Pending this decision, the brand "LibreOffice" has been chosen for the software going forward.

The Document Foundation is the result of a collective effort by leading independent members of the OpenOffice.org community, including several project leads and key members of the Community Council. It will be led initially by a Steering Committee of developers and national language projects managers. The Foundation aims to lower the barrier of adoption for both users and developers, to make LibreOffice the most accessible office suite ever.

The Foundation will coordinate and oversee the development of LibreOffice, which is available in beta version at the placeholder site: http://www.libreoffice.org. Developers are invited to join the project and contribute to the code in the new friendly and open environment, to shape the future of office productivity suites alongside contributors who translate, test, document, support, and promote the software.

Speaking for the group of volunteers, Sophie Gautier - a veteran of the community and the former maintainer of the French speaking language project - has declared: "We believe that the Foundation is a key step for the evolution of the free office suite, as it liberates the development of the code and the evolution of the project from the constraints represented by the commercial interests of a single company. Free software advocates around the world have the extraordinary opportunity of joining the group of founding members today, to write a completely new chapter in the history of FLOSS".

FSF President Richard Stallman welcomed LibreOffice release and it's stated policy of only recommending free software. "I'm very pleased that the Document Foundation will not recommend nonfree add-ons, since they are the main freedom problem of the current OpenOffice.org. I hope that the LibreOffice developers and the Oracle-employed developers of OpenOffice will be able to cooperate on development of the body of the code".

"The Document Foundation supports the Open Document Format, and is keen to work at OASIS to the next evolution of the ISO standard", says Charles Schulz, member of the Community Council and lead of the Native Language Confederation. "The Document Foundation brings to the table the point of view of developers, supporters and users, and this might accelerate the adoption process of ODF at government and enterprise level".

Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs Manager at Google, Inc., has commented: "The creation of The Document Foundation is a great step forward in encouraging further development of open source office suites. Having a level playing field for all contributors is fundamental in creating a broad and active community around an open source software project. Google is proud to be a supporter of The Document Foundation and participate in the project".

"Viva la LibreOffice", said Guy Lunardi, product management Director at Novell. "We look forward to working with the Document Foundation to help develop a solid open source document software offering. Ultimately, we envision LibreOffice do for the office productivity market what Mozilla Firefox has done for browsers".

Jan Wildeboer, EMEA Open Source Affairs at Red Hat, has commented: "All over the world, users, companies and governments are moving to innovative technology solutions based on Open Standards. Red Hat is proud to join this effort".

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and major shareholder of Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, has declared: "Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu. The Document Foundation's stewardship of LibreOffice provides Ubuntu developers an effective forum for collaboration around the code that makes Ubuntu an effective solution for the desktop in office environments".

"The Open Source Initiative has observed a trend back towards open collaborative communities for open source software", said Simon Phipps, a Director of the Open Source Initiative. "We welcome The Document Foundation initiative and look forward to the innovation it is able to drive with a truly open community gathered around a free software commons, in the spirit of the best of open source software".

"We welcome the LibreOffice project to the free software community as we believe there is a great opportunity for them to enrich the free desktop experience." says Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. "Over the years the GNOME community has been supportive of OpenOffice together with applications in the GNOME Office suite, such as Gnumeric, GnuCash and Abiword. As LibreOffice joins the free software community, we believe that free desktop users will benefit from a rich set of choices."

Patrick Luby, Chief Engineer of NeoOffice says "I am happy to see a new, independent LibreOffice foundation to continue creating an office suite with enhanced features, pushing OpenOffice.org in new, exciting directions". Ed Peterlin, Chief Visionary at NeoOffice says "I am excited we will be able to continue bringing excellent features from LibreOffice to the Mac platform. In the future I also hope to extend our web based collaboration tools to support LibreOffice users on all platforms".

Chris Halls, UK Managing Director of Credativ, an independent consulting and services company specialising in the development, implementation and support of open source solutions: "Welcomes the foundation as an opportunity to provide a new focus for the community contributors and allow them to move the project forward together. In our business, we support thousands of office desktops in many different environments. It is vital that the feedback and code that we can contribute as part of our day to day work can flow easily into the project".

"The creation of The Document Foundation is in line with the vision BrOffice.org - Projeto Brasil has for the Brazilian OpenOffice.org community. Our country already has a large investment in the Open Document Format and the software tools fully suporting it. BrOffice.org and The Document Foundation share the same values and objectives and we are more than happy to be part of it.”, says Claudio Filho, Chairman of the BrOffice.org NGO of Brazil.

The Norwegian foundation "Åpne kontorprogram på norsk" ("Open Office Suites In Norwegian") is responsible for the Norwegian translation of OpenOffice.org, and for promoting OpenOffice.org in Norway. So far the Norwegian project has been administered and financed mainly by counties and municipalities, but recently the foundation has started a process for getting commercial companies more actively involved. We realise the need for a more substantial commercial participation to establish a long-term sustainable project. Our foundation notes that the other Nordic countries, a majority of the European countries, as well as a range of worldwide big companies like Google, Novell, Canonical and Red Hat are now cooperating with The Document Foundation. We believe this is the right way forward also for Norway. A cooperation with The Document Foundation will make it easier to create more innovative and user-friendly solutions integrated with the LibreOffice suite. Eliminating license barriers and obtaining easy access to source code and standards will facilitate further development of related and integrated surrounding products.

Additional information, including the mission, are available on the web site of The Document Foundation: http://www.documentfoundation.org
Biographies and pictures of the founding members of The Document Foundation are available here: http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/
There is a specific page for people interested in contributing to the development of the code: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/

The Document Foundation has a Twitter account at http://twitter.com/docufoundation and an Identi.ca account at http://identi.ca/docufoundation

The announcements mailing list is at announce+subscribe< at >documentfoundation.org
The discussion mailing list is at discuss+subscribe< at >documentfoundation.org
The IRC channel is #documentfoundation at irc.freenode.net

The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation is an independent self-governing democratic Foundation created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community. It continues to build on the Foundation of ten years' dedicated work by the OpenOffice.org community, and was created in the belief that an independent Foundation is the best fit to the Community's core values of openness, transparency, and valuing people for their contribution. It is open to any individual who agrees with our core values and contributes to our activities, and welcomes corporate participation, e.g. by sponsoring individuals to work as equals alongside other contributors in the community.

Media Contacts

Florian Effenberger (Germany)
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
Skype: floeff
E-mail: floeff< at >documentfoundation.org

Olivier Hallot (Brazil)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812
E-mail: olivier.hallot< at >documentfoundation.org

Charles H. Schulz (France)
Mobile: +33 6 98655424
E-mail: charles.schulz< at >documentfoundation.org

Italo Vignoli (Italy)
Mobile: +39 348 5653829
E-mail: italo.vignoli< at >documentfoundation.org

OpenOffice.org HackFest 2010

Florian Effenberger — 2010-09-13T11:01:47

Dear OOo hackers,

the OOoCon just ended, and we realize how little time we can spend 
together face2face each year. To properly fix that problem, we hereby 
announce the next event around OpenOffice.org - a HackFest in Hamburg, 
specifically targeted to developers, to give all of us more face time & 
collectively work on the code.

The OpenOffice.org HackFest will take place on the weekend of November 
6./7. 2010 in the "Attraktor" in Hamburg, and a tentative program could 
look like this:

     * Friday night - beer & fun, warming up
     * Saturday morning - Intro talks, Hands-on sessions
     * Saturday afternoon/night - collective hacking, bug fixing
     * Sunday morning - wrap-up, review, document

For those who are in need for a bursary, we have a limited travel 
funding budget available. For sleeping, couchsurfing at the organizers 
is available. Be aware that would be in an unheated loft, so bringing a 
sleeping mat and a good sleeping bag would be essential. For more 
comfortable reasonably priced acommodations see the wiki page at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Sleeping_in_Hamburg

We look forward to meet you there, stay tuned for further announcements 
around programme and sponsoring! To register yourself, just drop a short 
note to hackfest< at >openoffice.org and we'll follow up with further 
information soon.

For more information about the HackFest, please visit our website at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Hackfest2010

Information about the location is available at 
http://wiki.attraktor.org/index.php/Mex

Faithfully, your HackFest organizers

Eike, Florian & Thorsten
hackfest< at >openoffice.org

OpenOffice.org Newsletter - September 2010

Kay Koll — 2010-09-12T16:35:51

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>


        September 2010


    You can help the community. It is easy and fun!

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:

Hunting issues is fun!
You hate ignoring issues?  Help us to get them fixed.
Join the QA project 
<http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/Docs/QA-Reloaded-HowToStart.html>!

Would you like to see OpenOffice.org speak your language?
The Localization project <http://l10n.openoffice.org/> welcomes language 
contributors in the areas of translation, review and testing.

Don't be shy. Start volunteering today!

*Find out how to contribute <http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html>
Do not miss the videos on Facebook 
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg-How-to-contribute/165622009630>* 



    OpenOffice.org Conference 2010 in Budapest

The 2010 OpenOffice.org Conference was taken place with great success 
from August 31st to September 3rd in Budapest.

Reports are available in following blogs :

    * Alexandro Colorado's Blog, Day 1
      <http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/wordpress/?p=803>, Day 2
      <http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/wordpress/?p=805>, Day 3
      <http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/wordpress/?p=812>
    * Danishka Navin
      <http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com/2010/09/oracle-veep-backs-software-revolution.html>
    * Photos the the Group
      <http://tisztaszoftver.blog.hu/2010/09/03/ooocon2010_csoportkep>,
      from KAMI
      <http://tisztaszoftver.blog.hu/2010/09/03/ooocon2010_csoportkep>
      and Jesús Corrius
      <http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcorrius/sets/72157624883185326/>
    * Oracle Office Blog
      <http://blogs.oracle.com/office/2010/09/live_from_the_openofficeorg_conference_in_budapest.html>


    OpenOffice.org Celebrates 10^th Anniversary

The OpenOffice.org Community is turning ten years of age. Launching the 
celebration of a decade of open and free office productivity. Read more 
here 
<http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=426> and 
here 
<http://blogs.oracle.com/office/2010/09/celebrating_10_years_of_openofficeorg_-_congratulations.html> 
and a video of the firework <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKP97vL4zgw>.


    This month in the Community Council

    * Updated the meeting guidelines, change the name of our public
      session and add a note for a public reminder and provide an
      initial template for the reminder.
    * Cor Nouws is preparing a meeting which reflects the current
      Community situation.

The Community Council minutes are available here 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Minutes>.

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    Meet the Community

Stephanie Krishnan (discoveringooo.com)

Contributions: Tutorials, templates, maintaining a Tips & Tricks blog 
<http://www.discoveringooo.com>

I'm passionate about the way that open source software and its community 
can help small businesses and individuals with their productivity and 
lives. I am supporting the implementation and migration in Small & 
Medium Businesses.

Drop <mailto:dev< at >marketing.openoffice.org>us an email 
<mailto:dev< at >marketing.openoffice.org>, with abstract of not more than 50 
words if you want to have your effort dignified

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    Featured News

The H: odt2braille brings Braille to OpenOffice.org

The release of odt2braille by the Belgian university Katholieke 
Universiteit Leuven, has brought the ability to work with Braille to 
OpenOffice.org. The H article 
<http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/odt2braille-brings-Braille-to-OpenOffice-org-1051342.html> 
and Peter Korn's Blog 
<http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/another_release_of_odt2braille_braille>
<http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/odt2braille-brings-Braille-to-OpenOffice-org-1051342.html>

Linux Journal: OpenOffice.org: Oracle PDF Import Extension

The Oracle PDF Import Extension is one of the most popular OOo 
extensions ever created. For the last two years, it has been near the 
top of the list of most popular downloads on the OOo Extensions site. 
Read More » 
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-sun-pdf-import-extension>

Zona-M: OOo Conference 2010: preparing the next ten years

The opening session was a cool moment, both for the location (the 
Hungarian Parliament) and for the content. We started in the very hall 
of the Parliament. Read More » <http://freesoftware.zona-m.net/node/23>

TechRepublic: OOo saves a company budget

This past week I was troubleshooting an issue a client had. This issue 
had been haunting the client for some time and no one could figure out 
what was going on. Here's the scenario. Read More » 
<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1778>

ZDNet UK: Ten future features that will lift OOo

...But starting with version 3.3 --- due for release in the third 
quarter of 2010 this year --- many of those features will start to 
appear. So here are some of the improvements planned for OOo. Read More 
» 
<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/desktop-apps/2010/08/30/ten-future-features-that-will-lift-openoffice-40089920/> 


rd80: OpenOffice.org Review

I are a bit of a cheapskate and when I wanted more features than I get 
with the Works spreadsheet on the home computer, I decided to try the 
OpenOffice.org Productivity Suite. Read More » 
<http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/openoffice-review/436710>

IT World: OpenOffice.org: Still Waiting for Oracle

...Meeks acknowledges that Michael Bemmer indicated that Oracle will 
remain deeply committed to OOo in the keynote, but beyond those broad 
promises, there was little in the way of detail.
Read More » 
<http://www.itworld.com/open-source/119662/openofficeorg-still-waiting-oracle>

GullFOSS: Print file format changes on Linux

The CUPS print system that is used on Linux and other Unix operating 
systems is switching its file format from PostScript to PDF. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/print_file_format_changes_on>

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    Tips & Tricks

Linux Magazine: ?Add a Grammar Checker to OpenOffice.org using the After 
the Deadline Extension

The lack of a grammar checker is a pet peeve of many OOo users. [...] 
The After the Deadline (AtD) extension adds a grammar checking feature 
based on the open source language checking server developed and 
maintained by Automattic Read More » 
<http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce-Dmitri-s-open-source-blend-of-productive-computing/Add-a-Grammar-Checker-to-OpenOffice.org-using-the-After-the-Deadline-Extension>

WorldLabel: Generating labels and business cards in OOo

Despite the fact that open source has specialty label-and-business-card 
programs like gLabels [..], most general office users are going to 
continue to create their documents in the word processor of the office 
suite they feel the most comfortable in, like OOo Writer. Read More » 
<http://blog.worldlabel.com/2010/generating-labels-and-business-cards-in-openoffice-org.html>

eHow How to Remove Hyperlinks in OpenOffice

OOo has the ability to insert hyperlinks within a document's text that, 
when clicked, will send a reader to a particular website. 
<http://www.ehow.com/how_6903850_remove-hyperlinks-openoffice.html>Read 
More » <http://www.ehow.com/how_6903850_remove-hyperlinks-openoffice.html>

ComputerActive: MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org

The MySQL database can then be accessed from the Open database option 
when Base starts. You will need to know the address of the database. 
Read More » 
<http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/downloads/2268864/mysql-connector-openoffice-org>

Solveig Haugland: Converting OOo documents to PDF or HTML, as a batch

You just choose File > Wizard > Web Page to open a whole new world of 
Web publishing, batch conversion to HTML and PDF, and automatic 
formatting. Read More » 
<http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2010/07/converting-openoffice-documents-to-pdf-or-html-as-a-batch.html>

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    OpenDocument (ODF)

OASIS Interoperability Demo

OASIS Interoperability Demo Features Eight Open Source and Commercial 
Implementations of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 on Desktop, Mobile 
Devices, and in the Cloud. Read More » 
<http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis-news-2010-09-02.php>

The Guardian: Councils 'could save at least £51m' with shift to ODF and 
open source

But even greater savings of up to £200m could follow rapidly if all 
staff adopted it, says Liam Maxwell at the Royal Borough of Windsor & 
Maidenhead; but first needs central government mandate.
Read More » 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/aug/26/local-government-spending-open-standards-saving>

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        In this issue

    * Notes from the Council <#Council>
    * Meet the Community <#MeetCommunity>
    * Featured News <#Features>
    * Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
    * OpenDocument (ODF) <#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 » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>

OOo Business & Administration Congress

The call for papers for the OOo Business & Administration Congress has 
been extended to October 1^st . Read More » <http://www.oookwv.de/cfp>

OpenOffice.org Hackfest 2010

The hackfest in Hamburg targets primarily developers, to have fun and 
work together on the source code. Read More » 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Hackfest2010>


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OpenOffice.org Celebrates Tenth Anniversary at OOoCon in Budapest

Florian Effenberger — 2010-08-17T11:23:17

OpenOffice.org Celebrates Tenth Anniversary at OOoCon in Budapest

The OpenOffice.org Community is turning ten years of age. Launching the 
celebration of a decade of open and free office productivity, the 
project's annual conference will take place in the city of Budapest from 
August 31 - September 3. Organized by the local community, supported by 
major sponsors and filled with life by a highly engaged, vivid 
community, the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) is the premier event 
for all those interested in OpenOffice.org development, OpenDocument 
technology and the future of free office software.

Since OpenOffice.org was created in 2000, the community behind the 
software has shaped a new era of open and free office productivity and 
is responsible for the creation and adoption of open standards. With 
studies showing more than 20 percent market share, coupled with an 
increasing number of governments, enterprises and private end-users 
taking advantage of OpenOffice.org technology, this year's conference 
will not only be our annual gathering for developers, adopters, 
enthusiasts and evangelists, but also the start to well-earned 
celebrations in local communities around the world.

At the event, attendees will find:
     * More than 100 speakers will present their thoughts and visions in 
four parallel sessions.
     * An ODF 1.2 Interop Demo. Hosted by OASIS, the international open 
standards consortium, the ODF 1.2 Interop will showcase applications 
processing ODF documents on the desktop, in the cloud and on mobile devices.
     * More than 80 presentations will show the variety of the community 
and highlight worldwide success stories.

"Our team has been working very hard to make this anniversary conference 
the best OOoCon ever", says Péter Szakál from Open SKM, the team lead 
for the Budapest organizational committee in charge of hosting the 
event. "With the help of our sponsors, and with the support of not only 
the local community, but the worldwide project, we're looking forward to 
an extraordinary event in the capital of Hungary. Framed by many 
community events, we're confident that the OpenOffice.org Conference 
2010 will be a memorable event for everyone."

"For 10 years, OpenOffice.org has powered millions of users around the 
world with an award-winning, easy-to-use office productivity suite," 
said Michael Bemmer, vice president of Oracle Office. "At Oracle, we are 
proud to be the primary contributor to OpenOffice.org, as well as a 
Platinum sponsor of this year's OpenOffice.org conference and we eagerly 
look to passing yet more milestones."

Today, OpenOffice.org is the major open source office suite and one of 
the largest open source projects worldwide with
     * over 43 million downloads of its current 3.2 version
     * more than 300 million downloads since the project's creation in 2000
     * support for all major platforms
     * 10 years of community experience
     * more than 90 languages available

This year's OpenOffice.org Conference takes place from August 31 - 
September 3, at the Central European University in Budapest, with the 
plenary session being held at the Hungarian Parliament. The event is 
organized by ODFA Hungary, a nonprofit organization, with support from 
sponsors IBM, Multiracio, Oracle and in joint cooperation with the 
worldwide OpenOffice.org community.

Registration is open until the end of August, and all participants are 
encouraged to register online at http://www.ooocon.org


Web Links

OpenOffice.org: http://www.openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Conference: http://www.ooocon.org
Market Share Study: 
http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html
Download Statistics: http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html


Global Contacts

Florian Effenberger (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
Email: floeff< at >openoffice.org
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
Fax: +49 8341 99660889
Skype: floeff
Twitter/identi.ca: < at >floeff

Peter Junge (UTC +08h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
Email: pj< at >openoffice.org
Phone: +86 139 116 248 54
Fax: +49 3212 106 44 65
Skype: peter13j

Louis Suárez-Potts (UTC -05h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
Email: louis< at >openoffice.org
Phone: +1 (416) 625-3843

A list of worldwide marketing contacts is available at 
http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html


About OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is the leading open source productivity suite and one of 
the largest open source projects worldwide. It includes word processing, 
spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, database, and other modules; it uses 
the ISO-approved OpenDocument Format (ODF) as its native file format as 
well as supporting other common file formats. The software runs on all 
major platforms, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X and is 
available in over 90 languages. OpenOffice.org may be used free of 
charge for any purpose, private or commercial; the license is LGPL.

Since the project's creation in 2000, over 300 million have downloaded 
the product; thousands contribute to it. As an international team of 
volunteer and sponsored contributors, the OpenOffice.org community has 
created what is widely regarded as the most important open source 
project in the world today. The OpenOffice.org community acknowledges 
generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Oracle, the 
primary contributor.


About the OpenOffice.org Conference

This annual gathering is where representatives of all the community 
projects meet to celebrate and learn from the achievements of the past 
twelve months, and discuss how to meet the challenges of the next 
twelve. Come along and help the community to make the world's best 
open-source international office suite even better.

OpenOffice.org Newsletter - August 2010

Kay Koll — 2010-08-13T08:37:08

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>


        AUGUST 2010


    You can help the community. It is easy and fun!

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:

Hunting issues is fun!
You hate ignoring issues?  Help us to get them fixed.
Join the QA project 
<http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/Docs/QA-Reloaded-HowToStart.html>!

Would you like to see OpenOffice.org speak your language?
The Localization project <http://l10n.openoffice.org/> welcomes language 
contributors in the areas of translation, review and testing.

Don't be shy. Start volunteering today!

*Find out how to contribute <http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html>
Do not miss the videos on Facebook 
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg-How-to-contribute/165622009630>* 



    OpenOffice.org Conference 2010 in Budapest

The 2010 OpenOffice.org Conference will take place from August 31st to 
September 3rd in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
Come and join us for OOoCon in our 10th anniversary year!
Read More » <http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010>


    OpenOffice.org 3.3 Beta Release Available

This first preview is for everyone interested in the new features and 
enhancements 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.3> of 
the upcoming 3.3 release which is expected later this year. The beta 
release download is available here 
<http://download.openoffice.org/all_beta.html>.


    This month in the Community Council

    * Jürgen Schmidt is lead the work to implement 'Ask the Community
      Council' sessions as part of selected CC meetings.
    * Cor Nouws will leads the activities which reflecting the current
      Community situation and how can it be improved.

The Community Council minutes are available here 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Minutes>.

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    Meet the Community

Varun Mittal

OOo Marketing Project - Moderator mailing lists
OOOConf 2010 -- Reviewer of abstracts

As the founder head of Linux User Group at my university I used it as 
the biggest rallying points while convincing users to adopt and use
Linux. OOO was the ace in arm of our migration strategy since Office
suite is one of the most used software by computer users.

Drop <mailto:dev< at >marketing.openoffice.org>us an email 
<mailto:dev< at >marketing.openoffice.org>, with abstract of not more than 50 
words if you want to have your effort dignified

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    Featured News

New Audiobook Learning Resource Available from the Documentation Project

The OOo Documentation Project announces the immediate availability of an 
audiobook developed specially for learners with visual impairments 
and/or other learning disabilities, as well as anyone who needs an 
audio-based learning resource. Read More » 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OpenOffice.org_Conceptual_Guides>

OOo partner Ankur won e-Content and ICT for Development Award 2010

Ministry of Science and ICT, Government of Peoples Republic of 
Bangladesh (MoSICT) awarded Ankur as a Champion under the e-Localization 
Category for the first National e-Content and ICT for Development Award 
2010 (eAward). Read More » <http://ankur.org.bd/wiki/Home>

Linux Journal: OpenOffice.org 3.3 Definitely On Its Way

On July 19 the first developmental snapshot from OOO330 was released for 
early testers and developers and it appears 3.3 will have plenty of new 
features. Read More » 
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-33-definitely-its-way>

CWUK Blog: Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?

Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm a big fan of OOo, and 
that I think it has the potential to break through into the mainstream. 
Maybe it's already begun, judging by these figures from webmasterpro.de: 
Read More » 
<http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2010/02/has-the-irresistible-rise-of-openofficeorg-begun/index.htm> 


OOo at the Hegyalja Festival 2010 in Hungary

The Hungarian OOo Community represented OOo at the free/libre/open 
source software festival with great success.
[Flickr photos: Read More » 
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/52295341< at >N04/sets/72157624562372712/>

Ditii: Migrate to Linux/OOo and dump MS Windows/Office to Save Money, 
U.K. Officials suggest

UK Prime Minister David Cameron asked "the 600,000 government workers to 
make suggestions on saving money as his administration seeks to cut 
Britain's record budget deficit. Read More » 
<http://www.ditii.com/2010/07/10/migrate-to-linux-openoffice-and-dump-microsoft-windows-office-to-save-money-u-k-officials-suggest/>

Taming-OOo: OpenOffice.org Draw Guide published

The first edition of the OpenOffice.org Draw Guide was published on 29 
June. PDFs of the full book and the individual chapters can be 
downloaded from this page 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters>.

Roberto Galoppini: OOo Download: Petition to Authorities to Remove 
Bait-and-Switch Advertising

ADUC, an Italian association of consumers, a couple of months ago wrote 
an article to inform about easy-download bait-and-switch practices 
charging a fee for open source programs download, and later wrote a 
petition to the Italian anti-trust authority. Read More » 
<http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/07/21/openofficeorg-download-petition-to-authorities-to-remove-bait-and-switch-advertising/>

TechTonic: OOo Book in English and Afrikaans

The book, written and published by Translate.org.za 
<http://www.translate.org.za>, is a dual-language production with both 
English and Afrikaans sections (each a 100 pages). The guide is 
illustrated throughout with screenshots. Read More » 
<http://translate.org.za/content/view/17/54/lang,en-za/>

GullFOSS:Speed and stability: New helper functions for TestAutomation

Bringing more speed and stability to the automated tests is an ongoing 
effort. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/spped_and_stability_new_helper>

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    Tips & Tricks

Manila Standard: OpenOffice.org tips

Companies that want to save on software licensing costs can get an 
excellent office productivity suite by using OpenOffice.org, a free and 
open source alternative to MS Office. Read More » 
<http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusop.htm?f=2010/july/27/chinwong.isx&d=2010/july/27>

WikiHow: How to Add Clipart to OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a great free office suite. Sadly, it does not come 
with a great clipart selection. It can, however, be added free of 
charge. Read More » <http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Clipart-to-OpenOffice.org>

AssertTrue: How to hack an OOo spreadsheet with JavaScript

So without further whining, I thought I'd present the most 
quintessential of OOo code examples, showing how to parse an OOo 
spreadsheet with JavaScript. Read More » 
<http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2010/07/how-to-manipulate-openoffice.html>

ShowMeDo: OpenOffice.org Base Series

In this tutorial you will learn how to work with OpenOffice Base
Read More » 
<http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=1120000&fromSeriesID=112>

ILoveFreesoftware: How to Integrate OOo with Google Docs and SkyDrive

Wouldn't it be great if you could directly integrate OOo with Google 
Docs, so that you can use the familiar interface of OOo to create and 
edit documents, and then store them in Google Docs.
Read More » 
<http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/21/featured/how-to-integrate-openoffice-with-google-docs-and-skydrive.html>

Solveig Haugland: Extension for searching and replacing carriage returns

If you've been typing $^$ into the regular OOo Writer search and replace 
dialog and coming up empty, try this plugin. It's awesome. It lets you 
look for a series of empty paragraph returns, or a carriage return at 
the end of a paragraph plus one empty return, and MUCH much more. Read 
More » 
<http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2010/07/fantastic-openofficeorg-writer-extension-for-searching-and-replacing-carriage-returns-two-in-a-row-e.html>

Solveig Haugland: Converting OOo documents to PDF or HTML, as a batch

You just choose File > Wizard > Web Page to open a whole new world of 
Web publishing, batch conversion to HTML and PDF, and automatic 
formatting. Read More » 
<http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2010/07/converting-openoffice-documents-to-pdf-or-html-as-a-batch.html>

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    OpenDocument (ODF)

Public review of OpenDocument v1.2 has started

The public review ends 6 September 2010. This is an open invitation to 
comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential users, developers 
and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the 
interoperability and quality of OASIS work.
Read More » 
<http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201007/msg00004.html>

ODF has been proposed as Indonesian National format

According to him, the current ODF format was adjusted with the 
provisions of the Indonesian National Standard (SNI). "After the SNI 
completed this year, next year (2011) will be communicated. Every 
important state documents will be migrated to ODF,"
[Translated] Read More » 
<http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=id&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.detikinet.com%2Fread%2F2010%2F07%2F28%2F151112%2F1408538%2F398%2Fdokumen-negara-wajib-gunakan-format-odf%2F%3Fi991103105>

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        In this issue

    * Notes from the Council <#Council>
    * Meet the Community
      <#MeetCommunity>
    * Featured News <#Features>
    * Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
    * OpenDocument (ODF) <#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 » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>

Developer Documentation Bounties

These bounties will cover tasks from collecting and sorting development 
information and
documentation, to producing and publishing documentation detailing how 
you can contribute as an OpenOffice.org developer.
Read More » 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Bounties>


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OpenOffice.org 3.3 Beta Release Available

Florian Effenberger — 2010-08-10T10:13:38

OpenOffice.org 3.3 Beta Release Available

The OpenOffice.org Community is proud to announce the availability of a 
beta release of its upcoming 3.3 version. This first preview is for 
everyone interested in the new features and enhancements of the final 
3.3 release, expected later this year.

A list of all changes is available at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Feature_Freeze_Testing_3.3 and 
the actual download can be found on 
http://download.openoffice.org/all_beta.html

The OpenOffice.org Community invites everyone interested in the people 
behind the productivity suite, its future and talks about open 
standards, to join us on our annual gathering: the OpenOffice.org 
Conference, which takes place in Budapest, Hungary, from August 31st to 
September 3rd, 2010. More information can be found at http://www.ooocon.org


Global Press Contacts

Florian Effenberger (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
Email: floeff< at >openoffice.org
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
Fax: +49 8341 99660889
Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: < at >floeff

Peter Junge (UTC +08h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
Email: pj< at >openoffice.org
Phone: +86 139 116 248 54
Fax: +49 3212 106 44 65
Skype: peter13j

Louis Suárez-Potts (UTC -04h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis< at >openoffice.org
+1 (416) 625-3843

A list of worldwide marketing contacts is available at 
http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html

OpenOffice.org Newsletter - July 2010

Kay Koll — 2010-07-15T07:03:55

OpenOffice.org Community Newsletter <http://www.openoffice.org>

JULY 2010

You can help the community. It is easy and fun!

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:

Hunting issues is fun!
You hate ignoring issues? Help us to get them fixed.
Join the QA project
<http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/Docs/QA-Reloaded-HowToStart.html>!

Would you like to see OpenOffice.org speak your language?
The Localization project <http://l10n.openoffice.org/> welcomes language
contributors in the areas of translation, review and testing.

Don't be shy. Start volunteering today!

*Find out how to contribute <http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html>
Do not miss the videos on Facebook
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg-How-to-contribute/165622009630>*

OpenOffice.org Internship Program 2010

The OpenOffice.org Internship Program 2010 enters the next phase. All
individual students that applied have received a mail from the team,
explaining if they can join or, alas, can not.
Congratulations to the people that are selected.
The list of accepted projects is available here
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Internship/Applications>.

This month in the Community Council

Document icon design: Christoph will formulate a proposal to be
discussed with Stefan. This will be presented to the CC on the CC
discuss mailing list.

The Community Council minutes are available here
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Minutes>.

Success Stories

OSOR: Zaragoza's move to complete open source desktop going to plan

The move by the city of Zaragoza to an open source desktop is making
good progress. All of the city's civil servants now use open source
tools including Thunderbird, VLC, Firefox and OO.o.
Read More »
<http://www.osor.eu/news/es-zaragozas-move-to-complete-open-source-desktop-going-to-plan>

OpenOffice.org Developer Documentation Bounties

Juergen Schmidt — 2010-06-17T13:15:56

OpenOffice.org Developer Documentation Bounties

The OpenOffice.org Documentation project and the OpenOffice.org 
Community Council are now offering bounties for some specific 
OpenOffice.org Development documentation projects. These bounties will 
cover tasks from collecting and sorting development information and 
documentation, to producing and publishing documentation detailing how 
you can contribute as an OpenOffice.org developer.

For more information on what bounties are available and how you can 
apply for a bounty, please visit 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Bounties


Clayton + Juergen

OpenOffice.org Newsletter - June 2010

Kay Koll — 2010-06-17T08:37:07

OpenOffice.org Newsletter <www.openoffice.org>


        JUNE 2010


    You can help the community. It is easy and fun!

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?
Here's your chance to do it hands-on. Join the Marketing Project 
<http://marketing.openoffice.org>.
It is important, fun work and it looks good on your résumé.

Do you like to write articles or short manuals?
The Documentation Project <http://documentation.openoffice.org/> is 
always looking for new and exciting articles.

Don't be shy. Start volunteering today!

Find out how to contribute <http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html>
*Do not miss the videos on Facebook* 
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenOfficeorg-How-to-contribute/165622009630>


    OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 Released

The OpenOffice.org Community today announces the availability of 
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, the newest version of the world's major free and 
open productivity suite. Read More » 
<http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=420>

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 is available in many languages for all major 
platforms at http://download.openoffice.org


    This month in the Community Council

    *

      Stefan Taxhet and Christoph Noack agreed to work out a request to
      the ODF Icons team to iterate on the design and/or processes.

The Community Council minutes are available here 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Minutes>.

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    Success Stories

*OSOR: Over a hundred schools using open source in Finland
*

Over a hundred schools across Finland are using open source for all of 
their desktop PCs, according to Opinsys, an open source services 
provider. Read More » 
<http://www.osor.eu/news/fi-over-a-hundred-schools-using-open-source>

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    Featured News

OSOR: Ministry of Justice and law courts consider open source desktop

Turkey's ministry of Justice, all of its institutions and all law courts 
are considering to move or partly move to a complete open source 
desktop, according to judge Cengiz Tanrikulu. Read More » 
<http://www.osor.eu/news/tr-ministry-of-justice-and-law-courts-consider-open-source-desktop>

FursøAvis: Furesø drops Bill Gates

[Translated] Furesø municipality schools go away from MS Office and move 
to OpenOffice.org. Savings of DKK360,000 a year.
Read More » 
<http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffuresoe.lokalavisen.dk%2Ffuresoe-dropper-bill-gates-%2F20100507%2Fartikler%2F705119874%2F1027&sl=da&tl=en>

LinuxPlanet: 6 Advanced OpenOffice.org Extensions

Luckily, the open source community provides a great repository of 
extensions and add-ons. Read More » 
<http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/7066/1/>

Infoworld: Open source innovation on the cutting edge

Think open source doesn't innovate? Here are seven projects exploring 
exciting new directions in computing -for free. 
<http://www.infoworld.com/t/open-source-applications/open-source-innovation-the-cutting-edge-732>Read 
More » 
<http://www.infoworld.com/t/open-source-applications/open-source-innovation-the-cutting-edge-732>

GullFOSS: Thanks for Suggesting Better Default Settings

Many thanks go out to everyone who added one of the 90+ suggestions for 
the Better Defaults collection. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/thanks_for_suggesting_better_default>

GullFOSS: Renaissance Video on YouTube

If you want to skip the presentation and just go to the video 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnfZlYU0SNc>, then feel free to do so. 
For those of you who haven't seen it yet, the most recent status 
presentation is online here. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/renaissance_video_on_youtube>

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    Tips & Tricks

LinuxJournal: Creating diagrams in OO.o Draw and Impress

OpenOffice.org's tools for creating diagrams are easy to ignore. For one 
thing, their controls are extremely small. Read More » 
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/creating-diagrams-openofficeorg-draw-and-impress>

Solveig Haugland: Make your OpenOffice forms open with the focus in the 
first field

... click this Automatic Control Focus icon Automaticcontrolfocus so 
that when users open the form, the cursor (the focus), is in the first 
field in the tab order. Read More » 
<http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2010/04/make-your-openoffice-forms-open-with-the-focus-in-the-first-field.html>

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    OpenDocument (ODF)

ODF Turns Five

This month marks the fifth anniversary of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) 
as an industry standard. Read More » <http://linux.sys-con.com/node/1381600>

Simon Phipps: Open Data: Fantastic, But Not Enough

In an unusual move for such a significant news item, the UK government 
announced over the weekend that they were ordering all government 
departments to embark on a voyage of transparency.: Read More » 
<http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2989&blogid=41>

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        In this issue

    * Notes from the Projects <#CommunityProjects>
    * Notes from the Council <#Council>
    * Success Stories <#SuccessStory>
    * Featured News <#Features>
    * Tips & Tricks <#Tips>
    * OpenDocument (ODF) <#ODF>


      Announcements

OpenOffice.org Bloggers

The OpenOffice.org Planet has the widest collection of OO.o content with 
community members  blogging on a wide variety of helpful topics. Read 
More » <http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html>

Summer Internship Program

Students from all over the world are invited to take their first steps 
in OpenOffice.org development.
Read More » 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Internship>


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OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 released

Florian Effenberger — 2010-06-03T18:51:29

The OpenOffice.org Community today announces the availability of 
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, the newest version of the world's major free and 
open productivity suite.

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 is a so-called micro release that comes with 
bugfixes and improvements, with no new features being introduced. This 
release also fixes security issues, so we recommend everyone to upgrade 
to the new version as soon as possible.

This version is also the first one to be released with the project's new 
main sponsor, Oracle, and comes with a refreshed logo and splash screen [1].

"The OpenOffice.org Community is in the year of its 10th anniversary. We 
look forward to working together with joint efforts of a worldwide 
community, on one of the world's largest open source projects, 
delivering free software based on true open standards", says Florian 
Effenberger, Marketing Project Lead of OpenOffice.org. He adds: "With 
the start of the Branding Initiative [2], the ongoing Project 
Renaissance [3] and with the recently-announced Summer Internship 
Programme [4], the OpenOffice.org community invites everyone to 
contribute to our efforts of improving the digital future."

According to OpenOffice.org's usual release cycle, the next feature 
release of OpenOffice.org will be version 3.3, and is expected for 
autumn 2010.

The Community celebrates its 10th anniversary this year at the annual 
OOoCon [5], to be held in Budapest, Hungary, from August 31 to September 
3. The Community invites all to join us in this lovely and dynamic 
capital city, which was chosen by the popular vote among many global 
contenders.

OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 is available in many languages for all major 
platforms at http://download.openoffice.org

Further details on the security fixes will be announced in a few days on 
our security bulletin website. [6]


Contacts

Florian Effenberger (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
Email: floeff< at >openoffice.org
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
Fax: +49 8341 99660889
Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: < at >floeff

Peter Junge (UTC +08h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
Email: pj< at >openoffice.org
Phone: +86 139 116 248 54
Fax: +49 3212 106 44 65
Skype: peter13j

Louis Suárez-Potts (UTC -05h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
Email: louis< at >openoffice.org
Phone: +1 (416) 625-3843


[1] http://www.openoffice.org/trademark/brandrefresh.html

[2] http://marketing.openoffice.org/brand/

[3] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance

[4] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Internship

[5] http://www.ooocon.org

[6] http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html