The Community Needs your Help !
There are dozens opportunities to support the
community and you do not have to be a developer to help out. Here are
just two
of many examples:
Are You
Interested in
Marketing?
Go ahead an help the OpenOffice.org marketing project!
Help spread the word and by the way it
looks good in your resume.
Do You like to
Write Articles or Short Manuals ?
The documentation project is always looking for new and exiting
articles.
Don't be shy and start volunteering today!
Success Stories
OSOR: OpenOffice boom in Belgium
The number of public administrations in Belgium
that use the open source office productivity suite OpenOffice is rising
steadily. And with it the use of the open document format ODF. Read
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OSOR: OS resource centre awards Kongsberg
municipality
Kongsberg uses the open source suite of office
applications OpenOffice in the municipal offices and at schools. Read
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Featured News
Happy 9th Birthday
OpenOffice.org!
Nine years ago today, Oct 13th,
OpenOffice.org was called into being. Read
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German City Münster
Launches Pilot Project For its Schools To Adopt Open Source Software
At the moment, teachers are trying
out OpenOffice in two schools. The suite will be made available to all
schools in November 2009. "We plan to make OpenOffice the default
office application for schools" Read More »
TechRepublic: Product
Spotlight: OpenOffice PDF Import Extension
The Sun OpenOffice.org PDF Import Extension is for
anyone on a budget that needs to be able to directly edit non-hybrid
PDF documents. And because the extension imports into OpenOffice.org
Draw, editing is very user-friendly. Read
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gHacks: Open Office 4 Kids
The idea behind Open Office 4 Kids is to provide a
version of Open Office for children between the age of 7 and 12. The
project is in its early stages with version 0.5 recently released to
the public. Read
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Linux-magazine: OpenOffice
Renaissance Provides Usage Click Charts for Impress
The Renaissance UI improvement project for
OpenOffice has rendered a click chart in Impress based on usage
feedback data. Read
More »
ComputerWeekly: Snapshot Survey
2009 -> OO.o 13%
The Computer Weekly IT panel was launched in
April 2009 and comprises of almost 4,000 IT. 13% plans to use OO.o Read
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Applelinks: OO.o Clocks up 100
Million Downloads
The OpenOffice.org Community is celebrating
one hundred million recorded downloads for the latest version of its
software, launched barely one year ago. Read
More »
GullFOSS: October Status Update
for Project Renaissance
Thinning out process for the existing OOo user
interface has started. Focus for OOo 3.3 will be on Impress. Read
More »
GullFOSS: Impress User
Interface Click Map - What's Hot & What's Not
The goal of this process is to improve the most
common interactions for Impress 3.3. This process is based on data from
the User Feedback Program, customer interviews, surveys and usability
issues. Read
More »
GullFOSS: New Chart features in
OpenOffice.org 3.2
Interested in the new Chart features that will be
available in OOo 3.2? Have a look: Read
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Tips & Tricks
suite101: Changing the
Default Font in OpenOffice.org
The OpenOffice default font is
over-used and often poorly received. Changing it on each new document
can be annoying. Changing the default template is a quick solution. Read
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openark: How to export
OpenOffice presentations to PDF
OpenOffice
3.x has an improved PDF export mechanism. With File->Export as PDF…,
one can export a presentation file (*.odp) to PDF format. Read
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Solveig Haugland: Using
Scenarios in OpenOffice Calc spreadsheets to figure out what to do
Here's an example of how you could
use two scenarios to really get
serious with pros and cons and the amount of money you'd be spending Read
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Solveig Haugland: How to
make text wrap around a graphic (and resizing the graphic
proportionately) in OpenOffice Writer
When you insert a graphic, it usually
looks like this. You can't get the text on either side of it. Read
More »
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OpenDocument (ODF)
OSOR: Government
publishes OS mobile phone text reader
Cenatic, Spain's national reference
centre for Open Source, on Monday published a beta version of a mobile
phone application to display office documents saved in the Open
Document Format. ...
Read
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ODF plugfest in Orvieto
The second in a series of events that will bring together implementors
of OASIS OpenDocument Format/ISO 26300 to unilaterally test and discuss
implementation issues of ODF with each other Read More »
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Solution of the Month
MySQL Connector for
OpenOffice.org
The
MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org installs a native MySQL database
driver. It is faster, seamless integrated, easier to administrate and
there is no need to install and setup a JDBC or ODBC driver separately.
It was never easier to use MySQL databases in OpenOffice.org Base. Read
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Please Note:
This section introduces a single solution which
provides a OO.o integration or based on OO.o technology. The idea
behind it is to
support vendors who have an OO.o integration.
dev@...dev@..., if
you want to have your solution listed.
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