http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7687
Deputies elected to the French National Assembly in the next legislative session will find open-source software on their desktop PCs.
The use of free software will result in substantial cost savings, despite the cost of migration and training, the Assembly said.
Free and open-source software now offers all the functions the deputies need, according to a study conducted at the request of the president of the assembly, Jean-Louis Debr¨¦.
The software on the deputies' computers will include the Linux operating system, the OpenOffice productivity suite, the Firefox web browser and an open-source email application.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
OpenOffice.org Mac Porters Meeting
OpenOffice.org Mac porter meeting at Google office
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"he main developers of the Mac OS X port for OpenOffice.org project
meet to work together over a weekend
- show, analyse, work on current development version,
- share our knowledge in workshops (e.g. for debug )
- define tasks and objectives
- meet, collaborate and have fun coding.
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"he main developers of the Mac OS X port for OpenOffice.org project
meet to work together over a weekend
- show, analyse, work on current development version,
- share our knowledge in workshops (e.g. for debug )
- define tasks and objectives
- meet, collaborate and have fun coding.
Norwegian Native Lang Project Wins
Here's a rough translation of the jury decision: "The jury has chosen
to award an IT project that through large community contributions, expert
knowledge, and extensive project cooperation has created an office suite
in Norwegian, Bokmål and Nynorsk, which is user-friendly and keeps to
high language standards. 投资顾问
to award an IT project that through large community contributions, expert
knowledge, and extensive project cooperation has created an office suite
in Norwegian, Bokmål and Nynorsk, which is user-friendly and keeps to
high language standards. 投资顾问
Friday, November 17, 2006
Why OpenOffice.org uses OpenDocument
On GullFOSS, blog of OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun, Michael Brauer, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC Chair, said a clear "no" to whether OpenOffice.org may switch to ECMA Office Open XML as native file format.
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/why_openoffice.org_uses_opendocument
"The documents that our users and customers create with OpenOffice.org belong them, not us. They, not us, must be able to read or process them in the near, far, and very far future. And they, not us, must have the choice to use whatever application they want to do so. And they, not us, have to bear the consequences if this is not given."
"For this reason, the XML project already in 2000 decided to develop an XML file format for office applications that ensures interoperability and long-time access to documents, and that may be used by other office applications as well."
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/why_openoffice.org_uses_opendocument
"The documents that our users and customers create with OpenOffice.org belong them, not us. They, not us, must be able to read or process them in the near, far, and very far future. And they, not us, must have the choice to use whatever application they want to do so. And they, not us, have to bear the consequences if this is not given."
"For this reason, the XML project already in 2000 decided to develop an XML file format for office applications that ensures interoperability and long-time access to documents, and that may be used by other office applications as well."
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
BharateeeyaOO hits Sunday Times, Bangalore
The main page of Sunday Times, leading daily in Bangalore, India, on November 12th, carried an article about the Kannada CDs launch scheduled in the coming month. BharateeyaOO figures as one of the main items in the "Whats Coming" inset.
Friday, November 10, 2006
Team from China for QA
On November 24, Zhiyue Cao from National Application Software Testing
Labs (NAST)/Beijing Software Testing & QA Center (BSTQC), announced to
dev@qa.openoffice.org that they will participate in QA works for
OpenOffie.org.
Labs (NAST)/Beijing Software Testing & QA Center (BSTQC), announced to
dev@qa.openoffice.org that they will participate in QA works for
OpenOffie.org.
Sunday, November 5, 2006
Office Open xml will be welcome
Alliance Statement On Microsoft/Novell Collaboration Regarding Document Format Compatibility
Washington, DC, November 3, 2006
The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of organizations, academia and industry dedicated to improving access to electronic government documents, issued the following statement regarding Microsoft and Novell's announcement regarding collaboration on document format compatibility:
"We see yesterday's announcement as further acknowledgement from Microsoft that ODF is something customers are demanding," said Marino Marcich, Managing Director of the ODF Alliance. "By making it easier for some Open Office users to access files stored in Microsoft's Office Open XML format, it makes it easier for customers to adopt ODF without worrying about the difficulty of tapping into files stored in a proprietary format that others may send them, or that they may have stored in their own systems."
"Open Office and other ODF-supporting implementations already support a variety of legacy or proprietary formats, and Office Open XML will be a welcome addition. In terms of Microsoft's translator project that would save Word files in the ODF format, the Alliance still thinks that the translator project does not yet provide true interoperability, and we encourage Microsoft to provide native support in Office that will allow users to save to ODF as easily as any other format."
Washington, DC, November 3, 2006
The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of organizations, academia and industry dedicated to improving access to electronic government documents, issued the following statement regarding Microsoft and Novell's announcement regarding collaboration on document format compatibility:
"We see yesterday's announcement as further acknowledgement from Microsoft that ODF is something customers are demanding," said Marino Marcich, Managing Director of the ODF Alliance. "By making it easier for some Open Office users to access files stored in Microsoft's Office Open XML format, it makes it easier for customers to adopt ODF without worrying about the difficulty of tapping into files stored in a proprietary format that others may send them, or that they may have stored in their own systems."
"Open Office and other ODF-supporting implementations already support a variety of legacy or proprietary formats, and Office Open XML will be a welcome addition. In terms of Microsoft's translator project that would save Word files in the ODF format, the Alliance still thinks that the translator project does not yet provide true interoperability, and we encourage Microsoft to provide native support in Office that will allow users to save to ODF as easily as any other format."
Saturday, November 4, 2006
Novell and Microsoft Collaborate
I think they mean "OpenOffice.org" when they say "OpenOffice."
They are going to collaborate on "Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support," "OpenOffice and MS Office Interoperability and Support" and "OpenDocument and Open XML Interoperability and Support."
But many people questions, "How do they do?"
Let us go to their FAQ and find an answer.
FAQ from Novell and FAQ from Microsoft
Q. How will the technical cooperation work?
Document Format Compatibility. Microsoft and Novell have been focusing on ways to improve interoperability between office productivity applications. The two companies will now work together on ways for OpenOffice and Microsoft Office users to best share documents and both will take steps to make translators available to improve interoperability between Open XML and OpenDocument Formats.
Q: What does the patent agreement cover with regard to Mono and OpenOffice?
Yes, under the patent agreement, customers will receive coverage for Mono, Samba, and OpenOffice as well as .NET and Windows Server. All of these technologies will be improved upon during the five years of the agreement and there are some limits on the coverage that would be provided for future technologies added to these offerings. The collaboration framework we have put in place allows us to work on complex subjects such as this where intellectual property and innovation are important parts of the conversation.
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Have you gotten an answer to your question?
They are going to collaborate on "Windows and Linux Interoperability and Support," "OpenOffice and MS Office Interoperability and Support" and "OpenDocument and Open XML Interoperability and Support."
But many people questions, "How do they do?"
Let us go to their FAQ and find an answer.
FAQ from Novell and FAQ from Microsoft
Q. How will the technical cooperation work?
Document Format Compatibility. Microsoft and Novell have been focusing on ways to improve interoperability between office productivity applications. The two companies will now work together on ways for OpenOffice and Microsoft Office users to best share documents and both will take steps to make translators available to improve interoperability between Open XML and OpenDocument Formats.
Q: What does the patent agreement cover with regard to Mono and OpenOffice?
Yes, under the patent agreement, customers will receive coverage for Mono, Samba, and OpenOffice as well as .NET and Windows Server. All of these technologies will be improved upon during the five years of the agreement and there are some limits on the coverage that would be provided for future technologies added to these offerings. The collaboration framework we have put in place allows us to work on complex subjects such as this where intellectual property and innovation are important parts of the conversation.
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Have you gotten an answer to your question?
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Microsoft Office Joins Mss Genuine
You thought Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) sucks? Wait, there is more to it: soon it will be up to Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) to show up. You have been warned, folks.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127678/article.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127678/article.html
Norwegian OpenOffice.org community wins prize and cash
OpenOffice.org translators receive prize
by Eirik Rossen
This years prize for advancement of Free Software went to the translators of OpenOffice.org
The annual prize for the advancement of Free Software was handed out yesterday. Of the 25 nominated candidates, the Foundation for Free Norwegian Office Software won.
The prize is given on the initiative of the Norwegian Unix User Group (NUUG) and the Oslo Polytechnic and amounts to 30 000 NOK.
The goal is to increase awareness of free software and open standards, and is awarded to individuals or groups in Norway who distinguish themselves with their contribution. Yesterday's tribute was the fifth time the prize has been given out.
The Foundation for Free Norwegian Office Software received the prize for its work with the organization and coordination of the translation of the Free productivity suite, OpenOffice.org to both main dialects of Norwegian. The foundation also works to influence key stakeholders to adopt financial, business and archival systems using OpenOffice.org
The jury opines that access to software in ones native language is important to guarantee that everyone can benefit from the tools needed in today's IT-Norway. In the introduction it continues:
"The Foundation for Free Norwegian Office Software has contributed to the guarantee that writing tools that are needed at many work places now exist in both Bokm0Š2l and Nynorsk, and thus helped the continuation of the Norwegian language. It has also increased general knowledge of open standards by enabling usage of an open data format, and contributed to greater choice by providing Linux-users access to a complete productivity suite."
"The prize winners have in a distinguished manner put deed before talk in regards to open standards and Free software. Instead of forcing all to use software from a single vendor, they have given everyone the freedom to choose software in Norwegian. Through the translation of this freely available productivity suite, everyone gets full support for open data formats. The OpenDocument format is ratified by the International Standards Organization (ISO). Norwegian users have gained an productivity suite which can be freely downloaded both for commercial and personal use, on a range of platforms such as Windows, Linux and Macintosh."
Link in Norwegian: http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=355064
Thanks to Lars Nooden for the news!
by Eirik Rossen
This years prize for advancement of Free Software went to the translators of OpenOffice.org
The annual prize for the advancement of Free Software was handed out yesterday. Of the 25 nominated candidates, the Foundation for Free Norwegian Office Software won.
The prize is given on the initiative of the Norwegian Unix User Group (NUUG) and the Oslo Polytechnic and amounts to 30 000 NOK.
The goal is to increase awareness of free software and open standards, and is awarded to individuals or groups in Norway who distinguish themselves with their contribution. Yesterday's tribute was the fifth time the prize has been given out.
The Foundation for Free Norwegian Office Software received the prize for its work with the organization and coordination of the translation of the Free productivity suite, OpenOffice.org to both main dialects of Norwegian. The foundation also works to influence key stakeholders to adopt financial, business and archival systems using OpenOffice.org
The jury opines that access to software in ones native language is important to guarantee that everyone can benefit from the tools needed in today's IT-Norway. In the introduction it continues:
"The Foundation for Free Norwegian Office Software has contributed to the guarantee that writing tools that are needed at many work places now exist in both Bokm0Š2l and Nynorsk, and thus helped the continuation of the Norwegian language. It has also increased general knowledge of open standards by enabling usage of an open data format, and contributed to greater choice by providing Linux-users access to a complete productivity suite."
"The prize winners have in a distinguished manner put deed before talk in regards to open standards and Free software. Instead of forcing all to use software from a single vendor, they have given everyone the freedom to choose software in Norwegian. Through the translation of this freely available productivity suite, everyone gets full support for open data formats. The OpenDocument format is ratified by the International Standards Organization (ISO). Norwegian users have gained an productivity suite which can be freely downloaded both for commercial and personal use, on a range of platforms such as Windows, Linux and Macintosh."
Link in Norwegian: http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=355064
Thanks to Lars Nooden for the news!
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Germanophone project to exhibit at
This years Systems (October 23rd-27th in Munich), the Germanophone project will be present again with its own booth, supported by the association OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. and four companies exhibiting together with us.
Companies present their products ranging from migration support and development to training, and we will present the project and the community, completed with public speeches about OpenOffice.org.
The Germanophone has good experiences from the last exhibitions done this way, and we look forward to a very interesting week. If you can make it to Munich - join us!
We are in hall A3, booth 441.
Companies present their products ranging from migration support and development to training, and we will present the project and the community, completed with public speeches about OpenOffice.org.
The Germanophone has good experiences from the last exhibitions done this way, and we look forward to a very interesting week. If you can make it to Munich - join us!
We are in hall A3, booth 441.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
News about limux migration project
The city of Munich today announced the next step in its LiMux migration project. The original press release, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be available in English, can be found at http://www.muenchen.de/Rathaus/dir/limux/ueberblick/175149/windowsabloesung.html
In short: The first official release of the base client has been finished and will be deployed to a first set of workstations by the end of the year, apart from the "beta testers" that already worked with LiMux. After that, more workstations will follow. OpenOffice.org is being used as the office suite within LiMux.
In short: The first official release of the base client has been finished and will be deployed to a first set of workstations by the end of the year, apart from the "beta testers" that already worked with LiMux. After that, more workstations will follow. OpenOffice.org is being used as the office suite within LiMux.
Phpmyadmin now can export to
phpMyAdmin with ODF support
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"phpMyAdmin is a web administration tool for MySQL databases, intended
to handle a whole database server as well as a single database. It is
maybe one of the most used tools for administering MySQL databases.
The new version 2.9.0, released yesterday, now contains an export
functionality to OpenDocument Text and OpenDocument Spreadsheet."
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"phpMyAdmin is a web administration tool for MySQL databases, intended
to handle a whole database server as well as a single database. It is
maybe one of the most used tools for administering MySQL databases.
The new version 2.9.0, released yesterday, now contains an export
functionality to OpenDocument Text and OpenDocument Spreadsheet."
Monday, August 28, 2006
News from Georgian Native Lang Project
SEA, SUN AND GEORGIAN OPENOFFICE.ORG
Tbilisi, Georgia - August 20, 2006
Blue sea, sun, ancient Colchian nature, Georgian wine and celebration
spirit. What else would one need from a place to organize a
localization summercamp?
In August 2006 eRiders Georgia in cooperation with OpenOffice.org
Georgian Native-Lang project selected a group of volunteer community
members from open source, linguists and IT-experts and organized
OpenOffice.org Georgian Localization Summercamp at Chakvi, a popular
Black Sea resort in Georgia.
The aim of the project was to localize OpenOffice.org user inteface
and user assistance messages to Georgian language, as well as increase
community interest and public awareness of OpenOffice.org and other
FLOSS products.
During 6 days the group of 30 participants and organizers localized
the whole user interface and majority of user assistance messages.
The QA will be accomplished with cooperation of OpenOffice.org
Georgian NL project and Deer Leap Foundation, a school computerization
programme by Georgian Ministry of Education and Science.
As a result, OpenOffice.org will be distributed to all Georgian
schools, where all students will get a chance to get used to FLOSS
products from the first beginning of their study.
The forthcoming changes in Georgian intellectual property law should
reduce piracy rate within Governmental, corporate and private users
and will eventually increase the demand on FLOSS products.
About Georgian Native-Lang - http://ka.openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Georgian Native-Lang project is dedicated to promoting
and providing localization, distribution and migration support of
OpenOffice.org throughout Georgia and Georgian-speaking community.
Georgian NL also provides free technical support to Georgian
OpenOffice.org users. Email contact: aietkolkhi AT openoffice.org
About eRiders Georgia - http://www.eriders.ge
eRiders Georgia, along with ICT consulting and FLOSS promotion,
strives to introduce internet to Georgan regions by using wireless
technologies. eRiders Georgia is also involved in Georgan
localization of open source products. Email contact: eriders AT
googlegroups.com
by Aiet Kolkhi, KA project lead.
Tbilisi, Georgia - August 20, 2006
Blue sea, sun, ancient Colchian nature, Georgian wine and celebration
spirit. What else would one need from a place to organize a
localization summercamp?
In August 2006 eRiders Georgia in cooperation with OpenOffice.org
Georgian Native-Lang project selected a group of volunteer community
members from open source, linguists and IT-experts and organized
OpenOffice.org Georgian Localization Summercamp at Chakvi, a popular
Black Sea resort in Georgia.
The aim of the project was to localize OpenOffice.org user inteface
and user assistance messages to Georgian language, as well as increase
community interest and public awareness of OpenOffice.org and other
FLOSS products.
During 6 days the group of 30 participants and organizers localized
the whole user interface and majority of user assistance messages.
The QA will be accomplished with cooperation of OpenOffice.org
Georgian NL project and Deer Leap Foundation, a school computerization
programme by Georgian Ministry of Education and Science.
As a result, OpenOffice.org will be distributed to all Georgian
schools, where all students will get a chance to get used to FLOSS
products from the first beginning of their study.
The forthcoming changes in Georgian intellectual property law should
reduce piracy rate within Governmental, corporate and private users
and will eventually increase the demand on FLOSS products.
About Georgian Native-Lang - http://ka.openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Georgian Native-Lang project is dedicated to promoting
and providing localization, distribution and migration support of
OpenOffice.org throughout Georgia and Georgian-speaking community.
Georgian NL also provides free technical support to Georgian
OpenOffice.org users. Email contact: aietkolkhi AT openoffice.org
About eRiders Georgia - http://www.eriders.ge
eRiders Georgia, along with ICT consulting and FLOSS promotion,
strives to introduce internet to Georgan regions by using wireless
technologies. eRiders Georgia is also involved in Georgan
localization of open source products. Email contact: eriders AT
googlegroups.com
by Aiet Kolkhi, KA project lead.
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Information Technology Promotion
We, the leads of the Native Language Confederation, would like to
thank the Information Technology Promotion Agency of Japan (IPA) for
proposing a study of OpenOffice.org. The study would focus on enhancing
OpenOffice.org's usefulness for the Japanese user. It represents a major
step toward the Japanese adoption of OpenOffice.org, the world's leading
open-source and open-standards-based office suite.
thank the Information Technology Promotion Agency of Japan (IPA) for
proposing a study of OpenOffice.org. The study would focus on enhancing
OpenOffice.org's usefulness for the Japanese user. It represents a major
step toward the Japanese adoption of OpenOffice.org, the world's leading
open-source and open-standards-based office suite.
OpenOffice.org is available in the ten most spoken languages in the world
While you can use OpenOffice.org in more than 80 languages (with
localized versions varying in quality and status), it is interesting
to note that with the latest developments taking place inside the Bengali
Team, OpenOffice.org is now available in the ten most spoken languages
in the world.
localized versions varying in quality and status), it is interesting
to note that with the latest developments taking place inside the Bengali
Team, OpenOffice.org is now available in the ten most spoken languages
in the world.
Friday, August 4, 2006
Danish Company Integrates CAD Drawings into OOo
Finn Gruwier Larsen has brought us news "Danish company integrates CAD drawings into OpenOffice.org" at dev/AT/marketing.openoffice.org.
He has shortened and translated an announcement made by Danish company A. B. Jensen Maskinfabrik and OpenOffice.org in Denmark.
Danish engineer Lars Brandi Jensen and German software developer Simon Mieth has developed a program extension that makes OpenOffice.org capable of reading CAD files into an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet and make automatic calculations on it.
"We didn't choose OpenOffice.org just because it's cheaper," says Lars Brandi Jensen who is co-owner of company A.B. Jensen Maskinfabrik A/S.
"OpenOffice.org does of course fullfill the basic needs, but it also gave us open access to develop the functionality we needed to automatise the workflow when the production cost of an order is to be calculated."
The software extension called DXF2CALC makes it possible to import vector graphic files of type DXF into OpenOffice.org and make calculations based on the graphic.
It's also possible to see an outline of the drawing directly in OpenOffice.org. With this extension OpenOffice.org can act as an integrated part of the complete software setup used by the company to fulfill orders – from first sketch to the customer invoice.
A. B. Jensen is a production-to-order company in the area of sheet metal processing. Metal sheets are processed using laser and water beams. The company uses open source software whereever possible, and the tendency goes towards using more and more OSS.
OpenOffice.org is the software cornerstone that binds together drawing, calulation and ERP.
DXF2CALC is free for all to use and can be downloaded from this web address:
http://abj.dk/dxf2calc/
He has shortened and translated an announcement made by Danish company A. B. Jensen Maskinfabrik and OpenOffice.org in Denmark.
Danish engineer Lars Brandi Jensen and German software developer Simon Mieth has developed a program extension that makes OpenOffice.org capable of reading CAD files into an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet and make automatic calculations on it.
"We didn't choose OpenOffice.org just because it's cheaper," says Lars Brandi Jensen who is co-owner of company A.B. Jensen Maskinfabrik A/S.
"OpenOffice.org does of course fullfill the basic needs, but it also gave us open access to develop the functionality we needed to automatise the workflow when the production cost of an order is to be calculated."
The software extension called DXF2CALC makes it possible to import vector graphic files of type DXF into OpenOffice.org and make calculations based on the graphic.
It's also possible to see an outline of the drawing directly in OpenOffice.org. With this extension OpenOffice.org can act as an integrated part of the complete software setup used by the company to fulfill orders – from first sketch to the customer invoice.
A. B. Jensen is a production-to-order company in the area of sheet metal processing. Metal sheets are processed using laser and water beams. The company uses open source software whereever possible, and the tendency goes towards using more and more OSS.
OpenOffice.org is the software cornerstone that binds together drawing, calulation and ERP.
DXF2CALC is free for all to use and can be downloaded from this web address:
http://abj.dk/dxf2calc/
Extentions! Major Topic at OOoCon Lyon
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier sat down with Louis Suárez-Potts, chair of OpenOffice.org's community council and community manager, at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Ore., to see what's on the OpenOffice.org development roadmap.
Suárez-Potts says that development is moving along nicely, but it will probably be a while before we see OpenOffice.org 3.0.
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1625228
Suárez-Potts says there really aren't many popular extensions for OpenOffice.org at this time -- but extension development will be a major topic of discussion at the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) 2006 that will be held from September 11 through September 13 in Lyon, France.
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OpenOffice.org Newletter readers, are you coming to OOoCon Lyon?
Register Now!
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/registration.html
Suárez-Potts says that development is moving along nicely, but it will probably be a while before we see OpenOffice.org 3.0.
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/02/1625228
Suárez-Potts says there really aren't many popular extensions for OpenOffice.org at this time -- but extension development will be a major topic of discussion at the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) 2006 that will be held from September 11 through September 13 in Lyon, France.
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OpenOffice.org Newletter readers, are you coming to OOoCon Lyon?
Register Now!
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/registration.html
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Northern Netherlands Municipality of
The northern Netherlands municipality of Groningen has opted to drop
Microsoft Office and switch to OpenOffice.org, saving a total of
€330,000 [US$418,500] annually
Microsoft Office and switch to OpenOffice.org, saving a total of
€330,000 [US$418,500] annually
Sunday, July 23, 2006
OOoCon Lyon Programme Announced
OpenOffice.org publishes the Programme for its Annual Conference
The annual OpenOffice.org Conference will be held in Lyons, France from September 11th-13th. The organising committee has now completed the difficult task of selecting the best of the proposals for papers, and the provisional Conference Programme is now on-line at http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/schedule.html
Conference highlights include keynote speakers from Novell and Google, and a panel discussion with representatives from Sun Microsystems, IBM, and OpenOffice.org. Over the three days, the conference streams cover topics of interest to developers and users, newcomers and veterans alike. There will be a particular focus on this year on OpenOffice.org and Open Document Format (ODF), following ODF's ratification as the international standard for office documents (ISO/IEC 26300).
The organisers have not forgotten the social side, making the most of the location in Lyons, the gastronomical heart of France. Last year's conference achieved rave reviews from attenders both for the conference content and the superb atmosphere - the organisers aim to raise the standard again this year.
It is still possible to register for attendance at the Conference. To register, please go to http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/registration.html
The Conference is also an excellent opportunity to present corporate messages through sponsorship of the event - see http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/sponsorship.html
The OpenOffice.org Conference Team look forward to meeting you in Lyon!
The annual OpenOffice.org Conference will be held in Lyons, France from September 11th-13th. The organising committee has now completed the difficult task of selecting the best of the proposals for papers, and the provisional Conference Programme is now on-line at http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/schedule.html
Conference highlights include keynote speakers from Novell and Google, and a panel discussion with representatives from Sun Microsystems, IBM, and OpenOffice.org. Over the three days, the conference streams cover topics of interest to developers and users, newcomers and veterans alike. There will be a particular focus on this year on OpenOffice.org and Open Document Format (ODF), following ODF's ratification as the international standard for office documents (ISO/IEC 26300).
The organisers have not forgotten the social side, making the most of the location in Lyons, the gastronomical heart of France. Last year's conference achieved rave reviews from attenders both for the conference content and the superb atmosphere - the organisers aim to raise the standard again this year.
It is still possible to register for attendance at the Conference. To register, please go to http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/registration.html
The Conference is also an excellent opportunity to present corporate messages through sponsorship of the event - see http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/sponsorship.html
The OpenOffice.org Conference Team look forward to meeting you in Lyon!
Friday, July 21, 2006
ODF proposed to become Malaysian Standard by year-end 2006
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/07/odf_proposed_to.html
Hasannudin Saidin, Manager, Government Programs at IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd, blogged on July 18, "Today, Yoon Kit and I, together with another fellow blogger here, Ditesh, each of us representing different organizations, were part of another historic SIRIM TC4 meeting, because the meeting now unanimously voted YES to proceed with the "project" for ODF (now ISO/IEC 26300) to be made a Malaysian Standard (acronym "MS")."
"The project now will proceed to the next step of approval from the higher-level committee in SIRIM that TC4 is under, i.e. Industry Standards Committee Group "G" (or ISC G), after which there is a public comment period from September to October 2006. ISC G will look at any comments after that and raise it to the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation for sign-off to become an MS. So, I expect ODF to become MS 26300 by year-end 2006."
Hasannudin Saidin, Manager, Government Programs at IBM Malaysia Sdn Bhd, blogged on July 18, "Today, Yoon Kit and I, together with another fellow blogger here, Ditesh, each of us representing different organizations, were part of another historic SIRIM TC4 meeting, because the meeting now unanimously voted YES to proceed with the "project" for ODF (now ISO/IEC 26300) to be made a Malaysian Standard (acronym "MS")."
"The project now will proceed to the next step of approval from the higher-level committee in SIRIM that TC4 is under, i.e. Industry Standards Committee Group "G" (or ISC G), after which there is a public comment period from September to October 2006. ISC G will look at any comments after that and raise it to the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation for sign-off to become an MS. So, I expect ODF to become MS 26300 by year-end 2006."
French Ministry of defence report leak
The OpenOffice.org Team Response To The French Ministry of Defence Report Leak.
2006-07-20
There has been comment in the media about a report on a French language website: "Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index"
The ZDNet article claims to describe the proceedings of a confidential meeting within the French public administration. It is not appropriate for the OpenOffice.org community to comment on a leak from a private meeting. However, one of the people mentioned in the article, Eric Filiol, has posted two replies to the online article clarifying the purpose of the research and correcting some of the incorrect conclusions in the original article.
The OpenOffice.org office suite is being widely adopted within the French public administration, and the OpenOffice.org community has been working closely with the departments involved. OpenOffice.org is pleased that its source code is being scrutinised by the most important and respected department of security in France.
If security vulnerabilities are suspected, there is a well defined procedure within the IT industry for reporting, analysing, and resolving any issues, which aims to minimise any public announcement (and the resulting creation of exploits) until fixes are available.
The OpenOffice.org community confirms it regards security as of the highest importance and will react immediately to any security issues reported by the French public adminstration or other competent bodies or individuals.
2006-07-20
There has been comment in the media about a report on a French language website: "Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index"
The ZDNet article claims to describe the proceedings of a confidential meeting within the French public administration. It is not appropriate for the OpenOffice.org community to comment on a leak from a private meeting. However, one of the people mentioned in the article, Eric Filiol, has posted two replies to the online article clarifying the purpose of the research and correcting some of the incorrect conclusions in the original article.
The OpenOffice.org office suite is being widely adopted within the French public administration, and the OpenOffice.org community has been working closely with the departments involved. OpenOffice.org is pleased that its source code is being scrutinised by the most important and respected department of security in France.
If security vulnerabilities are suspected, there is a well defined procedure within the IT industry for reporting, analysing, and resolving any issues, which aims to minimise any public announcement (and the resulting creation of exploits) until fixes are available.
The OpenOffice.org community confirms it regards security as of the highest importance and will react immediately to any security issues reported by the French public adminstration or other competent bodies or individuals.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Asian CJK Group Announced
On the 17th of July 2006, the Chinese, Japanese and Korean native-language projects of OpenOffice.org have decided to join forces to form the Asian CJK Native-Language Group of OpenOffice.org. Kazunari Hirano will act as the communications & technical coordinator of the group.
This group will allow these three projects to share experiences on common L10N and I18N issues and pool some ressources such as the work on some parts of QA. In the mean time, this group will also foster collaboration between the three projects on a marketing level, helping the spread of OpenOffice.org all over Asia.
We would like to thank the volunteers of these projects for their hard work and their long time commitment to the OpenOffice.org project.
Congratulations to Kazunari Hirano and good luck to the Asian CJK Native-Lang Group!
Charles-H.Schulz,
Lead of the Native-Language
Confederation, OpenOffice.org
-----
Useful links:
- Chinese Native-Lang project: http://zh.openoffice.org
- Japanese Native-Lang project: http://ja.openoffice.org
- Korean Native-Lang project: http://ko.openoffice.org
- Asian CJK NL Group wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group
This group will allow these three projects to share experiences on common L10N and I18N issues and pool some ressources such as the work on some parts of QA. In the mean time, this group will also foster collaboration between the three projects on a marketing level, helping the spread of OpenOffice.org all over Asia.
We would like to thank the volunteers of these projects for their hard work and their long time commitment to the OpenOffice.org project.
Congratulations to Kazunari Hirano and good luck to the Asian CJK Native-Lang Group!
Charles-H.Schulz,
Lead of the Native-Language
Confederation, OpenOffice.org
-----
Useful links:
- Chinese Native-Lang project: http://zh.openoffice.org
- Japanese Native-Lang project: http://ja.openoffice.org
- Korean Native-Lang project: http://ko.openoffice.org
- Asian CJK NL Group wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CJK_Group
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Google Joins ODF Alliance
Google backs OpenDocument format
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001713
Good News! isn't it?
Now you can find the name here.
http://odfalliance.org/about.php
Looks Good! doesn't it?
I have counted 240 current members of the Alliance.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001713
Good News! isn't it?
Now you can find the name here.
http://odfalliance.org/about.php
Looks Good! doesn't it?
I have counted 240 current members of the Alliance.
Friday, July 7, 2006
Microsoft and ODF
"Company to sponsor open source project for Open XML-ODF file translation to deliver more choice for government customers and their constituents," said Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul06/07-06OpenSourceProjectPR.mspx
It is nice to see Microsoft mentions OpenDocument Format (ODF) like this.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter
This is the open source ODF Converter project called " ODF Add-in for Word 2007."
Here is a collection of news about it.
- OpenOffice.org welcomes Microsoft's tentative moves towards OpenDocument
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=294
- Microsoft Expands Document Interoperability
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060706/sfth055.html?.v=65
- Microsoft dragged into accepting ODF
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/microsoft_odf_interoperability/
- Microsoft Backs Open Document Format
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3618176
- Microsoft to develop ODF tools for Office suite as open source
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/75140
- Microsoft to Support OpenDocument
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Support_OpenDocument/1152166759
- Microsoft Bows to Pressure to Interoperate with ODF
http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article/Microsoft+Bows+to+Pressure+to+Interoperate+with+ODF/182582_1.aspx
- Microsoft bends on OpenDocument
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft_bends_on_OpenDocument/0,2000061733,39262426,00.htm
- Microsoft bows to the demand for OpenDocument.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Support_OpenDocument/1152166759
And Japanese news.
- MS funds ODF converter open source project
http://japan.cnet.com/news/biz/story/0,2000056020,20162467,00.htm
- MS Office supports OpenDocument
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0607/06/news041.html
- Microsoft Office can use OpenDocument files -- Plug-in developed
http://japan.zdnet.com/news/software/story/0,2000056195,20106590,00.htm
- MS announces MS Office supports OpenDocument -- Prototype Add-in released
http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/article/2006/07/06/msoffice_odf.html
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul06/07-06OpenSourceProjectPR.mspx
It is nice to see Microsoft mentions OpenDocument Format (ODF) like this.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter
This is the open source ODF Converter project called " ODF Add-in for Word 2007."
Here is a collection of news about it.
- OpenOffice.org welcomes Microsoft's tentative moves towards OpenDocument
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=294
- Microsoft Expands Document Interoperability
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060706/sfth055.html?.v=65
- Microsoft dragged into accepting ODF
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/microsoft_odf_interoperability/
- Microsoft Backs Open Document Format
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3618176
- Microsoft to develop ODF tools for Office suite as open source
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/75140
- Microsoft to Support OpenDocument
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Support_OpenDocument/1152166759
- Microsoft Bows to Pressure to Interoperate with ODF
http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article/Microsoft+Bows+to+Pressure+to+Interoperate+with+ODF/182582_1.aspx
- Microsoft bends on OpenDocument
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft_bends_on_OpenDocument/0,2000061733,39262426,00.htm
- Microsoft bows to the demand for OpenDocument.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_to_Support_OpenDocument/1152166759
And Japanese news.
- MS funds ODF converter open source project
http://japan.cnet.com/news/biz/story/0,2000056020,20162467,00.htm
- MS Office supports OpenDocument
http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0607/06/news041.html
- Microsoft Office can use OpenDocument files -- Plug-in developed
http://japan.zdnet.com/news/software/story/0,2000056195,20106590,00.htm
- MS announces MS Office supports OpenDocument -- Prototype Add-in released
http://www.forest.impress.co.jp/article/2006/07/06/msoffice_odf.html
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Take Test Drive Keep Car
Did you know that 'Microsoft today announced the opening of a "test drive" so that people can see what Microsoft Office 2007 might look like when it finally goes on sale'?
I didn't know that. I have learned from Press Release - for immediate release, OpenOffice.org challenges Microsoft's Office "Test Drive" post by John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead.
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=291
It goes, "The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential upgraders to go one better - download the full OpenOffice.org 2 office suite today for a test drive, and if you like it, use it free for as long as you like. It's the ultimate no-strings-attached test drive - if you enjoy the test drive, keep the car!"
OpenOffice.org, I enjoy 2.0.3 RC7 QA testing now and I will keep it for a while.
It continues, "As office software becomes a commodity product, Microsoft has been forced to make significant changes to the 'look and feel' of MS-Office 2007. Because of this, analysts now agree that migrating to Microsoft Office 2007 will be a major upheaval with a significant cost impact."
OpenOffice.org, Upgrading 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 is easy and costs nothing.
Then it says, "Unlike changing to Microsoft Office 2007, changing to OpenOffice.org 2 does not require learning how to use office software all over again. Indeed, reports have shown migration to OpenOffice.org 2 is 90% cheaper than migrating to Microsoft Office 2007."
Then I know what you choose.
For more information and references to the reports, please see http://why.openoffice.org and you'll know what you do, "Take a Test Drive - Keep the Car!"
I didn't know that. I have learned from Press Release - for immediate release, OpenOffice.org challenges Microsoft's Office "Test Drive" post by John McCreesh, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead.
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=291
It goes, "The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential upgraders to go one better - download the full OpenOffice.org 2 office suite today for a test drive, and if you like it, use it free for as long as you like. It's the ultimate no-strings-attached test drive - if you enjoy the test drive, keep the car!"
OpenOffice.org, I enjoy 2.0.3 RC7 QA testing now and I will keep it for a while.
It continues, "As office software becomes a commodity product, Microsoft has been forced to make significant changes to the 'look and feel' of MS-Office 2007. Because of this, analysts now agree that migrating to Microsoft Office 2007 will be a major upheaval with a significant cost impact."
OpenOffice.org, Upgrading 2.0.3 to 2.0.4 is easy and costs nothing.
Then it says, "Unlike changing to Microsoft Office 2007, changing to OpenOffice.org 2 does not require learning how to use office software all over again. Indeed, reports have shown migration to OpenOffice.org 2 is 90% cheaper than migrating to Microsoft Office 2007."
Then I know what you choose.
For more information and references to the reports, please see http://why.openoffice.org and you'll know what you do, "Take a Test Drive - Keep the Car!"
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Danish Parliament (Folketinget) decides on Open Standards
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/5646
The Danish Parliament (Folketinget) has recently decided: Parliament imposes on the government a duty to ensure that the public sector's use of IT, including use of software, is based on open standards.
The Government should adopt and maintain a set of open standards at the latest by 1 January 2008, or as soon as technically possible, which can serve as an inspiration for the rest of the public sector. Open standards should thereafter be part of the basis for the public sector's development and procurement of IT software with the object of promoting competition.
The Government should ensure that all digital information and data that the public sector exchanges with citizens, companies and institutions, is available in open standards-based formats.
The Danish Parliament (Folketinget) has recently decided: Parliament imposes on the government a duty to ensure that the public sector's use of IT, including use of software, is based on open standards.
The Government should adopt and maintain a set of open standards at the latest by 1 January 2008, or as soon as technically possible, which can serve as an inspiration for the rest of the public sector. Open standards should thereafter be part of the basis for the public sector's development and procurement of IT software with the object of promoting competition.
The Government should ensure that all digital information and data that the public sector exchanges with citizens, companies and institutions, is available in open standards-based formats.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
OpenOffice.org Site Infrastructure Being Upgraded
http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/first_broffice_meeting_200606.html
Innovation, collaboration and results. In its first National Meeting, on June 2, 2006 through a video conference link connecting over 20 Brazilian states and Canada, the BrOffice.org project showed once more the power of collaborative work.
The First National BrOffice.org Meeting opened a new chapter in the history of Free Software events in Brazil. The virtual meeting had the support of over 1000 people throughout the country integrating the several local BrOffice.org communities and allowing for the interaction of participants.
The meeting was also a victory for the community. The vast majority of the organizers of the video conference links were participants in Free Software user and developer groups. For many of these volunteers, directly participating in the BrOffice.org project, the moment is one of evaluating results and, soon after, of hands on to make true the commitments made with the users, confirming the success of this First National BrOffice.org Meeting.
http://www.openoffice.org.br/?q=first_brazilian_meeting
Innovation, collaboration and results. In its first National Meeting, on June 2, 2006 through a video conference link connecting over 20 Brazilian states and Canada, the BrOffice.org project showed once more the power of collaborative work.
The First National BrOffice.org Meeting opened a new chapter in the history of Free Software events in Brazil. The virtual meeting had the support of over 1000 people throughout the country integrating the several local BrOffice.org communities and allowing for the interaction of participants.
The meeting was also a victory for the community. The vast majority of the organizers of the video conference links were participants in Free Software user and developer groups. For many of these volunteers, directly participating in the BrOffice.org project, the moment is one of evaluating results and, soon after, of hands on to make true the commitments made with the users, confirming the success of this First National BrOffice.org Meeting.
http://www.openoffice.org.br/?q=first_brazilian_meeting
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Builds for FreeBSD/amd64
On June 14 to the releases/AT/openoffice.org Maho Nakata announced that OpenOffice.org 2.0.3rc5 packages for FreeBSD/amd64 were uploaded to the site.
If you have a amd64 machine and get FreeBSD installed, try the following installation set, Uno Runtime Environment and Software Development Kit.
OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_SDK.tar.bz2
OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_URE.tar.bz2
OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_install_en-US.tbz
md5sums for them, here you go:
dd9abcaf26b5ad996eb3019667a2b7d4 OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_SDK.tar.bz2
efd53645738ee32875f2d60d7d1a8158 OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_URE.tar.bz2
72585b105760f7dbfa95913b576a1987 OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_install_en-US.tbz
He pointed out some critical issues for the build.
"Use KDE instead of GTK," and "XIM must be killed."
"We thank very much to Jung-uk Kim, who worked very hard for this port," he said.
If you use it, please feedback to their team:
http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/
If you have a amd64 machine and get FreeBSD installed, try the following installation set, Uno Runtime Environment and Software Development Kit.
OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_SDK.tar.bz2
OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_URE.tar.bz2
OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_install_en-US.tbz
md5sums for them, here you go:
dd9abcaf26b5ad996eb3019667a2b7d4 OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_SDK.tar.bz2
efd53645738ee32875f2d60d7d1a8158 OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_URE.tar.bz2
72585b105760f7dbfa95913b576a1987 OOo_2.0.3rc5_FreeBSD61X86_64_install_en-US.tbz
He pointed out some critical issues for the build.
"Use KDE instead of GTK," and "XIM must be killed."
"We thank very much to Jung-uk Kim, who worked very hard for this port," he said.
If you use it, please feedback to their team:
http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/
Friday, June 9, 2006
First Brazilian Meeting
http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/first_broffice_meeting_200606.html
Innovation, collaboration and results. In its first National Meeting, on June 2, 2006 through a video conference link connecting over 20 Brazilian states and Canada, the BrOffice.org project showed once more the power of collaborative work.
The First National BrOffice.org Meeting opened a new chapter in the history of Free Software events in Brazil. The virtual meeting had the support of over 1000 people throughout the country integrating the several local BrOffice.org communities and allowing for the interaction of participants.
The meeting was also a victory for the community. The vast majority of the organizers of the video conference links were participants in Free Software user and developer groups. For many of these volunteers, directly participating in the BrOffice.org project, the moment is one of evaluating results and, soon after, of hands on to make true the commitments made with the users, confirming the success of this First National BrOffice.org Meeting.
http://www.openoffice.org.br/?q=first_brazilian_meeting
Innovation, collaboration and results. In its first National Meeting, on June 2, 2006 through a video conference link connecting over 20 Brazilian states and Canada, the BrOffice.org project showed once more the power of collaborative work.
The First National BrOffice.org Meeting opened a new chapter in the history of Free Software events in Brazil. The virtual meeting had the support of over 1000 people throughout the country integrating the several local BrOffice.org communities and allowing for the interaction of participants.
The meeting was also a victory for the community. The vast majority of the organizers of the video conference links were participants in Free Software user and developer groups. For many of these volunteers, directly participating in the BrOffice.org project, the moment is one of evaluating results and, soon after, of hands on to make true the commitments made with the users, confirming the success of this First National BrOffice.org Meeting.
http://www.openoffice.org.br/?q=first_brazilian_meeting
Monday, June 5, 2006
Conclusion: This is not a virus, even not a proof of concept
Thank you very much, the Kaspersky Labs analyst and other virus naming companies experts for finding it and calling it "virus," "proof of concenpt," "Virus.StarOffice.Stardust.a," "SBasic.Stardust.A!int," "XML_DUSTAR.A," "StarDust.intd," whatever.
Thank you, we learned a lot about viruses, macro viruses and proof of concept viruses.
We love to see Our conclusions, opinions and OOoDust.
1. OpenOffice.org Team's announcement and conclusion:
"it is not even a virus" "users should never accept files from unknown sources"
2. David Fraser's conclusion:
"this is all nothing to be afraid of"
3. Pavel Janik's conclusion:
"just remove it from your system"
4. Malte Timmermann's conclusion:
"This is not a virus, even not a proof of concept"
5. John McCreesh's conclusion:
"if we are relying on these 'anti-virus experts' to protect the IT industry from viruses, then the sooner everyone moves to open-source software the better. At least then we can judge who the real experts are"
6. Pavel Janik's opinion:
"the blogger from Kaspersky simply should have contacted OpenOffice.org security team first, not only because it is "standard way" to report security issues to vendors but it could also prevent everyone from this faux pas"
7. Laurent Godard's "proof of nothing," OOoDust
"OpenOffice.org project has a structure for reporting any suspicious behaviour, so feel free to contact us"
OpenOffice.org security team: http://www.openoffice.org/security/
Thank you, we learned a lot about viruses, macro viruses and proof of concept viruses.
We love to see Our conclusions, opinions and OOoDust.
1. OpenOffice.org Team's announcement and conclusion:
"it is not even a virus" "users should never accept files from unknown sources"
2. David Fraser's conclusion:
"this is all nothing to be afraid of"
3. Pavel Janik's conclusion:
"just remove it from your system"
4. Malte Timmermann's conclusion:
"This is not a virus, even not a proof of concept"
5. John McCreesh's conclusion:
"if we are relying on these 'anti-virus experts' to protect the IT industry from viruses, then the sooner everyone moves to open-source software the better. At least then we can judge who the real experts are"
6. Pavel Janik's opinion:
"the blogger from Kaspersky simply should have contacted OpenOffice.org security team first, not only because it is "standard way" to report security issues to vendors but it could also prevent everyone from this faux pas"
7. Laurent Godard's "proof of nothing," OOoDust
"OpenOffice.org project has a structure for reporting any suspicious behaviour, so feel free to contact us"
OpenOffice.org security team: http://www.openoffice.org/security/
Monday, May 29, 2006
Google to Take 630 SOC Projects
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3609496
Google has announced that it will accept no fewer than a whopping 630 open source projects for this year's Summer of Code. The number is up from last year's 410 projects.
OpenOffice.org? Sure. Here you go!
OpenOffice.org Summer of Code Projects
Come on, Students!
Current Projects being worked on
Google has announced that it will accept no fewer than a whopping 630 open source projects for this year's Summer of Code. The number is up from last year's 410 projects.
OpenOffice.org? Sure. Here you go!
OpenOffice.org Summer of Code Projects
Come on, Students!
Current Projects being worked on
Friday, May 26, 2006
Speak Out: ODF in France
This is important and you can help.
There is at present a public call in France for comments on a proposed reference set that would guarantee interoperability for documents throughout the government. [0] The idea here as elsewhere is to promote open standards and stop the waste proprietary formats impose. The OpenDocument format (ODF), which is now slated to be an ISO standard and is already an OASIS standard, has been proposed as the document standard by the French body. [1] But it is by *no means* a sure thing.
How can you help?
By commenting in the public space provided and by writing about it in blogs, articles, letters--anywhere that is public. We need people who are involved in promoting the ODF, which OpenOffice.org uses, to help publicize the importance of the French public sector using an already approved open standard like ODF and the free (gratis and open source) implementation in which it is embedded, OpenOffice.org. Massachusetts' decision to use ODF has galvanized the US and much of the world but in many ways this is just as important--and consequences even greater.
It is important because an open standard--one approved by impartial bodies and also implemented by many applications--removes vendor lock in and gives the user real freedom.
And it is further important to consider that the ODF is natively supported by at least one suite, OpenOffice.org: cost is no barrier to its use.
[0] http://www.adae.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=1064
[1] http://tinyurl.com/jsagd
You want: Référentiel général Interopérabilité Volet Technique in pdf on the right
-> http://tinyurl.com/hg8yc
The document is in French. On page 30, you have the rules referenced RIT0025, RIT0026, RIT0027
--
Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Manager
OpenOffice.org
There is at present a public call in France for comments on a proposed reference set that would guarantee interoperability for documents throughout the government. [0] The idea here as elsewhere is to promote open standards and stop the waste proprietary formats impose. The OpenDocument format (ODF), which is now slated to be an ISO standard and is already an OASIS standard, has been proposed as the document standard by the French body. [1] But it is by *no means* a sure thing.
How can you help?
By commenting in the public space provided and by writing about it in blogs, articles, letters--anywhere that is public. We need people who are involved in promoting the ODF, which OpenOffice.org uses, to help publicize the importance of the French public sector using an already approved open standard like ODF and the free (gratis and open source) implementation in which it is embedded, OpenOffice.org. Massachusetts' decision to use ODF has galvanized the US and much of the world but in many ways this is just as important--and consequences even greater.
It is important because an open standard--one approved by impartial bodies and also implemented by many applications--removes vendor lock in and gives the user real freedom.
And it is further important to consider that the ODF is natively supported by at least one suite, OpenOffice.org: cost is no barrier to its use.
[0] http://www.adae.gouv.fr/article.php3?id_article=1064
[1] http://tinyurl.com/jsagd
You want: Référentiel général Interopérabilité Volet Technique in pdf on the right
-> http://tinyurl.com/hg8yc
The document is in French. On page 30, you have the rules referenced RIT0025, RIT0026, RIT0027
--
Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Manager
OpenOffice.org
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
African localisation wins at Stockholm
A little-known African localisation projected called KiLinux, which translated open source office suite OpenOffice.org into Swahili, scooped an award under the Education category.
The annual Stockholm Challenge rewards ICT projects that accelerate the use of information technology for the benefit of citizens and communities.
Director of Translate.org.za, Dwayne Bailey, says KiLinux's award signals a growing appreciation of the role localisation has to play in Africa. "It is very exciting for us to see localisation and open source software win such a prestigious award," says Bailey.
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1005
The annual Stockholm Challenge rewards ICT projects that accelerate the use of information technology for the benefit of citizens and communities.
Director of Translate.org.za, Dwayne Bailey, says KiLinux's award signals a growing appreciation of the role localisation has to play in Africa. "It is very exciting for us to see localisation and open source software win such a prestigious award," says Bailey.
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1005
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker for OOo
aLouis Su¨¢rez-Potts interviewed Carlos Eduardo Dantas de Menezes whose group recently completed a grammar checker for OpenOffice.org. The project is called CoGrOO (Corretor Gramatical acoplavel ao OpenOffice).
I like the following part :)
Louis: How did you get involved in OpenOffice.org? And who is included in your team?
Carlos: I guess it's fair to cite all collaborators of project (I know it's boring, but I want all in the team to receive credit):
- Prof. Dr. Jorge Kinoshita, coordinator, technical manager, Grammar Checker server's programmer.
- Prof. Dr. La¨ªs Salvador, documentation manager, grammar rules writer.
- Prof. MSc. Carlos Menezes, technical analyst, GUI's programmer, installer's programmer.
- Sueli Uliano, linguist, grammar rules writer.
- William Colen Silva, Grammar Checker server's programmer.
- Marcos Oku, Grammar Checker server's programmer.
- F¨¢bio Gusukuma, Grammar Checker server's programmer.
- Marcelo Suzumura, Grammar Checker server's programmer, installer's programmer.
- F¨¢bio Blanco, GUI's programmer, installer's programmer.
- Edgard Lemos Jr., GUI's programmer.
- Bruno Sant'Anna, OOo interface programmer.
Details on CoGrOO?
Read the interview.
Interview: Carlos Eduardo Dantas de Menezes
I like the following part :)
Louis: How did you get involved in OpenOffice.org? And who is included in your team?
Carlos: I guess it's fair to cite all collaborators of project (I know it's boring, but I want all in the team to receive credit):
- Prof. Dr. Jorge Kinoshita, coordinator, technical manager, Grammar Checker server's programmer.
- Prof. Dr. La¨ªs Salvador, documentation manager, grammar rules writer.
- Prof. MSc. Carlos Menezes, technical analyst, GUI's programmer, installer's programmer.
- Sueli Uliano, linguist, grammar rules writer.
- William Colen Silva, Grammar Checker server's programmer.
- Marcos Oku, Grammar Checker server's programmer.
- F¨¢bio Gusukuma, Grammar Checker server's programmer.
- Marcelo Suzumura, Grammar Checker server's programmer, installer's programmer.
- F¨¢bio Blanco, GUI's programmer, installer's programmer.
- Edgard Lemos Jr., GUI's programmer.
- Bruno Sant'Anna, OOo interface programmer.
Details on CoGrOO?
Read the interview.
Interview: Carlos Eduardo Dantas de Menezes
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Native OpenOffice.org in Nexenta OS
Alberto Escudero announced the release and integration of a native OpenOffice.org 2.0 in NexentaOS (alpha5) on his blog on May 16.
"NexentaOS is a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime. The distribution uses SunOS kernel and a “rebuild/port” of most of the Ubuntu's userland packages. Yes!, Debian packaging system in a Open Solaris OS," he explained.
"The goal of this effort is to compile OpenOffice.org in a OpenSolaris environment like NexentaOS and investigate what will take to rebuild the software using GCC," he added.
"NexentaOS is a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime. The distribution uses SunOS kernel and a “rebuild/port” of most of the Ubuntu's userland packages. Yes!, Debian packaging system in a Open Solaris OS," he explained.
"The goal of this effort is to compile OpenOffice.org in a OpenSolaris environment like NexentaOS and investigate what will take to rebuild the software using GCC," he added.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Acceralate FreeBSD/AMD64 Port
Good news from FreeBSD OpenOffice.org porting team!
Maho Nakata's post to dev/AT/porting.openoffice.org on May 18th told us some great developments on FreeBSD/AMD64 porting efforts.
One is that Carlos Eduardo dontated a FreeBSD/AMD64 access for him.
"Hope it acceralates FreeBSD/amd64 port of OpenOffice.org. Huge inputs from OOo community esp. kendy for porting OOo to GNU/Linux amd64 make this tremendously easier," maho said.
Another one, "OOo+FreeBSD/AMD64 current status," is that Jung-uk Kim submitted a complete patch(es) to compile OOo for FreeBSD/amd64.
"We are now doing thorough investigations, and I'll create a cws for it. Some parts of patches had already been committed to ports cvs repo, but not yet complete," maho said.
Maho Nakata's post to dev/AT/porting.openoffice.org on May 18th told us some great developments on FreeBSD/AMD64 porting efforts.
One is that Carlos Eduardo dontated a FreeBSD/AMD64 access for him.
"Hope it acceralates FreeBSD/amd64 port of OpenOffice.org. Huge inputs from OOo community esp. kendy for porting OOo to GNU/Linux amd64 make this tremendously easier," maho said.
Another one, "OOo+FreeBSD/AMD64 current status," is that Jung-uk Kim submitted a complete patch(es) to compile OOo for FreeBSD/amd64.
"We are now doing thorough investigations, and I'll create a cws for it. Some parts of patches had already been committed to ports cvs repo, but not yet complete," maho said.
Thursday, May 4, 2006
OpenDocument Format now an ISO 26300 standard
1 May 2006: The International Standards Organisation has today approved a standard file format to be used worldwide for the storage of files produced by office software (word processor documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, etc.). For the first time in the history of computing, software users will be guaranteed that they will be able to use their data in any compliant software package, both now and in the future. The point of an open standard is that any compliant application can use it.
http://www.openoffice.org/press/iso_pr.html
http://www.openoffice.org/press/iso_pr.html
Links on odf iso announcements
The internet only starts to catch on with the news about the ODF standardization by the ISO.
Here are some links about the ISO decision:
Andy Updegrove's blog
The ODF Alliance official Press Release
Charles-H.Schulz blog on the ISO decision
Erwin Tenhumberg's blog
CNet's article on the ISO decision
Here are some links about the ISO decision:
Andy Updegrove's blog
The ODF Alliance official Press Release
Charles-H.Schulz blog on the ISO decision
Erwin Tenhumberg's blog
CNet's article on the ISO decision
Monday, May 1, 2006
Germanophone project launches CampOpenOffice.org
Today, the Germanophone project announced its CampOpenOffice.org launch. CampOpenOffice.org is a weekend taking place from Saturday, August 12th, to Sunday, August 13th, in Diez in Germany, especially dedicated to youths and students from 16 to 27 years.
Several members of the Germanophone project offer four slots, where participants can learn more about a certain subject, about OpenOffice.org and the community - and they can take part in a real project! Slots are:
- QA and tests
- developing with OpenOffice.org
- databases with Base
- marketing on OpenOffice.org
The slots will be complemented by a nice weekend with lots of activities. CampOpenOffice.org is free, only a little symbolic fee will be taken. Applications start on May 3rd on the OpenOffice.org booth at LinuxTag in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Several members of the Germanophone project offer four slots, where participants can learn more about a certain subject, about OpenOffice.org and the community - and they can take part in a real project! Slots are:
- QA and tests
- developing with OpenOffice.org
- databases with Base
- marketing on OpenOffice.org
The slots will be complemented by a nice weekend with lots of activities. CampOpenOffice.org is free, only a little symbolic fee will be taken. Applications start on May 3rd on the OpenOffice.org booth at LinuxTag in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
OOO Newsletter of April is Here
After some weeks of *not* updating the OOo Newsletter-on-blog service, we are back, and this time you will have the pleasure to read the April issue of the OOo Newsletter.
Sorry for the inconvenience and welcome back to our show!
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=281
Sorry for the inconvenience and welcome back to our show!
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=281
OOO Newsletter of April is Here
After some weeks of *not* updating the OOo Newsletter-on-blog service, we are back, and this time you will have the pleasure to read the April issue of the OOo Newsletter.
Sorry for the inconvenience and welcome back to our show!
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=281
Sorry for the inconvenience and welcome back to our show!
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=281
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
OpenOffice.org available in 7 new other Indic languages
Thanks to RKVS Raman for these news:
"The BharateeyaOO.o Group ( http://www.cdacbangalore.in/bharateeyaoo )
of CDAC Electronics City Bangalore announces the availability of
OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 language packs in 7 Indian Languages.
The languages are
1) Assamese
2) Gujarati
3) Hindi
4) Malayalam
5) Marathi
6) Oriya
7) Urdu
Out of these languages Hindi has been jointly done by us and Rajesh
Ranjan and Gujarati has been translated by Utkarsh (
http://www.utkarsh.org ).
Special credits have to be given to GIST Group CDAC Pune (
http://www.cdac.in/html/gist/gistidx.asp ) for translating for the
rest of the 5 languages.
The Urdu Language Pack supports RTL interface.
The language packs have been made available for Linux (Debian and Red
Hat) and Windows.
The merged source is also made available.
Please download from http://www.cdacbangalore.in/bharateeyaoo/download.shtml
"The BharateeyaOO.o Group ( http://www.cdacbangalore.in/bharateeyaoo )
of CDAC Electronics City Bangalore announces the availability of
OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 language packs in 7 Indian Languages.
The languages are
1) Assamese
2) Gujarati
3) Hindi
4) Malayalam
5) Marathi
6) Oriya
7) Urdu
Out of these languages Hindi has been jointly done by us and Rajesh
Ranjan and Gujarati has been translated by Utkarsh (
http://www.utkarsh.org ).
Special credits have to be given to GIST Group CDAC Pune (
http://www.cdac.in/html/gist/gistidx.asp ) for translating for the
rest of the 5 languages.
The Urdu Language Pack supports RTL interface.
The language packs have been made available for Linux (Debian and Red
Hat) and Windows.
The merged source is also made available.
Please download from http://www.cdacbangalore.in/bharateeyaoo/download.shtml
Saturday, April 8, 2006
News of the Germanophone project at the Cebit
"Hi all,
I know, that some of you have interest in the marketing activities from the germanophone project, so I would like to give you a short summary of CeBIT 2006 in Hannover (9.03.-15.03.06), where we presented OpenOffice.org.
This year CeBIT celebrated its 20th anniversary and had 6,262 exhibitors, including over 3,300 from abroad.
The germanophone project had a nice booth in hall 4, where also Microsoft, SAP and other small companies exhibited their goods :-) We presented the project together with some companies, which offer services around OOo and which made our booth possible. Additionally we had two lectures in the "LinuxPark".
Please have a look at our summary (german):
http://de.openoffice.org/veranstaltungen/cebit2006/index.html
English version:
http://de.openoffice.org/veranstaltungen/cebit2006/index_en.html
(thanks to Volker Merschmann and Sigrid Kronenberger for this!)
Some photos from the event:
http://de.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=562 "
By Jacqueline Rahemipour
I know, that some of you have interest in the marketing activities from the germanophone project, so I would like to give you a short summary of CeBIT 2006 in Hannover (9.03.-15.03.06), where we presented OpenOffice.org.
This year CeBIT celebrated its 20th anniversary and had 6,262 exhibitors, including over 3,300 from abroad.
The germanophone project had a nice booth in hall 4, where also Microsoft, SAP and other small companies exhibited their goods :-) We presented the project together with some companies, which offer services around OOo and which made our booth possible. Additionally we had two lectures in the "LinuxPark".
Please have a look at our summary (german):
http://de.openoffice.org/veranstaltungen/cebit2006/index.html
English version:
http://de.openoffice.org/veranstaltungen/cebit2006/index_en.html
(thanks to Volker Merschmann and Sigrid Kronenberger for this!)
Some photos from the event:
http://de.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=562 "
By Jacqueline Rahemipour
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Microsoft to Delay Office 2007 With Vista
Microsoft said Office 2007 would be delayed until next year, a move that will coincide with the delay of the highly-anticipated Windows Vista operating system.
The software giant had originally planned to make Office 2007 and Vista available concurrently in the fourth quarter in late 2006.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3594051
The software giant had originally planned to make Office 2007 and Vista available concurrently in the fourth quarter in late 2006.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3594051
Friday, February 24, 2006
OpenOffice.org Premium introduced
Kami Hir, from the Hungarian Native-Lang project ( http://hu.openoffice.org ) introduces OpenOffice.org Premium:http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=
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