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OpenOffice.org Newsletter 6-2006

From: "Erwin Tenhumberg"
Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org Newsletter - Volume 03 - Issue 12 - 06/2006
Date: Fri, June 30, 2006 17:53
To: announce@openoffice.org

OPENOFFICE.ORG NEWSLETTER
Volume 03 - Issue 12 - 06/2006
Please send news clippings to:
newsletter@marketing.openoffice.org

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For up-to-date news visit the OpenOffice.org Newsletter Blog:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com
To read all of this month's stories in full:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_ooonewsletter_archive.html
ATOM feed:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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Contents
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1. Announcements
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* OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Here. Download It Now.
* PR: OpenOffice.org challenges Microsoft's Office "Test Drive"
* Registration for attending to OOoCon2006

2. Success Stories
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* OpenOffice.org at Migrant Helpline
* OpenOffice.org on 400,000 desktops in France

3. Featured News
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* First Brazilian OpenOffice.org Meeting
* StarOffice = Computer Shopper's "Best Budget Buy"

4. Tips & Tricks
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* Geertjan blogs about the OpenOffice.org API and NetBeans
* OpenOffice.org Help TNT (Tips 'n Tricks)
* Free OpenOffice.org Tutorials

5. OpenDocument News Roundup
6. Clippings
7. Events

All news for this month can be found at:
http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_ooonewsletter_archive.html

Want to help OpenOffice.org? Find out hot to contribute or see our To Do List!!
http://www.openoffice.org/contributing.html
http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html

Announcements
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OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Here. Download It Now.
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"* performance improvements: for example, a 23 percent improvement in certain Calc benchmarks
* further improvements to file format compatibility with Microsoft Office files
* new email integration features for users wanting to send emails in Microsoft file formats
* more control over how exported PDF documents will display when opened in a PDF reader
* support for more languages and improvements in hyphenation and thesaurus
* support for Intel architecture for Mac OS X plus improved Mac OS X System integration
* built-in check for updated versions"
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=292

PR: OpenOffice.org challenges Microsoft's Office "Test Drive"
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"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.

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!"
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=291

Registration for attending to OOoCon2006
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"If you want to attend to the OpenOffice.org Conferences 2006 in Lyon (France), you should register to help us organizing the conferences. You just need to answer the question on one of these pages depending of your prefered language:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/registration.html
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/registration_fr.html"
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=290

Success Stories
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OpenOffice.org at Migrant Helpline
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“"According to Box, training is vital to the successful adoption of any computer software, but this is especially true with open source applications.

'Many companies try Openoffice but give up because it is slightly different and not an exact copy of what they know. Properly configured, training in Openoffice and other open source applications can overcome these difficulties.'

Migrant Helpline now has 120 PCs running Openoffice and has linked its offices together using open source system IPCop as a virtual private network. Dayborn estimates that Migrant Helpline may have saved up to '750,000 by implementing its open source systems, although this is a headline figure, based on the savings that the charity would have made if it had been paying full price for its Microsoft licences. Even taking into account the discount Migrant Helpline receives on some of its Microsoft software, the savings are still substantial, and the users at the charity are now much happier with their system."”
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/06/13/216332/Open+source+makes+a+good+donation.htm

OpenOffice.org on 400,000 desktops in France
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According to the following French web page, OpenOffice.org will be installed on 400,000 desktops in France:
http://www.adele.gouv.fr/sdae/article.php3?id_article=1083

Featured News
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First Brazilian OpenOffice.org Meeting
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“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.”
http://www.openoffice.org.br/?q=first_brazilian_meeting

StarOffice = Computer Shopper's "Best Budget Buy"
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Computer Shopper reviewed 6 different presentation tools, and selected StarOffice 8 as the "Best Budget Buy". Here is a short quote from the review:

"StarOffice comes with similar fonts to Office, in case you don't have them. So you can exploit the huge resource of PowerPoint templates available."
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/labs/221/presentation-software/products.html
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/labs/87574/sun-microsystems-staroffice-8-impress.html

Tips & Tricks
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Geertjan blogs about the OpenOffice.org API and NetBeans
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/geertjan

OpenOffice.org Help TNT (Tips 'n Tricks)
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/oootnt

Free OpenOffice.org Tutorials
http://www.jup-it-er.co.uk/Publications.html

OpenOffice.org Solutions Page
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions

OpenOffice.org Migration Studies
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Migration_Documents
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Market_Share_Analysis

OpenDocument News Roundup
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The Emerging ODF Environment Part III: Spotlight on StarOffice 8
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“OpenOffice.org was the first office suite available in languages that typically are not supported by any commercial application. For example, OpenOffice.org was the first office suite available in Catalan, one of the official languages in Spain. OpenOffice.org is also available in eleven South African languages, and millions of Hindi and Tamil versions of the software have been distributed or downloaded in India.

In addition, for many people OpenOffice.org is the only affordable office suite, because some people may have to decide between buying food or software.”
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20060605074812177

ODF Alliance Comments on French Interoperability Guidelines
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http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/FranceRGI_20060614.pdf

Denmark ministries to publish in ODF by September
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"The Danish government will launch a four-month pilot program in September that will involve publishing documents in the OpenDocument Format (ODF), part of the country's broad endorsement of using open computing standards."
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1532219476;fp;16;fpid;0

The Ministry of Finance in Denmark will publish in ODF
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"Bonus news: In the report from the Science Committee, one can read that there's more to ODF in Denmark: Also the Ministry of Finance will from September 1, 2006 publish its new publications in ODF 'unless certain contractual or content-related conditions occur'. The Government aims to have 3-4 or more ministries in the pilot launched by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation."
http://gotze.eu/2006/06/openize-denmark-parliament-orders.html

Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
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"The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is to be the standard format for exchanging documents within the Belgian government. This proposal, which is expected to be approved by Belgium's Council of Ministers on Friday, increases the pressure from governments worldwide on Microsoft to embrace open standards. From September 2008 onwards, all document exchanges within the services of the Belgian Government will have to be in an open, standard format, according to the proposal now before the Belgian Ministers. Only ODF is accepted as such a standard in the proposal. Earlier drafts of the Belgian proposal had treated ODF and Microsoft's own Open XML format (which is to be included in Office 2007) on equal footing."
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39276978,00.htm

ODF Alliance growing fast
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"Meanwhile, the movement supporting ODF is gaining momentum worldwide. Last week, India's leading technical institutions, global IT companies and government agencies held their first national event in support of ODF, including the formation of the Indian Chapter of the ODF Alliance. In less than four months, membership in the ODF Alliance has rocketed from 36 organizations to more than 220 members in 40 countries."
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story06-29-2006/0004389569&EDATE=

ODF in India
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"Welcoming this initiative and highlighting its importance in Indian IT Scenario, Chandershekhar, secretary, Ministry of Information & Technology, Government of India said, "We are glad to note that with formation of a National ODF alliance, India too would be playing a pivotal role in spearheading the ODF revolution. Further, considering the huge potential of eGovernance in the nation as well as the need to adopt open standards to make our data systems more inter-operable and independent of any limiting proprietary tools, we feel that ODF is a great technological leap and a big boon to further propel IT right to India's grass root levels. I congratulate this initiative of leading private & public organisations and wish them all the best in this endeavor.""
http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=85632

ODF special interest group formed in Malaysia
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"Mission Statement
To promote the adoption of ODF (OpenDocument Format) and open standards in Malaysia"
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/06/odf_special_int.html

Sun, Microsoft answer Mass. call for ODF/Office converter
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"Those developers include Sun, which said it has created two ways to convert any Office file to ODF using its own StarOffice software; OpenDocument Foundation Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based group that said it has developed converters for Microsoft Word and Excel files and is now working on PowerPoint; and four smaller companies, all of which have developed file converters for Word, Excel or PowerPoint, but not all three."
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9001535

Clippings
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Thoughts about the office productivity market
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_27/b3991412.htm

Microsoft delays Office 2007 again
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6089694.html

Events
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Upcoming
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OSCON 2006
Portland, Oregon, USA
24-28 July 2006
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/

LinuxWorld San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, USA
15-17 August 2006
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com

OpenOffice.org Conference 2006
Lyon, France
11-13 September 2006
http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/

Newsletter Archive
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Past issues of the OpenOffice.org Newsletter can be found in the archive of the announce mailing list:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=announce

Contact Information (regarding this newsletter)
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newsletter@marketing.openoffice.org


OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Here

From: "Louis Suarez-Potts"
Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Here. Download It Now.
Date: Thu, June 29, 2006 20:05
To: announce@openoffice.org,dev@marketing.openoffice.org,dev@native-lang.openoffice.org
Cc: dev@openoffice.org,users@openoffice.org

All,
OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 is now ready for download, three months since the release of 2.0.2. This latest release contains a mixture of new features, bug fixes, and security patches, and demonstrates the OpenOffice.org Community's determination to maintain its position as the world's leading open-source office productivity suite.

The security patches fix vulnerabilities that have been found in internal security audits. Although there are currently no known exploits, we urge all users of 2.x to upgrade to the new version or install their vendor's patches accordingly. Patches for users of OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 will be available shortly. For details of the security issues fixed, see Security Bulletin 2006-06-29: http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin-20060629.html

Key features of the new release:
* performance improvements: for example, a 23 percent improvement in certain Calc benchmarks
* further improvements to file format compatibility with Microsoft Office files
* new email integration features for users wanting to send emails in Microsoft file formats
* more control over how exported PDF documents will display when opened in a PDF reader
* support for more languages and improvements in hyphenation and thesaurus
* support for Intel architecture for Mac OS X plus improved Mac OS X System integration
* built-in check for updated versions

OpenOffice.org is also the first office suite to support the ISO approved OpenDocument Format as its native file format. The standard - ISO/IEC 26300 - defines how office documents (spreadsheets, wordprocessor documents, etc.) must be stored so that they can be exchanged with any compliant software package. Its adoption represents an historic "Freedom of Information" breakthrough for the IT industry.

* Download OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 now from our volunteer servers. Not all languages may be ready, so check with your favourite Native Language project (http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html). http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/
* If you find the pages too busy, try using our legal peer-to-peer (P2P) system. http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/
* If you do not have a suitable internet connection, consider buying a CD-ROM from an OpenOffice.org Community Distributor. http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/

--The OpenOffice.org Team

About OpenOffice.org
The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®.

OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office
Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as legacy industry file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 70 languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL) and may be used free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial.

The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor.

Links
* The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org
* To learn more of the project, see http://about.openoffice.org/
* OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 may be downloaded free of charge from http://download.openoffice.org
* Further information about the suite may be found at http://www.openoffice.org/product

Press Contacts
John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
jpmcc@openoffice.org
+44 (0)7 810 278 540

Cristian Driga (UTC +0200)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
cdriga@openoffice.org
+40 7887 000 60

Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis@openoffice.org
+1 (416) 625 3843

Worldwide Marketing Contacts
http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html



Get Legal - Get OpenOffice.org

From: "John McCreesh"
Subject: [ooo-announce] PR: Get Legal - Get OpenOffice.org
Date: Wed, May 3, 2006 00:01
To: announce@openoffice.org

Press release - for release Midnight GMT May 2 2006
One week after "World Intellectual Property Day", the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project announces a new campaign: "Get legal - Get OpenOffice.org". A new website - http://why.openoffice.org - explains how to escape from Microsoft Office licence costs and compliance worries - for good. Webmasters and bloggers worldwide are encouraged to display the campaign banner to help promote the campaign.

2006 has seen proprietary software companies and their agencies increase their efforts to stamp out illegal copies of their software. Last week, the Business Software Alliance used "World Intellectual Property Day" to announce a record reward for anyone informing against illegal software in UK organisations. Microsoft acquired a company specialising in detecting software installed on PCs. Microsoft also announced its intention to extend its use of the internet to put piracy detection software into copies of MS-Office on people's PCs.

For many users, this is a worrying development. Microsoft licences are often complex, and it is easy to become non-compliant, especially as the number of PCs in an organisation increases. Illegal copying has proliferated in many developing countries, where foreign currency is scarce and proprietary licence fees are simply unaffordable.

OpenOffice.org 2 offers a simple way out of the licence trap
OpenOffice.org 2 is a free alternative to Microsoft Office products such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Powerpoint. OpenOffice.org 2 is released under an open-source licence: anyone may use the software for any purpose (including commercial). Users are encouraged to pass on copies to friends, family, students, employees, citizens - anyone.

OpenOffice.org 2 uses files created by Microsoft Office equivalents. Users need little or no retraining. Studies have shown that the costs of migrating to OpenOffice.org 2 are minimal - a tenth of the cost of migrating to the new Microsoft Office 2007.

No wonder a poll has shown 86% of users would prefer to try OpenOffice.org 2 rather than buy Microsoft Office 2007.

Get freedom from licence worries - Get Legal - Get OpenOffice.org.

About the OpenOffice.org Community
The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org 2. OpenOffice.org 2 is released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL).

The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems (founding sponsor and primary contributor), Novell, Red Hat, Intel, and Google.

Links
The campaign website http://why.openoffice.org contains links to the studies referenced in this press release. The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org. OpenOffice.org 2 may be downloaded free of charge from http://download.openoffice.org. [NORSKE versjoner finner du på: http://no.openoffice.org/about-downloads.html] Further information about the suite may be found at http://www.openoffice.org/product

Press Contacts
John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
jpmcc@openoffice.org
+44 (0)7 810 278 540

Worldwide Marketing Contacts
http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html

Attribution
Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.