OpenOffice.org Newsletter <www.openoffice.org>


        May 2010


    You can help the community, it is easy and fun!

There are dozens of opportunities to support the community and you do 
not have to be a developer to help out. Here are just two out of many 
examples:

Are you interested in marketing?
Go ahead and help the OpenOffice.org marketing project 
<http://marketing.openoffice.org>!
Help spread the word and, by the way, it looks good in your resume.

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

Don't be shy and start volunteering today!

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


    Summer Internship Program

Students from all over the world are invited to take their first steps 
in OpenOffice.org development. A cash bounty up to *3.500 EUR* per 
enhancement or bug fix is available. Mentors will guide students through 
OpenOffice.org development. Read More » 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_I...>
Project proposals are available here 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_I...>.


    Notes from the Community projects

OO.o at American Library Association 2010 National Conference

OpenOffice.org will be hosting booth 410 at this years American Library 
Association 2010 National Conference/Expo.
June 24-29, 2010 in Washington DC, USA.
General conference information can be found at http://bit.ly/chhb1x
Follow us on twitter for OpenOffice.org public announcements 
<https://twitter.com/ALA_OpenOffice>
For those interested in following our planning you can find us on the 
OpenOffice.org wiki 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/US/Home/ALA-2010>.  The 
OpenOffice.org organizers thank the good folks at World Labels for 
gracelessly sponsoring this event.


    This month in the Community Council

Community Council Elections

    * Olivier Hallot and Eike Rathke have been confirmed to represent
      "you" in the Community Council.
      The current elections and the underlying process is documented
      here
      <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Counci...>.
    * In the next Community Council meeting it will be decided how to
      proceed with regard to the "Product Development Representative".
      Most likely, the whole elections for this role will be re-done.
      Thus, other community members might consider their nomination.

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


    Success Stories

*Petrobras deploys OpenOffice.org in 90 thousands desktops
*

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, a 123 Billion oil and gas corporation - 
initiated the deployment of BrOffice.org (or OpenOffice.org in Brazil) 
in all its desktops, estimated up to 90.000 machines. Marcia Novaes, the 
Petrobras IT department project coordinator, stated "We also defined
the change of our internal document standards and we adopted ODF"

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    Featured News

8 Advanced OpenOffice.org Add-ons

OpenOffice.org is a great office suite for Linux and pretty much any 
other operating system, but can always use improvement. This is 
especially true for templates and clip art. Read More » 
<http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/7028/1/>

TamsPalm: X Server and OpenOffice on Palm Pre

A group of hackers now ported the X Server to the Pre, and used it to 
run an OpenOffice build. The video below shows the thingy in action: 
Read More » 
<http://tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2010/04/09/x-server-and-op...>

GullFOSS: What's the Status of Project Renaissance?

Have a look at the most recent monthly status update presentation  to 
see for yourself how Impress is shaping up. Read More » 
<http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/what_s_the_status_of>

GullFOSS: QA weekend 2010 in Essen, Germany

I'm back from this year's QA weekend in Essen, Germany.  There were 
several discussions about various QA related topics and deep discussions 
related to the QA team of the German native language community. Read 
More » <http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/qa_weekend_2010_in_essen>

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    Tips & Tricks

New-line search & replace in OO.o Writer -- the lazy way

... file has hard new-line characters after every line, and a double 
new-line between paragraphs. I could  cursor to the end of each line, 
delete it, and type in a space... Read More » 
<http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/new_line_sear...>

LinuxJournal: PDF Export in OpenOffice.org

The latest versions of OpenOffice.org provide, for no cost, most of the 
features available in Acrobat Standard for $299: Read More » 
<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/pdf-export-openofficeorg>

eHow:  How to Convert OO.o Files to Microsoft Office

OpenOffice programs use special file formats (such as .odt for files 
created with the word processor). As a result, Office cannot read 
directly such files: Read More » 
<http://www.ehow.com/how_6418993_convert-openoffice-files-...>

Softpedia: Create Talking Books with Odt2daisy for OO.o

Odt2daisy is an OpenOffice.org extension created to enable visually 
impaired individuals export documents in DAISY 3, a talking book format 
designed specifically for those with seeing disabilities or some type of 
reading problems. Read More » 
<http://news.softpedia.com/news/Create-Talking-Books-with-...>

Solveig Haugland: How to hide lines if a field is empty

When you do mail merges, especially those involving addresses, some 
people have apartments and some don't. If you are using an Address2 
field in the address block, you need to hide that line if it's empty. 
Read More » 
<http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2010/04/how-to-hid...>

Solveig Haugland: How to select an image that you put in the background 
of an OO.o Writer document

It's easy to put an image in the background, behind text. Right-click on 
the image, choose Wrap > In Background. Read More » 
<http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2010/04/how-to-sel...>

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    OpenDocument (ODF)

Is Microsoft reneging on its OOXML standards promise?

Will Office 2010 have fully 'standards-based' OOXML support - and does 
it need it? Read More » 
<http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/500-words-into-the-future-10...>

Anderson: MS Office 2010 offers choice of ODF or MS XML formats

I was surprised to see the following dialog after an in-place upgrade of 
Office 2007 to Office 2010: Read More » 
<http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2503-office-2010-offers-cho...>

How To Read ODF documents on Symbian

I tested it using Funambol email push and sync client on my Nokia E71 
and the results are quite good. Read More » 
<http://maffulli.net/2010/04/27/how-to-read-open-document-...>

Peter Korn: Access for All - 1st International AEGIS Conference in 
Seville, 6-9 October 2010

The AEGIS project has announced  that the first International AEGIS 
Conference - titled "Access for All in the desktop, web and mobile 
field: an end-user and developer perspective" - will take place in 
lovely Seville, Spain on October 6-9, 2010. Read More » 
<http://opendocument.xml.org/aggregator/categories/1>

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    Solution of the month

Cooperate. Collaborate. Share

Sironta is a P2P application that enables the collaboration with any 
other user, in any place as if they where together in the same room. 
Sironta runs smoothly in Windows, Linux and Mac.. Read More » 
<http://www.sironta.com>

Please Note:

This section introduces a single solution which provides a OO.o 
integration or based on OO.o technology. The idea behind it is to  
support vendors who have an OO.o integration.

Full list of OpenOffice.org solutions 
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_S...>

Drop <mailto:dev@marketing.openoffice.org>us an email 
<mailto:dev@marketing.openoffice.org>, if you want to have your solution 
listed.


	


        In this issue

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


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