An Australian spell check English dictionary.
It also includes the US English thesaurus and the GB English hyphenation dictionary.
This version is for OOo 3.X.
For OOo 2.3.x, 2.4.X Use the dictionary wizard via menu File->Wizards->Install new dictionaries.
The Sun Presentation Minimizer is used to reduce the file size of the current presentation. Images will be compressed, and data that is no longer needed will be removed.
The Sun Presentation Minimizer can optimize the image quality size. Presentations designed for screen or projector do not require the same high quality as presentations designed for print.
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) objects are useful during the presentation design phase but they are up to twice the size of a regular image.
The Sun Presentation Minimizer can replace these OLE objects with images without any quality loss. In addition to reducing the file size, the Sun Presentation Minimizer can remove speaker notes and hidden slides so that you do not publish confidential information by mistake.
The wizard summarizes of all of the changes that will be made to your presentation, and gives you an estimate of the file size reduction.
Note ! The Sun Presentation Minimizer also works on Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
The PDF Import Extension allows modifying existing PDF files for which the original source files do not exist anymore. PDF documents are imported in Draw and Impress to preserve the layout and to allow basic editing. It is the perfect solution for changing dates, numbers or small portions of text. Native PDF forms are not yet imported.
The next development step will focuses more on the edit capabilities and less on layout by using the Writer.
The PDF Import extension will also enable the PDF export into a hybrid PDF file, which is a PDF with the embedded source file as ODF. Hybrid PDF files will be opened in StarOffice as an ODF file without any layout differences, while users without StarOffice can open the PDF part of the hybrid file.
This is just a beta version and it requires the OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta 2 to work. Please help us to optimize this Extension, any feedback is important for us. Find details about the preferred channel in this
GullFOSS article.
For the past few weeks I’ve been developing an idea to extend OpenOffice.org 3.0’s Welcome Screen into a more complete Dashboard concept. The idea sprung from Google Chrome’s new tab screen, Spicebird’s Home screen, and the social software ideas being developed as KDE’s Open Collaboration Services.
Yesterday I uploaded (well, Alexandro did it for me) a mockup to the OOo Wiki in order to share my OpenOffice.org Dashboard concept for further discussion. I have some plans to improve the current mockup, and will attach an ODG to the page to make it easier for others to illustrate ideas to build on top of what I have started.
If you’re interested, please check out the page and provide some feedback.
I think this Dashboard idea fits well with our plans to make OpenOffice feel more modern, configurable, and social, so let’s see what the community can do with this!
In the ongoing effort to speed up the automated tests i had a look at the global filters which are loaded during each test initialization. These filters are defined in gvariabl.inc, called from master.inc and filled in t_filters.inc.
Some time ago we switched from UI filternames to API filternames which resulted in using the API calls FileSaveAs() and FileOpen() instead of opening the file dialogs each time. The result was a considerable speed gain. You might want to read my prior blogs about this subject:
Thorsten Bosbach reworked large parts of the initialization code switching as much as possible to API calls instead of accessing the controls/settings via UI. While doing so we noticed that establishing a UNO connection to the office can be a quite time consuming process as well (though still much faster than UI actions).
So I started profiling and noticed that retrieving the filter names via GetDefaultFilterNames() took somewhere near 15 seconds because the filters were retrieved with API calls one by one.
The first optimization i did was to get the whole bunch of filters in one go from the API reducing the time to some 6 to 12 seconds - still a lot (about 20% of the test case initialization time).
I discussed the matter with my fellow QA colleagues and we decided to further pursue the matter.
The result was: Only one test really needs all filters (f_first.bas) and some filters were used in a grand total of 11 .inc files.
So i suggested removing the call to GetDefaultFilterNames() from master.inc. The details of the modification is fully documented in issue 96341 which is resolved in CWS qascripts02 to be integrated into DEV300m36.
The speed gain is at least 6 seconds per test file of which we have 225 for the time being. Additionally i was able to trash on unused function, moved two functions to the /includes/optional/, a nice little cleanup benefit. If you need the current UI filter names you just have to include the file in your .bas file:
sub LoadIncludeFiles[...]
use "global/tools/includes/optional/t_ui_filters.inc" call GetUseFiles()end sub
This extension is the existing Welsh Language spelling checker for OpenOffice.org 2 repackaged as an extension for OpenOffice.org 3 onwards.
[fr] GeOOo est une extension de cartographie thématique qui utilise les liaisons dynamiques entre des "objets polygones" et une "base de données". Elle permet de produire une carte thématique en associant des données géo référencées via les modules de dessin, tableur et base de données d' OpenOffice
OpenOffice.org NL/L10N people are many all over the world. Native Language (NL) Confederation includes more than 80 language projects. Localization (L10N) status lists nearly 100 languages. We are really diverse.
The "Meet NL/L10N People" Poster Part I visually demonstrates the diversity. But we are so much more diverse that we have to do Part II.
See two issues:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=96369
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=96373
The Part II has started!
Compose Special Characters lets you type two or three characters and use a keyboard shortcut to convert them into a single accented or special character. Writer and Calc are currently supported.
You can also use a dialog to insert any supported character. The dialog lists all supported characters and the character combinations you use to compose them. The characters are categorised in the dialog for easier reference. Once you know the character combination you need for any particular character you don't need to use the dialog if you assign the ComposeSpecialChar to a keyboard shortcut.
To open the dialog choose Compose Character... on the Insert menu (Insert > Compose Character...).
You can assign the ComposeSpecialChar macro to the keyboard shortcut of your choice via a button on the dialog, or you can manually assign it to whatever key combo you choose via Tools > Customise... > Keyboard.
HOW TO USE
After installing the extension you'll need to close OpenOffice then re-open it to see the new Compose Characters... menu item on the Insert menu.
OOO300_m12 has been built by Hamburg RE. No open build problems are known, and smoketest has been passed successfully.
Tasks and their ChildWorkspaces for Milestone OOO300m12
3.0.1 fixes
CWS for issue i94693.
OOo 3.0.1 Calc bug fixes
Bugfixes for 3.0.1
fix issue 92968 (autorecovery does not recover the previously auto-saved document version, but the last one which was regularly saved)
Framework fixes for OOo3.0.1
OOo 3.01 bugfix worspace
impress fixes for OOo 3.0.1
port CMC"s DEV300-based fix to have a minimal Firefox/Thunderbird profile detection (and thus xml security functionality without full-blown Mozilla code) to OOO300
OOo 3.0.1 installation tasks
Fix for i95313
Allow OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 to recognize itself as 3.0.1 instead of 3.0.0
The OpenOffice.org Usage Feedback Extension is an extension that collects anonymously data about how OpenOffice.org is used. This information is used to better understand how people use OpenOffice.org. Especially with regards to the user interface. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/OpenOffice.org_User_Feedback_Extension This cws only contains fixes to the core in OpenOffice itself, not the extension.
bugfixing OOo 3.0.1
fixes in Writer for OOo 3.0.1
Fix a trivial sysui solaris issue
Important changes for update notification behaviour and recognition of patched version number.
by Hamburg Release Engineering
The Free Software Foundation maintains a list of High Priority Free Software Projects, where it has identified important technologies that need a free software implementation or need greater community support for an existing implementation.
As the key ideological driver of Free Software, the FSF plays an important role in its continuing development and also to keep it true to its roots. The intention with this project is to make sure no choke points develop in which the internet or the free software world can be controlled by proprietary and closed products.
From the project’s page:
“Our list helps guide volunteers and supporters to projects where their skills can be utilized, whether they be in coding, graphic design, writing, or activism. We hope that you can find a project here where your skill, energy, and time can be put to good use.
“Some of the most important projects on our list are replacement projects. These projects are important because they address areas where users are continually being seduced into using non-free software by the lack of an adequate free replacement.”
This extension generates a data input form for tables in calc, reproducing the Data - Form feature of Microsoft Office Excel.
Usage
In Calc, create a table with at least one row and the headline, for example:
Name | Surname | Cellphone
John | Smith | 1234455
Then, click on a range or any cell of the newly created table (not on empty cells), and go to Data - Form. That's it.
A form should appear letting you insert other records, or edit-delete the old ones.
For developers
you can also call the routine with a specified range as (optional) parameter:
coboDataForm(<B1:D10>)
Part of the extension is based on the code of this OOoForum discussion:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=283278
Available languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmal, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.
If anybody wants to help for the translation in other languages, please post a comment or contact us (see the link below). It's just a few strings.
License: GPL v2
MultiDiff is a tool which enables users to simply and simultaneously issue OpenOffice.org documents in several formats. It is possible to send those documents by mail or save them in a directory, so that other users can access them.
Compatibility
- OpenOffice.org : 2.2 and above (Writer, Calc and Impress)
- OS : Linux and Windows (XP, 2000, 98)
- mails Clients : on Linux - Evolution, Sylpheed ; on Windows - Outlook (Express et 97), Thunderbird, Eudora.
.riess Date Browser is an Extension for OpenOffice.org / StarOffice and provides date browsing and date
picking functionality within OpenOffice.org.
This allows a comfortable way for looking up a date using a calendar view. A nifty tool for all users filling in
dates into documents often.
This tool has been created by .riess applications gmbh based on tools dedicated to improve and simplify
developing for OpenOffice.org in the programming language java such as “Java Macro Plugin” and “Java
Uno Wrapper”.
Changelog:
Automatically inserts no-break space before colons, semicolons, ..., according to the french typographical rules.
Note that after installing the extension, you have to restart OpenOffice.
Driven by a strong minimalist spirit, SimpleTemplate is a new collection of themes for OpenOffice.org Impress. As the name suggests, "One" is the first element of this series.
Note: Given that either the Slide Master feature is perhaps still sort of buggy, or apparently I have yet to master it, the current release is pretty much craftmanship work, that is, you will have to copy/paste the pages in order to keep the consistency of the design. That being said, my very first goal for the next release is to actually achieve seamless integration with the new Slide Master feature.
Template to lay out an essay in MLA format. College students will find this useful as most professors expect essays in this layout. Middle school and high school students can impress their teachers by using this layout as well.
Features include:
To Do List:
Провера писања и растављање на слогове за српски језик (lat, ћир)
Provera pisanja i rastavljanje na slogove za srpski jezik (lat, ћир)
Сазнајте више о српској локализацији OpenOffice.org пакета на:
http://sr.openoffice.org
http://ooo.matf.bg.ac.yu
Реализовали чланови српског OpenOffice.org тима за локализацију.
Аутори проширења су Милош Поповић (gpopac gmail com) и Горан Ракић (grakic devbase net) као природни наставак на rs4ooo пакет који је издао Александар Урошевић (urke.dd urosevic net). Провера писања је заснована на српском ГНУ аспел речнику који је приредио Горан Ракић (http://srpski.org/aspell).
Растављање на слогове је преузето из српских образаца за растављање за TeX (srtex издање 14/01/2001) које је приредио Страхиња Радић (mr99164 alas matf bg ac yu), а засновано на обрасцима Дејана Мухамедагића (dejan yunix co yu) од 25. децембра 1998. године.
A little macro that adds a 'Insert / Page number...' dialog to writer. It eases the way you can add page numbers to a document.
Available in French, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.
sync() in umount conditional on actually having
unmounted something, looks nice on the boot charts: sent off a
patch. Filed various bugs, more mail poking.
With Appleseed, Elgg, Mugshot, BuddyPress and others, I’m seeing a lot of development activity around open source social networking.
Following this back to Appleseed, the very first attempt at an open source social networking platform that I personally discovered, brought me to a post on Marc’s Voice blog titled “How to Build the Open Mesh.”
A broad treatise on the subject and a strategic map, the linked post is actually a table of contents to ten detailed chapters on the topic:
“I have created a series of blog posts which attempts to map out many of the issues, constructs, technologies and standards required to build out the open mesh.
“Each post has a chart showing how the particular area I’m focusing on - looks vis a vis one’s ID and profile record. Then I started to imagine what these charts would look like - overlaid on top of each other.
“Each one of the posts maps out who the major players are, who are the dudes and dudesses down in the trenches doing the work and how do I see all these areas meshing together.
“So here is the Table of Content on the series. Please send me any input, feedback, corrections, additional names and players and lets all build the open mesh - together.”
When people talk about “Web3.0,” I imagine this is what they mean. Not just the read/write web, not just a giant semantic database like the Semantic Web, but rather the combination of both those things with a layer of personal human data and relationship graphs. It’s huge, fascinating, and will keep us busy for the next decade or more.
Insert > Formatting Mark has a host of goodies for extra control over your text flow, such as a non-breaking space or hyphen.
First, set up OpenOffice so you can get all the options. Choose Tools > Options > Language Settings > Languages and select the indicated Enabled for Complex Text Layout option. Click OK.
Now choose Insert > Formatting Mark and choose the one you want.
You can see the keyboard shortcuts on the menu, and here are a couple as described in the Help.
<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-top: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0.02in; font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Arial", "Helvetica", "Lucida", "Geneva", "Helmet", sans-serif, "Andale Sans UI", "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Tahoma"; font-size: 10pt } -->
* Nonbreaking space: To prevent two words from being separated at the end of a line, press the Ctrl key when you type a space between the words.
* <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-top: 0.02in; margin-bottom: 0.02in; font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Arial", "Helvetica", "Lucida", "Geneva", "Helmet", sans-serif, "Andale Sans UI", "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Tahoma"; font-size: 10pt } -->Nonbreaking dash: An example of a non-breaking dash is a company name such as A-Z. Obviously you would not want A- to appear at the end of a line and Z at the beginning of the next line. To solve this problem, press Shift+Ctrl+ minus sign. In other words, hold down the Shift and Ctrl keys and press the minus key.
by training@getopenoffice.org (Solveig Haugland) at November 18, 2008 01:49 PM
by ericb (noreply@blogger.com) at November 18, 2008 09:54 AM
OxygenOffice Professional Galleries as OpenOffice.org Extension (NON FREE)
Adding pictures, Clip Arts easily and briskly to your document. This extension offers several galleries to you.
NOTE: The gallery elements are included in this extension have modification limitations by licenses...
This Extension contains parts of OxygenOffice Project. This project creates and collects templates, galleries and other useful extras for OpenOffice.org and release them as easy-to-install Extension packages. Also you can download OxygenOffice Professional product which is a bundled Openoffice.org installer with all available extras.
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An auction's afoot (no pun intended) to see who we'll be partnering with us to integrate their businesses and brands into our binary product distribution - the possibilities are limitless: people tend to print those documents, fax them, copy them, project them (and I know this annoys my friends in the free software community, but branding allows us to invest more in OO.o community and features, from which everyone benefits).It looks like we can all look forward to more Sun (or other) brands across OO.o, and auctions (with presumably un-disclosed terms & payments) for product positioning inside OO.o (as well as Java). The piece about investing more in OO.o is a bit rich though, given the fact of their declining investment. As a corollary - Is success having a Sun watermark on every printed page ?. Another interesting aspect of this blog is how Java (and Java ISVs) are being used to drive MySQL adoption: seems reasonable; but what if you contribute to (or use) Java but don't like MySQL ? (perhaps preferring the better postgresql eg.) and don't want your support and use of Java to turn into support for MySQL: bad luck I guess.
The Switchboard extension generates a Switchboard/Main Menu interface to access Base forms and reports. The switchboard can be grouped into categories, each of which can contain any number of menu entries. Furthermore, you can specify the size and screen location of the form to be opened.
The generators creates three database objects.
1)The SWITCHBOARD table which has some basic information about the switchboard such as size and location of main form as well as size and positioning of menu entries.
2)The SWITCHBOARDITEMS table which has the menu entries configuration information.
3)The SWITCHBOARD form. This is a blank form generated by the wizard, and is populated with the menu entries. This form document can be modified by the user—keeping in mind that the menu entries need to be positioned at runtime.
All these items are generated automatically when the extension main hook is launched, and that database document does not have said objects. The main hook can be accessed through the Tools | Add-ons | OpenOffice.org Base Switchboard menu option. The extension can only be opened from a Registered Base document.
Currently, there are four types of menu entries that can be generated. Forms, Reports, Switchboards, and Switchboard Links. The Form and Report entries open a form or report, respectively. At runtime, the difference between a Switchboard and Switchboard Link is trivial. A Switchboard is an entry that appears as the parent of other entries (a menu). A Switchboard Link is an entry that links to another Switchboard menu—but does not have entries; this is usefully to get back to another menu (such as main menu) from an entry that may be nested somewhere down the hierarchy.
A Database form or report need not be located in the database where the Switchboard is located. This feature makes it possible to have a main switchboard that gives access to forms and reports from any number of databases.
Version 1.0.2 Notes
Fixed several bugs: strange errors that occurred when loading the extension dialog. These were due to failure in trying to fish out the database name from the current frame. Added several other methods of getting database name, should the first fail. As a last resort, it will open a file picker where you can select a registered database—or cancel. Also, fixed bug that deleted the the target menu instead of deleting a switchboard link item—in configuration dialog.
Features added: Hungarian translation (Thank you Zoltan Reizinger). Added ability to include a entry button icon as well as specify label font (size, color, Bold, Italic). The font size is especially important, as Base 3.0 forms default to a very small size—also in some Linux versions.
Thank you all who reported bugs and suggestions, and Zoltan for providing translations as well as testing.
Here is a sample Switchboard with icons.
Este es el diccionario en Español para Argentina, con sinónimos y separación de sílabas.
El formato de la extensión es la del Diccionario Expañol-Mexico de J. Eduardo Moreno (Gracias)
Los diccionarios son los que siempre utilicé en OpenOffice (hasta 2.4) de Santiago Bosio (Gracias)
[17/11/08] Diccionario de sinónimos de OpenThesaurus-es (Gracias)
Es mi primer aporte, con pocos conocimientos. Si me equivoqué en algo o estoy en falta, por favor hagan llegar el mensaje.
Espero les sirva (sobre todo, a aquellos Argentinos que actualizamos a OO 3 y no sabíamos como poner el diccionario con el nuevo formato de extensiones).
Saludos.
Finally, StarOffice 9 is available.
Basically it's almost the same as the recently released OpenOffice.org 3.0.
The most important differences are indemnification, and up to 3 warranty support calls included in the retail version. Some people also like our hotfixes and patches that we provide for StarOffice only, while you always have to do full installations for new OOo releases.
It's really up to you whether you want to use StarOffice or OpenOffice.org - in the end we are happy to offer different levels of services contracts for both products.
ODF@WWW, Kay Ramme’s wiki project built on OpenOffice and ODF, has been accepted as an official incubator project, Ramme announces.
He presented it at the recently-concluded OpenOffice.org Conference in Beijing and writes, “Since last week ODF@WWW is an Official Incubator Project 
You find it’s home page at http://odf-at-www.openoffice.org.”
Integration with and adoption of Web 2.0 concepts has been an important development strategy for OOo, and this is a strong adaptation of wiki concepts into the familiar word processor paradigm. Its growth should be interesting to observe and groundbreaking in many ways.
EuroOffice Map Chart Professional is a new chart type integrated into OpenOffice.org Calc and through the Sun Report Builder into OpenOffice.org Base that makes it possible to visualize geographically related data. Showcase your statistics over detailed maps of European regions, the United States or the world!
Unique to the professional version are the following features:
More information
For installation instructions and further information check our FAQ!
Don't miss the annotated example!
Try the free version before your purchase! It can only display countries over the map of the world, but it is not time-limited or crippled in any way.
The price of EuroOffice Map Chart Professional is €9.90 for a limited time as an introductory offer.
EuroOffice Map Chart is a new chart type integrated into OpenOffice.org Calc and through the Sun Report Builder into OpenOffice.org Base that makes it possible to visualize geographically related data. Showcase your statistics over detailed maps of the world!
The professional version of EuroOffice Map Chart is also available! This version enables you to create charts using 4 different map databases. The highlight is a detailed map of Europe, containing not just countries, but smaller regions down to the NUTS 3 geographical unit level. Define custom names and display custom chart symbols over them in EuroOffice Map Chart Professional!
For installation instructions and further information check our FAQ!
Don't miss the annotated example!
This is a very useful feature, I think, so I'm reposting it.
Anytime you can help people do something without actually have them do anything is great for them and great for you.
Templates are a great way to save time. Set up templates with the styles, graphics, etc. that people need, and they don't need to re-create them. (Or create them in the first place.)
However, getting users to use the templates is another step. For them, choosing File > New > Templates and Documents might not be something some will want to do or remember to do every time.
What if one of the templates you've created is one that many or all users use all the time as the basis for new documents? You can make it come up when users just choose File > New > [type of document] by setting it as the default template. I.e. the user uses the template but doesn't even need to select it.
First, create a new document and make it how you want it: create styles, apply styles, include canned text, whatever.
Choose File > Templates > Save. Select a category and name the template. Click OK.
Choose File > Templates > Organize.
Open the category your template is in, in the left side.
Right-click on the template and choose Set as Default Template.
Click Close. You're done! Choose File > New > [type of document] and you'll see the effect.
To switch back to the normal original boring blank document, repeat the steps but this time choose Reset Default Template > [type of document]
by training@getopenoffice.org (Solveig Haugland) at November 17, 2008 12:40 PM
You might not do it today or tomorrow, but you'll do it someday. You'll need to paste some content from a Web page, or a Word document, or something else that's got some goofiness embedded in it, into your Writer document.
Don't do it.
That is, don't just do a plain paste. Copy > Paste from here
gives you this.
Lots of cleanup.
Plus, when you paste from outside sources you sometimes get lots of sections. Sections are indicated, when you have nonprinting characters and text boundaries showing under the View menu, like this.
Choose Format > Sections and you'll see allllllll the little sections and how complex they are.
Why do you care? It's just icky and unnecessary, the sections will behave differently, you'll pull out your hair. Here's one example. I'm changing the left margin for the whole document, but only the section my cursor was in behaves.
So not to get into too much detail, but a plain paste will not give you what you want.
Choose Copy, then choose Edit > Paste Special (or Ctrl Shift V) and choose Unformatted Text.
And then you get this as your pasted result. MUCH better.
by training@getopenoffice.org (Solveig Haugland) at November 17, 2008 12:33 PM
It was a great pleasure to meet RedFlag 2000's Calc developers at OOoCon in Beijing. Of course the successful collaboration continues, resulting in some cool new features:
Lliurex in Valencian
This post is long overdue however the things that I present in Alicante were pretty interesting. Contrasting what Malaga had, this event was much more smaller yet it was very rewarding in the sense I got the time to chat with people all around the world.
Basically I want to propose projects and enterprise deals that will benefit the OOo community and the overal FLOSS adoption. These projects benefit both parties and also make the project even a bigger proposal for everybody. I digress…
The conference started with a bit of dissapointing un-attendance in the sence that most of the speakers were just leaved to their own luck. Nobody pick me up from the airport nor help me with my settling around Andalucia. I didn’t had any chance to see the city beyond what my legs walked me through. However on the other side, I got a good time relaxing and finally having a break from the constant flying. So I had the chance to take a long bath and really relax for a while. Also the fact the hotel was also a Spa hotel help me enjoy even more using some of their pillow menu.
The next day was pretty good, got to meet with John Maddog from Linux International again and talk about Obama’s win and what it could mean for the US. After the quick meal we were ready for the event. I came in early because I really want to see the expo before people came in. I was able to see a really great set up full of wide variety of hardware. People had thin clients running the host distro — lliurex. Lliure means freedom in Valencian and this is like freedomX.
So I got to talk wtih the people of many of the companies, associations an sponsors that were in the event. I got to chat about developments and innovations and how OOo will be presenting great stuff with the education project.
Unfortunately I felt many of the atendees that mattered weren’t there to attend to the conference so my message might have not been correctly targeted. After my talk I sensed many people were simply users and they didn’t had the means to push an education project forward. At the same time I think that through the magic of the internet and since the talk was recorded. There is still hope for many to at least by recycling my conference through services like Slideshare.
Other talks were interesting but i most say that I wasn’t attending to many of them since the education target and the fact that they were giving it in valencian really didn’t help my attention span. I rather was doing some work on my laptop about things to make O4Biz and the Education presentation more smooth.
Since one of the event participants didn’t make it, I was asked to give a second talk during the conference. That meant that I would be able to give my first part of my tour presentation. The repeat of the great Open for business conference. Again I felt the audience was the best for the talk but I was happy that at least i got a recording out of this great talk which I couldn’t record at OSWC.
After the conference I got the chance to talk with many of the Lliurex project including the main manager of the project Sofia Belez, who is a very kind and beautiful woman. We got to get around the option of integrating the Valencian localization into the OOo project and avoid issues during their building process. Is funny because a simple email would have done it. However they had two years talking with Sun and different entities and they have got nowhere. This means that there is still a change of culture to be made. The internet is an open platform but sometimes dealing with phisical people can prove to be a handicap. Instead of contacting developers they contact distros which don’t make software so applying changes will only fork the projects.
However now that we are on the right track we can start leveraging and building upon freedom. Not however without the support of the rest of the OOo community. Is important that projects such as big as OOo we can have sustainable communication networks and protocols so that information reaches to a higher than normal spead wtihout falling into the usual pitfalls of flamewars that can stigmatize a project or initiative.
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David Fraser
Duncan Foster
EIS
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Eric Bachard
Erwin Tenhumberg
Florian Reuter
Fong Lin
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GetOpenOffice.org Blog
Gullfoss
Hubert Figuiere
Ismael Merzaq
IssueZilla
Jan Holesovsky
Jan Navratil
Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jayant Balraj Madavi
Jean Hollis Weber
Jody Goldberg
Jon Pryor
Joost Andrae
Kai Backman
Kazunari Hirano
Kohei Yoshida
Laurent Godard
Louis Suarez-Potts
Malte Timmermann
Martin Hollmichel
Maxime Petazzoni
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