{"id":382,"date":"2006-03-14T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T13:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2006-03-14T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T22:21:19","slug":"ooo-is-sufficient-for-evangelical-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/14\/ooo-is-sufficient-for-evangelical-use","title":{"rendered":"OOo is sufficient for evangelical use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some surreal goodness, the Energizer Life Church in Hobart, Tasmania runs an all Mac shop, and they use (get this) Keynote for their announcements!<\/p>\n<p>I told them all this was rather expensive and a misuse of church funds, and looking at Linux and OpenOffice.org will make sense in their next upgrade cycle. Besides, they can&#8217;t even get more volunteers to help, seeing that only two folk know how to use Keynote\/OSX.<\/p>\n<p>OOo has this wonderful advantage of being cross-platform. 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It's in the works, its nearly ready, and we'll be at least grabbing Michael Meeks' feed, Dan Williams, and this blog. Sander will set up a blog over the weekend, he promised. GNOME has a cool Find Files feature (Actions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":152,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/07\/ooo-techpreview4","url_meta":{"origin":382,"position":1},"title":"OOo TechPreview4","date":"7\/6\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, TechPreview 4 is out, for OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. It runs like a charm, in fact I used it for my AUSOM talk. Kevin Hendricks basically fixed the \"it mucks up my directory permissions\" bug #28606. 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Well, its always been the case then.... for both building and the app itself Accessibility features need Sun's JDK 1.4.1 with the ATK layer XML file filters as well as XSLT filters, including that for Docbook\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":186,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/28\/ooo-20-changes","url_meta":{"origin":382,"position":3},"title":"OOo 2.0 changes","date":"28\/7\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Some OOo 2.0 improvements (which you'll see in the latest milestone releases that crop up): MS Office (Word) has a Format Painter that people love, and the Stylist really does have a workaround. But the birth of the Format Paintbrush will make OOo 2.0 more MSOffice like. 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We've gotten 1.1.1rc out. (release notes) The OpenOffice.org folk, with our education subproject, is looking for a mascot. Students have come up with interesting drawings, so go vote for our OOoEdu mascot now! 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