A Viable Alternative to Office?

95% Office, at less than 1% of the cost!

OpenOffice.org

Colin Charles

OpenOffice.org Community

Marketing Contact

Malaysia, Victoria/Australia

byte@aeon.com.my

http://www.bytebot.net/

Agenda ...

OpenOffice.org 1.1 – The Applications

Feature Highlights

Roadmap

OOo 1.1 is out now

1.1.1a is available for testing

OOo 1.1.1 is the next fix-up release

OOo 2.0 is the major improved release

Why OpenOffice.org?

Piracy doesn't:

Provide bug fixes, rights to steer future releases, no ability to get support for stolen software, and no building of local software industry

Microsoft has DRM for Office 2003

Illegal to reverse engineer, forces updates, sharing of documents disabled

Run's on multiple OS'es:

Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and others...

OpenOffice.org Writer

Feature-rich easy to use word processor

Powerful styles and formatting support

Opens and saves Microsoft Word files

OpenOffice.org Calc

Full spreadsheet functionality, e.g.

statistical and scientific functions

pivot tables

charts

Opens and saves Microsoft Excel files

OpenOffice.org Impress

Powerful presentation tool

Opens and saves Microsoft Powerpoint files

OpenOffice.org Draw

Powerful design tool

Provides tools for Microsoft Visio-like diagrams

Broad file format support

OpenOffice.org Base

View, change, edit records (incl. drag&drop)

Form AutoPilot

Queries, tables & indexes

ODBC/JDBC database (back-end)

Microsoft Office Compatibility

OpenOffice.org opens and saves all current Microsoft Office file formats including

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Powerpoint

One-click PDF Export

No 3rd party technology required

A RM1,400 value

Export to Flash (.swf)

Presentations and drawings can be viewed in a simple browser window

No separate viewer required – browser with the Flash plug-in is enough

Accessibility

High-contrast mode

Full keyboard navigation and control

Support for assistive technology through Java technology based access bridge software

Internationalization

OpenOffice.org is available many languages

OpenOffice.org can easily be translated into new languages

Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, Hindi, Chinese (TW/ZH), Jawi

Localization II

ms_MY

http://oo-l10n-my.sourceforge.net/

http://qa.openoffice.org/localized/status.html

Bustamam & Hasbullah rock!

MIMOS released a localized build on the 31st December 2003

Say hi to Mugunth & Elan from the ta_IN team!

XML Filter Tool

Allows to create new import and export filter for XML based file formats like Excel 2002 XML

Uses XSL technology

The Momentum

Statistics

More than 23 million have downloaded OpenOffice.org

More than 13,300 people on the mailing lists

293 companies and individuals have signed the JCA

http://stats.openoffice.org/ - For more interesting stats

Local Support

atSC

Support schools and Open Source community, CD distributing

Mimos

BM Dictionary, BM Help files, www.asiaosc.org

OpenOffice.org Malaysia

http://ms.openoffice.org/

Sun Microsystems

In Schools...

Australia

Strathcona Girls Grammar, Canterbury, Victoria

United Kingdom

Skipton Girls High School

St. Monica's Language College, Bury

Colombia

14,000 PC's with support for Education Dept.

Several universities and vocational schools.

India, Spain

A Project

http://marketing.openoffice.org/education/schools/

Wilmslow High, in the UK burnt 50 OOo CDs for schools in Malaysia

11 ICT Vocational students took on the task

Included the JRE

Due to success, it has been repeated again!

Students from Wilmslow

La Salle

We got some pictures from:

La Salle Sec. School

Sultan Abdul Samad Sec. School

Bukit Bintang Sec. Boy's School

Showing folk why OOo?

Provide notes in OOo format

http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/stat100/

Encourage them for the features such as:

free education resources available out there, fits on a USB Thumb Drive (Iomega has a commercial version), can share it, its FREE!

Teach them:

StarBASIC macro programming, database integration with OOo as a front-end, basics of OOo (or office suites)

Languages

...and why not OOo?

Educators: Exam database creation done via closed-source software that depends on MSOffice

We worked a solution with mdbtools (http://mdbtools.sf.net/), and OOo

Conversion of documents might run?

Training?

It's different?

Remember, we must learn and teach a word processor for what it's worth and not a product

How to contribute

Take part in the OpenOffice.org in Schools Initiative – started October 13th 2003

Advocate OOo

International Grades in Office Technology

http://www.theingots.org/

Make free course-ware:

http://www.bytebot.net/training/

fsedu.org

www.digitaldistribution.com - free sample, but payware

The Developer Platform

Source code available from a local mirror with full SDK capabilities:

http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/openoffice/stable/1.1.0_sdk/

Learn and use C++, Java & Python

XML being open, people have used Ruby & Perl to manipulate files

Solver is included...

OASIS

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office

Great Community Spirit

Translate OOo...

Give it away

Talk about it

Plenty of support

mailing lists, websites, friends

Install it within schools

Offer conversion services

www.oooconv.de

Interesting Resources/Books

OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit

http://www.getopenoffice.org/

Taming OpenOffice.org Writer

http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/

OOoSwitch: 501 Things...

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalogpricelists/ooo501.htm

http://www.bytebot.net/openoffice/faq.html

OpenOffice.org Adoption
by Vision 2020

Colin Charles

2003-08-27T15:29:29