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OpenOffice.org

Colin Charles

OpenOffice.org Community

Marketing Contact

Malaysia, Victoria/Australia

byte@aeon.com.my

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Agenda ...

OpenOffice.org 1.1 – The Applications

Feature Highlights

Roadmap

OOo 1.1.0 is out now

1.1.1RC3 is available for testing (fix-up release, to become OOo 1.1.1)

OOo 2.0 is the major improved release

Planet OpenOffice.org

http://ooo.ximian.com/planet/

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)

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

http://ms.openoffice.org/ needs YOU!

The Momentum

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

The Education Sub-project

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

Debug me

Debug me..

cho:~/cvs/ooo/HEAD/sandbox byte$ grep -r DispatcherAdapterFactory_Test.java *

Binary file unxmacxp.pro/bin/sandbox_src.zip matches

unxmacxp.pro/misc/lib_sandbox_util.dpz:

../com$/sun$/star$/lib$/sandbox$/generic$/test$/DispatcherAdapterFactory_Test.java \

Debug me...

Delete unxmacxp.pro & build :)

OOo 2.0 requires:

Java SDK (preferably Sun's, but...)

Ant – XML files build as Makefiles

gpc – GNU Pascal Compiler (replace with libart possible)

“Some” build time, and about 4GB disk space

GTK+ (2.2) native widget framework

http://{tools.oo.o, api.oo.o, porting.oo.o}

Other productivity applications

KOffice – uses OASIS XML file-format

GNOME Office – light-weight, powerful

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

http://training.bytebot.net/ - FREE training resources

OpenOffice.org Adoption
by Vision 2020

Colin Charles

2003-08-27T15:29:29