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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software in the Voluntary Sector <voluntaryfloss_-at-_flora.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 07:50:37 -0400 (EDT)
Just forwarding this announcement. I haven't used Beta2 yet, but have
been very impressed with Beta1 which I have been using for some time now.
Unlike others who think that Linux or Apache are the FLOSS
<http://www.flora.ca/floss.shtml> 'killer applications', I believe that it
is OpenOffice.org.
Operating systems are primarily development environments for software
creators, and Linux isn't yet dominant in the desktop sector that is most
important to volunteers.
Apache is dominant in its market (60% is huge given there is more than 2
competitors), but is important to Web-host administrators. While FLOSS
should be used on web-servers of any volunteer organization, this only
affects a few people.
Office productivity tools touch pretty much every computer user from the
home to the corporate user. File formats are also the primary tool used
to create artificial dependencies on specific brands. OpenOffice.org the
program coupled with the OASIS Open Office XML file format will break
those dependencies and free up these volunteers!
If you haven't tried OpenOffice.org yet, please take the free download
and try it out. It will work along-side whatever office suite you
currently use, so there is absolutely no risk in using it: this is not a
Linux-only program as it works well on Microsoft Windows and MacOS-X as
well as others.
If you are in Ottawa and don't have high-speed, let me know and I can
get OpenOffice.org CD's for you. If you are a volunteer organization I
even offer free consultations, installation and basic help to such groups:
http://weblog.flora.ca/article.php3?story_id=126 I have only used
OpenOffice.org on Microsoft Windows and Linux, but I can help you with
other platforms as well.
If your organization needs training, I can arrange that as well. While
I am not the best person to do this, I do know a number of technology
educators who could do the job.
---
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than
politicians should be bought. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:47:39 +0100 (BST)
From: Sander Vesik
Reply-To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org
To: discuss@openoffice.org, dev@openoffice.org, users@openoffice.org,
dev@marketing.openoffice.org, announce@openoffice.org
Subject: [Marketing] Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta2
Announcing OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta2
We are glad to announce that the Beta 2 of the next version of
the OpenOffice.org Office Suite - OpenOffice.org 1.1 - is now
available for download from:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta2/index.html
Openoffice.org 1.1 Beta2 represents a significant advance in the
application and incorporates the features and changes introduced
in the developer builds over the past year. The release includes
a massive amount of new and exciting functionality, features and
bugfixes compared to the OpenOffice.org 1.0.x releases, the
highlights of which are:
* Many new import/export formats like DocBook, several
PDA Office file formats, flat XML and XHTML
* Support for PDF and Macromedia Flash export
* Support for Complex Text Layout (CTL) and vertical writing
languages such as Thai, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew
* Enhanced integration with Java
* Support for Accessibility
* Enhanced support for add-on components
* Improved online help
* Support for new languages and locales
New since OpenOffice.org 1.1 beta:
* Support for printer independent layout
* GUI support for xslt based filters
* Improvements to pdf export
* Enhanced ole editing support on windows
* A large number of bugfixes
For a more complete list of features please see:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.1beta2/features.html
For people interested in getting started helping OpenOffice.org become
better, faster and above all more bugfree, a page detailing how to best
file bugs, how to help the QA project deal with bug reports, how to
run OpenOffice.org with Valgrind and a number of ready made bug query
scripts, exists at:
http://www.kegel.com/openoffice/
Thanks for supporting the OpenOffice.org project.
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