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Mittwoch März 19, 2008

"MAMPU Migrates to OpenOffice.org"
"The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), today officially adopts a policy to migrate to the OpenOffice.org open source productivity suite. This is in line with the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Master Plan, which calls for government agencies to reduce costs, increase freedom of choice and interoperability. From April 1st, MAMPU will start adopting the OpenDocument Format (ODF), standard for all new documents created."
The full article can be found here. Very cool!
( Mrz 19 2008, 06:21:58 PM CET ) Permalink

Per-incident support available for OpenOffice.org
If you are really stuck with a terrible problem, and if you are unlucky and don't find the right answers to your problem in the public user forums, you might want to try out the new per-incident support for OpenOffice.org.
( Mrz 19 2008, 06:18:39 PM CET ) Permalink

Writing long documents with OpenOffice.org
I recently had an email exchange with students about writing a thesis using OpenOffice.org. It became apparent from that email thread that many people are still not aware of the master document feature in OpenOffice.org. In case you also don't know how to use the master document feature, you should check out one or all of the following links:

The other area where both more tools and documentation are needed is the area of bibliographic and reference management tools. Here is a list of different applications that have varying support for OpenOffice.org and ODF:

If any of these vendors or projects don't yet provide the level of integration that you need, either use the feedback forms to submit your feature requests or contribute to the projects!
( Mrz 19 2008, 06:14:36 PM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Screenshots of OpenOffice.org 3.0 features
This article shows screenshots of a number of features that will be new in OpenOffice.org 3.0. The article already got slashdotted!
( Mrz 19 2008, 05:53:37 PM CET ) Permalink

Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"
The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!
( Mrz 19 2008, 05:50:30 PM CET ) Permalink