“equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism”
The Italian revenue agency has just released the list of ONLUS and volunteer organizations that are eligible for tax payers’ donations (5 per mille), and PLIO, the Italian OpenOffice.org association born in 2007 ,is among them!
PLIO has received 171 preferences, and it is in the first third of the list order by amount desc. The total amount of donations is 5.519,72 euros.
Thank you all for your donations!
Continue reading ‘OpenOffice.org Italian Association Thanks Tax Payers!’
BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 to Skip Two-Way GMail Sync? - Differently from what expected the BlackBerry Internet Service 3.0 upgrade doesn’t include the ability to work with OpenOffice presentations, spreadsheets, and documents.
Jeremy Allison of the Samba fame wrote an interesting blog post about Sun’s approach to open source participatory development, followed by Bradley Kuhn’s bad opinion of Oracle’s attitude towards open source.
Oracle’s plans for open source are probably not detailed enough to score, but looking at history is always instructive.
OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 released today - GullFOSS blog reports the news enlisting the most important new features.
OpenOffice.org 3.2: 10 Years in the Making - Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier posts his impressions about the new release.
300,000,000 Downloads Later, OpenOffice Ships Version 3.2 - TechCrunch reports the impressive download numbers.
3.2.0 Release Candidate 2 (build OOO320_m9) - Release Notes - Have a look at OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, it is the second RC of the future feature release.
OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin 1.0 released - The new OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin - a plugin for KDE file managers to preview OpenDocument Format files as thumbnails - has been released.
UX meeting in Hamburg, Day Two - Discover what the Renaissance team is currently working on to tclean up Impress user interface.
The second ODF Interoperability Workshop held in Orvieto gathered together more than 30 ODF experts, developers and stakeholders from public administrations to improve ODF interoperability. People from all over the world for two days collaborated to ensure not “merely” standards’ compliance but true interoperability, below an essay of facts and figures of the event.
Continue reading ‘Second ODF Plugfest: Notes from the First Day’
Christian Biasco, author of π-Videoblog - a video series dedicated to intellectual property and intellectual freedom - has just released the video guide dedicated to OpenOffice.org. The OpenOffice.org video is the third of the PinGuide series, and it has been sponsored by two Italian LUG (LinuxTrent and FoLug).
PinGuide is a collaborative project, volunteers willing to translate videoguides are welcome, if interested contact directly Christian.
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Two days ago in Orvieto we announced that in two weeks the open source and open standards world will converge in Orvieto (Italy). The second ODF Plugfest (2-3 Nov) will open the week, bringing together implementors and stakeholders from all over the world to work together on ODF interoperability.
The OpenOffice.org 2009 conference (4-6 Nov) - organized by PLIO association and Orvieto LUG - has a very rich program, including specific sessions aimed at schools and at OOo development.
OpenOffice.org development switches to Mercurial - Come to the OpenOffice.org conference in Orvieto to learn why OpenOffice.org development switched to Mercurial.
How to export OpenOffice presentations to PDF - Learn how to manage notes page and eventually print them.
Burton Group’s “Short List” of Productivity Suite Leaders Goes Beyond Microsoft - -Burton Group says that the productivity suite market is in the midst of a rebirth.
Although Microsoft remains the market leader, it is being challenged by suppliers on Burton Group’s ‘Short List’ including IBM, OpenOffice.org, and Sun.
Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Migration Overview - A white paper edited by Sun Microsystems (requires a registration) providing a simple migration blueprint introducing to a six step process (Implementing a test phase, Creating an inventory of tools and Microsoft Office dependent solutions, Identifying documents and macros that are still in use, Organizing the migration team, Converting work-flow critical documents, templates and macros and eventually Training and post-deployment support). A case study and scenarios are also discussed.
Nearly there - John Mc Creesh says it is almost time to go to the OpenOffice.org conference. Look at the Conference Programme and if you can make it don’t forget to register online, Orvieto waits for you!
Git and OpenOffice.org - ideas about how could be possible to auto merge OpenOffice document from Git.
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