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OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released for beta this week. Here is a few videos from the Danish version: New front page: New zoom function New comment function

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Clarifying versions: OpenOffice.org 2.0 - 2.3.1ODF 1.0Approved by ISO OpenOffice.org 2.4ODF 1.1Has not submitted to ISO for approval OpenOffice.org 3.0 (upcomming) - ?ODF 1.2Under development The problem with Alex Browns validation test (http://www.griffinbrown.co.uk/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=f0384bed-808b-49a8-8887-ea7cde5caace) is, that he is using a document from OpenOffice.org 2.4 and

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For some time there has been an advert for OpenOffice.org showing on the screen as the regular Java Update downloads and installs. I'm very happy about Sun advertizing for OpenOffice.org like this and its a good way to spread the message to millions and millions of computers and users all over the world. A few days ago I got a call from a journalist (http://www.computerworld.dk/art/45636) asking

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The May issue of the Danish Newsletter is on the street now: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Maj

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The Danish version of OpenOffice.org 2.4 has been downloaded 24.335 times from http://da.openoffice.org. This is the first time we have some kind of statistics, so it has been very exciting to follow the numbers. This is the day-by-day numbers.

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The answer is no ! From version 3.0 OpenOffice.org will be able to read MS Office 2007 documents. The purpose is not to support an academic developed file format, but to help the pour users who by accident get hands on a document from Microsoft Office 2007. I'm not sure if all document types (text, spreadsheet, presentations etc.) will be supported, but I know that first step is to support

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The translation has gone wild. The Danish project now only needs to translate another 300 strings before we are done with the job. Thanks to all the translaters. You have done a great job.

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Microsoft is commenting on the master thesis I wrote about a few days ago (http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/04/master-thesis-openofficeorg-vs.html) on the website Comon (http://www.comon.dk/index.php/news/show/id=35500) . Among other things, Jasper Bojsen from Microsoft in Denmark says that... It is not possible to say, that the same calculations are valid for all public institutions, because

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OpenOffice.org vs. Microsoft Office is the title of the master thesis from Birgir Ingolf Sigurðsson, Cand.merc(dat) at Copenhagen Business School. The master thesis is in Danish but there is a short summary in English: This master thesis focuses on whether OpenOffice.org has the necessary attributes to be labeled a reel alternative to Microsoft Office and whether the Faroese public sector can

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The monthly Danish newsletter is released and can be downloaded here: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008April.pdf Here is my own translation of one of the articles... Standards and free competition by Leif Lodahl, spokesman for OpenOffice.org in Denmark The international organization for standardization ISO is about to decide if the document format from Microsoft can be accepted as an

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The Danish version will be released in just a few days. The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4, the latest version of the leading open source office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.4 includes new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to all its core components. OpenOffice.org 2.4 is available for immediate download from http://

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I hope that OpenOffice.org 2.4 will be released within a few days. It was originally planned to be released about two weeks ago, but it was unfortunately delayed by a few late discovered faults.While we are waiting, we can just as well look forward against the next major release, witch is 3.0 planned to be released in September 2008.You can find a good and relatively detailed walk-through

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The monthly newsletter is again on the street. This time with a breaking story about the Municipal of Tønder. All elementary schools have changed to the use of free and open source software and the municipal has actually made a financial benefit analysis showing cost reduction DKK 410.000. If we project this amount of money into national level, we are talking about DKK 55 mio. that could be

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First day at the office after a week on vacation. And a busy day too. My company has decided to introduce common layout on our letter stationaries. Huh ? So my job was to consolidate all the individual letter templates, contract templates etc. to a common company layout. Fantastic decision. The rest of the world did this in the late 80's I think. OK now, we are using Lotus Notes in several

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Last year we gathered in Barcelona, Spain. Where should the conference be held this year ? Six proposals is up for a vote: Amsterdam, The NetherlandsBeijing, ChinaBratislava, SlovakiaBudapest, HungaryDundalk, IrelandOrvieto, ItalyRead more about the conference and the election here: http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/cfl/ I think China sounds very nice, but i'm afraid that I wouldn't be

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Version 2.4 is announced to be released next month, but we already have a release candidate. At this moment there seems to be no more showstoppers. I can recommend to try it ! Build OOH680_m7 is the technical name and it can be found here http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html and various languages (including the Danish) here: http://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/

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A small piece on open source communities in general and OpenOffice.org specific Each time you enter a shop to buy something, this can be grosseries or a computer program, you have an expectation that it is ok and that everything works as described. You have the right to demand certain quality because you payed for what you have bought. If the new DVD player doesn't work, you can have it repaired

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In different work situations we need to use different tools and we have the opportunity to design OpenOffice.org to provide us with the relevant tools at all times. This because we can store specific settings in documents and templates. If you have created a new menu or menu item or maybe a new toolbar, you can choose not to store it in the application, but in one specific document or template

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On 7 December 2007, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a new million-dollar fund to foster innovation in six of the open-source projects it sponsors and contributes to http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp . We are pleased to report that OpenOffice.org was included. The contest, which we have titled the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program, commences tomorrow, 30 January,

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The Danish on-line newspaper Verison2 has an artivle today about the best open source applications. I guess it's from an end users perspective. The article http://www.version2.dk/artikel/6015 is not based on a survey or anything, but it's seen from the journalists perspective. The list is: Mozilla FirefoxOpenOffice.orgInfraRecorderPDFCreatorScribusThe article claims that 1.692 articles on

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The monthly newsletter has been on the street for some more than a year now. The amount of receivers is increasing month by month. This issue is send to 975 people. You can read the February edition as pdf here: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Februar.pdf

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This is my first year as lead and therefore also my first annual status report. Trough out the past year I have tried to keep you all up to date on my blog: http://lodahl.blogspot.com. In periods I wrote blog posts every day. I'll try to continue this in the future, though in a lower frequency. What happened in the passed year ? First of all, my English is getting much better. I hope you

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I joined a new project lately. We are working on a certification program for OpenOffice.org. I hope that you will be able to call you self Authorized OpenOffice.org user or Authorized OpenOffice.org Specialist some day. Wouldn't that look great on your business card and in your CV ? Over the last few days I have been reviewing the syllabus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabus) for Writer and

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I was trying to help my Norwegian colleges find out why our Lotus Notes to OpenOffice.org integration didn't work properly. I have used several hours figuring out what the problem was. Of cause field mapping must be accurate and in this case it's also case sensitive. And of cause: all required data must be available in the Notes-document. Hokus pokus. It works. Here is a movie that shows how

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The December edition of the Danish OpenOffice.org monthly newsletter has just been released. Read it ! Text edition: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&msgNo=40 Pdf edition: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2007December.pdf

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