OpenOffice

Try installing Ubuntu on your netbook computer. See it up and running, and have Firefox, OpenOffice, Skype, running on top of it. These will keep you online, connected and productive, in no time.

With such, productivity soar, while at the same time: you'll also relatively be freed from viruses that typically spreads around in Windows computers.

You can download the Ubuntu Netbook Remix here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook and you can also check list of compatible netbook computers here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport/Machines/Netbooks

Enjoy!

   

Click here to download:

Get_Ubuntu_for_your_Netbooks_s.zip (178 KB)

Cloud Computing: Initially people would (experimenting) using cloud computing for storage, sharing and stuff. Eventually we will use it for work, in the truest collaborative sense.
How would OpenOffice (the next version) fits into this equation? Perhaps this is something exciting that we could (and need) to improve about, and work on. Starting now.

Office System is facing one of the greatest transformation ever. No longer it will be just about bold, italic and numbers, eventually it will start incorporating true collaborative feature, which essentially connects these front-end system that we all already understand, with the new way of working that would enable people not only to create and compose document and store it on their computer, but a new way of working that would also allow us all to share, collaborate and work together on those document, building a completely new way of how people communicate, work together, collaborate and interact, around the globe.

Contributing to such to happen, as well as seeing it truly happening, is (and would) always be a truly awesome endeavor to  pursue.

Hi,
 
The Meet NL/L10N/CIP People Poster Part I and Part II shows diversity
of people in OpenOffice.org Community.
These two posters will be on the Web page[*] soon, hopefully within
this year :-)
 
Let me introduce some OpenOffice.org terminology; NL:Native Language,
L10N:Localization, I18N:Internationalization, Marcon:Marketing
Contact, CCR:Community Contributor Representative, GSL:Graphic System
Layer, VCL:Visual Class Library, CIP:Community Innovation Program,
UI:User Interface
 
[*] http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_poster.html#l10n_1
 
I hope you enjoy them :-)
Thanks,
khirano
-- - My OOoCon 2008 Beijing Pictures:
http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/khirano
- OpenOffice.org Community Forum
http://user.services.openoffice.org
- OpenOffice.org Marketing Contacts
http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html
- Kazunari Hirano's Blog
http://openoffice.exblog.jp

Some interesting insight about Open Source trend 2009 & how OpenOffice BizDev initiative is recently being initiated:

OpenSource Trend 2009

Most open source vendors have tweaked their business models to include some kind of additional value only available as part of a subscription.

Every CTO that spoke up (and it was a very open forum) said that they are happy to pay for proprietary extensions to open-source software, and criticized pure-play open-source vendors for not providing an obvious, compelling reason to pay: proprietary bits. (One actually said that we have built a great financial model...for SIs, not for ourselves.)

Typically we now see an "open core" freely available with "exclusive" or proprietary features only available when you pay. If you are trying to build a commercial business on top of an open source project, this is likely the right answer. 

Read here for more detail: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10128801-62.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

Alexandro Colorado, as you know, is the ES NL Co-Lead, a distinguished programmer and Web designer as well as a really active member of marketing project, art project, website project, doc project, education project ... and more :)

Now he is Bizdev Co-Lead, http://bizdev.openoffice.org/

He is calling for "OOo BizDev Reloaded" on the NLC community. http://native-lang.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=com&msgNo=1353

Google Docs shows us how shared spreadsheet can be used as a way to collect information. Read here for more: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html .It would be excellent if OpenOffice could do the same.

The Romulans attack the Federation for they can’t read the Peace Treaty sent to them in Word 2307 format… they only have Word 2303. A hilarious cartoon by Geek and Poke. Joke? Perhaps … or not.
 
How many files, documents and paper that you composed during your university days (or a couple of years ago), which now -- suprisingly -- become unreadable?
How many files, documents and paper that you compose today (which you already keep, backup, copy, store very very carefully these days) yet -- unexpectedly -- would/might/may become unreadable soon (or later into the future) ??
 
This is exactly the reason why open document format (ODF) is important. ODF ensure content can be read, no matter when, where and what type of tool you use to create it. It ensure content can be read no matter what type of tool you use to read it -- today, and into the future.
In that retrospect, that's where OpenOffice becomes relevant and important. It ensures ownership of the content (and its format) belongs back to the user, and not being 'proprietarily trapped' inside the silos of particular companies, nor company.
 
OpenOffice fully embrace ODF concept since day 1. Microsoft Office until today is not. People need to make the right strategic choices in regards with such. It's people that shall be the owner of their digital content, at all time. Never companies, nor company, after all!
 
It's content -- not tools -- that is really important, and truly matters.

The next release of OpenOffice perhaps shall integrate an 'OpenOffice server capability' (on the web) seamlessly with the OpenOffice interface capabilities (on the desktop).

This way, documents can be stored on the web seamlessly, quickly and easily. From there on, sharing, tagging, searching, processing, filing, can be done easily, quickly and even more powerfully.

We believe this is one of the greatest power, powerful trend, and truly useful requirement of next generation of Office System in the 'future'.