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eLiberatica second edition,
30th - 31st May 2008 (Friday-Saturday), World Trade Center, Romania
Following the huge public success the first edition of eLiberatica gained in 2007, the second edition will continue in the same tradition: to gather community and business leaders around the world to talk about the hottest Open and Free Technologies topics.
eLiberatica has its unique […]
Written by cdriga on April 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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The OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) is the annual meeting of the
international OpenOffice.org Community. It is the premier event for anyone
interested in or working with OpenOffice.org. OOoCon is where
representatives of all the community projects meet to celebrate and learn
from the achievements of the past twelve months, and discuss how to meet
the challenges of the next twelve.
This year […]
Written by cdriga on February 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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Two days ago I discovered an inspiring blog posting on OpenOffice.org which deserves mentioning as it seems to me genuinely true and sincere. This blog (The Kratzers) has a post dated January 27th 2008 titled: Thank You, OpenOffice.
The author - a satisfied Microsoft Office user - expresses his pleasant surprise about OpenOffice.org.
He outlines the fact […]
Written by cdriga on January 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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This tutorial shows you how to extract the uncompressed images from a Microsoft Word Document using OpenOffice.org free office suite. You can even extract embedded cliparts (like WMF files) or other vector based graphics embedded in the document, in their original format.
This tutorial is inspired by How to extract the images from a .doc […]
Written by cdriga on November 4th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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Are you presenting in conferences graphical charts and figures which continuously change and you have no time to update the slides? All you need is your OpenOffice.org Impress presentation and an active Internet connection to show your audience the live figures your team or your server assembles for you back at home. The data is […]
Written by cdriga on October 31st, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Looking for a list of office suites available on the market to include in the poll for my blog, I ran across this Office suites comparison charts page on Wikipedia. It’s quite a good place to compare software options when it comes to office suites and it also adds to the competition between the suites. […]
Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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A company executive from Quickoffice claims that OpenOffice.org users mostly save their documents in .DOC (Microsoft Office) file formats. Slashdot is wondering, is this true ? The Slashdot article is located here.
The question remains and would be a good one to include in the next OpenOffice.org user survey. I personally save in ODF, the OpenOffice.org’s […]
Written by cdriga on October 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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PRESS RELEASE:
OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary
104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite
Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing since the release […]
Written by cdriga on October 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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Press release
One week after “World Intellectual Property Day”, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project announces a new campaign: “Get legal - Get
OpenOffice.org”. A new website - http://why.openoffice.org - explains how to escape from Microsoft Office licence costs and compliance worries - for good. Webmasters and bloggers worldwide are encouraged to display the campaign banner to help promote […]
Written by cdriga on May 3rd, 2006 with no comments.
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[…] He went on to show the audience, through another word picture describing a 1904 fire in Baltimore, how open standards can prevent unhealthy dependence on one vendor. “Firefighters were called in from all the surrounding states,” Wheeler said. “But all they could do was stand and watch the building burn, because their firehoses would […]
Written by cdriga on April 10th, 2006 with no comments.
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