Category: OpenOffice.org

2010 OpenOffice.org Conference in Budapest, Hungary

This year’s OOoCon annual conference has just been announced and it will be held in Budapest, Hungary between Aug 31st and Sept 3rd. This year the OpenOffice.org project celebrates it’s 10th year since it started revolutionizing the desktops world and especially the Linux desktop adoption world-wide. Below is the original announcement from the OpenOffice.org project.…

Come to Italy for the OpenOffice.org Annnual Conference

Registration officially opened for the OpenOffice.org annual international conference 2009 (OOoCon), to be held in the beautiful and historic city of Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. Following pre-conference meetings on Nov.3rd, the main OOoCon events run from Nov 4th-6th. The Conference will include presentations not only from OpenOffice.org individual contributors, but also from the main commercial players…

OpenOffice.org Annual Conference Call for Papers (OOoCon 2009)

The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon 2009) will be held in Orvieto, Italy from November 3, 2009 – November 6, 2009. The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential speakers to submit proposals for papers for OOoCon 2009. Whether you are a seasoned presenter, or have never stood up in public before, if you have something interesting to share…

Manager’s choice: spend some time or spend money

All the software packages designed to do a certain task or job have differences in usage and looks. Buttons may be differently placed on the screen, workflow in some cases may differ from software to software, user interface will surely differ. But if they are mature applications they will certainly do the job they are…

eLiberatica Conference – Bucharest, Romania 2008

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…

2008 OpenOffice.org Annual Conference – voting opens

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…

Blog-post of the week: Thank you OpenOffice.org

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…

Tutorial: Extract original images from MS-Word .DOC using OpenOffice.org

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…

Live data in your OpenOffice.org Impress slideshow presentations

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…

Office suites comparison charts

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.…

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