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| <strong>FIVE YEARS OF OPENOFFICE.ORG, MORE TO COME |
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| <p><strong>13 October, 2005 - 1400 UTC</strong></p> |
| <p>On this day, five years ago, the fledgling OpenOffice.org community |
| provided the first public access to the source code donated from |
| StarOffice by Sun Microsystems. The OpenOffice.org community had |
| recently been formed, and declared it's intent "to create, as a |
| community, the leading international office suite that will run on all |
| major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data". Since |
| then, the popularity and functionality of the OpenOffice.org office |
| productivity suite has grown exponentially and has had a major impact |
| not only in the greater Open Source community, but for all users of |
| office productivity software, worldwide</p> |
| <p>The last five years have not only seen significant improvements in the |
| software, but also a notable growth in the community and a number of |
| organisational changes. These changes include the tremendous growth of |
| the Native Language Confederation, which now numbers thousands of |
| contributors, the establishment of a Community Council, and the |
| Engineering Steering Committee, both of which go a long way to improving |
| communication and transparency in one of the largest open-source |
| communities. OpenOffice.org developers and contributors number in the |
| thousands and they live in every part of the globe. From its early days |
| to now, OpenOffice.org has been international in scope and mission.</p> |
| <p>Significant contributions from many organisations including Novell, Red |
| Hat, Debian, Propylon, Intel and primary sponsor Sun Microsystems, |
| ensure the ongoing presence and support of OpenOffice.org. Independent |
| contributors also make a considerable impact in terms of code |
| development, marketing, translation, documentation and web presence.</p> |
| <p>The OpenOffice.org community looks forward to the continuing the |
| expansion, enhancement and innovation of technologies within the suite.</p> |
| <p>One thing is certain, there is more to come.</p> |
| <p><strong>About OpenOffice.org</strong></p> |
| <p> The OpenOffice.org Project is an international community of volunteers |
| and sponsors including founding sponsor and primary contributor, Sun |
| Microsystems. OpenOffice.org develops, supports, and promotes the |
| open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org. The project can |
| be found at //. OpenOffice.org fully supports |
| the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS |
| Standard and is available on major computing platforms in over 60 languages.</p> |
| <p><strong>Global Marketing Contacts</strong></p> |
| <p>Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00)<br> |
| OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead<br> |
| jacqueline@openoffice.org<br> |
| +61 (8) 9474-3021</p> |
| <p>John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)<br> |
| OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead<br> |
| jpmcc@openoffice.org<br> |
| +44 (131) 523-9218</p> |
| <p>Louis Suarez-Potts<br> |
| OpenOffice.org Community Manager<br> |
| louis@openoffice.org<br> |
| +1 (416) 625-3843</p> |
| <p>Copyright © 2005 - OpenOffice.org<br> |
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