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          <td colspan="3"><p><strong>Give a Door – Get a House</strong> <strong>::
          <a href="http://contributing.openoffice.org/">Developers Wanted</a></strong><a href="http://contributing.openoffice.org/"></a>!</p>          </td>
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          <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">What is OpenOffice.org?</span></p>
              <p class="Stil12">For <strong>users</strong>, <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a> is
                the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. It
                has been <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/index.html">downloaded</a> more than <strong>100 million times</strong> to
                date and reaches a broad audience across fields of applications,
                languages, and cultures.</p>
            <p class="Stil12">For <strong>developers</strong>, OpenOffice.org
              is much more than that. OpenOffice.org provides a complete, open
              and free development platform that provides cross-platform compatibility
              and great extensibility.</p>
            <p class="Stil12">With more than 7 million lines of code, 28 single
              <a href="http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html#components">projects</a>, 100 localized <a href="http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html#languages">languages</a>, and around 1,000 <a href="http://contributing.openoffice.org/">contributors</a>,
              OpenOffice.org is one of the <strong>world's leading open source
              community</strong> in terms of size, vibrancy, and vitality.</p>
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          <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">The OpenOffice.org
                Philosophy</span></p>
              <p class="Stil12">We design and create, as a community, an easy
                to use and feature rich office suite running on all major platforms
                based on open standards like OpenDocument and XML.</p>
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          <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">UNO, you know!</span></p>
              <p class="Stil12">At the core of OpenOffice.org is the <a href="http://api.openoffice.org/">OOo
                  API</a>,
                commonly referenced as UNO - Universal Network Objects. The UNO
                API is designed to bind to several languages including Java,
                Python, C++, and Javascript allowing developers to interact with
                and extend the use of the office suite.</p>
            <p class="Stil12">Use web services to connect to the internet, use
              COM and OLE to connect to other applications on the system, or
              access system resources directly through CLI.</p>
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          <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">Share your Code</span></p>
              <p class="Stil12">Share your code to the world with <a href="http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/">the
                  OO-Snippets-Project</a> – a code repository for developers
                  on different components and different languages.</p>
            <p class="Stil12">Whatever it is, C++, Java, Basic, or Python: you
              will be able to see how developers contribute day in and day out
              with different snippets of reusable code.</p>
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          <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">Extend, Expand
                and Customize</span></p>
              <p class="Stil12">With the Extensions feature, you don't need a
                high level of understanding of the UNO API to start extending
                OOo into places you didn't think possible.</p>
            <p class="Stil12">Use your own tools to expand functionality and
              even better, easily integrate with other applications you develop
              by using common standard protocols.The OpenOffice.org Extensions
              capability is so powerful that you can already find a growing body
              of commercial and free extensions in <a href="http://extensions.openoffice.org/">the
              OpenOffice.org Extension Repository</a>.</p>
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          <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">ODF — Open
                Standard</span></p>
              <p class="Stil12">Users create millions of documents using office
                software every day. Safeguard the future of these documents by
                using the power, flexibility and openness of <a href="http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/">Open
                Document Format (ODF)</a>. ODF was the first open and ISO standardized office document
                format. Use ODF and guarantee<br>compatibility of your company's knowledge with future waves of
                technology.</p>
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          <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil13">Powerful Scripting</span></p>
            <p class="Stil12">OpenOffice.org comes with <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide">OpenOffice.org
                Basic</a>,
              an object oriented language with which you can access components
              deep within the UNO API in the form of services. </p>
            <p class="Stil12">The ease of use of OpenOffice.org Basic, combined
              with the power of the UNO API, creates an environment for both
              rapid and powerful development and integration.</p>
            <p class="Stil12">Not a Basic fan? What about the popularity of <a href="http://framework.openoffice.org/scripting/release-0.2/javascript-devguide.html">Javascript</a>              or the elegance of <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Python">Python</a>? The OpenOffice.org scripting framework
              gives you flexibility to choose your development language, while
              giving you complete access to native libraries in different languages.</p>
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          <td colspan="2"><p class="Stil12"><span class="Stil15"><span class="Stil16">Read the Fine Manual</span></span></p>
              <p class="Stil12">Comprehensive documentation is available in <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/DevGuide">the
                Developers' Guide</a> explaining the internals of OpenOffice.org
                and hidden secrets of the powerful API. You are always welcome
                to the IRC development channel for 24x7 support, where experienced
                developers mentor newcomers. </p>
            <p class="Stil12">The OpenOffice.org website also holds a complete
              list of <a href="http://support.openoffice.org/index.html">support</a> mailing lists for developers, on all components
              and all technologies. <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">Join</a> and <a href="http://contributing.openoffice.org/">participate</a> in specialized technical
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