Posted on: 2025-11-10 20:00:00+00:00
Wakefield, DE - 10 November 2025 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.16 is a security release incorporating bug fixes and other enhancements. This release …
Posted on: 2024-04-03 21:00:00+01:00
The Apache OpenOffice development is proceeding at a steady pace.
The "trunk" branch has seen quite some important edits in the last few months. But because not all these changes are considered "mature enough" for the public, we will try to give you an overview in this blog post.
The …
Posted on: 2024-04-01 00:00:00+00:00
The Apache OpenOffice Development Team is proud to announce that the next releases will introduce an important change: a text-only user interface.
We all know that today's applications are shifting from local systems (desktops, workstations etc.) to the cloud and to browser-centric user interfaces. This process does not always increase …
Posted on: 2023-12-22 16:00:00+00:00
Wakefield, DE - 22 December 2023 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 is a maintenance release incorporating bug fixes and other enhancements. All users …
Posted on: 2023-02-27 19:45:24+00:00
Wakefield, DE - 27 February 2023 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 is a maintenance release incorporating bug fixes and other enhancements. All users …
Posted on: 2022-08-30 22:32:53+00:00
A few days ago we have seen with great pleasure that the bar of more than 333 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice® was exceeded. The count is from 2011 until today and it includes all 4.1.x releases.
Please note that there are much more ways to get OpenOffice …
Posted on: 2022-07-22 17:57:02+00:00
Wakefield, DE - 22 July 2022 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13 is a Security release incorporating bug fixes and other enhancements. All users …
Posted on: 2022-05-04 21:27:43+00:00
Wakefield, DE - 04 May 2022 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.12, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.12 is a Maintenance release incorporating bug fixes and other enhancements. All users …
Posted on: 2021-10-06 18:04:34+00:00
Wakefield, DE - 06 October 2021 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 is a Security release incorporating other bug fixes and little enhancements. All …
Posted on: 2021-05-04 12:28:17+00:00
Wakefield, DE - 04 May 2021 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10 is a Security release incorporating important bug fixes. All users of Apache …
Posted on: 2021-02-08 17:13:07+00:00
Forest Hill, MD - 07 February 2021 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9 is a maintenance release incorporating important bug fixes. All users of …
Posted on: 2021-01-06 23:22:39+00:00
Dear Apache OpenOffice® Users,
Thank you for your interest in Apache OpenOffice and your on-going support over the years. You may have heard (e.g., through our support forums) that OpenOffice has problems with Apple's new macOS 11 (Big Sur).
When opening modern Microsoft Office Documents (files that end with …
Posted on: 2020-11-10 22:30:28+00:00
Forest Hill, MD - 10 November 2020 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 is a maintenance release incorporating important bug fixes. All users of …
Posted on: 2020-10-29 23:43:11+00:00
With great pleasure we have seen that Apache OpenOffice® was downloaded more than 300 million times from 2011 until now, October 24th. Here included are more than 200 million downloads of all releases in the 4.1.x branch. This was reached with our partner SourceForge.net.
Of course there …
Posted on: 2020-10-15 22:15:59+00:00
Leading Open Source office application and personal productivity suite under development as a community-led Apache® Project for the past 8 years
Wakefield, MA —14 October 2020— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the twenty-year …
Posted on: 2020-05-17 22:34:44+00:00
The Apache® OpenOffice® Project is on the road to a bigger update for
the leading open source office suite.
This is your chance. OpenOffice needs people to help in the development
process. Don't panic, you do not need to be a software engineer or
programmer though those skills are always …
Posted on: 2019-10-22 18:44:44+00:00
On Sep, 21st we have released Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7. Since then we had 1.6 million download requests. And this is only for the newest release. There are more for other versions that the users download due to their special needs. And not included are the many others …
Posted on: 2019-09-21 19:40:11+00:00
21 September 2019 - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office
document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7, as
usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache
OpenOffice 4.1.7 is a maintenance release aimed at correcting some
regressions and delivering the latest English …
Posted on: 2018-11-18 20:29:04+00:00
18 November 2018 - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office
document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6, as
usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache
OpenOffice 4.1.6 is a maintenance release aimed at correcting some
regressions and delivering the latest English …
Posted on: 2017-12-30 16:16:10+00:00
30 December 2017 - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office
document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5, as
usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5 is a maintenance release aimed at correcting some regressions and delivering the latest English …
Posted on: 2017-11-27 07:38:46+00:00
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each year in Brussels (Belgium) at the ULB Campus Solbosch. In 2018, it will be held on Saturday, February 3, and Sunday, February 4.
As usual, the Open Document Editors DevRoom will be jointly …
Posted on: 2017-10-19 19:44:55+00:00
19 October 2017 - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 is a maintenance release incorporating important bug fixes, security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build …
Posted on: 2016-11-28 20:04:19+00:00
Apache OpenOffice
continues to enjoy the user's valuation.
Recently the new record mark of 200 million downloads was reached. The downloads are managed by our partner SourceForge .
The high demand of the most current release 4.1.3 - that was released in …
Posted on: 2016-11-08 21:11:52+00:00
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each year in Brussels (Belgium) at the ULB Campus Solbosch. In 2017, it will be held on Saturday, February 4, and Sunday, February 5.
As usual, the Open Document Editors DevRoom will be jointly …
Posted on: 2016-10-16 21:42:29+00:00
We received the following mail from Mr. Ziegler on the developer mailing list [1] and we want to share it with all of you:
Quote start
I was encouraged to leave my aoo forum post directly in the dev mailing list so that you all can read what I wanted …
Posted on: 2016-10-12 21:46:03+00:00
12 October 2016 - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office
document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3,
now available in 41 languages on Windows, OS X and Linux.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 is a maintenance release incorporating important
bug fixes, security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build …
Posted on: 2016-09-22 21:04:50+00:00
At Apache OpenOffice we are looking for further team-mates and here especially for developers:
Posted on: 2016-09-20 19:02:41+00:00
It's time to write about new things that happen here in the Apache OpenOffice project.
At first, we want to let you know about new releases. The first will be the bugfix release 4.1.3 that will tie in directly with the current version. It's already in the cooking …
Posted on: 2016-03-24 17:46:34+00:00
Posted on: 2015-12-06 00:05:38+00:00
FOSDEM 16 will be held at the ULB Campus Solbosch, Brussels (Belgium) on Saturday, January 30, and Sunday, January 31, 2016.
Open document editors are coming again to FOSDEM with a shared devroom which gives every project in this area a chance to present ODF related developments and innovations. The …
Posted on: 2015-10-28 19:22:39+00:00
28 October 2015 - The Apache OpenOffice project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenOffice 4.1.2. You can download it from the official website http://www.openoffice.org/download
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 brings stability fixes, bug fixes and enhancements. All users of Apache OpenOffice 4 …
Posted on: 2015-09-27 14:17:07+00:00
A new OpenOffice update, version 4.1.2, has been in preparation for a while. Born as a simple bugfix release, it became an occasion for some deep restructuring in the project: several processes have now been streamlined (and some are still in the works), new people are on board …
Posted on: 2015-05-13 11:51:36+00:00
A few months ago we received an email from Jon Swords-Holdsworth, an author of "slipstream and hard science fiction" from Melbourne, Australia. He was finishing up a new volume of short stories, Stories of an Awkward Size and was seeking permission to mention Apache OpenOffice in the book's colophon. Since …
Posted on: 2015-04-13 22:24:27+00:00
Apache OpenOffice is living in interesting times, and this is a good moment to reflect on future scenarios.
The old OpenOffice.org project spawned numerous derivative products and we are proud to see how the OpenOffice ecosystem, taken as a whole, has grown so far.
Apache OpenOffice is distributed under …
Posted on: 2014-12-31 18:50:02+00:00
2014 has been an exciting year for the OpenOffice project and community.
Click on the picture below to start a slideshow with highlights from 2014. A text-only version is under the picture.
Posted on: 2014-12-24 22:08:53+00:00
ApacheCon Europe, held last month in Budapest, was a wonderful occasion for the OpenOffice community to gather and discuss the state of the project and future developments.
Videos and presentations from the conference are now available. See below for some presentations from the OpenOffice track.
Pictures are available too, courtesy …
Posted on: 2014-11-03 22:23:41+00:00
FOSDEM 15 will be held at the ULB Campus Solbosch on Saturday, January
31, and Sunday, February 1st, 2015.
Open document editors are coming again to FOSDEM with a shared devroom which gives every project in this area a chance to present ODF related
developments and innovations. The devroom is …
Posted on: 2014-08-23 08:00:06+00:00
21 August 2014 - The Apache OpenOffice project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenOffice 4.1.1. You can download it from our website.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 is a micro update with many useful and critical bugfixes including 2 security relevant fixes (details will come separately …
Posted on: 2014-07-05 11:44:30+00:00
Presentations and videos from the Open Document Editors Devroom at FOSDEM 2014 are now available.
The OpenOffice presence at the event was strong and well-received, with a number of interesting talks and many visits at the booth. And the devroom was a nice way to get together with other projects …
Posted on: 2014-05-05 12:24:54+00:00
Translations: (de)
Juergen, our Release Manager, announced the release of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.
The winPenPack team updated their portable version, x-ApacheOpenOffice 4.1.
Marcello has updated the unofficial Debian repository for Apache OpenOffice. It now "provides the version 4.1 of Apache OpenOffice with all available languages …
Posted on: 2014-04-29 11:23:18+00:00
29 April 2014– The Apache OpenOffice project, a Top Level Project (TLP) of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), announced today the release of Apache OpenOffice 4.1, now …
Posted on: 2014-04-28 12:22:21+00:00
Translations: (de)
Welcome to the second edition of Apache OpenOffice Weekly News. We welcome your feedback and contributions. You can respond with a
comment on this blog post, of course. You can also send an email to
our public mailing list: dev@openoffice.apache.org.
Posted on: 2014-04-25 14:04:40+00:00
Translations: (de)
Welcome to the first edition of Apache OpenOffice Weekly News. We're experimenting with a new way to give the OpenOffice community a look into the project and what we're doing week-to-week. We saw another Apache project, CouchDB, do something similar, and liked their approach. So in the …
Posted on: 2014-04-01 02:04:52+00:00
This is an April Fool's post: it is a humorous work and it does not describe actual developments.
As we on the Apache OpenOffice project put the final touches on our 4.1 release, we've started planning for our next major release, version 4.2, hopefully out sometime mid-year. One …
Posted on: 2014-03-10 18:09:40+00:00
We're looking for users interested in test driving our new Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Beta Release. The beta can be downloaded from our website (use the yellow box).
We release Beta versions of OpenOffice to get early feedback from users. Beta versions may have more bugs than our final GA …
Posted on: 2014-02-20 22:56:17+00:00
On International Mother Language Day the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UN agencies participate in events that promote linguistic and cultural diversity. They also encourage people to maintain their knowledge of their mother language while learning and using more than one language. Governments and non-governmental organizations may …
Posted on: 2013-12-31 13:48:18+00:00
2013 has been an exciting year for the OpenOffice project and community.
Click on the picture below to start a slideshow with highlights from 2013. A text-only version is under the picture.
Posted on: 2013-12-18 00:05:15+00:00
Apache OpenOffice and the other Open Document Editors will have a dedicated track at FOSDEM 2014, 1 February 2014, Brussels. The devroom is organized by Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice and will give every project in this area a chance to present ODF related developments and innovations.
We invite submission of …
Posted on: 2013-12-05 14:42:44+00:00
Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) is the leading free and open office productivity suite. We have many millions of users. In the past two years we've seen over 80 million downloads from our website, and millions more from 3rd party websites.
Although most users are able to download OpenOffice successfully …
Posted on: 2013-11-15 14:06:42+00:00
The Apache OpenOffice project is pleased to announce that it has successfully integrated support for the Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and IAccessible2 interfaces. Support for these interfaces enables screen readers and other assistive technologies to work with Apache OpenOffice, which in turn enables greater productivity by OpenOffice users who are …
Posted on: 2013-10-30 19:02:24+00:00
We are pleased to report that yesterday, October 29th, someone downloaded the 75,000,000th copy of Apache OpenOffice™. The 75 million downloads have occurred in the less than 18th months since the first release of Apache OpenOffice on May 8th, 2012.
Apache OpenOffice (formerly called OpenOffice.org) is the …
Posted on: 2013-10-01 13:19:11+00:00
The Apache OpenOffice project (formerly OpenOffice.org) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache 4.0.1. Building upon the success of our award-winning Apache OpenOffice 4.0 release, which was well-received by both users and reviewers, the 4.0.1 maintenance update brings new translations, performance enhancements …
Posted on: 2013-08-26 12:09:16+00:00
As August comes to a close it is time for millions of children and young adults to return to school. In preparation, parents empty their wallets for a variety of necessities: clothes, shoes, backpacks, notebooks, pencils, calculators, etc. But with one common back-to-school item parents and students often overpay by …
Posted on: 2013-07-31 15:18:20+00:00
1 year as developer with AOO [Apache OpenOffice]
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Many of the big open source software packages are to a high degree driven by developers employed by companies who sponsor manpower. The sponsorship allows a faster development than otherwise possible which is a benefit for everybody. There is however a negative … |
Posted on: 2013-07-29 13:31:42+00:00
Most of the posts on this blog are about the Apache OpenOffice product and the community of volunteers that develops it. But occasionally we write about interesting things in the broader Apache OpenOffice project, the ecosystem of extension developers, consultants, trainers, etc., that help users get value from OpenOffice. Today …
Posted on: 2013-07-23 09:23:23+00:00
Cheers to the community on the successful release of Apache OpenOffice 4.0. Full details of release can be found in our Release Notes. You can download Apache OpenOffice 4.0 here.
This was a major release and a major effort for the many volunteers who worked on coding, testing …
Posted on: 2013-07-16 15:03:53+00:00
Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Release Candidate 1 (Build 9702) has been rejected. It was not good enough. Detlef, in our German-language community, first noted the crash two days ago, which was passed on to the developers by Regina. We immediately started further testing to narrow down the problem.
Samer, in …
Posted on: 2013-07-05 03:19:58+00:00
A bit more then a year ago, we discussed the topic social media on our list. We decided to create official channels on different social media. I jumped in to join the administrator team of the official Apache OpenOffice Fan page. Since then, the number of fans has increased a …
Posted on: 2013-07-01 13:25:57+00:00
We get many emails, several per week, of individuals and companies wanting to "do business" with us. Some of it is obviously spam, but some of it is quite serious. The proposals do not have bad intentions, though they are often incompatible with our status as a non-profit organization. We …
Posted on: 2013-06-17 18:06:36+00:00
Apache OpenOffice is and always will be free to download from our website. The license allows you to use it yourself and share copies with friends and families or even total strangers. You may use it on home machines, in the office, with your small business, school, church, gardening club …
Posted on: 2013-06-10 15:59:11+00:00
I'm always impressed by the enthusiasm of OpenOffice users to try out the next great release. A frequent question is, "When will it be released?" I see this question on Facebook and Twitter, the Forums and mailing lists. "When will version <insert next version> of OpenOffice be ready?" I'd like …
Posted on: 2013-06-04 06:49:57+00:00
Usually the phrase "new and improved" does not make much sense because something either is new or did already exist and was improved upon. For the sidebar the situation is a little different. The core implementation is new but the content, the panels, did already exist. The concept, but not …
Posted on: 2013-05-15 17:19:19+00:00
We are pleased to note that yesterday we reached the 50 million download mark for Apache OpenOffice 3.4. This milestone occurred within a few days of the first anniversary of the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4., on May 8th, 2012.
Apache OpenOffice (formerly called OpenOffice.org) is the …
Posted on: 2013-05-10 12:57:17+00:00
A quick update on our recent logo survey for Apache OpenOffice 4.0. We called on community members to submit proposals for a new project logo. The response was huge. We received over 40 logo proposals. To narrow down the choices we sought out feedback from users. We created a …
Posted on: 2013-04-18 16:13:26+00:00
Viewers of the hit ABC sitcom Suburgatory may have noticed something special in the season 2 finale last night, in an episode called "Apocalypse Meow". Lead character Tessa (played by Jane Levy) used the free, open source office productivity software Apache OpenOffice on her Mac, to outline the pros and …
Posted on: 2013-04-17 13:54:24+00:00
The above image illustrates the social network of posts and responses to the Apache OpenOffice project's main development mailing list, from when it started in May 2011 until the end of March 2013 when this data was collected. (Click on the image to view a …
Posted on: 2013-04-10 12:19:55+00:00
Once again the Apache Software Foundation is a "mentoring organization" in Google Summer of Code, and the Apache OpenOffice project looks forward to this year's program.
We invite students looking to get their hands dirty with real-world code to consider submitting an GSoC application related to OpenOffice.
Why OpenOffice?
Posted on: 2013-04-08 15:36:49+00:00
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Microsoft has announced that they will end support of Office 2003 and Windows XP on April 8th, 2014. What does this mean? As they describe, "After April 8, 2014, there will be no new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options or online …
Posted on: 2013-04-04 12:12:08+00:00
We receive many questions from users looking for a portable version of Apache OpenOffice. "Portable Applications" are software applications designed or adapted to run from portable storage, like a USB memory stick, without requiring an installation. Such applications allow you to bring your applications, settings and documents with you. One …
Posted on: 2013-03-22 17:25:18+00:00
Document Freedom Day, the last Wednesday in March, is a global celebration of open standards, especially ones that are used in your documents. At Apache OpenOffice, we're strong supporters of open standards and we're pleased to join in this year's celebration. But we're much more …
Posted on: 2013-03-06 17:12:31+00:00
Apache OpenOffice is looking for a refreshed logo and branding for its upcoming 4.0 release.
This is a tremendous opportunity for designers to get involved in one of the most popular free and open source projects, and to get their work displayed to dozens of million of users: Apache …
Posted on: 2013-03-04 14:08:13+00:00
We've reached another big milestone — 40 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.x since the release of 3.4.0 in May 2012. You can view a detailed chart on our Stats page.
40 million. A number like this is hard to imagine. With news every day of government …
Posted on: 2013-02-26 14:25:54+00:00
As the Apache OpenOffice project gets closer to our big 4.0 release we're ramping up our documentation team. The goal is to have new User Guides ready for the OpenOffice 4.0 launch. If you know something about technical writing, or OpenOffice, or ideally both, we'd love your help …
Posted on: 2013-02-20 16:31:34+00:00
(This post is also translated into the mother languages of some of our volunteers, including Tamil by V.Kadal Amutham, Korean by Jeongkyu Kim, Italian by Fabrizio Marchesano, Asturian by Xuacu Saturio, French by Cyril Beaussier, Spanish by Ricardo Gabriel Berlasso and German by Guenter Marxen.
The Apache OpenOffice project …
Posted on: 2013-02-19 16:45:02+00:00
One major advantage of OpenOffice is that it is open source and that the license allows you to use and install it as often you want. Once you have downloaded OpenOffice you can share it with as many other people as you like or install it on as many computers …
Posted on: 2013-02-12 12:59:33+00:00
Apache OpenOffice is a project within the Apache Software Foundation, a non-profit organization. We don't charge for Apache OpenOffice; we make it available to all for free. We don't pay developers; we rely on volunteers.
People need office productivity software. Among our users are students, teachers, doctors, lawyers, ministers, public …
Posted on: 2013-02-04 16:47:45+00:00
We're looking for a few good programmers, C++ hackers who aren't afraid to get their hands dirty.
The Apache OpenOffice project is an international, volunteer-led open source project. We develop Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) the award-winning office productivity suite, and the code we write is used by tens of …
Posted on: 2013-02-01 15:14:47+00:00
Many OpenOffice community members will be attending FOSDEM, one of the most important Free Software and Open Source events in Europe, in Brussels next weekend.
Apache OpenOffice has a dedicated track (devroom) on Saturday 2 February, all day. The devroom schedule includes talks from experienced full-time developers and new volunteers …
Posted on: 2013-01-30 05:05:42+00:00
The Apache OpenOffice project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 in 8 new translations:
Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Polish, Basque, Asturian and Scottish Gaelic.
The award winning Apache OpenOffice 3.4 software, downloaded over 33 million times, already supports US English, German, Japanese …
Posted on: 2013-01-21 16:40:35+00:00
Apache OpenOffice will soon have some new features and other improvements, courtesy of IBM and their Lotus Symphony effort. Interoperability, performance, accessibility improvements, as well as exciting new user interface elements are in the works. Read …
Posted on: 2013-01-11 02:02:51+00:00
As the leading open source office productivity suite for over a decade, it is not surprising that Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) has attracted attention from authors of technical instruction books. A search of the catalog of online book retailers shows many titles, including a new one on OpenOffice Basic …
Posted on: 2013-01-07 14:57:45+00:00
A little over a month ago we asked our users to submit questions to us, on any OpenOffice-related topic. Users also had the opportunity to vote questions up or down, so we could identify the questions that were of the greatest interest. We received 274 questions, and 1,743 votes …
Posted on: 2012-12-20 18:06:52+00:00
RAND() is one of those barely noticeable functions that seem to be trivial and a given in modern spreadsheets. The truth behind RAND() and other functions that try to simulate the real world in some way is that they are extremely difficult, and maybe even impossible, to do correctly.
Historically …
Posted on: 2012-12-10 18:05:25+00:00
Apache Asia Road Show Beijing 2012 will be held at December 13, and Apache OpenOffice will deliver a session in the conference. In the Apache OpenOffice session, Peter Junge, Apache OpenOffice PMC member, will give a speech to …
Posted on: 2012-11-26 14:56:06+00:00
The Apache OpenOffice project issues a Call for Translation Volunteers, to help us complete several translations that are nearly done, but need an extra push before we can release them. Languages that are almost done include: Danish, Korean, Polish, Asturian, Uighur, Icelandic, Indonesian, Welsh, Catalan, Bulgarian …
Posted on: 2012-11-21 14:45:41+00:00
This is a call for volunteers for the Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) Marketing team. We have big plans for our next major release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0. As our development and QA volunteers work on the engineering side of this release, we're also building …
Posted on: 2012-11-14 13:51:52+00:00
A nice feature I have implemented for Apache OpenOffice 3.4 released in May 2012, the new native SVG Import (see here), will make an appearance to the next LibreOffice version. It replaces the former SVG import greatly improving user experience and removing dependencies of six external libraries, also benefiting …
Posted on: 2012-11-11 17:52:48+00:00
To complete our coverage of ApacheCon Europe 2012, here's a brief overview of some sessions and activities from Day 3. Slides, audio and/or video of all sessions will soon be posted on the ApacheCon Europe site.
See the reports of Day 1 and Day 2 for further information.
Posted on: 2012-11-09 01:12:39+00:00
This is a call for volunteers for our QA team. The Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org) project has an ambitious plan for our next major release. But for this plan to be successful we need to grow our Quality Assurance (QA) team to keep up …
Posted on: 2012-11-08 14:41:05+00:00
Here are a few selected topics from Day 2 of the Apache OpenOffice track at ApacheCon Europe.
For full coverage, see the reports from Day 1 and Day 3.
Judging by the number of questions made during the presentation and by the number of …
Posted on: 2012-11-08 01:13:24+00:00
The OpenOffice official debut at ApacheCon was definitely successful, with the big Apache community providing a warm welcome to the Apache OpenOffice folks. All presentations are being recorded (audio and slides) and they will gradually be made available on the ApacheCon site, but we are picking a few topics from …
Posted on: 2012-10-18 11:06:44+00:00
We're pleased to announce that the ASF Board, at their October monthly meeting, approved a resolution promoting the Apache OpenOffice Podling to an Apache Top Level Project. The Board also appointed a Project Management Committee (PMC) to oversee the project, with Andrea Pescetti as Chairman.
Further details on the graduation …
Posted on: 2012-10-09 22:37:25+00:00
Most users are able to download, install and use Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org, now undergoing incubation at Apache) using only freely available assistance: help files, online documentation, wiki or our volunteer-led community support forums. But in some cases, with larger, customized deployments, migrations, more complex requirements, etc., users and …
Posted on: 2012-09-28 15:27:08+00:00
We take a lot of pride in the success of Apache OpenOffice (formerly OpenOffice.org, now undergoing incubation at Apache). With over 100 million downloads, and a million more downloads every week, our award-winning, free and open office suite has grown and continues to grow in popularity. But this is …
Posted on: 2012-08-23 13:58:17+00:00
(This announcement is also available in Italian, French, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.)
The Apache OpenOffice project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1, the latest release of the free and open …
Posted on: 2012-07-26 13:02:42+00:00
The ApacheCon Europe 2012 team has opened the Call for Papers. Deadline for submission is August 13th. This year the conference will be held in Sinsheim, Germany from November 5 - 9. Check out the conference site here: http://www.apachecon.eu/
Posted on: 2012-07-08 20:22:35+00:00
The Apache OpenOffice (incubating) English Community Forum has registered its 50,000th member mid-June. However, there are still around 1,800 spam accounts, hence count of true members is still slightly under the 50,000 level. But we should reach it in August.
Note: the Y-axis for purple line (spammers …
Posted on: 2012-06-28 17:49:57+00:00
It happened again today. We received an email from a very frustrated user, complaining that OpenOffice had taken over his browser, installed new toolbars, replaced the browser's home page, was causing pop-ups to surface on every page, etc. To make things worse, none of these programs could be uninstalled via …
Posted on: 2012-06-20 14:18:37+00:00
Sometime last night the 5 millionth copy of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 was downloaded. Over 5 million downloads in 6 weeks. To put this in perspective, the population of Norway just hit 5 million earlier this year. That's a lot of OpenOffice!
(Apache OpenOffice is currently undergoing Incubation at the …
Posted on: 2012-06-18 01:24:10+00:00
The Swiss company Adfinis SyGroup is active in the Apache OpenOffice project, contributing the Solaris build, as well hosting an OpenGrok index of the OpenOffice source code. The following interview was conducted via email between PMC member Rob Weir (R) and Nicolas Christener of Adfinis SyGroup (N).
(Apache OpenOffice is …
Posted on: 2012-06-04 08:36:02+00:00
If you download Apache OpenOffice 3.4, or browse our website, you will notice that we have a rebranding effort underway. I'd like to offer a few thoughts on what happened, why and what will be coming next.
When the OpenOffice.org project came to Apache, it started in the …
Posted on: 2012-03-13 16:20:56+00:00
The above timeline shows just some of the accomplishments of the Apache OpenOffice project since we first started incubation at Apache last June. I've arbitrarily categorized the items as Infrastructure, Community or Development, knowing full well that any such act of categorization is dubious at best. There is a lot …
Posted on: 2012-03-02 19:28:22+00:00
IF YOU HAVE AN OPENOFFCE.ORG EMAIL ADDRESS, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS NOTE
As you may have heard, Oracle contributed the OpenOffice.org (OOo) code to Apache in June. As part of this move, we will lose access to the servers that formally hosted the …
Posted on: 2012-02-29 14:52:05+00:00
We are pleased to note that NAKATA, Maho and Pedro Giffuni have ported Apache OpenOffice to FreeBSD. The results of their porting effort are now in the FreeBSD ports tree, so everyone can easily build and use it. FreeBSD users are invited to help test this port and report bugs …
Posted on: 2012-01-19 11:02:42+00:00
Apache OpenOffice 3.4 supports embedding SVG graphics using a newly created native SVG interpreter implementation. I want to talk about the advantages and some internals of this solution and the necessary changes done.
One reason to do this was IP clearance. It allowed removal of six GPL/LGPL libraries …
Posted on: 2012-01-12 00:00:00+00:00
After 4 years of existence, the Community Forum has moved on the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) servers at the end of October 2011 (see details). Here are some figures about how we are doing on the English forum. We will try to make this kind of report on a monthly …
Posted on: 2012-01-11 15:42:20+00:00
I just wanted to send some notes about added features which are part of AOO3.4 version. This one is actually the result of fixing tasks #118558#, #118485#, #108221# and #67705# which are all about GraphicObjects, OLEObjects (OLE means Object Linking and Embedding) and their geometrical attributes and properties. You …
Posted on: 2011-12-27 17:55:52+00:00
I sent out a similar email to our mailing list before Christmas and before I took a short break to relax with my family and friends. But it's maybe worth sharing with a broader audience here on the …
Posted on: 2011-11-18 01:05:00+00:00
The OpenOffice.org Community Forums have been successfully migrated to operation under the Apache OpenOffice.org podling. Forum operation, location, and resources are intact. For users and the community that has grown the Forums into a valuable resource, it seems nothing changed. It wasn’t so simple. Here’s what …
Posted on: 2011-10-18 20:10:51+00:00
The Apache OpenOffice.org project is currently in the incubation phase. We're a 'podling'. It's where all new Apache projects begin, regardless of how mature your source code base is. In this post I'll attempt to explain a bit about incubation, and a bit about the 'Apache Way', and our …
Posted on: 2011-10-14 00:07:53+00:00
I am testing if Japanese language can be shown up beautifully on Title and Content of this Apache Weblog.
I am a moderator for the ooo-general-ja mailing list. The day before yesterday I found that a moderator can remotely edit the text files that make up the responses the list …
Posted on: 2011-10-05 14:30:56+00:00
I am a moderator for ooo-general-ja/AT/incubator.apache.org.
I have checked the mail archives on mail-archives.apache.org and found that there are 3 non-English language mailing list on mail-archives.apache.org such as dev-br/AT/spamassassin.apache.org, dev-de/AT/spamassassin.apache.org and axis-user-ja/AT/ws …
Posted on: 2011-09-01 22:41:22+00:00
It is September. In the northern hemisphere it is time for cooler weather and time to go back to school. The Apache OpenOffice.org podling is ready for the season with events to help developers learn more about OpenOffice.org.
Do you want to learn how to build …
Posted on: 2011-07-09 22:17:59+00:00
The Apache OpenOffice.org (incubator) project was born on Monday, June 13, 2011. Delivery was complicated. The baby’s doing fine.
Following the June 1, 2011 announcement of the license grant from Oracle to the Apache Software foundation, there was extensive discussion over the proposal for acceptance of OpenOffice.org …
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