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A look at OpenOffice Community Innovation Award winners

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| Last December, Sun Microsystems first announced the million-dollar Community
| Innovation Program, which aims to encourage innovation in the six open source
| projects that the giant is involved with. Open source office software suite
| Open Office just so happens to be one of those projects, they have announced
| the winners for their Innovation Program contest.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/10/27/openoffice-community-innovation-award-winners-announced

Meeting OpenOffice.org developers

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| Although OpenOffice.org is an open source project with its own community, the
| core team that does the bulk of the actual coding and quality assurance is
| based in Hamburg, Germany. Recently, I had a chance to visit the developers
| behind this key open source project. The Sun offices in Hamburg occupy three
| floors of a rather large business complex in an industrial area not far from
| downtown Hamburg. It's a surprisingly quiet and green area with a couple of
| decent restaurants around, which local businesses, including Sun, use for
| lunch breaks. The atmosphere in Sun's offices was relaxed, and I, in my shirt
| and shiny shoes, was definitely overdressed for the occasion. I was greeted
| by Ocke Janssen, one of three guys responsible for developing the
| OpenOffice.org Base application and the sole developer of the Sun Report
| Builder extension. He was later joined by Christoph Lukasiak, who manages the
| QA community.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/blogs/productivity_sauce_dmitri_s_open_source_blend_of_productive_computing/meeting_openoffice_org_developers

PacktPub 2008 Awards - Open Source CMS MVPs

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| The winners are being announced for the 2008 Open Source CMS awards from
| PacktPub.com. This year promises great things from a variety of CMS systems
| and each has had its opportunity to wow the judges. As always, names like
| Drupal, WordPress and Joomla, among many others will surely be highlighted.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/packtpub-2008-awards-open-source-cms-mvps-003415.php


Recent:

OpenOffice.org overwhelmed by demand for version 3.0

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| Eager beavers keen to get their hands on the long-awaited arrival of version
| 3.0 of OpenOffice.org are currently unable to download the free, open
| source-flavoured suite of office apps because demand has broken the website.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/10/13/openoffice_org_download_website_dead/


Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition

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| So, if your excuse for not giving Linux a try was that you needed to be able
| to work with your Office documents... well, you just ran out of excuses.
| Think of what you will gain, too! No more suffering through all the
| gratuitous menu/toolbar/button changes that Microsoft makes in every new
| Office release. No more suffering through incompatible file formats between
| releases, which Microsoft seems to do every two or three releases - this is
| the second time it has happened that I can recall, and I assume that the
| recent OOXML debacle means that there is another change coming in the next
| Office release. Best of all, no more having to pay to upgrade to the new
| ver