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This page provides you with the latest on what is happening in the world of OpenOffice.org. For those who want to be most up to date, visit the Developer Blogs, subscribe to our Newsletter, read our Marketing and Native-language Confederation Planets. We have always have up-to-date resources on major deployments of OpenOffice.org and its market share. Our stats also give you some insight into who uses OpenOffice.org and how popular it is. And last but not least, we have for you a compilation of independent reviews.

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OpenOffice.org 3.0

Beta testers needed!

07-May: The public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now ready for testing. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage. If you are a regular user of OpenOffice.org, here's a great opportunity to help us make the next release the best ever. For more details, please read the announcement.

OOoCon 2008: Beijing

Call for Papers

The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential speakers to submit proposals for papers for the OpenOffice.org annual international conference, OOoCon 2008, to be held in Beijing, China from 5th-7th November. For further details, please read the Call for Papers, and for more details on OOoCon 2008, please visit the Conference website.

Security update

Please note that OpenOffice.org version 2.4, released on 27th March, fixed a number of security vulnerabilities. To our knowledge, none of these has been exploited; however, in accordance with industry best practice, we recommend all users upgrade to 2.4.

This information was withheld intially to ensure that all the products derived from the OpenOffice.org codebase had time to include these security fixes before the public announcement of the vulnerabilities.

For full details of the vulnerabilities fixed, please see our security bulletin.

OpenOffice.org 2.4

The latest version of the leading open source office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.4 includes many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to all its core components. OpenOffice.org 2.4 is available for immediate download and the new features are described in the release notes.

OpenOffice.org: Linux Journal Readers' Choice Award

OpenOffice.org is proud to announce that Linux Journal readers chose OpenOffice.org as their favourite office program.

We thank the readers of Linux Journal.

 

Community Innovation Program

On 7 December 2007, Sun Microsystems announced a $1 M USD fund to foster innovation and community in six open-source projects it sponsors and contributes to. OpenOffice.org was included. We invite the Community to participate.

  • Community Innovation Program HTML | PDF

Events

5 May CommunityOne, San Francisco, USA
6-9 May JavaOne, San Francisco, USA
30-31 May eLiberatica, Bucharest, Romania
28-31 May LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany

In the media

What other sources have to say about us....

23 Apr. Data in and out of Base
23 Apr. Office 2007: incompatible with OOXML
22 Apr. OOo writer tools
18 Apr. OOo storms the continent
13 Apr. Argentina -> FOSS
11 Apr. A week in the life of OOXML....
10 Apr. ISO takes up "harmonization" of formats

OpenOffice.org Blogs

And what we say about ourselves....

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