13 October, 2005 - 1400 UTC
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
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.
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.
The OpenOffice.org community looks forward to the continuing the expansion, enhancement and innovation of technologies within the suite.
One thing is certain, there is more to come.
About OpenOffice.org
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.
Global Marketing Contacts
Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
jacqueline@openoffice.org
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John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
jpmcc@openoffice.org
+44 (131) 523-9218
Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis@openoffice.org
+1 (416) 625-3843
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