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Apache OpenOffice is both aproduct and anopen-source project. Both have been in existence sinceOctober 13th, 2000. (see alsoBirthday Story).
OpenOffice.org 1.0 (the original name, pre-Apache) was released on April 30th, 2002.
OpenOffice.org's mission statement was drafted by the community:
To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that willrun on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format.
Since its inception as an open source project. our corporate contributors haveincluded Oracle, RedFlag CH2000, andIBM. Additionally over 500,000 people--unaffiliated individuals,business and government employees, and students from nearly every curve of theglobe--have joined the project with the aim of creating the best possible officesuite that all can use. Their work as a community is both invaluable and practical:people use what the community does. This is the essence of an open sourcecommunity.
The remainder of this page summarizes the project and suggests how you cancontribute to it.
StarDivision, the original author of the StarOffice suite of software, was founded in Germanyin the mid-1980s. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems during the summer of 1999 and StarOffice 5.2 was released in June of 2000. Subsequent versions ofStarOffice software, beginning with 6.0, were built using the OpenOffice.org source, APIs, file formats,and reference implementation. Sun continued to sponsor development on OpenOffice.orgfor the next 10 years, a period during which not only did the project grow tremendouslyand became truly global, but the user base also saw an extraordinary increase,and as of the end of 2010 was estimated to be in excess of 100 Million. With its acquisition of Sun in 2010, Oracle was the principalcontributor of code to OpenOffice.org. On June 1, 2011, OpenOffice.org, the project and product, including source code, trademarks, domain names and website,were donated to the Apache Software Foundation.
The source is written in C++ and delivers language-neutral and scriptable functionality, including Java™ APIs. This source technology introduces thenext-stage architecture, allowing use of the suite elements as separate applications or as embedded components in other applications. Numerous other features are also present including XML-based file formats based on the vendor-neutralOpenDocument Format (ODF) standard fromOASIS andother resources.
This web site, www.openoffice.org, is Apache OpenOffice's primary user portal. The primary developer portal for Apache OpenOffice isApache OpenOffice
There are a variety of ways you can activelyparticipate in the OpenOffice Community.These range from something as easy asdonating to the Apache Software Foundation, or participatingin mailing lists, to actually contributing code for the product. Please visit theApache Software Foundation Get Involved page for an overview on what it meansto be an Apache contributor/committer.
To contribute to (volunteer with) the OpenOffice project (user or developer web sites orproduct), pleasesubscribe to the Apache OpenOffice developer mailing listto get started.Please visitApache OpenOffice Get Involved for specific information about getting involved in the ApacheOpenOffice project.
Much of the excitement of an Open Source site takes place in themailing lists. These arepublic.
All our major lists are public. What you post to these is on the public Internet. We suggest you do not post private information and keep in mind the public and persistent nature of all that you write to the lists.
For questions having to do with the Apache OpenOfficeproduct, please use our "users" list:users-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org.
Besides that list, we have two general lists: our "announce" list, which is for major announcements and has little traffic, and the "dev" list, which is for general discussions related to the project and is fairly heavily trafficked.
To subscribe to any of these lists, click on the appropriate link below and send the email message. Leave the subject line and body empty.
Together with our product, the OpenOffice brand is spread over the worldand we need your cooperation so that it is applied consistently. TheOpenOffice logo and the seagulls are well recognized. This section ismeant to provide information on using the OpenOffice logos and banners forthose interested in linking to us or distributing OpenOffice as CDs, or viaa download mirror.
Please review theApache OpenOffice Trademarks page for further information and torequest to use the logo in any form or fashion.
We are constantly collecting testimonials from people and businesses actually using the product. You may read them on ourTestimonials page. Send yours to:marketing@openoffice.apache.org.
OpenOffice wins awards. OurAwards Page lists some of the more recent ones.
We very much welcome your participation and your comments on all facets of Apache OpenOffice.
Please contact us using the developer mailing list.
If, on the other hand, you have questions regarding how touse OpenOffice, the software, please address your questions to our "users" list.Subscribe usingusers-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org.
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