Space: Apache OpenOffice Community (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS) Page: 2013 Jan (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2013+Jan)
Change Comment: --------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 new languages, as per official Board report Edited by Andrea Pescetti: --------------------------------------------------------------------- _Reporting to the Apache Board is a periodic task of the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair. See [here|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201212.mbox/%3C50C36076.5010406%40apache.org%3E] and [here|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201212.mbox/%3CCAP-ksojd3bJ4oFw_CuO_3VJAKJCr6tT1Qpt08cSrdtS0cWFOYQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E] for context._ Apache OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms and in dozens of languages. Issues for Board Awareness None at this time. Community Development/Outreach Progress Recruiting new volunteers for the project through announcements on the website is proving very effective. The current effort, after a successful call for translation volunteers, is aimed at finding Quality Assurance volunteers willing to help with early testing of OpenOffice 4.0, due later in 2013. The volunteers mailing lists keep growing in traffic and diversity of posters. We continue to use social networking accounts – Google +, Facebook – to collect feedback and ideas from our user base. A Google+ community was recently started. An initiative called "Ask OpenOffice" was run to collect the top 10 non-support questions from our users, which were then discussed on the dev mailing list and answered in a blog post. We have several volunteers ready to attend FOSDEM (February 2013, Brussels, Belgium) where the Apache OpenOffice project will have a dedicated track for developers ("devroom") and a stand for the whole conference. We also submitted talks for the ApacheCon NA in Portland and we'll have several volunteers attending it too. Project Development Progress The graduation process can be considered complete. All relevant resources have been fully migrated. The next OpenOffice release will be labelled 4.0. Plans are to release around April 2013. Volunteers have taken responsibility for the major new features, which are being documented for developers and for users on the project wiki. The project prepared test snapshots for new languages of OpenOffice 3.4.1 (the current stable version), with the aim of releasing at least 8 new languages in late January. The project will release an update to the 3.4.1 sources (including the new translation resources) and binary packages for the added languages only. Community support forums remain popular with users. The mailing lists for user support and localization are quite active, and those for QA and marketing are fast growing. As Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list, ooo-dev, remains very active. Change your notification preferences: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/users/viewnotifications.action
