OpenOffice.org 3.0 and Beyond Voicing the Community

Louis Suárez-PottsCommunity ManagerOpenOffice.orgSun Microsystems

OpenOffice.org is both a global community and a global product

The global community makes OpenOffice.org what it is:

Everyone's productivity suite, no one's monopoly

What OpenOffice.org is...

OpenOffice.org is a community where:

• Anyone can contribute to and all can use OpenOffice.org for free

• Where major corporations work with local companies and individuals

• We work together to build a suite of tools that gives voice to users in every region of the world

Community makes the difference

A stronger community...

Our community has just gotten a lot stronger

We welcome our new members:

RedFlag 2000 and IBM

They join Sun, Novell, Red Hat, and other large and small companies, as well as thousands building OpenOffice.org

And they bring resources to match our ambition: To be the first choice for all

Regardless of language or circumstance

To date, we have already achieved a great deal:> 100 million downloads> In 100 languages > And on every major operating system> ...soon, including Mac OS X Aqua... > Using the only ISO approved format for office

documents > While being interoperable with other suites

OpenOffice.org has succeeded in freeing the desktop

Achievements...

Our challenge

All this is not enough

We need to move beyond the limits of the isolated desktop

We need to make OpenOffice.org easier to build, extend, use

We need to make it the first choice and best suite for Web collaboration

And we need to inform, engage and involve the user community

OpenOffice.org 3.0: A shift in focus...

• A global participation and collaboration suite using Web 2.0 features

• A new Personal Information Manager (Outlook replacement)

• Enhanced interoperability with other suites and formats

• More productivity tools

• Toolkits for ODF and extensions development

What is an extension?

• A mini-app giving all users the power to extend the suite

• It introduces new functionality or content like templates or galleries or even more sophisticated tools

• Deployed as a UNO package with file extension *.oxt

• Double click installation

• Single or multi-user installation

• Online update enabled

• Extension settings and help integrates into OpenOffice.org

Feature highlights:Calendar client for Thunderbird

• Supports local and server-based calendars• Task management• Month, week, day view• Multiple calendars

support• Free/busy management• Connector to the Sun Java System Calendar Server

(WCAP), iCal, WebDAV, CalDAV and Google Calendar

PDF Import, Hybrid PDF, PDF/A

• Hybrid PDF contains embedded ODF• PDF Import into Draw

for layout preservation• PDF/A support• PDF Export improvements

for security

Web 2.0 support

• Create weblogs• Create wikis • ... and whatever

extensions offer!

Sun Report Builder

• Creating database reports • Using the Report Engine 'JFree' from Pentaho BI

New Chart

• New Chart types like regression curves, 3D exploded pie, 3D doughnut, 3D smooth lines, etc.• New Chart Wizard• Flexible source ranges• Enhanced

logarithmic scales• Enhanced Data

Editor

MS Office XML 2007 Import

Calc: Improved Pivot tables andnew Solver

New platform:

More releases and features ...

• Netbeans integration: Build OpenOffice.org extensions with Netbeans and use OpenOffice.org APIs more efficiently

More features ...

• ODF Toolkit• Online and extension update• Icon redesign• Windows Vista integration• Native tables in Impress• Improved notes• Rectangle selection in Writer• Reworked chapter numbering in Writer• Improved extensions manager• ... and a lot more

OpenOffice.org 3.0 highlights

● New Personal Information Manager

● PDF import and export● Web 2.0 support with

blogging & wiki component ● New report engine for Base● Improved extension

management...● ... and many extensions

Top features

● New Chart engine with new chart wizard and types

● Presenter console for Impress with multi screen support

● MS Office XML 2007 import● Improved Pivot tables and

new Solver in Calc● New Platform: Mac OS X

When?

Spring – Summer 2008

OpenOffice.org 3.0 and BeyondLouis Suárez-Pottslouis.suarez-potts@sun.com