[ale] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

[Jim Kinney]

1 million rows. That's a database not a spreadsheet!

My M$ colleague and I were laughing about how people abuse
spreadsheets as databases and page layout tools .

congrats to LibreOffice on the outstanding effort.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Stephen R. Blevins
<stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Stephen R. Blevins
> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:06:36 +0100
> From: Florian Effenberger <floeff at documentfoundation.org>
> Reply-To: noreply at documentfoundation.org
> Organization: The Document Foundation
> To: announce at documentfoundation.org, discuss at documentfoundation.org,
> marketing at libreoffice.org, marketing at us.libreoffice.org
>
> The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
>
> The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download
>
> The Internet, January 25, 2011 - The Document Foundation launches
> LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite
> developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of
> developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late
> September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to
> release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project.
>
> Not only does it ship a number of new and original features, LibreOffice
> 3.3 is also a significant achievement for a number of reasons:
>
> - the developer community has been able to build their own and
> independent process, and get up and running in a very short time (with
> respect to the size of the code base and the project's strong ambitions);
>
> - thanks to the high number of new contributors having been attracted
> into the project, the source code is quickly undergoing a major clean-up
> to provide a better foundation for future development of LibreOffice;
>
> - the Windows installer, which is going to impact the largest and most
> diverse user base, has been integrated into a single build containing
> all language versions, thus reducing the size for download sites from 75
> to 11GB, making it easier for us to deploy new versions more rapidly and
> lowering the carbon footprint of the entire infrastructure.
>
> Caolán McNamara from RedHat, one of the developer community leaders,
> comments, "We are excited: this is our very first stable release, and
> therefore we are eager to get user feedback, which will be integrated as
> soon as possible into the code, with the first enhancements being
> released in February. Starting from March, we will be moving to a real
> time-based, predictable, transparent and public release schedule, in
> accordance with Engineering Steering Committee's goals and users'
> requests". The LibreOffice development roadmap is available at
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
>
> LibreOffice 3.3 brings several unique new features. The 10 most-popular
> among community members are, in no particular order: the ability to
> import and work with SVG files; an easy way to format title pages and
> their numbering in Writer; a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer;
> improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management; and Microsoft
> Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters. In addition, many
> great extensions are now bundled, providing PDF import, a slide-show
> presenter console, a much improved report builder, and more besides. A
> more-complete and detailed list of all the new features offered by
> LibreOffice 3.3 is viewable on the following web page:
> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/
>
> LibreOffice 3.3 also provides all the new features of OpenOffice.org
> 3.3, such as new custom properties handling; embedding of standard PDF
> fonts in PDF documents; new Liberation Narrow font; increased document
> protection in Writer and Calc; auto decimal digits for "General" format
> in Calc; 1 million rows in a spreadsheet; new options for CSV import in
> Calc; insert drawing objects in Charts; hierarchical axis labels for
> Charts; improved slide layout handling in Impress; a new easier-to-use
> print interface; more options for changing case; and colored sheet tabs
> in Calc. Several of these new features were contributed by members of
> the LibreOffice team prior to the formation of The Document Foundation.
>
> LibreOffice hackers will be meeting at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 5
> and 6, and will be presenting their work during a one-day workshop on
> February 6, with speeches and hacking sessions coordinated by several
> members of the project.
>
> The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org
>
> The home of LibreOffice is at http://www.libreoffice.org where the
> download page has been redesigned by the community to be more user-friendly.
>
>
> *** About The Document Foundation
>
> The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of
> the OOo Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic
> organization within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a
> better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and
> supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent
> community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the
> achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation
> within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community.
>
>
> *** Media Contacts for TDF
>
> Florian Effenberger (Germany)
> Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: floeff at documentfoundation.org
> Olivier Hallot (Brazil)
> Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hallot at documentfoundation.org
> Charles H. Schulz (France)
> Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.schulz at documentfoundation.org
> Italo Vignoli (Italy)
> Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vignoli at documentfoundation.org
>
> --
> Florian Effenberger <floeff at documentfoundation.org>
> Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation
> Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108
> Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff
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