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Page: 2013 Jan (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2013+Jan)

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_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
it in Q1 2013 or shortly after. 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
6 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.

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