Well, in fact, coding is the most important to me :)

But, today DicOOo is now translated into norvegian, with its 2 sublanguages no and nn. FontOOo is on the rails and will be released soon ... Thanks to the norvegian team, 24 hours after exchanging the first mails, the job is done ...

OOo is a multiplateform program, but the most important to me, OOo is a multilingual and multicultural project. That's why native-lang teams are so important. They are dynamic ...

So yes, coding is important but OOo Addon Coders, prepare your programs to be easily translated. They will then be useful to a majority of users ...

This point will be addressed by the scripting project ... A usefull addon means, yes, a good program, but also good testing, translating, support ...

More than Addons, OOo also share these needs ... so many ways to contribute

Last week was the time for the election of the new CCR (Community Contributor Representative) of the OpenOffice.org project. The results are now known and I'm very honored being chosen among great names of the community to be the representative of all OOo contributor.
Here is the official announcement

So thanks to all who voted (not only for me) showing that involvement is growing inside OOo project. I'm really proud to be this voice for the coming 6 months.

Now, it's time to work and prepare great things to attract more and more contributors.
Yes, core developpers are needed but one other way is to attract all the scripters we can !
OOo 2.0 will bring a lot of possibilities (with Basic,java, javascript but also Python internal scripting) and it is now time to build and animate a strong Scripting project. The first proposals i'll made will be based on my IRC conf in April. Once some tools built and a real team involved, we will be able to explore other possibilities such as models, galleries ... on-line installation.

This is only a part of the job. I'm totally open to all questions/suggestion i can relay to the community council i'm now a part of.

Stay tuned and come to help, you're welcomed ...

La version 1.1.5 d'OpenOffice.org est disponible depuis peu en  RC.
Sa raison d'être est principalement d'implementer le format OpenDocument, format de fichier standardisé par le consortium OASIS et qui sera le format par défaut de la version 2.0.
La version 2.0 gerera bien sur l'ancien format sx* (sxw, sxc, sxi, ...). La réciproque est desormais vrai, la version 1.1.5 gerera les format od* (odt, ods,odp ...)
Ainsi, le passage de la branche 1.1.x à la branche 2.x devrait s'effectuer sans problème dans le temps

La communauté francophone attaque pour sa part les test QA (ce qu'elle fait pour chaque version, voire pour la 2.0, certaines Beta). Nous devrions avoir terminé les smoketests aux alentours du 24/07. Tous les renseignements sur le sous-projet QA-fr

FontOOo is an autopilot that can be found in OOo in the menu
File > Autopilot > Add fonts from the web

When a document is sent to someone, if the font used is not free, you have no guarantee that the receiver will be able to read your document as you built it. In most cases, if he doesn't have the font, the substitution mechanism will alter the layout due to differences in the fonts. FontOOo gives a way to share free fonts and enables users to easily install missing free fonts at OOo level.

If you want to minor the problems, use PDF format that embedded fonts (but file size may increase) or use the Bitstream fonts family that is shipped with OOo.

Nevertheless, if you want to have some more choices (such as barcode, chinese fonts or other free fonts) you may want to use FontOOo.

This new version addresses some minors changes

• Enhancement : The font preview don not show next/previous buttons anymore if only one font is selected (#51482)
• Language : Chinese, Chinese simplified and Japanese are written in the correct language on the first page (you may then notice some rectangles as letters dependending of your OOo version)
• Translation : Japanese - thanks to Takashi Kawai for the translation and Jean-Christophe Helary for its usefull remarks

I also added two sets of fonts to the repository

• Toga fonts (bitstream derived) pointed by Daniel Carrera
• Larabie fonts (some of them) pointed by Kalman Szalai

Thanks to them

The new version will be proposed as a self update when propagated on mirrors