The 0.2 version of Occitan (languedocian) has been uploaded. Thanks to Bruno Gallart

A new spellchecker is also available Marathi (India)
This indian language is spoken by around 90 millions of people Wikipedia says

it has been a quite challenging work as from a word list in an encoding i could not read on first load, i end up with 'not-so-bad' solution :)
Thanks to Hunspell, the default engine of OOo 2.0.3, using UTF-8 is possible so the Marathi language became beautifull to me (well, unfortunatelly only as a picture)
Using CTL linguistic options as well as a dedicated font (all is explained in the readme file of the spellchecker), one can see that the spellchecker is working even if there are some missing word.
The next step is creating the affix file and enrich the word list. Some solutions are on the road though ...

Thanks Priti D. Patil and janabhaaratii Project  for giving this word list and releasing the spellchecker ressources under LGPL

This has been possible because Marathi (India) was a locale already defined at the OOo L10N  project level and available in OOo. So also thanks to the L10N project
I really like when energies are merging and i find that someone prepared a work i need as a basis :)

Both spellcheckers are available within DicOOo.
They're actually propagating on mirror so be patient ...
Be sure to read README file for special needed configuration if you're not in India

Other lingucomponent stuff being finalized and will be announced soon, stay tunned ...

Thanks to Andras Timar from fsf.hu, OOoWikipedia handles now magyar language.

OOoWikipedia is an OpenOffice.org extension that allow you by highlighting any word in a text document to popup a browser that connects directly to Wikipedia ressource on it.

OOoCon is approaching !! It will take place this year at Lyon (France) from the 11th to 13th of september

Some are already there as Lyon is a nice city place to visit (Pavel, Stefan, ...). I will personnaly come from Grenoble on sunday evening

A lot of interresting topics will be covered by the conferences on tuesday and wednesday, especialy regarding extensions and OOo scripting :) but also ODF topics as well as promising lingucomponent project spellchecker presentation

On monday many meetings are planned : QA, Extenstions, Marketing, ... a great time to discuss less formally

One more important point, our kiberpipa friends rock and kindelly accepted to reproduce their wonderfull effort from last year. We will have a professional-like media coverage that will cover (Note that all of this is done only with open sources tools):

• live video streaming

• archiving the video on the web
• interviews
• blog planet (send an email to ooocon@kiberpipa.org if you want your blog to be included)
• photo gallery

 
Also thanks to local helpers such as Charlotte, Cédric (obviously ;) ) and Geoffroy (not so local but so efficient)

The media coverage address : http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org (guess what, probably still under construction ;) )

This OOoCon promises to be great event, really !!!

Using OpenThesaurus by Daniel Naber, thesaurus for portuguese is now available in OpenOffice.org 2.0 though DicOOo (File > Wizards > Install new dictionaries)

Thanks to Paulo Trezentos and Rui Fernandez from Caixa Magica