oooPortal.com - The worldwide portal for OpenOffice.org users was launched Prague, the Czech Republic, 26 May 2008 - Today a gate to the virtual city of users of OpenOffice.org from the whole world was opened. The users get their own portal where they can find the fresh information, articles, directions, templates, extensions or discussion forum.
The target of the project oooPortal.com is to offer an opportunity for mutual communication and sharing information among OpenOffice.org´s users, thereby one of the great communities of users in the world should be created.
Portal stands on an open-source content management system Drupal which ensures further spreading of function of project in the future. The users can start their own blog at the portal where they can write about their office package experiences and can publish not only their trips and tricks, but also inform about their personal life, which is a typical feature of a blog. They can also publish their templates, extensions etc.
“Similar portal was missed by community of users for a long time. We decided to allow them the flexibility for sharing information and thus to help the whole project OpenOffice.org. The current version of the portal is only a starting line for the whole project, we prepare a row of interesting functions, for example multi-lingual support.” says Filip Molcan, the author of the project.
“We are the company which puts up its products on open-source projects and, among others, the company tries to return what it takes away from open-source projects by this way.” sums up Filip Molcan.
OpenOffice.org is one of the open-source key applications and represents adequate substitute for MS Office. It contains a text editor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, database tool, graphics editor and also a mathematical expression editor. It uses opened format Open Document for document saving which became the official ISO standard for document formats in 2006. OpenOffice.org is available in most of used languages and supports MS Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Solaris and the other operating systems.
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