About OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is both a Free Software product and a community project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.

OpenOffice.org is available in over 30 languages with more being constantly added by the community. OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), Windows and Mac OS X X11. Additional ports, such as for FreeBSD and IRIX, are in various stages of completion. Because the file format for OpenOffice.org is XML, interoperability is easy, making future development and adoption more certain.

OpenOffice.org uses a dual-licensing scheme for source-code contributions: the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) and SISSL (Sun Industry Standards Source License).

About the tutorial

Duration: about two hours.

Number of participants: maximum 20 participants

This will be an interactive tutorial where the participants will be faced to the OpenOffice suite.

The tutorial will focus on the different key applications. The word-processing, the spreadsheet, the presentation manager, the drawing program, the chart and formula editor are presented and their interoperability is shown.

Examples using all these applications are worked out together with the participant.