The Calligra team is proud and pleased to announce the release of version 2.8 of the Calligra Suite, Calligra Active and the Calligra Office Engine. Major new features in this release are comments support in Author and Words, improved Pivot tables in Sheets, improved stability and the ability to open hyperlinks in Kexi.
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Why Is Google Not Supporting The Open Document Formats?
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Bhartiya writes: For ages I have been convincing people to switch from close source to open source, from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. I have been telling people to ditch the controversial docx format and adopt .odt only to find myself in an embarrassing situation, thanks to Google.
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Calligra Suite, the Promising Not-An-Office Suite
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Once upon a time there was KOffice, all full of unrealized potential. And then it was forked as Calligra Suite. The first release of Calligra was on April 11, 2012. Is this a contender, or another niche productivity suite?
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Spreadsheets Come to ODF as Version 1.2 Wins Approval
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The ODF 1.2 specification, which aims to perfect the spreadsheet workflow, has been approved by the members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
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Latvia: ODF acceptance mandatory
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Former open source evangelist at Sun, reported on his blog, on a presentation he had given at a conference in Latvia concerning the ODF. Speaking before him, a Latvian government official had made the announcement that, from now on, all government departments in Latvia must accept documents in ODF.
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Office Suite KOffice 2.3.0 Released
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Krita is now ready for professional artist use. A new slide sorter view and a new shape animations feature in KPresenter. Improvements of the core engine and plugins in the support of the OpenDocument Format. Especially text rendering has seen much work. A new report engine used in KPlato and Kexi.
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Leaving the OpenOffice.org project
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Today is a special day. I feel both sad and relieved, happy and somewhat disgusted. I have officially resigned from all my duties, roles and positions inside the OpenOffice.org project.
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MS is Still Trolling ODF and Other FOSS Causes Using Fake ‘FOSS People’
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News about ODF, SC34 which is a farce, and some of the latest heckling from Microsoft proponents who masquerade as pro-openness or impartial
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Divide and Conquer: How Microsoft Fractures Free and Open Source Software, GNU/Linux
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Latest examples of Microsoft's strategy, wherein it sends out affiliates to pretend to be FOSS people and then promote software patent deals, separation between Open Source and Free software, departure from the GPL, promotion of "open" core (proprietary) as "Open Source", and demotion of free/libre platforms like GNU/Linux along with free suites/formats like ODF
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Mark Ballard Shows Why British Government Must Move to ODF as Doorway to Software Freedom
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Calls from within the United Kingdom to facilitate a promised migration to Free software, via international standards such as ODF
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Indonesia is Moving to OpenDocument Format (ODF)
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Another Asian country decides to become vendor neutral when it comes to documents which government agencies handle
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OpenDocument 1.2 available for review for 60 days
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The standard for the OpenDocument office file format is approaching version 1.2. The draft of the standard is now available on the web for public review
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ODF 1.2 Begins Final 60-day Public Review
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A major milestone was reached for the OASIS ODF TC last week. The latest Committee Draft of ODF 1.2 (CD 05) was sent out for a 60-day public review.
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ISO is Irrelevant and British Government Pushed to Support ODF
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New reminder of how Microsoft corrupted international standards and a call for action in the United Kingdom
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Microsoft’s Attack on GNU/Linux and ODF Continues
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Latest new examples of Microsoft playing unfair and distorting facts
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