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OpenTaal Publishes Dutch Word ListJune 20 2007

Since the end of 2005 the project OpenTaal has worked to improve and
extend an existing open source Dutch word list. The approved word list
contains more than 140.000 keywords. The word list is available in
packages that can be installed in OpenOffice.org, Firefox and Thunderbird.
The approved word list is available under a free license (LGPL) and may
be used by open source projects.

Groovy For OpenOffice 0.1June 20 2007

"Groovy For OpenOffice is an OpenOffice.org extension which adds support
for scripting OpenOffice.org Macros in Groovy."

Japan's IPA Accepts List of RequirementsMay 28 2007

Information Technology Promotion Agency of Japan in May announced results of FY2006 OSS projects, which includes "Summary," "Report" and "List of Requirements and Specifications" submitted by Good Day Inc. and its team whose proposal for an IPA public bid in 2006 was adopted to study OpenOffice.org.

Further efforts and contributions of them are expected by OpenOffice.org and Japanese Native Language Project.

More information would be available at the team's page:
http://ooo-research.good-day.net/?en_top

SB/BadBunny-A, a harmlessMay 27 2007

OpenOffice.org has the security team. If you find ones like the budbunny, please contact our security team and send one to the team.

"SB/BadBunny-A, a harmless little bunny at least until you kick it!" said Mate Temmermann, our security expert, in his blog.

Sure Openoffice.org has a macro language with access to local resources, but "nothing bad can happen to you as long as you don't allow the macros to run." he said.

"Users shouldn't run macros from unknown sources, same like they shouldn't run any programs or other scripts from unknown sources." This is the message he repeats, and we, the OpenOffice.org Community, repeat.

On May 23rd the Community issued comments "About Security, BadBunny, and Macros" based on the information available so far.

Repeat.
"The OpenOffice.org community repeats the consistent message from security experts that users should never accept files from unknown sources. For any security issue, please visit OpenOffice.org's Security Team page."

Thank you.

OpenOffice.org in AfricaFebruary 11 2007

Chris Charuhas pointed me to a story about OpenOffice.org in Africa -
"how a school created a new computer lab without buying computers,
software, or books". And OpenOffice.org is involved!