Releasing OpenOffice.org… and a song

Hear, hear ! OpenOffice.org should be released on the 13 of March 2008. That means… soon. I thought I would link to the list new features of this last major release of OpenOffice.org before the 3.0. In short, this release will allow direct PDF import and limited handling of PDF/A. Other improvements include new default fonts, zoom capabilities in Calc, but the actual list is explaining all this much better than I do.The OpenOffice.org project is now busy working on the 3.0 branch, and there’s much excitement around it. I recommend reading the Sun OpenOffice.org team’s blog for daily updates.

In other news the next OpenOffice.org will take place in Beijing next October. It will be interesting to see new people and contributors there; although I still have to check if I’ll be available in October.

Now, some not so unrelated news: I would like you to meet my friend Pieter. He’s a good friend of mine, leader of the Noooxml movement. He recently bought a guitar, and he is what some call a singer on a mission. Some excerpts: