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OpenOffice.org Design Contest
lisah writes, "OpenOffice.org, along with co-sponsor WorldLabel.com, will give away more then $5,000 in cash and prizes to the winners of a template and clip-art design contest scheduled to run until October 13, 2006. Organizers are looking for original designs that are useful to multiple users but, in terms of creativity, they say the sky's the limit. Submissions can range from budgeting spreadsheets and personal finance templates to funky graphics and presentation templates, but must run on one of the suite's four main applications: Writer, Calc, Draw, or Impress."
The actual announcement is here. Its got all the details on licensing (LGPL), prizes, criteria (originality, usability, artisitc merit etc)
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
Grrrrr, its "more THAN" not "more then". Encourage others to get it right by using the right phrase yourself.
They should pay more attention to the interface first and get a good usability specialist. Basic thing are much harder to do than they should be, like there is no keyboard shortcut for automatic sum in Calc! After googling I found out that you actually need to create a macro to do that. Maybe this one was fixed in the most recent releases (haven't checked), but there MANY things like that they should focus on.
"as long as they don't support natively SVG"
Google on OO and feetures. Select random feeture. Post I like OO except it doesn't have 'X feeture' on Slashdot.
SVG-ready OpenOffice 2.0
was re Re:Openoffice doesn't deserve cliparts
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For me, import of vector graphics into OO.org 2.0x works best with .wmf, .emf and .eps (as long as you don't try to edit these graphics inside OO.org).