OpenOffice (OOo = OpenOffice.org)

A popular open-source software office suite. See http://www.openoffice.org/

Often abbreviated OOo for OpenOffice.org, it includes several software features:

• Writer - wordprocessor
• Calc - spreadsheet
• Base - database
• Impress - presentation
• Draw - graphics editor
• Math - calculations

Localisation of OpenOffice

The OOo localisation (L10n) project homepage is: http://l10n.openoffice.org/

The OOo "Native Language Confederation" homepage is: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/

African languages in which OOo has been localised include:

• Afrikaans
• Ndebele
• Sotho, Northern (Sepedi)
• Sotho, Southern (Sesotho)
• Swahili (Kiswahili)
• Swazi
• Tsonga
• Tswana (Setswana)
• Venda
• Xhosa
• Zulu

The LocaleGEN tool was used in Marrackech at the Localizatin Blitz. Here is a link to the work that has been done during that workshop on creating OpenOffice locales.

Projects listed under the "Native Language Confederation" include:

• Arabic
• Malagasy
• Sango
• Tigrinya

Projects for other African languages

Projects exist or are in active planning for:

• Amharic
• Kinyarwanda
• Luganda
• Runyakitara
• Songhai (apparently begun in 2005)
• Others?

Dictionaries

Page with information on OOo Dictionaries: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

References

• OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/
• Wikipedia pages:
  • EN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice
  • FR http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice
  • PT http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org