The success of the free Office Suite OpenOffice.org is without brakes at the latest since publication of the version 2.0 in the last autumn. While the program is constantly developed further, in particular still all the little things are missing "approximately around the Programmsuite", which facilitate the work clearly for also normal users, like collecting mains, diagram and Clipart Galleries, finished macros and much more besides for the version 2.0.
For this reason the German-language project proclaims now a collecting main competition, which represents the prelude to a series of further planned competitions. OpenOffice.org lives as open SOURCE Community of the interest and commitment of its users and project members. Each user of OpenOffice.org is called to provide own collecting mains and send these in. These will become then the public made available and also a component of the Community distribution PrOOo box.
Everyone can participate and submit as many as desired collecting mains.
According to the character of the project OpenOffice.org the collecting mains must stand under the GNU LGPL (see further below) and of a-enrich to have been provided.
All collecting mains must be present in the open document format (* ot *), the file format of OpenOffice.org 2.0.
The collecting mains should have an appropriate generally accepted utilizable value and not be "banal". The submitted collecting main should be appropriate therefore also for other users and really make than "collecting main" sense. (an empty Writer file with inserted, current date right above is surely no "meaningful" collecting main, a Calc Verwaltungsvorlage for stamp collecting tanks surely already.)
To be submitted the collecting mains know immediately, closing date are 3 March 2006. The collecting mains should be sent as Mailanhang to the address presse@openoffice.org.
Attach or filled out into writing, down standing down, copy please additionally the explanation.
Screen lady and Ansprechpartnerin of the collecting main competition are Jacqueline Rahemipour, CO-Lead of the German-language project. Further the partners marketing (Florian Effenberger and Thomas Krumbein) for further questions are available.
When main sponsor for the competition could the Galileo publishing house in Bonn is won, in which outstanding books appeared to OpenOffice.org. From all entries a jury will select the best collecting main of specialists (project members, book authors). This is distinguished with the complete library to OpenOffice.org from the Galileo publishing house (value scarcely 200, - EUR).
In addition under all a transmitters ten further, valuable book prices from the Galileo program are drawn by lots - each Einsender has so the same chance to receive a book independently of the evaluation of the collecting main. (book values between 25, - and 60, - EUR, a first is not possible.)
Only condition: eingereichte/n the Vorlage/n must correspond to the conditions of participation. The jury reserves itself to reject obviously "banal" collecting mains.
Drawing of the book prices by lots and the publication of the winners find public to the 11.03.2006 on Saturday, on the CeBIT in Hanover instead of (conditions of OpenOffice.org, resound to 4, conditions G40). All winners are informed and receive its book by post office, can it naturally also directly locally in receipt take. The course of law is impossible.
In order to be able to make the collecting mains in the sense of a open SOURCE Community also different users freely accessible, the following procedure worked satisfactorily:
In order to make a spreading possible of the collecting mains, these must be placed under an open SOURCE license. Without such a license everyone, which would like to use the collecting main, would have to catch up itself the appropriate rights to use with the author. The license used in OOo is the LGPL, the license text is observable under http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/lgpl_license.html.
All collecting mains this competition must be placed therefore by the Author (creator, author) under the GNU LGPL license, otherwise these are not accepted. Naturally the author must have the exclusive rights at the collecting main, so that he can place these at all under the LGPL license. With submission of the collecting main it confirms this. In order to document this, each participant must add the following text passage its collecting mains - either in the document information (file - characteristics - description - > field "comment" or directly in the collecting main (is usually the not practicable way):
The author of this collecting main is [ first name ] [ name ], E-Mail: [ E-Mail address ]
Copyright 2006. All rights reserve.
This collecting main is free software, stands under the GNU LGPL license and may according to this be used and spread. The license text is to find under http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html. A German translation under http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.de.html.
The collecting main distributed in hope that it brings use for the user, but WITHOUT EACH WARRANTY. Neither warranty claims of any kind nor the warranty any characteristics exist. Please you read the license text of the GNU LGPL for detailierte information.
Additionally each participant must along-send the following explanation in its E-Mail:
Name: < first name >, < surname > living address (ask no p.o. box!): Road, NR: < road > < house number > postal code, place: < postal code > < place > date of birth: < TT.MM.JJJJ > I confirm hereby that I am exclusive author of the submitted collecting mains, these from own ideas and materials provided and that no rights third on it to rest. All submitted collecting mains stand for this wording under the GNU LGPL license and can be used accordingly. Furthermore I confirm that I am entitled to place the collecting main under this license. Place, date name |
With questions to the licenses or to their integration into the collecting main turns you to the partners specified above.
So, and now - much fun!
