OpenOffice.org is both a product and project. The product is a cross-platform, open source office productivity suite, whilst the project is a…
The Archive
Before it became a publication, this address served the OpenOffice.org Southern Africa community: guides to the free office suite, distributors, trainers, translation projects and an association. Those pages are kept here, grouped by subject.
The Office Suite
How the free office suite was introduced to South African users: the word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, formulas and databases.
The Freedom to make your documents look great OpenOffice.org Writer has everything you would expect from a modern, fully equipped word processor…
Free the information hidden in your data OpenOffice.org Calc is the spreadsheet program you've always wanted. Newcomers find it intuitive and easy to…
Free to impress your audience OpenOffice.org Impress is a truly outstanding tool for creating effective multimedia presentations. Your presentations…
Free the artist hidden within you OpenOffice.org Draw gives you the tools to communicate with graphics and diagrams from a quick sketch to a complex…
OpenOffice.org Math provides numerous operators, functions and formatting assistants to help you create formulas. Using a MathML based descriptive…
Open up your databases Databases are often thought to be strictly for techies. If you don't talk Structured Query Language (SQL), then your database…
OpenOffice.org is made available under two combined licences, the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public Licence) and the SISSL (Sun Industry Standards Source…
Getting the Software
Before fast broadband, the suite travelled on CDs: community and commercial distributors, OEM and VAR resellers, and local download mirrors.
South and Southern Africa presents some rather interesting and specific issues regarding the distribution of OpenOffice.org, primarily related to…
The community distributor assists people in obtaining OpenOffice.org on a non-commercial basis. They will offer OpenOffice.org on a CD swap basis…
Commercial distributors offer OpenOffice.org CD's for sale. These distributors often add value to the product by including additional software…
The OEM distributor provides OpenOffice.org either pre-installed on a new computer and/or includes an OpenOffice.org CD with such a purchase. Please…
OpenOffice.org is available for download from a number of servers worldwide. Currently there are two of these official mirrors in South Africa. You…
The community distributor assists people in obtaining OpenOffice.org on a non-commercial basis. They will offer OpenOffice.org on a CD swap basis…
Commercial distributors offer OpenOffice.org CD's for sale. These distributors often add value to the product by including additional software…
The OEM distributor provides OpenOffice.org either pre-installed on a new computer and/or include an OpenOffice.org CD with such a purchase. Please…
General Information About OpenOffice.org Get OpenOffice.org Distributors Community Commercial O E M V A R Mirrors Help and Support News and Media Why…
General Information About OpenOffice.org Get OpenOffice.org Distributors Community Commercial O E M V A R Mirrors Help and Support News and Media Why…
There a four basic classes of OpenOffice.org distributors. Each class, we believe, plays a crucial role in making OpenOffice.org as universally…
Currently there is only one official mirror of OpenOffice.org in South Africa. If you would like to become an official OpenOffice.org mirror, please…
Support & Training
Mailing lists, consultants, trainers and course material from the early years of the suite in Southern Africa.
There are a number of support resources for OpenOffice.org provided by the community and by commercial entities. Community Resources For details on…
Mailing lists have been found to be the easiest, most efficient and reliable form of support service the OpenOffice.org community can offer…
The listed companies in no way represent the OpenOffice.org project or it's members. OpenOffice.org does not warrant or guarantee the quality of…
The primary source of support for OpenOffice.org is through community support. This assistance is provided by other users and members of the project…
There are a number of organisations in South Africa who provide commercial consulting and support services for the OpenOffice.org Office Suite…
There are a number of organisations in South Africa who provide commercial education services for the OpenOffice.org Office Suite. Please note that…
Please view our list of Training Service Providers. We have three introductory training presentations available in Macromedia Flash format. (Please…
As with any application, the best way to increase efficient use of OpenOffice.org is to ensure that users have sufficient training. This section…
The listed companies in no way represent the OpenOffice.org project or it's members. OpenOffice.org does not warrant or guarantee the quality of…
Projects & Languages
The local projects: marketing, education and certification, spell-check dictionaries and translations into South African languages.
There are a number of projects currently being run by the Southern African OpenOffice.org Project. The most important of these projects relate to…
Project Overview This project's primary objective is to encourage and expand the use of OpenOffice.org within Sub-Saharan Africa. Broadly, the…
Training Material The core aim of this project is to develop a complete OpenOffice.org course framework including: Curriculum Details Instructor…
The responsibility for translating OpenOffice.org into the various South African languages has been shouldered by Translate.org.za a project run by…
Afrikaans Dictionary The Afrikaans dictionary was compiled and packaged by Translate.org.za based on pre-existing work by numerous other people. A…
The responsibility for translating OpenOffice.org into the various South African languages has been shouldered by Translate.org.za a project run by…
Community News
Release notes, conferences and school expos reported by the community site.
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta Now Available 4 March, 2005 - OpenOffice.org Today sees the release of the first OpenOffice.org 2.0 Public Beta which…
News and Articles OpenOffice.org Turns Four On 13 October 2004, the OpenOffice.org Project turns four years old. ...more Article: The 2nd Africa Open…
The Association
Founding documents of the association formed to support free office software in South Africa: aims, constitution and membership.
Dear Reader, Thank you for visiting the OpenOffice.org Association for South Africa (OASA) website. OASA was formed in July 2025 with the following…
Name The organisation herein constituted will be called the OpenOffice.org Association of South Africa. (Hereinafter referred to as the…
Individuals, organisations and sponsors who wish to be associated with OASA may apply for membership. If you are interested in becoming a memeber of…
