A Brief History Of OpenOffice.org
History, Milestones and Earth Shaking Events
The early years
1999-04 Sun Microsystems, Inc., buys StarDivision
OpenOffice.org 1.0 - Let Freedom Ring
2000
2000-07-19 OpenOffice.org announced; StarOffice 5.2 code open-sourced under LGPL/SISSL
2000-10-13 OpenOffice.org goes live, with the source available for download
2000-11-24 First port complete: PPC Linux
2000-12 XML file-format specification
2001
2001-02 Integration of the new, psprint-based printing system
2001-04 Whiteboard (now Incubator) projects grow; these are community-initiated development projects
2001-04 Source code to Mac OS X port released
2001-04 First Lang (now Native-Lang) project - Francophone
2001-04 Thesaurus announced (en_US )
2001-05 Spell Checking integrated (MySpell)
2001-06 ODK released
2001-07 First community localization - Finnish
2001-07 Marketing (Whiteboard) project created
2001-09 Help system and content integrated
2001-10 Build 638c is released (638c was a milestone release)
2001-10 One Million Downloads!
2001-10 First anniversary
2002
2002-04 10,000 members registered; 4.5 Million downloads
May - Version 1.0
2002-05 OpenOffice.org 1.0 announced
2002-05 6 Million downloads, 2,000 messages posted per week
2002-05-07 Mac OS X (developer) build released, adding to the list that includes all other flavors of Unix, such as FreeBSD
2002-06-30 OpenOffice.org grows to 55,000, adding five thousand new members per week
July - Version 1.0.1
2002-07 Native Lang projects: Deutsch, Español, Italiano, Nederlands, Português do Brasil
2002-08 Community-sponsored development projects include: Documentation, QA, WP, Groupware, Lingucomponent
2002-08 Best Office Productivity Award (Linux Journal)
2002-08 Evolutionary Enterprise Award (Linux World Expo) (picture coming soon)
2000-09 SDK released, superseding the ODK
2002-09 XML Journal Finalist Award
2002-10 New developer builds and ports: 643, Mac OS X11 Public Beta
2002-10-13 Facts:
- More than 8.5 Million downloads
- Over 70,000 registered members
- More than 30 projects and sub-projects, two of which, Marketing and Documentation are led by volunteer community members; the Porting Project is co-lead by a volunteer member
- Over one hundred developers and contributors working in all the active projects
2003
January - Version 1.0.2
2003-02 OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit released (Beta; now final)
March 20th - March 21st OpenOffice.org Conference - University of Hamburg, Germany
SDK 1.0.2
2003-04 OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC1 released
April - Version 1.0.3.1
2003-07 OpenOffice.org Mac OS X (X11) port finalized (GM)
2003-08 Numerous new Native-Lang and Incubator projects
2003-09 The OpenOffice.org Community Council Formed
2003-09 OpenOffice.org 1.1 released
2004-02
2003-10 Awards: Numerous user and editor awards
2003-10-13 Facts:
- More than 20 million downloads
- Over 107,000 registered members
- More than 50 projects, many led by volunteer members
- Sixty localizations achieved or in progress
- Over 270 developers and contributors
- More statistics
2004
April Version 1.1.1
June Version 1.1.2
October Version 1.1.3
September 22nd - 24th OpenOffice.org Conference - Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
December Version 1.1.4
2005
September Version 1.1.5
Evolution - Version 2.0 Arrives
2005
October Version 2.0
December Version 2.0.1
2006
March Version 2.0.2
July Version 2.0.3
October Version 2.0.4
December Version 2.1
Adaptation - Extensions, ODF Tools
2007
March Version 2.2
June Version 2.2.1
September Version 2.3
September 14 the first OpenOffice.org extension is released to the public
Auto Starter for Presentation documents
18th to 21st of September OOoCon Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
December Version 2.3.1
2008
March Version 2.4
June Version 2.4.1
October Version 2.4.2
The first template is made available at templates.services.openoffice.org
1/4" Cartesian Graph Paper
Maturity and Grace - Version 3.0 Takes the World by Storm
October (2008) Version 3.0
2009
May Version 3.1
August Version 3.1.1
2010
February Version 3.2
May Version 3.2.1
