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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)
2003-03 OpenOffice.org Conference
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
December Version 1.1.4

2005

September Version 1.1.5

Evolution - Version 2.0 Arrives

2005

2005-03 OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta released
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
December Version 2.3.1

2008

March Version 2.4
June Version 2.4.1
October Version 2.4.2

Maturity and Grace - Version 3.0 Takes the World by Storm

October Version 3.0

2009

May Version 3.1

2010

February Version 3.2