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As many of you would know by now, Oracle have transferred ownership of OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, where it will be known as Apache OpenOffice going forward. Apache is an old a well-established and respected member of the Open Source community and under the foundation's umbrella, has dozens of open source projects. For instance, Apache HTTP server drives over 60% of the servers on the internet.
This signals a new beginning for the OOo OpenOffice community. The new community is growing at a fast rate and a lot of work by a dedicated team has been done behind the scenes to shift all of the assets of OOo migrate the web site and associated services over to Apache infrastructure. Signs of this are visible now with the http://www.openoffice.org website now moved entirely to Apache-hosted servers. While this has been going on, development on the OOo OpenOffice code has proceeded and we are now looking at a release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 with some exciting new developments in the very near future.
However, looking into the future we need help, from you the users and stakeholders of OOoOpenOffice. We want you to tell us the direction you want us to take OOo OpenOffice into the future. To this end we are surveying as many people as we can to find what you think should define the new OpenOffice.org: Apache OpenOffice. If you would like to participate in this survey and make your voice heard then simply reply to this email and we will send out a questionnaire. Results of the survey will be posted to the announce list.
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