[ale] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

[Jim Kinney]

csv or some other pure text format. If the rows include a binary blob,
those get exported separately as <keyname>-<column_number>.<filetype>
and their location in the row filled with the <folder>/<new filename>.

I also include a README with notes on what's going on as well as an
EXAMPLE that has column headers showing name and types.
Lastly is the <folder> with the binary blobs.

The entire pile is a tgz for Linux or .zip for other.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> If I want to send a client 200,000 rows of info and I don't know what
> software they have, what database format would you recommend?
>
> fyi: I really do send large files like that from time to time.
> Currently I send it as a Excel 2007 file (.xlsx) most of the time.
> Most of my clients can work with that.
>
> Greg
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1 million rows. That's a database not a spreadsheet!
>>
>> My M$ colleague and I were laughing about how people abuse
>> spreadsheets as databases and page layout tools .
>>
>> congrats to LibreOffice on the outstanding effort.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Stephen R. Blevins
>> <stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen R. Blevins
>>> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
>>> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:06:36 +0100
>>> From: Florian Effenberger <floeff at documentfoundation.org>
>>> Reply-To: noreply at documentfoundation.org
>>> Organization: The Document Foundation
>>> To: announce at documentfoundation.org, discuss at documentfoundation.org,
>>> marketing at libreoffice.org, marketing at us.libreoffice.org
>>>
>>> The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3
>>>
>>> The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download
>>>
>>> The Internet, January 25, 2011 - The Document Foundation launches
>>> LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite
>>> developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of
>>> developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late
>>> September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed us to
>>> release ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project.
>>>
>>> Not only does it ship a number of new and original features, LibreOffice
>>> 3.3 is also a significant achievement for a number of reasons:
>>>
>>> - the developer community has been able to build their own and
>>> independent process, and get up and running in a very short time (with
>>> respect to the size of the code base and the project's strong ambitions);
>>>
>>> - thanks to the high number of new contributors having been attracted
>>> into the project, the source code is quickly undergoing a major clean-up
>>> to provide a better foundation for future development of LibreOffice;
>>>
>>> - the Windows installer, which is going to impact the largest and most
>>> diverse user base, has been integrated into a single build containing
>>> all language versions, thus reducing the size for download sites from 75
>>> to 11GB, making it easier for us to deploy new versions more rapidly and
>>> lowering the carbon footprint of the entire infrastructure.
>>>
>>> Caolán McNamara from RedHat, one of the developer community leaders,
>>> comments, "We are excited: this is our very first stable release, and
>>> therefore we are eager to get user feedback, which will be integrated as
>>> soon as possible into the code, with the first enhancements being
>>> released in February. Starting from March, we will be moving to a real
>>> time-based, predictable, transparent and public release schedule, in
>>> accordance with Engineering Steering Committee's goals and users'
>>> requests". The LibreOffice development roadmap is available at
>>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
>>>
>>> LibreOffice 3.3 brings several unique new features. The 10 most-popular
>>> among community members are, in no particular order: the ability to
>>> import and work with SVG files; an easy way to format title pages and
>>> their numbering in Writer; a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer;
>>> improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management; and Microsoft
>>> Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters. In addition, many
>>> great extensions are now bundled, providing PDF import, a slide-show
>>> presenter console, a much improved report builder, and more besides. A
>>> more-complete and detailed list of all the new features offered by
>>> LibreOffice 3.3 is viewable on the following web page:
>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/new-features-and-fixes/
>>>
>>> LibreOffice 3.3 also provides all the new features of OpenOffice.org
>>> 3.3, such as new custom properties handling; embedding of standard PDF
>>> fonts in PDF documents; new Liberation Narrow font; increased document
>>> protection in Writer and Calc; auto decimal digits for "General" format
>>> in Calc; 1 million rows in a spreadsheet; new options for CSV import in
>>> Calc; insert drawing objects in Charts; hierarchical axis labels for
>>> Charts; improved slide layout handling in Impress; a new easier-to-use
>>> print interface; more options for changing case; and colored sheet tabs
>>> in Calc. Several of these new features were contributed by members of
>>> the LibreOffice team prior to the formation of The Document Foundation.
>>>
>>> LibreOffice hackers will be meeting at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 5
>>> and 6, and will be presenting their work during a one-day workshop on
>>> February 6, with speeches and hacking sessions coordinated by several
>>> members of the project.
>>>
>>> The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org
>>>
>>> The home of LibreOffice is at http://www.libreoffice.org where the
>>> download page has been redesigned by the community to be more user-friendly.
>>>
>>>
>>> *** About The Document Foundation
>>>
>>> The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of
>>> the OOo Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic
>>> organization within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a
>>> better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and
>>> supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent
>>> community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the
>>> achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation
>>> within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community.
>>>
>>>
>>> *** Media Contacts for TDF
>>>
>>> Florian Effenberger (Germany)
>
>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
>
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