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Date: Sat Jul 28 13:52:23 2012
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+Title: OpenOffice Public Service Mission
+Notice: Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
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+ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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+ software distributed under the License is distributed on an
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+
+#The Public Service Mission of OpenOffice
+
+##Introduction
+
+Along with an email client and a web browser, an office suite is a core
essential
+application that almost every computer user requires. Although there is a
dominant
+ commercial product in this category, its price and limited platform and
language
+support makes it an unsatisfactory option for many. OpenOffice, for over a
decade,
+ has helped fill this gap. Our goal is to develop, publish and support
OpenOffice
+as a world-class office suite, free for anyone to use, and since it is open
source,
+free for anyone to build upon. Using the generally available discounted price
of
+commercial office products, the value of OpenOffice downloads over the past
decade
+exceeds USD 10 billion (10,000,000,000).
+
+##Overcoming the "Digital Divide"
+
+More than 40% of the world population lives on less than US$ 2 per day, and
around
+20% live on less than US$ 1 per day. Against these numbers, commercial
+shrink-wrapped office software is often seen as a luxury good. End-user facing
+open source software, like OpenOffice, brings high-quality software to those
who
+would otherwise have no other affordable options. Within the ICT for
Development
+(ICT4D) community, OpenOffice has long been an important part of achieving
+development goals.
+
+##Support for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
+
+There are over 6,000 languages in the world, but unless the language is
associated
+with a G20 economic superpower, commercial vendors tend to ignore it. The
+OpenOffice community has a long standing tradition of supporting a large
number
+of languages, including languages used by smaller populations, minority
languages,
+endangered languages, etc. For example, South Africa has 11 official
languages.
+OpenOffice has been translated to all of them. By supporting languages that
would
+not otherwise be supported we help reduce "digital exclusion" and promote
+development, local education and administration.
+
+##Accessibility
+
+Persons with disabilities, especially those with visual impairments, commonly
+rely on "assistive technology" to interact with computers. Such technologies
+work well only when applications are designed and coded to work well with
them.
+Additionally, users who create documents must do their part to ensure that the
+documents they create work well with assistive technology, for example through
+the use of image captions, consistent list levels, etc. The OpenOffice project
+aims to provide strong accessibility support, both in the core product and
+including broader ecosystem support via extensions, for working with Braille
+printers, exporting to DAISY talking books, etc.
+
+##Open Standards
+
+Open standards are those standards which are created in an open, transparent
+process, where the specifications can be freely accessed and implemented
without
+royalties. Most core web standards are open standards. The default document
format
+in OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format (ODF) is also an open standard. Widespread
use
+of open standards promotes interoperability and choice in the market. But this
+does not come without effort on our part. We commit to faithful implementation
+of open standards, and to work with standards organizations and other vendors
+to improve these standards and to test and improve interoperability.
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