OpenOffice

Resource Sites

1. The main site http://OpenOffice.org
2. word processing
3. spreadsheet
4. documentation including the manuals
5. forums
6. The OASIS Focus Area at http://opendocument.xml.org
7. extras
8. macros

Check http://support.openoffice.org/index.html for a list of websites and free online resouces which aren't listed here

Tutorials

Learn OpenOffice

http://www.learnopenoffice.org/ has free tutorials (impress and calc as of 6/2006) and resources

From Atomic Learning

Introducing Impress
Using Impress for PowerPoint users

File Formats

OpenOffice File Formats describes how the ODF OASIS standard is employed by OpenOffice

Programming

The wikipedia site has a great list of the projects and interfaces for programmatically dealing with ODF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_software

The open document fellowship website might even have a better list http://opendocumentfellowship.org/node/11 The applications page lists all the applications that can read/write ODF

Controversy and Competing Standards

Groklaw has probably the best list of the issues against EOOXML http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards = a global standards organization