Year Two
2002-10-14
An 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の Year
This year has been 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の for OpenOffice.org, and any 報告（する）／憶測 of what has happened could not do 司法（官） to all who have made it happen nor to all that has happened. So, first off, 許す me to 明言する／公表する that the most remarkable thing about the last year has been—and will continue to be—the growth and maturation of the OpenOffice.org community.
I 含む the developers and endusers and everyone who has either coded or submitted patches, suggestions, advice, bugfixes, 建設的な （民事の）告訴s (lots of those!), 賞賛する (lots of that, too), time, 成果／努力, money, sleep.
Congratulations, all! This 事業／計画（する） has far 越えるd its 約束. OpenOffice.org is used now by millions of people throughout the world, 同様に as in 会社／団体s and 政府s, both large and small, thanks to you.
Why do they use it? Because it answers the question of not, "Where do you want to go today?" but, "What do you want to do today?" The first is silly and assumes you have lots of cash, the second real and makes no 仮定／引き受けることs. It in fact gives you the 資本／首都 to do what you need to do.
People use OpenOffice.org because it, and the 事業／計画（する）, work for them. They may be using Linux, Solaris, Windows, FreeBSD, LinuxPPC, IRIX, Linux S/390, TRU64, Mac OS X (経由で X11): 事実上 any flavor of Windows or Unix. OpenOffice.org will 令状, draw, calculate, 現在の in at least 23 languages, and do it using 国祭的な 標準化するd 科学（工学）技術 that is more 強健な than, 井戸／弁護士席, you-know-what, whose 文書s it reads—and will even 直す／買収する，八百長をする.
The Difference Community Makes
"OpenOffice.org 論証するs that a 共同 between a large 会社／団体 and the open source developer community is not only possible, but 高度に 生産力のある"—Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly & Associates.
A year ago, when I wrote the first birthday 報告（する）／憶測, I was discussing the 638c build. We were not thinking of endusers. But that was before the 提案 to 可決する・採択する the community-sponsored and 持続するd OpenOffice.org was agreed to by the community earlier this year.
The 影響 of this 決定／判定勝ち（する） has been monumental and it is still growing. In a nutshell, the 決定／判定勝ち（する） 転換d more 支配（する）／統制する to the volunteer community over the content and 範囲 of the stable 解放（する） 申し込む／申し出d by the 事業／計画（する）, OpenOffice.org, thus 断言するing the implicit covenant between volunteers and Sun, which 設立するd and 大幅に 基金s the 事業／計画（する）. In the last nine months, it has been ますます the volunteer community, not just Sun, which has 形態／調整d the 製品 and the 事業／計画（する）. And this 形態／調整ing has only begun.
OpenOffice.org has 転換d its 焦点（を合わせる） to 含む the 出資／貢献s of endusers 同様に as coders; and for both groups, we are making it easier to 与える／捧げる. The recently 解放（する）d SDK is meant to 申し込む／申し出 developers the 道具s; documentation and Web areas are coming soon. The Native-Lang, Marketing, Incubator 部類,QA, and Website 事業／計画（する）s all 融通する the enthusiasm of people who want to give 支援する to the 事業／計画（する） what it has given them. This generosity characterizes Open Source. But no other Open Source 事業／計画（する） of our size, our 範囲, and our importance has been able to so 首尾よく engaging this enduser enthusiasm to その上の the 事業／計画（する）'s goals. 主要な this 成果／努力 is the recently formed QA 事業／計画（する）, which has taken on the 仕事 of 調整するing work on producing community-sponsored 製品s that have been 実験（する）d by endusers.
We are in fact changing not just what is meant by Open Source but the 期待s 会社／団体s have in going Open Source. The ramifications are 深遠な. Two 重要な 事業／計画（する）s are the Native-Lang 部類 (an ensemble of 事業／計画（する）s) and the Marketing 事業／計画（する）, which have altered the way an Open Source 事業／計画（する）'s 科学（工学）技術 is communicated. Because of Native-Lang, we can 調整する the way 使用者s and developers learn of OpenOffice.org and 申し込む／申し出 to new 使用者s and developers the model of a participatory community. OpenOffice.org is not just a 製品 but a 過程 and a relation to a 製品; the Native-Lang 事業／計画（する）s help to その上の that idea.
Native-Lang 作品 in complement with the Marketing 事業／計画（する）, which 認めるs the importance of communicating our message the form that is understood by 会社／団体s and 政府s. As a result of Marketing's 押し進める, OpenOffice.org is 広範囲にわたって 認めるd and has been 繰り返して featured by the news マスコミ, both U.S. and throughout the world.
The marketing has been 効果的な, too, both in promulgating OpenOffice.org 1.0 and in bringing in new developers and contributors. Since the 開始する，打ち上げる of OpenOffice.org, on May 1, 2002, more than five million people have downloaded the 製品, more than 60 thousand have joined the 事業／計画（する）. And that's not all.
Verizon now uses OpenOffice.org 1.0, and it has saved the company millions of dollars. It's the largest 法人組織の／企業の 使用者 of OpenOffice.org that we are aware of but, as our Testimonial page 示すs, it is not the only one by any means. 同様に, 国家の and 地元の 政府s throughout the world are turning to OpenOffice.org. Partly, this surely has to with Microsoft's new licensing program (6.0), which assumes that the 支払う／賃金ing 会社／団体 is rich and, importantly, has no other choices (in fact, "no choice" sums up Microsoft's 戦略). But the move to OpenOffice.org also has to do with the 承認 that the very 関係 Microsoft has その上のd and off of which it has gotten so rich is not in the people's best 利益／興味. It's not even in a 会社／団体's.
In the next six months I fully 推定する／予想する that everything we have so far seen and marveled over—OpenOffice.org's 人気, the growth of the 事業／計画（する）—will 証明する to be hints to something vaster. OpenOffice.org is a 製品 that is 存在 認めるd as すぐに usable but also as something to which one can 追加する things; and OpenOffice.org as a community is only beginning to 形態／調整 the way people think about their 製品.
