# Welcome

# OpenOffice.org 2.4 ReadMe

For latest updates to this readme file, see http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/readme.html

Dear User

This file contains important information about this program. Please read this information very carefully before starting work.

The OpenOffice.org Community, responsible for the development of this product, would like to invite you to participate as a community member. As a new user, you can check out the OpenOffice.org site with helpful user information at

http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/introduction.html

Also read the sections below about getting involved in the OpenOffice.org project.

### Is OpenOffice.org really free for any user?

OpenOffice.org is free for use by everybody (this includes Government, business, educational and private use). For further details see the license text delivered together with OpenOffice.org or http://www.openoffice.org/license.html

## Avvertenze di installazione

Richieste di sistema:

### Problems During Program Startup

Please note that copy and paste via clipboard between OpenOffice.org 1.x and OpenOffice.org 2.4 might not work in OpenOffice.org format. If that happens, choose 'Edit - Paste Special' and choose a format other than OpenOffice.org, or open the document in OpenOffice.org 2.4 directly.

Please make sure you have enough free memory in the temporary directory on your system and that read, write and run access rights have been granted. Close all other programs before starting the installation.

### Tasti di scelta rapida

In OpenOffice.org si possono utilizzare combinazioni di tasti a patto che non siano le stesse utilizzate dal sistema operativo. Se una combinazione non dovesse funzionare nel modo descritto nella Guida online è necessario verificare se la combinazione è già utilizzata dal sistema operativo. Per eliminare questo conflitto potete modificare i tasti assegnati del sistema operativo. Inoltre anche OpenOffice.org offre la possibilità di cambiare la maggior parte dell'assegnazione dei tasti. Per maggiori dettagli riguardo all'argomento consultate la Guida OpenOffice.org e la Guida del sistema operativo.

### File locking

Per preimpostazione OpenOffice.org File Locking è disattivato. Per attivarlo dovete impostare le variabili di ambiente SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 e di esportazione SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING. Queste voci sono già contenute nel file soffice Script e sono disattivate.

Attenzione: quando File Locking è attivo può causare problemi con Solaris 2.5.1 e 2.7 in collegamento con Linux NFS 2.0. Se il vostro ambiente di sistema supporta questi parametri vi sconsigliamo di passare al locking in quanto OpenOffice.org potrebbe rimanere bloccato cercando di aprire un file su una partizione NFS montata da una macchina Linux.

## Registration

Please take a little time to complete the minimal Product Registration process when you install the software. While registration is optional, we encourage you to register, since the information enables the community to make an even better software suite and address user needs directly. Through its Privacy Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community takes every precaution to safeguard your personal data. If you missed the registration at installation, you can return and register at any time at http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/registration20.html

## User Survey

There is also a User Survey located online which we encourage you to fill out. The User Survey results will help OpenOffice.org move more rapidly in setting new standards for the creation of the next-generation office suite. Through its Privacy Policy, the OpenOffice.org Community takes every precaution to safeguard your personal data.

## User Support

For help with the OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite, take a look at the archives to find questions already answered on the 'users@openoffice.org' mailing list at http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html. Alternatively, you can send in your questions to users@openoffice.org. Remember to subscribe to the list to get an email response.

Also check the FAQ section at http://user-faq.openoffice.org/.

## Report Bugs & Issues

The OpenOffice.org Web site hosts IssueZilla, our mechanism for reporting, tracking and solving bugs and issues. We encourage all users to feel entitled and welcome to report issues that may arise on your particular platform. Energetic reporting of issues is one of the most important contributions that the user community can make to the ongoing development and improvement of the suite.

## Getting Involved

The OpenOffice.org Community would very much benefit from your active participation in the development of this important open source project.

As a user, you are already a valuable part of the suite's development process and we would like to encourage you to take an even more active role with a view to being a long-term contributor to the community. Please join and check out the user page at: http://www.openoffice.org

### Way to Start

The best way to start contributing is to subscribe to one or more of the mailing lists, lurk for a while, and gradually use the mail archives to familiarize yourself with many of the topics covered since the OpenOffice.org source code was released back in October 2000. When you're comfortable, all you need to do is send an email self-introduction and jump right in. If you are familiar with Open Source Projects, check out our To-Dos list and see if there is anything you would like to help with at http://development.openoffice.org/todo.html.

### Subscribe

Here are a few of the Project mailing lists to which you can subscribe at http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

- News: announce@openoffice.org *recommended to all users* (light traffic)
- Main user forum: discuss@openoffice.org *easy way to lurk on discussions* (heavy)
- Marketing project: dev@marketing.openoffice.org *beyond development* (getting heavy)
- General code contributor list: dev@openoffice.org (moderate/heavy)

### Join one or more Projects

You can make major contributions to this important open source project even if you have limited software design or coding experience. Yes, you!

At http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html you will find projects ranging from Localization, Porting and Groupware to some real core coding projects. If you are not a developer, try the Documentation or the Marketing Project. The OpenOffice.org Marketing Project is applying both guerrilla and traditional commercial techniques to marketing open source software, and we are doing it across language and cultural barriers, so you can help just by spreading the word and telling a friend about this office suite.

You can help by joining the Marketing Communications & Information Network here: http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html where you can provide point communication contact with press, media, government agencies, consultants, schools, Linux Users Groups and developers in your country and local community.

We hope you enjoy working with the new OpenOffice.org 2.4 and will join us online.

The OpenOffice.org Community

## Testo sorgente utilizzato / modificato(Source Code)

Portions Copyright 1998, 1999 James Clark. Portions Copyright 1996, 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation.