1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 5*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist * 6*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 9*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*c63dc91bSAndrew Rist * with the License. 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Find an overview of the native language projects at <link href="http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html">projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html</link>. You can find help and support in English language on the OpenOffice.org website at <link href="http://support.openoffice.org">support.openoffice.org</link>.</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id2611386" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Mailing lists</paragraph> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3166335" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Ask about OpenOffice.org, find help by volunteers, and discuss topics on the public mailing lists. You can find many general and specialized mailing lists on the OpenOffice.org website at <link href="http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html">www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html</link>.</paragraph> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id0915200811081722" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Forum</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0915200811081778" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">You can access web forums to ask and answer questions about OpenOffice.org.</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id0804200803314150" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Security</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0804200803314235" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">In case you are concerned about any security issue with using this software, you can contact the developers on the public mail list dev@openoffice.org. If you want to discuss any issue with other users, send an email to the public mail list discuss@openoffice.org.</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3168534" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Downloads</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3028143" role="paragraph" l10n="CHG">You can download the latest version of OpenOffice.org at <link href="http://download.openoffice.org/">download.openoffice.org</link>.</paragraph> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id2602967" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Documentation</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3497211" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">You can download documentation as PDF files, how-tos, and guides from the OpenOffice.org website at <link href="http://documentation.openoffice.org">documentation.openoffice.org</link>.</paragraph> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id0120200910361765" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">Participate and give back</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0120200910361848" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">If you want to take an active role in the worldwide OpenOffice.org community, you are very welcome to give feedback, discuss features, propose enhancements, write your own article in an FAQ, how-to, manual, create a video tutorial, etc.</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id0120200910361874" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Visit the <link href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/">documentation web site</link> or the <link href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation">Wiki starting page</link> and follow the links for contributors.</paragraph> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir </section> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir </body> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument>