OpenOffice.org Localised Malaysian Resources

For Malaysians that decide to use OpenOffice.org, things always get a little more interesting. This is because, in Malaysia, we predominantly have the Malays, the Indians and the Chinese. This melting pot brings us into an interesting area, as we not only speak English, we also have Bahasa Malaysia (or Bahasa Melayu), Mandarin, and Tamil as written languages. In terms of spoken languages and dialects, there are even more.

Languages

• my.openoffice.org
  Malaysian resources at openoffice.org - this is the official Native-Lang site. Currently barren.
• Projek Singa Emas
  A site to localise OOo into the Bahasa Melayu language. The site is in BM, and there are hardly English translations currently. There are User Interface (UI) Message translations, along with a Glossary of common terms used within OOo. Be warned that you need to sign-up for an account (its free), before the resources are viewable.
• Projek OpenOffice L10N ms_MY
  Download this resource by Bustamam Harun, and install it. Follow the instructions (currently in Malay), and your Linux-based OpenOffice.org will work. Its current to 1.0.3, but will most likely work on 1.1, unless there have been major changes.
• Chinese (TW)
• Chinese (CN)
• Hindi OpenOffice.org
• Status of OOo localisation (including the status for Tamil)

Dictionaries

• Bahasa Malaysia Word List
  A resource from AsiaOSC in accordance with Mimos. This is a wordlist of the common BM words, that can be used as part of the spell checking library.
• Malay (Malaysia) Dictionary - read the release notes
  This is the AsiaOSC resource, except that it fits with OOo just nicely!

CDROM

• CheapISO.com
  A company located in Ampang, accepting orders from all over Malaysia - payment by credit card or bank-in into their account.
• Byte Craft Sdn. Bhd.
  Official OpenOffice.org CD distributors as well, another KL-based company.
• Asian Open Source Centre
  Here, they send you CD's for FREE, Malaysia-wide. Offer is limited to 2 packages, and the current offer may be withdrawn or changed to "cost price" in the future.

Misc

• Malaysian National Computer Confederation
  Organisers of the OSS 101 Appreciation Workshop, which includes training of the OOo package during the first day. Practical exposure to all the applications within the package occur here, as with many other Open Source related utilities.