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There are some clearly defined functional areas in the OpenOffice.org project.  These are not rooms with walls separating them, but areas of focus.  Many project members work in more than one functional area, and any member is encouraged to participate across any or all of these areas.

• Podling PMC or PPMC.  This is the group of elected PMC members who have oversight of the project, who elect new committers and who approve releases
• Dev includes the C++/Java programmers, including specialists like UI design, accessibly, performance, core localization (Bidi, IME, etc.) etc. 
• QA includes the testing, manual and automated
• Translation/Localization provides the linguistic and cultural adaptability of the product
• Documentation includes in-product help as well as web-hosted documentation
• Support includes the support forums
• Marketing includes publicity, events, whitepaper, promotion, etc.

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