OpenOffice won’t recognize TrueType fonts with the extension .otf, so you need to convert them to .ttf in order to use them in that suite.

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sudo apt-get install fontforge

If all the .otf files are in the same folder, then you are good to go.

First, you need the conversion script, which I found in this post:

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#!/usr/local/bin/fontforge
# Quick and dirty hack: converts a font to truetype (.ttf)
Print("Opening "+$1);
Open($1);
Print("Saving "+$1:r+".ttf");
Generate($1:r+".ttf");
Quit(0);

Save it as otf2ttf.sh into the folder with the .otf files.

Then run:

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for i in *.otf; do fontforge -script otf2ttf.sh $i; done

Move all the converted fonts to your your shared directory:

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sudo mv *ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts/

And then change the permissions and reload the cache:

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sudo chmod go+rx /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts/
sudo chmod go+rx /usr/share/fonts/truetype/myfonts/*.ttf
sudo fc-cache -f -v

And the fonts will now appear in OpenOffice. Easy.