User: jpmcc Date: 2008-03-28 12:00:50+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Fri Mar 28 12:00:14 GMT 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.268&r2=1.269 Delta lines: +71 -86 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-03-28 06:00:30+0000 1.268 +++ atom.xml 2008-03-28 12:00:46+0000 1.269 @@ -5,14 +5,77 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-03-28T06:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:39+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry> + <title type="html">O3Spaces 2.2.1 released</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/o3spaces-221-released.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1703991946984218147</id> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:33+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">The folks from O3Spaces have released the new version of their Document Management and Document Collaboration suite which is also available in a free version. Link: <a href="http://www.o3spaces.com">http://www.o3spaces.com</a></content> + <author> + <name>floeff</name> + <uri>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> + <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:33+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish</title> + <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-9129612366687043113</id> + <updated>2008-03-28T11:09:09+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">The monthly Danish newsletter is released and can be downloaded here: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008April.pdf + +Here is my own translation of one of the articles... +Standards and free competition by Leif Lodahl, spokesman for OpenOffice.org in Denmark The international organization for standardization ISO is about to decide if the document format from Microsoft can be accepted as an</content> + <author> + <name>Leif Lodahl</name> + <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> + <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:35+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">So who is Microsoftâs biggest competitor?</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/</id> + <updated>2008-03-28T07:14:06+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Ina Fried of CNET asked Microsoft&#8217;s Steve Ballmer that very question, and elicited <a href="http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft---page-2/2008-1012_3-6232458-2.html">an interesting reply</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>Fried: &#8220;<em>If I ask you who is Microsoft&#8217;s biggest competitor now, who would it be?</em>&#8221;<br /> +Ballmer: &#8220;<em>Open&#8230;Linux. I don&#8217;t want to say open source. Linux, certainly have to go with that&#8230;</em>&#8220;</p></blockquote> +<p>I wonder what &#8220;<em>Open &#8230;</em>&#8221; word Steve really had in mind, before his built-in danger alert kicked in? Fried probed more, and Ballmer reeled off a list of competitors in different areas:</p> +<blockquote><p>Ballmer: &#8220;<em>&#8230;If you ask Steve Elop (president of Microsoft&#8217;s Business Division), who replaces Jeff Raikes, I just think he would say Open Office, potentially Google. And certainly Kevin Johnson (might add) Apple and Linux</em>&#8220;</p></blockquote> +<p>I suppose it&#8217;s ok for Steve to call us Open Office rather than <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> - I dare say OpenOffice.org Community members have called Microsoft by other names from time to time. But it&#8217;s nice to have confirmation from the man at the top of Microsoft that we&#8217;re the people that keep at least one of his senior people awake at night. Not bad for a team of volunteers up against the worlds&#8217; biggest software company.</p></content> + <author> + <name>John McCreesh</name> + <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> <title type="html">OpenOffice.org 2.4 is finally released</title> <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-24-is-finally-released.html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8748495239206685822</id> - <updated>2008-03-27T12:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-03-27T12:12:32+00:00</updated> <content type="html">Today, OpenOffice.org 2.4 was finally released. Thanks to all involved in the efforts!</content> <author> <name>floeff</name> @@ -22,7 +85,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-03-27T12:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -42,7 +105,7 @@ <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2008-03-28T00:00:50+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:35+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -66,7 +129,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-03-27T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -84,7 +147,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-03-27T12:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -225,7 +288,7 @@ <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2008-03-28T00:00:50+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:35+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -440,7 +503,7 @@ <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-03-27T12:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-03-28T12:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -485,82 +548,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en-us"> - <title type="html">Writing long documents with OpenOffice.org</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice"/> - <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice</id> - <updated>2008-03-19T17:14:36+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">I recently had an email exchange with students about writing a thesis using OpenOffice.org. It became apparent from that email thread that many people are still not aware of the master document feature in OpenOffice.org. In case you also don't know how to use the master document feature, you should check out one or all of the following links: -<br /> -<ul> -<li><a href="http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Create_A_Master_Document.html">Create A Master Document</a> -<li><a href="http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=22">Use master documents</a> -<li><a href="http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1230368,00.html">Combining OpenOffice.org text documents using master files</a> -<li><a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0213WG-WorkingWithMasterDocuments.pdf">Chapter 13 - Working with Master Documents</a> -<li><a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/MasterDocs.pdf">Creating and Using Master Documents</a> -</li></li></li></li></li></ul> -<br /> -The other area where both more tools and documentation are needed is the area of bibliographic and reference management tools. Here is a list of different applications that have varying support for OpenOffice.org and ODF: -<ul> -<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Zotero_Plugin">Zotero</a> -<li><a href="http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">Bibus</a> -<li><a href="http://www.citavi.com/de/allgemeines/english.html">Citavi</a> -<li><a href="http://www.endnote.com/enx1info.asp">Endnote</a> -</li></li></li></li></ul> -<br /> -If any of these vendors or projects don't yet provide the level of integration that you need, either use the feedback forms to submit your feature requests or contribute to the projects!</content> - <author> - <name>Erwin Tenhumberg</name> - <uri>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Erwin's StarOffice Tango</title> - <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br />... or why Open Competition matters</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/> - <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id> - <updated>2008-03-25T18:00:32+00:00</updated> - <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en-us"> - <title type="html">Screenshots of OpenOffice.org 3.0 features</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3"/> - <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3</id> - <updated>2008-03-19T16:53:37+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html">This article</a> shows screenshots of a number of features that will be new in OpenOffice.org 3.0. The article already got slashdotted!</content> - <author> - <name>Erwin Tenhumberg</name> - <uri>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Erwin's StarOffice Tango</title> - <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br />... or why Open Competition matters</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/> - <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id> - <updated>2008-03-25T18:00:32+00:00</updated> - <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en-us"> - <title type="html">Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended"/> - <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended</id> - <updated>2008-03-19T16:50:30+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">The new version 4.0 of the document <a href="http://www.kbst.bund.de/saga">"Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA)</a> by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!</content> - <author> - <name>Erwin Tenhumberg</name> - <uri>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Erwin's StarOffice Tango</title> - <subtitle type="html">Erwin Tenhumberg's Insights into Open Source and Dancing<br />... or why Open Competition matters</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss"/> - <id>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/feed/entries/rss</id> - <updated>2008-03-25T18:00:32+00:00</updated> - <rights type="html">Copyright 2008</rights> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.268&r2=1.269 Delta lines: +53 -62 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-03-28 06:00:30+0000 1.268 +++ index.html 2008-03-28 12:00:46+0000 1.269 @@ -34,8 +34,59 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: March 28, 2008 06:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: March 28, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>March 28, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> +OOo Marketeers</a> : +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/o3spaces-221-released.html";> +O3Spaces 2.2.1 released</a> +</h3> +<p> +The folks from O3Spaces have released the new version of their Document Management and Document Collaboration suite which is also available in a free version. Link: <a href="http://www.o3spaces.com";>http://www.o3spaces.com</a></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/o3spaces-221-released.html";>by floeff at March 28, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org"; title="Lodahl's blog"> +Leif Lodahl</a> : +<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html";> +OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish</a> +</h3> +<p> +The monthly Danish newsletter is released and can be downloaded here: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008April.pdf + +Here is my own translation of one of the articles... +Standards and free competition by Leif Lodahl, spokesman for OpenOffice.org in Denmark The international organization for standardization ISO is about to decide if the document format from Microsoft can be accepted as an</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html";>by Leif Lodahl at March 28, 2008 11:09 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> +John McCreesh</a> : +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/";> +So who is Microsoftâs biggest competitor?</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Ina Fried of CNET asked Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer that very question, and elicited <a href="http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft---page-2/2008-1012_3-6232458-2.html";>an interesting reply</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>Fried: “<em>If I ask you who is Microsoft’s biggest competitor now, who would it be?</em>”<br /> +Ballmer: “<em>Open…Linux. I don’t want to say open source. Linux, certainly have to go with that…</em>“</p></blockquote> +<p>I wonder what “<em>Open …</em>” word Steve really had in mind, before his built-in danger alert kicked in? Fried probed more, and Ballmer reeled off a list of competitors in different areas:</p> +<blockquote><p>Ballmer: “<em>…If you ask Steve Elop (president of Microsoft’s Business Division), who replaces Jeff Raikes, I just think he would say Open Office, potentially Google. And certainly Kevin Johnson (might add) Apple and Linux</em>“</p></blockquote> +<p>I suppose it’s ok for Steve to call us Open Office rather than <a href="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org</a> - I dare say OpenOffice.org Community members have called Microsoft by other names from time to time. But it’s nice to have confirmation from the man at the top of Microsoft that we’re the people that keep at least one of his senior people awake at night. Not bad for a team of volunteers up against the worlds’ biggest software company.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/";>by John at March 28, 2008 07:14 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>March 27, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> @@ -46,7 +97,7 @@ <p> Today, OpenOffice.org 2.4 was finally released. Thanks to all involved in the efforts!</p> <p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-24-is-finally-released.html";>by floeff at March 27, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</a></em> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-24-is-finally-released.html";>by floeff at March 27, 2008 12:12 PM GMT</a></em> </p> <br /> <hr /> @@ -437,66 +488,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/"; title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango"> -Erwin Tenhumberg</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice";> -Writing long documents with OpenOffice.org</a> -</h3> -<p> -I recently had an email exchange with students about writing a thesis using OpenOffice.org. It became apparent from that email thread that many people are still not aware of the master document feature in OpenOffice.org. In case you also don't know how to use the master document feature, you should check out one or all of the following links: -<br /> -<ul> -<li><a href="http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Create_A_Master_Document.html";>Create A Master Document</a> -<li><a href="http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=22";>Use master documents</a> -<li><a href="http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1230368,00.html";>Combining OpenOffice.org text documents using master files</a> -<li><a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0213WG-WorkingWithMasterDocuments.pdf";>Chapter 13 - Working with Master Documents</a> -<li><a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/MasterDocs.pdf";>Creating and Using Master Documents</a> -</li></li></li></li></li></ul> -<br /> -The other area where both more tools and documentation are needed is the area of bibliographic and reference management tools. Here is a list of different applications that have varying support for OpenOffice.org and ODF: -<ul> -<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Zotero_Plugin";>Zotero</a> -<li><a href="http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page";>Bibus</a> -<li><a href="http://www.citavi.com/de/allgemeines/english.html";>Citavi</a> -<li><a href="http://www.endnote.com/enx1info.asp";>Endnote</a> -</li></li></li></li></ul> -<br /> -If any of these vendors or projects don't yet provide the level of integration that you need, either use the feedback forms to submit your feature requests or contribute to the projects!</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice";>by dancer at March 19, 2008 05:14 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/"; title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango"> -Erwin Tenhumberg</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3";> -Screenshots of OpenOffice.org 3.0 features</a> -</h3> -<p> -<a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html";>This article</a> shows screenshots of a number of features that will be new in OpenOffice.org 3.0. The article already got slashdotted!</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3";>by dancer at March 19, 2008 04:53 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/"; title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango"> -Erwin Tenhumberg</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended";> -Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"</a> -</h3> -<p> -The new version 4.0 of the document <a href="http://www.kbst.bund.de/saga";>"Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA)</a> by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended";>by dancer at March 19, 2008 04:50 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.268&r2=1.269 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-03-28 06:00:30+0000 1.268 +++ opml.xml 2008-03-28 12:00:47+0000 1.269 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:00:24 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:00:39 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.186&r2=1.187 Delta lines: +32 -40 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-03-27 12:00:35+0000 1.186 +++ rss10.xml 2008-03-28 12:00:47+0000 1.187 @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1703991946984218147" /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-9129612366687043113" /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8748495239206685822" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7115855525568860108" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/27/a-double-celebration/"; /> @@ -30,18 +33,43 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2969377293556945646" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/mampu_migrates_to_openoffice_org"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/per_incident_support_available_for"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1703991946984218147"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: O3Spaces 2.2.1 released</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/o3spaces-221-released.html</link> + <content:encoded>The folks from O3Spaces have released the new version of their Document Management and Document Collaboration suite which is also available in a free version. Link: <a href="http://www.o3spaces.com">http://www.o3spaces.com</a></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-03-28T12:00:33+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-9129612366687043113"> + <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish</title> + <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html</link> + <content:encoded>The monthly Danish newsletter is released and can be downloaded here: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008April.pdf + +Here is my own translation of one of the articles... +Standards and free competition by Leif Lodahl, spokesman for OpenOffice.org in Denmark The international organization for standardization ISO is about to decide if the document format from Microsoft can be accepted as an</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-03-28T11:09:09+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/";> + <title>John McCreesh: So who is Microsoftâs biggest competitor?</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Ina Fried of CNET asked Microsoft&#8217;s Steve Ballmer that very question, and elicited <a href="http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft---page-2/2008-1012_3-6232458-2.html">an interesting reply</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>Fried: &#8220;<em>If I ask you who is Microsoft&#8217;s biggest competitor now, who would it be?</em>&#8221;<br /> +Ballmer: &#8220;<em>Open&#8230;Linux. I don&#8217;t want to say open source. Linux, certainly have to go with that&#8230;</em>&#8220;</p></blockquote> +<p>I wonder what &#8220;<em>Open &#8230;</em>&#8221; word Steve really had in mind, before his built-in danger alert kicked in? Fried probed more, and Ballmer reeled off a list of competitors in different areas:</p> +<blockquote><p>Ballmer: &#8220;<em>&#8230;If you ask Steve Elop (president of Microsoft&#8217;s Business Division), who replaces Jeff Raikes, I just think he would say Open Office, potentially Google. And certainly Kevin Johnson (might add) Apple and Linux</em>&#8220;</p></blockquote> +<p>I suppose it&#8217;s ok for Steve to call us Open Office rather than <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> - I dare say OpenOffice.org Community members have called Microsoft by other names from time to time. But it&#8217;s nice to have confirmation from the man at the top of Microsoft that we&#8217;re the people that keep at least one of his senior people awake at night. Not bad for a team of volunteers up against the worlds&#8217; biggest software company.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-03-28T07:14:06+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8748495239206685822"> <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org 2.4 is finally released</title> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-24-is-finally-released.html</link> <content:encoded>Today, OpenOffice.org 2.4 was finally released. Thanks to all involved in the efforts!</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-03-27T12:00:23+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:date>2008-03-27T12:12:32+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> </item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7115855525568860108"> @@ -299,41 +327,5 @@ <content:encoded>If you are really stuck with a terrible problem, and if you are unlucky and don't find the right answers to your problem in the public user forums, you might want to try out the new <a href="http://www.support-central.org/openoffice">per-incident support for OpenOffice.org</a>.</content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-03-19T17:18:39+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice";> - <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Writing long documents with OpenOffice.org</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice</link> - <content:encoded>I recently had an email exchange with students about writing a thesis using OpenOffice.org. It became apparent from that email thread that many people are still not aware of the master document feature in OpenOffice.org. In case you also don't know how to use the master document feature, you should check out one or all of the following links: -<br /> -<ul> -<li><a href="http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Create_A_Master_Document.html">Create A Master Document</a> -<li><a href="http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=22">Use master documents</a> -<li><a href="http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1230368,00.html">Combining OpenOffice.org text documents using master files</a> -<li><a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0213WG-WorkingWithMasterDocuments.pdf">Chapter 13 - Working with Master Documents</a> -<li><a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/MasterDocs.pdf">Creating and Using Master Documents</a> -</li></li></li></li></li></ul> -<br /> -The other area where both more tools and documentation are needed is the area of bibliographic and reference management tools. Here is a list of different applications that have varying support for OpenOffice.org and ODF: -<ul> -<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Zotero_Plugin">Zotero</a> -<li><a href="http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">Bibus</a> -<li><a href="http://www.citavi.com/de/allgemeines/english.html">Citavi</a> -<li><a href="http://www.endnote.com/enx1info.asp">Endnote</a> -</li></li></li></li></ul> -<br /> -If any of these vendors or projects don't yet provide the level of integration that you need, either use the feedback forms to submit your feature requests or contribute to the projects!</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-03-19T17:14:36+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3";> - <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Screenshots of OpenOffice.org 3.0 features</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3</link> - <content:encoded><a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html">This article</a> shows screenshots of a number of features that will be new in OpenOffice.org 3.0. The article already got slashdotted!</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-03-19T16:53:37+00:00</dc:date> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended";> - <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended</link> - <content:encoded>The new version 4.0 of the document <a href="http://www.kbst.bund.de/saga">"Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA)</a> by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". 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Link: <a href="http://www.o3spaces.com">http://www.o3spaces.com</a></description> + <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:00:33 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-9129612366687043113</guid> + <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-newsletter-in-danish.html</link> + <description>The monthly Danish newsletter is released and can be downloaded here: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008April.pdf + +Here is my own translation of one of the articles... +Standards and free competition by Leif Lodahl, spokesman for OpenOffice.org in Denmark The international organization for standardization ISO is about to decide if the document format from Microsoft can be accepted as an</description> + <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:09 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>John McCreesh: So who is Microsoftâs biggest competitor?</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/03/28/so-who-is-microsofts-biggest-competitor/</link> + <description><p>Ina Fried of CNET asked Microsoft&#8217;s Steve Ballmer that very question, and elicited <a href="http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft---page-2/2008-1012_3-6232458-2.html">an interesting reply</a>:</p> +<blockquote><p>Fried: &#8220;<em>If I ask you who is Microsoft&#8217;s biggest competitor now, who would it be?</em>&#8221;<br /> +Ballmer: &#8220;<em>Open&#8230;Linux. I don&#8217;t want to say open source. Linux, certainly have to go with that&#8230;</em>&#8220;</p></blockquote> +<p>I wonder what &#8220;<em>Open &#8230;</em>&#8221; word Steve really had in mind, before his built-in danger alert kicked in? Fried probed more, and Ballmer reeled off a list of competitors in different areas:</p> +<blockquote><p>Ballmer: &#8220;<em>&#8230;If you ask Steve Elop (president of Microsoft&#8217;s Business Division), who replaces Jeff Raikes, I just think he would say Open Office, potentially Google. And certainly Kevin Johnson (might add) Apple and Linux</em>&#8220;</p></blockquote> +<p>I suppose it&#8217;s ok for Steve to call us Open Office rather than <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a> - I dare say OpenOffice.org Community members have called Microsoft by other names from time to time. But it&#8217;s nice to have confirmation from the man at the top of Microsoft that we&#8217;re the people that keep at least one of his senior people awake at night. Not bad for a team of volunteers up against the worlds&#8217; biggest software company.</p></description> + <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:14:06 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org 2.4 is finally released</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8748495239206685822</guid> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-24-is-finally-released.html</link> <description>Today, OpenOffice.org 2.4 was finally released. Thanks to all involved in the efforts!</description> - <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate> + <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:12:32 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org 2.4 is released</title> @@ -281,45 +310,6 @@ <description>If you are really stuck with a terrible problem, and if you are unlucky and don't find the right answers to your problem in the public user forums, you might want to try out the new <a href="http://www.support-central.org/openoffice">per-incident support for OpenOffice.org</a>.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:18:39 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Writing long documents with OpenOffice.org</title> - <guid>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/writing_long_documents_with_openoffice</link> - <description>I recently had an email exchange with students about writing a thesis using OpenOffice.org. It became apparent from that email thread that many people are still not aware of the master document feature in OpenOffice.org. In case you also don't know how to use the master document feature, you should check out one or all of the following links: -<br /> -<ul> -<li><a href="http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/tutorial/Create_A_Master_Document.html">Create A Master Document</a> -<li><a href="http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=22">Use master documents</a> -<li><a href="http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1230368,00.html">Combining OpenOffice.org text documents using master files</a> -<li><a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0213WG-WorkingWithMasterDocuments.pdf">Chapter 13 - Working with Master Documents</a> -<li><a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors/MasterDocs.pdf">Creating and Using Master Documents</a> -</li></li></li></li></li></ul> -<br /> -The other area where both more tools and documentation are needed is the area of bibliographic and reference management tools. Here is a list of different applications that have varying support for OpenOffice.org and ODF: -<ul> -<li><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Zotero_Plugin">Zotero</a> -<li><a href="http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">Bibus</a> -<li><a href="http://www.citavi.com/de/allgemeines/english.html">Citavi</a> -<li><a href="http://www.endnote.com/enx1info.asp">Endnote</a> -</li></li></li></li></ul> -<br /> -If any of these vendors or projects don't yet provide the level of integration that you need, either use the feedback forms to submit your feature requests or contribute to the projects!</description> - <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:14:36 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Screenshots of OpenOffice.org 3.0 features</title> - <guid>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/screenshots_of_openoffice_org_3</link> - <description><a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/03/openofficeorg-30-new-features.html">This article</a> shows screenshots of a number of features that will be new in OpenOffice.org 3.0. The article already got slashdotted!</description> - <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:53:37 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"</title> - <guid>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended</link> - <description>The new version 4.0 of the document <a href="http://www.kbst.bund.de/saga">"Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA)</a> by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!</description> - <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:50:30 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
