User: jpmcc Date: 2008-04-17 17:00:48+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 Thu Apr 17 18:00:15 BST 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.341&r2=1.342 Delta lines: +34 -30 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-04-17 11:00:41+0000 1.341 +++ atom.xml 2008-04-17 17:00:40+0000 1.342 @@ -5,10 +5,32 @@ <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>2008-04-17T11:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:32+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Solveig Haugland on OpenOffice.org Extensions</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783</id> + <updated>2008-04-17T13:48:33+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Solveig Haugland has another great article at <a href="http://www.k12opentech.org/">K-12 Open Technologies</a>. This one&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/03/14/world-openofficeorg-extensions">The World of OpenOffice.org Extensions</a>,&#8221; covering the fast-growing ecosystem of extensions you can install to add functionality to your installation of OpenOffice.</p> +<p>OpenOffice extensions were inspired by Firefox&#8217;s success with them, and became available in recent versions of OOo (2.3, I think, and then were beefed up in 2.4). They are an easy way for programmers and companies to participate in the community, to introduce their products to OpenOffice users, and to customize OOo to better suit specific niche market needs.</p> +<p>Solveig&#8217;s article explains how to install extensions and then lists some of her favorites, such as Pagination, the Sun Report Builder, GoogleDocs integration, eFax, templates and clipart from OxygenOffice, and more.</p> +<p>It&#8217;s a great starting point for learning about and using the wealth of extensions out there.</p></content> + <author> + <name>Benjamin Horst</name> + <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:18+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Todayâs security announcement</title> <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/04/17/todays-security-announcement/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=500</id> @@ -49,7 +71,7 @@ <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2008-04-17T05:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -105,7 +127,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-04-17T11:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -128,7 +150,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-04-16T17:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -146,7 +168,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-04-17T11:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -164,7 +186,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-04-17T11:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -229,7 +251,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-04-16T17:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -276,7 +298,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-04-13T23:00:31+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:31+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -308,7 +330,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-04-17T11:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -344,7 +366,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-04-17T11:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -437,7 +459,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-04-16T17:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -455,25 +477,7 @@ <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2008-04-17T05:00:18+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">A PIM for OpenOffice.org â What's going on?</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/a_pim_for_openoffice_org"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/749fa31837cb01fe</id> - <updated>2008-04-09T07:42:45+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">In 2006, a Personal Information Manager (PIM) has been added to the roadmap of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>. Users constantly asked for this feature, and it's still seen as a key missing piece towards a full OpenSource Office solution. The PIM targets to complete OpenOffice.org's productivity offering by providing an integrated E-Mail, calendaring and addressbook client. The <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_186.pdf">roadmap presented at OOoCon 2007</a> lists it as one of the highlights of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 release.<br /><br />So, what has happened and is going on in this project, what's the current status?<br />Back in 2006, a team of Sun's <a href="http://www.sun.com/staroffice/">StarOffice</a> engineers joined the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/">Mozilla Calendar Project</a> in order to improve and contribute to its products: <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/">Lightning</a>, a calendaring add-on for <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/">Thunderbird</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/">Sunbird</a>, a standalone calendar client (sharing the same <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/calendar/">code base</a>). Especially Thunderbird/Lightning seems to perfectly fit the needs:<br /><ul><li>Thunderbird is widely adopted and the de facto number #1 OS E-Mail client.</li><li>All major platforms of OpenOffice.org are covered.</li><li>Almost all locales of OpenOffice.org are supported.</li><li>There's a vibrant community.<br /></li></ul><p>By now, we have contributed to several releases of Lightning and Sunbird. Not only in terms of code â but also in terms of feature and roadmap planning, user interface design, testing and release engineering. We first focussed on improving the core product(s) rather than an integration story with OpenOffice.org, implementing features, but also fixing bloody bugs.<br />The product(s) already offer a pretty decent feature set like nice event and task handling, a <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:Screenshots#Mail_Mode_with_Today_Pane">today pane</a> for Thunderbird, popup alarms, good timezone support, E-Mail based invitations, support for various remote protocols, e.g. <a href="http://rfc.net/rfc2518.html">WebDAV</a> (<a href="http://rfc.net/rfc2445.html">ics</a> files), <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4791">CalDAV</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Calendar_Access_Protocol">WCAP</a> (<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/index.xml">Sun Java System Calendar Server</a>) or <a href="http://calendar.google.com/">Google Calendar</a>. With the latest <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.8.html">Lightning 0.8</a>, a new <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:Screenshots#Task_Mode">task mode</a> has been added, providing fine-grained control over tasks.<br /></p><p>What I like most on Thunderbird/Lightning is to have both E-Mail and an aggregrate of all my various calendars in one application: public holiday calendars, my Sun work calendars and all people I am subscribed to, my private calendar, my wife's Google calendar, the team's calendar...<br /><br />Check it out! It's certainly not final, but we <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.calendar">like to know</a> what you think about it. Moreover if you have fresh ideas about an integration with OpenOffice.org or want to help another way, <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.calendar">let us know</a>.<br /><br /></p></content> - <author> - <name>Daniel Boelzle</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-04-17T11:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-04-17T17:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.341&r2=1.342 Delta lines: +18 -15 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-04-17 11:00:42+0000 1.341 +++ index.html 2008-04-17 17:00:41+0000 1.342 @@ -34,10 +34,27 @@ <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: April 17, 2008 11:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: April 17, 2008 05:00 PM GMT</em></p> <h2>April 17, 2008</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783";> +Solveig Haugland on OpenOffice.org Extensions</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Solveig Haugland has another great article at <a href="http://www.k12opentech.org/";>K-12 Open Technologies</a>. This one’s “<a href="http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/03/14/world-openofficeorg-extensions";>The World of OpenOffice.org Extensions</a>,” covering the fast-growing ecosystem of extensions you can install to add functionality to your installation of OpenOffice.</p> +<p>OpenOffice extensions were inspired by Firefox’s success with them, and became available in recent versions of OOo (2.3, I think, and then were beefed up in 2.4). They are an easy way for programmers and companies to participate in the community, to introduce their products to OpenOffice users, and to customize OOo to better suit specific niche market needs.</p> +<p>Solveig’s article explains how to install extensions and then lists some of her favorites, such as Pagination, the Sun Report Builder, GoogleDocs integration, eFax, templates and clipart from OxygenOffice, and more.</p> +<p>It’s a great starting point for learning about and using the wealth of extensions out there.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783";>by Benjamin Horst at April 17, 2008 01:48 PM 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/2008/04/17/todays-security-announcement/";> @@ -405,20 +422,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/a_pim_for_openoffice_org";> -A PIM for OpenOffice.org â What's going on?</a> -</h3> -<p> -In 2006, a Personal Information Manager (PIM) has been added to the roadmap of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org</a>. Users constantly asked for this feature, and it's still seen as a key missing piece towards a full OpenSource Office solution. The PIM targets to complete OpenOffice.org's productivity offering by providing an integrated E-Mail, calendaring and addressbook client. The <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_186.pdf";>roadmap presented at OOoCon 2007</a> lists it as one of the highlights of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 release.<br /><br />So, what has happened and is going on in this project, what's the current status?<br />Back in 2006, a team of Sun's <a href="http://www.sun.com/staroffice/";>StarOffice</a> engineers joined the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/";>Mozilla Calendar Project</a> in order to improve and contribute to its products: <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/";>Lightning</a>, a calendaring add-on for <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/";>Thunderbird</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/";>Sunbird</a>, a standalone calendar client (sharing the same <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/calendar/";>code base</a>). Especially Thunderbird/Lightning seems to perfectly fit the needs:<br /><ul><li>Thunderbird is widely adopted and the de facto number #1 OS E-Mail client.</li><li>All major platforms of OpenOffice.org are covered.</li><li>Almost all locales of OpenOffice.org are supported.</li><li>There's a vibrant community.<br /></li></ul><p>By now, we have contributed to several releases of Lightning and Sunbird. Not only in terms of code â but also in terms of feature and roadmap planning, user interface design, testing and release engineering. We first focussed on improving the core product(s) rather than an integration story with OpenOffice.org, implementing features, but also fixing bloody bugs.<br />The product(s) already offer a pretty decent feature set like nice event and task handling, a <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:Screenshots#Mail_Mode_with_Today_Pane";>today pane</a> for Thunderbird, popup alarms, good timezone support, E-Mail based invitations, support for various remote protocols, e.g. <a href="http://rfc.net/rfc2518.html";>WebDAV</a> (<a href="http://rfc.net/rfc2445.html";>ics</a> files), <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4791";>CalDAV</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Calendar_Access_Protocol";>WCAP</a> (<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/index.xml";>Sun Java System Calendar Server</a>) or <a href="http://calendar.google.com/";>Google Calendar</a>. With the latest <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.8.html";>Lightning 0.8</a>, a new <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:Screenshots#Task_Mode";>task mode</a> has been added, providing fine-grained control over tasks.<br /></p><p>What I like most on Thunderbird/Lightning is to have both E-Mail and an aggregrate of all my various calendars in one application: public holiday calendars, my Sun work calendars and all people I am subscribed to, my private calendar, my wife's Google calendar, the team's calendar...<br /><br />Check it out! It's certainly not final, but we <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.calendar";>like to know</a> what you think about it. Moreover if you have fresh ideas about an integration with OpenOffice.org or want to help another way, <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.calendar";>let us know</a>.<br /><br /></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/a_pim_for_openoffice_org";>by Daniel Boelzle at April 09, 2008 07:42 AM 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=1.341&r2=1.342 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-04-17 11:00:42+0000 1.341 +++ opml.xml 2008-04-17 17:00:41+0000 1.342 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:00:35 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:00:32 +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=1.214&r2=1.215 Delta lines: +10 -8 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-04-17 11:00:42+0000 1.214 +++ rss10.xml 2008-04-17 17:00:41+0000 1.215 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=500"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-8626285142036136310" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/doing_a_mail_merge_via"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,19 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://cdriga.kfacts.com/open-source-world/eliberatica-conference-bucharest-romania-2008/2008/04/10/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/777"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-358877009444917508" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/749fa31837cb01fe" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: Solveig Haugland on OpenOffice.org Extensions</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783</link> + <content:encoded><p>Solveig Haugland has another great article at <a href="http://www.k12opentech.org/">K-12 Open Technologies</a>. This one&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/03/14/world-openofficeorg-extensions">The World of OpenOffice.org Extensions</a>,&#8221; covering the fast-growing ecosystem of extensions you can install to add functionality to your installation of OpenOffice.</p> +<p>OpenOffice extensions were inspired by Firefox&#8217;s success with them, and became available in recent versions of OOo (2.3, I think, and then were beefed up in 2.4). They are an easy way for programmers and companies to participate in the community, to introduce their products to OpenOffice users, and to customize OOo to better suit specific niche market needs.</p> +<p>Solveig&#8217;s article explains how to install extensions and then lists some of her favorites, such as Pagination, the Sun Report Builder, GoogleDocs integration, eFax, templates and clipart from OxygenOffice, and more.</p> +<p>It&#8217;s a great starting point for learning about and using the wealth of extensions out there.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-04-17T13:48:33+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=500";> <title>John McCreesh: Todayâs security announcement</title> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/04/17/todays-security-announcement/</link> @@ -256,12 +265,5 @@ <dc:date>2008-04-09T16:08:33+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/749fa31837cb01fe"> - <title>GullFOSS: A PIM for OpenOffice.org â What's going on?</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/a_pim_for_openoffice_org</link> - <content:encoded>In 2006, a Personal Information Manager (PIM) has been added to the roadmap of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>. Users constantly asked for this feature, and it's still seen as a key missing piece towards a full OpenSource Office solution. The PIM targets to complete OpenOffice.org's productivity offering by providing an integrated E-Mail, calendaring and addressbook client. The <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_186.pdf">roadmap presented at OOoCon 2007</a> lists it as one of the highlights of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 release.<br /><br />So, what has happened and is going on in this project, what's the current status?<br />Back in 2006, a team of Sun's <a href="http://www.sun.com/staroffice/">StarOffice</a> engineers joined the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/">Mozilla Calendar Project</a> in order to improve and contribute to its products: <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/">Lightning</a>, a calendaring add-on for <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/">Thunderbird</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/">Sunbird</a>, a standalone calendar client (sharing the same <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/calendar/">code base</a>). Especially Thunderbird/Lightning seems to perfectly fit the needs:<br /><ul><li>Thunderbird is widely adopted and the de facto number #1 OS E-Mail client.</li><li>All major platforms of OpenOffice.org are covered.</li><li>Almost all locales of OpenOffice.org are supported.</li><li>There's a vibrant community.<br /></li></ul><p>By now, we have contributed to several releases of Lightning and Sunbird. Not only in terms of code â but also in terms of feature and roadmap planning, user interface design, testing and release engineering. We first focussed on improving the core product(s) rather than an integration story with OpenOffice.org, implementing features, but also fixing bloody bugs.<br />The product(s) already offer a pretty decent feature set like nice event and task handling, a <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:Screenshots#Mail_Mode_with_Today_Pane">today pane</a> for Thunderbird, popup alarms, good timezone support, E-Mail based invitations, support for various remote protocols, e.g. <a href="http://rfc.net/rfc2518.html">WebDAV</a> (<a href="http://rfc.net/rfc2445.html">ics</a> files), <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4791">CalDAV</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Calendar_Access_Protocol">WCAP</a> (<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/index.xml">Sun Java System Calendar Server</a>) or <a href="http://calendar.google.com/">Google Calendar</a>. With the latest <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.8.html">Lightning 0.8</a>, a new <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:Screenshots#Task_Mode">task mode</a> has been added, providing fine-grained control over tasks.<br /></p><p>What I like most on Thunderbird/Lightning is to have both E-Mail and an aggregrate of all my various calendars in one application: public holiday calendars, my Sun work calendars and all people I am subscribed to, my private calendar, my wife's Google calendar, the team's calendar...<br /><br />Check it out! It's certainly not final, but we <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.calendar">like to know</a> what you think about it. Moreover if you have fresh ideas about an integration with OpenOffice.org or want to help another way, <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.calendar">let us know</a>.<br /><br /></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-04-09T07:42:45+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Daniel Boelzle</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.214&r2=1.215 Delta lines: +10 -7 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-04-17 11:00:42+0000 1.214 +++ rss20.xml 2008-04-17 17:00:41+0000 1.215 @@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: Solveig Haugland on OpenOffice.org Extensions</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/783</link> + <description><p>Solveig Haugland has another great article at <a href="http://www.k12opentech.org/">K-12 Open Technologies</a>. This one&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.k12opentech.org/solveig-haugland/2008/03/14/world-openofficeorg-extensions">The World of OpenOffice.org Extensions</a>,&#8221; covering the fast-growing ecosystem of extensions you can install to add functionality to your installation of OpenOffice.</p> +<p>OpenOffice extensions were inspired by Firefox&#8217;s success with them, and became available in recent versions of OOo (2.3, I think, and then were beefed up in 2.4). They are an easy way for programmers and companies to participate in the community, to introduce their products to OpenOffice users, and to customize OOo to better suit specific niche market needs.</p> +<p>Solveig&#8217;s article explains how to install extensions and then lists some of her favorites, such as Pagination, the Sun Report Builder, GoogleDocs integration, eFax, templates and clipart from OxygenOffice, and more.</p> +<p>It&#8217;s a great starting point for learning about and using the wealth of extensions out there.</p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:48:33 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>John McCreesh: Todayâs security announcement</title> <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=500</guid> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/04/17/todays-security-announcement/</link> @@ -236,13 +246,6 @@ <description>The <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/index.php?lang=en">Libre Graphics Meeting</a> is to be held this year in Wroclaw, Poland, from 8-11 May. I cannot make it, but I did attend last year's and it was a great event. OOo doesn't really focus on graphics, but it can: there is no reason to limit the application to the supposedly dull office bucket. Graphical applications, moreover, can include works such as <a href="http://www.scribus.net/">Scribus</a>, as well <a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a>, <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">Gimp</a>, <a href="http://koffice.org/krita/">Krita</a>, <a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender</a>, and with our own Draw gaining prominence and importance, it makes sense to form tighter liaisons with these and other free graphical projects. After all, we all want to give all users, everywhere, the power and freedom (and aren't they linked?) to create.<br /><br />Help support LGM 2008. Make a donation.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:08:33 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: A PIM for OpenOffice.org â What's going on?</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/749fa31837cb01fe</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/a_pim_for_openoffice_org</link> - <description>In 2006, a Personal Information Manager (PIM) has been added to the roadmap of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>. Users constantly asked for this feature, and it's still seen as a key missing piece towards a full OpenSource Office solution. The PIM targets to complete OpenOffice.org's productivity offering by providing an integrated E-Mail, calendaring and addressbook client. The <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_186.pdf">roadmap presented at OOoCon 2007</a> lists it as one of the highlights of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 release.<br /><br />So, what has happened and is going on in this project, what's the current status?<br />Back in 2006, a team of Sun's <a href="http://www.sun.com/staroffice/">StarOffice</a> engineers joined the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/">Mozilla Calendar Project</a> in order to improve and contribute to its products: <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/">Lightning</a>, a calendaring add-on for <a href="http://www.mozillamessaging.com/">Thunderbird</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/">Sunbird</a>, a standalone calendar client (sharing the same <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/calendar/">code base</a>). Especially Thunderbird/Lightning seems to perfectly fit the needs:<br /><ul><li>Thunderbird is widely adopted and the de facto number #1 OS E-Mail client.</li><li>All major platforms of OpenOffice.org are covered.</li><li>Almost all locales of OpenOffice.org are supported.</li><li>There's a vibrant community.<br /></li></ul><p>By now, we have contributed to several releases of Lightning and Sunbird. Not only in terms of code â but also in terms of feature and roadmap planning, user interface design, testing and release engineering. We first focussed on improving the core product(s) rather than an integration story with OpenOffice.org, implementing features, but also fixing bloody bugs.<br />The product(s) already offer a pretty decent feature set like nice event and task handling, a <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:Screenshots#Mail_Mode_with_Today_Pane">today pane</a> for Thunderbird, popup alarms, good timezone support, E-Mail based invitations, support for various remote protocols, e.g. <a href="http://rfc.net/rfc2518.html">WebDAV</a> (<a href="http://rfc.net/rfc2445.html">ics</a> files), <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4791">CalDAV</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Calendar_Access_Protocol">WCAP</a> (<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/index.xml">Sun Java System Calendar Server</a>) or <a href="http://calendar.google.com/">Google Calendar</a>. With the latest <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.8.html">Lightning 0.8</a>, a new <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Lightning:Screenshots#Task_Mode">task mode</a> has been added, providing fine-grained control over tasks.<br /></p><p>What I like most on Thunderbird/Lightning is to have both E-Mail and an aggregrate of all my various calendars in one application: public holiday calendars, my Sun work calendars and all people I am subscribed to, my private calendar, my wife's Google calendar, the team's calendar...<br /><br />Check it out! It's certainly not final, but we <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.calendar">like to know</a> what you think about it. Moreover if you have fresh ideas about an integration with OpenOffice.org or want to help another way, <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.calendar">let us know</a>.<br /><br /></p></description> - <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:42:45 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
