User: jpmcc Date: 2008-05-25 12:00:09+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 Sun May 25 13:00:14 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=1.486&r2=1.487 Delta lines: +45 -69 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-05-25 06:00:05+0000 1.486 +++ atom.xml 2008-05-25 12:00:05+0000 1.487 @@ -5,9 +5,49 @@ <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>2008-05-25T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-25T12:00:22+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry> + <title type="html">IT Reviews has given us a 'Recommended' award</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7246139765705244193</id> + <updated>2008-05-25T12:00:20+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">OpenOffice.org has been given a <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm">'Recommended' award by IT Reviews</a>: "The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the legitimate alternative that it already is."</content> + <author> + <name>floeff</name> + <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> + <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>2008-05-25T12:00:20+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">At the risk of getting big-headedâ¦</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/25/at-the-risk-of-getting-big-headed/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=508</id> + <updated>2008-05-25T10:05:28+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/itr.jpg" alt="logo" /></a>I just had an email from Alex at <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk">IT Reviews</a> to say <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 2.4</a> has been <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm">reviewed</a> and awarded their &#8216;Recommended&#8217; award (that&#8217;s the little blue logo on the right). There&#8217;s been quite a spate of these recently - CHIP <em>Download of the Day</em>, Duke&#8217;s Choice <em>Fans&#8217; Award 2008</em>, Linux Journal&#8217;s 2008 Readers&#8217; Choice Award for &#8220;<em>Favorite Office Program</em>&#8221; - see the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/awards">OpenOffice.org Awards Page</a> for the full list.</p> +<p>For those who are sceptical about awards like these, Iâd like to stress that OpenOffice.org does not pay for media advertising when we are notified that our software is being considered for review. Neither do we buy lots of expensive reprints in return for a good review. Reviewers find OpenOffice.org for themselves, make the decision to review it, and decide what to write, without any financial considerations.</p> +<p>So if they say OpenOffice.org is good, they&#8217;re worth listening too. Chances are, they are users! If you haven&#8217;t done so already, why not <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">download OpenOffice.org</a> and try it for yourself?</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>2008-05-25T12:00:15+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">How to urinate on a violin</title> <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/23/how-to-urinate-on-a-violin/"/> @@ -136,7 +176,7 @@ <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>2008-05-22T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-25T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -204,7 +244,7 @@ <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>2008-05-25T06:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-25T12:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -223,7 +263,7 @@ <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>2008-05-22T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-25T12:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -310,7 +350,7 @@ <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>2008-05-19T00:00:28+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-25T12:00:20+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -462,68 +502,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org 3.0 - videos</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-30-videos.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-999217676869903400</id> - <updated>2008-05-09T22:59:49+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released for beta this week. Here is a few videos from the Danish version: - -New front page: - - -New zoom function - - -New comment function</content> - <author> - <name>Leif Lodahl</name> - <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> - <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>2008-05-24T00:00:30+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Creativity Extended</title> - <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/</id> - <updated>2008-05-09T15:55:33+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p> <em>We&#8217;re now on the 9 <sup>th</sup> of May and the final version of OOXML is still not be published either by the ISO or the Ecma as they had to do so. This ongoing scandal affects the industry as a whole and proves once again that OOXML has never been an open standard.</em></p> -<p> The OpenOffice.org project has just released the first « public » beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.0.This first beta version may not support all the expected features that will be included in the stable version but it does give a very good feeling of how the 3.0 will be like. You will find a more detailed list of features on this <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html">page</a>. As you can see the 3.0 will sport a number of very interesting and useful features, such as the ability to import PDF documents, switching language inside one document, a new StartCenter, new icons, etc.I wanted to go a bit beyond the list of new features and tell you about the effect that OpenOffice.org 3.0 will have on its users and ultimately on the way we create content share it and stay happily productive in this always-on world.</p> -<p> Perhaps what matters the most with OpenOffice.org 3.0 will not so much be the flurry of new features; perhaps what will ultimately matter is the brand new architecture of OpenOffice.org that has been introduced with this new release. You already knew about the ability to use extensions in order to add features to OpenOffice.org. With the 3.0, OpenOffice.org becomes even more modular, allowing even more interested people to develop their own features on top of the 3.0 platform.In the long run, this completely revisited, rearchitected platform will play an essential part in extending the yield of OpenOffice.org .</p> -<p> The concept of office suite has kept evolving ever since its appearance in the eighties. At first, what mattered was the wordprocessor and the spreadsheet application. Then, Powerpoint came in and started to control our minds, becoming both a tool and a concept. We then learned about the concept of productivity suite, growing the office suite with all kinds of tools, from a PIM module to specific financial applications and elementary document management features.</p> -<p> Today, the paradigm has changed, but it does not necessarily involve the fattening of the whole suite. Rather, I believe that this new paradigm is about creating all sorts of content and sharing it freely. Sharing freely involves two perequisites: The easyness of sharing and the use of open formats, open standards that allow the users to master their own data and content and does not push them into vendor lock-in. This assumption also implies another, subtle point: the boundaries between applications are blurring and the applications themselves become easier to use.What this means leaves some room for interpretation and unveils new, different paths. Let&#8217;s see first what these new paths will not be, and second, let&#8217;s see what options there are and what are the options Openoffice.org chose.</p> -<p> The new paradigm in office suite rests on the following elements: -<ul> -<li> Creation of open content through the use of open and free formats, ideally standards</li> -<li> Freedom to share and distribute this content</li> -<li> Ease of use, simplicity</li> -</ul> -<p>These three elements ultimately make up for an interesting consequence; they don&#8217;t just liberate the content and the creativity of users, they also lower significantly the barriers of adoption for people who could never afford this before. In doing so, this paradigm puts forth the urge to enable participation. Ultimately, that&#8217;s what office suites should be nowadays: <em>Participation Enablers</em>. </p> -<p> One can understand now why I think MS Office 2007-2008 has already missed this shift of paradigm: The use of proprietary formats and spreading confusion around the concept of openness will not really help in the end. Yet, the latest versions of MS Office suffer from their excessive integration with MS SharePoint, the mother of all office technologies by Microsoft. This CMS/Groupware platform may be very easy to use, but it does create a fortress of formats and DRMs beyond which users are forbidden to go, and share. This centralized process is also very telling of a deprecated mentatlity even before being a compelling offer for certain types of organizations. </p> -<p> The truth here, tools such as SharePoints will fade away, as wikis take the lead. And precisely, OpenOffice.org allows you to export your content in certain wiki syntaxes while choosing directly the server that needs to be accessed. So much for command and control&#8230;But lets go back to our topic. </p> -<p> The appearance of online office suites such as Google Docs and Zoho shows a new path and illustrates the shift of paradigm in office suites. Online office suites make it easier to create and share content while making the issues of platforms and applications fall thanks to their online nature. The ability to import and export from and to multiple formats, some of whose being open standards (ODF, PDF) is also present. At the same time, online services such as <a href="http://www.slideshare.com/">Slideshare</a> add value to traditional tools. </p> -<p> Nobody wants to have to deal with proprietary barriers of any kind. It is about creating and sharing freely, and ultimately, it is about enabling participation.OpenOffice.org is not an online office suite. But by enabling people to share and to communicate, OpenOffice.org works like a hub for content creation. Its features set covers the full range of functionalities expected by advanced users, and its inherently free nature (in beer and in speech) allows anybody to use it in order to create and share in the easiest way possible.Its extendability not only creates an ecosystem, it creates something more powerful: A community of users contributing to OpenOffice.org in order to serve their needs, and ultimately enriching the codebase.The modularity of OpenOffice.org (turning it into a set of modules running on top of a runtime environment, the <a href="http://udk.openoffice.org/">URE</a>) also make it possible to turn the overall platform into a RIA (Rich Internet Application) , thus addressing even more use cases.</p> -<p> In any case, OpenOffice.org is on its way to become the hub of your digital content, by enabling freedom; freedom to use, freedom to share, freedome to modify, and freedom to distribute.<br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=66&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_66" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p></content> - <author> - <name>Charles Schulz</name> - <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> - <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> - <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2008-05-25T00:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.486&r2=1.487 Delta lines: +32 -56 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-05-25 06:00:07+0000 1.486 +++ index.html 2008-05-25 12:00:06+0000 1.487 @@ -34,8 +34,39 @@ <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: May 25, 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: May 25, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>May 25, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> +OOo Marketeers</a> : +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html";> +IT Reviews has given us a 'Recommended' award</a> +</h3> +<p> +OpenOffice.org has been given a <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm";>'Recommended' award by IT Reviews</a>: "The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the legitimate alternative that it already is."</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at May 25, 2008 12:00 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/2008/05/25/at-the-risk-of-getting-big-headed/";> +At the risk of getting big-headedâ¦</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p><a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm";><img class="alignright" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/itr.jpg"; alt="logo" /></a>I just had an email from Alex at <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk";>IT Reviews</a> to say <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product";>OpenOffice.org 2.4</a> has been <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm";>reviewed</a> and awarded their ‘Recommended’ award (that’s the little blue logo on the right). There’s been quite a spate of these recently - CHIP <em>Download of the Day</em>, Duke’s Choice <em>Fans’ Award 2008</em>, Linux Journal’s 2008 Readers’ Choice Award for “<em>Favorite Office Program</em>” - see the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/awards";>OpenOffice.org Awards Page</a> for the full list.</p> +<p>For those who are sceptical about awards like these, Iâd like to stress that OpenOffice.org does not pay for media advertising when we are notified that our software is being considered for review. Neither do we buy lots of expensive reprints in return for a good review. Reviewers find OpenOffice.org for themselves, make the decision to review it, and decide what to write, without any financial considerations.</p> +<p>So if they say OpenOffice.org is good, they’re worth listening too. Chances are, they are users! If you haven’t done so already, why not <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/";>download OpenOffice.org</a> and try it for yourself?</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/25/at-the-risk-of-getting-big-headed/";>by John at May 25, 2008 10:05 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>May 23, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> @@ -403,61 +434,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>May 09, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-30-videos.html";> -OpenOffice.org 3.0 - videos</a> -</h3> -<p> -OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released for beta this week. Here is a few videos from the Danish version: - -New front page: - - -New zoom function - - -New comment function</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-30-videos.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at May 09, 2008 10:59 PM BST</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> -Charles Schulz</a> : -<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/";> -OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Creativity Extended</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p> <em>We’re now on the 9 <sup>th</sup> of May and the final version of OOXML is still not be published either by the ISO or the Ecma as they had to do so. This ongoing scandal affects the industry as a whole and proves once again that OOXML has never been an open standard.</em></p> -<p> The OpenOffice.org project has just released the first « public » beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.0.This first beta version may not support all the expected features that will be included in the stable version but it does give a very good feeling of how the 3.0 will be like. You will find a more detailed list of features on this <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html";>page</a>. As you can see the 3.0 will sport a number of very interesting and useful features, such as the ability to import PDF documents, switching language inside one document, a new StartCenter, new icons, etc.I wanted to go a bit beyond the list of new features and tell you about the effect that OpenOffice.org 3.0 will have on its users and ultimately on the way we create content share it and stay happily productive in this always-on world.</p> -<p> Perhaps what matters the most with OpenOffice.org 3.0 will not so much be the flurry of new features; perhaps what will ultimately matter is the brand new architecture of OpenOffice.org that has been introduced with this new release. You already knew about the ability to use extensions in order to add features to OpenOffice.org. With the 3.0, OpenOffice.org becomes even more modular, allowing even more interested people to develop their own features on top of the 3.0 platform.In the long run, this completely revisited, rearchitected platform will play an essential part in extending the yield of OpenOffice.org .</p> -<p> The concept of office suite has kept evolving ever since its appearance in the eighties. At first, what mattered was the wordprocessor and the spreadsheet application. Then, Powerpoint came in and started to control our minds, becoming both a tool and a concept. We then learned about the concept of productivity suite, growing the office suite with all kinds of tools, from a PIM module to specific financial applications and elementary document management features.</p> -<p> Today, the paradigm has changed, but it does not necessarily involve the fattening of the whole suite. Rather, I believe that this new paradigm is about creating all sorts of content and sharing it freely. Sharing freely involves two perequisites: The easyness of sharing and the use of open formats, open standards that allow the users to master their own data and content and does not push them into vendor lock-in. This assumption also implies another, subtle point: the boundaries between applications are blurring and the applications themselves become easier to use.What this means leaves some room for interpretation and unveils new, different paths. Let’s see first what these new paths will not be, and second, let’s see what options there are and what are the options Openoffice.org chose.</p> -<p> The new paradigm in office suite rests on the following elements: -<ul> -<li> Creation of open content through the use of open and free formats, ideally standards</li> -<li> Freedom to share and distribute this content</li> -<li> Ease of use, simplicity</li> -</ul> -<p>These three elements ultimately make up for an interesting consequence; they don’t just liberate the content and the creativity of users, they also lower significantly the barriers of adoption for people who could never afford this before. In doing so, this paradigm puts forth the urge to enable participation. Ultimately, that’s what office suites should be nowadays: <em>Participation Enablers</em>. </p> -<p> One can understand now why I think MS Office 2007-2008 has already missed this shift of paradigm: The use of proprietary formats and spreading confusion around the concept of openness will not really help in the end. Yet, the latest versions of MS Office suffer from their excessive integration with MS SharePoint, the mother of all office technologies by Microsoft. This CMS/Groupware platform may be very easy to use, but it does create a fortress of formats and DRMs beyond which users are forbidden to go, and share. This centralized process is also very telling of a deprecated mentatlity even before being a compelling offer for certain types of organizations. </p> -<p> The truth here, tools such as SharePoints will fade away, as wikis take the lead. And precisely, OpenOffice.org allows you to export your content in certain wiki syntaxes while choosing directly the server that needs to be accessed. So much for command and control…But lets go back to our topic. </p> -<p> The appearance of online office suites such as Google Docs and Zoho shows a new path and illustrates the shift of paradigm in office suites. Online office suites make it easier to create and share content while making the issues of platforms and applications fall thanks to their online nature. The ability to import and export from and to multiple formats, some of whose being open standards (ODF, PDF) is also present. At the same time, online services such as <a href="http://www.slideshare.com/";>Slideshare</a> add value to traditional tools. </p> -<p> Nobody wants to have to deal with proprietary barriers of any kind. It is about creating and sharing freely, and ultimately, it is about enabling participation.OpenOffice.org is not an online office suite. But by enabling people to share and to communicate, OpenOffice.org works like a hub for content creation. Its features set covers the full range of functionalities expected by advanced users, and its inherently free nature (in beer and in speech) allows anybody to use it in order to create and share in the easiest way possible.Its extendability not only creates an ecosystem, it creates something more powerful: A community of users contributing to OpenOffice.org in order to serve their needs, and ultimately enriching the codebase.The modularity of OpenOffice.org (turning it into a set of modules running on top of a runtime environment, the <a href="http://udk.openoffice.org/";>URE</a>) also make it possible to turn the overall platform into a RIA (Rich Internet Application) , thus addressing even more use cases.</p> -<p> In any case, OpenOffice.org is on its way to become the hub of your digital content, by enabling freedom; freedom to use, freedom to share, freedome to modify, and freedom to distribute.<br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=66&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_66" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/";>by Charles at May 09, 2008 03:55 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=1.486&r2=1.487 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-05-25 06:00:09+0000 1.486 +++ opml.xml 2008-05-25 12:00:06+0000 1.487 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sun, 25 May 2008 06:00:20 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sun, 25 May 2008 12:00:22 +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=1.275&r2=1.276 Delta lines: +17 -41 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-05-23 18:00:09+0000 1.275 +++ rss10.xml 2008-05-25 12:00:06+0000 1.276 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7246139765705244193" /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=508"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/23/how-to-urinate-on-a-violin/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=808"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807"; /> @@ -31,12 +33,25 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/14/the-standard-that-was-not-and-the-hague-declaration/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=799"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-999217676869903400" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7246139765705244193"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: IT Reviews has given us a 'Recommended' award</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html</link> + <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org has been given a <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm">'Recommended' award by IT Reviews</a>: "The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the legitimate alternative that it already is."</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-05-25T12:00:20+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=508";> + <title>John McCreesh: At the risk of getting big-headedâ¦</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/25/at-the-risk-of-getting-big-headed/</link> + <content:encoded><p><a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/itr.jpg" alt="logo" /></a>I just had an email from Alex at <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk">IT Reviews</a> to say <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 2.4</a> has been <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm">reviewed</a> and awarded their &#8216;Recommended&#8217; award (that&#8217;s the little blue logo on the right). There&#8217;s been quite a spate of these recently - CHIP <em>Download of the Day</em>, Duke&#8217;s Choice <em>Fans&#8217; Award 2008</em>, Linux Journal&#8217;s 2008 Readers&#8217; Choice Award for &#8220;<em>Favorite Office Program</em>&#8221; - see the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/awards">OpenOffice.org Awards Page</a> for the full list.</p> +<p>For those who are sceptical about awards like these, Iâd like to stress that OpenOffice.org does not pay for media advertising when we are notified that our software is being considered for review. Neither do we buy lots of expensive reprints in return for a good review. Reviewers find OpenOffice.org for themselves, make the decision to review it, and decide what to write, without any financial considerations.</p> +<p>So if they say OpenOffice.org is good, they&#8217;re worth listening too. Chances are, they are users! If you haven&#8217;t done so already, why not <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">download OpenOffice.org</a> and try it for yourself?</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-05-25T10:05:28+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/23/how-to-urinate-on-a-violin/";> <title>Charles Schulz: How to urinate on a violin</title> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/23/how-to-urinate-on-a-violin/</link> @@ -254,44 +269,5 @@ <p>Get it; it&#8217;s really good!</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-05-12T12:43:17+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-999217676869903400"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org 3.0 - videos</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-30-videos.html</link> - <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released for beta this week. Here is a few videos from the Danish version: - -New front page: - - -New zoom function - - -New comment function</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-09T22:59:49+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/";> - <title>Charles Schulz: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Creativity Extended</title> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/</link> - <content:encoded><p> <em>We&#8217;re now on the 9 <sup>th</sup> of May and the final version of OOXML is still not be published either by the ISO or the Ecma as they had to do so. This ongoing scandal affects the industry as a whole and proves once again that OOXML has never been an open standard.</em></p> -<p> The OpenOffice.org project has just released the first « public » beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.0.This first beta version may not support all the expected features that will be included in the stable version but it does give a very good feeling of how the 3.0 will be like. You will find a more detailed list of features on this <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html">page</a>. As you can see the 3.0 will sport a number of very interesting and useful features, such as the ability to import PDF documents, switching language inside one document, a new StartCenter, new icons, etc.I wanted to go a bit beyond the list of new features and tell you about the effect that OpenOffice.org 3.0 will have on its users and ultimately on the way we create content share it and stay happily productive in this always-on world.</p> -<p> Perhaps what matters the most with OpenOffice.org 3.0 will not so much be the flurry of new features; perhaps what will ultimately matter is the brand new architecture of OpenOffice.org that has been introduced with this new release. You already knew about the ability to use extensions in order to add features to OpenOffice.org. With the 3.0, OpenOffice.org becomes even more modular, allowing even more interested people to develop their own features on top of the 3.0 platform.In the long run, this completely revisited, rearchitected platform will play an essential part in extending the yield of OpenOffice.org .</p> -<p> The concept of office suite has kept evolving ever since its appearance in the eighties. At first, what mattered was the wordprocessor and the spreadsheet application. Then, Powerpoint came in and started to control our minds, becoming both a tool and a concept. We then learned about the concept of productivity suite, growing the office suite with all kinds of tools, from a PIM module to specific financial applications and elementary document management features.</p> -<p> Today, the paradigm has changed, but it does not necessarily involve the fattening of the whole suite. Rather, I believe that this new paradigm is about creating all sorts of content and sharing it freely. Sharing freely involves two perequisites: The easyness of sharing and the use of open formats, open standards that allow the users to master their own data and content and does not push them into vendor lock-in. This assumption also implies another, subtle point: the boundaries between applications are blurring and the applications themselves become easier to use.What this means leaves some room for interpretation and unveils new, different paths. Let&#8217;s see first what these new paths will not be, and second, let&#8217;s see what options there are and what are the options Openoffice.org chose.</p> -<p> The new paradigm in office suite rests on the following elements: -<ul> -<li> Creation of open content through the use of open and free formats, ideally standards</li> -<li> Freedom to share and distribute this content</li> -<li> Ease of use, simplicity</li> -</ul> -<p>These three elements ultimately make up for an interesting consequence; they don&#8217;t just liberate the content and the creativity of users, they also lower significantly the barriers of adoption for people who could never afford this before. In doing so, this paradigm puts forth the urge to enable participation. Ultimately, that&#8217;s what office suites should be nowadays: <em>Participation Enablers</em>. </p> -<p> One can understand now why I think MS Office 2007-2008 has already missed this shift of paradigm: The use of proprietary formats and spreading confusion around the concept of openness will not really help in the end. Yet, the latest versions of MS Office suffer from their excessive integration with MS SharePoint, the mother of all office technologies by Microsoft. This CMS/Groupware platform may be very easy to use, but it does create a fortress of formats and DRMs beyond which users are forbidden to go, and share. This centralized process is also very telling of a deprecated mentatlity even before being a compelling offer for certain types of organizations. </p> -<p> The truth here, tools such as SharePoints will fade away, as wikis take the lead. And precisely, OpenOffice.org allows you to export your content in certain wiki syntaxes while choosing directly the server that needs to be accessed. So much for command and control&#8230;But lets go back to our topic. </p> -<p> The appearance of online office suites such as Google Docs and Zoho shows a new path and illustrates the shift of paradigm in office suites. Online office suites make it easier to create and share content while making the issues of platforms and applications fall thanks to their online nature. The ability to import and export from and to multiple formats, some of whose being open standards (ODF, PDF) is also present. At the same time, online services such as <a href="http://www.slideshare.com/">Slideshare</a> add value to traditional tools. </p> -<p> Nobody wants to have to deal with proprietary barriers of any kind. It is about creating and sharing freely, and ultimately, it is about enabling participation.OpenOffice.org is not an online office suite. But by enabling people to share and to communicate, OpenOffice.org works like a hub for content creation. Its features set covers the full range of functionalities expected by advanced users, and its inherently free nature (in beer and in speech) allows anybody to use it in order to create and share in the easiest way possible.Its extendability not only creates an ecosystem, it creates something more powerful: A community of users contributing to OpenOffice.org in order to serve their needs, and ultimately enriching the codebase.The modularity of OpenOffice.org (turning it into a set of modules running on top of a runtime environment, the <a href="http://udk.openoffice.org/">URE</a>) also make it possible to turn the overall platform into a RIA (Rich Internet Application) , thus addressing even more use cases.</p> -<p> In any case, OpenOffice.org is on its way to become the hub of your digital content, by enabling freedom; freedom to use, freedom to share, freedome to modify, and freedom to distribute.<br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=66&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_66" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-09T15:55:33+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.275&r2=1.276 Delta lines: +17 -41 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-05-23 18:00:10+0000 1.275 +++ rss20.xml 2008-05-25 12:00:06+0000 1.276 @@ -8,6 +8,23 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>OOo Marketeers: IT Reviews has given us a 'Recommended' award</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7246139765705244193</guid> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-reviews-has-given-us-recommended.html</link> + <description>OpenOffice.org has been given a <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm">'Recommended' award by IT Reviews</a>: "The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working, and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the legitimate alternative that it already is."</description> + <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 12:00:20 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (floeff)</author> +</item> +<item> + <title>John McCreesh: At the risk of getting big-headedâ¦</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=508</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/25/at-the-risk-of-getting-big-headed/</link> + <description><p><a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/itr.jpg" alt="logo" /></a>I just had an email from Alex at <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk">IT Reviews</a> to say <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 2.4</a> has been <a href="http://www.itreviews.co.uk/software/s607.htm">reviewed</a> and awarded their &#8216;Recommended&#8217; award (that&#8217;s the little blue logo on the right). There&#8217;s been quite a spate of these recently - CHIP <em>Download of the Day</em>, Duke&#8217;s Choice <em>Fans&#8217; Award 2008</em>, Linux Journal&#8217;s 2008 Readers&#8217; Choice Award for &#8220;<em>Favorite Office Program</em>&#8221; - see the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/awards">OpenOffice.org Awards Page</a> for the full list.</p> +<p>For those who are sceptical about awards like these, Iâd like to stress that OpenOffice.org does not pay for media advertising when we are notified that our software is being considered for review. Neither do we buy lots of expensive reprints in return for a good review. Reviewers find OpenOffice.org for themselves, make the decision to review it, and decide what to write, without any financial considerations.</p> +<p>So if they say OpenOffice.org is good, they&#8217;re worth listening too. Chances are, they are users! If you haven&#8217;t done so already, why not <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">download OpenOffice.org</a> and try it for yourself?</p></description> + <pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 10:05:28 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Charles Schulz: How to urinate on a violin</title> <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/23/how-to-urinate-on-a-violin/</guid> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/23/how-to-urinate-on-a-violin/</link> @@ -241,47 +258,6 @@ <p>Get it; it&#8217;s really good!</p></description> <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:43:17 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org 3.0 - videos</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-999217676869903400</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-30-videos.html</link> - <description>OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released for beta this week. Here is a few videos from the Danish version: - -New front page: - - -New zoom function - - -New comment function</description> - <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 22:59:49 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Charles Schulz: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: Creativity Extended</title> - <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/</guid> - <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/</link> - <description><p> <em>We&#8217;re now on the 9 <sup>th</sup> of May and the final version of OOXML is still not be published either by the ISO or the Ecma as they had to do so. This ongoing scandal affects the industry as a whole and proves once again that OOXML has never been an open standard.</em></p> -<p> The OpenOffice.org project has just released the first « public » beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.0.This first beta version may not support all the expected features that will be included in the stable version but it does give a very good feeling of how the 3.0 will be like. You will find a more detailed list of features on this <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html">page</a>. As you can see the 3.0 will sport a number of very interesting and useful features, such as the ability to import PDF documents, switching language inside one document, a new StartCenter, new icons, etc.I wanted to go a bit beyond the list of new features and tell you about the effect that OpenOffice.org 3.0 will have on its users and ultimately on the way we create content share it and stay happily productive in this always-on world.</p> -<p> Perhaps what matters the most with OpenOffice.org 3.0 will not so much be the flurry of new features; perhaps what will ultimately matter is the brand new architecture of OpenOffice.org that has been introduced with this new release. You already knew about the ability to use extensions in order to add features to OpenOffice.org. With the 3.0, OpenOffice.org becomes even more modular, allowing even more interested people to develop their own features on top of the 3.0 platform.In the long run, this completely revisited, rearchitected platform will play an essential part in extending the yield of OpenOffice.org .</p> -<p> The concept of office suite has kept evolving ever since its appearance in the eighties. At first, what mattered was the wordprocessor and the spreadsheet application. Then, Powerpoint came in and started to control our minds, becoming both a tool and a concept. We then learned about the concept of productivity suite, growing the office suite with all kinds of tools, from a PIM module to specific financial applications and elementary document management features.</p> -<p> Today, the paradigm has changed, but it does not necessarily involve the fattening of the whole suite. Rather, I believe that this new paradigm is about creating all sorts of content and sharing it freely. Sharing freely involves two perequisites: The easyness of sharing and the use of open formats, open standards that allow the users to master their own data and content and does not push them into vendor lock-in. This assumption also implies another, subtle point: the boundaries between applications are blurring and the applications themselves become easier to use.What this means leaves some room for interpretation and unveils new, different paths. Let&#8217;s see first what these new paths will not be, and second, let&#8217;s see what options there are and what are the options Openoffice.org chose.</p> -<p> The new paradigm in office suite rests on the following elements: -<ul> -<li> Creation of open content through the use of open and free formats, ideally standards</li> -<li> Freedom to share and distribute this content</li> -<li> Ease of use, simplicity</li> -</ul> -<p>These three elements ultimately make up for an interesting consequence; they don&#8217;t just liberate the content and the creativity of users, they also lower significantly the barriers of adoption for people who could never afford this before. In doing so, this paradigm puts forth the urge to enable participation. Ultimately, that&#8217;s what office suites should be nowadays: <em>Participation Enablers</em>. </p> -<p> One can understand now why I think MS Office 2007-2008 has already missed this shift of paradigm: The use of proprietary formats and spreading confusion around the concept of openness will not really help in the end. Yet, the latest versions of MS Office suffer from their excessive integration with MS SharePoint, the mother of all office technologies by Microsoft. This CMS/Groupware platform may be very easy to use, but it does create a fortress of formats and DRMs beyond which users are forbidden to go, and share. This centralized process is also very telling of a deprecated mentatlity even before being a compelling offer for certain types of organizations. </p> -<p> The truth here, tools such as SharePoints will fade away, as wikis take the lead. And precisely, OpenOffice.org allows you to export your content in certain wiki syntaxes while choosing directly the server that needs to be accessed. So much for command and control&#8230;But lets go back to our topic. </p> -<p> The appearance of online office suites such as Google Docs and Zoho shows a new path and illustrates the shift of paradigm in office suites. Online office suites make it easier to create and share content while making the issues of platforms and applications fall thanks to their online nature. The ability to import and export from and to multiple formats, some of whose being open standards (ODF, PDF) is also present. At the same time, online services such as <a href="http://www.slideshare.com/">Slideshare</a> add value to traditional tools. </p> -<p> Nobody wants to have to deal with proprietary barriers of any kind. It is about creating and sharing freely, and ultimately, it is about enabling participation.OpenOffice.org is not an online office suite. But by enabling people to share and to communicate, OpenOffice.org works like a hub for content creation. Its features set covers the full range of functionalities expected by advanced users, and its inherently free nature (in beer and in speech) allows anybody to use it in order to create and share in the easiest way possible.Its extendability not only creates an ecosystem, it creates something more powerful: A community of users contributing to OpenOffice.org in order to serve their needs, and ultimately enriching the codebase.The modularity of OpenOffice.org (turning it into a set of modules running on top of a runtime environment, the <a href="http://udk.openoffice.org/">URE</a>) also make it possible to turn the overall platform into a RIA (Rich Internet Application) , thus addressing even more use cases.</p> -<p> In any case, OpenOffice.org is on its way to become the hub of your digital content, by enabling freedom; freedom to use, freedom to share, freedome to modify, and freedom to distribute.<br clear="left" /></p> -<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=66&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_66" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> -</p></p></description> - <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:55:33 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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