User: jpmcc Date: 2008-10-15 23:57:07+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 Oct 16 01:00:14 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=1.1041&r2=1.1042 Delta lines: +54 -43 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-10-15 17:56:57+0000 1.1041 +++ atom.xml 2008-10-15 23:57:04+0000 1.1042 @@ -5,10 +5,41 @@ <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>2008-10-15T18:00:31+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:38+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">The Party, the Crash, and the 3.0</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/</id> + <updated>2008-10-15T20:47:08+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Now it&#8217;s been days, and more than a week I haven&#8217;t blogged. The reason is simple: I was swamped. But I ended up exhausted and happy.</p> +<p>We&#8217;ve been releasing the 3.0. Yes, we did it, and we also threw a major party at the headquarters of the Region Ãle de France. Pictures are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/">available here</a>, at least for the sets I&#8217;ve seen. It was brilliant, beautiful, and achieved the rare and deeply useful task of being both sophisticated and convivial. As a result, more than 400 people flocked in the gates of the room, a good 50 of them having standing on the sidewalks half an hour before. The Region&#8217;s President, who couldn&#8217;t make it at the last moment, sent his deputy who delivered a great speech. Then Louis Suarez-Potts gave a wonderful and thought provoking speech about Free Software, OpenOffice.org, and the world as it goes, emphasizing the need for freedom bound with fraternity as a way out of the current global crisis. I then had to speak, thanking many in the community, and describing the intense activity of native-language and localization teams busy releasing the 3.0 in their own language. I forgot many, managed to quote four countries (Laos, Burma, Brazil and South Africa) and one river (the Ganges river) but didn&#8217;t forgot the French community. I also announced the main new features for the 3.0: I was surprized people hadn&#8217;t heard about most of them.</p> +<p>The party went on well, and while we were drinking wine and eating some very nice meals the OpenOffice.org web site was down. Actually, it&#8217;s still more or less down and some emergecy workarounds have been designed in order to whistand the huge workload stemming from the massive download requests on the servers. Meanwhile, the migration of the development infrastructure to Subversion has been completed.</p> +<p>So aside the web site crash and the credit crunch, what&#8217;s left to say? The end of 2008 and 2009 will be a time for major growth for OpenOffice.org . Download numbers are up exponentially, and the press is very positive about us. Heck, I even got interview in the <a href="http://ecrans.fr/OpenOffice-org-3-On-espere-bien,5404.html">digital version of Liberation</a>, the largest French newspaper. Articles and reviews are provided below. I would like to conclude today&#8217;s post by thanking everyone who contributed to this release and everyone who downloaded, is downloading and will download OpenOffice.org 3.0 . My apologies for the crash and glitches!</p> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/review_of_final_openoffice_3_why_buy_microsoft_office">The ComputerWorld report</a></li> +<li><a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1895"> ZDNet Education</a></li> +<li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2997">Dana Blankenhorn&#8217;s take</a></li> +<li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2992">A perfect opportunity for OpenOffice.org?</a></li> +<li>I couldn&#8217;t resist, this is a bit old but it may have gone unnoticed: <a href="http://homembit.com/2008/10/meeting-of-jtc1sc34-in-korea-it-is-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.html">More stunning clues about the SC 34&#8217;s integrity and transparency</a>.</li> +</ul> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=99&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_99" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</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>2008-10-16T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Huge Demand for OpenOffice.org 3.0</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/891"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=891</id> @@ -28,7 +59,7 @@ <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>2008-10-15T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:24+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -37,7 +68,7 @@ <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/15/first-million/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=579</id> <updated>2008-10-15T16:35:51+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-580" title="First million downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png" alt="" /></a>I&#8217;ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer - despite all the issues with the web site - plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don&#8217;t use the bouncer).</p> + <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-581" title="OpenOffice.org downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png" alt="The first million downloads" /></a>I&#8217;ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer - despite all the issues with the web site - plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don&#8217;t use the bouncer).</p> <p>The first reviews coming through are also favourable - <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332502,00.asp">see PCPro</a> for example, or check <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html">our reviews page</a>.. Now all we have to do is get the web site working again <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p></content> <author> <name>John McCreesh</name> @@ -48,7 +79,7 @@ <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>2008-10-15T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -56,7 +87,7 @@ <title type="html">Launch Party in Paris</title> <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/launch-party-in-paris.html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2448308627324441598</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-15T12:34:26+00:00</updated> <content type="html">On October 13th, a great <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/">launch party</a> took place in Paris, celebrating the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 and the eight birthday of the project. Congratulations to everyone involved!</content> <author> <name>floeff</name> @@ -68,7 +99,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -76,7 +107,7 @@ <title type="html">Guinness</title> <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/guinness.html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-3439386951479527014</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-15T12:28:23+00:00</updated> <content type="html">My colleague Italo Vignoli <a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/2008/10/15/this-is-not-a-guinness-but-is-definitely-a-world-record/">has some great ideas</a> on how to celebrate the launch of OOo 3.0 - and why.</content> <author> <name>floeff</name> @@ -88,7 +119,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -135,7 +166,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Open Opinions about Open Source Software</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T18:00:27+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -156,7 +187,7 @@ <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>2008-10-15T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -183,7 +214,7 @@ <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>2008-10-15T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -225,7 +256,7 @@ <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>2008-10-14T17:57:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -256,7 +287,7 @@ <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>2008-10-14T17:57:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -278,7 +309,7 @@ <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>2008-10-15T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -380,7 +411,7 @@ <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>2008-10-15T18:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:26+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -400,7 +431,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -420,7 +451,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2008-10-13T18:03:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:27+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -441,7 +472,7 @@ <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>2008-10-14T17:57:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -479,7 +510,7 @@ <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>2008-10-14T17:57:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -499,7 +530,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -519,7 +550,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -537,7 +568,7 @@ <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>2008-10-15T18:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:26+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -571,27 +602,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Open Opinions about Open Source Software</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T18:00:27+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">Golden Acorn Award</title> - <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/golden-acorn-award.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2027225945842475558</id> - <updated>2008-10-04T17:28:46+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">OpenOffice.org is the Golden Acorn Award winner for the month of October, awarded by <a href="http://www.freefunfiles.com">FreeFunFiles.com</a>!</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> - <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-16T00:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1041&r2=1.1042 Delta lines: +30 -19 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-10-15 17:56:57+0000 1.1041 +++ index.html 2008-10-15 23:57:04+0000 1.1042 @@ -34,10 +34,36 @@ <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: October 15, 2008 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: October 16, 2008 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> <h2>October 15, 2008</h2> <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/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/";> +The Party, the Crash, and the 3.0</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Now it’s been days, and more than a week I haven’t blogged. The reason is simple: I was swamped. But I ended up exhausted and happy.</p> +<p>We’ve been releasing the 3.0. Yes, we did it, and we also threw a major party at the headquarters of the Region Ãle de France. Pictures are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/";>available here</a>, at least for the sets I’ve seen. It was brilliant, beautiful, and achieved the rare and deeply useful task of being both sophisticated and convivial. As a result, more than 400 people flocked in the gates of the room, a good 50 of them having standing on the sidewalks half an hour before. The Region’s President, who couldn’t make it at the last moment, sent his deputy who delivered a great speech. Then Louis Suarez-Potts gave a wonderful and thought provoking speech about Free Software, OpenOffice.org, and the world as it goes, emphasizing the need for freedom bound with fraternity as a way out of the current global crisis. I then had to speak, thanking many in the community, and describing the intense activity of native-language and localization teams busy releasing the 3.0 in their own language. I forgot many, managed to quote four countries (Laos, Burma, Brazil and South Africa) and one river (the Ganges river) but didn’t forgot the French community. I also announced the main new features for the 3.0: I was surprized people hadn’t heard about most of them.</p> +<p>The party went on well, and while we were drinking wine and eating some very nice meals the OpenOffice.org web site was down. Actually, it’s still more or less down and some emergecy workarounds have been designed in order to whistand the huge workload stemming from the massive download requests on the servers. Meanwhile, the migration of the development infrastructure to Subversion has been completed.</p> +<p>So aside the web site crash and the credit crunch, what’s left to say? The end of 2008 and 2009 will be a time for major growth for OpenOffice.org . Download numbers are up exponentially, and the press is very positive about us. Heck, I even got interview in the <a href="http://ecrans.fr/OpenOffice-org-3-On-espere-bien,5404.html";>digital version of Liberation</a>, the largest French newspaper. Articles and reviews are provided below. I would like to conclude today’s post by thanking everyone who contributed to this release and everyone who downloaded, is downloading and will download OpenOffice.org 3.0 . My apologies for the crash and glitches!</p> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/review_of_final_openoffice_3_why_buy_microsoft_office";>The ComputerWorld report</a></li> +<li><a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1895";> ZDNet Education</a></li> +<li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2997";>Dana Blankenhorn’s take</a></li> +<li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2992";>A perfect opportunity for OpenOffice.org?</a></li> +<li>I couldn’t resist, this is a bit old but it may have gone unnoticed: <a href="http://homembit.com/2008/10/meeting-of-jtc1sc34-in-korea-it-is-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.html";>More stunning clues about the SC 34’s integrity and transparency</a>.</li> +</ul> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=99&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_99" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/";>by Charles at October 15, 2008 08:47 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> Benjamin Horst</a> : <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/891";> @@ -63,7 +89,7 @@ First million!</a> </h3> <p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png";><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-580" title="First million downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png"; alt="" /></a>I’ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product";>OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer - despite all the issues with the web site - plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don’t use the bouncer).</p> +<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png";><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-581" title="OpenOffice.org downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png"; alt="The first million downloads" /></a>I’ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product";>OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer - despite all the issues with the web site - plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don’t use the bouncer).</p> <p>The first reviews coming through are also favourable - <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332502,00.asp";>see PCPro</a> for example, or check <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html";>our reviews page</a>.. Now all we have to do is get the web site working again <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif"; alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p></p> <p> <em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/15/first-million/";>by John at October 15, 2008 04:35 PM GMT</a></em> @@ -80,7 +106,7 @@ <p> On October 13th, a great <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/";>launch party</a> took place in Paris, celebrating the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 and the eight birthday of the project. Congratulations to everyone involved!</p> <p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/launch-party-in-paris.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at October 15, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</a></em> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/launch-party-in-paris.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at October 15, 2008 12:34 PM BST</a></em> </p> <br /> <hr /> @@ -94,7 +120,7 @@ <p> My colleague Italo Vignoli <a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/2008/10/15/this-is-not-a-guinness-but-is-definitely-a-world-record/";>has some great ideas</a> on how to celebrate the launch of OOo 3.0 - and why.</p> <p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/guinness.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at October 15, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</a></em> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/guinness.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at October 15, 2008 12:28 PM BST</a></em> </p> <br /> <hr /> @@ -512,21 +538,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>October 04, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> -OOo Marketeers</a> : -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/golden-acorn-award.html";> -Golden Acorn Award</a> -</h3> -<p> -OpenOffice.org is the Golden Acorn Award winner for the month of October, awarded by <a href="http://www.freefunfiles.com";>FreeFunFiles.com</a>!</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/golden-acorn-award.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at October 04, 2008 05:28 PM BST</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=1.1041&r2=1.1042 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-10-15 17:56:58+0000 1.1041 +++ opml.xml 2008-10-15 23:57:04+0000 1.1042 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:00:32 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:38 +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=1.478&r2=1.479 Delta lines: +22 -11 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-10-15 17:56:58+0000 1.478 +++ rss10.xml 2008-10-15 23:57:04+0000 1.479 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=891"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=579"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2448308627324441598" /> @@ -32,11 +33,28 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1076824085548563244" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/cb93d4916aebb115" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/2008/10/05/openofficeorg-four-million-downloads-in-the-last-twelve-months/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2027225945842475558" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: The Party, the Crash, and the 3.0</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Now it&#8217;s been days, and more than a week I haven&#8217;t blogged. The reason is simple: I was swamped. But I ended up exhausted and happy.</p> +<p>We&#8217;ve been releasing the 3.0. Yes, we did it, and we also threw a major party at the headquarters of the Region Ãle de France. Pictures are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/">available here</a>, at least for the sets I&#8217;ve seen. It was brilliant, beautiful, and achieved the rare and deeply useful task of being both sophisticated and convivial. As a result, more than 400 people flocked in the gates of the room, a good 50 of them having standing on the sidewalks half an hour before. The Region&#8217;s President, who couldn&#8217;t make it at the last moment, sent his deputy who delivered a great speech. Then Louis Suarez-Potts gave a wonderful and thought provoking speech about Free Software, OpenOffice.org, and the world as it goes, emphasizing the need for freedom bound with fraternity as a way out of the current global crisis. I then had to speak, thanking many in the community, and describing the intense activity of native-language and localization teams busy releasing the 3.0 in their own language. I forgot many, managed to quote four countries (Laos, Burma, Brazil and South Africa) and one river (the Ganges river) but didn&#8217;t forgot the French community. I also announced the main new features for the 3.0: I was surprized people hadn&#8217;t heard about most of them.</p> +<p>The party went on well, and while we were drinking wine and eating some very nice meals the OpenOffice.org web site was down. Actually, it&#8217;s still more or less down and some emergecy workarounds have been designed in order to whistand the huge workload stemming from the massive download requests on the servers. Meanwhile, the migration of the development infrastructure to Subversion has been completed.</p> +<p>So aside the web site crash and the credit crunch, what&#8217;s left to say? The end of 2008 and 2009 will be a time for major growth for OpenOffice.org . Download numbers are up exponentially, and the press is very positive about us. Heck, I even got interview in the <a href="http://ecrans.fr/OpenOffice-org-3-On-espere-bien,5404.html">digital version of Liberation</a>, the largest French newspaper. Articles and reviews are provided below. I would like to conclude today&#8217;s post by thanking everyone who contributed to this release and everyone who downloaded, is downloading and will download OpenOffice.org 3.0 . My apologies for the crash and glitches!</p> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/review_of_final_openoffice_3_why_buy_microsoft_office">The ComputerWorld report</a></li> +<li><a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1895"> ZDNet Education</a></li> +<li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2997">Dana Blankenhorn&#8217;s take</a></li> +<li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2992">A perfect opportunity for OpenOffice.org?</a></li> +<li>I couldn&#8217;t resist, this is a bit old but it may have gone unnoticed: <a href="http://homembit.com/2008/10/meeting-of-jtc1sc34-in-korea-it-is-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.html">More stunning clues about the SC 34&#8217;s integrity and transparency</a>.</li> +</ul> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=99&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_99" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-10-15T20:47:08+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=891";> <title>Benjamin Horst: Huge Demand for OpenOffice.org 3.0</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/891</link> @@ -51,7 +69,7 @@ <item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=579";> <title>John McCreesh: First million!</title> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/15/first-million/</link> - <content:encoded><p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-580" title="First million downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png" alt="" /></a>I&#8217;ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer - despite all the issues with the web site - plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don&#8217;t use the bouncer).</p> + <content:encoded><p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-581" title="OpenOffice.org downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png" alt="The first million downloads" /></a>I&#8217;ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer - despite all the issues with the web site - plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don&#8217;t use the bouncer).</p> <p>The first reviews coming through are also favourable - <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332502,00.asp">see PCPro</a> for example, or check <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html">our reviews page</a>.. Now all we have to do is get the web site working again <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-10-15T16:35:51+00:00</dc:date> </item> @@ -59,14 +77,14 @@ <title>OOo Marketeers: Launch Party in Paris</title> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/launch-party-in-paris.html</link> <content:encoded>On October 13th, a great <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/">launch party</a> took place in Paris, celebrating the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 and the eight birthday of the project. Congratulations to everyone involved!</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:date>2008-10-15T12:34:26+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> </item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-3439386951479527014"> <title>OOo Marketeers: Guinness</title> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/guinness.html</link> <content:encoded>My colleague Italo Vignoli <a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/2008/10/15/this-is-not-a-guinness-but-is-definitely-a-world-record/">has some great ideas</a> on how to celebrate the launch of OOo 3.0 - and why.</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-10-15T12:00:34+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:date>2008-10-15T12:28:23+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> </item> <item rdf:about="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=488";> @@ -361,12 +379,5 @@ </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/412233573" height="1" width="1" /></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-10-05T22:32:03+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2027225945842475558"> - <title>OOo Marketeers: Golden Acorn Award</title> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/golden-acorn-award.html</link> - <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org is the Golden Acorn Award winner for the month of October, awarded by <a href="http://www.freefunfiles.com">FreeFunFiles.com</a>!</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-10-04T17:28:46+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.478&r2=1.479 Delta lines: +22 -11 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-10-15 17:56:58+0000 1.478 +++ rss20.xml 2008-10-15 23:57:04+0000 1.479 @@ -8,6 +8,25 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: The Party, the Crash, and the 3.0</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/15/the-party-the-crash-and-the-30/</link> + <description><p>Now it&#8217;s been days, and more than a week I haven&#8217;t blogged. The reason is simple: I was swamped. But I ended up exhausted and happy.</p> +<p>We&#8217;ve been releasing the 3.0. Yes, we did it, and we also threw a major party at the headquarters of the Region Ãle de France. Pictures are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/">available here</a>, at least for the sets I&#8217;ve seen. It was brilliant, beautiful, and achieved the rare and deeply useful task of being both sophisticated and convivial. As a result, more than 400 people flocked in the gates of the room, a good 50 of them having standing on the sidewalks half an hour before. The Region&#8217;s President, who couldn&#8217;t make it at the last moment, sent his deputy who delivered a great speech. Then Louis Suarez-Potts gave a wonderful and thought provoking speech about Free Software, OpenOffice.org, and the world as it goes, emphasizing the need for freedom bound with fraternity as a way out of the current global crisis. I then had to speak, thanking many in the community, and describing the intense activity of native-language and localization teams busy releasing the 3.0 in their own language. I forgot many, managed to quote four countries (Laos, Burma, Brazil and South Africa) and one river (the Ganges river) but didn&#8217;t forgot the French community. I also announced the main new features for the 3.0: I was surprized people hadn&#8217;t heard about most of them.</p> +<p>The party went on well, and while we were drinking wine and eating some very nice meals the OpenOffice.org web site was down. Actually, it&#8217;s still more or less down and some emergecy workarounds have been designed in order to whistand the huge workload stemming from the massive download requests on the servers. Meanwhile, the migration of the development infrastructure to Subversion has been completed.</p> +<p>So aside the web site crash and the credit crunch, what&#8217;s left to say? The end of 2008 and 2009 will be a time for major growth for OpenOffice.org . Download numbers are up exponentially, and the press is very positive about us. Heck, I even got interview in the <a href="http://ecrans.fr/OpenOffice-org-3-On-espere-bien,5404.html">digital version of Liberation</a>, the largest French newspaper. Articles and reviews are provided below. I would like to conclude today&#8217;s post by thanking everyone who contributed to this release and everyone who downloaded, is downloading and will download OpenOffice.org 3.0 . My apologies for the crash and glitches!</p> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/review_of_final_openoffice_3_why_buy_microsoft_office">The ComputerWorld report</a></li> +<li><a href="http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1895"> ZDNet Education</a></li> +<li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2997">Dana Blankenhorn&#8217;s take</a></li> +<li><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2992">A perfect opportunity for OpenOffice.org?</a></li> +<li>I couldn&#8217;t resist, this is a bit old but it may have gone unnoticed: <a href="http://homembit.com/2008/10/meeting-of-jtc1sc34-in-korea-it-is-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.html">More stunning clues about the SC 34&#8217;s integrity and transparency</a>.</li> +</ul> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=99&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_99" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:47:08 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: Huge Demand for OpenOffice.org 3.0</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=891</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/891</link> @@ -23,7 +42,7 @@ <title>John McCreesh: First million!</title> <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=579</guid> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/15/first-million/</link> - <description><p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-580" title="First million downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png" alt="" /></a>I&#8217;ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer - despite all the issues with the web site - plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don&#8217;t use the bouncer).</p> + <description><p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-581" title="OpenOffice.org downloads" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ooo30.png" alt="The first million downloads" /></a>I&#8217;ve just been looking at the bouncer statistics for the first two days of downloads since the launch of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product">OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>. These are filed automatically for us every night at midnight UTC. As at midnight last night, we had recorded an astonishing one million downloads via the bouncer - despite all the issues with the web site - plus an unquantified number of direct downloads from mirrors (some native-language communities don&#8217;t use the bouncer).</p> <p>The first reviews coming through are also favourable - <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2332502,00.asp">see PCPro</a> for example, or check <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html">our reviews page</a>.. Now all we have to do is get the web site working again <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /></p></description> <pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:35:51 +0000</pubDate> </item> @@ -32,7 +51,7 @@ <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2448308627324441598</guid> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/launch-party-in-paris.html</link> <description>On October 13th, a great <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ooo3launch/">launch party</a> took place in Paris, celebrating the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 and the eight birthday of the project. 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