User: jpmcc Date: 2008-10-29 18:00:43+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 Wed Oct 29 18:00:13 GMT 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1097&r2=1.1098 Delta lines: +78 -49 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-10-29 12:00:38+0000 1.1097 +++ atom.xml 2008-10-29 18:00:40+0000 1.1098 @@ -5,10 +5,80 @@ <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>2008-10-29T12:00:30+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:32+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">All Russian Schools to Use Free Software</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/899"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=899</id> + <updated>2008-10-29T15:30:46+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>For ComputerWorld UK, Glyn Moody writes, &#8220;<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1423&blogid=14">All Russian Schools to Use Free Software</a>.&#8221;</p> +<p>&#8220;It began with a few pilot projects, and apparently these have been so successful that the Russian government has now decided to make it the standard for *all* schools.&#8221;</p> +<p>Most of Moody&#8217;s links lead to articles in Russian, so I cannot glean anything from them. However, when he runs them through software translation, Moody discovers that Russia plans to have one million computers in schools by 2010, and their default software platform will be locally-customized open source applications (presumably including Linux, OpenOffice, etc). After a three-year period, schools will be permitted to switch back to proprietary programs, but they&#8217;ll have to pay the licensing fees on their own. I do not expect many will be interested by that option.</p></content> + <author> + <name>Benjamin Horst</name> + <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Links for the end of October</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/</id> + <updated>2008-10-29T14:57:55+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>I am bit swamped these days, and you must have noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots of backlog, and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don&#8217;t want to leave this blog « unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting today some links I find interesting to visit. Enjoy! I&#8217;ll be back soon, by the way&#8230;</p> +<p>&nbsp;</p> +<ul> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx">Microsoft releases Windows Azure</a>. But what is it really? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to figure out. It seems it&#8217;s a server platform tailored for cloud computing environment. And what is cloud computing? I&#8217;m still figuring it out&#8230; Seriously, Cloud Computing is the up and coming state-of-the-art in IT. The idea is to use and benefit from data, applications, and networks that are hosted not on your desktop, and not on a server near you. In fact, data and applications are always available but out there, on the Network, in the cloud. Of course, it sounds simple, but it&#8217;s very, very complex. It&#8217;s a true shift of paradigm, a copernician revolution asking as many questions that it answers, from <a href="http://dataportability.org/">data portability</a> and <a href="http://www.autonomo.us/">users&#8217; rights</a> to virtualized environment and <a href="http://www.joyent.com/">application frameworks</a>. And that&#8217;s where players such as Amazon, Joyent and Google are striving. And of course, Microsoft wants to be the dominant player there. So it released a nifty platform that is both a server for running distributed applications and hosting data, and a Microsoftâs Live set of Services. That&#8217;s where it&#8217;s not clear. They say everything works on Azure, but it seems you better want to use their stuff first. Just like the others, it will work, but&#8230; better.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>Do you remember the nice subway map picturing the trends of web sites and online services? Well, that map was for 2007. But there&#8217;s the new one I completely missed. <a href="http://informationarchitects.jp/start/">Enjoy</a>&#8230;</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>There you go. Firefox 3 with the newest javascript engine, and all of a sudden, it actually becomes a fast browser on the Mac! <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/">Try Minefield</a>, it&#8217;s a surprisingly stable development version of Firefox 3 with a different javascript engine.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/">Food for thought</a>: I share with them the conviction that large corporation are dwarfing most governments these days. I am no pessimist though: those very same governments could very well come back if they were willing to. But most of them seem to be ideologically blinded, and that&#8217;s a pity. Meanwhile, feel free to adhere. It comes from Europe, and it&#8217;s free&#8230;</p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/151215">Pondering Boycott Novell</a> must be a funny thing to do. But what&#8217;s the problem? The news web site is accused by some to be a troll machine, while some others worship it. My view on this is simple: I&#8217;m a reader of this web site, and whenever I was involved in some specific situations or was having some solid information on them, I was able to read accurate reports on these. That&#8217;s the about the most honest answer I can make. Roy is a good guy, he&#8217;s actually taking out the meat and lay it on the table. Should he be doing it in a different fashion, with more style and less passion? Perhaps. Meanwhile, I have more fun reading his prose than the one Mr Byfield regales us with along with his paternalistic advices on why we, the community of freetards &amp; beardies, should learn from big businesses.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>People are getting busy preparing the OooCon 2008 in Beijing; for our Asian community, the location makes it an obvious point of focus. But <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7614509/">this illustrates</a> how OpenOffice.org has become an international community of choice. Good luck with the conference! And see you next year, OOoCon.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>News without a link: OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, the last maintenance release of the 2.x branch, is about to be uploaded. If you don&#8217;t want to use the 3.0 (some organization needs time before fully qualifying new versions of office suite), that one is for you. Stay tuned.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>News without a link continued: the ISO 26300 (aka ODF 1.0) <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200810/msg00155.html">gets an errata</a>, and you&#8217;re welcome to comment on it for the next 15 days. No big news, here again, it&#8217;s all about maintenance&#8230;</p> +</li> +</ul> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=101&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_101" 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>2008-10-29T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 in Beijing</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/898"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=898</id> @@ -25,7 +95,7 @@ <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>2008-10-29T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -46,7 +116,7 @@ <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>2008-10-29T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -173,7 +243,7 @@ <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>2008-10-29T12:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -193,7 +263,7 @@ <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>2008-10-29T00:00:31+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:28+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -387,7 +457,7 @@ <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>2008-10-29T00:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -416,7 +486,7 @@ <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>2008-10-29T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -512,7 +582,7 @@ <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>2008-10-29T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-10-29T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -537,45 +607,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">Who's first for Office?</title> - <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/whos-first-for-office.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6597739279155286672</id> - <updated>2008-10-16T23:33:52+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Try out yourself: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=office">http://www.google.com/search?q=office</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>2008-10-29T00:00:31+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Back in business</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/16/back-in-business/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=582</id> - <updated>2008-10-16T19:32:49+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>The <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org website</a> is now back in operation, so if you have been waiting to access it to find out more about <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/">the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>, or <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">download a copy</a>, then please go ahead!</p> -<p>Despite the website issues, downloads show no sign of slowing down (except for Mac OS users - maybe their attention span is less than users of other operating systems <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-583" title="First three days" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads.png" alt="OpenOffice.org downloads" width="485" height="346" /></a></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>2008-10-29T00:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1097&r2=1.1098 Delta lines: +62 -32 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-10-29 12:00:38+0000 1.1097 +++ index.html 2008-10-29 18:00:40+0000 1.1098 @@ -34,8 +34,69 @@ <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 29, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: October 29, 2008 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>October 29, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/899";> +All Russian Schools to Use Free Software</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>For ComputerWorld UK, Glyn Moody writes, “<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1423&blogid=14";>All Russian Schools to Use Free Software</a>.”</p> +<p>“It began with a few pilot projects, and apparently these have been so successful that the Russian government has now decided to make it the standard for *all* schools.”</p> +<p>Most of Moody’s links lead to articles in Russian, so I cannot glean anything from them. However, when he runs them through software translation, Moody discovers that Russia plans to have one million computers in schools by 2010, and their default software platform will be locally-customized open source applications (presumably including Linux, OpenOffice, etc). After a three-year period, schools will be permitted to switch back to proprietary programs, but they’ll have to pay the licensing fees on their own. I do not expect many will be interested by that option.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/899";>by Benjamin Horst at October 29, 2008 03:30 PM GMT</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/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/";> +Links for the end of October</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>I am bit swamped these days, and you must have noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots of backlog, and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don’t want to leave this blog « unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting today some links I find interesting to visit. Enjoy! I’ll be back soon, by the way…</p> +<p> </p> +<ul> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx";>Microsoft releases Windows Azure</a>. But what is it really? That’s what I’m trying to figure out. It seems it’s a server platform tailored for cloud computing environment. And what is cloud computing? I’m still figuring it out… Seriously, Cloud Computing is the up and coming state-of-the-art in IT. The idea is to use and benefit from data, applications, and networks that are hosted not on your desktop, and not on a server near you. In fact, data and applications are always available but out there, on the Network, in the cloud. Of course, it sounds simple, but it’s very, very complex. It’s a true shift of paradigm, a copernician revolution asking as many questions that it answers, from <a href="http://dataportability.org/";>data portability</a> and <a href="http://www.autonomo.us/";>users’ rights</a> to virtualized environment and <a href="http://www.joyent.com/";>application frameworks</a>. And that’s where players such as Amazon, Joyent and Google are striving. And of course, Microsoft wants to be the dominant player there. So it released a nifty platform that is both a server for running distributed applications and hosting data, and a Microsoftâs Live set of Services. That’s where it’s not clear. They say everything works on Azure, but it seems you better want to use their stuff first. Just like the others, it will work, but… better.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>Do you remember the nice subway map picturing the trends of web sites and online services? Well, that map was for 2007. But there’s the new one I completely missed. <a href="http://informationarchitects.jp/start/";>Enjoy</a>…</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>There you go. Firefox 3 with the newest javascript engine, and all of a sudden, it actually becomes a fast browser on the Mac! <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/";>Try Minefield</a>, it’s a surprisingly stable development version of Firefox 3 with a different javascript engine.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/";>Food for thought</a>: I share with them the conviction that large corporation are dwarfing most governments these days. I am no pessimist though: those very same governments could very well come back if they were willing to. But most of them seem to be ideologically blinded, and that’s a pity. Meanwhile, feel free to adhere. It comes from Europe, and it’s free…</p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/151215";>Pondering Boycott Novell</a> must be a funny thing to do. But what’s the problem? The news web site is accused by some to be a troll machine, while some others worship it. My view on this is simple: I’m a reader of this web site, and whenever I was involved in some specific situations or was having some solid information on them, I was able to read accurate reports on these. That’s the about the most honest answer I can make. Roy is a good guy, he’s actually taking out the meat and lay it on the table. Should he be doing it in a different fashion, with more style and less passion? Perhaps. Meanwhile, I have more fun reading his prose than the one Mr Byfield regales us with along with his paternalistic advices on why we, the community of freetards & beardies, should learn from big businesses.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>People are getting busy preparing the OooCon 2008 in Beijing; for our Asian community, the location makes it an obvious point of focus. But <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7614509/";>this illustrates</a> how OpenOffice.org has become an international community of choice. Good luck with the conference! And see you next year, OOoCon.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>News without a link: OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, the last maintenance release of the 2.x branch, is about to be uploaded. If you don’t want to use the 3.0 (some organization needs time before fully qualifying new versions of office suite), that one is for you. Stay tuned.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>News without a link continued: the ISO 26300 (aka ODF 1.0) <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200810/msg00155.html";>gets an errata</a>, and you’re welcome to comment on it for the next 15 days. No big news, here again, it’s all about maintenance…</p> +</li> +</ul> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=101&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_101" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/";>by Charles at October 29, 2008 02:57 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>October 28, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -484,37 +545,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>October 16, 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/whos-first-for-office.html";> -Who's first for Office?</a> -</h3> -<p> -Try out yourself: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=office";>http://www.google.com/search?q=office</a></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/whos-first-for-office.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at October 16, 2008 11:33 PM BST</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/2008/10/16/back-in-business/";> -Back in business</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>The <a href="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org website</a> is now back in operation, so if you have been waiting to access it to find out more about <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/";>the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>, or <a href="http://download.openoffice.org";>download a copy</a>, then please go ahead!</p> -<p>Despite the website issues, downloads show no sign of slowing down (except for Mac OS users - maybe their attention span is less than users of other operating systems <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif"; alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads.png";><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-583" title="First three days" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads.png"; alt="OpenOffice.org downloads" width="485" height="346" /></a></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/16/back-in-business/";>by John at October 16, 2008 07:32 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=1.1097&r2=1.1098 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-10-29 12:00:39+0000 1.1097 +++ opml.xml 2008-10-29 18:00:40+0000 1.1098 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:00:31 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:00:32 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.504&r2=1.505 Delta lines: +46 -17 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-10-28 18:00:37+0000 1.504 +++ rss10.xml 2008-10-29 18:00:40+0000 1.505 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=899"; 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However, when he runs them through software translation, Moody discovers that Russia plans to have one million computers in schools by 2010, and their default software platform will be locally-customized open source applications (presumably including Linux, OpenOffice, etc). After a three-year period, schools will be permitted to switch back to proprietary programs, but they&#8217;ll have to pay the licensing fees on their own. I do not expect many will be interested by that option.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-10-29T15:30:46+00:00</dc:date> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Links for the end of October</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/</link> + <content:encoded><p>I am bit swamped these days, and you must have noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots of backlog, and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don&#8217;t want to leave this blog « unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting today some links I find interesting to visit. Enjoy! I&#8217;ll be back soon, by the way&#8230;</p> +<p>&nbsp;</p> +<ul> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx">Microsoft releases Windows Azure</a>. But what is it really? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to figure out. It seems it&#8217;s a server platform tailored for cloud computing environment. And what is cloud computing? I&#8217;m still figuring it out&#8230; Seriously, Cloud Computing is the up and coming state-of-the-art in IT. The idea is to use and benefit from data, applications, and networks that are hosted not on your desktop, and not on a server near you. In fact, data and applications are always available but out there, on the Network, in the cloud. Of course, it sounds simple, but it&#8217;s very, very complex. It&#8217;s a true shift of paradigm, a copernician revolution asking as many questions that it answers, from <a href="http://dataportability.org/">data portability</a> and <a href="http://www.autonomo.us/">users&#8217; rights</a> to virtualized environment and <a href="http://www.joyent.com/">application frameworks</a>. And that&#8217;s where players such as Amazon, Joyent and Google are striving. And of course, Microsoft wants to be the dominant player there. So it released a nifty platform that is both a server for running distributed applications and hosting data, and a Microsoftâs Live set of Services. That&#8217;s where it&#8217;s not clear. They say everything works on Azure, but it seems you better want to use their stuff first. Just like the others, it will work, but&#8230; better.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>Do you remember the nice subway map picturing the trends of web sites and online services? Well, that map was for 2007. But there&#8217;s the new one I completely missed. <a href="http://informationarchitects.jp/start/">Enjoy</a>&#8230;</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>There you go. Firefox 3 with the newest javascript engine, and all of a sudden, it actually becomes a fast browser on the Mac! <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/">Try Minefield</a>, it&#8217;s a surprisingly stable development version of Firefox 3 with a different javascript engine.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/">Food for thought</a>: I share with them the conviction that large corporation are dwarfing most governments these days. I am no pessimist though: those very same governments could very well come back if they were willing to. But most of them seem to be ideologically blinded, and that&#8217;s a pity. Meanwhile, feel free to adhere. It comes from Europe, and it&#8217;s free&#8230;</p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/151215">Pondering Boycott Novell</a> must be a funny thing to do. But what&#8217;s the problem? The news web site is accused by some to be a troll machine, while some others worship it. My view on this is simple: I&#8217;m a reader of this web site, and whenever I was involved in some specific situations or was having some solid information on them, I was able to read accurate reports on these. That&#8217;s the about the most honest answer I can make. Roy is a good guy, he&#8217;s actually taking out the meat and lay it on the table. Should he be doing it in a different fashion, with more style and less passion? Perhaps. Meanwhile, I have more fun reading his prose than the one Mr Byfield regales us with along with his paternalistic advices on why we, the community of freetards &amp; beardies, should learn from big businesses.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>People are getting busy preparing the OooCon 2008 in Beijing; for our Asian community, the location makes it an obvious point of focus. But <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7614509/">this illustrates</a> how OpenOffice.org has become an international community of choice. Good luck with the conference! And see you next year, OOoCon.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>News without a link: OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, the last maintenance release of the 2.x branch, is about to be uploaded. If you don&#8217;t want to use the 3.0 (some organization needs time before fully qualifying new versions of office suite), that one is for you. Stay tuned.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>News without a link continued: the ISO 26300 (aka ODF 1.0) <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200810/msg00155.html">gets an errata</a>, and you&#8217;re welcome to comment on it for the next 15 days. No big news, here again, it&#8217;s all about maintenance&#8230;</p> +</li> +</ul> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=101&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_101" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-10-29T14:57:55+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=898";> <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 in Beijing</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/898</link> @@ -334,20 +378,5 @@ <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1017.jpg"><img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1017.jpg" alt="Two million downloads" title="Two million" width="500" height="294" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-586" /></a></p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-10-17T06:48:25+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6597739279155286672"> - <title>OOo Marketeers: Who's first for Office?</title> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/whos-first-for-office.html</link> - <content:encoded>Try out yourself: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=office">http://www.google.com/search?q=office</a></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-10-16T23:33:52+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=582";> - <title>John McCreesh: Back in business</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/16/back-in-business/</link> - <content:encoded><p>The <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org website</a> is now back in operation, so if you have been waiting to access it to find out more about <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/">the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>, or <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">download a copy</a>, then please go ahead!</p> -<p>Despite the website issues, downloads show no sign of slowing down (except for Mac OS users - maybe their attention span is less than users of other operating systems <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-583" title="First three days" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads.png" alt="OpenOffice.org downloads" width="485" height="346" /></a></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-10-16T19:32:49+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.504&r2=1.505 Delta lines: +46 -17 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-10-28 18:00:38+0000 1.504 +++ rss20.xml 2008-10-29 18:00:40+0000 1.505 @@ -8,6 +8,52 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: All Russian Schools to Use Free Software</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=899</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/899</link> + <description><p>For ComputerWorld UK, Glyn Moody writes, &#8220;<a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1423&blogid=14">All Russian Schools to Use Free Software</a>.&#8221;</p> +<p>&#8220;It began with a few pilot projects, and apparently these have been so successful that the Russian government has now decided to make it the standard for *all* schools.&#8221;</p> +<p>Most of Moody&#8217;s links lead to articles in Russian, so I cannot glean anything from them. However, when he runs them through software translation, Moody discovers that Russia plans to have one million computers in schools by 2010, and their default software platform will be locally-customized open source applications (presumably including Linux, OpenOffice, etc). After a three-year period, schools will be permitted to switch back to proprietary programs, but they&#8217;ll have to pay the licensing fees on their own. I do not expect many will be interested by that option.</p></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:30:46 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Links for the end of October</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/10/29/links-for-the-end-of-october/</link> + <description><p>I am bit swamped these days, and you must have noticed it by now. These things happen: lots of work items, lots of backlog, and lots of exhaustion as well. Since I don&#8217;t want to leave this blog « unattended » for even 2 or three weeks, I am posting today some links I find interesting to visit. Enjoy! I&#8217;ll be back soon, by the way&#8230;</p> +<p>&nbsp;</p> +<ul> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx">Microsoft releases Windows Azure</a>. But what is it really? That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m trying to figure out. It seems it&#8217;s a server platform tailored for cloud computing environment. And what is cloud computing? I&#8217;m still figuring it out&#8230; Seriously, Cloud Computing is the up and coming state-of-the-art in IT. The idea is to use and benefit from data, applications, and networks that are hosted not on your desktop, and not on a server near you. In fact, data and applications are always available but out there, on the Network, in the cloud. Of course, it sounds simple, but it&#8217;s very, very complex. It&#8217;s a true shift of paradigm, a copernician revolution asking as many questions that it answers, from <a href="http://dataportability.org/">data portability</a> and <a href="http://www.autonomo.us/">users&#8217; rights</a> to virtualized environment and <a href="http://www.joyent.com/">application frameworks</a>. And that&#8217;s where players such as Amazon, Joyent and Google are striving. And of course, Microsoft wants to be the dominant player there. So it released a nifty platform that is both a server for running distributed applications and hosting data, and a Microsoftâs Live set of Services. That&#8217;s where it&#8217;s not clear. They say everything works on Azure, but it seems you better want to use their stuff first. Just like the others, it will work, but&#8230; better.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>Do you remember the nice subway map picturing the trends of web sites and online services? Well, that map was for 2007. But there&#8217;s the new one I completely missed. <a href="http://informationarchitects.jp/start/">Enjoy</a>&#8230;</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>There you go. Firefox 3 with the newest javascript engine, and all of a sudden, it actually becomes a fast browser on the Mac! <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/">Try Minefield</a>, it&#8217;s a surprisingly stable development version of Firefox 3 with a different javascript engine.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.transnationalrepublic.org/">Food for thought</a>: I share with them the conviction that large corporation are dwarfing most governments these days. I am no pessimist though: those very same governments could very well come back if they were willing to. But most of them seem to be ideologically blinded, and that&#8217;s a pity. Meanwhile, feel free to adhere. It comes from Europe, and it&#8217;s free&#8230;</p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/151215">Pondering Boycott Novell</a> must be a funny thing to do. But what&#8217;s the problem? The news web site is accused by some to be a troll machine, while some others worship it. My view on this is simple: I&#8217;m a reader of this web site, and whenever I was involved in some specific situations or was having some solid information on them, I was able to read accurate reports on these. That&#8217;s the about the most honest answer I can make. Roy is a good guy, he&#8217;s actually taking out the meat and lay it on the table. Should he be doing it in a different fashion, with more style and less passion? Perhaps. Meanwhile, I have more fun reading his prose than the one Mr Byfield regales us with along with his paternalistic advices on why we, the community of freetards &amp; beardies, should learn from big businesses.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>People are getting busy preparing the OooCon 2008 in Beijing; for our Asian community, the location makes it an obvious point of focus. But <a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7614509/">this illustrates</a> how OpenOffice.org has become an international community of choice. Good luck with the conference! And see you next year, OOoCon.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>News without a link: OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, the last maintenance release of the 2.x branch, is about to be uploaded. If you don&#8217;t want to use the 3.0 (some organization needs time before fully qualifying new versions of office suite), that one is for you. Stay tuned.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>News without a link continued: the ISO 26300 (aka ODF 1.0) <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/200810/msg00155.html">gets an errata</a>, and you&#8217;re welcome to comment on it for the next 15 days. No big news, here again, it&#8217;s all about maintenance&#8230;</p> +</li> +</ul> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=101&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_101" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:57:55 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 in Beijing</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=898</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/898</link> @@ -321,23 +367,6 @@ <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1017.jpg"><img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads1017.jpg" alt="Two million downloads" title="Two million" width="500" height="294" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-586" /></a></p></description> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:48:25 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>OOo Marketeers: Who's first for Office?</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6597739279155286672</guid> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/whos-first-for-office.html</link> - <description>Try out yourself: <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=office">http://www.google.com/search?q=office</a></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:33:52 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (floeff)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>John McCreesh: Back in business</title> - <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=582</guid> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/16/back-in-business/</link> - <description><p>The <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org website</a> is now back in operation, so if you have been waiting to access it to find out more about <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/">the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a>, or <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">download a copy</a>, then please go ahead!</p> -<p>Despite the website issues, downloads show no sign of slowing down (except for Mac OS users - maybe their attention span is less than users of other operating systems <img src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-583" title="First three days" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/downloads.png" alt="OpenOffice.org downloads" width="485" height="346" /></a></p></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:32:49 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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