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Log: Planet run at Mon Nov 24 12:00:14 GMT 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1203&r2=1.1204 Delta lines: +45 -48 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-11-24 06:00:14+0000 1.1203 +++ atom.xml 2008-11-24 12:00:20+0000 1.1204 @@ -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>2008-11-24T06:00:25+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-24T12:00:35+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry> + <title type="html">Christmas is just some steps away...</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/christmas-is-just-some-steps-away.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6417551729835426128</id> + <updated>2008-11-24T12:00:32+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">...and our friends at <a href="http://www.aGoodCause.com">aGoodCause.com</a> reminded us to think about those who have not been healthy and fortunate this year. I'd like to take the opportunity <a href="http://www.aGoodCause.com">and link to their website</a> where you can do charity while shopping online. If you like to do a good thing, have a look at their offer - they're supported by various charity organizations for the good cause.</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>2008-11-24T12:00:32+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> + <title type="html">Ulteo unveils the first Open Source virtual desktop, featuring OpenOffice.org</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/ulteo-unveils-first-open-source-virtual.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9024423008445964741</id> + <updated>2008-11-24T11:59:47+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, <a href="http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/news/2008/11/19?autolang=en">announced today</a> that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises, which also features OpenOffice.org as major productivity suite. Delivering faster deployment times and ease of management for the IT department, this first release can be integrated easily into an existing professional Linux or Windows IT environment. The solution can be up and running in a few minutes, delivering rich desktop applications to corporate users.</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>2008-11-24T12:00:32+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">About Beijing, OOo, ODF and interoperability</title> <link href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/463254723/"/> @@ -87,7 +127,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-11-24T06:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-24T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -199,7 +239,7 @@ <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>2008-11-24T06:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-24T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -276,7 +316,7 @@ <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>2008-11-24T06:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-24T12:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -350,7 +390,7 @@ <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>2008-11-22T18:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-24T12:00:32+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -447,47 +487,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 â everything is different</title> - <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/openofficeorg-conference-2008.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-750788243565343955</id> - <updated>2008-11-09T19:23:02+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Attending <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/">the 6th OpenOffice.org conference</a> is a special experience. This when I compare it with the three previous conferences I attended.<br /><br />For the first time in the history of the open source project, the conference is held in a non European country. In this way, the project shows its world wide strength. Emphasize this strength, is something that can be trusted to be done the Chinese speakers. At least 8 representatives from (semi-) governmental organizations, IT-industry and education did so: "open source is important for the own industry and people". OpenOffice.org is closed into the hearts and the project fully supported.<br /><br />Also, the use of open source software helps fighting software piracy. This was underlined by Prof. Ni Guangnan from one of the universities. The light tintling is his eyes revealed that he understands quite well, that this is not the kind of 'fighting' Microsoft has in mind...<br /><br />As for my personal opinion, also has to be mentioned that every Chinese speaker emphasized the importance of protecting the environment and the desired role of ICT in this field. More directly related to the OpenOffice.org project, was the speech from Hu Caiyong, general manager from Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Technology Co. Ltd., short: Redflag 2000. Their product RedOffice knows a large adoption by national, regional and locale governments. With Redflag 2000 more than two hundred people work on RedOffice, which is based on OpenOffice.org. Last year Redflag 2000 and Sun Microsystems, the founder of the OpenOffice.org-project, signed an arrangement and from then on the cooperation intensifies, and people from Beijing and Hamburg work more together on areas as quality (QA) and development.<br /><br />But let me stick to China for another moment. Beijing also is the location for the few hundred people counting IBM team that works on Symphony, the OpenOffice.org 1-based product in the Lotus-family. Symphony's version 1.2 has just been released and Michael Karasick, manager of the Symphony team, showed their road-map for integration of their work in the main OpenOffice.org 3 code line.<br /><br />So there I sit, as representative of a small European country, looking at the impressive Asian presence. Louis Suarez-Potts, OOo-community manager, added a bit with the example of a Indian region, of which he found out recently that more than a million children at primary schools use OpenOffice.org. It is been distributed there on CD-ROM by the government. It is available in many Indian languages. The Malaysian government, to mentions something else, saved 9.5 million dollar in the last year, just by making the choice for the right office suite.<br />Here in the Netherlands all and everyone seems addicted to Microsoft products. Success stories do exist, but only after years the migrations really are starting up. Market in The Netherlands is much tougher that in Asia.<br /><br />The contribution of Michael Bemmer, general manager at Sun Hamburg, however gave me more faith. The Sun developers work with a clear vision on the future of office productivity. Apart from the already existing possibilities for collaboration and document management, integrating with OpenOffice.org, work is continuing for easier integration with much more software, will the suite be modularised, are tool for web-document integration on their way, is the function for Extensions enhanced. etcetera. And this all for a program that already enables seamless working amongst different platforms, which can be extended by using a variety of scripting and programming languages, supports more that a hundred languages for end users, has more than 8 years history, delivers a quality release 4 times a year, ⦠And that all apart from the independent document standard ODF, which is widely supported.<br /><br />After the applause for the opening ceremony, I merge in the crowd counting more than four hundred attendants. That also is more than last years. And I meet friends and people I know from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, America, Japan, China, Indonesia, Sweden, ⦠With them, I start coping the program, which with four parallel sessions gives many hard choices to make. And without any doubt, our Chines hosts will make sure that we get everything else we need, and more.<br /><br />Now it is Sunday evening. And looking back, I can give not only credits to them, but also to the those who presented at the conference. People from Sun, RedFlag 2000, Novell, IBM, people from the various countries and projects, and independent developers working with the people from Sun, all did a tremendous job with interesting talks, that much can be learnt from. It was good to see the quality with which some Chinese speakers were able to do their presentation. Not all of them of course â it is obvious that English is quite difficult for some. On the other hand, in my opinion also the presenting skills from some of our western European friends can easily be improved; something to keep in mind. Finally, after three days of conferencing, a wonderful closing diner, with great artists to entertain us, there were two days of tours. Seen lots of beautiful things. Of course a bit in a rush, so not surprisingly our guide concluded that we should come again, and than not for work but on only for enjoying the country and the people. Which is a good suggestion. People are friendly, youth is sparking, much to enjoy.<br /><br />Thanks to all who made this happen and many greeting from our Chinese friends,<br />Cor<br /><br />Cor Nouws is active member of the <a href="http://nl.openoffice.org">Dutch/Flanders OpenOffice.org-community</a> and also serves on the OpenOffice.org-Community Council. He is founder and director of a Dutch supplier of training/consultancy for OpenOffice.org.</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>2008-11-22T18:00:24+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Lies, damn lies, and Bouncer statistics</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=602</id> - <updated>2008-11-08T18:15:00+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/13/three-at-last/">the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> on October 13th, we&#8217;ve been carefully recording the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">number of downloads logged via the Bouncer</a> (the mechanism behind the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org download site</a> - for more details, see <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html">the FAQ</a>). We&#8217;d all been hoping that the headline counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">Marketing Planet</a> would pass the 10 million mark during the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference in Beijing</a>.</p> -<p>Well, the official business of the Conference ended yesterday, and as of midnight last night, the counter was showing 9,971,633 - so close!</p> -<p>However, all is not what it seemed. There have been some strange things happening in the logs recently, which are now being investigated. As a precaution, the reported figures have been adjusted to eliminate some unusual data. The net result is that last night&#8217;s running total has now been reduced to 9,703,282.</p> -<p>We&#8217;re not saying at this point that there has been a misguided attempt to inflate the figures. If so, it&#8217;s actually have been counterproductive, as we&#8217;ve taken a conservative approach and the figures now show a worst case number, and probably understate the true number.</p> -<p>However, we&#8217;ve taken a &#8216;better safe than sorry&#8217; view, so when we do finally pop the champagne corks for ten million, we can do so with a clear conscience!</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>2008-11-23T18:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1210&r2=1.1211 Delta lines: +30 -35 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-11-24 06:00:14+0000 1.1210 +++ index.html 2008-11-24 12:00:20+0000 1.1211 @@ -37,8 +37,37 @@ <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: November 24, 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: November 24, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>November 24, 2008</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> +OOo Marketeers</a> : +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/christmas-is-just-some-steps-away.html";> +Christmas is just some steps away...</a> +</h3> +<p> +...and our friends at <a href="http://www.aGoodCause.com";>aGoodCause.com</a> reminded us to think about those who have not been healthy and fortunate this year. I'd like to take the opportunity <a href="http://www.aGoodCause.com";>and link to their website</a> where you can do charity while shopping online. If you like to do a good thing, have a look at their offer - they're supported by various charity organizations for the good cause.</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/christmas-is-just-some-steps-away.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at November 24, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> +OOo Marketeers</a> : +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/ulteo-unveils-first-open-source-virtual.html";> +Ulteo unveils the first Open Source virtual desktop, featuring OpenOffice.org</a> +</h3> +<p> +Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, <a href="http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/news/2008/11/19?autolang=en";>announced today</a> that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises, which also features OpenOffice.org as major productivity suite. Delivering faster deployment times and ease of management for the IT department, this first release can be integrated easily into an existing professional Linux or Windows IT environment. The solution can be up and running in a few minutes, delivering rich desktop applications to corporate users.</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/ulteo-unveils-first-open-source-virtual.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at November 24, 2008 11:59 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>November 23, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="Open Opinions"> @@ -398,40 +427,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>November 09, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> -OOo Marketeers</a> : -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/openofficeorg-conference-2008.html";> -OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 â everything is different</a> -</h3> -<p> -Attending <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/";>the 6th OpenOffice.org conference</a> is a special experience. This when I compare it with the three previous conferences I attended.<br /><br />For the first time in the history of the open source project, the conference is held in a non European country. In this way, the project shows its world wide strength. Emphasize this strength, is something that can be trusted to be done the Chinese speakers. At least 8 representatives from (semi-) governmental organizations, IT-industry and education did so: "open source is important for the own industry and people". OpenOffice.org is closed into the hearts and the project fully supported.<br /><br />Also, the use of open source software helps fighting software piracy. This was underlined by Prof. Ni Guangnan from one of the universities. The light tintling is his eyes revealed that he understands quite well, that this is not the kind of 'fighting' Microsoft has in mind...<br /><br />As for my personal opinion, also has to be mentioned that every Chinese speaker emphasized the importance of protecting the environment and the desired role of ICT in this field. More directly related to the OpenOffice.org project, was the speech from Hu Caiyong, general manager from Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Technology Co. Ltd., short: Redflag 2000. Their product RedOffice knows a large adoption by national, regional and locale governments. With Redflag 2000 more than two hundred people work on RedOffice, which is based on OpenOffice.org. Last year Redflag 2000 and Sun Microsystems, the founder of the OpenOffice.org-project, signed an arrangement and from then on the cooperation intensifies, and people from Beijing and Hamburg work more together on areas as quality (QA) and development.<br /><br />But let me stick to China for another moment. Beijing also is the location for the few hundred people counting IBM team that works on Symphony, the OpenOffice.org 1-based product in the Lotus-family. Symphony's version 1.2 has just been released and Michael Karasick, manager of the Symphony team, showed their road-map for integration of their work in the main OpenOffice.org 3 code line.<br /><br />So there I sit, as representative of a small European country, looking at the impressive Asian presence. Louis Suarez-Potts, OOo-community manager, added a bit with the example of a Indian region, of which he found out recently that more than a million children at primary schools use OpenOffice.org. It is been distributed there on CD-ROM by the government. It is available in many Indian languages. The Malaysian government, to mentions something else, saved 9.5 million dollar in the last year, just by making the choice for the right office suite.<br />Here in the Netherlands all and everyone seems addicted to Microsoft products. Success stories do exist, but only after years the migrations really are starting up. Market in The Netherlands is much tougher that in Asia.<br /><br />The contribution of Michael Bemmer, general manager at Sun Hamburg, however gave me more faith. The Sun developers work with a clear vision on the future of office productivity. Apart from the already existing possibilities for collaboration and document management, integrating with OpenOffice.org, work is continuing for easier integration with much more software, will the suite be modularised, are tool for web-document integration on their way, is the function for Extensions enhanced. etcetera. And this all for a program that already enables seamless working amongst different platforms, which can be extended by using a variety of scripting and programming languages, supports more that a hundred languages for end users, has more than 8 years history, delivers a quality release 4 times a year, ⦠And that all apart from the independent document standard ODF, which is widely supported.<br /><br />After the applause for the opening ceremony, I merge in the crowd counting more than four hundred attendants. That also is more than last years. And I meet friends and people I know from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, America, Japan, China, Indonesia, Sweden, ⦠With them, I start coping the program, which with four parallel sessions gives many hard choices to make. And without any doubt, our Chines hosts will make sure that we get everything else we need, and more.<br /><br />Now it is Sunday evening. And looking back, I can give not only credits to them, but also to the those who presented at the conference. People from Sun, RedFlag 2000, Novell, IBM, people from the various countries and projects, and independent developers working with the people from Sun, all did a tremendous job with interesting talks, that much can be learnt from. It was good to see the quality with which some Chinese speakers were able to do their presentation. Not all of them of course â it is obvious that English is quite difficult for some. On the other hand, in my opinion also the presenting skills from some of our western European friends can easily be improved; something to keep in mind. Finally, after three days of conferencing, a wonderful closing diner, with great artists to entertain us, there were two days of tours. Seen lots of beautiful things. Of course a bit in a rush, so not surprisingly our guide concluded that we should come again, and than not for work but on only for enjoying the country and the people. Which is a good suggestion. People are friendly, youth is sparking, much to enjoy.<br /><br />Thanks to all who made this happen and many greeting from our Chinese friends,<br />Cor<br /><br />Cor Nouws is active member of the <a href="http://nl.openoffice.org";>Dutch/Flanders OpenOffice.org-community</a> and also serves on the OpenOffice.org-Community Council. He is founder and director of a Dutch supplier of training/consultancy for OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/openofficeorg-conference-2008.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at November 09, 2008 07:23 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>November 08, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> -John McCreesh</a> : -<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/";> -Lies, damn lies, and Bouncer statistics</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/13/three-at-last/";>the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> on October 13th, we’ve been carefully recording the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html";>number of downloads logged via the Bouncer</a> (the mechanism behind the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org download site</a> - for more details, see <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html";>the FAQ</a>). We’d all been hoping that the headline counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/";>Marketing Planet</a> would pass the 10 million mark during the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html";>OpenOffice.org Annual Conference in Beijing</a>.</p> -<p>Well, the official business of the Conference ended yesterday, and as of midnight last night, the counter was showing 9,971,633 - so close!</p> -<p>However, all is not what it seemed. There have been some strange things happening in the logs recently, which are now being investigated. As a precaution, the reported figures have been adjusted to eliminate some unusual data. The net result is that last night’s running total has now been reduced to 9,703,282.</p> -<p>We’re not saying at this point that there has been a misguided attempt to inflate the figures. If so, it’s actually have been counterproductive, as we’ve taken a conservative approach and the figures now show a worst case number, and probably understate the true number.</p> -<p>However, we’ve taken a ‘better safe than sorry’ view, so when we do finally pop the champagne corks for ten million, we can do so with a clear conscience!</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/";>by John at November 08, 2008 06:15 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=1.1203&r2=1.1204 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-11-24 06:00:14+0000 1.1203 +++ opml.xml 2008-11-24 12:00:20+0000 1.1204 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:00:25 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:00:35 +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=1.544&r2=1.545 Delta lines: +16 -19 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-11-24 00:00:11+0000 1.544 +++ rss10.xml 2008-11-24 12:00:20+0000 1.545 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6417551729835426128" /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9024423008445964741" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=493"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=607"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3b1b4fd24c073bb4" /> @@ -31,12 +33,24 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=603"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=436"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=906"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-750788243565343955" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=602"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-6417551729835426128"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Christmas is just some steps away...</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/christmas-is-just-some-steps-away.html</link> + <content:encoded>...and our friends at <a href="http://www.aGoodCause.com">aGoodCause.com</a> reminded us to think about those who have not been healthy and fortunate this year. I'd like to take the opportunity <a href="http://www.aGoodCause.com">and link to their website</a> where you can do charity while shopping online. If you like to do a good thing, have a look at their offer - they're supported by various charity organizations for the good cause.</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-11-24T12:00:32+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9024423008445964741"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Ulteo unveils the first Open Source virtual desktop, featuring OpenOffice.org</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/ulteo-unveils-first-open-source-virtual.html</link> + <content:encoded>Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, <a href="http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/news/2008/11/19?autolang=en">announced today</a> that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises, which also features OpenOffice.org as major productivity suite. Delivering faster deployment times and ease of management for the IT department, this first release can be integrated easily into an existing professional Linux or Windows IT environment. The solution can be up and running in a few minutes, delivering rich desktop applications to corporate users.</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-11-24T11:59:47+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=493";> <title>Italo Vignoli: About Beijing, OOo, ODF and interoperability</title> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/463254723/</link> @@ -247,22 +261,5 @@ <p>&#8220;Despite the uncertainty of using unfamiliar software, and being thrown in the deep end, the staff handled the change well. Much better than I expected. On the second day one of the staff had a question about something that worked a little differently. The question was easily answered, and there were no more questions. Some staff preferred some of the differences.&#8221;</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-11-10T14:43:19+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-750788243565343955"> - <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 â everything is different</title> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/openofficeorg-conference-2008.html</link> - <content:encoded>Attending <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/">the 6th OpenOffice.org conference</a> is a special experience. This when I compare it with the three previous conferences I attended.<br /><br />For the first time in the history of the open source project, the conference is held in a non European country. In this way, the project shows its world wide strength. Emphasize this strength, is something that can be trusted to be done the Chinese speakers. At least 8 representatives from (semi-) governmental organizations, IT-industry and education did so: "open source is important for the own industry and people". OpenOffice.org is closed into the hearts and the project fully supported.<br /><br />Also, the use of open source software helps fighting software piracy. This was underlined by Prof. Ni Guangnan from one of the universities. The light tintling is his eyes revealed that he understands quite well, that this is not the kind of 'fighting' Microsoft has in mind...<br /><br />As for my personal opinion, also has to be mentioned that every Chinese speaker emphasized the importance of protecting the environment and the desired role of ICT in this field. More directly related to the OpenOffice.org project, was the speech from Hu Caiyong, general manager from Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Technology Co. Ltd., short: Redflag 2000. Their product RedOffice knows a large adoption by national, regional and locale governments. With Redflag 2000 more than two hundred people work on RedOffice, which is based on OpenOffice.org. Last year Redflag 2000 and Sun Microsystems, the founder of the OpenOffice.org-project, signed an arrangement and from then on the cooperation intensifies, and people from Beijing and Hamburg work more together on areas as quality (QA) and development.<br /><br />But let me stick to China for another moment. Beijing also is the location for the few hundred people counting IBM team that works on Symphony, the OpenOffice.org 1-based product in the Lotus-family. Symphony's version 1.2 has just been released and Michael Karasick, manager of the Symphony team, showed their road-map for integration of their work in the main OpenOffice.org 3 code line.<br /><br />So there I sit, as representative of a small European country, looking at the impressive Asian presence. Louis Suarez-Potts, OOo-community manager, added a bit with the example of a Indian region, of which he found out recently that more than a million children at primary schools use OpenOffice.org. It is been distributed there on CD-ROM by the government. It is available in many Indian languages. The Malaysian government, to mentions something else, saved 9.5 million dollar in the last year, just by making the choice for the right office suite.<br />Here in the Netherlands all and everyone seems addicted to Microsoft products. Success stories do exist, but only after years the migrations really are starting up. Market in The Netherlands is much tougher that in Asia.<br /><br />The contribution of Michael Bemmer, general manager at Sun Hamburg, however gave me more faith. The Sun developers work with a clear vision on the future of office productivity. Apart from the already existing possibilities for collaboration and document management, integrating with OpenOffice.org, work is continuing for easier integration with much more software, will the suite be modularised, are tool for web-document integration on their way, is the function for Extensions enhanced. etcetera. And this all for a program that already enables seamless working amongst different platforms, which can be extended by using a variety of scripting and programming languages, supports more that a hundred languages for end users, has more than 8 years history, delivers a quality release 4 times a year, ⦠And that all apart from the independent document standard ODF, which is widely supported.<br /><br />After the applause for the opening ceremony, I merge in the crowd counting more than four hundred attendants. That also is more than last years. And I meet friends and people I know from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, America, Japan, China, Indonesia, Sweden, ⦠With them, I start coping the program, which with four parallel sessions gives many hard choices to make. And without any doubt, our Chines hosts will make sure that we get everything else we need, and more.<br /><br />Now it is Sunday evening. And looking back, I can give not only credits to them, but also to the those who presented at the conference. People from Sun, RedFlag 2000, Novell, IBM, people from the various countries and projects, and independent developers working with the people from Sun, all did a tremendous job with interesting talks, that much can be learnt from. It was good to see the quality with which some Chinese speakers were able to do their presentation. Not all of them of course â it is obvious that English is quite difficult for some. On the other hand, in my opinion also the presenting skills from some of our western European friends can easily be improved; something to keep in mind. Finally, after three days of conferencing, a wonderful closing diner, with great artists to entertain us, there were two days of tours. Seen lots of beautiful things. Of course a bit in a rush, so not surprisingly our guide concluded that we should come again, and than not for work but on only for enjoying the country and the people. Which is a good suggestion. People are friendly, youth is sparking, much to enjoy.<br /><br />Thanks to all who made this happen and many greeting from our Chinese friends,<br />Cor<br /><br />Cor Nouws is active member of the <a href="http://nl.openoffice.org">Dutch/Flanders OpenOffice.org-community</a> and also serves on the OpenOffice.org-Community Council. He is founder and director of a Dutch supplier of training/consultancy for OpenOffice.org.</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-11-09T19:23:02+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=602";> - <title>John McCreesh: Lies, damn lies, and Bouncer statistics</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/</link> - <content:encoded><p>Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/13/three-at-last/">the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> on October 13th, we&#8217;ve been carefully recording the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">number of downloads logged via the Bouncer</a> (the mechanism behind the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org download site</a> - for more details, see <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html">the FAQ</a>). 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I'd like to take the opportunity <a href="http://www.aGoodCause.com">and link to their website</a> where you can do charity while shopping online. If you like to do a good thing, have a look at their offer - they're supported by various charity organizations for the good cause.</description> + <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (floeff)</author> +</item> +<item> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Ulteo unveils the first Open Source virtual desktop, featuring OpenOffice.org</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9024423008445964741</guid> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/ulteo-unveils-first-open-source-virtual.html</link> + <description>Following its commitment to desktop virtualization solutions, Ulteo, an Open Virtual Desktop Infrastructure company, <a href="http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/news/2008/11/19?autolang=en">announced today</a> that they were releasing the first installable version of their Open Virtual Desktop solution for enterprises, which also features OpenOffice.org as major productivity suite. Delivering faster deployment times and ease of management for the IT department, this first release can be integrated easily into an existing professional Linux or Windows IT environment. The solution can be up and running in a few minutes, delivering rich desktop applications to corporate users.</description> + <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:59:47 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (floeff)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>Italo Vignoli: About Beijing, OOo, ODF and interoperability</title> <guid>http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=493</guid> <link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/463254723/</link> @@ -232,25 +248,6 @@ <p>&#8220;Despite the uncertainty of using unfamiliar software, and being thrown in the deep end, the staff handled the change well. Much better than I expected. On the second day one of the staff had a question about something that worked a little differently. The question was easily answered, and there were no more questions. Some staff preferred some of the differences.&#8221;</p></description> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:43:19 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 â everything is different</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-750788243565343955</guid> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/openofficeorg-conference-2008.html</link> - <description>Attending <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/">the 6th OpenOffice.org conference</a> is a special experience. This when I compare it with the three previous conferences I attended.<br /><br />For the first time in the history of the open source project, the conference is held in a non European country. In this way, the project shows its world wide strength. Emphasize this strength, is something that can be trusted to be done the Chinese speakers. At least 8 representatives from (semi-) governmental organizations, IT-industry and education did so: "open source is important for the own industry and people". OpenOffice.org is closed into the hearts and the project fully supported.<br /><br />Also, the use of open source software helps fighting software piracy. This was underlined by Prof. Ni Guangnan from one of the universities. The light tintling is his eyes revealed that he understands quite well, that this is not the kind of 'fighting' Microsoft has in mind...<br /><br />As for my personal opinion, also has to be mentioned that every Chinese speaker emphasized the importance of protecting the environment and the desired role of ICT in this field. More directly related to the OpenOffice.org project, was the speech from Hu Caiyong, general manager from Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Technology Co. Ltd., short: Redflag 2000. Their product RedOffice knows a large adoption by national, regional and locale governments. With Redflag 2000 more than two hundred people work on RedOffice, which is based on OpenOffice.org. Last year Redflag 2000 and Sun Microsystems, the founder of the OpenOffice.org-project, signed an arrangement and from then on the cooperation intensifies, and people from Beijing and Hamburg work more together on areas as quality (QA) and development.<br /><br />But let me stick to China for another moment. Beijing also is the location for the few hundred people counting IBM team that works on Symphony, the OpenOffice.org 1-based product in the Lotus-family. Symphony's version 1.2 has just been released and Michael Karasick, manager of the Symphony team, showed their road-map for integration of their work in the main OpenOffice.org 3 code line.<br /><br />So there I sit, as representative of a small European country, looking at the impressive Asian presence. Louis Suarez-Potts, OOo-community manager, added a bit with the example of a Indian region, of which he found out recently that more than a million children at primary schools use OpenOffice.org. It is been distributed there on CD-ROM by the government. It is available in many Indian languages. The Malaysian government, to mentions something else, saved 9.5 million dollar in the last year, just by making the choice for the right office suite.<br />Here in the Netherlands all and everyone seems addicted to Microsoft products. Success stories do exist, but only after years the migrations really are starting up. Market in The Netherlands is much tougher that in Asia.<br /><br />The contribution of Michael Bemmer, general manager at Sun Hamburg, however gave me more faith. The Sun developers work with a clear vision on the future of office productivity. Apart from the already existing possibilities for collaboration and document management, integrating with OpenOffice.org, work is continuing for easier integration with much more software, will the suite be modularised, are tool for web-document integration on their way, is the function for Extensions enhanced. etcetera. And this all for a program that already enables seamless working amongst different platforms, which can be extended by using a variety of scripting and programming languages, supports more that a hundred languages for end users, has more than 8 years history, delivers a quality release 4 times a year, ⦠And that all apart from the independent document standard ODF, which is widely supported.<br /><br />After the applause for the opening ceremony, I merge in the crowd counting more than four hundred attendants. That also is more than last years. And I meet friends and people I know from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, America, Japan, China, Indonesia, Sweden, ⦠With them, I start coping the program, which with four parallel sessions gives many hard choices to make. And without any doubt, our Chines hosts will make sure that we get everything else we need, and more.<br /><br />Now it is Sunday evening. And looking back, I can give not only credits to them, but also to the those who presented at the conference. People from Sun, RedFlag 2000, Novell, IBM, people from the various countries and projects, and independent developers working with the people from Sun, all did a tremendous job with interesting talks, that much can be learnt from. It was good to see the quality with which some Chinese speakers were able to do their presentation. Not all of them of course â it is obvious that English is quite difficult for some. On the other hand, in my opinion also the presenting skills from some of our western European friends can easily be improved; something to keep in mind. Finally, after three days of conferencing, a wonderful closing diner, with great artists to entertain us, there were two days of tours. Seen lots of beautiful things. Of course a bit in a rush, so not surprisingly our guide concluded that we should come again, and than not for work but on only for enjoying the country and the people. Which is a good suggestion. People are friendly, youth is sparking, much to enjoy.<br /><br />Thanks to all who made this happen and many greeting from our Chinese friends,<br />Cor<br /><br />Cor Nouws is active member of the <a href="http://nl.openoffice.org">Dutch/Flanders OpenOffice.org-community</a> and also serves on the OpenOffice.org-Community Council. He is founder and director of a Dutch supplier of training/consultancy for OpenOffice.org.</description> - <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:23:02 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (floeff)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>John McCreesh: Lies, damn lies, and Bouncer statistics</title> - <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=602</guid> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/08/lies-damn-lies-and-bouncer-statistics/</link> - <description><p>Following <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/13/three-at-last/">the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0</a> on October 13th, we&#8217;ve been carefully recording the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">number of downloads logged via the Bouncer</a> (the mechanism behind the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org download site</a> - for more details, see <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer_faq.html">the FAQ</a>). We&#8217;d all been hoping that the headline counter on the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/">Marketing Planet</a> would pass the 10 million mark during the <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/index.html">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference in Beijing</a>.</p> -<p>Well, the official business of the Conference ended yesterday, and as of midnight last night, the counter was showing 9,971,633 - so close!</p> -<p>However, all is not what it seemed. There have been some strange things happening in the logs recently, which are now being investigated. As a precaution, the reported figures have been adjusted to eliminate some unusual data. The net result is that last night&#8217;s running total has now been reduced to 9,703,282.</p> -<p>We&#8217;re not saying at this point that there has been a misguided attempt to inflate the figures. If so, it&#8217;s actually have been counterproductive, as we&#8217;ve taken a conservative approach and the figures now show a worst case number, and probably understate the true number.</p> -<p>However, we&#8217;ve taken a &#8216;better safe than sorry&#8217; view, so when we do finally pop the champagne corks for ten million, we can do so with a clear conscience!</p></description> - <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:15:00 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
