User: jpmcc Date: 2008-11-29 12:00:23+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 Sat Nov 29 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=1.1218&r2=1.1219 Delta lines: +49 -49 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-11-29 05:59:53+0000 1.1218 +++ atom.xml 2008-11-29 12:00:20+0000 1.1219 @@ -5,9 +5,50 @@ <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>2008-11-29T06:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-29T12:00:48+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">â¦and a pretty face too</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/and-a-pretty-face-too/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=610</id> + <updated>2008-11-29T11:56:04+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p><a href="http://ux.openoffice.org"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-611" title="ux" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ux.png" alt="UX Project" width="200" height="142" /></a>Over the past twenty years, <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/">OpenOffice.org</a> has developed into the leading open-source office productivity suite - easily the equal of commercial offerings. Unlike say Microsoft Office, it was designed from day one as a single unit (MS-Office was bolted together from completely separate products - Excel, Word, etc). This makes it consistent as you move from <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html">Calc</a> to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html">Writer</a> to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html">Impress</a> etc - and so easier to learn and use.</p> +<p>However, there is a general feeling among users that there must be a better way of presenting office tools to users. <a href="http://en.redoffice.com.cn/">RedFlag</a> have completely reworked the look and feel of OpenOffice for their office software for the Chinese market - <a href="http://en.redoffice.com.cn/redoffice/index.php?class=bg">RedOffice</a>. IBM have had a go too with their<a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home"> Lotus Symphony</a>. Even Microsoft had a go at this in a more limited way with their much-maligned Ribbon interface.</p> +<p>Now it&#8217;s time for the Community OpenOffice.org to have a go. The <a href="http://ux.openoffice.org/">User Experience Project</a> launched the Renaissance concept at a <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/thursday_1413.pdf">presentation at the recent OpenOffice.org Conference</a>, and in a <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_kick_off1">blog posting on GullFOSS</a>. Keep an eye on <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance">their wiki</a> - this activity may make a dramatic difference to the way millions of people do their daily word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc!</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>2008-11-29T12:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Another one bites the dust</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/another-one-bites-the-dust/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=608</id> + <updated>2008-11-29T09:50:22+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-609" title="calc" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/calc.png" alt="Calc icon" width="32" height="32" /></a>As a very amateur hacker, I know the pleasure that comes from finally nailing an obscure bug. An <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/">OpenOffice.org</a> developer, Eike Rathke, has <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/working_on_calc_performance_bottlenecks">a blog posting</a> about nailing a bug in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html">Calc</a>. A user had reported a case where Calc was taking 24 seconds to do something which a rival product could do in just over a second.</p> +<p>It&#8217;s now fixed. Congratulations to the developers, and please continue to <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">report cases</a> like this. The more carefully you explain the bug, the more likely it is to get picked up and fixed. If developers can&#8217;t repeat the problem, they can&#8217;t fix it!</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>2008-11-29T12:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m36) available</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_026"/> @@ -29,7 +70,7 @@ <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>2008-11-29T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-29T12:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -181,7 +222,7 @@ <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>2008-11-29T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-29T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -206,7 +247,7 @@ <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>2008-11-29T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-29T12:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -250,7 +291,7 @@ <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>2008-11-29T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-29T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -318,7 +359,7 @@ <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>2008-11-29T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-29T12:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -370,7 +411,7 @@ <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>2008-11-29T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-29T12:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -395,7 +436,7 @@ <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>2008-11-29T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-11-29T12:00:39+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -453,45 +494,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">SOHO AWARDS 2008 for OpenOffice.org</title> - <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/soho-awards-2008-for-openofficeorg.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9125598429226329740</id> - <updated>2008-11-12T10:34:57+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">OpenOffice.org was awarded the <a href="http://www.soho-awards.org/jyusyo.html">SOHO AWARDS 2008</a> yesterday. Congratulations to this effort!</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>2008-11-29T00:00:28+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org 3.0 Achieves 10 Million Downloads</title> - <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/907"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=907</id> - <updated>2008-11-11T12:22:45+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>An <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/ten/million/prweb1593434.htm">OpenOffice.org press release on PRWeb</a> announces, &#8220;The OpenOffice.org Community passed the ten million downloads mark for the latest version of its software, just four weeks after the launch on October 13th.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/10/the-first-ten-million/">John McCreesh elaborates</a>: &#8220;We were delighted to hit a million downloads in the first two days. Four weeks later, we have hit ten million, and we are still seeing an amazing 250,000 - 350,000 downloads a day. For a community with no advertising budget, this is an astonishing level of product awareness around the world.&#8221;</p> -<p>This is the fastest download rate of any version of OpenOffice to date, and has probably only been exceeded by Firefox 3 among all open source software downloads. (See more <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">download statistics here</a>.)</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>2008-11-29T00:00:20+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1225&r2=1.1226 Delta lines: +33 -33 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-11-29 05:59:53+0000 1.1225 +++ index.html 2008-11-29 12:00:20+0000 1.1226 @@ -37,8 +37,40 @@ <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 29, 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 29, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>November 29, 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/2008/11/29/and-a-pretty-face-too/";> +â¦and a pretty face too</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p><a href="http://ux.openoffice.org";><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-611" title="ux" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ux.png"; alt="UX Project" width="200" height="142" /></a>Over the past twenty years, <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/";>OpenOffice.org</a> has developed into the leading open-source office productivity suite - easily the equal of commercial offerings. Unlike say Microsoft Office, it was designed from day one as a single unit (MS-Office was bolted together from completely separate products - Excel, Word, etc). This makes it consistent as you move from <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html";>Calc</a> to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html";>Writer</a> to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html";>Impress</a> etc - and so easier to learn and use.</p> +<p>However, there is a general feeling among users that there must be a better way of presenting office tools to users. <a href="http://en.redoffice.com.cn/";>RedFlag</a> have completely reworked the look and feel of OpenOffice for their office software for the Chinese market - <a href="http://en.redoffice.com.cn/redoffice/index.php?class=bg";>RedOffice</a>. IBM have had a go too with their<a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home";> Lotus Symphony</a>. Even Microsoft had a go at this in a more limited way with their much-maligned Ribbon interface.</p> +<p>Now it’s time for the Community OpenOffice.org to have a go. The <a href="http://ux.openoffice.org/";>User Experience Project</a> launched the Renaissance concept at a <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/thursday_1413.pdf";>presentation at the recent OpenOffice.org Conference</a>, and in a <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_kick_off1";>blog posting on GullFOSS</a>. Keep an eye on <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance";>their wiki</a> - this activity may make a dramatic difference to the way millions of people do their daily word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc!</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/and-a-pretty-face-too/";>by John at November 29, 2008 11:56 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> +John McCreesh</a> : +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/another-one-bites-the-dust/";> +Another one bites the dust</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p><a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html";><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-609" title="calc" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/calc.png"; alt="Calc icon" width="32" height="32" /></a>As a very amateur hacker, I know the pleasure that comes from finally nailing an obscure bug. An <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/";>OpenOffice.org</a> developer, Eike Rathke, has <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/working_on_calc_performance_bottlenecks";>a blog posting</a> about nailing a bug in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html";>Calc</a>. A user had reported a case where Calc was taking 24 seconds to do something which a rival product could do in just over a second.</p> +<p>It’s now fixed. Congratulations to the developers, and please continue to <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html";>report cases</a> like this. The more carefully you explain the bug, the more likely it is to get picked up and fixed. If developers can’t repeat the problem, they can’t fix it!</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/another-one-bites-the-dust/";>by John at November 29, 2008 09:50 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>November 27, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -404,38 +436,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>November 12, 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/soho-awards-2008-for-openofficeorg.html";> -SOHO AWARDS 2008 for OpenOffice.org</a> -</h3> -<p> -OpenOffice.org was awarded the <a href="http://www.soho-awards.org/jyusyo.html";>SOHO AWARDS 2008</a> yesterday. Congratulations to this effort!</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/soho-awards-2008-for-openofficeorg.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at November 12, 2008 10:34 AM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>November 11, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> -Benjamin Horst</a> : -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/907";> -OpenOffice.org 3.0 Achieves 10 Million Downloads</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>An <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/ten/million/prweb1593434.htm";>OpenOffice.org press release on PRWeb</a> announces, “The OpenOffice.org Community passed the ten million downloads mark for the latest version of its software, just four weeks after the launch on October 13th.”</p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/10/the-first-ten-million/";>John McCreesh elaborates</a>: “We were delighted to hit a million downloads in the first two days. Four weeks later, we have hit ten million, and we are still seeing an amazing 250,000 - 350,000 downloads a day. For a community with no advertising budget, this is an astonishing level of product awareness around the world.”</p> -<p>This is the fastest download rate of any version of OpenOffice to date, and has probably only been exceeded by Firefox 3 among all open source software downloads. (See more <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html";>download statistics here</a>.)</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/907";>by Benjamin Horst at November 11, 2008 12:22 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=1.1218&r2=1.1219 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-11-29 05:59:53+0000 1.1218 +++ opml.xml 2008-11-29 12:00:20+0000 1.1219 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:00:24 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:00:48 +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=1.551&r2=1.552 Delta lines: +17 -17 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-11-28 17:59:54+0000 1.551 +++ rss10.xml 2008-11-29 12:00:20+0000 1.552 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=610"; /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=608"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/b4203f743bc71e3c" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/27/mission-accomplished-or-so-they-said/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=915"; /> @@ -31,12 +33,25 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/4a50ad19bbd7ce6c" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=909"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/11/13/so-you-thought-openofficeorg-controlled-odf-think-again/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9125598429226329740" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=907"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=610";> + <title>John McCreesh: â¦and a pretty face too</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/and-a-pretty-face-too/</link> + <content:encoded><p><a href="http://ux.openoffice.org"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-611" title="ux" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ux.png" alt="UX Project" width="200" height="142" /></a>Over the past twenty years, <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/">OpenOffice.org</a> has developed into the leading open-source office productivity suite - easily the equal of commercial offerings. 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Even Microsoft had a go at this in a more limited way with their much-maligned Ribbon interface.</p> +<p>Now it&#8217;s time for the Community OpenOffice.org to have a go. The <a href="http://ux.openoffice.org/">User Experience Project</a> launched the Renaissance concept at a <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/thursday_1413.pdf">presentation at the recent OpenOffice.org Conference</a>, and in a <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_kick_off1">blog posting on GullFOSS</a>. Keep an eye on <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance">their wiki</a> - this activity may make a dramatic difference to the way millions of people do their daily word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc!</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-11-29T11:56:04+00:00</dc:date> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=608";> + <title>John McCreesh: Another one bites the dust</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/another-one-bites-the-dust/</link> + <content:encoded><p><a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-609" title="calc" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/calc.png" alt="Calc icon" width="32" height="32" /></a>As a very amateur hacker, I know the pleasure that comes from finally nailing an obscure bug. An <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/">OpenOffice.org</a> developer, Eike Rathke, has <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/working_on_calc_performance_bottlenecks">a blog posting</a> about nailing a bug in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html">Calc</a>. A user had reported a case where Calc was taking 24 seconds to do something which a rival product could do in just over a second.</p> +<p>It&#8217;s now fixed. Congratulations to the developers, and please continue to <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">report cases</a> like this. The more carefully you explain the bug, the more likely it is to get picked up and fixed. If developers can&#8217;t repeat the problem, they can&#8217;t fix it!</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-11-29T09:50:22+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/b4203f743bc71e3c"> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m36) available</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_026</link> @@ -255,20 +270,5 @@ </p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-11-13T14:23:18+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9125598429226329740"> - <title>OOo Marketeers: SOHO AWARDS 2008 for OpenOffice.org</title> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/soho-awards-2008-for-openofficeorg.html</link> - <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org was awarded the <a href="http://www.soho-awards.org/jyusyo.html">SOHO AWARDS 2008</a> yesterday. Congratulations to this effort!</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-11-12T10:34:57+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=907";> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Achieves 10 Million Downloads</title> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/907</link> - <content:encoded><p>An <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/ten/million/prweb1593434.htm">OpenOffice.org press release on PRWeb</a> announces, &#8220;The OpenOffice.org Community passed the ten million downloads mark for the latest version of its software, just four weeks after the launch on October 13th.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/10/the-first-ten-million/">John McCreesh elaborates</a>: &#8220;We were delighted to hit a million downloads in the first two days. Four weeks later, we have hit ten million, and we are still seeing an amazing 250,000 - 350,000 downloads a day. For a community with no advertising budget, this is an astonishing level of product awareness around the world.&#8221;</p> -<p>This is the fastest download rate of any version of OpenOffice to date, and has probably only been exceeded by Firefox 3 among all open source software downloads. (See more <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">download statistics here</a>.)</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-11-11T12:22:45+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.551&r2=1.552 Delta lines: +17 -17 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-11-28 17:59:54+0000 1.551 +++ rss20.xml 2008-11-29 12:00:21+0000 1.552 @@ -8,6 +8,23 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>John McCreesh: â¦and a pretty face too</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=610</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/and-a-pretty-face-too/</link> + <description><p><a href="http://ux.openoffice.org"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-611" title="ux" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/ux.png" alt="UX Project" width="200" height="142" /></a>Over the past twenty years, <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/">OpenOffice.org</a> has developed into the leading open-source office productivity suite - easily the equal of commercial offerings. Unlike say Microsoft Office, it was designed from day one as a single unit (MS-Office was bolted together from completely separate products - Excel, Word, etc). This makes it consistent as you move from <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html">Calc</a> to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html">Writer</a> to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html">Impress</a> etc - and so easier to learn and use.</p> +<p>However, there is a general feeling among users that there must be a better way of presenting office tools to users. <a href="http://en.redoffice.com.cn/">RedFlag</a> have completely reworked the look and feel of OpenOffice for their office software for the Chinese market - <a href="http://en.redoffice.com.cn/redoffice/index.php?class=bg">RedOffice</a>. IBM have had a go too with their<a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home"> Lotus Symphony</a>. Even Microsoft had a go at this in a more limited way with their much-maligned Ribbon interface.</p> +<p>Now it&#8217;s time for the Community OpenOffice.org to have a go. The <a href="http://ux.openoffice.org/">User Experience Project</a> launched the Renaissance concept at a <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008/programme/thursday_1413.pdf">presentation at the recent OpenOffice.org Conference</a>, and in a <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_kick_off1">blog posting on GullFOSS</a>. Keep an eye on <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance">their wiki</a> - this activity may make a dramatic difference to the way millions of people do their daily word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc!</p></description> + <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:56:04 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>John McCreesh: Another one bites the dust</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=608</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/29/another-one-bites-the-dust/</link> + <description><p><a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-609" title="calc" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/calc.png" alt="Calc icon" width="32" height="32" /></a>As a very amateur hacker, I know the pleasure that comes from finally nailing an obscure bug. An <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/">OpenOffice.org</a> developer, Eike Rathke, has <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/working_on_calc_performance_bottlenecks">a blog posting</a> about nailing a bug in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html">Calc</a>. A user had reported a case where Calc was taking 24 seconds to do something which a rival product could do in just over a second.</p> +<p>It&#8217;s now fixed. Congratulations to the developers, and please continue to <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">report cases</a> like this. The more carefully you explain the bug, the more likely it is to get picked up and fixed. If developers can&#8217;t repeat the problem, they can&#8217;t fix it!</p></description> + <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:50:22 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.0 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m36) available</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/b4203f743bc71e3c</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_026</link> @@ -239,23 +256,6 @@ </p></description> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:18 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>OOo Marketeers: SOHO AWARDS 2008 for OpenOffice.org</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9125598429226329740</guid> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/11/soho-awards-2008-for-openofficeorg.html</link> - <description>OpenOffice.org was awarded the <a href="http://www.soho-awards.org/jyusyo.html">SOHO AWARDS 2008</a> yesterday. Congratulations to this effort!</description> - <pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:34:57 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (floeff)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Achieves 10 Million Downloads</title> - <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=907</guid> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/907</link> - <description><p>An <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/ten/million/prweb1593434.htm">OpenOffice.org press release on PRWeb</a> announces, &#8220;The OpenOffice.org Community passed the ten million downloads mark for the latest version of its software, just four weeks after the launch on October 13th.&#8221;</p> -<p><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/10/the-first-ten-million/">John McCreesh elaborates</a>: &#8220;We were delighted to hit a million downloads in the first two days. Four weeks later, we have hit ten million, and we are still seeing an amazing 250,000 - 350,000 downloads a day. For a community with no advertising budget, this is an astonishing level of product awareness around the world.&#8221;</p> -<p>This is the fastest download rate of any version of OpenOffice to date, and has probably only been exceeded by Firefox 3 among all open source software downloads. (See more <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">download statistics here</a>.)</p></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:22:45 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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