User: jpmcc Date: 2008-12-02 18:00:24+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 Tue Dec 2 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=1.1231&r2=1.1232 Delta lines: +42 -38 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-12-02 12:00:02+0000 1.1231 +++ atom.xml 2008-12-02 18:00:21+0000 1.1232 @@ -5,10 +5,43 @@ <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>2008-12-02T12:00:31+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:52+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">NeoOffice Resources Roundup</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/918"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=918</id> + <updated>2008-12-02T15:09:20+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been in contact with an Ohio school district through an educational technology mailing list. The district has migrated to NeoOffice on all its computers (Macs, of course), but did not implement training or documentation for the new users. Thus, they have had some frustrations with the migration.</p> +<p>I sent the following in an email to give them the resources they need to get comfortable with their new software, and I&#8217;m posting it here in case it is useful for others in a similar situation:</p> +<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m happy to help you find the NeoOffice (and related OpenOffice) online communities. Without participating in these, or without any training to accompany the switch, I can see why you and your colleagues would be frustrated! I hope I can help you all cross over the transition period to smooth sailing beyond.</p> +<p>For manuals, I suggest Solveig Haugland&#8217;s and the OOoAuthors Project&#8217;s manuals.</p> +<p>Solveig&#8217;s blog offers useful tips every day: <a href="http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/">http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/</a><br /> +Her book is called &#8220;OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook&#8221; and is the definitive reference on the software: <a href="http://openoffice.blogs.com/bookresources/">http://openoffice.blogs.com/bookresources/</a></p> +<p>OOoAuthors is a group of volunteers who have written a plethora of great books on the OpenOffice component applications. You can download any of them free as PDFs, or you can purchase the printed books from Lulu.com for a reasonable price. Links to all of these can be found on the site&#8217;s homepage: <a href="http://oooauthors.org/en">http://oooauthors.org/en</a></p> +<p>For online resources, NeoOffice maintains a user forum and a wiki where you can ask specific questions of the many users and volunteers who participate there.</p> +<p>NeoOffice Forums: <a href="http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums">http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums</a><br /> +NeoOffice Wiki: <a href="http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page">http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page</a></p> +<p>OpenOffice has its own official forum as well. Since the two programs are very similar in most functionality, you can also ask questions of the site users there:</p> +<p><a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/">http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/</a></p> +<p>In reviewing it just now, I came across the following thread that should be particularly useful for you: <a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11660">http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&amp;t=11660</a></p> +<p>The books above should provide the step-by-step instructions for specific tasks. If you need more, then any book about OpenOffice should suffice, and you can also look into The INGOTS online training and certification program, at <a href="http://www.theingots.org/">www.theingots.org</a>, for online training materials (accredited in the UK, but quite useful here in the USA too).</p> +<p>Good luck, and let me know if you have further questions!</p></blockquote></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>2008-12-02T18:00:25+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/dayâ¦</title> <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561</id> @@ -64,7 +97,7 @@ <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>2008-12-01T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:25+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -151,7 +184,7 @@ <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>2008-12-02T12:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:27+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -205,7 +238,7 @@ <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>2008-12-01T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:25+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -282,7 +315,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Open Opinions about Open Source Software</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> - <updated>2008-12-02T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:46+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -328,7 +361,7 @@ <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>2008-12-02T12:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:27+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -350,7 +383,7 @@ <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>2008-12-01T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:25+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -416,7 +449,7 @@ <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>2008-12-01T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:25+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -440,7 +473,7 @@ <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>2008-12-02T12:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-12-02T18:00:27+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -467,33 +500,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">Para-sites flourish - search engines turn a blind eye</title> - <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/"/> - <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=605</id> - <updated>2008-11-13T19:27:05+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>I have warned before about <a href="http://http//www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/">the danger from para-sites</a> that are cashing in on the popularity of the free open-source office software package <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a>. This example from today&#8217;s mail demonstrates it&#8217;s not just a theoretical problem:</p> -<blockquote><p>I hope that you don&#8217;t mind that I send you this message. However, I want to point you to a rip-off scheme that exploits OpenOffice.org</p> -<p>I am myself an active member in the open source community and try to use open source software as far as possible (most prominently of course Linux and all the great stuff it offers). I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org and can only assure you that I try to use it as much as possible.</p> -<p>I am actually a bit embarrassed to admit that fell into the trap of a rip-off web page. All I remember is that I was looking for OpenOffice.org 3.0 and some how these guys managed to attract me to their Web pages. I did realize that I was misled and did of course then download OpenOffice.org from the official Web site. However, these guys still managed to get my data and to my big surprise they sent me the attached invoice for 96 Euro for a one year subscription to their service (which actually according to their TOS runs at least for 2 years). And this is the service of just providing open source software that you can find on the Web anyway.</p> -<p>When I saw the invoice I immediately sent a letter that I don&#8217;t want to have the subscription and that they should send me proof of evidence in how far access with my information was done on their machine. No answer to this letter but another invoice for another 8 Euros for additional costs.</p> -<p>All I want to achieve with this message is to make you aware of what is going on there. According to the Web page (http://www.opendownload.de/) the top download is OpenOffice.org and I cannot imagine that you actually are happy to see that people are running such a rip-off scheme on the back of OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p>Of course, I would be interested to know if I see anything wrong here. However, I believe that such things happening can severely damage the reputation of open source software and should by all means stopped as soon as possible.</p> -<p>Please understand that this message is not about money. I would be glad to make a donation of the amount of this money involved (see it as a punishment of myself to be stupid enough to fall into the trap of these guys) to OpenOffice.org</p> -<p>I would be glad if you could send me a brief message as a feedback so that I would know your opinion.</p> -<p>With best regards,</p></blockquote> -<p>What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine operators continue to accept money for diverting people to their para-sites.</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> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1238&r2=1.1239 Delta lines: +29 -26 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-12-02 12:00:03+0000 1.1238 +++ index.html 2008-12-02 18:00:21+0000 1.1239 @@ -37,10 +37,38 @@ <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: December 02, 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: December 02, 2008 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> <h2>December 02, 2008</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/918";> +NeoOffice Resources Roundup</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Recently, I’ve been in contact with an Ohio school district through an educational technology mailing list. The district has migrated to NeoOffice on all its computers (Macs, of course), but did not implement training or documentation for the new users. Thus, they have had some frustrations with the migration.</p> +<p>I sent the following in an email to give them the resources they need to get comfortable with their new software, and I’m posting it here in case it is useful for others in a similar situation:</p> +<blockquote><p>I’m happy to help you find the NeoOffice (and related OpenOffice) online communities. Without participating in these, or without any training to accompany the switch, I can see why you and your colleagues would be frustrated! I hope I can help you all cross over the transition period to smooth sailing beyond.</p> +<p>For manuals, I suggest Solveig Haugland’s and the OOoAuthors Project’s manuals.</p> +<p>Solveig’s blog offers useful tips every day: <a href="http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/";>http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/</a><br /> +Her book is called “OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook” and is the definitive reference on the software: <a href="http://openoffice.blogs.com/bookresources/";>http://openoffice.blogs.com/bookresources/</a></p> +<p>OOoAuthors is a group of volunteers who have written a plethora of great books on the OpenOffice component applications. You can download any of them free as PDFs, or you can purchase the printed books from Lulu.com for a reasonable price. Links to all of these can be found on the site’s homepage: <a href="http://oooauthors.org/en";>http://oooauthors.org/en</a></p> +<p>For online resources, NeoOffice maintains a user forum and a wiki where you can ask specific questions of the many users and volunteers who participate there.</p> +<p>NeoOffice Forums: <a href="http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums";>http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums</a><br /> +NeoOffice Wiki: <a href="http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page";>http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page</a></p> +<p>OpenOffice has its own official forum as well. Since the two programs are very similar in most functionality, you can also ask questions of the site users there:</p> +<p><a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/";>http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/</a></p> +<p>In reviewing it just now, I came across the following thread that should be particularly useful for you: <a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11660";>http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11660</a></p> +<p>The books above should provide the step-by-step instructions for specific tasks. If you need more, then any book about OpenOffice should suffice, and you can also look into The INGOTS online training and certification program, at <a href="http://www.theingots.org/";>www.theingots.org</a>, for online training materials (accredited in the UK, but quite useful here in the USA too).</p> +<p>Good luck, and let me know if you have further questions!</p></blockquote></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/918";>by Benjamin Horst at December 02, 2008 03:09 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com"; title="The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org"> Alan Lord</a> : <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/";> @@ -413,31 +441,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>November 13, 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/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/";> -Para-sites flourish - search engines turn a blind eye</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>I have warned before about <a href="http://http//www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/";>the danger from para-sites</a> that are cashing in on the popularity of the free open-source office software package <a href="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org</a>. This example from today’s mail demonstrates it’s not just a theoretical problem:</p> -<blockquote><p>I hope that you don’t mind that I send you this message. However, I want to point you to a rip-off scheme that exploits OpenOffice.org</p> -<p>I am myself an active member in the open source community and try to use open source software as far as possible (most prominently of course Linux and all the great stuff it offers). I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org and can only assure you that I try to use it as much as possible.</p> -<p>I am actually a bit embarrassed to admit that fell into the trap of a rip-off web page. All I remember is that I was looking for OpenOffice.org 3.0 and some how these guys managed to attract me to their Web pages. I did realize that I was misled and did of course then download OpenOffice.org from the official Web site. However, these guys still managed to get my data and to my big surprise they sent me the attached invoice for 96 Euro for a one year subscription to their service (which actually according to their TOS runs at least for 2 years). And this is the service of just providing open source software that you can find on the Web anyway.</p> -<p>When I saw the invoice I immediately sent a letter that I don’t want to have the subscription and that they should send me proof of evidence in how far access with my information was done on their machine. No answer to this letter but another invoice for another 8 Euros for additional costs.</p> -<p>All I want to achieve with this message is to make you aware of what is going on there. According to the Web page (http://www.opendownload.de/) the top download is OpenOffice.org and I cannot imagine that you actually are happy to see that people are running such a rip-off scheme on the back of OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p>Of course, I would be interested to know if I see anything wrong here. However, I believe that such things happening can severely damage the reputation of open source software and should by all means stopped as soon as possible.</p> -<p>Please understand that this message is not about money. I would be glad to make a donation of the amount of this money involved (see it as a punishment of myself to be stupid enough to fall into the trap of these guys) to OpenOffice.org</p> -<p>I would be glad if you could send me a brief message as a feedback so that I would know your opinion.</p> -<p>With best regards,</p></blockquote> -<p>What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine operators continue to accept money for diverting people to their para-sites.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/";>by John at November 13, 2008 07:27 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=1.1231&r2=1.1232 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-12-02 12:00:03+0000 1.1231 +++ opml.xml 2008-12-02 18:00:21+0000 1.1232 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:00:31 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:00:53 +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=1.557&r2=1.558 Delta lines: +21 -17 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-12-02 12:00:04+0000 1.557 +++ rss10.xml 2008-12-02 18:00:22+0000 1.558 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=918"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=917"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-8159324126494009918" /> @@ -32,11 +33,30 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=910"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/181abaaef6c58d9e" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-921724136108677387" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=605"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=918";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: NeoOffice Resources Roundup</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/918</link> + <content:encoded><p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been in contact with an Ohio school district through an educational technology mailing list. The district has migrated to NeoOffice on all its computers (Macs, of course), but did not implement training or documentation for the new users. Thus, they have had some frustrations with the migration.</p> +<p>I sent the following in an email to give them the resources they need to get comfortable with their new software, and I&#8217;m posting it here in case it is useful for others in a similar situation:</p> +<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m happy to help you find the NeoOffice (and related OpenOffice) online communities. Without participating in these, or without any training to accompany the switch, I can see why you and your colleagues would be frustrated! I hope I can help you all cross over the transition period to smooth sailing beyond.</p> +<p>For manuals, I suggest Solveig Haugland&#8217;s and the OOoAuthors Project&#8217;s manuals.</p> +<p>Solveig&#8217;s blog offers useful tips every day: <a href="http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/">http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/</a><br /> +Her book is called &#8220;OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook&#8221; and is the definitive reference on the software: <a href="http://openoffice.blogs.com/bookresources/">http://openoffice.blogs.com/bookresources/</a></p> +<p>OOoAuthors is a group of volunteers who have written a plethora of great books on the OpenOffice component applications. You can download any of them free as PDFs, or you can purchase the printed books from Lulu.com for a reasonable price. Links to all of these can be found on the site&#8217;s homepage: <a href="http://oooauthors.org/en">http://oooauthors.org/en</a></p> +<p>For online resources, NeoOffice maintains a user forum and a wiki where you can ask specific questions of the many users and volunteers who participate there.</p> +<p>NeoOffice Forums: <a href="http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums">http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums</a><br /> +NeoOffice Wiki: <a href="http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page">http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page</a></p> +<p>OpenOffice has its own official forum as well. Since the two programs are very similar in most functionality, you can also ask questions of the site users there:</p> +<p><a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/">http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/</a></p> +<p>In reviewing it just now, I came across the following thread that should be particularly useful for you: <a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11660">http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&amp;t=11660</a></p> +<p>The books above should provide the step-by-step instructions for specific tasks. If you need more, then any book about OpenOffice should suffice, and you can also look into The INGOTS online training and certification program, at <a href="http://www.theingots.org/">www.theingots.org</a>, for online training materials (accredited in the UK, but quite useful here in the USA too).</p> +<p>Good luck, and let me know if you have further questions!</p></blockquote></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-12-02T15:09:20+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561";> <title>Alan Lord: OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/dayâ¦</title> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/</link> @@ -253,21 +273,5 @@ <dc:date>2008-11-15T17:00:30+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=605";> - <title>John McCreesh: Para-sites flourish - search engines turn a blind eye</title> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/</link> - <content:encoded><p>I have warned before about <a href="http://http//www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/">the danger from para-sites</a> that are cashing in on the popularity of the free open-source office software package <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a>. This example from today&#8217;s mail demonstrates it&#8217;s not just a theoretical problem:</p> -<blockquote><p>I hope that you don&#8217;t mind that I send you this message. However, I want to point you to a rip-off scheme that exploits OpenOffice.org</p> -<p>I am myself an active member in the open source community and try to use open source software as far as possible (most prominently of course Linux and all the great stuff it offers). I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org and can only assure you that I try to use it as much as possible.</p> -<p>I am actually a bit embarrassed to admit that fell into the trap of a rip-off web page. All I remember is that I was looking for OpenOffice.org 3.0 and some how these guys managed to attract me to their Web pages. I did realize that I was misled and did of course then download OpenOffice.org from the official Web site. However, these guys still managed to get my data and to my big surprise they sent me the attached invoice for 96 Euro for a one year subscription to their service (which actually according to their TOS runs at least for 2 years). And this is the service of just providing open source software that you can find on the Web anyway.</p> -<p>When I saw the invoice I immediately sent a letter that I don&#8217;t want to have the subscription and that they should send me proof of evidence in how far access with my information was done on their machine. No answer to this letter but another invoice for another 8 Euros for additional costs.</p> -<p>All I want to achieve with this message is to make you aware of what is going on there. According to the Web page (http://www.opendownload.de/) the top download is OpenOffice.org and I cannot imagine that you actually are happy to see that people are running such a rip-off scheme on the back of OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p>Of course, I would be interested to know if I see anything wrong here. However, I believe that such things happening can severely damage the reputation of open source software and should by all means stopped as soon as possible.</p> -<p>Please understand that this message is not about money. I would be glad to make a donation of the amount of this money involved (see it as a punishment of myself to be stupid enough to fall into the trap of these guys) to OpenOffice.org</p> -<p>I would be glad if you could send me a brief message as a feedback so that I would know your opinion.</p> -<p>With best regards,</p></blockquote> -<p>What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine operators continue to accept money for diverting people to their para-sites.</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-11-13T19:27:05+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.557&r2=1.558 Delta lines: +21 -17 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-12-02 12:00:05+0000 1.557 +++ rss20.xml 2008-12-02 18:00:22+0000 1.558 @@ -8,6 +8,27 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: NeoOffice Resources Roundup</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=918</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/918</link> + <description><p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been in contact with an Ohio school district through an educational technology mailing list. The district has migrated to NeoOffice on all its computers (Macs, of course), but did not implement training or documentation for the new users. Thus, they have had some frustrations with the migration.</p> +<p>I sent the following in an email to give them the resources they need to get comfortable with their new software, and I&#8217;m posting it here in case it is useful for others in a similar situation:</p> +<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m happy to help you find the NeoOffice (and related OpenOffice) online communities. Without participating in these, or without any training to accompany the switch, I can see why you and your colleagues would be frustrated! I hope I can help you all cross over the transition period to smooth sailing beyond.</p> +<p>For manuals, I suggest Solveig Haugland&#8217;s and the OOoAuthors Project&#8217;s manuals.</p> +<p>Solveig&#8217;s blog offers useful tips every day: <a href="http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/">http://www.openoffice.blogs.com/</a><br /> +Her book is called &#8220;OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook&#8221; and is the definitive reference on the software: <a href="http://openoffice.blogs.com/bookresources/">http://openoffice.blogs.com/bookresources/</a></p> +<p>OOoAuthors is a group of volunteers who have written a plethora of great books on the OpenOffice component applications. You can download any of them free as PDFs, or you can purchase the printed books from Lulu.com for a reasonable price. Links to all of these can be found on the site&#8217;s homepage: <a href="http://oooauthors.org/en">http://oooauthors.org/en</a></p> +<p>For online resources, NeoOffice maintains a user forum and a wiki where you can ask specific questions of the many users and volunteers who participate there.</p> +<p>NeoOffice Forums: <a href="http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums">http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums</a><br /> +NeoOffice Wiki: <a href="http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page">http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Main_Page</a></p> +<p>OpenOffice has its own official forum as well. Since the two programs are very similar in most functionality, you can also ask questions of the site users there:</p> +<p><a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/">http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/</a></p> +<p>In reviewing it just now, I came across the following thread that should be particularly useful for you: <a href="http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=11660">http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&amp;t=11660</a></p> +<p>The books above should provide the step-by-step instructions for specific tasks. If you need more, then any book about OpenOffice should suffice, and you can also look into The INGOTS online training and certification program, at <a href="http://www.theingots.org/">www.theingots.org</a>, for online training materials (accredited in the UK, but quite useful here in the USA too).</p> +<p>Good luck, and let me know if you have further questions!</p></blockquote></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:09:20 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Alan Lord: OpenOffice.org saves you £30Million/dayâ¦</title> <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=561</guid> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/12/02/openofficeorg-saves-you-30millionday/</link> @@ -239,23 +260,6 @@ <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:00:30 +0000</pubDate> <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leif Lodahl)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>John McCreesh: Para-sites flourish - search engines turn a blind eye</title> - <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=605</guid> - <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/11/13/para-sites-flourish-search-engines-turn-a-blind-eye/</link> - <description><p>I have warned before about <a href="http://http//www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/10/22/beware-of-the-para-sites/">the danger from para-sites</a> that are cashing in on the popularity of the free open-source office software package <a href="http://www.openoffice.org">OpenOffice.org</a>. This example from today&#8217;s mail demonstrates it&#8217;s not just a theoretical problem:</p> -<blockquote><p>I hope that you don&#8217;t mind that I send you this message. However, I want to point you to a rip-off scheme that exploits OpenOffice.org</p> -<p>I am myself an active member in the open source community and try to use open source software as far as possible (most prominently of course Linux and all the great stuff it offers). I am also a fan of OpenOffice.org and can only assure you that I try to use it as much as possible.</p> -<p>I am actually a bit embarrassed to admit that fell into the trap of a rip-off web page. All I remember is that I was looking for OpenOffice.org 3.0 and some how these guys managed to attract me to their Web pages. I did realize that I was misled and did of course then download OpenOffice.org from the official Web site. However, these guys still managed to get my data and to my big surprise they sent me the attached invoice for 96 Euro for a one year subscription to their service (which actually according to their TOS runs at least for 2 years). And this is the service of just providing open source software that you can find on the Web anyway.</p> -<p>When I saw the invoice I immediately sent a letter that I don&#8217;t want to have the subscription and that they should send me proof of evidence in how far access with my information was done on their machine. No answer to this letter but another invoice for another 8 Euros for additional costs.</p> -<p>All I want to achieve with this message is to make you aware of what is going on there. According to the Web page (http://www.opendownload.de/) the top download is OpenOffice.org and I cannot imagine that you actually are happy to see that people are running such a rip-off scheme on the back of OpenOffice.org.</p> -<p>Of course, I would be interested to know if I see anything wrong here. However, I believe that such things happening can severely damage the reputation of open source software and should by all means stopped as soon as possible.</p> -<p>Please understand that this message is not about money. I would be glad to make a donation of the amount of this money involved (see it as a punishment of myself to be stupid enough to fall into the trap of these guys) to OpenOffice.org</p> -<p>I would be glad if you could send me a brief message as a feedback so that I would know your opinion.</p> -<p>With best regards,</p></blockquote> -<p>What can be done about it? very little, as long as search engine operators continue to accept money for diverting people to their para-sites.</p></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:27:05 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
