User: jpmcc Date: 2009-01-18 00:00:47+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 Sun Jan 18 00:00:14 GMT 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1406&r2=1.1407 Delta lines: +47 -34 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-17 18:00:43+0000 1.1406 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-18 00:00:43+0000 1.1407 @@ -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>2009-01-17T18:00:35+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-18T00:00:35+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">United we stand, dividedâ¦we are still standing.</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/</id> + <updated>2009-01-17T18:14:46+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Some unfortunate news have been spreading around the web recently concerning « OpenOffice.org dying » and has sparkled some interesting articles. I got interviewed <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/09/interview-with-charles-h-schulz/">here</a>, some <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/what_was_done_for_openoffice">very good answer</a> to those extravagant claims was posted on the Sun OpenOffice.org&#8217;s blog, and I am pretty sure that we will read more and more about it soon.</p> +<p> </p> +<p>I would just like to mention three additional points before describing my view of a â post-Novellâ OpenOffice.org.</p> +<ul> +<li> +<p>The claims made by Michael Meeks, especially the ones related to what kind of data he shows do not take into account the extensions repository. I agree that extensions are by definition not part of the code base, but given the rate of upload of new extensions we&#8217;re having at the moment (50 extensions during December 2008) this starts to become non-trivial. Hence the data does not take into account the contributions made almost exclusively by non-Sun staff.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>Michael makes all those claims and that&#8217;s his right to do so but -and that&#8217;s not an ad-hominem attack- one should remember that <em>Michael Meeks has not contributed a single line of code to OpenOffice.org since two years</em>. <span>Both his own blog and the logs of the commits show that Michael is nowhere to be seen. What shall we be doing with this? Pretty simply, I value both code and non-code contributions (contrary to Michael), and I have a hard time understanding where Michael stands anywhere in our community. Calling OpenOffice.org anything similar to a dead horse is a strong statement for someone who does not contribute, but only criticizes a project.</span></p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <span>Some time ago stats about CVS commits surfaced and the results were eloquent: Sun was by far the strongest contributor. Others counted Novell, Red Hat, Debian, etc. But these were not the second largest contributor. The label â communityâ was the second one. By this it was meant, people with no âfamousâ affiliation contributed more than anything Novell was.</span></p> +</li> +</ul> +<p> </p> +<p> <span>So will we survive a fork from Novell? I do believe we will. First, the fork is already made. I haven&#8217; t seen developers leaving in flock to go-give-your-code-and-let-us-make-money-for-ourselves.org</span></p> +<p> <span>Second, a fork is only really interesting if at some point it sensibly differs from its parent. Concerning the parent, I think a lot of work has to be done but things have improved a lot, the product is great, adoption is exponential and the future looks exciting. The fork itself is a bit of a mystery. Of course, we will likely see some bug hunting and a bunch of cool patches that will end up being implemented inside OpenOffice.org unless those patches are actually ported to the fork. There will also be the much-overstated bazaar-like incremental development (so you don&#8217;t need a roadmap in theory) to consider, but above all, my little finger tells me there will be a lot of âcontributionsâ made to ensure the fork will support more and more</span> <strike><span>Microsoft</span></strike> <span>Novell technologies and hence stay the faithful and loyal second of Microsoft Office for ever.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<p> <span>Still excited about go-oo? Be my guest, go ahead and contribute!</span></p> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=113&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_113" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content> + <author> + <name>Charles Schulz</name> + <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> + <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> + <updated>2009-01-18T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">Mail merge in OpenOffice.org</title> <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg.html"/> @@ -82,7 +122,7 @@ <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>2009-01-17T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-18T00:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -150,7 +190,7 @@ <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>2009-01-17T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-18T00:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -225,7 +265,7 @@ <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>2009-01-17T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-18T00:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -291,7 +331,7 @@ <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>2009-01-17T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-18T00:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -369,7 +409,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2009-01-17T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-18T00:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -406,7 +446,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2009-01-17T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-18T00:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -504,31 +544,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">New: OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1 (build OOO300_m14) available</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_08"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e030ca87d13ad327</id> - <updated>2008-12-23T13:13:29+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>We had the plan to publish <b>OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1 </b>before Christmas and actually we reached this goal. <b>OOo 3.0.1 RC 1 </b>(build <b>OOO300_m14)</b> has -been uploaded to the mirror network. So we hope that you will find a nice place for it under your tree.<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. If you think the -issue is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.<br /> <br />Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index.html</a></p> - <p>When the Bouncer links don't work, please select one of the <b>extended</b> mirrors at the following page ( <b>listed with an [E]</b> ) and download the bits from the &quot;.../extended/developer/OOO300_m14&quot; directory:<br /><a title="Choose an alternative download location" href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a></p> - <p>Or you can use the following website:<br /><a title="Download page without Javascript" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index-nojs.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index-nojs.html</a></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a title="Page containing MD5 checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/md5sums.html</a></p> - <p>Thanks a lot to everyone who has made this possible.</p> - <p>Merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year for you and your loved ones. :-)<br /></p></content> - <author> - <name>Marcus Lange</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <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>2009-01-17T18:00:21+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1413&r2=1.1414 Delta lines: +36 -25 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-17 18:00:44+0000 1.1413 +++ index.html 2009-01-18 00:00:44+0000 1.1414 @@ -37,10 +37,45 @@ <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: January 17, 2009 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 18, 2009 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> <h2>January 17, 2009</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/";> +United we stand, dividedâ¦we are still standing.</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Some unfortunate news have been spreading around the web recently concerning « OpenOffice.org dying » and has sparkled some interesting articles. I got interviewed <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/09/interview-with-charles-h-schulz/";>here</a>, some <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/what_was_done_for_openoffice";>very good answer</a> to those extravagant claims was posted on the Sun OpenOffice.org’s blog, and I am pretty sure that we will read more and more about it soon.</p> +<p> </p> +<p>I would just like to mention three additional points before describing my view of a â post-Novellâ OpenOffice.org.</p> +<ul> +<li> +<p>The claims made by Michael Meeks, especially the ones related to what kind of data he shows do not take into account the extensions repository. I agree that extensions are by definition not part of the code base, but given the rate of upload of new extensions we’re having at the moment (50 extensions during December 2008) this starts to become non-trivial. Hence the data does not take into account the contributions made almost exclusively by non-Sun staff.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>Michael makes all those claims and that’s his right to do so but -and that’s not an ad-hominem attack- one should remember that <em>Michael Meeks has not contributed a single line of code to OpenOffice.org since two years</em>. <span>Both his own blog and the logs of the commits show that Michael is nowhere to be seen. What shall we be doing with this? Pretty simply, I value both code and non-code contributions (contrary to Michael), and I have a hard time understanding where Michael stands anywhere in our community. Calling OpenOffice.org anything similar to a dead horse is a strong statement for someone who does not contribute, but only criticizes a project.</span></p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <span>Some time ago stats about CVS commits surfaced and the results were eloquent: Sun was by far the strongest contributor. Others counted Novell, Red Hat, Debian, etc. But these were not the second largest contributor. The label â communityâ was the second one. By this it was meant, people with no âfamousâ affiliation contributed more than anything Novell was.</span></p> +</li> +</ul> +<p> </p> +<p> <span>So will we survive a fork from Novell? I do believe we will. First, the fork is already made. I haven’ t seen developers leaving in flock to go-give-your-code-and-let-us-make-money-for-ourselves.org</span></p> +<p> <span>Second, a fork is only really interesting if at some point it sensibly differs from its parent. Concerning the parent, I think a lot of work has to be done but things have improved a lot, the product is great, adoption is exponential and the future looks exciting. The fork itself is a bit of a mystery. Of course, we will likely see some bug hunting and a bunch of cool patches that will end up being implemented inside OpenOffice.org unless those patches are actually ported to the fork. There will also be the much-overstated bazaar-like incremental development (so you don’t need a roadmap in theory) to consider, but above all, my little finger tells me there will be a lot of âcontributionsâ made to ensure the fork will support more and more</span> <strike><span>Microsoft</span></strike> <span>Novell technologies and hence stay the faithful and loyal second of Microsoft Office for ever.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<p> <span>Still excited about go-oo? Be my guest, go ahead and contribute!</span></p> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=113&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_113" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/";>by Charles at January 17, 2009 06:14 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/2009/01/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg.html";> @@ -454,30 +489,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>December 23, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_08";> -New: OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1 (build OOO300_m14) available</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>We had the plan to publish <b>OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1 </b>before Christmas and actually we reached this goal. <b>OOo 3.0.1 RC 1 </b>(build <b>OOO300_m14)</b> has -been uploaded to the mirror network. So we hope that you will find a nice place for it under your tree.<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. If you think the -issue is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.<br /> <br />Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index.html</a></p> - <p>When the Bouncer links don't work, please select one of the <b>extended</b> mirrors at the following page ( <b>listed with an [E]</b> ) and download the bits from the ".../extended/developer/OOO300_m14" directory:<br /><a title="Choose an alternative download location" href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors";>http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a></p> - <p>Or you can use the following website:<br /><a title="Download page without Javascript" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index-nojs.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index-nojs.html</a></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a title="Page containing MD5 checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/md5sums.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/md5sums.html</a></p> - <p>Thanks a lot to everyone who has made this possible.</p> - <p>Merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year for you and your loved ones. :-)<br /></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_08";>by Marcus Lange at December 23, 2008 01:13 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=1.1406&r2=1.1407 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-01-17 18:00:44+0000 1.1406 +++ opml.xml 2009-01-18 00:00:44+0000 1.1407 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:00:36 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:35 +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=1.600&r2=1.601 Delta lines: +28 -17 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-01-17 18:00:44+0000 1.600 +++ rss10.xml 2009-01-18 00:00:44+0000 1.601 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2989073072857409402" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=966"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/48134a2d4d40db85" /> @@ -32,11 +33,37 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=949"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=943"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=622"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e030ca87d13ad327" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: United we stand, dividedâ¦we are still standing.</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Some unfortunate news have been spreading around the web recently concerning « OpenOffice.org dying » and has sparkled some interesting articles. I got interviewed <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/09/interview-with-charles-h-schulz/">here</a>, some <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/what_was_done_for_openoffice">very good answer</a> to those extravagant claims was posted on the Sun OpenOffice.org&#8217;s blog, and I am pretty sure that we will read more and more about it soon.</p> +<p> </p> +<p>I would just like to mention three additional points before describing my view of a â post-Novellâ OpenOffice.org.</p> +<ul> +<li> +<p>The claims made by Michael Meeks, especially the ones related to what kind of data he shows do not take into account the extensions repository. I agree that extensions are by definition not part of the code base, but given the rate of upload of new extensions we&#8217;re having at the moment (50 extensions during December 2008) this starts to become non-trivial. Hence the data does not take into account the contributions made almost exclusively by non-Sun staff.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>Michael makes all those claims and that&#8217;s his right to do so but -and that&#8217;s not an ad-hominem attack- one should remember that <em>Michael Meeks has not contributed a single line of code to OpenOffice.org since two years</em>. <span>Both his own blog and the logs of the commits show that Michael is nowhere to be seen. What shall we be doing with this? Pretty simply, I value both code and non-code contributions (contrary to Michael), and I have a hard time understanding where Michael stands anywhere in our community. Calling OpenOffice.org anything similar to a dead horse is a strong statement for someone who does not contribute, but only criticizes a project.</span></p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <span>Some time ago stats about CVS commits surfaced and the results were eloquent: Sun was by far the strongest contributor. Others counted Novell, Red Hat, Debian, etc. But these were not the second largest contributor. The label â communityâ was the second one. By this it was meant, people with no âfamousâ affiliation contributed more than anything Novell was.</span></p> +</li> +</ul> +<p> </p> +<p> <span>So will we survive a fork from Novell? I do believe we will. First, the fork is already made. I haven&#8217; t seen developers leaving in flock to go-give-your-code-and-let-us-make-money-for-ourselves.org</span></p> +<p> <span>Second, a fork is only really interesting if at some point it sensibly differs from its parent. Concerning the parent, I think a lot of work has to be done but things have improved a lot, the product is great, adoption is exponential and the future looks exciting. The fork itself is a bit of a mystery. Of course, we will likely see some bug hunting and a bunch of cool patches that will end up being implemented inside OpenOffice.org unless those patches are actually ported to the fork. There will also be the much-overstated bazaar-like incremental development (so you don&#8217;t need a roadmap in theory) to consider, but above all, my little finger tells me there will be a lot of âcontributionsâ made to ensure the fork will support more and more</span> <strike><span>Microsoft</span></strike> <span>Novell technologies and hence stay the faithful and loyal second of Microsoft Office for ever.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<p> <span>Still excited about go-oo? Be my guest, go ahead and contribute!</span></p> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=113&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_113" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-17T18:14:46+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2989073072857409402"> <title>OOo Marketeers: Mail merge in OpenOffice.org</title> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg.html</link> @@ -294,21 +321,5 @@ <p>May I wish them every success with their Christmas present, and on their behalf, thank all those around the world who have made <a href="http://why.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a> what it is today - the world&#8217;s leading open-source office productivity suite.</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-12-25T10:35:19+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e030ca87d13ad327"> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1 (build OOO300_m14) available</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_08</link> - <content:encoded><p>We had the plan to publish <b>OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1 </b>before Christmas and actually we reached this goal. <b>OOo 3.0.1 RC 1 </b>(build <b>OOO300_m14)</b> has -been uploaded to the mirror network. So we hope that you will find a nice place for it under your tree.<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. If you think the -issue is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.<br /> <br />Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index.html</a></p> - <p>When the Bouncer links don't work, please select one of the <b>extended</b> mirrors at the following page ( <b>listed with an [E]</b> ) and download the bits from the &quot;.../extended/developer/OOO300_m14&quot; directory:<br /><a title="Choose an alternative download location" href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a></p> - <p>Or you can use the following website:<br /><a title="Download page without Javascript" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index-nojs.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index-nojs.html</a></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a title="Page containing MD5 checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/md5sums.html</a></p> - <p>Thanks a lot to everyone who has made this possible.</p> - <p>Merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year for you and your loved ones. :-)<br /></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-12-23T13:13:29+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Marcus Lange</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.600&r2=1.601 Delta lines: +28 -16 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-17 18:00:44+0000 1.600 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-18 00:00:44+0000 1.601 @@ -8,6 +8,34 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: United we stand, dividedâ¦we are still standing.</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/17/united-we-stand-divided-we-are-still-standing/</link> + <description><p>Some unfortunate news have been spreading around the web recently concerning « OpenOffice.org dying » and has sparkled some interesting articles. I got interviewed <a href="http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/09/interview-with-charles-h-schulz/">here</a>, some <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/what_was_done_for_openoffice">very good answer</a> to those extravagant claims was posted on the Sun OpenOffice.org&#8217;s blog, and I am pretty sure that we will read more and more about it soon.</p> +<p> </p> +<p>I would just like to mention three additional points before describing my view of a â post-Novellâ OpenOffice.org.</p> +<ul> +<li> +<p>The claims made by Michael Meeks, especially the ones related to what kind of data he shows do not take into account the extensions repository. I agree that extensions are by definition not part of the code base, but given the rate of upload of new extensions we&#8217;re having at the moment (50 extensions during December 2008) this starts to become non-trivial. Hence the data does not take into account the contributions made almost exclusively by non-Sun staff.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>Michael makes all those claims and that&#8217;s his right to do so but -and that&#8217;s not an ad-hominem attack- one should remember that <em>Michael Meeks has not contributed a single line of code to OpenOffice.org since two years</em>. <span>Both his own blog and the logs of the commits show that Michael is nowhere to be seen. What shall we be doing with this? Pretty simply, I value both code and non-code contributions (contrary to Michael), and I have a hard time understanding where Michael stands anywhere in our community. Calling OpenOffice.org anything similar to a dead horse is a strong statement for someone who does not contribute, but only criticizes a project.</span></p> +</li> +<li> +<p> <span>Some time ago stats about CVS commits surfaced and the results were eloquent: Sun was by far the strongest contributor. Others counted Novell, Red Hat, Debian, etc. But these were not the second largest contributor. The label â communityâ was the second one. By this it was meant, people with no âfamousâ affiliation contributed more than anything Novell was.</span></p> +</li> +</ul> +<p> </p> +<p> <span>So will we survive a fork from Novell? I do believe we will. First, the fork is already made. I haven&#8217; t seen developers leaving in flock to go-give-your-code-and-let-us-make-money-for-ourselves.org</span></p> +<p> <span>Second, a fork is only really interesting if at some point it sensibly differs from its parent. Concerning the parent, I think a lot of work has to be done but things have improved a lot, the product is great, adoption is exponential and the future looks exciting. The fork itself is a bit of a mystery. Of course, we will likely see some bug hunting and a bunch of cool patches that will end up being implemented inside OpenOffice.org unless those patches are actually ported to the fork. There will also be the much-overstated bazaar-like incremental development (so you don&#8217;t need a roadmap in theory) to consider, but above all, my little finger tells me there will be a lot of âcontributionsâ made to ensure the fork will support more and more</span> <strike><span>Microsoft</span></strike> <span>Novell technologies and hence stay the faithful and loyal second of Microsoft Office for ever.</span></p> +<p> </p> +<p> <span>Still excited about go-oo? Be my guest, go ahead and contribute!</span></p> +<p><br clear="left" /></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=113&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_113" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:14:46 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>OOo Marketeers: Mail merge in OpenOffice.org</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2989073072857409402</guid> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg.html</link> @@ -279,22 +307,6 @@ <p>May I wish them every success with their Christmas present, and on their behalf, thank all those around the world who have made <a href="http://why.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a> what it is today - the world&#8217;s leading open-source office productivity suite.</p></description> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:35:19 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1 (build OOO300_m14) available</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e030ca87d13ad327</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_08</link> - <description><p>We had the plan to publish <b>OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 Release Candidate 1 </b>before Christmas and actually we reached this goal. <b>OOo 3.0.1 RC 1 </b>(build <b>OOO300_m14)</b> has -been uploaded to the mirror network. So we hope that you will find a nice place for it under your tree.<br /><br />If -you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. If you think the -issue is a show stopper then please notify the releases mailing list.<br /> <br />Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index.html</a></p> - <p>When the Bouncer links don't work, please select one of the <b>extended</b> mirrors at the following page ( <b>listed with an [E]</b> ) and download the bits from the &quot;.../extended/developer/OOO300_m14&quot; directory:<br /><a title="Choose an alternative download location" href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#mirrors</a></p> - <p>Or you can use the following website:<br /><a title="Download page without Javascript" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index-nojs.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/index-nojs.html</a></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a title="Page containing MD5 checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0.1rc1/md5sums.html</a></p> - <p>Thanks a lot to everyone who has made this possible.</p> - <p>Merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year for you and your loved ones. :-)<br /></p></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:13:29 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
