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Log: Planet run at Thu Jan 22 18:00:14 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=1.1421&r2=1.1422 Delta lines: +38 -36 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-22 12:00:43+0000 1.1421 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-22 18:00:44+0000 1.1422 @@ -5,10 +5,32 @@ <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>2009-01-22T12:00:30+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:34+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org 3.1 Tour</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/973"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=973</id> + <updated>2009-01-22T17:40:17+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p><a href="http://www.oooninja.com/">OpenOffice.org Ninja</a> takes an early look at <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2009/01/openofficeorg-31-new-features.html">New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1</a>, due to be released in two months.</p> +<p>True to its practice of frequent releases, OOo 3.1 will follow OOo 3.0 by six months (with the bugfix release 3.0.1 midway in-between).</p> +<p>Lots of visual improvements are included in this release, including antialiasing in drawings, solid dragging of graphical elements, and translucent selections in Writer (like 3.0 introduced in Calc). Some other notable feature improvements include replying to notes in Writer, better integration of grammar checking through the <a href="http://languagetool.org/">LanguageTool</a> extension, right-to-left (RTL) text improvements for Arabic and Hebrew users, and hundreds of bug fixes.</p> +<p>It looks like another excellent release!</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>2009-01-22T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">The Economics of Free: For Free</title> <link href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=660</id> @@ -22,7 +44,7 @@ <li>&#8220;Why should you/they give it away?&#8221;</li> </ul> <p>So for those of you who get asked these sorts of questions and would like some non-technobable answers from a rather reputable source to use, the transcript can be downloaded in it&#8217;s entirety, for free, from our <a title="The Economics of Free" href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html" target="_blank">website here</a>. On that page, there is also a link to the BBC&#8217;s permanent archive so the podcast can be retrieved to. <em>As an interesting titbit, in his email with me, the editor said that about 600k people download the programme every month!</em></p> -<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of Wired&#8230;</p> +<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>&#8230;</p> <blockquote><p>&#8230; Microsoftâs financial success is about taking a product whose underlying economics are zero, the marginal costs of reproducing software is zero, and charging $300 for it. You know incredible net profit margins. Unfortunately, economics always wins. People recognised that the underlying economics of distributing software were zero and so they were like okay, so Microsoft is getting monopoly profits because they are in fact a monopoly. What we need to do is break the monopoly. Not, as it turns out, by regulation and regulator, but instead the marketplace broke the monopoly.</p></blockquote> <p>If you are involved in any way with the promotion of FOSS and/or CC then this really is well worth listening too and or reading,</p> <p>And although the editor didn&#8217;t provide any specific license conditions with the document, I plan to repsect the BBC&#8217;s copyright, and provide suitable attribution when and where we use snippets etc; something like this <a title="CC-by-sa" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/</a> perhaps.</p> @@ -37,7 +59,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:30+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -81,7 +103,7 @@ <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>2009-01-21T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -102,7 +124,7 @@ <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>2009-01-21T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -133,7 +155,7 @@ <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>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -157,7 +179,7 @@ <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>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -198,7 +220,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">The Magic of Open Source</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2009-01-22T12:00:30+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:33+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -282,7 +304,7 @@ <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>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -311,7 +333,7 @@ <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>2009-01-21T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -340,7 +362,7 @@ <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>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -387,7 +409,7 @@ <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>2009-01-21T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -408,7 +430,7 @@ <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>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -434,7 +456,7 @@ <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>2009-01-21T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -483,7 +505,7 @@ <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>2009-01-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -504,27 +526,7 @@ <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>2009-01-21T18:00:19+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">24 hour QA chat at 13th of January 2009</title> - <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/24-hour-qa-chat-at-13th-of-january-2009.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-5464996476203761696</id> - <updated>2009-01-12T10:43:08+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">If you are interested in working in the QA project you can participate in the next 24 hour QA chat at 13 th of January 2009. This is monthly chat with experts from the QA community where everybody can work on issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi">IssueTracker</a> (bug tracking system for OOo) with the help of these experts. The meetings have special topics, which will announced on a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party">wiki page</a>. The chat will take place at IRC (<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/">irc://irc.freenode.net/</a>) in the group #qa.openoffice.org and will start at 10:00 am UTC.<br /><br />What's up in the next QA chat?<br /><br />Next Tuesday the 13th of January the QA community will have their first Issue-Clean-Up-Chat in 2009. Stefan Baltzer <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11547">announced</a> that meeting on the QA mailing list in December. One of the topics at that chat will be to verify and to close all fixed issues in OOo 3.0.1. When there are changes in the topics or if you need additional information, please take a look at the relevant Wiki page :<br /><br /><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009</a><br /><br />See you in the Chat!</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>2009-01-22T06:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-22T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1428&r2=1.1429 Delta lines: +19 -16 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-22 12:00:43+0000 1.1428 +++ index.html 2009-01-22 18:00:45+0000 1.1429 @@ -37,10 +37,27 @@ <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 22, 2009 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 22, 2009 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> <h2>January 22, 2009</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/973";> +OpenOffice.org 3.1 Tour</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p><a href="http://www.oooninja.com/";>OpenOffice.org Ninja</a> takes an early look at <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2009/01/openofficeorg-31-new-features.html";>New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1</a>, due to be released in two months.</p> +<p>True to its practice of frequent releases, OOo 3.1 will follow OOo 3.0 by six months (with the bugfix release 3.0.1 midway in-between).</p> +<p>Lots of visual improvements are included in this release, including antialiasing in drawings, solid dragging of graphical elements, and translucent selections in Writer (like 3.0 introduced in Calc). Some other notable feature improvements include replying to notes in Writer, better integration of grammar checking through the <a href="http://languagetool.org/";>LanguageTool</a> extension, right-to-left (RTL) text improvements for Arabic and Hebrew users, and hundreds of bug fixes.</p> +<p>It looks like another excellent release!</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/973";>by Benjamin Horst at January 22, 2009 05:40 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/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/";> @@ -56,7 +73,7 @@ <li>“Why should you/they give it away?”</li> </ul> <p>So for those of you who get asked these sorts of questions and would like some non-technobable answers from a rather reputable source to use, the transcript can be downloaded in it’s entirety, for free, from our <a title="The Economics of Free" href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html"; target="_blank">website here</a>. On that page, there is also a link to the BBC’s permanent archive so the podcast can be retrieved to. <em>As an interesting titbit, in his email with me, the editor said that about 600k people download the programme every month!</em></p> -<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of Wired…</p> +<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of <a href="http://www.wired.com/";>Wired</a>…</p> <blockquote><p>… Microsoftâs financial success is about taking a product whose underlying economics are zero, the marginal costs of reproducing software is zero, and charging $300 for it. You know incredible net profit margins. Unfortunately, economics always wins. People recognised that the underlying economics of distributing software were zero and so they were like okay, so Microsoft is getting monopoly profits because they are in fact a monopoly. What we need to do is break the monopoly. Not, as it turns out, by regulation and regulator, but instead the marketplace broke the monopoly.</p></blockquote> <p>If you are involved in any way with the promotion of FOSS and/or CC then this really is well worth listening too and or reading,</p> <p>And although the editor didn’t provide any specific license conditions with the document, I plan to repsect the BBC’s copyright, and provide suitable attribution when and where we use snippets etc; something like this <a title="CC-by-sa" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/"; target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/</a> perhaps.</p> @@ -457,20 +474,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> -OOo Marketeers</a> : -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/24-hour-qa-chat-at-13th-of-january-2009.html";> -24 hour QA chat at 13th of January 2009</a> -</h3> -<p> -If you are interested in working in the QA project you can participate in the next 24 hour QA chat at 13 th of January 2009. This is monthly chat with experts from the QA community where everybody can work on issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi";>IssueTracker</a> (bug tracking system for OOo) with the help of these experts. The meetings have special topics, which will announced on a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party";>wiki page</a>. The chat will take place at IRC (<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/">irc://irc.freenode.net/</a>) in the group #qa.openoffice.org and will start at 10:00 am UTC.<br /><br />What's up in the next QA chat?<br /><br />Next Tuesday the 13th of January the QA community will have their first Issue-Clean-Up-Chat in 2009. Stefan Baltzer <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11547";>announced</a> that meeting on the QA mailing list in December. One of the topics at that chat will be to verify and to close all fixed issues in OOo 3.0.1. When there are changes in the topics or if you need additional information, please take a look at the relevant Wiki page :<br /><br /><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009";>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009</a><br /><br />See you in the Chat!</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/24-hour-qa-chat-at-13th-of-january-2009.html";>by floeff ([email protected]) at January 12, 2009 10:43 AM 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=1.1421&r2=1.1422 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-01-22 12:00:44+0000 1.1421 +++ opml.xml 2009-01-22 18:00:45+0000 1.1422 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:00:30 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:00:34 +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=1.607&r2=1.608 Delta lines: +11 -9 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-01-22 12:00:44+0000 1.607 +++ rss10.xml 2009-01-22 18:00:45+0000 1.608 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=973"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=660"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7315913127662280081" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=971"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,19 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=626"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/0bd4dfc3247023f2" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=951"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-5464996476203761696" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=973";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org 3.1 Tour</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/973</link> + <content:encoded><p><a href="http://www.oooninja.com/">OpenOffice.org Ninja</a> takes an early look at <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2009/01/openofficeorg-31-new-features.html">New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1</a>, due to be released in two months.</p> +<p>True to its practice of frequent releases, OOo 3.1 will follow OOo 3.0 by six months (with the bugfix release 3.0.1 midway in-between).</p> +<p>Lots of visual improvements are included in this release, including antialiasing in drawings, solid dragging of graphical elements, and translucent selections in Writer (like 3.0 introduced in Calc). Some other notable feature improvements include replying to notes in Writer, better integration of grammar checking through the <a href="http://languagetool.org/">LanguageTool</a> extension, right-to-left (RTL) text improvements for Arabic and Hebrew users, and hundreds of bug fixes.</p> +<p>It looks like another excellent release!</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-22T17:40:17+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=660";> <title>Alan Lord: The Economics of Free: For Free</title> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/</link> @@ -49,7 +58,7 @@ <li>&#8220;Why should you/they give it away?&#8221;</li> </ul> <p>So for those of you who get asked these sorts of questions and would like some non-technobable answers from a rather reputable source to use, the transcript can be downloaded in it&#8217;s entirety, for free, from our <a title="The Economics of Free" href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html" target="_blank">website here</a>. On that page, there is also a link to the BBC&#8217;s permanent archive so the podcast can be retrieved to. <em>As an interesting titbit, in his email with me, the editor said that about 600k people download the programme every month!</em></p> -<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of Wired&#8230;</p> +<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>&#8230;</p> <blockquote><p>&#8230; Microsoftâs financial success is about taking a product whose underlying economics are zero, the marginal costs of reproducing software is zero, and charging $300 for it. You know incredible net profit margins. Unfortunately, economics always wins. People recognised that the underlying economics of distributing software were zero and so they were like okay, so Microsoft is getting monopoly profits because they are in fact a monopoly. What we need to do is break the monopoly. Not, as it turns out, by regulation and regulator, but instead the marketplace broke the monopoly.</p></blockquote> <p>If you are involved in any way with the promotion of FOSS and/or CC then this really is well worth listening too and or reading,</p> <p>And although the editor didn&#8217;t provide any specific license conditions with the document, I plan to repsect the BBC&#8217;s copyright, and provide suitable attribution when and where we use snippets etc; something like this <a title="CC-by-sa" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/</a> perhaps.</p> @@ -301,12 +310,5 @@ <p>Free PDFs of the same content are available for download at the <a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/">OOo Documentation Project site</a>. To download ODFs of the documentation that you can edit, or to participate in writing more documentation, start at the <a href="http://oooauthors.org/en">OOoAuthors project site</a>.</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-01-12T16:43:21+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-5464996476203761696"> - <title>OOo Marketeers: 24 hour QA chat at 13th of January 2009</title> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/24-hour-qa-chat-at-13th-of-january-2009.html</link> - <content:encoded>If you are interested in working in the QA project you can participate in the next 24 hour QA chat at 13 th of January 2009. This is monthly chat with experts from the QA community where everybody can work on issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi">IssueTracker</a> (bug tracking system for OOo) with the help of these experts. The meetings have special topics, which will announced on a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party">wiki page</a>. The chat will take place at IRC (<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/">irc://irc.freenode.net/</a>) in the group #qa.openoffice.org and will start at 10:00 am UTC.<br /><br />What's up in the next QA chat?<br /><br />Next Tuesday the 13th of January the QA community will have their first Issue-Clean-Up-Chat in 2009. Stefan Baltzer <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11547">announced</a> that meeting on the QA mailing list in December. One of the topics at that chat will be to verify and to close all fixed issues in OOo 3.0.1. When there are changes in the topics or if you need additional information, please take a look at the relevant Wiki page :<br /><br /><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009</a><br /><br />See you in the Chat!</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-01-12T10:43:08+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.607&r2=1.608 Delta lines: +11 -9 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-22 12:00:44+0000 1.607 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-22 18:00:45+0000 1.608 @@ -8,6 +8,16 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org 3.1 Tour</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=973</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/973</link> + <description><p><a href="http://www.oooninja.com/">OpenOffice.org Ninja</a> takes an early look at <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2009/01/openofficeorg-31-new-features.html">New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1</a>, due to be released in two months.</p> +<p>True to its practice of frequent releases, OOo 3.1 will follow OOo 3.0 by six months (with the bugfix release 3.0.1 midway in-between).</p> +<p>Lots of visual improvements are included in this release, including antialiasing in drawings, solid dragging of graphical elements, and translucent selections in Writer (like 3.0 introduced in Calc). Some other notable feature improvements include replying to notes in Writer, better integration of grammar checking through the <a href="http://languagetool.org/">LanguageTool</a> extension, right-to-left (RTL) text improvements for Arabic and Hebrew users, and hundreds of bug fixes.</p> +<p>It looks like another excellent release!</p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:40:17 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Alan Lord: The Economics of Free: For Free</title> <guid>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=660</guid> <link>http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/</link> @@ -20,7 +30,7 @@ <li>&#8220;Why should you/they give it away?&#8221;</li> </ul> <p>So for those of you who get asked these sorts of questions and would like some non-technobable answers from a rather reputable source to use, the transcript can be downloaded in it&#8217;s entirety, for free, from our <a title="The Economics of Free" href="http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/resources/articles/the-economics-of-free.html" target="_blank">website here</a>. On that page, there is also a link to the BBC&#8217;s permanent archive so the podcast can be retrieved to. <em>As an interesting titbit, in his email with me, the editor said that about 600k people download the programme every month!</em></p> -<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of Wired&#8230;</p> +<p>And just to whet your appetite, here is quite a nice quote from Chris Anderson - the editor of <a href="http://www.wired.com/">Wired</a>&#8230;</p> <blockquote><p>&#8230; Microsoftâs financial success is about taking a product whose underlying economics are zero, the marginal costs of reproducing software is zero, and charging $300 for it. You know incredible net profit margins. Unfortunately, economics always wins. People recognised that the underlying economics of distributing software were zero and so they were like okay, so Microsoft is getting monopoly profits because they are in fact a monopoly. What we need to do is break the monopoly. Not, as it turns out, by regulation and regulator, but instead the marketplace broke the monopoly.</p></blockquote> <p>If you are involved in any way with the promotion of FOSS and/or CC then this really is well worth listening too and or reading,</p> <p>And although the editor didn&#8217;t provide any specific license conditions with the document, I plan to repsect the BBC&#8217;s copyright, and provide suitable attribution when and where we use snippets etc; something like this <a title="CC-by-sa" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/</a> perhaps.</p> @@ -284,14 +294,6 @@ <p>Free PDFs of the same content are available for download at the <a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/">OOo Documentation Project site</a>. To download ODFs of the documentation that you can edit, or to participate in writing more documentation, start at the <a href="http://oooauthors.org/en">OOoAuthors project site</a>.</p></description> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:43:21 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>OOo Marketeers: 24 hour QA chat at 13th of January 2009</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-5464996476203761696</guid> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/24-hour-qa-chat-at-13th-of-january-2009.html</link> - <description>If you are interested in working in the QA project you can participate in the next 24 hour QA chat at 13 th of January 2009. This is monthly chat with experts from the QA community where everybody can work on issues in <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi">IssueTracker</a> (bug tracking system for OOo) with the help of these experts. The meetings have special topics, which will announced on a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party">wiki page</a>. The chat will take place at IRC (<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/">irc://irc.freenode.net/</a>) in the group #qa.openoffice.org and will start at 10:00 am UTC.<br /><br />What's up in the next QA chat?<br /><br />Next Tuesday the 13th of January the QA community will have their first Issue-Clean-Up-Chat in 2009. Stefan Baltzer <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11547">announced</a> that meeting on the QA mailing list in December. One of the topics at that chat will be to verify and to close all fixed issues in OOo 3.0.1. When there are changes in the topics or if you need additional information, please take a look at the relevant Wiki page :<br /><br /><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Issue_hunting_party#Issue_hunting_party_13th_of_January_2009</a><br /><br />See you in the Chat!</description> - <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:43:08 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
