User: jpmcc Date: 2009-01-26 00:01:13+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 Mon Jan 26 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=1.1434&r2=1.1435 Delta lines: +32 -38 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-25 18:00:47+0000 1.1434 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-26 00:01:09+0000 1.1435 @@ -5,9 +5,29 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:56+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry> + <title type="html">Final reminder: proposals for OOoCon 2009</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/final-reminder-proposals-for-ooocon.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2719886256702292804</id> + <updated>2009-01-25T23:40:59+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">Please remember that the Call for Location for OOoCon closes at midnight UTC on February 1st 2009, according to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=380">http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&amp;msgNo=380</a><br /><br />There have also been recommendations that we should move to a two year cycle, so this year we would also award OOoCon 2010. The team running 2010 would be expected to 'shadow' the 2009 team, to help them with the 2009 event, and prepare better for their own OOoCon the following year.<br /><br />So please think not just about 2009, but also 2010!</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>2009-01-26T00:00:52+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Obama Investigates Open Source and Open Standards</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/975"/> @@ -52,7 +72,7 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:38+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -120,7 +140,7 @@ <li>&#8220;How do they/you make money from Open Source&#8221;</li> <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>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 too. <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 <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> @@ -136,7 +156,7 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:56+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -232,7 +252,7 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:38+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -256,7 +276,7 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:38+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -297,7 +317,7 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:56+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -357,7 +377,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2009-01-23T12:00:42+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:52+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -381,7 +401,7 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:38+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -439,7 +459,7 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:38+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -459,7 +479,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2009-01-23T12:00:42+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:52+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -507,33 +527,7 @@ <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>2009-01-25T18:00:18+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">OpenOffice News Roundup</title> - <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/953"/> - <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=953</id> - <updated>2009-01-13T15:09:48+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>A helpful visitor to the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice website</a> collected recent articles for inclusion on our news section. While I haven&#8217;t checked if the webmasters have added them yet, I will nevertheless replicate the list here:</p> -<ul> -<li>Mitch Frazier on scripting OpenOffice with Python: <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python">http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python</a></li> -<li>Bruce Byfield on the different views within Impress: <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-many-views-impress">http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-many-views-impress</a></li> -<li>OOoNinja on reading MSO 2007 file formats in OOo: <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html">http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html</a></li> -<li>Heise UK on OpenOffice&#8217;s Project Renaissance: <a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-s-UI-will-be-getting-a-refurb--/news/112130">http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-s-UI-will-be-getting-a-refurb&#8211;/news/112130</a></li> -</ul> -<p>Thanks to Gerald for providing these suggestions!</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>2009-01-24T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-26T00:00:38+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1441&r2=1.1442 Delta lines: +17 -23 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-25 18:00:47+0000 1.1441 +++ index.html 2009-01-26 00:01:10+0000 1.1442 @@ -37,8 +37,23 @@ <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 25, 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 26, 2009 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>January 25, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> +OOo Marketeers</a> : +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/final-reminder-proposals-for-ooocon.html";> +Final reminder: proposals for OOoCon 2009</a> +</h3> +<p> +Please remember that the Call for Location for OOoCon closes at midnight UTC on February 1st 2009, according to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=380";>http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=380</a><br /><br />There have also been recommendations that we should move to a two year cycle, so this year we would also award OOoCon 2010. The team running 2010 would be expected to 'shadow' the 2009 team, to help them with the 2009 event, and prepare better for their own OOoCon the following year.<br /><br />So please think not just about 2009, but also 2010!</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/final-reminder-proposals-for-ooocon.html";>by floeff ([email protected]) at January 25, 2009 11:40 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 23, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -136,7 +151,7 @@ <li>“How do they/you make money from Open Source”</li> <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>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 too. <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 <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> @@ -460,27 +475,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> -Benjamin Horst</a> : -<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/953";> -OpenOffice News Roundup</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>A helpful visitor to the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice website</a> collected recent articles for inclusion on our news section. While I haven’t checked if the webmasters have added them yet, I will nevertheless replicate the list here:</p> -<ul> -<li>Mitch Frazier on scripting OpenOffice with Python: <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python";>http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python</a></li> -<li>Bruce Byfield on the different views within Impress: <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-many-views-impress";>http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-many-views-impress</a></li> -<li>OOoNinja on reading MSO 2007 file formats in OOo: <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html";>http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html</a></li> -<li>Heise UK on OpenOffice’s Project Renaissance: <a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-s-UI-will-be-getting-a-refurb--/news/112130";>http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-s-UI-will-be-getting-a-refurb–/news/112130</a></li> -</ul> -<p>Thanks to Gerald for providing these suggestions!</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/953";>by Benjamin Horst at January 13, 2009 03:09 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=1.1434&r2=1.1435 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-01-25 18:00:48+0000 1.1434 +++ opml.xml 2009-01-26 00:01:10+0000 1.1435 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:00:34 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:56 +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=1.612&r2=1.613 Delta lines: +9 -15 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-01-25 12:00:47+0000 1.612 +++ rss10.xml 2009-01-26 00:01:10+0000 1.613 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2719886256702292804" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=975"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/7743fd0ed38643cc" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=496"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-3899480077659422871" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=957"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/55e77fdbd00df63f" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=953"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2719886256702292804"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Final reminder: proposals for OOoCon 2009</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/final-reminder-proposals-for-ooocon.html</link> + <content:encoded>Please remember that the Call for Location for OOoCon closes at midnight UTC on February 1st 2009, according to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=380">http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&amp;msgNo=380</a><br /><br />There have also been recommendations that we should move to a two year cycle, so this year we would also award OOoCon 2010. The team running 2010 would be expected to 'shadow' the 2009 team, to help them with the 2009 event, and prepare better for their own OOoCon the following year.<br /><br />So please think not just about 2009, but also 2010!</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-25T23:40:59+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=975";> <title>Benjamin Horst: Obama Investigates Open Source and Open Standards</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/975</link> @@ -97,7 +104,7 @@ <li>&#8220;How do they/you make money from Open Source&#8221;</li> <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>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 too. <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 <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> @@ -304,18 +311,5 @@ <dc:date>2009-01-13T15:58:09+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Malte Timmermann</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=953";> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice News Roundup</title> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/953</link> - <content:encoded><p>A helpful visitor to the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice website</a> collected recent articles for inclusion on our news section. While I haven&#8217;t checked if the webmasters have added them yet, I will nevertheless replicate the list here:</p> -<ul> -<li>Mitch Frazier on scripting OpenOffice with Python: <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python">http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python</a></li> -<li>Bruce Byfield on the different views within Impress: <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-many-views-impress">http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-many-views-impress</a></li> -<li>OOoNinja on reading MSO 2007 file formats in OOo: <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html">http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html</a></li> -<li>Heise UK on OpenOffice&#8217;s Project Renaissance: <a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-s-UI-will-be-getting-a-refurb--/news/112130">http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-s-UI-will-be-getting-a-refurb&#8211;/news/112130</a></li> -</ul> -<p>Thanks to Gerald for providing these suggestions!</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-01-13T15:09:48+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.612&r2=1.613 Delta lines: +9 -15 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-25 12:00:47+0000 1.612 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-26 00:01:10+0000 1.613 @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Final reminder: proposals for OOoCon 2009</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2719886256702292804</guid> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/final-reminder-proposals-for-ooocon.html</link> + <description>Please remember that the Call for Location for OOoCon closes at midnight UTC on February 1st 2009, according to <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=380">http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&amp;msgNo=380</a><br /><br />There have also been recommendations that we should move to a two year cycle, so this year we would also award OOoCon 2010. The team running 2010 would be expected to 'shadow' the 2009 team, to help them with the 2009 event, and prepare better for their own OOoCon the following year.<br /><br />So please think not just about 2009, but also 2010!</description> + <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:40:59 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>Benjamin Horst: Obama Investigates Open Source and Open Standards</title> <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=975</guid> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/975</link> @@ -71,7 +79,7 @@ <li>&#8220;How do they/you make money from Open Source&#8221;</li> <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>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 too. <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 <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> @@ -287,20 +295,6 @@ <p><br /></p></description> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:58:09 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice News Roundup</title> - <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=953</guid> - <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/953</link> - <description><p>A helpful visitor to the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice website</a> collected recent articles for inclusion on our news section. While I haven&#8217;t checked if the webmasters have added them yet, I will nevertheless replicate the list here:</p> -<ul> -<li>Mitch Frazier on scripting OpenOffice with Python: <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python">http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/starting-stopping-and-connecting-openoffice-python</a></li> -<li>Bruce Byfield on the different views within Impress: <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-many-views-impress">http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openofficeorg-many-views-impress</a></li> -<li>OOoNinja on reading MSO 2007 file formats in OOo: <a href="http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html">http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html</a></li> -<li>Heise UK on OpenOffice&#8217;s Project Renaissance: <a href="http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-s-UI-will-be-getting-a-refurb--/news/112130">http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-s-UI-will-be-getting-a-refurb&#8211;/news/112130</a></li> -</ul> -<p>Thanks to Gerald for providing these suggestions!</p></description> - <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:09:48 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
