User: jpmcc Date: 2009-01-29 18:00:59+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 Thu Jan 29 18:00:17 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=1.1449&r2=1.1450 Delta lines: +54 -72 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-29 12:00:46+0000 1.1449 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-29 18:00:55+0000 1.1450 @@ -5,10 +5,52 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:41+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry> + <title type="html">Computerbild Top 250 Download Award</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/computerbild-top-250-download-award.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2263792366519483560</id> + <updated>2009-01-29T16:54:41+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">The German magazine Computerbild awarded us their "Top 250 Download Award" in January. They offer OpenOffice.org for download <a href="http://www.computerbild.de/download/OpenOffice.org-904173.html">on their website</a> and it has been one of the most downloaded programs in their repository. Thanks, folks!</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>2009-01-29T18:00:37+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Template Repository</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/982"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=982</id> + <updated>2009-01-29T14:51:47+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Mirroring the <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice Extension repository</a>, the project has recently set up a centralized <a href="http://templates.services.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice template repository</a>. It&#8217;s an easy way for non-programmers to get involved in the OOo project:</p> +<blockquote><p>This Template Repository is a place for the submission of new templates made by you, the community!</p> +<p>You created a nice template? Submit it, get feedback and help others to be more productive!</p></blockquote> +<p>Tying the suite in to more online services will continue to make it more and more web-native, and as the community of users and developers continues to focus on these add-on services, the rationale for using OOo will grow ever stronger. It&#8217;s a great positive reinforcement loop and a differentiator from competing software applications.</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>2009-01-29T18:00:21+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.1 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m40) available</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_12"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e7d89a086e8d3336</id> @@ -29,7 +71,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:23+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -73,7 +115,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -93,7 +135,7 @@ <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>2009-01-27T18:00:41+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -172,7 +214,7 @@ <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>2009-01-27T18:00:41+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -202,7 +244,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -220,7 +262,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:23+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -271,7 +313,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -348,7 +390,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -369,7 +411,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -400,7 +442,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:23+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -424,7 +466,7 @@ <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>2009-01-29T12:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-29T18:00:23+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -469,64 +511,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <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 the 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>2009-01-27T18:00:16+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"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2989073072857409402</id> - <updated>2009-01-17T16:19:03+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">In Russel's new blog, Solveig posted a nice article on <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg-everything-you-need-to-know">how mail merge in OpenOffice.org works</a>.</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>2009-01-27T18:00:41+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1456&r2=1.1457 Delta lines: +33 -51 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-29 12:00:46+0000 1.1456 +++ index.html 2009-01-29 18:00:56+0000 1.1457 @@ -37,8 +37,40 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 29, 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 29, 2009 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>January 29, 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/computerbild-top-250-download-award.html";> +Computerbild Top 250 Download Award</a> +</h3> +<p> +The German magazine Computerbild awarded us their "Top 250 Download Award" in January. They offer OpenOffice.org for download <a href="http://www.computerbild.de/download/OpenOffice.org-904173.html";>on their website</a> and it has been one of the most downloaded programs in their repository. Thanks, folks!</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/computerbild-top-250-download-award.html";>by floeff ([email protected]) at January 29, 2009 04:54 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/982";> +OpenOffice.org Template Repository</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Mirroring the <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice Extension repository</a>, the project has recently set up a centralized <a href="http://templates.services.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice template repository</a>. It’s an easy way for non-programmers to get involved in the OOo project:</p> +<blockquote><p>This Template Repository is a place for the submission of new templates made by you, the community!</p> +<p>You created a nice template? Submit it, get feedback and help others to be more productive!</p></blockquote> +<p>Tying the suite in to more online services will continue to make it more and more web-native, and as the community of users and developers continues to focus on these add-on services, the rationale for using OOo will grow ever stronger. It’s a great positive reinforcement loop and a differentiator from competing software applications.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/982";>by Benjamin Horst at January 29, 2009 02:51 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 28, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -420,56 +452,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<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 the 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";> -Mail merge in OpenOffice.org</a> -</h3> -<p> -In Russel's new blog, Solveig posted a nice article on <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg-everything-you-need-to-know";>how mail merge in OpenOffice.org works</a>.</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg.html";>by floeff ([email protected]) at January 17, 2009 04:19 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=1.1449&r2=1.1450 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-01-29 12:00:47+0000 1.1449 +++ opml.xml 2009-01-29 18:00:56+0000 1.1450 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:00:32 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:00:41 +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=1.619&r2=1.620 Delta lines: +18 -36 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-01-29 00:00:47+0000 1.619 +++ rss10.xml 2009-01-29 18:00:56+0000 1.620 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2263792366519483560" /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=982"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e7d89a086e8d3336" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=630"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=977"; /> @@ -31,12 +33,26 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/96af43e260f1dd8a" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5f6262cc22807f1a" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=638"; /> - <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:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2263792366519483560"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Computerbild Top 250 Download Award</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/computerbild-top-250-download-award.html</link> + <content:encoded>The German magazine Computerbild awarded us their "Top 250 Download Award" in January. They offer OpenOffice.org for download <a href="http://www.computerbild.de/download/OpenOffice.org-904173.html">on their website</a> and it has been one of the most downloaded programs in their repository. Thanks, folks!</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-29T16:54:41+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=982";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org Template Repository</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/982</link> + <content:encoded><p>Mirroring the <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice Extension repository</a>, the project has recently set up a centralized <a href="http://templates.services.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice template repository</a>. It&#8217;s an easy way for non-programmers to get involved in the OOo project:</p> +<blockquote><p>This Template Repository is a place for the submission of new templates made by you, the community!</p> +<p>You created a nice template? Submit it, get feedback and help others to be more productive!</p></blockquote> +<p>Tying the suite in to more online services will continue to make it more and more web-native, and as the community of users and developers continues to focus on these add-on services, the rationale for using OOo will grow ever stronger. It&#8217;s a great positive reinforcement loop and a differentiator from competing software applications.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-29T14:51:47+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e7d89a086e8d3336"> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.1 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m40) available</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_12</link> @@ -271,39 +287,5 @@ <!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-01-18T21:28:23+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<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 the 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> - <content:encoded>In Russel's new blog, Solveig posted a nice article on <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg-everything-you-need-to-know">how mail merge in OpenOffice.org works</a>.</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-01-17T16:19:03+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=1.619&r2=1.620 Delta lines: +18 -36 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-29 00:00:47+0000 1.619 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-29 18:00:56+0000 1.620 @@ -8,6 +8,24 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Computerbild Top 250 Download Award</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-2263792366519483560</guid> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/01/computerbild-top-250-download-award.html</link> + <description>The German magazine Computerbild awarded us their "Top 250 Download Award" in January. They offer OpenOffice.org for download <a href="http://www.computerbild.de/download/OpenOffice.org-904173.html">on their website</a> and it has been one of the most downloaded programs in their repository. Thanks, folks!</description> + <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:54:41 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author> +</item> +<item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org Template Repository</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=982</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/982</link> + <description><p>Mirroring the <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice Extension repository</a>, the project has recently set up a centralized <a href="http://templates.services.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice template repository</a>. It&#8217;s an easy way for non-programmers to get involved in the OOo project:</p> +<blockquote><p>This Template Repository is a place for the submission of new templates made by you, the community!</p> +<p>You created a nice template? Submit it, get feedback and help others to be more productive!</p></blockquote> +<p>Tying the suite in to more online services will continue to make it more and more web-native, and as the community of users and developers continues to focus on these add-on services, the rationale for using OOo will grow ever stronger. It&#8217;s a great positive reinforcement loop and a differentiator from competing software applications.</p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:51:47 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.1 Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m40) available</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/e7d89a086e8d3336</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_12</link> @@ -255,42 +273,6 @@ <!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></description> <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:28:23 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<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 the 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> - <description>In Russel's new blog, Solveig posted a nice article on <a href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/mail-merge-in-openofficeorg-everything-you-need-to-know">how mail merge in OpenOffice.org works</a>.</description> - <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:19:03 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
