User: jpmcc Date: 2009-02-05 00:00:54+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 Feb 5 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=1.1474&r2=1.1475 Delta lines: +40 -46 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-02-04 18:00:55+0000 1.1474 +++ atom.xml 2009-02-05 00:00:50+0000 1.1475 @@ -5,10 +5,37 @@ <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>2009-02-04T18:00:35+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:32+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Making an exhibition of ourselves</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/02/04/making-an-exhibition-of-ourselves/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=633</id> + <updated>2009-02-04T21:27:41+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>One of the accusations levelled at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">the OpenOffice.org Community</a> was that we were all so busy getting <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/">OpenOffice.org 3</a> out the door in 2008 that we were losing touch with people who could help us do the job, particularly potential new developers.</p> +<p>As always, there was probably more myth than truth in this - we know <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html">the importance of attracting new developers</a> - but we&#8217;ve got the message and are making a conscious attempt to &#8220;get out more&#8221; in 2009, with <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org">the Marketing Project</a> helping get the right people in the right place at the right time.</p> +<p>Three upcoming examples:</p> +<ul> +<li>FOSDEM - the &#8220;the biggest, bestest (sic) Free and Open Source Software Developers&#8217; meeting in Europe&#8221; - 7th-8th February in Brussels, Belgium - and OpenOffice.org have a <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/openofficeorg">Dev Room</a></li> +<li>GNUnify 09 - &#8220;an annual gathering of the techies&#8221; - 13th-14th February in Pune, India - OpenOffice.org will be there for both days with a <a href="http://gnunify.in/09/content/sessions">Programming OpenOffice.org Workshop</a></li> +<li>CeBIT - one of the world&#8217;s largest IT trade shows - 3rd-8th March in Hannover, Germany - OpenOffice.org will be in <a href="http://www.cebit.de/opensource_e">Hall 6</a>, booth E46-12</li> +</ul> +<p>We look forward to meeting old friends, and introducing new developers to the exciting world of OpenOffice.org coding.</p></content> + <author> + <name>John McCreesh</name> + <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Is OpenOffice a Suitable Alternative for Schools?</title> <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/992"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=992</id> @@ -46,7 +73,7 @@ <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> - 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<updated>2009-02-04T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -183,7 +210,7 @@ <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>2009-02-03T18:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -209,7 +236,7 @@ <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>2009-02-04T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -256,7 +283,7 @@ <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>2009-02-04T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -277,7 +304,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2009-02-03T00:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -320,7 +347,7 @@ <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>2009-02-03T18:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -347,7 +374,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2009-02-03T00:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -400,7 +427,7 @@ <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>2009-02-03T18:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:29+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -448,7 +475,7 @@ <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>2009-02-04T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-05T00:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -504,37 +531,4 @@ </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> - <updated>2009-01-22T10:21:09+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Remember the <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/09/bbc-r4-in-business-08012009/">short piece</a> I posted about the Radio 4 programme &#8220;In Business&#8221; a couple of weeks ago? Well, very kindly, the programme&#8217;s editor has provided me with a transcript of programme to</p> -<blockquote><p>please use as you wish, but it has not been checked for accuracy. Good luck.</p></blockquote> -<p>I have just read and listened again and didn&#8217;t find anything glaring although I did fix one rather amusing typo: &#8220;Linux Colonel&#8221; to &#8220;Linux Kernel&#8221;. It was sent to me as a Microsoft .doc file. I opened it in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/" target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> and exported it as a PDF so it should be readable by virtually everyone.</p> -<p>This programme does provide some excellent answers to the types of questions we repeatedly get asked in our day-to-day business:</p> -<ul> -<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 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> -<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> -<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/digg.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to digg" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/technorati.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Technorati" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/stumbleupon.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Stumble Upon" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/google.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Google Bookmarks" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/bloglines.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Bloglines" /></a><a class="social_img" href="http://slashdot.org/bookmark.pl?title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free&url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/slashdot.png" title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" alt="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to SlashDot" /></a></div> -<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded END --></content> - <author> - <name>Alan Lord</name> - <uri>http://www.theopensourcerer.com</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">The Open Sourcerer » OpenOffice.org</title> - <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>2009-02-03T18:00:43+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1481&r2=1.1482 Delta lines: +24 -29 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-02-04 18:00:55+0000 1.1481 +++ index.html 2009-02-05 00:00:51+0000 1.1482 @@ -37,8 +37,31 @@ <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: February 04, 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: February 05, 2009 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>February 04, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> +John McCreesh</a> : +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/02/04/making-an-exhibition-of-ourselves/";> +Making an exhibition of ourselves</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>One of the accusations levelled at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/";>the OpenOffice.org Community</a> was that we were all so busy getting <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/";>OpenOffice.org 3</a> out the door in 2008 that we were losing touch with people who could help us do the job, particularly potential new developers.</p> +<p>As always, there was probably more myth than truth in this - we know <a href="http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html";>the importance of attracting new developers</a> - but we’ve got the message and are making a conscious attempt to “get out more” in 2009, with <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org";>the Marketing Project</a> helping get the right people in the right place at the right time.</p> +<p>Three upcoming examples:</p> +<ul> +<li>FOSDEM - the “the biggest, bestest (sic) Free and Open Source Software Developers’ meeting in Europe” - 7th-8th February in Brussels, Belgium - and OpenOffice.org have a <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/openofficeorg";>Dev Room</a></li> +<li>GNUnify 09 - “an annual gathering of the techies” - 13th-14th February in Pune, India - OpenOffice.org will be there for both days with a <a href="http://gnunify.in/09/content/sessions";>Programming OpenOffice.org Workshop</a></li> +<li>CeBIT - one of the world’s largest IT trade shows - 3rd-8th March in Hannover, Germany - OpenOffice.org will be in <a href="http://www.cebit.de/opensource_e";>Hall 6</a>, booth E46-12</li> +</ul> +<p>We look forward to meeting old friends, and introducing new developers to the exciting world of OpenOffice.org coding.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/02/04/making-an-exhibition-of-ourselves/";>by John at February 04, 2009 09:27 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>February 03, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -451,34 +474,6 @@ <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/";> -The Economics of Free: For Free</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Remember the <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/09/bbc-r4-in-business-08012009/";>short piece</a> I posted about the Radio 4 programme “In Business” a couple of weeks ago? Well, very kindly, the programme’s editor has provided me with a transcript of programme to</p> -<blockquote><p>please use as you wish, but it has not been checked for accuracy. Good luck.</p></blockquote> -<p>I have just read and listened again and didn’t find anything glaring although I did fix one rather amusing typo: “Linux Colonel” to “Linux Kernel”. It was sent to me as a Microsoft .doc file. I opened it in <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/"; target="_blank">OpenOffice.org</a> and exported it as a PDF so it should be readable by virtually everyone.</p> -<p>This programme does provide some excellent answers to the types of questions we repeatedly get asked in our day-to-day business:</p> -<ul> -<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 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> -<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> -<!-- Social Bookmarking Reloaded BEGIN --><div class="social_bookmark"><em>Tell Someone Else!</em><br /><a class="social_img" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/22/the-economics-of-free-for-free/&title=The+Economics+of+Free%3A+For+Free"; title="Add 'The Economics of Free: For Free' to Del.icio.us"><img src="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/wp-content/plugins/social-bookmarking-reloaded/delicious.png"; 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in 2009, with <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org">the Marketing Project</a> helping get the right people in the right place at the right time.</p> +<p>Three upcoming examples:</p> +<ul> +<li>FOSDEM - the &#8220;the biggest, bestest (sic) Free and Open Source Software Developers&#8217; meeting in Europe&#8221; - 7th-8th February in Brussels, Belgium - and OpenOffice.org have a <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/openofficeorg">Dev Room</a></li> +<li>GNUnify 09 - &#8220;an annual gathering of the techies&#8221; - 13th-14th February in Pune, India - OpenOffice.org will be there for both days with a <a href="http://gnunify.in/09/content/sessions">Programming OpenOffice.org Workshop</a></li> +<li>CeBIT - one of the world&#8217;s largest IT trade shows - 3rd-8th March in Hannover, Germany - OpenOffice.org will be in <a href="http://www.cebit.de/opensource_e">Hall 6</a>, booth E46-12</li> +</ul> +<p>We look forward to meeting old friends, and introducing new developers to the exciting world of OpenOffice.org coding.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-02-04T21:27:41+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=992";> <title>Benjamin Horst: Is OpenOffice a Suitable Alternative for Schools?</title> <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/992</link> @@ -294,25 +308,5 @@ <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> - <content:encoded><p>Remember the <a href="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/01/09/bbc-r4-in-business-08012009/">short piece</a> I posted about the Radio 4 programme &#8220;In Business&#8221; 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