User: jpmcc Date: 2009-02-23 18:01:12+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 Feb 23 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=1.1547&r2=1.1548 Delta lines: +30 -51 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-02-23 12:01:11+0000 1.1547 +++ atom.xml 2009-02-23 18:01:08+0000 1.1548 @@ -5,10 +5,31 @@ <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>2009-02-23T12:00:37+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:34+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 on Identi.ca</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1022"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1022</id> + <updated>2009-02-23T15:52:04+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>As part of its marketing, outreach, and community support efforts, OpenOffice.org community members are forming groups on various social networking sites to create more communication between existing users and to promote OOo to potential new users.</p> +<p>The latest, as promoted this week by <a href="http://alexandrocolorado.com/">Alexandro Colorado</a>, has been on Identi.ca, an open source competitor to Twitter. I believe you must be logged in before you can see the <a href="http://identi.ca/group/openoffice">Identi.ca OpenOffice.org group</a>, but it should grow into a useful real-time place to follow OOo news, so it&#8217;s worth signing in (it allows OpenID, so you have no excuse not to do it).</p> +<p>I know there are Facebook, LinkedIn, and many other social network OpenOffice groups out there, so I&#8217;ll post them here when I get a chance to catch up (or add a comment yourself, please).</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>2009-02-23T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Bouncing back</title> <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/02/22/bouncing-back/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=636</id> @@ -102,7 +123,7 @@ <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>2009-02-23T12:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -126,7 +147,7 @@ <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>2009-02-21T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -150,7 +171,7 @@ <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>2009-02-21T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -180,7 +201,7 @@ <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>2009-02-21T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -317,7 +338,7 @@ <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>2009-02-23T12:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -405,7 +426,7 @@ <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>2009-02-23T12:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -484,7 +505,7 @@ <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>2009-02-21T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -606,49 +627,7 @@ <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>2009-02-21T00:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">The price of success</title> - <link href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/kuG2fhF1VDQ/"/> - <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/the-price-of-success/</id> - <updated>2009-02-12T14:15:19+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been a huge success, and this has raised the awareness of the open source office suite to an unprecedented level. In Europe, where OOo was already quite popular, especially in France, Germany and Italy, download numbers have reached new records. In Italy, they are now higher than the number of new PCs sold in the country, as they probably are in France and Germany (although I don&#8217;t have PC figures for these two countries).</p> -<p>Unfortunately, success of information technology products doesn&#8217;t seem to come for free, and OpenOffice.org doesn&#8217;t represent an exception to this rule. Since the launch of version 3.0, on October 13, 2008, someone has deliberatedly tried to hack - which in this case means increase - download numbers of the Italian version, using a script that pings several mirrors thousands of times during the day.</p> -<p>I access the download statistics on a daily basis, as a human being, and I copy the numbers inside my Calc spreadsheet to keep track of the progress. Downloads are a key measurement of OpenOffice.org success, although they represent a trend and can&#8217;t be compared with licenses. This means that I am extremely careful in picking numbers when they don&#8217;t follow a logical trend (i.e., an increase - not a jump - after the announcement of each new version, and then a slow decrease).</p> -<p>Andrea Pescetti, co-maintainer of the Italian linguistic project, who has a number crunching mindset, monitors the numbers thanks to a zillion PHP scripts. When there&#8217;s a deviation from standards, he usually raises a red flag. Most of the times, we ignore the numbers that we don&#8217;t trust, even if this means that we ignore several &#8220;real&#8221; downloads.</p> -<p>In 2008, we have &#8220;cancelled&#8221; close to 300.000 downloads in November and early December.</p> -<p>With the announcement of OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, downloads are back to crazy. During last week, we have cancelled over 300.000 of them. Unfortunately, in order to avoid the dissemination of wrong assumptions, we&#8217;ve had to stop the counter on Associazione PLIO&#8217;s web site as it was based on raw data.</p> -<p>Until new notice, we will announce download figures only at the end of each month.</p> -<p>Just to summarize:</p> -<ol> -<li>We will continue to announce download figures, as they are definitely lower than the real numbers (not only because we ignore the fake ones but also because there are &#8220;unofficial&#8221; mirrors which are not monitored by the system, in addition to Linux repositories, covermount CDs, USB keys, etcetera).</li> -<li>We will continue to amend download figures with a very conservative mindset, as we don&#8217;t need to increase numbers which are already growing beyond any expectation (for those who still believe that we are a bunch of naive people, we do have &#8220;real&#8221; analysts data in our hands - we do have some good friends - which we don&#8217;t use just because there is already enough evidence in the market about the success of OpenOffice.org).</li> -<li>The intentional and repeated hacking of OpenOffice.org downloads confirms that the success of the open source office suite is making a dent somewhere in the office suite ecosystem. I am sure that enterprises are completely unaware of what is happening, as it might damage - first and foremost - their reputation.</li> -</ol> -<p>Let&#8217;s have fun !!!</p> - -<!-- start wp-tags-to-technorati 1.01 --> - -<p class="technorati-tags">Technorati Tags: <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Analysts" rel="tag" target="_self">Analysts</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Associazione+PLIO" rel="tag" target="_self">Associazione PLIO</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Calc" rel="tag" target="_self">Calc</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/downloads" rel="tag" target="_self">downloads</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/it+history" rel="tag" target="_self">it history</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Linux" rel="tag" target="_self">Linux</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/marketing" rel="tag" target="_self">marketing</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/office+suite" rel="tag" target="_self">office suite</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/open" rel="tag" target="_self">open</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Open+Source" rel="tag" target="_self">Open Source</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/openoffice" rel="tag" target="_self">openoffice</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/source" rel="tag" target="_self">source</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Technology" rel="tag" target="_self">Technology</a></p> - -<!-- end wp-tags-to-technorati --> - -<p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zPq9WQ_Rhz4Ci4CckePDVZvElTk/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zPq9WQ_Rhz4Ci4CckePDVZvElTk/i" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> -<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=Ox0ETN9n"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=41" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=MWpKw7M9"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=50" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=uIzh3g2E"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?i=uIzh3g2E" border="0" /></a> -</div><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/kuG2fhF1VDQ" height="1" width="1" /></content> - <author> - <name>Italo Vignoli</name> - <uri>http://www.italovignoli.org</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">OOopinions</title> - <subtitle type="html">marketing of open source software</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2"/> - <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/?feed=rss2</id> - <updated>2009-02-20T18:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-23T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1554&r2=1.1555 Delta lines: +18 -38 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-02-23 12:01:12+0000 1.1554 +++ index.html 2009-02-23 18:01:08+0000 1.1555 @@ -37,8 +37,25 @@ <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 23, 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: February 23, 2009 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>February 23, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1022";> +OpenOffice.org on Identi.ca</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>As part of its marketing, outreach, and community support efforts, OpenOffice.org community members are forming groups on various social networking sites to create more communication between existing users and to promote OOo to potential new users.</p> +<p>The latest, as promoted this week by <a href="http://alexandrocolorado.com/";>Alexandro Colorado</a>, has been on Identi.ca, an open source competitor to Twitter. I believe you must be logged in before you can see the <a href="http://identi.ca/group/openoffice";>Identi.ca OpenOffice.org group</a>, but it should grow into a useful real-time place to follow OOo news, so it’s worth signing in (it allows OpenID, so you have no excuse not to do it).</p> +<p>I know there are Facebook, LinkedIn, and many other social network OpenOffice groups out there, so I’ll post them here when I get a chance to catch up (or add a comment yourself, please).</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1022";>by Benjamin Horst at February 23, 2009 03:52 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>February 22, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -558,43 +575,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="OOopinions"> -Italo Vignoli</a> : -<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/kuG2fhF1VDQ/";> -The price of success</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been a huge success, and this has raised the awareness of the open source office suite to an unprecedented level. In Europe, where OOo was already quite popular, especially in France, Germany and Italy, download numbers have reached new records. In Italy, they are now higher than the number of new PCs sold in the country, as they probably are in France and Germany (although I don’t have PC figures for these two countries).</p> -<p>Unfortunately, success of information technology products doesn’t seem to come for free, and OpenOffice.org doesn’t represent an exception to this rule. Since the launch of version 3.0, on October 13, 2008, someone has deliberatedly tried to hack - which in this case means increase - download numbers of the Italian version, using a script that pings several mirrors thousands of times during the day.</p> -<p>I access the download statistics on a daily basis, as a human being, and I copy the numbers inside my Calc spreadsheet to keep track of the progress. Downloads are a key measurement of OpenOffice.org success, although they represent a trend and can’t be compared with licenses. This means that I am extremely careful in picking numbers when they don’t follow a logical trend (i.e., an increase - not a jump - after the announcement of each new version, and then a slow decrease).</p> -<p>Andrea Pescetti, co-maintainer of the Italian linguistic project, who has a number crunching mindset, monitors the numbers thanks to a zillion PHP scripts. When there’s a deviation from standards, he usually raises a red flag. Most of the times, we ignore the numbers that we don’t trust, even if this means that we ignore several “real” downloads.</p> -<p>In 2008, we have “cancelled” close to 300.000 downloads in November and early December.</p> -<p>With the announcement of OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, downloads are back to crazy. During last week, we have cancelled over 300.000 of them. Unfortunately, in order to avoid the dissemination of wrong assumptions, we’ve had to stop the counter on Associazione PLIO’s web site as it was based on raw data.</p> -<p>Until new notice, we will announce download figures only at the end of each month.</p> -<p>Just to summarize:</p> -<ol> -<li>We will continue to announce download figures, as they are definitely lower than the real numbers (not only because we ignore the fake ones but also because there are “unofficial” mirrors which are not monitored by the system, in addition to Linux repositories, covermount CDs, USB keys, etcetera).</li> -<li>We will continue to amend download figures with a very conservative mindset, as we don’t need to increase numbers which are already growing beyond any expectation (for those who still believe that we are a bunch of naive people, we do have “real” analysts data in our hands - we do have some good friends - which we don’t use just because there is already enough evidence in the market about the success of OpenOffice.org).</li> -<li>The intentional and repeated hacking of OpenOffice.org downloads confirms that the success of the open source office suite is making a dent somewhere in the office suite ecosystem. I am sure that enterprises are completely unaware of what is happening, as it might damage - first and foremost - their reputation.</li> -</ol> -<p>Let’s have fun !!!</p> - -<!-- start wp-tags-to-technorati 1.01 --> - -<p class="technorati-tags">Technorati Tags: <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Analysts"; rel="tag" target="_self">Analysts</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Associazione+PLIO"; rel="tag" target="_self">Associazione PLIO</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Calc"; rel="tag" target="_self">Calc</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/downloads"; rel="tag" target="_self">downloads</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/it+history"; rel="tag" target="_self">it history</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Linux"; rel="tag" target="_self">Linux</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/marketing"; rel="tag" target="_self">marketing</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/office+suite"; rel="tag" target="_self">office suite</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/open"; rel="tag" target="_self">open</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Open+Source"; rel="tag" target="_self">Open Source</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/openoffice"; rel="tag" target="_self">openoffice</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/source"; rel="tag" target="_self">source</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Technology"; rel="tag" target="_self">Technology</a></p> - -<!-- end wp-tags-to-technorati --> - -<p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zPq9WQ_Rhz4Ci4CckePDVZvElTk/a";><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zPq9WQ_Rhz4Ci4CckePDVZvElTk/i"; border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> -<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=Ox0ETN9n";><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=41"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=MWpKw7M9";><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=50"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=uIzh3g2E";><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?i=uIzh3g2E"; border="0" /></a> -</div><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/kuG2fhF1VDQ"; height="1" width="1" /></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/kuG2fhF1VDQ/";>by italovignoli at February 12, 2009 02:15 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=1.1547&r2=1.1548 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-02-23 12:01:12+0000 1.1547 +++ opml.xml 2009-02-23 18:01:08+0000 1.1548 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:00:38 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:00:35 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.649&r2=1.650 Delta lines: +9 -30 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-02-22 18:01:04+0000 1.649 +++ rss10.xml 2009-02-23 18:01:09+0000 1.650 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1022"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=636"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/openofficeorg-7-things-you-didnt-know-you-could-do/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d1987600f0c8e2c6" /> @@ -32,11 +33,18 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/openofficeorg-renaissance-project/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=635"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1004"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/the-price-of-success/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1022";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org on Identi.ca</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1022</link> + <content:encoded><p>As part of its marketing, outreach, and community support efforts, OpenOffice.org community members are forming groups on various social networking sites to create more communication between existing users and to promote OOo to potential new users.</p> +<p>The latest, as promoted this week by <a href="http://alexandrocolorado.com/">Alexandro Colorado</a>, has been on Identi.ca, an open source competitor to Twitter. I believe you must be logged in before you can see the <a href="http://identi.ca/group/openoffice">Identi.ca OpenOffice.org group</a>, but it should grow into a useful real-time place to follow OOo news, so it&#8217;s worth signing in (it allows OpenID, so you have no excuse not to do it).</p> +<p>I know there are Facebook, LinkedIn, and many other social network OpenOffice groups out there, so I&#8217;ll post them here when I get a chance to catch up (or add a comment yourself, please).</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-02-23T15:52:04+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=636";> <title>John McCreesh: Bouncing back</title> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/02/22/bouncing-back/</link> @@ -398,34 +406,5 @@ <blockquote><p>Sun Report Builder gives you powerful tools to make sense of the data stored in a Base database by presenting them in a variety of ways. True, you can create a simple report with Sun Report Builder in a matter of minutes, but if you want to make the most out of this extension, you have to understand its more advanced features. And this is where this guidebook comes into the picture. It will help you get to grips with basic Sun Report Builder features as well as master the extensionâs more advanced functionality.</p></blockquote></content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-02-12T14:40:18+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/the-price-of-success/";> - <title>Italo Vignoli: The price of success</title> - <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/kuG2fhF1VDQ/</link> - <content:encoded><p>OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been a huge success, and this has raised the awareness of the open source office suite to an unprecedented level. In Europe, where OOo was already quite popular, especially in France, Germany and Italy, download numbers have reached new records. In Italy, they are now higher than the number of new PCs sold in the country, as they probably are in France and Germany (although I don&#8217;t have PC figures for these two countries).</p> -<p>Unfortunately, success of information technology products doesn&#8217;t seem to come for free, and OpenOffice.org doesn&#8217;t represent an exception to this rule. Since the launch of version 3.0, on October 13, 2008, someone has deliberatedly tried to hack - which in this case means increase - download numbers of the Italian version, using a script that pings several mirrors thousands of times during the day.</p> -<p>I access the download statistics on a daily basis, as a human being, and I copy the numbers inside my Calc spreadsheet to keep track of the progress. Downloads are a key measurement of OpenOffice.org success, although they represent a trend and can&#8217;t be compared with licenses. This means that I am extremely careful in picking numbers when they don&#8217;t follow a logical trend (i.e., an increase - not a jump - after the announcement of each new version, and then a slow decrease).</p> -<p>Andrea Pescetti, co-maintainer of the Italian linguistic project, who has a number crunching mindset, monitors the numbers thanks to a zillion PHP scripts. When there&#8217;s a deviation from standards, he usually raises a red flag. Most of the times, we ignore the numbers that we don&#8217;t trust, even if this means that we ignore several &#8220;real&#8221; downloads.</p> -<p>In 2008, we have &#8220;cancelled&#8221; close to 300.000 downloads in November and early December.</p> -<p>With the announcement of OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, downloads are back to crazy. During last week, we have cancelled over 300.000 of them. Unfortunately, in order to avoid the dissemination of wrong assumptions, we&#8217;ve had to stop the counter on Associazione PLIO&#8217;s web site as it was based on raw data.</p> -<p>Until new notice, we will announce download figures only at the end of each month.</p> -<p>Just to summarize:</p> -<ol> -<li>We will continue to announce download figures, as they are definitely lower than the real numbers (not only because we ignore the fake ones but also because there are &#8220;unofficial&#8221; mirrors which are not monitored by the system, in addition to Linux repositories, covermount CDs, USB keys, etcetera).</li> -<li>We will continue to amend download figures with a very conservative mindset, as we don&#8217;t need to increase numbers which are already growing beyond any expectation (for those who still believe that we are a bunch of naive people, we do have &#8220;real&#8221; analysts data in our hands - we do have some good friends - which we don&#8217;t use just because there is already enough evidence in the market about the success of OpenOffice.org).</li> -<li>The intentional and repeated hacking of OpenOffice.org downloads confirms that the success of the open source office suite is making a dent somewhere in the office suite ecosystem. I am sure that enterprises are completely unaware of what is happening, as it might damage - first and foremost - their reputation.</li> -</ol> -<p>Let&#8217;s have fun !!!</p> - -<!-- start wp-tags-to-technorati 1.01 --> - -<p class="technorati-tags">Technorati Tags: <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Analysts" rel="tag" target="_self">Analysts</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Associazione+PLIO" rel="tag" target="_self">Associazione PLIO</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Calc" rel="tag" target="_self">Calc</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/downloads" rel="tag" target="_self">downloads</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/it+history" rel="tag" target="_self">it history</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Linux" rel="tag" target="_self">Linux</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/marketing" rel="tag" target="_self">marketing</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/office+suite" rel="tag" target="_self">office suite</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/open" rel="tag" target="_self">open</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Open+Source" rel="tag" target="_self">Open Source</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/openoffice" rel="tag" target="_self">openoffice</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/source" rel="tag" target="_self">source</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Technology" rel="tag" target="_self">Technology</a></p> - -<!-- end wp-tags-to-technorati --> - -<p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zPq9WQ_Rhz4Ci4CckePDVZvElTk/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zPq9WQ_Rhz4Ci4CckePDVZvElTk/i" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> -<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=Ox0ETN9n"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=41" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=MWpKw7M9"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=50" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=uIzh3g2E"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?i=uIzh3g2E" border="0" /></a> -</div><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/kuG2fhF1VDQ" height="1" width="1" /></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-02-12T14:15:19+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.649&r2=1.650 Delta lines: +9 -30 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-02-22 18:01:05+0000 1.649 +++ rss20.xml 2009-02-23 18:01:09+0000 1.650 @@ -8,6 +8,15 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: OpenOffice.org on Identi.ca</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1022</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1022</link> + <description><p>As part of its marketing, outreach, and community support efforts, OpenOffice.org community members are forming groups on various social networking sites to create more communication between existing users and to promote OOo to potential new users.</p> +<p>The latest, as promoted this week by <a href="http://alexandrocolorado.com/">Alexandro Colorado</a>, has been on Identi.ca, an open source competitor to Twitter. I believe you must be logged in before you can see the <a href="http://identi.ca/group/openoffice">Identi.ca OpenOffice.org group</a>, but it should grow into a useful real-time place to follow OOo news, so it&#8217;s worth signing in (it allows OpenID, so you have no excuse not to do it).</p> +<p>I know there are Facebook, LinkedIn, and many other social network OpenOffice groups out there, so I&#8217;ll post them here when I get a chance to catch up (or add a comment yourself, please).</p></description> + <pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:52:04 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>John McCreesh: Bouncing back</title> <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=636</guid> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2009/02/22/bouncing-back/</link> @@ -384,36 +393,6 @@ <blockquote><p>Sun Report Builder gives you powerful tools to make sense of the data stored in a Base database by presenting them in a variety of ways. True, you can create a simple report with Sun Report Builder in a matter of minutes, but if you want to make the most out of this extension, you have to understand its more advanced features. And this is where this guidebook comes into the picture. It will help you get to grips with basic Sun Report Builder features as well as master the extensionâs more advanced functionality.</p></blockquote></description> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:40:18 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Italo Vignoli: The price of success</title> - <guid>http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/the-price-of-success/</guid> - <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/kuG2fhF1VDQ/</link> - <description><p>OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been a huge success, and this has raised the awareness of the open source office suite to an unprecedented level. In Europe, where OOo was already quite popular, especially in France, Germany and Italy, download numbers have reached new records. In Italy, they are now higher than the number of new PCs sold in the country, as they probably are in France and Germany (although I don&#8217;t have PC figures for these two countries).</p> -<p>Unfortunately, success of information technology products doesn&#8217;t seem to come for free, and OpenOffice.org doesn&#8217;t represent an exception to this rule. Since the launch of version 3.0, on October 13, 2008, someone has deliberatedly tried to hack - which in this case means increase - download numbers of the Italian version, using a script that pings several mirrors thousands of times during the day.</p> -<p>I access the download statistics on a daily basis, as a human being, and I copy the numbers inside my Calc spreadsheet to keep track of the progress. Downloads are a key measurement of OpenOffice.org success, although they represent a trend and can&#8217;t be compared with licenses. This means that I am extremely careful in picking numbers when they don&#8217;t follow a logical trend (i.e., an increase - not a jump - after the announcement of each new version, and then a slow decrease).</p> -<p>Andrea Pescetti, co-maintainer of the Italian linguistic project, who has a number crunching mindset, monitors the numbers thanks to a zillion PHP scripts. When there&#8217;s a deviation from standards, he usually raises a red flag. Most of the times, we ignore the numbers that we don&#8217;t trust, even if this means that we ignore several &#8220;real&#8221; downloads.</p> -<p>In 2008, we have &#8220;cancelled&#8221; close to 300.000 downloads in November and early December.</p> -<p>With the announcement of OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, downloads are back to crazy. During last week, we have cancelled over 300.000 of them. Unfortunately, in order to avoid the dissemination of wrong assumptions, we&#8217;ve had to stop the counter on Associazione PLIO&#8217;s web site as it was based on raw data.</p> -<p>Until new notice, we will announce download figures only at the end of each month.</p> -<p>Just to summarize:</p> -<ol> -<li>We will continue to announce download figures, as they are definitely lower than the real numbers (not only because we ignore the fake ones but also because there are &#8220;unofficial&#8221; mirrors which are not monitored by the system, in addition to Linux repositories, covermount CDs, USB keys, etcetera).</li> -<li>We will continue to amend download figures with a very conservative mindset, as we don&#8217;t need to increase numbers which are already growing beyond any expectation (for those who still believe that we are a bunch of naive people, we do have &#8220;real&#8221; analysts data in our hands - we do have some good friends - which we don&#8217;t use just because there is already enough evidence in the market about the success of OpenOffice.org).</li> -<li>The intentional and repeated hacking of OpenOffice.org downloads confirms that the success of the open source office suite is making a dent somewhere in the office suite ecosystem. 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