User: jpmcc Date: 2009-02-27 06:01:05+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/barchart.png marketing/www/planet/downloads.gif marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/piechart.png marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Fri Feb 27 06:00:14 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=1.1562&r2=1.1563 Delta lines: +26 -46 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-02-27 00:01:01+0000 1.1562 +++ atom.xml 2009-02-27 06:01:01+0000 1.1563 @@ -5,10 +5,30 @@ <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>2009-02-27T00:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-27T06:00:23+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry> + <title type="html">Notes, Links, 2009-02-2</title> + <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/02/notes-links-2009-02-2.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-1640464200079194301</id> + <updated>2009-02-27T00:58:39+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">The <a href="http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/action.asp">action</a> by the UK to promote open source published 24 February is of course terrific news and should be hailed as such. I hope it will, along with similar other European acts, stimulate the North American governments to also promote open source, open standards, and thus directly and indirectly innovation and economic growth here. Certainly, we need it. Note--the policy directive issued by the government is not a dismissal of proprietary software, and it is not a celebration of the freedoms granted by Foss. It is rather a statement about giving taxpayers the best value for their taxes:<br /><br />&#x201c;While we have always respected the long-held beliefs of those who think that governments should favour Open Source on principle, we have always taken the view that the main test should be what is best value for the taxpayer.<br /><br />&#x201c;Over the past five years many government departments have shown that Open Source can be best for the taxpayer &#x2013; in our web services, in the NHS and in other vital public services.&#x201d; <br /><br />Why then the directive now? Because &#x201c;we need to increase the pace,&#x201d; as the innovation, the dialog between government users and the IT industry, needs to be allowed free rein, and not the essentially furtive and sporadic efforts that have preceded this directive--and which characterize government procurement practices elsewhere. <br /><br />Yet there is good news emerging: Canada put out a <a href="http://www.merx.com/English/SUPPLIER_Menu.Asp?WCE=Show&TAB=1&PORTAL=MERX&State=7&id=PW-$$EE-015-18733&FED_ONLY=0&hcode=Au64x22Vv9pVNE3IKtFp3Q==">Request For Information</a> to which numerous companies replied, including Sun. (I helped draft the response, along with Bruno S.; Simon P. provided the logical frame.) And late last month, I gave a two-hour discussion on Foss and policy to the Ontario government. All of which is to say that in Canada there is movement in the right direction--a movement I fully expect to see grow. Why? proprietary software costs taxpayers money--upfront, down the road, in the end. <br /><br />Of course, we all expect the usual arguments, and I&#x2019;ve already noted harbingers of them: that there are hidden costs to Foss, and that these include such things as migration of documents, files, people; and also training and certification costs, and then the biggest fear of all, the by and large bogus problem of using software that may have license issues. In the case of OpenOffice.org (and probably most other significant software the government is likely to consider) that&#x2019;s a false fear.<br /> <br />But that won&#x2019;t stop some. In Microsoft&#x2019;s <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/microsoft_tomtom/print.html">suit</a> against the in-car navigation device maker TomTom for patent infringement, even though the suit is ostensibly and ostentatiously not against Foss, (&#x201c;Open source software is not the focal point of this action.&#x201d;), the environment Foss is clearly affected. For whatever the merits of this suit (and TomTom is hardly quiescent here) this is very close to the sort of fear frightens governments and corporations away from Foss: That there is a tiger lurking in the open source commons.<br /><br />It shouldn&#x2019;t. But it should provoke us to ensure that our code is clean and that any code that we expect others to build on and distribute must be have an unimpeachable pedigree. And that goes for proprietary software, too. Or does anyone really think that the m&#x00e9;lange of doubt can only apply to works licensed under Foss copyrights? So let&#x2019;s speculate that the end result of this sabre rattling is ultimately to endorse a copyright regime that is characterized not by FUD but by transparency, of license and code, and backed not by market-driven entities but by responsible community organizations and companies--those that understand where innovation lies and how to promote it, so as to foster a sustainable present and future. We certainly need it.<br /><br /><br /></content> + <author> + <name>oulipo</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> + <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> + <updated>2009-02-27T06:00:18+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> <title type="html">Meet us at CeBIT!</title> <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/meet-us-at-cebit.html"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8234971871222007488</id> @@ -89,7 +109,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2009-02-26T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-27T06:00:18+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -149,7 +169,7 @@ <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>2009-02-27T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-27T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -268,7 +288,7 @@ <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>2009-02-27T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-27T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -483,7 +503,7 @@ <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>2009-02-27T00:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-27T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -571,47 +591,7 @@ <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>2009-02-27T00:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="en"> - <title type="html">RedOffice Offers OOo User Interface Ideas</title> - <link href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/w7JZK8AS5xg/"/> - <id>http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/redoffice-offers-ooo-user-interface-ideas/</id> - <updated>2009-02-14T16:30:22+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><a href="http://en.redoffice.com/">RedOffice</a> is one of the âdistrosâ of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>, along with <a href="http://go-oo.org/">Go-OOo</a>, <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/">Lotus Symphony</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop">OxygenOffice</a>, <a href="http://www.neooffice.org/">NeoOffice</a>, <a href="http://www.multiracio.com/eurooffice/">EuroOffice</a>, and probably some others.</p> -<p>RedOffice is developed by a company in Beijing and specifically addresses the Chinese-language market.</p> -<p>More than just translating and cloning OOo, however, RedOffice has introduced a well-designed new user interface for their version of the suite.</p> -<p><a href="http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=redoffice">Johannes Eva</a> analyzes RedOfficeâs user interface innovations on his blog. Its biggest departure from the standard OOo is (no, not that it only comes in Chinese, but) its persistent tool palette column on the left side of the document window. Eva calls this a âvertical ribbonâ, but since I do not like the MS Office 2007 ribbon, Iâll stick with the older term âtool paletteâ instead.</p> -<p><img title="RedOffice Screenshot" src="http://www.johannes-eva.net/images/2008_05_27_redoffice_review/2008%2005%20-%20RedOffice%20-%20Screenshot%206%20Great%20Templates%201.png" width="600" /></p> -<p>Heâs impressed also by the included templates which are displayed in the palette, and the live preview of each template when you mouse over each oneâs icon.</p> -<p>Eva concludes his review impressed and inspired by the application:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>RedOffice 4.0 beta new UI is really intuitive and useful. The âLive Previewâ function is great and should definitively be adopted in OOo after 3.0. Though slower than OOo 3.0 beta, RedOffice runs at an acceptable speed on my old hardware.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>I have to agree with his analysis. To see more of it, and all the screenshots he took of RedOffice, hop on over to the original <a href="http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=redoffice">RedOffice UI</a> post.</p> -<p>[From <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1000"><cite>RedOffice Offers OOo User Interface Ideas</cite></a>]</p> - -<!-- start wp-tags-to-technorati 1.01 --> - -<p class="technorati-tags">Technorati Tags: <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Impress" rel="tag" target="_self">Impress</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Innovation" rel="tag" target="_self">Innovation</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/openoffice" rel="tag" target="_self">openoffice</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/source" rel="tag" target="_self">source</a></p> - -<!-- end wp-tags-to-technorati --> - -<p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/co7GjRhbLu8dAib7HXKhiUnunlg/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/co7GjRhbLu8dAib7HXKhiUnunlg/i" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> -<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=t07p2jn6"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=41" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=yVeQybuS"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=50" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=iWGvq147"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?i=iWGvq147" border="0" /></a> -</div><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/w7JZK8AS5xg" 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>2009-02-25T00:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-02-27T06:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: barchart.png Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/barchart.png?rev=1.110&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup File [changed]: downloads.gif Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/downloads.gif?rev=1.115&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1569&r2=1.1570 Delta lines: +16 -37 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-02-27 00:01:02+0000 1.1569 +++ index.html 2009-02-27 06:01:02+0000 1.1570 @@ -36,8 +36,23 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: February 27, 2009 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: February 27, 2009 06:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>February 27, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> +Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/02/notes-links-2009-02-2.html";> +Notes, Links, 2009-02-2</a> +</h3> +<p> +The <a href="http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/action.asp";>action</a> by the UK to promote open source published 24 February is of course terrific news and should be hailed as such. I hope it will, along with similar other European acts, stimulate the North American governments to also promote open source, open standards, and thus directly and indirectly innovation and economic growth here. Certainly, we need it. Note--the policy directive issued by the government is not a dismissal of proprietary software, and it is not a celebration of the freedoms granted by Foss. It is rather a statement about giving taxpayers the best value for their taxes:<br /><br />“While we have always respected the long-held beliefs of those who think that governments should favour Open Source on principle, we have always taken the view that the main test should be what is best value for the taxpayer.<br /><br />“Over the past five years many government departments have shown that Open Source can be best for the taxpayer – in our web services, in the NHS and in other vital public services.” <br /><br />Why then the directive now? Because “we need to increase the pace,” as the innovation, the dialog between government users and the IT industry, needs to be allowed free rein, and not the essentially furtive and sporadic efforts that have preceded this directive--and which characterize government procurement practices elsewhere. <br /><br />Yet there is good news emerging: Canada put out a <a href="http://www.merx.com/English/SUPPLIER_Menu.Asp?WCE=Show&TAB=1&PORTAL=MERX&State=7&id=PW-$$EE-015-18733&FED_ONLY=0&hcode=Au64x22Vv9pVNE3IKtFp3Q==";>Request For Information</a> to which numerous companies replied, including Sun. (I helped draft the response, along with Bruno S.; Simon P. provided the logical frame.) And late last month, I gave a two-hour discussion on Foss and policy to the Ontario government. All of which is to say that in Canada there is movement in the right direction--a movement I fully expect to see grow. Why? proprietary software costs taxpayers money--upfront, down the road, in the end. <br /><br />Of course, we all expect the usual arguments, and I’ve already noted harbingers of them: that there are hidden costs to Foss, and that these include such things as migration of documents, files, people; and also training and certification costs, and then the biggest fear of all, the by and large bogus problem of using software that may have license issues. In the case of OpenOffice.org (and probably most other significant software the government is likely to consider) that’s a false fear.<br /> <br />But that won’t stop some. In Microsoft’s <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/microsoft_tomtom/print.html";>suit</a> against the in-car navigation device maker TomTom for patent infringement, even though the suit is ostensibly and ostentatiously not against Foss, (“Open source software is not the focal point of this action.”), the environment Foss is clearly affected. For whatever the merits of this suit (and TomTom is hardly quiescent here) this is very close to the sort of fear frightens governments and corporations away from Foss: That there is a tiger lurking in the open source commons.<br /><br />It shouldn’t. But it should provoke us to ensure that our code is clean and that any code that we expect others to build on and distribute must be have an unimpeachable pedigree. And that goes for proprietary software, too. Or does anyone really think that the mélange of doubt can only apply to works licensed under Foss copyrights? So let’s speculate that the end result of this sabre rattling is ultimately to endorse a copyright regime that is characterized not by FUD but by transparency, of license and code, and backed not by market-driven entities but by responsible community organizations and companies--those that understand where innovation lies and how to promote it, so as to foster a sustainable present and future. We certainly need it.<br /><br /><br /></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/02/notes-links-2009-02-2.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at February 27, 2009 12:58 AM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>February 26, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> @@ -522,42 +537,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>February 14, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://www.italovignoli.org"; title="OOopinions"> -Italo Vignoli</a> : -<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/w7JZK8AS5xg/";> -RedOffice Offers OOo User Interface Ideas</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><a href="http://en.redoffice.com/";>RedOffice</a> is one of the âdistrosâ of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org</a>, along with <a href="http://go-oo.org/";>Go-OOo</a>, <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/";>Lotus Symphony</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop";>OxygenOffice</a>, <a href="http://www.neooffice.org/";>NeoOffice</a>, <a href="http://www.multiracio.com/eurooffice/";>EuroOffice</a>, and probably some others.</p> -<p>RedOffice is developed by a company in Beijing and specifically addresses the Chinese-language market.</p> -<p>More than just translating and cloning OOo, however, RedOffice has introduced a well-designed new user interface for their version of the suite.</p> -<p><a href="http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=redoffice";>Johannes Eva</a> analyzes RedOfficeâs user interface innovations on his blog. Its biggest departure from the standard OOo is (no, not that it only comes in Chinese, but) its persistent tool palette column on the left side of the document window. Eva calls this a âvertical ribbonâ, but since I do not like the MS Office 2007 ribbon, Iâll stick with the older term âtool paletteâ instead.</p> -<p><img title="RedOffice Screenshot" src="http://www.johannes-eva.net/images/2008_05_27_redoffice_review/2008%2005%20-%20RedOffice%20-%20Screenshot%206%20Great%20Templates%201.png"; width="600" /></p> -<p>Heâs impressed also by the included templates which are displayed in the palette, and the live preview of each template when you mouse over each oneâs icon.</p> -<p>Eva concludes his review impressed and inspired by the application:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>RedOffice 4.0 beta new UI is really intuitive and useful. The âLive Previewâ function is great and should definitively be adopted in OOo after 3.0. Though slower than OOo 3.0 beta, RedOffice runs at an acceptable speed on my old hardware.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>I have to agree with his analysis. To see more of it, and all the screenshots he took of RedOffice, hop on over to the original <a href="http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=redoffice";>RedOffice UI</a> post.</p> -<p>[From <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1000";><cite>RedOffice Offers OOo User Interface Ideas</cite></a>]</p> - -<!-- start wp-tags-to-technorati 1.01 --> - -<p class="technorati-tags">Technorati Tags: <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Impress"; rel="tag" target="_self">Impress</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Innovation"; rel="tag" target="_self">Innovation</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/openoffice"; rel="tag" target="_self">openoffice</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/source"; rel="tag" target="_self">source</a></p> - -<!-- end wp-tags-to-technorati --> - -<p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/co7GjRhbLu8dAib7HXKhiUnunlg/a";><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/co7GjRhbLu8dAib7HXKhiUnunlg/i"; border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> -<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=t07p2jn6";><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=41"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=yVeQybuS";><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=50"; border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=iWGvq147";><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?i=iWGvq147"; border="0" /></a> -</div><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/w7JZK8AS5xg"; height="1" width="1" /></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/w7JZK8AS5xg/";>by italovignoli at February 14, 2009 04:30 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=1.1562&r2=1.1563 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-02-27 00:01:02+0000 1.1562 +++ opml.xml 2009-02-27 06:01:02+0000 1.1563 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:24 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:00:24 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: piechart.png Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/piechart.png?rev=1.87&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.656&r2=1.657 Delta lines: +8 -28 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-02-26 18:01:12+0000 1.656 +++ rss10.xml 2009-02-27 06:01:02+0000 1.657 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-1640464200079194301" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8234971871222007488" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7177376026324690522" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=875"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/openofficeorg3-impress-guide/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/ooo-dev-31-developer-snapshot-available/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/95813f4943566eb0" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/redoffice-offers-ooo-user-interface-ideas/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-1640464200079194301"> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Notes, Links, 2009-02-2</title> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/02/notes-links-2009-02-2.html</link> + <content:encoded>The <a href="http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/action.asp">action</a> by the UK to promote open source published 24 February is of course terrific news and should be hailed as such. I hope it will, along with similar other European acts, stimulate the North American governments to also promote open source, open standards, and thus directly and indirectly innovation and economic growth here. Certainly, we need it. Note--the policy directive issued by the government is not a dismissal of proprietary software, and it is not a celebration of the freedoms granted by Foss. It is rather a statement about giving taxpayers the best value for their taxes:<br /><br />&#x201c;While we have always respected the long-held beliefs of those who think that governments should favour Open Source on principle, we have always taken the view that the main test should be what is best value for the taxpayer.<br /><br />&#x201c;Over the past five years many government departments have shown that Open Source can be best for the taxpayer &#x2013; in our web services, in the NHS and in other vital public services.&#x201d; <br /><br />Why then the directive now? Because &#x201c;we need to increase the pace,&#x201d; as the innovation, the dialog between government users and the IT industry, needs to be allowed free rein, and not the essentially furtive and sporadic efforts that have preceded this directive--and which characterize government procurement practices elsewhere. <br /><br />Yet there is good news emerging: Canada put out a <a href="http://www.merx.com/English/SUPPLIER_Menu.Asp?WCE=Show&TAB=1&PORTAL=MERX&State=7&id=PW-$$EE-015-18733&FED_ONLY=0&hcode=Au64x22Vv9pVNE3IKtFp3Q==">Request For Information</a> to which numerous companies replied, including Sun. (I helped draft the response, along with Bruno S.; Simon P. provided the logical frame.) And late last month, I gave a two-hour discussion on Foss and policy to the Ontario government. All of which is to say that in Canada there is movement in the right direction--a movement I fully expect to see grow. Why? proprietary software costs taxpayers money--upfront, down the road, in the end. <br /><br />Of course, we all expect the usual arguments, and I&#x2019;ve already noted harbingers of them: that there are hidden costs to Foss, and that these include such things as migration of documents, files, people; and also training and certification costs, and then the biggest fear of all, the by and large bogus problem of using software that may have license issues. In the case of OpenOffice.org (and probably most other significant software the government is likely to consider) that&#x2019;s a false fear.<br /> <br />But that won&#x2019;t stop some. In Microsoft&#x2019;s <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/microsoft_tomtom/print.html">suit</a> against the in-car navigation device maker TomTom for patent infringement, even though the suit is ostensibly and ostentatiously not against Foss, (&#x201c;Open source software is not the focal point of this action.&#x201d;), the environment Foss is clearly affected. For whatever the merits of this suit (and TomTom is hardly quiescent here) this is very close to the sort of fear frightens governments and corporations away from Foss: That there is a tiger lurking in the open source commons.<br /><br />It shouldn&#x2019;t. But it should provoke us to ensure that our code is clean and that any code that we expect others to build on and distribute must be have an unimpeachable pedigree. And that goes for proprietary software, too. Or does anyone really think that the m&#x00e9;lange of doubt can only apply to works licensed under Foss copyrights? So let&#x2019;s speculate that the end result of this sabre rattling is ultimately to endorse a copyright regime that is characterized not by FUD but by transparency, of license and code, and backed not by market-driven entities but by responsible community organizations and companies--those that understand where innovation lies and how to promote it, so as to foster a sustainable present and future. We certainly need it.<br /><br /><br /></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-02-27T00:58:39+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8234971871222007488"> <title>OOo Marketeers: Meet us at CeBIT!</title> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/meet-us-at-cebit.html</link> @@ -365,32 +372,5 @@ <dc:date>2009-02-15T13:18:21+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Joost Andrae</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/redoffice-offers-ooo-user-interface-ideas/";> - <title>Italo Vignoli: RedOffice Offers OOo User Interface Ideas</title> - <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/w7JZK8AS5xg/</link> - <content:encoded><p><a href="http://en.redoffice.com/">RedOffice</a> is one of the âdistrosâ of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>, along with <a href="http://go-oo.org/">Go-OOo</a>, <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/">Lotus Symphony</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop">OxygenOffice</a>, <a href="http://www.neooffice.org/">NeoOffice</a>, <a href="http://www.multiracio.com/eurooffice/">EuroOffice</a>, and probably some others.</p> -<p>RedOffice is developed by a company in Beijing and specifically addresses the Chinese-language market.</p> -<p>More than just translating and cloning OOo, however, RedOffice has introduced a well-designed new user interface for their version of the suite.</p> -<p><a href="http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=redoffice">Johannes Eva</a> analyzes RedOfficeâs user interface innovations on his blog. Its biggest departure from the standard OOo is (no, not that it only comes in Chinese, but) its persistent tool palette column on the left side of the document window. Eva calls this a âvertical ribbonâ, but since I do not like the MS Office 2007 ribbon, Iâll stick with the older term âtool paletteâ instead.</p> -<p><img title="RedOffice Screenshot" src="http://www.johannes-eva.net/images/2008_05_27_redoffice_review/2008%2005%20-%20RedOffice%20-%20Screenshot%206%20Great%20Templates%201.png" width="600" /></p> -<p>Heâs impressed also by the included templates which are displayed in the palette, and the live preview of each template when you mouse over each oneâs icon.</p> -<p>Eva concludes his review impressed and inspired by the application:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>RedOffice 4.0 beta new UI is really intuitive and useful. The âLive Previewâ function is great and should definitively be adopted in OOo after 3.0. Though slower than OOo 3.0 beta, RedOffice runs at an acceptable speed on my old hardware.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>I have to agree with his analysis. To see more of it, and all the screenshots he took of RedOffice, hop on over to the original <a href="http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=redoffice">RedOffice UI</a> post.</p> -<p>[From <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1000"><cite>RedOffice Offers OOo User Interface Ideas</cite></a>]</p> - -<!-- start wp-tags-to-technorati 1.01 --> - -<p class="technorati-tags">Technorati Tags: <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Impress" rel="tag" target="_self">Impress</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Innovation" rel="tag" target="_self">Innovation</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/openoffice" rel="tag" target="_self">openoffice</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/source" rel="tag" target="_self">source</a></p> - -<!-- end wp-tags-to-technorati --> - -<p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/co7GjRhbLu8dAib7HXKhiUnunlg/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/co7GjRhbLu8dAib7HXKhiUnunlg/i" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> -<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=t07p2jn6"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=41" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=yVeQybuS"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=50" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=iWGvq147"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?i=iWGvq147" border="0" /></a> -</div><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/w7JZK8AS5xg" height="1" width="1" /></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-02-14T16:30:22+00:00</dc:date> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.656&r2=1.657 Delta lines: +8 -28 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-02-26 18:01:12+0000 1.656 +++ rss20.xml 2009-02-27 06:01:02+0000 1.657 @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Notes, Links, 2009-02-2</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-1640464200079194301</guid> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/02/notes-links-2009-02-2.html</link> + <description>The <a href="http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/action.asp">action</a> by the UK to promote open source published 24 February is of course terrific news and should be hailed as such. I hope it will, along with similar other European acts, stimulate the North American governments to also promote open source, open standards, and thus directly and indirectly innovation and economic growth here. Certainly, we need it. Note--the policy directive issued by the government is not a dismissal of proprietary software, and it is not a celebration of the freedoms granted by Foss. It is rather a statement about giving taxpayers the best value for their taxes:<br /><br />&#x201c;While we have always respected the long-held beliefs of those who think that governments should favour Open Source on principle, we have always taken the view that the main test should be what is best value for the taxpayer.<br /><br />&#x201c;Over the past five years many government departments have shown that Open Source can be best for the taxpayer &#x2013; in our web services, in the NHS and in other vital public services.&#x201d; <br /><br />Why then the directive now? Because &#x201c;we need to increase the pace,&#x201d; as the innovation, the dialog between government users and the IT industry, needs to be allowed free rein, and not the essentially furtive and sporadic efforts that have preceded this directive--and which characterize government procurement practices elsewhere. <br /><br />Yet there is good news emerging: Canada put out a <a href="http://www.merx.com/English/SUPPLIER_Menu.Asp?WCE=Show&TAB=1&PORTAL=MERX&State=7&id=PW-$$EE-015-18733&FED_ONLY=0&hcode=Au64x22Vv9pVNE3IKtFp3Q==">Request For Information</a> to which numerous companies replied, including Sun. (I helped draft the response, along with Bruno S.; Simon P. provided the logical frame.) And late last month, I gave a two-hour discussion on Foss and policy to the Ontario government. All of which is to say that in Canada there is movement in the right direction--a movement I fully expect to see grow. Why? proprietary software costs taxpayers money--upfront, down the road, in the end. <br /><br />Of course, we all expect the usual arguments, and I&#x2019;ve already noted harbingers of them: that there are hidden costs to Foss, and that these include such things as migration of documents, files, people; and also training and certification costs, and then the biggest fear of all, the by and large bogus problem of using software that may have license issues. In the case of OpenOffice.org (and probably most other significant software the government is likely to consider) that&#x2019;s a false fear.<br /> <br />But that won&#x2019;t stop some. In Microsoft&#x2019;s <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/26/microsoft_tomtom/print.html">suit</a> against the in-car navigation device maker TomTom for patent infringement, even though the suit is ostensibly and ostentatiously not against Foss, (&#x201c;Open source software is not the focal point of this action.&#x201d;), the environment Foss is clearly affected. For whatever the merits of this suit (and TomTom is hardly quiescent here) this is very close to the sort of fear frightens governments and corporations away from Foss: That there is a tiger lurking in the open source commons.<br /><br />It shouldn&#x2019;t. But it should provoke us to ensure that our code is clean and that any code that we expect others to build on and distribute must be have an unimpeachable pedigree. And that goes for proprietary software, too. Or does anyone really think that the m&#x00e9;lange of doubt can only apply to works licensed under Foss copyrights? So let&#x2019;s speculate that the end result of this sabre rattling is ultimately to endorse a copyright regime that is characterized not by FUD but by transparency, of license and code, and backed not by market-driven entities but by responsible community organizations and companies--those that understand where innovation lies and how to promote it, so as to foster a sustainable present and future. We certainly need it.<br /><br /><br /></description> + <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:58:39 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>OOo Marketeers: Meet us at CeBIT!</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-8234971871222007488</guid> <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/02/meet-us-at-cebit.html</link> @@ -350,34 +358,6 @@ <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a title="Page containing MD5 checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/680/md5sums.html</a></p></description> <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:18:21 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Italo Vignoli: RedOffice Offers OOo User Interface Ideas</title> - <guid>http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/redoffice-offers-ooo-user-interface-ideas/</guid> - <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/w7JZK8AS5xg/</link> - <description><p><a href="http://en.redoffice.com/">RedOffice</a> is one of the âdistrosâ of <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>, along with <a href="http://go-oo.org/">Go-OOo</a>, <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/">Lotus Symphony</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop">OxygenOffice</a>, <a href="http://www.neooffice.org/">NeoOffice</a>, <a href="http://www.multiracio.com/eurooffice/">EuroOffice</a>, and probably some others.</p> -<p>RedOffice is developed by a company in Beijing and specifically addresses the Chinese-language market.</p> -<p>More than just translating and cloning OOo, however, RedOffice has introduced a well-designed new user interface for their version of the suite.</p> -<p><a href="http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=redoffice">Johannes Eva</a> analyzes RedOfficeâs user interface innovations on his blog. Its biggest departure from the standard OOo is (no, not that it only comes in Chinese, but) its persistent tool palette column on the left side of the document window. Eva calls this a âvertical ribbonâ, but since I do not like the MS Office 2007 ribbon, Iâll stick with the older term âtool paletteâ instead.</p> -<p><img title="RedOffice Screenshot" src="http://www.johannes-eva.net/images/2008_05_27_redoffice_review/2008%2005%20-%20RedOffice%20-%20Screenshot%206%20Great%20Templates%201.png" width="600" /></p> -<p>Heâs impressed also by the included templates which are displayed in the palette, and the live preview of each template when you mouse over each oneâs icon.</p> -<p>Eva concludes his review impressed and inspired by the application:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>RedOffice 4.0 beta new UI is really intuitive and useful. The âLive Previewâ function is great and should definitively be adopted in OOo after 3.0. Though slower than OOo 3.0 beta, RedOffice runs at an acceptable speed on my old hardware.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>I have to agree with his analysis. To see more of it, and all the screenshots he took of RedOffice, hop on over to the original <a href="http://www.johannes-eva.net/index.php?page=redoffice">RedOffice UI</a> post.</p> -<p>[From <a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1000"><cite>RedOffice Offers OOo User Interface Ideas</cite></a>]</p> - -<!-- start wp-tags-to-technorati 1.01 --> - -<p class="technorati-tags">Technorati Tags: <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Impress" rel="tag" target="_self">Impress</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Innovation" rel="tag" target="_self">Innovation</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/openoffice" rel="tag" target="_self">openoffice</a>, <a class="technorati-link" href="http://technorati.com/tag/source" rel="tag" target="_self">source</a></p> - -<!-- end wp-tags-to-technorati --> - -<p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/co7GjRhbLu8dAib7HXKhiUnunlg/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/co7GjRhbLu8dAib7HXKhiUnunlg/i" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> -<a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=t07p2jn6"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=41" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=yVeQybuS"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?d=50" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?a=iWGvq147"><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/ItalosOOoBlog?i=iWGvq147" border="0" /></a> -</div><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/w7JZK8AS5xg" height="1" width="1" /></description> - <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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