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Date: 2009-05-20 05:01:06+0000
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        <entry>
+               <title type="html">Notes, links 2009-05-19</title>
+               <link 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/notes-links-2009-05-19.html"/>
+               
<id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6066573634444312912</id>
+               <updated>2009-05-20T00:52:15+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">Frustrating doesn&amp;#x2019;t begin to 
describe it: a lot of my mail (IMAP) with my work server chose to vanish. The 
cause of this remains a little mysterious, but it&amp;#x2019;s possible it was 
because I was using Thunderbird and probably had not set it right; or perhaps 
it was b/c I was using Apple&amp;#x2019;s Mail.app, which has had problems 
accessing and downloading copies of messages from the old work server. Either 
way, a stupefying period of hours fixing things wasted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br 
/&gt;Links: One of my favourite sites for Foss news is &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.northxsouth.com/&quot;&gt;Free Software in Latin 
America&lt;/a&gt;. It complements &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.solar.org.ar/&quot;&gt;Solar&lt;/a&gt;, which is mainly 
focused on Argentina, and other sites. For anglophone readers, there is some 
relief: FSLA is in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the best part of FSLA is 
that the articles it includes are very often very interesting. See, for 
example, this: &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.northxsouth.com/2009/05/13/argentine-professor-attacked-for-sharing-philosophy-classics-online/&quot;&gt;Argentine
 Professor Attacked for Sharing Philosophy Classics Online&lt;/a&gt;. The issue 
is one of who controls the copyright of what should normally be considered 
public domain material but is not here, as the professor is evidently 
distributing material that the French publishing house Les Editions du Minuit, 
claims ownership over. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article points out that 
Argentina, like many other countries, must import foundational texts at 
enormous expense to all. it would thus seem as a no-brainer to take things 
online and distribute not costly paper but cheap electrons. But cost for me or 
you is usually another way of saying profit for them. And therein lies the 
problem that Foss and Open Access face: the change in economic practices. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly, it is to the social good to make as available 
as possible works generally deemed to be not only important but foundational. 
Arguably, the government or whatever agency could pay the publisher and then 
distribute the properly licensed work. But say the government 
doesn&amp;#x2019;t or cannot do that. Or say that the actual cost is so steep 
that it could more properly be called extortion. Piracy is thus inadvertently 
encouraged, as it is very unlikely that the threat of punishment by remote 
agents will dissuade many; historically, it has not. Thus, and obviously, this 
is not a purely particular issue but a general one, a better solution lies in 
moving away from copyright policies that really only made sense before the 
Internet and before the distribution of copied documents was so easy. &lt;div 
class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;http://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6066573634444312912?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</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>2009-05-20T05:00:17+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
+
+       <entry>
                <title type="html">OpenOffice.org in Education: Adoption is 
Gaining Momentum</title>
                <link 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-in-education-adoption-is.html"/>
                
<id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7194914077082123947</id>
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                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/>
                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
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                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
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                        <link rel="self" 
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                        <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id>
-                       <updated>2009-05-19T11:00:23+00:00</updated>
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Reader</title>
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<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
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                        <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>2009-05-19T11:00:23+00:00</updated>
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-
-       <entry xml:lang="en">
-               <title type="html">Invoicing with OpenOffice.org</title>
-               <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1134"/>
-               <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1134</id>
-               <updated>2009-05-01T01:48:33+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Dmitri Popov writes &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/creating-an-invoicing-system-with-openofficeorg.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Creating
 an Invoicing System with OpenOffice.org&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://blog.worldlabel.com/&quot;&gt;Worldlabel.com 
Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Popov walks the reader through the steps, including creating a data 
source, creating an invoice template, creating and printing invoices, and 
creating an invoice manager.&lt;/p&gt;</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>2009-05-18T17:00:30+00:00</updated>
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 </div>
 
-<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 19, 2009 11:00 PM 
GMT</em></p>
+<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 20, 2009 05:00 AM 
GMT</em></p>
 
+<h2>May 20, 2009</h2>
+<h3>
+<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak">
+Louis Suarez-Potts</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/notes-links-2009-05-19.html";>
+Notes, links 2009-05-19</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+Frustrating doesn&#x2019;t begin to describe it: a lot of my mail (IMAP) with 
my work server chose to vanish. The cause of this remains a little mysterious, 
but it&#x2019;s possible it was because I was using Thunderbird and probably 
had not set it right; or perhaps it was b/c I was using Apple&#x2019;s 
Mail.app, which has had problems accessing and downloading copies of messages 
from the old work server. Either way, a stupefying period of hours fixing 
things wasted.<br /><br />Links: One of my favourite sites for Foss news is <a 
href="http://news.northxsouth.com/";>Free Software in Latin America</a>. It 
complements <a href="http://www.solar.org.ar/";>Solar</a>, which is mainly 
focused on Argentina, and other sites. For anglophone readers, there is some 
relief: FSLA is in English.<br /><br />But the best part of FSLA is that the 
articles it includes are very often very interesting. See, for example, this: 
<a 
href="http://news.northxsouth.com/2009/05/13/argentine-professor-attacked-for-sharing-philosophy-classics-online/";>Argentine
 Professor Attacked for Sharing Philosophy Classics Online</a>. The issue is 
one of who controls the copyright of what should normally be considered public 
domain material but is not here, as the professor is evidently distributing 
material that the French publishing house Les Editions du Minuit, claims 
ownership over. <br /><br />The article points out that Argentina, like many 
other countries, must import foundational texts at enormous expense to all. it 
would thus seem as a no-brainer to take things online and distribute not costly 
paper but cheap electrons. But cost for me or you is usually another way of 
saying profit for them. And therein lies the problem that Foss and Open Access 
face: the change in economic practices. <br /><br />Clearly, it is to the 
social good to make as available as possible works generally deemed to be not 
only important but foundational. Arguably, the government or whatever agency 
could pay the publisher and then distribute the properly licensed work. But say 
the government doesn&#x2019;t or cannot do that. Or say that the actual cost is 
so steep that it could more properly be called extortion. Piracy is thus 
inadvertently encouraged, as it is very unlikely that the threat of punishment 
by remote agents will dissuade many; historically, it has not. Thus, and 
obviously, this is not a purely particular issue but a general one, a better 
solution lies in moving away from copyright policies that really only made 
sense before the Internet and before the distribution of copied documents was 
so easy. <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" 
src="http://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6066573634444312912?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com";
 /></div></p>
+<p>
+<em><a 
href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/notes-links-2009-05-19.html";>by 
oulipo ([email protected]) at May 20, 2009 12:52 AM BST</a></em>
+</p>
+<br />
+<hr />
+<br />
 <h2>May 18, 2009</h2>
 <h3>
 <a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing 
Blog">
@@ -463,21 +478,6 @@
 <br />
 <hr />
 <br />
-<h3>
-<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org">
-Benjamin Horst</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1134";>
-Invoicing with OpenOffice.org</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-<p>Dmitri Popov writes <a 
href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/creating-an-invoicing-system-with-openofficeorg.html";><em>Creating
 an Invoicing System with OpenOffice.org</em></a> for the <a 
href="http://blog.worldlabel.com/";>Worldlabel.com Blog</a>.</p>
-<p>Popov walks the reader through the steps, including creating a data source, 
creating an invoice template, creating and printing invoices, and creating an 
invoice manager.</p></p>
-<p>
-<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1134";>by Benjamin Horst at 
May 01, 2009 01:48 AM 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 

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+<item 
rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6066573634444312912">
+       <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Notes, links 2009-05-19</title>
+       
<link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/notes-links-2009-05-19.html</link>
+       <content:encoded>Frustrating doesn&amp;#x2019;t begin to describe it: a 
lot of my mail (IMAP) with my work server chose to vanish. The cause of this 
remains a little mysterious, but it&amp;#x2019;s possible it was because I was 
using Thunderbird and probably had not set it right; or perhaps it was b/c I 
was using Apple&amp;#x2019;s Mail.app, which has had problems accessing and 
downloading copies of messages from the old work server. Either way, a 
stupefying period of hours fixing things wasted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Links: 
One of my favourite sites for Foss news is &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.northxsouth.com/&quot;&gt;Free Software in Latin 
America&lt;/a&gt;. It complements &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.solar.org.ar/&quot;&gt;Solar&lt;/a&gt;, which is mainly 
focused on Argentina, and other sites. For anglophone readers, there is some 
relief: FSLA is in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the best part of FSLA is 
that the articles it includes are very often very interesting. See, for 
example, this: &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.northxsouth.com/2009/05/13/argentine-professor-attacked-for-sharing-philosophy-classics-online/&quot;&gt;Argentine
 Professor Attacked for Sharing Philosophy Classics Online&lt;/a&gt;. The issue 
is one of who controls the copyright of what should normally be considered 
public domain material but is not here, as the professor is evidently 
distributing material that the French publishing house Les Editions du Minuit, 
claims ownership over. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article points out that 
Argentina, like many other countries, must import foundational texts at 
enormous expense to all. it would thus seem as a no-brainer to take things 
online and distribute not costly paper but cheap electrons. But cost for me or 
you is usually another way of saying profit for them. And therein lies the 
problem that Foss and Open Access face: the change in economic practices. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly, it is to the social good to make as available 
as possible works generally deemed to be not only important but foundational. 
Arguably, the government or whatever agency could pay the publisher and then 
distribute the properly licensed work. But say the government 
doesn&amp;#x2019;t or cannot do that. Or say that the actual cost is so steep 
that it could more properly be called extortion. Piracy is thus inadvertently 
encouraged, as it is very unlikely that the threat of punishment by remote 
agents will dissuade many; historically, it has not. Thus, and obviously, this 
is not a purely particular issue but a general one, a better solution lies in 
moving away from copyright policies that really only made sense before the 
Internet and before the distribution of copied documents was so easy. &lt;div 
class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;http://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6066573634444312912?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content:encoded>
+       <dc:date>2009-05-20T00:52:15+00:00</dc:date>
+       <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator>
+</item>
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Momentum</title>
        
<link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-in-education-adoption-is.html</link>
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-       <title>Benjamin Horst: Invoicing with OpenOffice.org</title>
-       <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1134</link>
-       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Dmitri Popov writes &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/creating-an-invoicing-system-with-openofficeorg.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Creating
 an Invoicing System with OpenOffice.org&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://blog.worldlabel.com/&quot;&gt;Worldlabel.com 
Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Popov walks the reader through the steps, including creating a data 
source, creating an invoice template, creating and printing invoices, and 
creating an invoice manager.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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+       <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Notes, links 2009-05-19</title>
+       
<guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6066573634444312912</guid>
+       
<link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/notes-links-2009-05-19.html</link>
+       <description>Frustrating doesn&amp;#x2019;t begin to describe it: a lot 
of my mail (IMAP) with my work server chose to vanish. The cause of this 
remains a little mysterious, but it&amp;#x2019;s possible it was because I was 
using Thunderbird and probably had not set it right; or perhaps it was b/c I 
was using Apple&amp;#x2019;s Mail.app, which has had problems accessing and 
downloading copies of messages from the old work server. Either way, a 
stupefying period of hours fixing things wasted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Links: 
One of my favourite sites for Foss news is &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.northxsouth.com/&quot;&gt;Free Software in Latin 
America&lt;/a&gt;. It complements &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://www.solar.org.ar/&quot;&gt;Solar&lt;/a&gt;, which is mainly 
focused on Argentina, and other sites. For anglophone readers, there is some 
relief: FSLA is in English.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the best part of FSLA is 
that the articles it includes are very often very interesting. See, for 
example, this: &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.northxsouth.com/2009/05/13/argentine-professor-attacked-for-sharing-philosophy-classics-online/&quot;&gt;Argentine
 Professor Attacked for Sharing Philosophy Classics Online&lt;/a&gt;. The issue 
is one of who controls the copyright of what should normally be considered 
public domain material but is not here, as the professor is evidently 
distributing material that the French publishing house Les Editions du Minuit, 
claims ownership over. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article points out that 
Argentina, like many other countries, must import foundational texts at 
enormous expense to all. it would thus seem as a no-brainer to take things 
online and distribute not costly paper but cheap electrons. But cost for me or 
you is usually another way of saying profit for them. And therein lies the 
problem that Foss and Open Access face: the change in economic practices. 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clearly, it is to the social good to make as available 
as possible works generally deemed to be not only important but foundational. 
Arguably, the government or whatever agency could pay the publisher and then 
distribute the properly licensed work. But say the government 
doesn&amp;#x2019;t or cannot do that. Or say that the actual cost is so steep 
that it could more properly be called extortion. Piracy is thus inadvertently 
encouraged, as it is very unlikely that the threat of punishment by remote 
agents will dissuade many; historically, it has not. Thus, and obviously, this 
is not a purely particular issue but a general one, a better solution lies in 
moving away from copyright policies that really only made sense before the 
Internet and before the distribution of copied documents was so easy. &lt;div 
class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;1&quot; 
height=&quot;1&quot; 
src=&quot;http://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6066573634444312912?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
+       <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
+       <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author>
+</item>
+<item>
        <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org in Education: Adoption is Gaining 
Momentum</title>
        
<guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-7194914077082123947</guid>
        
<link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-in-education-adoption-is.html</link>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
        <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author>
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-       <title>Benjamin Horst: Invoicing with OpenOffice.org</title>
-       <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1134</guid>
-       <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/1134</link>
-       <description>&lt;p&gt;Dmitri Popov writes &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/creating-an-invoicing-system-with-openofficeorg.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Creating
 an Invoicing System with OpenOffice.org&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://blog.worldlabel.com/&quot;&gt;Worldlabel.com 
Blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Popov walks the reader through the steps, including creating a data 
source, creating an invoice template, creating and printing invoices, and 
creating an invoice manager.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
-       <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 01:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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