User: jpmcc Date: 2010-03-06 06:00:35+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 Sat Mar 6 07:00:12 CET 2010 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.3024&r2=1.3025 Delta lines: +31 -31 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-03-06 00:00:34+0000 1.3024 +++ atom.xml 2010-03-06 06:00:31+0000 1.3025 @@ -5,9 +5,29 @@ <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>2010-03-06T00:00:32+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:29+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry> + <title type="html">marketing: Download Statistics</title> + <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/marketing-download-statistics.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-795143047507037884</id> + <updated>2010-03-05T19:25:21+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><div>From time to time I'm asked about download stats. I used to keep a fairly constant (weekly) log at stats.openoffice.org, but technology changes and right now, the best public source is off the OOo Marketing Project page, which John McC and Florian E. maintain using data from our bouncer and MirrorBrain systems. See: <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html</a>. All the data here presented need to be taken with some understanding of what's being shown, both to forgive duplicates and also to allow for the distribution of OOo via CDROM, DVD, USB key, etc. These modes are not trivial, if you consider that a large entity, say Ãle-de-France (Paris and environs), or the municipality of Bologna, may distribute in the end hundreds of thousands via USB key. And we don't track that. As well, most of these data reflect Windows downloads, as Linux distributors package a version of OOo with their plastic, and again, we don't track those distributions. Same for free-download sites such as CNET, etc.<br /><br />(See also our Major Deployments page: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments</a><br /><br />So there are subtractions and additions here, but the numbers displayed give a good measure of OOo's continually rising popularity.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-795143047507037884?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></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>2010-03-06T06:00:21+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Rebranding OpenOffice.org</title> <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/04/rebranding-openofficeorg/"/> @@ -34,7 +54,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-03-05T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -54,7 +74,7 @@ <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>2010-03-04T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -75,7 +95,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-03-06T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -98,7 +118,7 @@ <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>2010-03-06T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -167,7 +187,7 @@ <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>2010-03-06T00:00:18+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -209,7 +229,7 @@ <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>2010-03-04T06:00:20+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:21+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -279,7 +299,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-03-06T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -352,7 +372,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-03-05T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -375,7 +395,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-03-06T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -429,7 +449,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-03-06T00:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-03-06T06:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -455,24 +475,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering - NYTimes.com</title> - <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/02/do-it-yourself-genetic-engineering.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6286556479820869743</id> - <updated>2010-02-14T10:30:23+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><div>There are several interesting things in this article, not least of which is the open source element. The information--the knowledge &amp; to a degree skill (so important in bench science)--created and then archived is in accordance with open-source principles and, I surmise, license. This set up and logical arrangement allows supervised students to work with industry on projects that both teaches them the basics of the science (how to do x) and produces real knowledge for others. (Call it the end of adolescence: thankfully.)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When I set up the Education Project at OpenOffice.org lo these many years ago (2004 or so, inspired by a visit to Greece and Crete where late at night we discussed the problematic of finding and inspiring developers for Foss projects), my vision was more or less like the one underwriting the one above: engage students in CS by giving them work they find interesting and that is more than merely doing what a billion of their forebears have already done: Let them do new work, collaboratively, with others who are not students. My model was the grad class &amp; lab in any number of fields, but especially science, and my interest lay not only in resolving the developer bottleneck but in moving away from the strictures put on knowledge by commodity culture. </div><div><br /></div><div>(Commodity culture here parcels objects according to commodity value, and this means that learning, as well as doing, are affected, as to learn X in commodity culture necessarily implies an investment of money, unless X exists in the public domain or its equivalent, where the cost of its existence has already been paid or is seen as outside of any economic valuation. The result is necessarily a shabby education, unless one comes from a culture and society whose wealth, visible or invisible, obvious or taken for granted, overwhelms the associated costs. Such a place was once the United States, where disinterested liberal education was once possible; and it was also and to a degree still exists elsewhere in the developed world--indeed, it's almost a definition of development, to have this sort of free (paid-for) knowledge. But it's disappearing there and has never really been present in the developing--aka postcolonial--world, where for many students knowledge of, even the things we in the developed countries take for granted (free), is immensely costly and requires the outlay of risk far beyond what most would consider reasonable.)</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14Biology-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all">Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering - NYTimes.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6286556479820869743?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></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>2010-03-04T06:00:20+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.3031&r2=1.3032 Delta lines: +16 -15 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-03-06 00:00:34+0000 1.3031 +++ index.html 2010-03-06 06:00:32+0000 1.3032 @@ -37,8 +37,23 @@ <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: March 06, 2010 12:00 AM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: March 06, 2010 06:00 AM CET</em></p> +<h2>March 05, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> +Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : +<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/marketing-download-statistics.html";> +marketing: Download Statistics</a> +</h3> +<p> +<div>From time to time I'm asked about download stats. I used to keep a fairly constant (weekly) log at stats.openoffice.org, but technology changes and right now, the best public source is off the OOo Marketing Project page, which John McC and Florian E. maintain using data from our bouncer and MirrorBrain systems. See: <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html";>http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html</a>. All the data here presented need to be taken with some understanding of what's being shown, both to forgive duplicates and also to allow for the distribution of OOo via CDROM, DVD, USB key, etc. These modes are not trivial, if you consider that a large entity, say Ãle-de-France (Paris and environs), or the municipality of Bologna, may distribute in the end hundreds of thousands via USB key. And we don't track that. As well, most of these data reflect Windows downloads, as Linux distributors package a version of OOo with their plastic, and again, we don't track those distributions. Same for free-download sites such as CNET, etc.<br /><br />(See also our Major Deployments page: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments";>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments</a><br /><br />So there are subtractions and additions here, but the numbers displayed give a good measure of OOo's continually rising popularity.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-795143047507037884?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; alt="" /></div></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/marketing-download-statistics.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at March 05, 2010 07:25 PM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>March 04, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> @@ -401,20 +416,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> -Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/02/do-it-yourself-genetic-engineering.html";> -Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering - NYTimes.com</a> -</h3> -<p> -<div>There are several interesting things in this article, not least of which is the open source element. The information--the knowledge & to a degree skill (so important in bench science)--created and then archived is in accordance with open-source principles and, I surmise, license. This set up and logical arrangement allows supervised students to work with industry on projects that both teaches them the basics of the science (how to do x) and produces real knowledge for others. (Call it the end of adolescence: thankfully.)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When I set up the Education Project at OpenOffice.org lo these many years ago (2004 or so, inspired by a visit to Greece and Crete where late at night we discussed the problematic of finding and inspiring developers for Foss projects), my vision was more or less like the one underwriting the one above: engage students in CS by giving them work they find interesting and that is more than merely doing what a billion of their forebears have already done: Let them do new work, collaboratively, with others who are not students. My model was the grad class & lab in any number of fields, but especially science, and my interest lay not only in resolving the developer bottleneck but in moving away from the strictures put on knowledge by commodity culture. </div><div><br /></div><div>(Commodity culture here parcels objects according to commodity value, and this means that learning, as well as doing, are affected, as to learn X in commodity culture necessarily implies an investment of money, unless X exists in the public domain or its equivalent, where the cost of its existence has already been paid or is seen as outside of any economic valuation. The result is necessarily a shabby education, unless one comes from a culture and society whose wealth, visible or invisible, obvious or taken for granted, overwhelms the associated costs. Such a place was once the United States, where disinterested liberal education was once possible; and it was also and to a degree still exists elsewhere in the developed world--indeed, it's almost a definition of development, to have this sort of free (paid-for) knowledge. But it's disappearing there and has never really been present in the developing--aka postcolonial--world, where for many students knowledge of, even the things we in the developed countries take for granted (free), is immensely costly and requires the outlay of risk far beyond what most would consider reasonable.)</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14Biology-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all";>Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering - NYTimes.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6286556479820869743?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; alt="" /></div></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/02/do-it-yourself-genetic-engineering.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at February 14, 2010 10:30 AM CET</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=1.3024&r2=1.3025 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-03-06 00:00:35+0000 1.3024 +++ opml.xml 2010-03-06 06:00:32+0000 1.3025 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:32 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:00:29 +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=1.955&r2=1.956 Delta lines: +8 -8 ------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-03-05 18:00:35+0000 1.955 +++ rss10.xml 2010-03-06 06:00:32+0000 1.956 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-795143047507037884" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/04/rebranding-openofficeorg/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4001571820383438801" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=852"; /> @@ -32,11 +33,17 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2257"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=839"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.instapaper.com/go/23178066"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6286556479820869743" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-795143047507037884"> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: marketing: Download Statistics</title> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/marketing-download-statistics.html</link> + <content:encoded><div>From time to time I'm asked about download stats. I used to keep a fairly constant (weekly) log at stats.openoffice.org, but technology changes and right now, the best public source is off the OOo Marketing Project page, which John McC and Florian E. maintain using data from our bouncer and MirrorBrain systems. See: <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html</a>. All the data here presented need to be taken with some understanding of what's being shown, both to forgive duplicates and also to allow for the distribution of OOo via CDROM, DVD, USB key, etc. These modes are not trivial, if you consider that a large entity, say Ãle-de-France (Paris and environs), or the municipality of Bologna, may distribute in the end hundreds of thousands via USB key. And we don't track that. As well, most of these data reflect Windows downloads, as Linux distributors package a version of OOo with their plastic, and again, we don't track those distributions. Same for free-download sites such as CNET, etc.<br /><br />(See also our Major Deployments page: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments</a><br /><br />So there are subtractions and additions here, but the numbers displayed give a good measure of OOo's continually rising popularity.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-795143047507037884?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-03-05T19:25:21+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/04/rebranding-openofficeorg/";> <title>Charles Schulz: Rebranding OpenOffice.org</title> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/04/rebranding-openofficeorg/</link> @@ -240,12 +247,5 @@ </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/iMPUDpWBWWg" height="1" width="1" /></content:encoded> <dc:date>2010-02-14T11:02:43+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6286556479820869743"> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering - NYTimes.com</title> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/02/do-it-yourself-genetic-engineering.html</link> - <content:encoded><div>There are several interesting things in this article, not least of which is the open source element. The information--the knowledge &amp; to a degree skill (so important in bench science)--created and then archived is in accordance with open-source principles and, I surmise, license. This set up and logical arrangement allows supervised students to work with industry on projects that both teaches them the basics of the science (how to do x) and produces real knowledge for others. (Call it the end of adolescence: thankfully.)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When I set up the Education Project at OpenOffice.org lo these many years ago (2004 or so, inspired by a visit to Greece and Crete where late at night we discussed the problematic of finding and inspiring developers for Foss projects), my vision was more or less like the one underwriting the one above: engage students in CS by giving them work they find interesting and that is more than merely doing what a billion of their forebears have already done: Let them do new work, collaboratively, with others who are not students. My model was the grad class &amp; lab in any number of fields, but especially science, and my interest lay not only in resolving the developer bottleneck but in moving away from the strictures put on knowledge by commodity culture. </div><div><br /></div><div>(Commodity culture here parcels objects according to commodity value, and this means that learning, as well as doing, are affected, as to learn X in commodity culture necessarily implies an investment of money, unless X exists in the public domain or its equivalent, where the cost of its existence has already been paid or is seen as outside of any economic valuation. The result is necessarily a shabby education, unless one comes from a culture and society whose wealth, visible or invisible, obvious or taken for granted, overwhelms the associated costs. Such a place was once the United States, where disinterested liberal education was once possible; and it was also and to a degree still exists elsewhere in the developed world--indeed, it's almost a definition of development, to have this sort of free (paid-for) knowledge. But it's disappearing there and has never really been present in the developing--aka postcolonial--world, where for many students knowledge of, even the things we in the developed countries take for granted (free), is immensely costly and requires the outlay of risk far beyond what most would consider reasonable.)</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14Biology-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all">Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering - NYTimes.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6286556479820869743?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2010-02-14T10:30:23+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.955&r2=1.956 Delta lines: +8 -8 ------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-03-05 18:00:35+0000 1.955 +++ rss20.xml 2010-03-06 06:00:32+0000 1.956 @@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: marketing: Download Statistics</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-795143047507037884</guid> + <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/03/marketing-download-statistics.html</link> + <description><div>From time to time I'm asked about download stats. I used to keep a fairly constant (weekly) log at stats.openoffice.org, but technology changes and right now, the best public source is off the OOo Marketing Project page, which John McC and Florian E. maintain using data from our bouncer and MirrorBrain systems. See: <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html</a>. All the data here presented need to be taken with some understanding of what's being shown, both to forgive duplicates and also to allow for the distribution of OOo via CDROM, DVD, USB key, etc. These modes are not trivial, if you consider that a large entity, say Ãle-de-France (Paris and environs), or the municipality of Bologna, may distribute in the end hundreds of thousands via USB key. And we don't track that. As well, most of these data reflect Windows downloads, as Linux distributors package a version of OOo with their plastic, and again, we don't track those distributions. Same for free-download sites such as CNET, etc.<br /><br />(See also our Major Deployments page: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments</a><br /><br />So there are subtractions and additions here, but the numbers displayed give a good measure of OOo's continually rising popularity.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-795143047507037884?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></description> + <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:25:21 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>Charles Schulz: Rebranding OpenOffice.org</title> <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/04/rebranding-openofficeorg/</guid> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/03/04/rebranding-openofficeorg/</link> @@ -227,14 +235,6 @@ </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/iMPUDpWBWWg" height="1" width="1" /></description> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:02:43 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering - NYTimes.com</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-6286556479820869743</guid> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/02/do-it-yourself-genetic-engineering.html</link> - <description><div>There are several interesting things in this article, not least of which is the open source element. The information--the knowledge &amp; to a degree skill (so important in bench science)--created and then archived is in accordance with open-source principles and, I surmise, license. This set up and logical arrangement allows supervised students to work with industry on projects that both teaches them the basics of the science (how to do x) and produces real knowledge for others. (Call it the end of adolescence: thankfully.)<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When I set up the Education Project at OpenOffice.org lo these many years ago (2004 or so, inspired by a visit to Greece and Crete where late at night we discussed the problematic of finding and inspiring developers for Foss projects), my vision was more or less like the one underwriting the one above: engage students in CS by giving them work they find interesting and that is more than merely doing what a billion of their forebears have already done: Let them do new work, collaboratively, with others who are not students. My model was the grad class &amp; lab in any number of fields, but especially science, and my interest lay not only in resolving the developer bottleneck but in moving away from the strictures put on knowledge by commodity culture. </div><div><br /></div><div>(Commodity culture here parcels objects according to commodity value, and this means that learning, as well as doing, are affected, as to learn X in commodity culture necessarily implies an investment of money, unless X exists in the public domain or its equivalent, where the cost of its existence has already been paid or is seen as outside of any economic valuation. The result is necessarily a shabby education, unless one comes from a culture and society whose wealth, visible or invisible, obvious or taken for granted, overwhelms the associated costs. Such a place was once the United States, where disinterested liberal education was once possible; and it was also and to a degree still exists elsewhere in the developed world--indeed, it's almost a definition of development, to have this sort of free (paid-for) knowledge. But it's disappearing there and has never really been present in the developing--aka postcolonial--world, where for many students knowledge of, even the things we in the developed countries take for granted (free), is immensely costly and requires the outlay of risk far beyond what most would consider reasonable.)</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14Biology-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all">Do-It-Yourself Genetic Engineering - NYTimes.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-6286556479820869743?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div></description> - <pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:30:23 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
