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It&#8217;s a heck of a day today. And somewhere along these lines, you are probably going to see why this blog wasn&#8217;t so active these past months. I will not go over the announcement again here, you can find it at <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org">our new website</a>. But I would like to give more details on and if possible explain what we&#8217;re doing and why we are doing it.</p> +<p>But first let&#8217;s check the basics. What did we announce today?</p> +<ul> +<li>a new initiative to secure the future for the OpenOffice.org community.</li> +<li>this initiative will take the form of a foundation called The Document Foundation.</li> +<li>we want to be a better community, populated and sustained by a large diversity of contributors</li> +<li>we want to develop better, more hackable, and sustainable software</li> +<li>we have binaries available for download starting from today: <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/">Download Libre Office</a> (but enjoy consciously: it&#8217;s beta-quality)</li> +<li>we believe in Free Software: LibreOffice is under the LGPL v3 license .</li> +<li>we believe in Open Standards: we will support, promote and contribute the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and will join the OASIS consortium as soon as possible.</li> +<li>we believe in meritocracy</li> +<li>we do not believe fiduciary copyright agreements are a good thing: In fact, we don&#8217;t have any, which means you get to keep your own copyright on your own contributions (lucky you).</li> +<li>yes, we have developers. Lots of them. But we need more, and especially, we need you.</li> +<li>we invite everyone, yes, everyone, even Oracle, to join us, provided you agree to be a contributor on equal footing with the others.</li> +<li>&#8220;But you&#8217;re working with Novell! Oh my Gosh you&#8217;re working with Novell! You&#8217;re a traitor!&#8221; That might sound surprising but although we use the ooo-build system the similarity with Novell&#8217;s Go-OO stops there. We do start with the OpenOffice.org vanilla version, <em>do not include the Go-OO patches </em>(okay, we do include some nice ones, but no weird OOXML-Icaza-plugin stuff) and <em>add our very own patches</em> to the sauce. Besides, the <a href="http://www.opensource.org">OSI</a> and the <a href="http://www.fsf.org">FSF</a> seem to think it&#8217;s totally fine, and we will not ship Mono stuff, ever. Feeling better now?</li> +</ul> +<p>Now let&#8217;s dwell a bit deeper on what we announced. So why did we announce the birth of The Document Foundation? Why not? A foundation for OpenOffice.org had always been planned. But after ten years, this promise was never fulfilled, and it would seem that the new owner of Sun Microsystems, Oracle, is not keen on engaging too much with the community about this. So we decided to move on by ourselves, and move this project forward. Let&#8217;s be frank: Every FLOSS project has its own set of issues. Inside OpenOffice.org we have many issues, even though it&#8217;s one of the friendliest and most welcoming community you&#8217;ll ever find. But 10 million lines of code that are not easily hackable, a certain heaviness in our process and governance structure made us feel like we had to change something. In fact, I would go as far as claiming that the Document Foundation is the ultimate victory of the old &#8220;StarDivision&#8221; and I do feel this is their moment of glory, even more so if they choose to join us. We feel that what we&#8217;re doing is fundamentally right and is a real opportunity to deliver the promise of Free, Libre and Open Source Software.</p> +<p>Of course, some people will observe that we don&#8217;t seem to have a lot of resources, and they would be right. Let me be very candid on this: The answer is the Community. Sounds naive? Let&#8217;s take a step back for a moment. When the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla Foundation</a> was announced, these guys counted less members and entities supporting us from day one. And what we are focusing on, indeed, is our community. We&#8217;re putting our community first, because that is something we somehow forgot to do in the (recent) past. It&#8217;s time to change that, and it&#8217;s time for The Document Foundation.</p> +<p>Stay tuned!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=239&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_239" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content> + <author> + <name>Charles Schulz</name> + <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> + <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>2010-09-28T11:00:32+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org has been liberated</title> + <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/09/openofficeorg-has-been-liberated.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7899250658893707369</id> + <updated>2010-09-28T10:54:24+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project The Internet, September 28, 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a major change in the projectâs structure.</content> + <author> + <name>Leif Lodahl</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Lodahl's blog</title> + <subtitle type="html">OpenOffice.org, open source software and open standards. These are the three things you can read about on my blog. I'll try to keep you updated on news and events in Denmark. +Okay, sometimes you can read about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/OpenOffice.org"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> + <updated>2010-09-28T11:00:33+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Leaving home</title> + <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/09/28/942/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=942</id> + <updated>2010-09-28T08:32:13+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Our house is very quiet this morning &#8211; for the first time since we moved here, there&#8217;s just my wife and me in residence. Our offspring, both in their twenties, have flown the nest. Our friends report this is happening later and later in their families, with adult children finding it more and more difficult to make the break.</p> +<p>This seems to be a good analogy for the news that I&#8217;m hearing from my former colleagues at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>, where I worked for many years as a volunteer. OpenOffice.org was created ten years ago by Sun Microsystems, then one of the big names in IT, with a mission to challenge Microsoft&#8217;s domination of the office software market. Under Sun&#8217;s generous sponsorship, it proved highly successful, attracting thousands of supporters and around 15% market share.</p> +<p>However, there were increasing calls that it was time for the Community to move out from the parental home and stand on its own two feet. While you&#8217;re living at home, it can be difficult if you want to strike up relationships your parents don&#8217;t approve of, but which may actually be for your own good. Without wanting to stretch the family analogy too far, if your parents then have relationship problems of their own, this can prove the last straw &#8211; and for some key OpenOffice.org volunteers, the acquisition by Oracle of Sun Microsystems last year was indeed the final straw.</p> +<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-944" title="TDF logo" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Logo-small.png" alt="" width="240" height="61" />So, today, the OpenOffice.org community <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4574614.htm">has declared UDI</a>, and has set up an independent foundation &#8211; <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">T</a><a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">he Document Foundation</a> &#8211; where they will be free to live their own lives. They are optimistic that Oracle Corporation will not be too upset with developments, and will agree to pass on to their grown-up children the belongings they have had to leave behind &#8211; such as the OpenOffice.org trademark. In the meantime, they have announced that their future releases of OpenOffice.org will be known as <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice</a>.</p> +<p>I wish them every success in their new, grown-up world.</p></content> + <author> + <name>John McCreesh</name> + <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> + <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> + <updated>2010-09-28T11:00:26+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry> <title type="html">OOo Hackfest</title> <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/09/hackfest-is-shaping-up-to-be-fairly.html"/> @@ -190,7 +273,7 @@ <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>2010-09-27T23:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-09-28T11:00:32+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.3759&r2=1.3760 Delta lines: +68 -1 -------------------- --- index.html 2010-09-28 05:00:37+0000 1.3759 +++ index.html 2010-09-28 11:00:41+0000 1.3760 @@ -36,8 +36,75 @@ <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: September 28, 2010 05:00 AM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: September 28, 2010 11:00 AM CET</em></p> +<h2>September 28, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/09/28/give-up-spoon-feeding-use-a-fork-instead/";> +Give up spoon-feeding: Use a fork instead.</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Weeell. It’s a heck of a day today. And somewhere along these lines, you are probably going to see why this blog wasn’t so active these past months. I will not go over the announcement again here, you can find it at <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org";>our new website</a>. But I would like to give more details on and if possible explain what we’re doing and why we are doing it.</p> +<p>But first let’s check the basics. What did we announce today?</p> +<ul> +<li>a new initiative to secure the future for the OpenOffice.org community.</li> +<li>this initiative will take the form of a foundation called The Document Foundation.</li> +<li>we want to be a better community, populated and sustained by a large diversity of contributors</li> +<li>we want to develop better, more hackable, and sustainable software</li> +<li>we have binaries available for download starting from today: <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/";>Download Libre Office</a> (but enjoy consciously: it’s beta-quality)</li> +<li>we believe in Free Software: LibreOffice is under the LGPL v3 license .</li> +<li>we believe in Open Standards: we will support, promote and contribute the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and will join the OASIS consortium as soon as possible.</li> +<li>we believe in meritocracy</li> +<li>we do not believe fiduciary copyright agreements are a good thing: In fact, we don’t have any, which means you get to keep your own copyright on your own contributions (lucky you).</li> +<li>yes, we have developers. Lots of them. But we need more, and especially, we need you.</li> +<li>we invite everyone, yes, everyone, even Oracle, to join us, provided you agree to be a contributor on equal footing with the others.</li> +<li>“But you’re working with Novell! Oh my Gosh you’re working with Novell! You’re a traitor!” That might sound surprising but although we use the ooo-build system the similarity with Novell’s Go-OO stops there. We do start with the OpenOffice.org vanilla version, <em>do not include the Go-OO patches </em>(okay, we do include some nice ones, but no weird OOXML-Icaza-plugin stuff) and <em>add our very own patches</em> to the sauce. Besides, the <a href="http://www.opensource.org";>OSI</a> and the <a href="http://www.fsf.org";>FSF</a> seem to think it’s totally fine, and we will not ship Mono stuff, ever. Feeling better now?</li> +</ul> +<p>Now let’s dwell a bit deeper on what we announced. So why did we announce the birth of The Document Foundation? Why not? A foundation for OpenOffice.org had always been planned. But after ten years, this promise was never fulfilled, and it would seem that the new owner of Sun Microsystems, Oracle, is not keen on engaging too much with the community about this. So we decided to move on by ourselves, and move this project forward. Let’s be frank: Every FLOSS project has its own set of issues. Inside OpenOffice.org we have many issues, even though it’s one of the friendliest and most welcoming community you’ll ever find. But 10 million lines of code that are not easily hackable, a certain heaviness in our process and governance structure made us feel like we had to change something. In fact, I would go as far as claiming that the Document Foundation is the ultimate victory of the old “StarDivision” and I do feel this is their moment of glory, even more so if they choose to join us. We feel that what we’re doing is fundamentally right and is a real opportunity to deliver the promise of Free, Libre and Open Source Software.</p> +<p>Of course, some people will observe that we don’t seem to have a lot of resources, and they would be right. Let me be very candid on this: The answer is the Community. Sounds naive? Let’s take a step back for a moment. When the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org";>Mozilla Foundation</a> was announced, these guys counted less members and entities supporting us from day one. And what we are focusing on, indeed, is our community. We’re putting our community first, because that is something we somehow forgot to do in the (recent) past. It’s time to change that, and it’s time for The Document Foundation.</p> +<p>Stay tuned!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=239&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_239" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/09/28/give-up-spoon-feeding-use-a-fork-instead/";>by Charles at September 28, 2010 09:59 AM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/search/label/OpenOffice.org"; title="Lodahl's blog"> +Leif Lodahl</a> : +<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/09/openofficeorg-has-been-liberated.html";> +OpenOffice.org has been liberated</a> +</h3> +<p> +OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project The Internet, September 28, 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a major change in the projectâs structure.</p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/09/openofficeorg-has-been-liberated.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at September 28, 2010 10:54 AM CEST</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> +John McCreesh</a> : +<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/09/28/942/";> +Leaving home</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Our house is very quiet this morning – for the first time since we moved here, there’s just my wife and me in residence. Our offspring, both in their twenties, have flown the nest. Our friends report this is happening later and later in their families, with adult children finding it more and more difficult to make the break.</p> +<p>This seems to be a good analogy for the news that I’m hearing from my former colleagues at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org</a>, where I worked for many years as a volunteer. OpenOffice.org was created ten years ago by Sun Microsystems, then one of the big names in IT, with a mission to challenge Microsoft’s domination of the office software market. Under Sun’s generous sponsorship, it proved highly successful, attracting thousands of supporters and around 15% market share.</p> +<p>However, there were increasing calls that it was time for the Community to move out from the parental home and stand on its own two feet. While you’re living at home, it can be difficult if you want to strike up relationships your parents don’t approve of, but which may actually be for your own good. Without wanting to stretch the family analogy too far, if your parents then have relationship problems of their own, this can prove the last straw – and for some key OpenOffice.org volunteers, the acquisition by Oracle of Sun Microsystems last year was indeed the final straw.</p> +<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-944" title="TDF logo" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Logo-small.png"; alt="" width="240" height="61" />So, today, the OpenOffice.org community <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4574614.htm";>has declared UDI</a>, and has set up an independent foundation – <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/";>T</a><a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/";>he Document Foundation</a> – where they will be free to live their own lives. They are optimistic that Oracle Corporation will not be too upset with developments, and will agree to pass on to their grown-up children the belongings they have had to leave behind – such as the OpenOffice.org trademark. In the meantime, they have announced that their future releases of OpenOffice.org will be known as <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/";>LibreOffice</a>.</p> +<p>I wish them every success in their new, grown-up world.</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/09/28/942/";>by John at September 28, 2010 08:32 AM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>September 15, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.3752&r2=1.3753 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-09-28 05:00:38+0000 1.3752 +++ opml.xml 2010-09-28 11:00:42+0000 1.3753 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:00:33 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:00:36 +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=1.1032&r2=1.1033 Delta lines: +46 -0 -------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-09-15 17:00:36+0000 1.1032 +++ rss10.xml 2010-09-28 11:00:42+0000 1.1033 @@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=239"; /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7899250658893707369" /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=942"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-7844074558273573745" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4231653303691590089" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-1144106250576614604" /> @@ -26,6 +29,49 @@ </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=239";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Give up spoon-feeding: Use a fork instead.</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/09/28/give-up-spoon-feeding-use-a-fork-instead/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Weeell. It&#8217;s a heck of a day today. And somewhere along these lines, you are probably going to see why this blog wasn&#8217;t so active these past months. I will not go over the announcement again here, you can find it at <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org">our new website</a>. But I would like to give more details on and if possible explain what we&#8217;re doing and why we are doing it.</p> +<p>But first let&#8217;s check the basics. What did we announce today?</p> +<ul> +<li>a new initiative to secure the future for the OpenOffice.org community.</li> +<li>this initiative will take the form of a foundation called The Document Foundation.</li> +<li>we want to be a better community, populated and sustained by a large diversity of contributors</li> +<li>we want to develop better, more hackable, and sustainable software</li> +<li>we have binaries available for download starting from today: <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/">Download Libre Office</a> (but enjoy consciously: it&#8217;s beta-quality)</li> +<li>we believe in Free Software: LibreOffice is under the LGPL v3 license .</li> +<li>we believe in Open Standards: we will support, promote and contribute the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and will join the OASIS consortium as soon as possible.</li> +<li>we believe in meritocracy</li> +<li>we do not believe fiduciary copyright agreements are a good thing: In fact, we don&#8217;t have any, which means you get to keep your own copyright on your own contributions (lucky you).</li> +<li>yes, we have developers. Lots of them. But we need more, and especially, we need you.</li> +<li>we invite everyone, yes, everyone, even Oracle, to join us, provided you agree to be a contributor on equal footing with the others.</li> +<li>&#8220;But you&#8217;re working with Novell! Oh my Gosh you&#8217;re working with Novell! You&#8217;re a traitor!&#8221; That might sound surprising but although we use the ooo-build system the similarity with Novell&#8217;s Go-OO stops there. We do start with the OpenOffice.org vanilla version, <em>do not include the Go-OO patches </em>(okay, we do include some nice ones, but no weird OOXML-Icaza-plugin stuff) and <em>add our very own patches</em> to the sauce. Besides, the <a href="http://www.opensource.org">OSI</a> and the <a href="http://www.fsf.org">FSF</a> seem to think it&#8217;s totally fine, and we will not ship Mono stuff, ever. Feeling better now?</li> +</ul> +<p>Now let&#8217;s dwell a bit deeper on what we announced. So why did we announce the birth of The Document Foundation? Why not? A foundation for OpenOffice.org had always been planned. But after ten years, this promise was never fulfilled, and it would seem that the new owner of Sun Microsystems, Oracle, is not keen on engaging too much with the community about this. So we decided to move on by ourselves, and move this project forward. Let&#8217;s be frank: Every FLOSS project has its own set of issues. Inside OpenOffice.org we have many issues, even though it&#8217;s one of the friendliest and most welcoming community you&#8217;ll ever find. But 10 million lines of code that are not easily hackable, a certain heaviness in our process and governance structure made us feel like we had to change something. In fact, I would go as far as claiming that the Document Foundation is the ultimate victory of the old &#8220;StarDivision&#8221; and I do feel this is their moment of glory, even more so if they choose to join us. We feel that what we&#8217;re doing is fundamentally right and is a real opportunity to deliver the promise of Free, Libre and Open Source Software.</p> +<p>Of course, some people will observe that we don&#8217;t seem to have a lot of resources, and they would be right. Let me be very candid on this: The answer is the Community. Sounds naive? Let&#8217;s take a step back for a moment. When the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla Foundation</a> was announced, these guys counted less members and entities supporting us from day one. And what we are focusing on, indeed, is our community. We&#8217;re putting our community first, because that is something we somehow forgot to do in the (recent) past. It&#8217;s time to change that, and it&#8217;s time for The Document Foundation.</p> +<p>Stay tuned!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=239&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_239" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-09-28T09:59:18+00:00</dc:date> +</item> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7899250658893707369"> + <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org has been liberated</title> + <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/09/openofficeorg-has-been-liberated.html</link> + <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project The Internet, September 28, 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a major change in the projectâs structure.</content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-09-28T10:54:24+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> +</item> +<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=942";> + <title>John McCreesh: Leaving home</title> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/09/28/942/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Our house is very quiet this morning &#8211; for the first time since we moved here, there&#8217;s just my wife and me in residence. Our offspring, both in their twenties, have flown the nest. Our friends report this is happening later and later in their families, with adult children finding it more and more difficult to make the break.</p> +<p>This seems to be a good analogy for the news that I&#8217;m hearing from my former colleagues at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>, where I worked for many years as a volunteer. OpenOffice.org was created ten years ago by Sun Microsystems, then one of the big names in IT, with a mission to challenge Microsoft&#8217;s domination of the office software market. Under Sun&#8217;s generous sponsorship, it proved highly successful, attracting thousands of supporters and around 15% market share.</p> +<p>However, there were increasing calls that it was time for the Community to move out from the parental home and stand on its own two feet. While you&#8217;re living at home, it can be difficult if you want to strike up relationships your parents don&#8217;t approve of, but which may actually be for your own good. Without wanting to stretch the family analogy too far, if your parents then have relationship problems of their own, this can prove the last straw &#8211; and for some key OpenOffice.org volunteers, the acquisition by Oracle of Sun Microsystems last year was indeed the final straw.</p> +<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-944" title="TDF logo" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Logo-small.png" alt="" width="240" height="61" />So, today, the OpenOffice.org community <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4574614.htm">has declared UDI</a>, and has set up an independent foundation &#8211; <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">T</a><a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">he Document Foundation</a> &#8211; where they will be free to live their own lives. They are optimistic that Oracle Corporation will not be too upset with developments, and will agree to pass on to their grown-up children the belongings they have had to leave behind &#8211; such as the OpenOffice.org trademark. In the meantime, they have announced that their future releases of OpenOffice.org will be known as <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice</a>.</p> +<p>I wish them every success in their new, grown-up world.</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-09-28T08:32:13+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-7844074558273573745"> <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: OOo Hackfest</title> <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/09/hackfest-is-shaping-up-to-be-fairly.html</link> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.1032&r2=1.1033 Delta lines: +46 -0 -------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-09-15 17:00:36+0000 1.1032 +++ rss20.xml 2010-09-28 11:00:44+0000 1.1033 @@ -8,6 +8,52 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Give up spoon-feeding: Use a fork instead.</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=239</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/09/28/give-up-spoon-feeding-use-a-fork-instead/</link> + <description><p>Weeell. It&#8217;s a heck of a day today. And somewhere along these lines, you are probably going to see why this blog wasn&#8217;t so active these past months. I will not go over the announcement again here, you can find it at <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org">our new website</a>. But I would like to give more details on and if possible explain what we&#8217;re doing and why we are doing it.</p> +<p>But first let&#8217;s check the basics. What did we announce today?</p> +<ul> +<li>a new initiative to secure the future for the OpenOffice.org community.</li> +<li>this initiative will take the form of a foundation called The Document Foundation.</li> +<li>we want to be a better community, populated and sustained by a large diversity of contributors</li> +<li>we want to develop better, more hackable, and sustainable software</li> +<li>we have binaries available for download starting from today: <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/">Download Libre Office</a> (but enjoy consciously: it&#8217;s beta-quality)</li> +<li>we believe in Free Software: LibreOffice is under the LGPL v3 license .</li> +<li>we believe in Open Standards: we will support, promote and contribute the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and will join the OASIS consortium as soon as possible.</li> +<li>we believe in meritocracy</li> +<li>we do not believe fiduciary copyright agreements are a good thing: In fact, we don&#8217;t have any, which means you get to keep your own copyright on your own contributions (lucky you).</li> +<li>yes, we have developers. Lots of them. But we need more, and especially, we need you.</li> +<li>we invite everyone, yes, everyone, even Oracle, to join us, provided you agree to be a contributor on equal footing with the others.</li> +<li>&#8220;But you&#8217;re working with Novell! Oh my Gosh you&#8217;re working with Novell! You&#8217;re a traitor!&#8221; That might sound surprising but although we use the ooo-build system the similarity with Novell&#8217;s Go-OO stops there. We do start with the OpenOffice.org vanilla version, <em>do not include the Go-OO patches </em>(okay, we do include some nice ones, but no weird OOXML-Icaza-plugin stuff) and <em>add our very own patches</em> to the sauce. Besides, the <a href="http://www.opensource.org">OSI</a> and the <a href="http://www.fsf.org">FSF</a> seem to think it&#8217;s totally fine, and we will not ship Mono stuff, ever. Feeling better now?</li> +</ul> +<p>Now let&#8217;s dwell a bit deeper on what we announced. So why did we announce the birth of The Document Foundation? Why not? A foundation for OpenOffice.org had always been planned. But after ten years, this promise was never fulfilled, and it would seem that the new owner of Sun Microsystems, Oracle, is not keen on engaging too much with the community about this. So we decided to move on by ourselves, and move this project forward. Let&#8217;s be frank: Every FLOSS project has its own set of issues. Inside OpenOffice.org we have many issues, even though it&#8217;s one of the friendliest and most welcoming community you&#8217;ll ever find. But 10 million lines of code that are not easily hackable, a certain heaviness in our process and governance structure made us feel like we had to change something. In fact, I would go as far as claiming that the Document Foundation is the ultimate victory of the old &#8220;StarDivision&#8221; and I do feel this is their moment of glory, even more so if they choose to join us. We feel that what we&#8217;re doing is fundamentally right and is a real opportunity to deliver the promise of Free, Libre and Open Source Software.</p> +<p>Of course, some people will observe that we don&#8217;t seem to have a lot of resources, and they would be right. Let me be very candid on this: The answer is the Community. Sounds naive? Let&#8217;s take a step back for a moment. When the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org">Mozilla Foundation</a> was announced, these guys counted less members and entities supporting us from day one. And what we are focusing on, indeed, is our community. We&#8217;re putting our community first, because that is something we somehow forgot to do in the (recent) past. It&#8217;s time to change that, and it&#8217;s time for The Document Foundation.</p> +<p>Stay tuned!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=239&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_239" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:59:18 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> + <title>Leif Lodahl: OpenOffice.org has been liberated</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-7899250658893707369</guid> + <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2010/09/openofficeorg-has-been-liberated.html</link> + <description>OpenOffice.org Community announces The Document Foundation The community of volunteers developing and promoting OpenOffice.org sets up an independent Foundation to drive the further growth of the project The Internet, September 28, 2010 - The community of volunteers who develop and promote OpenOffice.org, the leading free office software, announce a major change in the projectâs structure.</description> + <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:54:24 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> +</item> +<item> + <title>John McCreesh: Leaving home</title> + <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=942</guid> + <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/09/28/942/</link> + <description><p>Our house is very quiet this morning &#8211; for the first time since we moved here, there&#8217;s just my wife and me in residence. Our offspring, both in their twenties, have flown the nest. Our friends report this is happening later and later in their families, with adult children finding it more and more difficult to make the break.</p> +<p>This seems to be a good analogy for the news that I&#8217;m hearing from my former colleagues at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org</a>, where I worked for many years as a volunteer. OpenOffice.org was created ten years ago by Sun Microsystems, then one of the big names in IT, with a mission to challenge Microsoft&#8217;s domination of the office software market. Under Sun&#8217;s generous sponsorship, it proved highly successful, attracting thousands of supporters and around 15% market share.</p> +<p>However, there were increasing calls that it was time for the Community to move out from the parental home and stand on its own two feet. While you&#8217;re living at home, it can be difficult if you want to strike up relationships your parents don&#8217;t approve of, but which may actually be for your own good. Without wanting to stretch the family analogy too far, if your parents then have relationship problems of their own, this can prove the last straw &#8211; and for some key OpenOffice.org volunteers, the acquisition by Oracle of Sun Microsystems last year was indeed the final straw.</p> +<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-944" title="TDF logo" src="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Logo-small.png" alt="" width="240" height="61" />So, today, the OpenOffice.org community <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/09/prweb4574614.htm">has declared UDI</a>, and has set up an independent foundation &#8211; <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">T</a><a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/">he Document Foundation</a> &#8211; where they will be free to live their own lives. They are optimistic that Oracle Corporation will not be too upset with developments, and will agree to pass on to their grown-up children the belongings they have had to leave behind &#8211; such as the OpenOffice.org trademark. In the meantime, they have announced that their future releases of OpenOffice.org will be known as <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice</a>.</p> +<p>I wish them every success in their new, grown-up world.</p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:32:13 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: OOo Hackfest</title> <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-7844074558273573745</guid> <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2010/09/hackfest-is-shaping-up-to-be-fairly.html</link> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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