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Log: Planet run at Wed Jan 7 00:00:33 GMT 2009 File Changes: Directory: /native-lang/www/planet/ =================================== File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.1155&r2=1.1156 Delta lines: +45 -106 ---------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-01-06 17:59:46+0000 1.1155 +++ atom.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:43+0000 1.1156 @@ -5,9 +5,46 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:42+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:38+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Predictions &amp; Resolutions</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</id> + <updated>2009-01-06T22:10:36+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let&#8217;s tie those together in this post&#8230;<span class="Apple-style-span">Predictions:</span> +<ul> +<li> It will be a great year for Free &amp; Open Source Software. I know it&#8217;s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. budgets resulting from the global crisis money would be less spent on expensive licensing, but I do buy into this theory. However it&#8217;s certainly not the only explanation: Free Software gets better, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop (yet tries hard to come back with Silverlight and other initiatives), and applications go in the cloud.</li> +<li>Talking about the cloud, we will see this trend going. But there&#8217;s a paradox in this pattern: do not believe that people only need a browser and do not pay attention to their actual desktop. They do, and they want a nice user experience, bells and whistles that do not actually annoy them, and fewer glitches.</li> +<li>It&#8217;s been a reality in 2008, and will get even more obvious by 2009: consumers dictate what they want as an user experience, corporate (office) computing follows, just the opposite as what was going on in the eighties. But perhaps a better way of putting it is that those lines defined by mom and pop marketing concepts are blurring. </li> +<li>Office computing, the good old days: Microsoft seems to have some trouble implementing ODF. But they claim to have no difficulty with OOXML. That alone should remind all of us of an all too well known pattern: the format wars. It&#8217;s made a come-back ever since 2007, it will get sneaker, although less flamboyant in 2009.</li> +<li>Microsoft is changing. Yes you read that well, on this blog. I sincerely think that there is an old guard and a new guard in Microsoft. I also think that this company is becoming more and more like any other big business: people will be fired by the thousands, and that does not make me happy. But while some of the teams there want to play a normal game, most of the people who call the shots don&#8217;t want to do that; hence friction will be in the air. I don&#8217;t really expect to see a visible schism inside Microsoft happening before 2011-2012, but it will be interesting to watch what will be going on in 2009 on this issue.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Resolutions</span> +<ul> +<li>This year, I promess: I will make money. I swear. Tons of money. Yeah, right. </li> +<li> I&#8217;ll get greener. I don&#8217;t have a car, happen to eat organic food very frequently, recycle my trash, but there are many other ways I can contribute to save the planet.</li> +<li>That&#8217;s it, you caught me right there: <span class="Apple-style-span">I will come back on GNU/Linux. </span>What this means is that in my craziest deams, I will have a real workstation with Linux, and a nice MacBook(Pro?) running OS X. Aside DRM on iTunes which seems to stand on an EOL support ever since yesterday, Macs are pretty cool, both on hardware and software. But I miss Linux. I really do.</li> +<li>Using Linux, I will mostly use KDE 4. I tried it, configured it on several desktops and although it&#8217;s not fully completed, it rocks and it&#8217;s really impressive. You should give it a try.</li> +<li>Last but not least? Think hard about how not to annoy my readers.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=111&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_111" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></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>2009-01-07T00:00:34+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="fr"> <title type="html">Orca et OpenOffice.org</title> <link href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/03/98-orca-et-openofficeorg"/> @@ -91,7 +128,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/> <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:41+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -178,7 +215,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:35+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -252,7 +289,7 @@ <title type="html">andreasma_at_ooo</title> <link rel="self" href="http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss"/> <id>http://andreasmaooo.blogger.de/rss</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:39+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:35+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -288,7 +325,7 @@ <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>2009-01-06T06:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -354,7 +391,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/> <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:41+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -381,7 +418,7 @@ <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>2009-01-06T06:00:34+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -402,7 +439,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/> <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:41+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-01-07T00:00:37+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -427,102 +464,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry xml:lang="utf-8"> - <title type="html">Two from Greek NL Project, makes 31 :)</title> - <link href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/"/> - <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/</id> - <updated>2008-12-07T03:05:08+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Good morning from Ichinoseki, Iwate, Tohoku area, the northern part of Japan's main island. It's fine today with blue sky and white bright clouds.<br /> -<br /> -Outside my partner and daughter are getting ready to take my picture for the Part II.<br /> -:)<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/07/84/a0005484_124078.jpg" border="0" width="336" height="475" /></center></content> - <author> - <name>khparametric</name> - <uri>http://openoffice.exblog.jp</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Hirano, Kazunari</title> - <subtitle type="html">Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/> - <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:41+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">Extension: Lorem ipsum</title> - <link href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-lorem-ipsum.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6557940109051977290</id> - <updated>2008-12-06T18:47:33+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">This free extension generates Lorem ipsum dummy text from www.lipsum.com. I made this one my self by the way. - -When you install this extension you will se another icon in the icon bar. Click the icon and you will see a dialog, where you can select how much Lorem Ipsum text you want. Select a number and select paragraph, words, bytes or list. - -You can also choose if your tex should begin with '</content> - <author> - <name>Leif Lodahl</name> - <email>[email protected]</email> - <uri>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/</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 something about Lotus Notes too</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T06:00:38+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="utf-8"> - <title type="html">Welcome! Lithuanian, Pashto and Odt2dtbook Team Leader</title> - <link href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/"/> - <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/</id> - <updated>2008-12-06T16:11:51+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">Yesterday and today I got picutures from Lithuanian translator, Pashto NL Project and Odt2dtbook team leader. Now we are 29 on the Part II.<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/07/84/a0005484_110523.jpg" border="0" width="332" height="474" /></center></content> - <author> - <name>khparametric</name> - <uri>http://openoffice.exblog.jp</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Hirano, Kazunari</title> - <subtitle type="html">Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/> - <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:41+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="utf-8"> - <title type="html">The Part II Update</title> - <link href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/"/> - <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/</id> - <updated>2008-12-06T02:53:53+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">I have slightly changed the name of the Poster.<br /> -<br /> -"Meet NL/L10N/CIP People (Part II)"<br /> -<br /> -Because some Community Innovation Program award winners have been added to the Poster.<br /> -<br /> -I have added FLUX UI Team Leader, Odt2book Lead Developer, "Woorknet â OOo Server" advocate and Calc hacker to the Part II.<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/06/84/a0005484_11525135.jpg" border="0" width="334" height="474" /></center><br /> -<br /></content> - <author> - <name>khparametric</name> - <uri>http://openoffice.exblog.jp</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Hirano, Kazunari</title> - <subtitle type="html">Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/> - <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-01-06T18:00:41+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.1155&r2=1.1156 Delta lines: +34 -79 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-01-06 17:59:46+0000 1.1155 +++ index.html 2009-01-06 23:59:43+0000 1.1156 @@ -28,8 +28,41 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 06, 2009 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 07, 2009 12:00 AM GMT</em></p> +<h2>January 06, 2009</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/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";> +Predictions & Resolutions</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let’s tie those together in this post…<span class="Apple-style-span">Predictions:</span> +<ul> +<li> It will be a great year for Free & Open Source Software. I know it’s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. budgets resulting from the global crisis money would be less spent on expensive licensing, but I do buy into this theory. However it’s certainly not the only explanation: Free Software gets better, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop (yet tries hard to come back with Silverlight and other initiatives), and applications go in the cloud.</li> +<li>Talking about the cloud, we will see this trend going. But there’s a paradox in this pattern: do not believe that people only need a browser and do not pay attention to their actual desktop. They do, and they want a nice user experience, bells and whistles that do not actually annoy them, and fewer glitches.</li> +<li>It’s been a reality in 2008, and will get even more obvious by 2009: consumers dictate what they want as an user experience, corporate (office) computing follows, just the opposite as what was going on in the eighties. But perhaps a better way of putting it is that those lines defined by mom and pop marketing concepts are blurring. </li> +<li>Office computing, the good old days: Microsoft seems to have some trouble implementing ODF. But they claim to have no difficulty with OOXML. That alone should remind all of us of an all too well known pattern: the format wars. It’s made a come-back ever since 2007, it will get sneaker, although less flamboyant in 2009.</li> +<li>Microsoft is changing. Yes you read that well, on this blog. I sincerely think that there is an old guard and a new guard in Microsoft. I also think that this company is becoming more and more like any other big business: people will be fired by the thousands, and that does not make me happy. But while some of the teams there want to play a normal game, most of the people who call the shots don’t want to do that; hence friction will be in the air. I don’t really expect to see a visible schism inside Microsoft happening before 2011-2012, but it will be interesting to watch what will be going on in 2009 on this issue.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Resolutions</span> +<ul> +<li>This year, I promess: I will make money. I swear. Tons of money. Yeah, right. </li> +<li> I’ll get greener. I don’t have a car, happen to eat organic food very frequently, recycle my trash, but there are many other ways I can contribute to save the planet.</li> +<li>That’s it, you caught me right there: <span class="Apple-style-span">I will come back on GNU/Linux. </span>What this means is that in my craziest deams, I will have a real workstation with Linux, and a nice MacBook(Pro?) running OS X. Aside DRM on iTunes which seems to stand on an EOL support ever since yesterday, Macs are pretty cool, both on hardware and software. But I miss Linux. I really do.</li> +<li>Using Linux, I will mostly use KDE 4. I tried it, configured it on several desktops and although it’s not fully completed, it rocks and it’s really impressive. You should give it a try.</li> +<li>Last but not least? Think hard about how not to annoy my readers.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=111&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_111" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";>by Charles at January 06, 2009 10:10 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 03, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/"; title="Sgauti at OOo"> @@ -374,84 +407,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>December 07, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp"; title="Hirano, Kazunari"> -Kazunari Hirano</a> : -<a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/";> -Two from Greek NL Project, makes 31 :)</a> -</h3> -<p> -Good morning from Ichinoseki, Iwate, Tohoku area, the northern part of Japan's main island. It's fine today with blue sky and white bright clouds.<br /> -<br /> -Outside my partner and daughter are getting ready to take my picture for the Part II.<br /> -:)<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/07/84/a0005484_124078.jpg"; border="0" width="336" height="475" /></center></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/";>by khparametric at December 07, 2008 03:05 AM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>December 06, 2008</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/"; title="Lodahl's blog"> -Leif Lodahl</a> : -<a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-lorem-ipsum.html";> -Extension: Lorem ipsum</a> -</h3> -<p> -This free extension generates Lorem ipsum dummy text from www.lipsum.com. I made this one my self by the way. - -When you install this extension you will se another icon in the icon bar. Click the icon and you will see a dialog, where you can select how much Lorem Ipsum text you want. Select a number and select paragraph, words, bytes or list. - -You can also choose if your tex should begin with '</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-lorem-ipsum.html";>by Leif Lodahl ([email protected]) at December 06, 2008 06:47 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp"; title="Hirano, Kazunari"> -Kazunari Hirano</a> : -<a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/";> -Welcome! Lithuanian, Pashto and Odt2dtbook Team Leader</a> -</h3> -<p> -Yesterday and today I got picutures from Lithuanian translator, Pashto NL Project and Odt2dtbook team leader. Now we are 29 on the Part II.<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/07/84/a0005484_110523.jpg"; border="0" width="332" height="474" /></center></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/";>by khparametric at December 06, 2008 04:11 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp"; title="Hirano, Kazunari"> -Kazunari Hirano</a> : -<a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/";> -The Part II Update</a> -</h3> -<p> -I have slightly changed the name of the Poster.<br /> -<br /> -"Meet NL/L10N/CIP People (Part II)"<br /> -<br /> -Because some Community Innovation Program award winners have been added to the Poster.<br /> -<br /> -I have added FLUX UI Team Leader, Odt2book Lead Developer, "Woorknet â OOo Server" advocate and Calc hacker to the Part II.<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/06/84/a0005484_11525135.jpg"; border="0" width="334" height="474" /></center><br /> -<br /></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/";>by khparametric at December 06, 2008 02:53 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 File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.1155&r2=1.1156 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-01-06 17:59:46+0000 1.1155 +++ opml.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:43+0000 1.1156 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Native Language Confederation Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:42 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:38 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Native Language Confederation</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.246&r2=1.247 Delta lines: +25 -52 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-01-03 23:59:54+0000 1.246 +++ rss10.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:43+0000 1.247 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-01-03:/blog/98" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-01-01:/blog/97" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7778199/"; /> @@ -29,14 +30,34 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/12/11/protect-innovation-dont-use-proprietary-software-and-other-advent-niceties/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7728138/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-414870195544222007" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6557940109051977290" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/"; /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Predictions & Resolutions</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</link> + <content:encoded><p>The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let&#8217;s tie those together in this post&#8230;<span class="Apple-style-span">Predictions:</span> +<ul> +<li> It will be a great year for Free &amp; Open Source Software. I know it&#8217;s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. budgets resulting from the global crisis money would be less spent on expensive licensing, but I do buy into this theory. However it&#8217;s certainly not the only explanation: Free Software gets better, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop (yet tries hard to come back with Silverlight and other initiatives), and applications go in the cloud.</li> +<li>Talking about the cloud, we will see this trend going. But there&#8217;s a paradox in this pattern: do not believe that people only need a browser and do not pay attention to their actual desktop. They do, and they want a nice user experience, bells and whistles that do not actually annoy them, and fewer glitches.</li> +<li>It&#8217;s been a reality in 2008, and will get even more obvious by 2009: consumers dictate what they want as an user experience, corporate (office) computing follows, just the opposite as what was going on in the eighties. But perhaps a better way of putting it is that those lines defined by mom and pop marketing concepts are blurring. </li> +<li>Office computing, the good old days: Microsoft seems to have some trouble implementing ODF. But they claim to have no difficulty with OOXML. That alone should remind all of us of an all too well known pattern: the format wars. It&#8217;s made a come-back ever since 2007, it will get sneaker, although less flamboyant in 2009.</li> +<li>Microsoft is changing. Yes you read that well, on this blog. I sincerely think that there is an old guard and a new guard in Microsoft. I also think that this company is becoming more and more like any other big business: people will be fired by the thousands, and that does not make me happy. But while some of the teams there want to play a normal game, most of the people who call the shots don&#8217;t want to do that; hence friction will be in the air. I don&#8217;t really expect to see a visible schism inside Microsoft happening before 2011-2012, but it will be interesting to watch what will be going on in 2009 on this issue.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Resolutions</span> +<ul> +<li>This year, I promess: I will make money. I swear. Tons of money. Yeah, right. </li> +<li> I&#8217;ll get greener. I don&#8217;t have a car, happen to eat organic food very frequently, recycle my trash, but there are many other ways I can contribute to save the planet.</li> +<li>That&#8217;s it, you caught me right there: <span class="Apple-style-span">I will come back on GNU/Linux. </span>What this means is that in my craziest deams, I will have a real workstation with Linux, and a nice MacBook(Pro?) running OS X. Aside DRM on iTunes which seems to stand on an EOL support ever since yesterday, Macs are pretty cool, both on hardware and software. But I miss Linux. I really do.</li> +<li>Using Linux, I will mostly use KDE 4. I tried it, configured it on several desktops and although it&#8217;s not fully completed, it rocks and it&#8217;s really impressive. You should give it a try.</li> +<li>Last but not least? Think hard about how not to annoy my readers.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=111&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_111" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-01-06T22:10:36+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-01-03:/blog/98"> <title>Sophie Gautier: Orca et OpenOffice.org</title> <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/03/98-orca-et-openofficeorg</link> @@ -252,53 +273,5 @@ <dc:date>2008-12-08T20:39:03+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/";> - <title>Kazunari Hirano: Two from Greek NL Project, makes 31 :)</title> - <link>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/</link> - <content:encoded>Good morning from Ichinoseki, Iwate, Tohoku area, the northern part of Japan's main island. It's fine today with blue sky and white bright clouds.<br /> -<br /> -Outside my partner and daughter are getting ready to take my picture for the Part II.<br /> -:)<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/07/84/a0005484_124078.jpg" border="0" width="336" height="475" /></center></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-12-07T03:05:08+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>khparametric</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6557940109051977290"> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Extension: Lorem ipsum</title> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-lorem-ipsum.html</link> - <content:encoded>This free extension generates Lorem ipsum dummy text from www.lipsum.com. I made this one my self by the way. - -When you install this extension you will se another icon in the icon bar. Click the icon and you will see a dialog, where you can select how much Lorem Ipsum text you want. Select a number and select paragraph, words, bytes or list. - -You can also choose if your tex should begin with '</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-12-06T18:47:33+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Leif Lodahl</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/";> - <title>Kazunari Hirano: Welcome! Lithuanian, Pashto and Odt2dtbook Team Leader</title> - <link>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/</link> - <content:encoded>Yesterday and today I got picutures from Lithuanian translator, Pashto NL Project and Odt2dtbook team leader. Now we are 29 on the Part II.<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/07/84/a0005484_110523.jpg" border="0" width="332" height="474" /></center></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-12-06T16:11:51+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>khparametric</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/";> - <title>Kazunari Hirano: The Part II Update</title> - <link>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/</link> - <content:encoded>I have slightly changed the name of the Poster.<br /> -<br /> -"Meet NL/L10N/CIP People (Part II)"<br /> -<br /> -Because some Community Innovation Program award winners have been added to the Poster.<br /> -<br /> -I have added FLUX UI Team Leader, Odt2book Lead Developer, "Woorknet â OOo Server" advocate and Calc hacker to the Part II.<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/06/84/a0005484_11525135.jpg" border="0" width="334" height="474" /></center><br /> -<br /></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-12-06T02:53:53+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>khparametric</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.247&r2=1.248 Delta lines: +25 -49 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-01-03 23:59:54+0000 1.247 +++ rss20.xml 2009-01-06 23:59:43+0000 1.248 @@ -8,6 +8,31 @@ <description>Native Language Confederation Planet - http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Predictions & Resolutions</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/01/07/predictions-resolutions/</link> + <description><p>The time of the year for predictions started in December, the time of resolutions started a few days ago. Let&#8217;s tie those together in this post&#8230;<span class="Apple-style-span">Predictions:</span> +<ul> +<li> It will be a great year for Free &amp; Open Source Software. I know it&#8217;s been written several times that because of dwindling I.T. budgets resulting from the global crisis money would be less spent on expensive licensing, but I do buy into this theory. However it&#8217;s certainly not the only explanation: Free Software gets better, Microsoft is losing its grip on the desktop (yet tries hard to come back with Silverlight and other initiatives), and applications go in the cloud.</li> +<li>Talking about the cloud, we will see this trend going. But there&#8217;s a paradox in this pattern: do not believe that people only need a browser and do not pay attention to their actual desktop. They do, and they want a nice user experience, bells and whistles that do not actually annoy them, and fewer glitches.</li> +<li>It&#8217;s been a reality in 2008, and will get even more obvious by 2009: consumers dictate what they want as an user experience, corporate (office) computing follows, just the opposite as what was going on in the eighties. But perhaps a better way of putting it is that those lines defined by mom and pop marketing concepts are blurring. </li> +<li>Office computing, the good old days: Microsoft seems to have some trouble implementing ODF. But they claim to have no difficulty with OOXML. That alone should remind all of us of an all too well known pattern: the format wars. It&#8217;s made a come-back ever since 2007, it will get sneaker, although less flamboyant in 2009.</li> +<li>Microsoft is changing. Yes you read that well, on this blog. I sincerely think that there is an old guard and a new guard in Microsoft. I also think that this company is becoming more and more like any other big business: people will be fired by the thousands, and that does not make me happy. But while some of the teams there want to play a normal game, most of the people who call the shots don&#8217;t want to do that; hence friction will be in the air. I don&#8217;t really expect to see a visible schism inside Microsoft happening before 2011-2012, but it will be interesting to watch what will be going on in 2009 on this issue.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Resolutions</span> +<ul> +<li>This year, I promess: I will make money. I swear. Tons of money. Yeah, right. </li> +<li> I&#8217;ll get greener. I don&#8217;t have a car, happen to eat organic food very frequently, recycle my trash, but there are many other ways I can contribute to save the planet.</li> +<li>That&#8217;s it, you caught me right there: <span class="Apple-style-span">I will come back on GNU/Linux. </span>What this means is that in my craziest deams, I will have a real workstation with Linux, and a nice MacBook(Pro?) running OS X. Aside DRM on iTunes which seems to stand on an EOL support ever since yesterday, Macs are pretty cool, both on hardware and software. But I miss Linux. I really do.</li> +<li>Using Linux, I will mostly use KDE 4. I tried it, configured it on several desktops and although it&#8217;s not fully completed, it rocks and it&#8217;s really impressive. You should give it a try.</li> +<li>Last but not least? Think hard about how not to annoy my readers.</li> +</ul> +<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=111&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_111" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p></p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:10:36 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Sophie Gautier: Orca et OpenOffice.org</title> <guid>tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-01-03:/blog/98</guid> <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/03/98-orca-et-openofficeorg</link> @@ -231,55 +256,6 @@ <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:39:03 +0000</pubDate> <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> </item> -<item> - <title>Kazunari Hirano: Two from Greek NL Project, makes 31 :)</title> - <guid>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/</guid> - <link>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7718603/</link> - <description>Good morning from Ichinoseki, Iwate, Tohoku area, the northern part of Japan's main island. It's fine today with blue sky and white bright clouds.<br /> -<br /> -Outside my partner and daughter are getting ready to take my picture for the Part II.<br /> -:)<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/07/84/a0005484_124078.jpg" border="0" width="336" height="475" /></center></description> - <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:05:08 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Leif Lodahl: Extension: Lorem ipsum</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5198340507565233169.post-6557940109051977290</guid> - <link>http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2008/12/extension-lorem-ipsum.html</link> - <description>This free extension generates Lorem ipsum dummy text from www.lipsum.com. I made this one my self by the way. - -When you install this extension you will se another icon in the icon bar. Click the icon and you will see a dialog, where you can select how much Lorem Ipsum text you want. Select a number and select paragraph, words, bytes or list. - -You can also choose if your tex should begin with '</description> - <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:47:33 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (Leif Lodahl)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Kazunari Hirano: Welcome! Lithuanian, Pashto and Odt2dtbook Team Leader</title> - <guid>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/</guid> - <link>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7717897/</link> - <description>Yesterday and today I got picutures from Lithuanian translator, Pashto NL Project and Odt2dtbook team leader. Now we are 29 on the Part II.<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/07/84/a0005484_110523.jpg" border="0" width="332" height="474" /></center></description> - <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:11:51 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Kazunari Hirano: The Part II Update</title> - <guid>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/</guid> - <link>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/7716068/</link> - <description>I have slightly changed the name of the Poster.<br /> -<br /> -"Meet NL/L10N/CIP People (Part II)"<br /> -<br /> -Because some Community Innovation Program award winners have been added to the Poster.<br /> -<br /> -I have added FLUX UI Team Leader, Odt2book Lead Developer, "Woorknet â OOo Server" advocate and Calc hacker to the Part II.<br /> -<br /> -<center><img class="IMAGE_MID" src="http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200812/06/84/a0005484_11525135.jpg" border="0" width="334" height="474" /></center><br /> -<br /></description> - <pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:53:53 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
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