[Marketing] Idea for recruiting volunteers for tasks

Hi I was looking through Google's Base offering (http://base.google.com/) and was thinking that this would be a good way of recruiting volunteers for specific tasks. Instead of how it is now where there is no central point for volunteers to look for tasks relating to FOSS projects, a common Google

[Marketing] ?MS Office detection of OOo

This slashdot comment here has someone's observations on how MSO might be responding to an installation of OOo http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171269&cid=14264625 ___ Yahoo! Exclusive Xmas Game, help Santa w

[Marketing] Consolidation of distribution mailing lists; also volunteers to help deal with enquiries

Hi I'm just spinning a proposal for the consolidation of mailing lists. I had a guy who wanted help to get OEM and CD-ROM distributor status who CC'd me in the email. I got back to him and it turned out that nobody had organised anything with him at all. If we want OOo to be successful the

[Marketing] Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of OpenDocument Format

Important read: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2163 ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -

[Marketing] Good read on ODF-Mass.

This is quite a good read http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=1745 The most interesting is the 4th comment on watching carefully if there is any change to the state's document format re: MS-XML ___ Yahoo

[Marketing] French tax agency costs: MSO 29.5mil euro, OOo 200k euro

"The French tax agency claims that upgrading its 80,000 desktops to Office XP would cost €29.5m, but switching to OpenOffice.org only €200,000." http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020472,39236214,00.htm http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/11/french-opt-for-laissez-faire- li

[Marketing] Important to read this article: "Bill-bomb dropped on OpenDocument Format in Massachusetts"

"Bill-bomb dropped on OpenDocument Format in Massachusetts" http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=2110 ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.ya

[Marketing] Reporting on yesterday's Mass. ODF meeting

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[Marketing] "Google lends a hand to Microsoft Office rival"

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-1851613,00.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-5920762.html http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/10/google-lends-hand-to-microsoft-office.html ___ Ya

[Marketing] American ABC 12 upcoming OpenOffice.org segment

Hi An affiliate of the american ABC has a segment on OpenOffice.org: http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/story?section=sci_tech&id=3577160 I think its going out tomorrow and Sat for those interested With Thanks ___

Re: [Marketing] "Is Massachusetts' OpenDocument decision on the rocks?"

Here's a follow up link with some more details: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172900251 ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos h

[Marketing] "Is Massachusetts' OpenDocument decision on the rocks?"

Two good reads http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2057 http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/10/25/galvin_attacks_software_proposal/ ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yah

[Marketing] Testing required for new bittorrent site

Hi I was wondering if everyone could take a look at the new test bittorrent site at http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/testsite/ This has a much simpler method of selecting downloads, and shows the torrents of additional languages. I hope to move the bittorrent site to this soon, but as

[Marketing] OpenDoc plug-in for MS Office users

http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/10/opendoc-plug-in-for-ms- office-users.html ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ---

[Marketing] OpenOfficeTips

Hi I've found this blog dealing with tips for OpenOffice.org Calc. It looks quite good actually. Just to bring it to people's attention. http://www.openofficetips.com/ With Thanks Deepankar ___ To help you stay safe an

[Marketing] Another potential customer for OOo

AMD powers cheap Indian PC launch "INDIAN FIRM HCL Infosystems unveiled a low-cost PC in New Delhi yesterday that costs less than 10,000 Rupees (£130)." ... "The PC features an AMD "x86 1600MHz processor", 128Mb RAM, 40GB hard disk, 15-inch digital monitor, 52x optical drive, keyboard, mouse and L

[Marketing] It’s hard to beat Office king

It’s hard to beat Office king http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/business/12870363.htm "I recently reviewed OpenOffice 2.0 — a free competitor to Microsoft Office — and found it to be very good. It uses the OpenDocuments format and opens most Office documents with minor problems. It’s not that

[Marketing] Abiword and OpenDocument

Hi News of Abiword getting OpenDocument read support, with write support on the way. This news was taken off Erwin's blog. Something else of interest is the English grammar checker they now have - i'm not an expert on licences but the idea of moving the grammar checker module over could be explor

[Marketing] Migrating to OpenOffice.org 90 per cent cheaper than to Microsoft Office 12

Try this article "Migrating to OpenOffice.org 90 per cent cheaper than to Microsoft Office 12" - makes a good follow up to the Sun and Google story http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx? pagetype=2&articleid=2742&pubid=3&issueid=66 http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/10/migrating-to-o

[Marketing] "Feeling the heat" - pdf support in office 12

http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/10/01/476067.aspx http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/01/2318248 ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http

[Marketing] South Africa open-source tender

"THE largest tender yet issued for open-source software has been released by the State Information Technology Agency (Sita), formalising its plans to switch from brand-name packages to the free-to-use alternatives. Sita is offering three-year deals to supply software and technical support so that

[Marketing] More articles to read

Hi Two more articles to point out: (1) The Minnesota Daily writes about the waste on MSO when OOo could have been used at university http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/09/23/65277 http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/09/university-wastes-millions-on-software.html (2) "Massachusetts Makes Dum

[Marketing] two articles to read

pageID=itdsubtopic&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Policies%2c+Standards+%26+Legal&L2=En terprise+Architecture&L3=Enterprise+Technical+Reference+Model+- +Version+3.5&sid=Aitd More reporting: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Loses-the-War-in- Massachusetts-9146.shtml -- Posted

[Marketing] New P2P site for test

Hi We have a new P2P site to test before it can be rolled out to the general public. The test site is at http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/testsite/ It was created by Adrian Macneil and uses drop down boxes to allow easier selection of OOo versions, platforms and language (English only

[Marketing] Fwd: [The OpenOffice.org Newsletter] "OpenOffice is great alternative to Microsoft"

This is a good endorsement of the work on OOo Deepankar Begin forwarded message: From: Deepankar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 22 September 2005 20:27:11 BST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [The OpenOffice.org Newsletter] "OpenOffice is great alternative to Microsoft"

[Marketing] Fwd: [The OpenOffice.org Newsletter] [Competitive News] Upcoming Microsoft Office 12 and Windows Vista

alternatives (read OOo) have a better chance of picking up users. Maybe a migration push at the release of Office? Deepankar Begin forwarded message: From: Deepankar Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17 September 2005 07:45:04 BST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [The OpenOffice.org News

[Marketing] OOo calc vs excel shootout

Hi Find this link to a 'opening times' shootout between excel and calc. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=102 Any comments? Deepankar ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with

[Marketing] Office 12 User Interface preview

First seen on Slashdot, the new ('different') UI for Office 12. It looks like a fairly radical change http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1 ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE w

[Marketing] "U offers nearly free Office suite"

Hi An interesting article on MS Office at a university: "U offers nearly free Office suite" http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/09/07/64987 Deepankar ___ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all

Re: [Marketing] Newsletter blog test: an invite to everyone on the list

Hi On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:11 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: I think it's a great idea and I've already linked to it from SolidOffice.com. Making it into a group blog over time could be the best longterm strategy, and trying to keep it as comprehensive as possible will give it a great deal of si

[Marketing] Re: Newsletter blog test: an invite to everyone on the list

Hi I mistakenly forwarded a reply to the [EMAIL PROTECTED], rather than the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Here is my response to Charles about the OOo newsletter. Deepankar Hi On 26 Aug 2005, at 11:23, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: thanks for your idea. I think that graphically, the blog is much m

[Marketing] Newsletter blog test: an invite to everyone on the list

Hi I'm experimenting with using a blog for posting news about OOo. This is a test at the moment, and I'm looking for feedback on this new system, its pros, cons and any changes which could be made. Other questions include: *Is this better/worse than the current system? *Could this allow newslette

Re: [Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

Hi This response just reflects how lost the project is. We, volunteers, always got ourselves there -- we did it OURSELVES. You all seem to be waiting for handouts. This reflects an utter lack of passion. LWE is where users, developers and THE TECHNOLOGY PRESS catch up on what's going on with

[Marketing] article: "LinuxWorld 2005 Thursday"

Hi This is a round up of the linuxworld 2005 expo written by an attendee, with a sort of negative slant on OOo not attending, seen in these choice quotes: "But the biggest surprise wasn't who was there, but who wasn't--the OpenOffice.org folks." "The bottom line is that not having a booth hurts

[Marketing] Google news feeds

Hi Google News has launched feeds for their news (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/). This can even include searches in their feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 format. The main feeds page is here: http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/news_feed_terms.html I've taken the liberty of pre-creating some o

[Marketing] Another article - this needs a response

Sorry for the multiple postings today. This one at ZDNet seems like one of the worst opinion pieces I have seen. It even goes on about OOo's Word compatibility without even recognising that word to word compatibility can be variable over versions. Any chance of an official response to this? The p

[Marketing] Good marketing article: Getting in touch with the feminine side of open source

Here's an interesting read wrt/ open source developers: Getting in touch with the feminine side of open source http://www.newsforge.com/articles/05/08/08/1449259.shtml?tid=152&tid=31 ___ How much free photo storage do you

[Marketing] article: Apache Derby graduates with Sun onboard

Hi Here's an article on the apache derby database (http://db.apache.org/derby/) born ibm as cloudscape "Apache Derby graduates with Sun onboard": http://news.com.com/Apache+Derby+graduates+with+Sun+onboard/2100-7344_3-5818473.html?tag=nefd.top It seems like Sun is wanting to use Derby as the DB

[Marketing] BBC News: India launches its first cheap PC

Hi Saw this article on BBC News titled "India launches its first cheap PC": http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4735927.stm I was wondering if anybody could find out what software is bundled with the computer. I tried looking on the website but didn't quite find out anything. I was w

[Marketing] Windows vs. Linux/OSS today, part 2: Linux experts see strong server, weak desktop

Windows vs. Linux/OSS today, part 2: Linux experts see strong server, weak desktop -- "OpenOffice is a great product. I have used it, and in many ways I prefer its word processor to Microsoft Word. Unfortunately, it has not bee

[Marketing] [Beta Review] Openoffice.org 2

[Beta Review] Openoffice.org 2 -- "With that in mind, there's no doubt version 2 is more than powerful enough for most home and business users and can certainly give Microsoft a run for its money, especially since it's free. And for corporate users who need proper techn

[Marketing] Free Indian Language Software is Hot!

Free Indian Language Software is Hot! - [Courtesy of RKVS Raman] "In a high profile ceremony, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Chairman of the National Advisory Council of India, and Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology released a

[Marketing] Comment on opendocument format by gnumeric dev

Hi Here's an interesting post on the problems with the opendoc format found by the gnumeric devs: "The OpenDocument Standard v1.0 completely ignores semantics of spreadsheets, thus virtually ensuring that if two implementations of the standard existed then they could not use each other's spreadsh

[Marketing] Open-source versus Microsoft in office arena

Open-source versus Microsoft in office arena "In fact, if the reports offered by the analysis companies are accurate, OpenOffice already has a 10% market share, at least according to IDC, Jupiter and Gartner, while Forrester is even more optimistic about

[Marketing] Brian Jones: Office XML Formats

Hi So what kind of response do we (as a community) want to send out? Do we want to draft a press release, or are there any other ideas? Deepankar ___ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC cal

Re: [Marketing] AutomateIT opensource solution for MS Office migration

Hi It would seem to be ideal for migration, especially in integrating accounts software (apparently). What we need is a case study, or just notes from someone who has been trying the system. Any takers? Or maybe just even a listing on the 'solutions' or equivalent page to let people know i

[Marketing] article: IT giants accused of exploiting open source

Hi Here's a good article referencing major technology companies and there percieved views on FOSS development. IT giants accused of exploiting open source --- "Jesús Villasante, the head of software technologies at the EC's Information Society and Media Dir

[Marketing] AutomateIT opensource solution for MS Office migration

Hi Just to point out that someone has open-sourced a solution for connecting applications to OOo instead of MSO. http://www.apriorit.com/automateit.html https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=139321 It might be worth a look Deepankar __

[Marketing] Millions in India to get OpenOffice

Millions in India to get OpenOffice --- "The government has started distributing CDs containing Tamil-language versions of various open source applications, including the Firefox browser, the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Columba email client. It plans to

[Marketing] Microsoft Russia saved by GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org

Hi Here's a good story: Microsoft Russia saved by GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org http://www.pclinuxonline.com/article.php?sid=9792 I don't know if it's verifiable or not, but funny otherwise. Deepankar - To unsubscribe, e-mail

[Marketing] Of Macs and Tux

Of Macs and Tux --- "OpenOffice.org File Viewer or OOoView. A Java-based OpenOffice.org file viewer, this was created by Ms. Christine Bejerasco, Mr. Cipriano Consolacion Jr., and Ms. Raquel Tarroza (supervised by yours truly) as a requirement in earning their degree in Computer Science

[Marketing] Birmingham begins major open source pilot

Birmingham begins major open source pilot - "The council — the largest in Europe — will move 1,500 desktops and all the associated back-end servers in its library service to Linux and other open source software including OpenOffice and Firefox. The year-long

[Marketing] The assault on software giant Microsoft

The assault on software giant Microsoft --- "Other parts of the empire are under attack too, such as the hugely profitable "Office" suite. Don't want to pay for a word processor, spreadsheet, database and presentation tool? Download OpenOffice. It won't look as

[Marketing] Putting the spin on IBM

Putting the spin on IBM --- "If Sun wants real community support for OpenOffice.org, they need to drop the joint copyright assignment requirement before they expect IBM or other vendors to donate significant time and effort to the project. Otherwise, Phipps may as well be compla

[Marketing] Re: Gateway 7422G series AMD64 notebook (Review)

"This concludes my evaluation of the bundled and pre installed software. It should serve most people's needs fine but you know I'd wish to see Firefox, Mozilla Suite, or Netscape in there, not to mention StarOffice 7 or OpenOffice.org, which is free and wouldn't cost them a dime." http://www.thein

[Marketing] Slashdot article on "Lack Of Developers Delays OpenOffice.org"

Hi Slashdot finally picked us this article (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/20/2157235&tid=185&tid=102&tid=8). It seems like that a lot of potential developers are put of by the difficulty in building OOo, actually doing anything outside of Sun, and the massive codebase. Mayb

[Marketing] OpenOffice Confirms Buffer Overflow Flaw

OpenOffice Confirms Buffer Overflow Flaw "The OpenOffice.org community on Tuesday confirmed the existence of a potentially serious heap-overflow vulnerability in its freely distributed office productivity suite." ... "We learned of this March 31 and will be

[Marketing] Linspire attempting to make a desktop Linux TV commercial

Hi Michael Robertson is floating the idea of a TV commercial for desktop Linux, and is prototyping one at the moment. This may be something to think about from the marketing point of view if the OOo community may want to collaborate. http://www.linspire.com/lindows_michaelsminutes.php Thanks

[Marketing] IBM Certifies OpenDocument Successful Implementation

IBM Certifies OpenDocument Successful Implementation [Noticed on Simon Phipps' blog: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink/20050328#ibm_endorses_opendocument] "Formal statement: IBM Corporation certifies that it is successfully using the Open

Re: [Marketing] OOo and Java

Hi just to add that someone apparently has managed to get OOo 2.0 working on GCJ. A screenshot here: http://www.spindazzle.org/green/index.php?p=43 Here's the slashdot article it was linked from: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/28/2218246&tid=108&tid=117&tid=185&tid=106 Dee

[Marketing] Fwd: Re: [newsletter] Java on OpenOffice.org 2.0

Hi This is a posting about an article on Newsforge ragarding OpenOffice.org 2.0, its increased need for Java, and how this is creating some problems for FOSS developers and users. I think it brings some important points out. Thanks to Charles-H. Schulz for the original posting. Deepankar > > On

[Marketing] PC World preview: base module

Hi Here's an excerpt of a PC World preview of the OOo 2.0 beta with a critique of the new base component: "OpenOffice.org's developers seem to have tried to make Base look and act as much like Access as possible. That's been the group's MO from the beginning, and it makes sense--the easiest way t

[Marketing] Sun open-source diva departs for Intel

Sun open-source diva departs for Intel -- "Danese Cooper, who has led Sun Microsystems' interactions with the open-source community for six tumultuous years, has left for Intel. Cooper was the self-described open-source diva at the server and software company, r

[Marketing] (Review) OpenOffice.org Beta 2.0: Trouble for Microsoft

(Review) OpenOffice.org Beta 2.0: Trouble for Microsoft --- "OpenOffice has many features, but one of the most significant features for first time users has to be the crossover between the various modules. The knowledge gained in Writers easily tr

[Marketing] Availability of OpenOffice.org & Staroffice Indexer for Google Dekstop Search

Availability of OpenOffice.org & Staroffice Indexer for Google Dekstop Search -- "Allow Google Desktop Search to index all OpenOffice.org and StarOffice 6 or later files, including text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and te

[Marketing] Article comparing OOo2.0 Beta vs MSO2003

Hi There is an article here which may be of interest: http://www.xminc.com/mt/archives/000275.html It compares the current beta vs MS Office 2003. He gives it a favourable review, but the interesting thing is the table where is comparing how to do office tasks. Some of the tasks do have problem

Re: [Marketing] OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X

Hi TWAIN is available on the Mac. The standard MacOSX native drivers for scanners should be TWAIN as the image capture application supports it. However Macs can also use SANE (as do Unices), and there is a TWAIN-SANE interface (http://www.ellert.se/twain-sane/) available for it, useful for th

[Marketing] Linspire's Internationalisation project

Hi Just got a notice the linspire has been setting up an internationalisation project for Linspire and FOSS software that runs on it: http://irma.linspire.com/index.php They even have a FAQ (http://www.irmateam.com/faq.html) where they state that "All translations made through IRMA will be made

[Marketing] Competitive news: "Microsoft turns to Elixir for Office boost"

Hi This article is how the contact management of MS office suite is being 'upgraded' to help with business, and to also persuade others to upgrade. From the sounds of it, it seems like quite a good boost for big business which may need access to this sort of information. Microsoft turns to El

[Marketing] Configuring and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X

At least Apple still knows that people want to run OOo on the Mac, even if they have their own competing programs. Configuring and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X Apple Developer Guide to setting up X11 on the Mac, with applications includi

[Marketing] Microsoft makes Office an 'open standard'

Microsoft makes Office an 'open standard' - "Microsoft is loosening licensing rules on Office 2003 formats in order to get around new "open standard" restrictions to be adopted by the US state of Massachusetts, according to a state official. The move puts Mi

Re: [Marketing] Slashdot - "Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled"

> Well, a complete rewrite is not much different from 'write from > scratch' ;-) > The number of sucessful 'write from scratch' office suite prjoects is > rather low. > What product would be pushed from a marketing standpoint then? The Mac X11 version, NeoOffice, or both? Deepankar

Re: [Marketing] Slashdot - "Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled"

--- Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >There seems to be a lot of anger (for lack of a better word) about > the > >port not being done, although there is the NeoOffice project. > > Does any of that "anger" translate to support for the effort? > :-( Unfortunately not a lot of

[Marketing] Slashdot - "Aqua OpenOffice.org v2.0 Cancelled"

Hi Just to inform everyone of the article on the Aqua port of OOo2.0. Apparently the mac porting team decided to focus on the X11 port: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/timeline.html There seems to be a lot of anger (for lack of a better word) about the port not being done, although there is t