Re: [marketing] Moodle course for OOo

2008-04-29 Thread Florian Effenberger

...and you've been blogged ;-)



Hi all,

At http://theingots.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=11

There is a Moodle course for teaching/learning Open Office. Anyone is
free to make an account and use the course and I can give edit
permission to anyone that wants to make improvements to it. You can do a
lot simply by logging on as a guest but you need an account for quizzes
etc. It's all free. The course was done by Gabriel Gurley and he has
various other OOo related downloads at www.gabrielgurley.com

Also language translations welcome. Other courses on the site support
learning about open systems and open source technologies in a
progressive and sequential way.

Ian


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[marketing] Moodle course for OOo

2008-04-29 Thread Ian Lynch
Hi all,

At http://theingots.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=11

There is a Moodle course for teaching/learning Open Office. Anyone is
free to make an account and use the course and I can give edit
permission to anyone that wants to make improvements to it. You can do a
lot simply by logging on as a guest but you need an account for quizzes
etc. It's all free. The course was done by Gabriel Gurley and he has
various other OOo related downloads at www.gabrielgurley.com

Also language translations welcome. Other courses on the site support
learning about open systems and open source technologies in a
progressive and sequential way.

Ian
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Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Release notes and other marketing materials ?

2008-04-29 Thread Erwin Tenhumberg

* Quickstarter for GNU/Linux
I never saw this feature in a final vanilla build.  I've only seen it in 
ooo-build and in a vanilla release candidate, so you may want to exclude 
it from this list.


Hmm, o.k., I have to look into this, but I guess the Quickstarter isn't 
the coolest feature anyway.



* Soon: PDF Import Extension
* Soon: Presenter Console 
Will these be released simultaneously with OOo 3.0 beta?  If not, 
perhaps they should be excluded.  It was not fun hyping the 3D OpenGL 
extension for 2.4, and then it's still not released today. Also, it 
would help to have them released beforehand---even privately---if you 
want someone to write about them.


The will become available a few weeks after the start of the 
OpenOffice.org beta according to the current schedule. However, I at 
least like to put a "placeholder" on the feature list page, so that 
people know that these features are still coming.


* Soon: Wiki Publisher 
FYI.  I played with this one, but it gave me numerous problems.  For 
example, it has problems[1] with Wikipedia, the most popular MediaWiki 
wiki.

[1] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88649


Thanks for the link!

* Connect to WebDAV servers via HTTPS 

This is too technical for a general audience.


Hmm, your probably right. However, for some people it's pretty 
important. Thus, maybe we need "Other Features" bucket where we just 
list the feature.


* Improved Vista support 

Isn't Vista support improved in many versions since 2.0.1?


That's true! Anyway, we should document that we run on Vista.



* Extension framework enhancements
  - Inclusion of online help information
  - Inclusion of publisher and release note information
  - Check-for-update mechanism 
If I remember correctly, OpenOffice.org as an application has also had 
incremental improvements in regards to checking for updates in this time 
frame.


I guess the extension framework improvements are also to technical and 
thus should also be moved to the "Other Features" section that I 
suggested above.


If yes, what features would you like to cover? Please keep in mind 
that we don't have too much time, as I think it would be good to have 
the information ready for the beta launch. Thus, there are just a few 
days left.
Any decisions as the appropriateness of linking to sites other than on 
the Sun and OpenOffice.org domains? Martin Hollmichel and I brought this 
up recently, but I didn't see a decision.


I think it's o.k. to link to other pages and resources on a case by case 
basis, but we definitely should make sure that the large majority of the 
information and content resides on OpenOffice.org in order to make sure 
that users find all the key information in one place. The links should 
just provide additional background information, i.e. complementary 
material.


Keeping as much as possible on OpenOffice.org also has the benefit that 
native-language communities can translate the content like they did last 
time.



All the best,
Erwin





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