[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

[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=171269cid=14264625 ___ Yahoo! Exclusive Xmas Game, help Santa

[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 ___

[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

[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-

[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.

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

http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2005/11/summary-of-massachusetts- opendocument.html ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

[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 ___

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

[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] 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

[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

[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

[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

[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

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

that 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 Newsletter] [Competitive

[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

[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

[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

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

[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

[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=152tid=31 ___ How much free photo storage do you

[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

[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

[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

[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

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

[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] 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,

[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

[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] 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=05/03/28/2218246tid=108tid=117tid=185tid=106

[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

[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

[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