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Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see disclaimer. October 29, 2009Leif Lodahl : 100,000,000 downloadsOn October 28th. 2009, the one hundred millionth person clicked on the Download OpenOffice.org button since version 3.0 of the software was announced just over one year ago.www.openoffice.org by Leif Lodahl (noreply@blogger.com) at October 29, 2009 12:49 PM CET October 27, 2009Charles Schulz : Running for Lang Representative at the Community Council
I thought it might help if I’d post here my “official” information page for the OpenOffice.org Community Council Elections. This page can be found on the OpenOffice.org wiki. A few words on Charles-H. Schulz My name is Charles-H. Schulz and I have been a contributor to the OpenOffice.org project since its 1.0 release. I live in Paris and have been working in several IT-related jobs. Today I run a small consultancy in the fields of Free Software and Open Standards. I’m not really what you will call a technical person, but at least I know how to use a terminal and, among other things, start OpenOffice.org from there. In fact, I even know how to start it as a server in “headless” mode, more accurately. By the way, I’m running a Fedora 11 on a quad core HP computer as my main machine, a two years-old Mac Book Pro you might see me with if you go to Orvieto, and as of very recently a Samsung with Android on it. My other areas of interest include litterature, History, philosophy and organic food, among other things. So why am I writing all this? Because we are in the process of electing some of the future members of the OpenOffice.org, and I’m running as a candidate in the Native-Language category. The rules of renewal of Council members are a bit complex, but there are different types of possible candidates that may run, and I’m running in one of them this year. It is the first time I’m running for the Council. What does Charles do inside OpenOffice.org?I’m doing several things inside OpenOffice.org . I have somewhat of a strange title “Lead of the Native-Language Confederation”. It sounds like it belongs to Battlestar Galactica, but it actually is a very OpenOfficeish thing. What this means is I’m in charge of organizing and helping new and existing communities of OpenOffice.org developers, users, marketers, documentation writers who speak in their own native-language. These communities are called native-language projects. They work with the entire project and are one of the key factors of our success. When I took on that role, they were about 5 of them. Now, they’re around 100. Serving as a volunteer in that position makes one both a player and a witness of how the OpenOffice.org community works. On the one hand I have a social and administrative task, on the other, one should not stop there: you have to look for more volunteers who may start new projects. That’s a fascinating job. I have also done other things inside our community. I was among the founders of the Business Development project (aka bizdev) and I am also very proud to be a co-lead of the ODF@WWW project. It is an incubator project that fiddles with ODF documents online, and allows them to be edited real time on a wiki and inside OpenOffice.org. In fact, this project is very important for the future of OpenOffice.org, and for our final goal, which is world domination. What would Charles do in the Community Council?That’s a good question, isn’t it? My first duty, as a “Lang” representative, would be to represent the worldwide communities of OpenOffice.org. I’m not going to make promises like a politician, because this is not a campaign: it’s an information page. So I’m just going to explain what I think I could do there and how I could help. So my first duty would be to express the point of views of these worldwide communities to the Council, which means explaining their issues, their needs and wants. I will also have to work with the other Lang representative (because there’s two of us at the Council) and help the Council run our project. I should also try to get a bigger perspective on things, because OpenOffice.org is not just the addition of all the interests of categories, people and organizations that make up the project. It’s something bigger, more beautiful and more powerful. We are on a mission, and our mission is twofold: make OpenOffice.org one of the best Free Software for the future, and have fun. Because if you don’t have fun, well, you won’t even finish reading what I’m writing. More seriously: The future might be tough. But it’s going to be exciting, and in the end, I think we’re going to have a pretty awesome project, a project with a strong basis and foundation, that will genuinely be a great place for its people and its supporters. At least that’s what I will also try to help with at the Community Council, and I will consider myself satisfied if I remain true to these objectives and to the value of software freedom and true openness. by Charles at October 27, 2009 05:29 PM CET October 26, 2009Sophie Gautier : OOoCon Orvieto, c'est pour bientôt !
Après un programme chargé entre l10n et tests de la future 3.2, je commence à préparer mon voyage à Orvieto et la conférence. Cette année, pas besoin de se lever aux aurores, il semble que tout soit à côté des hôtels, Orvieto est une petite ville :) Je ne fais pas de présentation à cette édition, mais je vais assister aux diverses réunions qui sont calées le mardi (communauté native-lang et l10n notamment). Je vais également participer à l'atelier QA avec un focus plus particulier sur la QA de CWS qui m'a occupée un moment ces derniers temps. Évidemment, il y a toujours des conférences qui se chevauchent et il va encore falloir jouer à pile ou face pour savoir à laquelle assister. Le programme est dense en tout cas et très intéressant. Pour moi, ce sera plutôt packaging, l10n et QA avec un peu de documentation sans doute. J'aimerai bien assister aussi à l'atelier UX mais il est en même temps que le QA Camp... Comme l'an passé, je ferai un résumé des confs auxquelles j'ai assistées et de l'ambiance générale de ce meeting. C'est le seul moment de l'année où nous nous rencontrons, c'est donc un moment très important pour nous tous dans la construction de la communauté. by sophi at October 26, 2009 10:47 AM CET October 25, 2009Leif Lodahl : November 2009 NewsletterNewsletter November (Danish) is out: http://bit.ly/3H4Txw. Read about 100 mio. downloads and a nine year old girl. There is also something about OpenOffice. by Leif Lodahl (noreply@blogger.com) at October 25, 2009 08:07 PM CET October 23, 2009Andreas Mantke : OOoPortable at OOoCon 2009In a few days the OpenOffice.org Conference 2009 take place in Orvieto. I'll give there two presentations. On 4. November I speak about OpenOffice.org Portable and a new built enviroment for this special version of OpenOffice.org. This environment will make it very easy to create a new portable version. by andreasma at October 23, 2009 09:11 PM CET October 18, 2009Leif Lodahl : Is Twitter dying?I am using Twitter.As many other active members of the communities, I'm using Twitter. I don't tweet much, but I feel it very useful to be able to follow activities in the communities.But are we getting too dependent on Twitter?YES!Twitter should not be a service but a protocol.When Twitter is ill, we are more and more aware of our dependency. by Leif Lodahl (noreply@blogger.com) at October 18, 2009 08:26 PM CEST October 16, 2009Charles Schulz : 9 years of magic
We are now well in the middle of October and this means it’s our usual time of celebration at OpenOffice.org . OpenOffice.org is now 9 years old, which is no small accomplishment for a Free Software project. We will soon all gather to celebrate this event in Orvieto, where the OOoCon will take place between the 3 and 6th of November. (Don’t forget: we have an ODF plugfest at the same place on the 1st and 2nd of November!) Last year has been a good year. Our mirrors saw a significant rise as we released our major release number 3 and its subversions. Our office suite has never been better, never faster, never more versatile than the one we distribute today. Our community has vastly expanded, and is still growing at a healthy rate. For all this we should be thankful and we should realize we are all contributing to an extraordinary project that helps dozens of million people worldwide, contributes significantly to bridge the digital divide, and is an essential tool of Free Software on potentially any desktop. The future will bring some changes; the nature of these changes is something that is still unknown to us. But regardless of what will happen in the next year (and I believe we should expect the best for OpenOffice.org) we should always remind ourselves the power of the Community. The power of the Community is not a magical thing, regardless of how I might try to make it sound like it is. The Community itself is quite intangible, but it is only through ourselves and the others with whom we contribute and share that things work, that a project is carried forward and that in some sense, magic happens. Thank you, OpenOffice.org, for these 9 years of magic. I expect to see more next year. by Charles at October 16, 2009 04:24 PM CET October 12, 2009Leif Lodahl : More Danish municipalities under wayJust to let you know, we are experiencing a very important breakthrough in the municipalities right now.City of Gribskov has been using OpenOffice for a few years.City of Tønder has been using OpenOffice in schools for about a year.City of Lyngby-Taarbæk has decided to use OpenOffice in schools. According to the local newspaper this is only the first step towards a compete change from MS to by Leif Lodahl (noreply@blogger.com) at October 12, 2009 09:45 PM CEST October 10, 2009Leif Lodahl : The mayor says: It is fully comparable with commercial systems!When OpenOffice became operational last Wednesday ,the mayor Rolf Aagaard-Svendsen (K) was happy with the prospect of reducing the cost of software. Rolf Aagaard-Svendsen said:There are many advantages to this. Among other things, it's free. The system is fully comparable with commercial systemsEnglish translation of newspaper article:http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=da&js=y&u= by Leif Lodahl (noreply@blogger.com) at October 10, 2009 05:10 PM CEST October 04, 2009Leif Lodahl : LocalizationLocalizing a complex application like OpenOffice.org is much more than just translating the user interface.The Danish community has for years been working on several strings: We must of cause keep up with translating the application. Right now we are in a working on translation of version 3.2. We have more than 73.000 strings at the moment. We would very much like to get the manuals from by Leif Lodahl (noreply@blogger.com) at October 04, 2009 10:22 PM CEST Sophie Gautier : Les icônes ODF
Les icônes d'OpenOffice.org vont changer, peut-être pour la version prochaine ou la suivante. La discussion est en cours sur le projet User Experience. Si vous souhaitez voir comment seront ces icônes, du moins comment elles sont actuellement, c'est sur le projet ODF Toolkit. Voilà pour le comment, même s'il n'est pas définitif, car les icônes en 16x16 sont actuellement retravaillées et beaucoup critiquent le manque de couleur qui permet de repérer facilement le type de document dans un gestionnaire de fichier. Sur le pourquoi maintenant, eh bien, ceux qui m'ont déjà écouté savent que depuis quelques années je leur dit que peut importe l'outil, c'est la donnée qui est importante et au coeur de votre patrimoine, c'est cela qui vous appartient. Cette donnée est véhiculée par un format, et pour qu'elle puisse rester vivante, échangeable, lisible, qu'elle puisse rester votre création, votre expression à travers le temps, il faut que ce format soit ouvert, documenté, standardisé et normalisé et ce pour tous les types de données que vous produisez, que ce soit du texte, des calculs, des dessins, peu importe. L'idée est donc d'oublier le logiciel qui a servi à créer ces données pour se concentrer sur leur format et ainsi de mettre également en avant ce format, qui est multiplateforme et neutre par rapport à l'outil qui l'a produit et donc par rapport à son éditeur. by sophi at October 04, 2009 08:47 AM CET October 01, 2009Leif Lodahl : Registration is openThe registration for the annual OOoCon is now open http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009/schedConf/registration. by Leif Lodahl (noreply@blogger.com) at October 01, 2009 01:02 PM CEST Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the OpenOffice.org Community. If you find any offensive or objectionable material, please notify the Native Language Confederation Leads. |
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