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Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see disclaimer. February 09, 2010Charles Schulz : Events & Non-events
This week started the wrong way. Some people started to create what is litterally a storm in the teacup, while some other people made announcements that in my view are extremely disappointing and quite concerning for some practitioners of FOSS licensing management and consultancy. Let me explain this point first. Black Duck was awarded a patent on Open Source licensing conflict resolution. The patent itself seems to cover the “core technology” of the software developed by Black Duck, and not the actual practice of FOSS licensing management and optimization, which is something that Ars Aperta incidently offers both through its traditional services and certification programs. I have to say that I am not really sure what the patent covers or does not cover, but it sure brings a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt for the existing competitors or potential competitors of Black Duck Software, existing consultancies in similar field and last but not least, customers. No wonder Bradley Kuhn got upset about this. I do find these news quite unsettling myself, and I cannot wait to see Black Duck’s patent promise. At least that should remind some not to trust so called Open Source experts who use laptops with Windows, MS Office and Internet Explorer. It’s a small but telling sign they treat FOSS as some sort of disease and not as something to rationally analyze and assist their customers on. And do I need to repeat this again here? Software patents are bad, they stifle competition, customer choice, block innovation and lessen value. You may call them a reality, you don’t have to necessarily add to it. What really strikes me as a real storm in the tea-cup is the pseudo announcement that Ubuntu will drop Openoffice.org from its upcoming Lucid Lynx release, in its netbook edition. The news came from this website and got quickly picked out by the largest french newspaper, stirring quite an uproar among the French community. Let me offer some thoughts on why these news are nothing short of non-news, aside the mere fact that there is no official announcement by Canonical or any Ubuntu release team on this matter.
What is now needed is some sort of acknowledgment by the broader community of analysts that these stats are reliable. This would cause some real problems to Microsoft, as these statistics usually only count the shipments or the default installation images of MS Windows that come preloaded with one trial version of MS Word. Unless Microsoft patents some new market share analysis method, that is. by Charles at February 09, 2010 04:59 PM CET February 06, 2010Louis Suarez-Potts : fosdem 2010
I missed last year's but was here two years ago, in Brussels, during winter, only without the broken hip. Fosdem is intense, exciting, great. The focus is on presentations, dsicussions that have an effect, that are not just speeches. In our case, this means the OOo developers present (and there are a lot) are going around meeting others and discussing OOo's technology and file format (the ODF) and how to contribute. (Today there is also a meeting of the ODF crew at 14:00, which I will be participating in. And that field--the ODF--is also immensely interesting.) by oulipo (noreply@blogger.com) at February 06, 2010 06:54 AM CET January 29, 2010Sophie Gautier : Le futur de OOo
Quelques informations sur ce qui se passe en ce moment dans le projet suite au rachat de Sun par Oracle.
Dans le futur très proche, nous changeons d'infrastructure d'hébergement et nous quittons (enfin !) CollabNet et CEE (c'est à dire les sites, les mailings listes et IssueTracker).. Nous sommes en phase d'évaluation du projet Kenai (et BugZilla) et pas vraiment proche de la migration visiblement. Il reste encore beaucoup beaucoup de travail ne serait-ce que d'inventaire et de mappage des fonctionnalités. Le site Extensions migre (enfin après plus de deux ans !) sur une nouvelle version de Drupal, principalement pour avoir accès à la localization sans être connecté.
La localization n'est pas en reste puisque la nouvelle version de Pootle est en cours de mise en place et SunGloss est maintenant figé et nous devrions maintenir nos glossaires sur OpenCTI. Mais, bon pour OpenCTI, je suis pas sûre, le peu que j'en ai testé ne semblait pas du tout répondre à ce que j'attendais. Enfin, à tester encore un peu plus et à discuter avec Elsa. by sophi at January 29, 2010 05:22 PM CET Leif Lodahl : VictoryThe Danish Parliament has decided to create a list of allowed standards. The standards MUST be implemented before end 2011.The decision includes two important things:ODF is on the list - OOXML is NOT!New standards MUST live up to certain criterias, among others it must be fully inter-operable with existing formats (formats already on the list). Microsoft is therefor responsible for by Leif Lodahl (noreply@blogger.com) at January 29, 2010 12:36 PM CET January 28, 2010Charles Schulz : Sun gets a new sales department, Apple releases a nice picture frame with DRM
We are in the end of January 2010: Sun just disappeared, Apple re-releases its Newton. Happy future, everyone. by Charles at January 28, 2010 06:05 PM CET January 22, 2010Sophie Gautier : Nouvelle boîte de dialogue d'impression
Dans la future 3.3, vous découvrirez une nouvelle boîte de dialogue d'impression pour tous les modules. Le premier onglet :
by sophi at January 22, 2010 06:16 PM CET January 21, 2010Charles Schulz : Every good thing has an end
This is also true for companies. Today, the European Commission has finally agreed to the purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle. Russian and Chinese authorities have yet to answer to this deal, but it seems that any Monty-backed answer would be more a delay than a stop for this merger to happen. I would therefore like to say Goodbye to Sun Microsystems. It’s been great working with you, it’s been great sharing years of my life as a Free Software contributor. You were one of these IT companies who have this strange ability to make all of us dream and feel confident we could just walk further than anyone else. I look forward working with “another you”, inside the broader Oracle Corporation, and I am sure that it will be exciting. So farewell, Sun. Hopefully your employees will not forget who you were, what you stood for: excellency in technology, freedom, genius, and inspiration. My friend Simon Phipps got that on Facebook for the occasion. by Charles at January 21, 2010 05:55 PM CET January 18, 2010Sophie Gautier : FOSDEM again!
We will be at FOSDEM again this year! You need to have a coffee or a tea and some nice discussions with OpenOffice.org community members, our booth is just around the corner, waiting to meet you :-) We also have a dev room where you can learn and exchange with our developers on the OOo code or ODF. Don't be shy, come and meet them! The program and further information are available on our wiki. So see you soon... by sophi at January 18, 2010 11:04 AM CET January 13, 2010Sophie Gautier : Jeudi, c'est libre !
Le premier jeudi de chaque mois est le jeudi du libre! Ça tombe bien, hein, vous ne saviez pas quoi faire ;-) Donc, cela se passe à Bruxelles, et toutes les informations sont disponibles sur le site jeudis du libre. by sophi at January 13, 2010 07:31 PM CET January 11, 2010Andreas Mantke : OOoAuthors - Update to a new Plone versionThe OOoAuthors uses the Content Management System Plone for writing, reviewing and publishing of Documentation about OpenOffice.org. The documents themselfs are created with the Office-Suite of the year 2010 - OpenOffice.org. The Plone CMS for OOoAuthors was initialized with a buildout script. This makes an update to a newer version of Plone (i.e. a bugfix release) very fast. It takes less than 20 minutes. by andreasma at January 11, 2010 08:34 PM CET Sophie Gautier : Renaissance, un point sur la roadmap
Un point sur ce projet qui suscite beaucoup d'intérêt auprès des utilisateurs, mais aussi beaucoup de rumeurs et comme c'est parfois elle qui prend le dessus, autant essayer de rétablir un peu de vérité. But du projet ''Design de l'interface" Quand ? Les modifications visibles Ce que vous pourrez voir, si tout va bien, dans la version 3.3 qui se concentre sur le module Impress quant à ces améliorations, c'est la disparition des onglets Notes et Prospectus en haut de la diapo. Les trois onglets (Normal, Plan et Trieuse) seront sur le côté gauche de l'interface, en haut du volet Diapo. Un volet Notes sera dispo en bas de l'interface et les onglets de droite seront renommés pour être plus compréhensibles. Plusieurs améliorations sont prévues en ce qui concerne l'affichage, par exemple la réduction ou le grisé pour les diapos masquées (ce n'est pas encore décidé), une vignette des diapos en mode plan, une meilleure adaptation à la taille de l'écran, etc... et plusieurs autres petites améliorations, mais rien de plus drastique. Pourquoi Nous avons enquêté auprès de nos utilisateurs, via des questionnaires en ligne, via l'enregistrement des actions réalisées dans l'interface, via des questionnaires spécifiques dans des entreprises en cours de migration ou ayant migré sur OOo. La version 3.2 propose même un questionnaire sur le pourquoi de la désinstallation. La réponse a été assez unanime quant à la modification de l'interface : personne ne souhaitait une modification radicale de sa présentation. by sophi at January 11, 2010 04:38 PM CET 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. |








