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Reading list for a rainy July day

2008-07-19T10:19:39+00:00

Here’s a very interesting, down-to-earth page about the iPhone by the FSF. It’s worth remembering this kind of issues that come along with the iPhone, as much beautiful and enticing it is.
Some musings on OpenSim and metaverse interoperaility. But why does OpenSim have to be developed on C# and .Net?
Autonomo.us : Now that’s what I had been thinking for some time; nice stuff and am glad to see the FSF seems to back that up. Surely it’s something Digistan should be interested in?
In the same line of thinking, this excellent post by Jay Cousins on data portability and social networking in the age of Cloud Computing.
Adobe’s sequel to Buzzword, the most elegant online word processor, is not just fully integrated into Adobe’s latest online services. It does export to ODF!
Talking about ODF, the OOXML bunch gets weirder and weirder every day. And Rick Jelliffe is at it too.
Marc Radcliffe explains everything on the Red Hat patent settlement here.
Interesting paper coming from the Future of Media 2008 conference. TV addicts, that’s worth a read…
Last but not least: I’m on Identi.ca. Why does its matter? It’s Twitter open sourced, distributed, and runs with Open ID. That’s why.

Have fun this week-end!

Java Update advertises OOo

2008-07-15T02:34:37+00:00

Java updates on 14th every month.

I updated it 10:57 08/07/15. :)

Looks Good!

Now can enjoy Java games and applications via Internet.

For further info, what you can do with Java, see java.com, it says.

Hey, it has more space there. Could it be added, say.....

For further info, what you can do with OOo, see openoffice.org :)

Register Your OOo3.0Beta

2008-07-13T02:06:19+00:00

http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.0.0beta2.html
Have you tried 3.0 Beta 2?

http://user.services.openoffice.org/ja/forum/download/file.php?id=25&mode=view
I am a big fun of the Start Center.

There you can start registering your OpenOffice.org.

http://registration.services.openoffice.org/OOo3.0Beta/thankyou.html

You can use Sun Inventory.
http://registration.services.openoffice.org/OOo3.0Beta/sc_redirect.html?intcmp=1479

You can add more features.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/most_pop_ext/?intcmp=1478

You can find complementary products.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions

You can find professional support.
http://support.openoffice.org/

You can join the OpenOffice.org Community.
http://contributing.openoffice.org/

You can get cool downloads.
http://developers.sun.com/downloads/

Get it and Register it Now!

4 weeks Community Forum Japanese

2008-07-10T15:10:02+00:00

OpenOffice.org Community Forum Japanese started on June 12, Thursday.

http://user.services.openoffice.org/ja/forum/

We've got 67 registered users, 22 topics and 80 postings.

It is great to have forum with a native language.

Smooth, no frustration and fluent :)

Have one for your community!

Wiki-Seite von Education.OOo

2008-07-03T19:56:51+00:00

Die Einstiegs-Wiki-Seite des neuen Projektes Education von OpenOffice.org war bisher fast komplett nur in Englisch und anderen Sprachen verfügbar. Heute habe ich große Teile dieser Seite ins Deutsche übersetzt:http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project/Willkommen_de. Damit sind auch in deutscher Sprache die wichtigen Einstigsinformationen für Entwickler und diejenigen, die zum Projekt OpenOffice.org insbesondere Programmcode beitragen wollen, verfügbar.

What’s hot this summer?

2008-07-02T10:36:53+00:00

I have been pretty busy these days, travelling to Brussels, London and also Bordeaux (that last one for one of my best friends’ thirtiest birthday) and as a result I haven’t had the time to blog as regularly as I wanted.

So I thought I could briefly discuss what will be “hot” this summer.

One Microsoft spokesperson has declared that ODF had won and inasmuch as I enjoyed his sentence I don’t agree with him. ODF needs to complete three major steps before one can really call it a success:

Important uptake has been witnessed for ODF, both on a government level and in absolute terms in comparison to OOXML (whatever that last term means). But we really need to push it forward to a broader audience and get it adopted more.

ODF 1.2 really needs to be released and we are late; besides that, we don’t know what Microsoft, who joined the OASIS ODF TC at the beginning of June, will do about ODF 1.2. Their decision to support ODF 1.1 is in this regard not entirely justified as ODF 1.2 will have been released months before the release of MS Office 2007 SP2 in 2009. Does Microsoft know something we don’t?

Talking about Microsoft, I just don’t know what they really wish to do within the OASIS ODF TC. We’ll see as the events unfold but something should be remembered: following the OASIS consortium’s policies, any IPR related to ODF will be neutralized after 60 days of membership of the ODF technical committee. I do locate this “IP neutralization” around the 9th of August. It will be interesting to see what happens next.

On the other hand, the development and testing of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is going on. If you have some free time this summer, consider contributing to OpenOffice.org by reporting bugs and downloading snapshots (here are the ones for Mac, by the way) .

Last but not least, two points of a more personal aspect:

Erwin Tenhumberg, a great OpenOffice.org marketer left Sun for SAP. You can find his former blog on my blogroll but it will be replaced by his new one soon. Good luck Erwin!

My father switched to Ubuntu Linux, Hardy Heron. So far some minor issues but the system works like a breeze and the laptop rocks.

Enjoy your week!

Crop image in Draw and Impress (Danish)

2008-06-29T21:34:51+00:00

OpenOffice.org Newsletter in Danish

2008-06-26T21:41:19+00:00

The newsletter is on the streets now: Text edition: http://da.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=nyhedsbrev&msgNo=51 PDF-Edition: http://doc.oooforum.dk/Nyhed/2008Juli.pdf

Squirrels

2008-06-22T18:54:25+00:00

For the last couple of months we have had two frequent visiters in the garden. We usually feed the birds during winther but this year we continued to feed them even during spring and summer. The squirrels heard about it and now they are sitting on the ground below the birds food supply every morning. This squirrel is a grey one. The other one is completly red.