Back to the day job, only to be shipped down to London for two days’ offsite with the rest of the IT management team (several hundred). I decided to take the train down, as I was very impressed with the GNER onboard wifi connection, when I used it via my own laptop. Now that our [...]

Another late night, another early start for Conference, this time so as not to miss the native-language projects. Their sessions provide fascinating insights into what motivates people into devoting their time, energy, and abilities into working for the OpenOffice.org community, or in persuading their public administrations to become involved. I look forward in particular to [...]

Conference day two turned out to be – mercifully – more relaxed than the hectic first day. The initial round of meeting and greeting old friends has passed; everyone has found their way round the buildings; and conference breathes a sigh of relief and gets down to business. My day started at 8.30am with an [...]

From time to time we get emails from people: “I’ve just paid 30 dollars for Fred’s Office only to find it’s really OpenOffice.org, which I now hear I could have downloaded for free. What are you going to do about it?” Unfortunately, what Fred is doing is perfectly legal under our open-source licence. You can [...]

I had a brief conversation with Erwin yesterday about whether the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon) was now getting so big that we should contract it out to professional event organisers. Having been to many such organised events in my day job, I’m convinced that OpenOffice.org should keep to recipe of local teams organising OOoCon for [...]

With the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon) starting next week in Barcelona, registrations have broken the 1,000 mark. The organisers are not amused by suggestions that they should throw in a late booking for the Camp Nou. In the early days we were worried that people might be put off by extending the conference from two [...]

There’s a Press Release just been released to announce that IBM are joining the OpenOffice.org community: The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, [...]