This is one of a series of reviews of the rival bids to host the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008 (OOoCon). Proposal The Slovakian team have produced a comparatively brief proposal, using just over half the permitted word count to answer the Key Question. The Mandatory section is complete, although with minimal visa information. The Optional [...]
This is one of a series of reviews of the rival bids to host the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008 (OOoCon). Proposal It should be easy to score top marks on a proposal – all you need to do is answer all the questions, fully, in the order they were asked. The Chinese team have done [...]
This is one of a series of reviews of the rival bids to host the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference 2008 (OOoCon). Proposal The Dutch team have submitted the slimmest of all the proposals, using just 100 out of a possible 400 words to answer the Key Question. The Mandatory Information is complete, although the venue has [...]
Voting is now well underway to choose the team who will run the next OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon). Eligible voters can cast their votes any time before the ballot closes at midnight UTC on February 29th. What makes it even more interesting is that our voting mechanism allows voters to change their minds at any [...]
Yesterday was a beautiful Spring day in Edinburgh, which made me wish I hadn’t put my name down to sing in a Waverley Care fund-raising “Come and Sing” concert. I’d skipped the optional “note bashing” session as I knew both pieces in the concert, but it still meant half a day rehearsing and then singing. [...]
Last year Lothian buses introduced real-time tracking of buses on a number of routes in Edinburgh. Displays at the main city centre bus stops show the predicted arrival times of the next two buses for each tracked service. This has been handy for me coming home from work in the city centre, but has been [...]
So, we have opened voting on schedule to choose the venue for the next OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon), even if (IMHO) the voting system is flawed. Many thanks to Cristian and Florian for working on this late into last night. Over the next few days I will be reviewing each of the proposals and giving my verdict [...]
