Followers of the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet will have noticed the return of the Bouncer download counter. Following suspicious behaviour, it’s now designed to err on the cautious side. You may notice occasional backdated jumps in the data – if the algorithms reject some of the numbers, we’re able to go back, audit them, and if [...]
People have been asking me what’s happened to the OpenOffice.org download counter on the Marketing Planet. The answer is that there were some very unlikely figures appearing in the daily statistics. The simplest explanation is that person or persons unknown have been trying to “improve” the figures – or possibly (but less likely) that the [...]
The Sunday Times has a piece today castigating Sir Fred Goodwin, erstwhile boss of RBS (curiously, despite what the press tell you, I’ve never heard him called ‘Fred the Shred’ in the bank – he was always known by his initials, FAG, then SFAG after his knighthood). No doubt SFAG is a convenient scapegoat, but:
what [...]
One of the accusations levelled at the OpenOffice.org Community was that we were all so busy getting OpenOffice.org 3 out the door in 2008 that we were losing touch with people who could help us do the job, particularly potential new developers.
As always, there was probably more myth than truth in this – we know [...]
Last year, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project received six proposals for hosting the OpenOffice.org Annual International Conference (OOoCon), and we eventually awarded OOoCon 2008 to Beijing, China. This year’s Call for Location opened on December 29th last year, and closed at midnight UTC last night.
I never know quite what to expect when I look in the [...]
We released OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 last week. For people with broadband, this means going to download.openoffice.org and downloading from the nearest mirror site. However, it’s a large download for people without broadband, who may prefer to get OpenOffice.org on a CD.
We have an active network of community distributors, who bulk print each new edition onto CDs [...]
