I’ve just deleted a long email chain from my inbox – Welche Release-Zeit für 3.1.1? – When will 3.1.1 be released? For those of you who like to have the latest and greatest version of OpenOffice.org – apologies, we have been struggling to get the download infrastructure ready, and apologies again, the server then crashed [...]

According to Microsoft anti-piracy guru Keith Beeman quoted in El Reg: In 2008, 41 percent of software on the world’s PCs was obtained illegally or used without a license… That equates to more than $50bn in losses for the global software ecosystem. or a huge potential market for open-source software. OpenOffice.org has long campaigned for [...]

The Renaissance Project – Create a User Interface so that OpenOffice.org becomes the users’ choice not only out of need but also out of desire” – was proposed at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Beijing last year and launched officially in November. It’s been busy at work ever since, and not really attracting a huge focus [...]

Just spent a happy evening (?) looking through all the proposals we have received from people wishing to speak at this year’s OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon 2009) in Italy. This year, for the first time, we are using OCS to manage the conference administration. This means we will be able to give potential speakers feedback [...]

Another OpenOffice.org milestone passed, with the download counter for version 3.1 passing the twenty million mark yesterday. For more details, see the bouncer downloads page. As one recent email put it: There is no question that Openoffice.org has superior technology to that of competing expensive alternatives. I fix computers for friends of mine and install [...]

I don’t do recipes as a rule , but Mel brought a tub of Brose along to a party this afternoon and was asked for the recipe, so here it is. Brose 1 oz medium oatmeal 4 oz syrup 1 tbsp lemon juice ½ pt double cream 5 tbsp whisky Toast oatmeal under grill until [...]