Back home for a long weekend (today is a UK bank holiday) after spending most of last week in London on business. I managed to fit in an IRC chat one evening with some of my fellow judges of the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Programme (CIP). Sun Microsystems offered multi-million dollar prize money earlier in the […]
Readers with long memories may remember that I managed to lodge an e-Petition with the UK Prime Minister’s Office urging the UK Government to sign up to the Hague Declaration of the Digital Standards Organisation. The original posting is here.
The petition clocked up 212 votes, and today I received the following email as the official […]
One of the pleasures of attending the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference is catching up with old friends. I always make a point of having a chat with Zaheda, one of the founders of the OpenOffice.org community, now with Google, but still keeping a keen interest in OpenOffice.org.
Zaheda is doing a Conference session The OOo Global Community […]
As you may be aware, an event eagerly anticipated around the world is taking place in Beijing this year. I mean of course the OpenOffice.org Annual International Conference, which will take place between 5th-7th November this year. We are now in a period of frantic activity for the Conference organisers. As usual, the bulk of […]
SourceForge is the largest repository of open-source projects on the planet. The results are in from their 2008 Community Choice Awards:
SourceForge.net is proud to present the winners from our 2008 Community Choice Awards.
Best Project »
OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org
Best Project for the Enterprise »
OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org
Best Project for Educators »
OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org
See here for the reasons why.
Thanks to all the […]
I wonder if they teach this essential piece of user support information on Microsoft Professional Support courses?
I promise you, this is one problem users of OpenOffice.org will never have to worry about
One rendition of Wirth’s law states that “software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster”. Judge for yourself with some interesting benchmarks for OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word.
I’m not a benchmarking expert. As an end user, my only comment on this is that I run OOo (currently 3.0beta2) on a daily basis on a diminitive Asus […]
