We’ll be using the OCS software to manage the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference this year (and any other OpenOffice.org Conferences that want to use it). If you want a sneak preview of the site, look here
Grateful thanks to the Public Knowledge Project for a great piece of open-source software.
The download counter at OpenOffice.org is showing that downloads of OpenOffice.org from the OpenOffice.org download page have passed the ten million mark (the counter was reset when OpenOffice,org 3.1 was launched on 7th May).
That’s a lot of happy users!
There’s an interesting conversation going on just now on one of the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project mailing lists. When you start up OpenOffice.org, you can either go straight to an application like Writer, or else go to the Start Screen (that’s it below). While that’s all very well and good, it is a little … err [...]
When I was taking some screenshots to illustrate the new features page for OpenOffice.org 3.1, I discovered a bug in the way that Chart handles missing values in certain circumstances. After a bit of testing, I convinced myself it was a genuine bug, and created a simple test Calc file to show the problem. I [...]
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Out of curiosity, I made a little graph comparing the number of downloads of OpenOffice.org 3.1 in the week after launch with the comparable figures for 3.0. As expected, there wasn’t the same level of excitement for a minor (.1) launch - and this time the download page didn’t crash under the strain
However, [...]
So, OpenOffice.org 3.1 with all its lovely new features is well and truly launched, with the official announcement last Thursday. I’ve reset the download counter on the Marketing Planet - as you can see from the detailed stats page, we were just a smidgeon short of 60 million downloads for OpenOffice.org 3.0.
The first reviews are [...]
