http://www.mealldubh.org a view from a dark hill Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:04:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/25/cip/ 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 ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/19/the-government-replies/ 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 ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/14/building-communities/ 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. ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/08/10/beijing-updates/ 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 ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/07/26/and-the-winner-is/ 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 :) http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/07/25/525/ 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 ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/07/24/for-what-its-wirth/ When we kicked off the Call for Papers for the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference, the local conference organisers started to panic when no papers were submitted for the first few weeks. Having been through this before many times, I assured them all would be well, and of course it was. We ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/07/23/why-late/ The ever-watchful Alexandro spotted the following job advert from a large software company in Redmond, WA, USA: The Breadth Team is seeking a talented Marketing Manager to help drive our competitive efforts within the SMS&P-SMB and with other field teams, segment teams and product groups across Microsoft. Our passion is helping ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/07/17/inside-the-mind-of-the-competition/ And another from today's mail: Dear Project Leaders, My son gave me and my husband a rebuilt computer and he had OpenOffice software installed on it. I, of course, preferred Microsoft because I was familiar with it. But I thought ... IT'S A FREE COMPUTER DONATED BY MY CHILD. ... http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/07/13/sorry-i-couldnt-resist-one-more/