http://www.plio.it en Planet PLIO - http://www.plio.it http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=3147 http://robertogaloppini.net/2012/05/08/apache-openofficeorg-34-download-it-now/ <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3152" title="apache_openoffice_logo" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/apache_openoffice_logo3.png" alt="apache_openoffice_logo" width="200" height="100" />The<a href="http://openoffice.org/"> Apache OpenOffice.org project</a> <a href="http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/news/aoo34.html">announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.4</a>, see the new features and improvement in the <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+Notes">Release Notes</a>. You might get the gist of some of the new features looking at the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/blog/announcing-apache-open-office-34/">Apache OpenOffice SourceForge video</a>, featured also on <a href="http://feathercast.apache.org/?p=165">FeatherCast</a>.</p> <p><span id="more-3147"></span></p> <p>Apache OpenOffice 3.4 main new features:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li> word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databases, drawing, and mathematical editing applications support for Windows, Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) and Macintosh operating environments</li> <li> native language support for English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese</li> <li> improved ODF support, including new ODF 1.2 encryption options and new spreadsheet functions</li> <li> enhanced pivot table support in Calc</li> <li> enhanced graphics, including line caps, <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/features_for_graphicobjects_and_oleobjects">shear transformations</a> and <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/native_svg_support_for_apache">native support</a> for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)</li> <li> improvements in performance and quality</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://www.openoffice.org/download/">Download it now!</a></p></blockquote> Tue, 08 May 2012 17:52:13 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=768 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/8t45hibo03E/ <p></p><p>When The Document Foundation has launched, it has been confronted &#8211; amongst the many &#8211; with a huge brand awareness challenge. Entering the marketplace with a new brand was a task that only a group of brave individuals could undertake.</p> <p align="left">Brand awareness analysis, though, is a challenge, because you have to study a moving target. In fact, today&#8217;s brand awareness is the result of the previous 12 or even 18 months of communication activity.</p> <p align="left">Let&#8217;s see how we have fared during the 18 months from October 2010 and March 2012, comparing the LibreOffice brand with those of the other office suites.</p> <p align="left">I will use several free indicators (we don&#8217;t have the budget for a proper brand analysis, with focus groups and other expensive research tools), which might give some insight into the present and into the future.</p> <p align="left">I am talking of <a href="http://www.google.com/insights/search/" target="_blank">Google Insights for Search</a>, comparing LibreOffice with Calligra, OpenOffice and Microsoft Office during the 18 months from October 2012 and March 2012.</p> <p align="left"><strong>Product Search Worldwide</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/productsearch-worldwide.png"><img title="productsearch-worldwide" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/productsearch-worldwide_thumb.png" alt="productsearch-worldwide" width="640" height="330" border="0" /></a></p> <p><em>Calligra (yellow), LibreOffice (green), Microsoft Office (red), OpenOffice (blue)</em></p> <p><strong>Web Search Worldwide</strong></p> <p align="left"><strong><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/websearch-worldwide.png"><img title="websearch-worldwide" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/websearch-worldwide_thumb.png" alt="websearch-worldwide" width="640" height="296" border="0" /></a></strong></p> <p align="left"><em>Calligra (yellow), LibreOffice (green), Microsoft Office (red), OpenOffice (blue)</em></p> <p align="left"><strong>News Search Worldwide</strong></p> <p align="left"><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newssearch-worldwide.png"><img title="newssearch-worldwide" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newssearch-worldwide_thumb.png" alt="newssearch-worldwide" width="640" height="297" border="0" /></a></p> <p align="left"><em>Calligra (yellow), LibreOffice (green), Microsoft Office (red), OpenOffice (blue)</em></p> <p align="left">LibreOffice is absent from Product Search (which is related to the installed base), is behind Microsoft Office and OpenOffice in Web Search (which is related to today&#8217;s brand awareness), although is growing, and is behind Microsoft Office in News Search (which is related to today&#8217;s interest), as it has overtaken OpenOffice in early 2011.</p> <p>If we dig further into News Search, though, looking at countries where LibreOffice has a stronger community, we discover something interesting.</p> <p><strong>News Search Germany</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newssearch-germany.png"><img title="newssearch-germany" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newssearch-germany_thumb.png" alt="newssearch-germany" width="640" height="296" border="0" /></a></p> <p><em>Calligra (yellow), LibreOffice (green), Microsoft Office (red), OpenOffice (blue)</em></p> <p><strong>News Search France</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newssearch-france.png"><img title="newssearch-france" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newssearch-france_thumb.png" alt="newssearch-france" width="640" height="330" border="0" /></a></p> <p><em>Calligra (yellow), LibreOffice (green), Microsoft Office (red), OpenOffice (blue)</em></p> <p><strong>News Search Italy</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newssearch-italy.png"><img title="newssearch-italy" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newssearch-italy_thumb.png" alt="newssearch-italy" width="640" height="297" border="0" /></a></p> <p><em>Calligra (yellow), LibreOffice (green), Microsoft Office (red), OpenOffice (blue)</em></p> <p>As you can see, in Germany LibreOffice is head to head with OpenOffice and Microsoft Office, in France is head to head with Microsoft Office, and in Italy is ahead of both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office.</p> <p>Of course, if you look at raw numbers, today you see LibreOffice behind Microsoft Office and OpenOffice in most geographies, but if you look at perspectives… a truly independent, democratic and meritocratic community can achieve the unthinkable.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jeVa10YXGDKwgs3d4HDWMgOigZ0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jeVa10YXGDKwgs3d4HDWMgOigZ0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jeVa10YXGDKwgs3d4HDWMgOigZ0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/jeVa10YXGDKwgs3d4HDWMgOigZ0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=8t45hibo03E:6wWzEFObeUQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=8t45hibo03E:6wWzEFObeUQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=8t45hibo03E:6wWzEFObeUQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=8t45hibo03E:6wWzEFObeUQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/8t45hibo03E" height="1" width="1" /> Sat, 05 May 2012 13:16:30 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=3145 http://robertogaloppini.net/2012/05/03/more-than-just-a-forge/ <blockquote><p>SourceForge just a forge? Not quite, not anymore. SourceForge is investing time and resources to help open source projects to grow, and we do that through numerous ways. Take our recent collaboration with one of the most famous open source projects: the <a href="http://openoffice.org/">OpenOffice project</a>, now incubated at the Apache Software Foundation.</p> <p><a href="https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/an_apache_openoffice_timeline">SourceForge helps the Apache OpenOffice</a> by serving downloads for the <a href="http://extensions.openoffice.org">Extensions</a> and the <a href="http://templates.openoffice.org">Templates</a> sites, as well as the shortly upcoming Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Release.</p></blockquote> <p>Read the full article at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/blog/apache-openoffice-turns-to-sourceforge-for-distribution/">SourceForge blog</a>.</p> Thu, 03 May 2012 14:06:50 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/2012/04/precise-pangolin-has-arrived/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/9fePV-iAvro/ <p></p><p>Today, a <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Precise Pangolin</a> has landed on my desktop. It looks like it has landed on many other desktops, as the connection to Ubuntu servers has been quite slow during all day.</p> <p><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Home-Ubuntu.png"><img title="Home - Ubuntu" border="0" alt="Home - Ubuntu" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Home-Ubuntu_thumb.png" width="620" height="280" /></a></p> <p>I have installed the system, but I still have to apply the tweaks that make the desktop fit my needs. I will report during the next few days about my experience with the new OS.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Xn0r44T6Ihpg2S2nMCom_astBk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Xn0r44T6Ihpg2S2nMCom_astBk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Xn0r44T6Ihpg2S2nMCom_astBk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-Xn0r44T6Ihpg2S2nMCom_astBk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=9fePV-iAvro:b7k2peLvucE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=9fePV-iAvro:b7k2peLvucE:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=9fePV-iAvro:b7k2peLvucE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=9fePV-iAvro:b7k2peLvucE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/9fePV-iAvro" height="1" width="1" /> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:41:58 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=3140 http://robertogaloppini.net/2012/04/05/odf-interoperability-brussels-odf-plugfest-19-20-april-2012/ <p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3141" title="8thplugfestlogohome" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/8thplugfestlogohome-300x95.png" alt="8thplugfestlogohome" width="300" height="95" /><a href="http://www.odfplugfest.org/2012-brussels/">The eight ODF Plugfest</a> will take place on April 19th and 20th 2012 in Brussels (Belgium).<span id="more-3140"></span></p> <p>This Plugfest is a two day interoperability workshop on open document exchange formats hosted by Microsoft and organized as usual in collaboration with the OpenDoc Society.</p> <p><a href="http://www.odfplugfest.org/2012-brussels/register/">Don&#8217;t forget to register on line</a>.</p> <p><strong>About ODF Plugfests.</strong></p> <p><em><a href="http://plugfest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=plugfests:201102_maidenhead:info&do=backlink">The ODF plugfests</a> are an ongoing series of vendor-neutral events, bringing together implementers and stakeholders of the standard. The goal is to achieve maximum interoperability by <a href="http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/">running scenario-based tests</a> in a hands-on manner and discuss new and proposed features of the ODF specification.</em></p> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:28:51 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=753 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/PAr16neJoEo/ <p></p><p>It looks like the communication between myself and Iain did not work in the proper way yesterday evening (European time), because a couple of significant inaccuracies have crept in the text of the <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/libreoffice_cloud_service/" target="_blank">article</a>:</p> <p>1. The Document Foundation will probably announce a ROADMAP for LibreOffice OnLine sometimes in late April or early May. A ROADMAP and not a PRODUCT, and this should be absolutely clear. At the moment, there is no reason to expect a change in the previously announced release timeframe: &#8220;sometimes in 2013&#8243;.</p> <p>2. The Android port is under way, but is the PORTING of the code to be around 80% (and not the CODING, which is still below 50%). The Android port is not a simple endeavor, and it will ask for a lot of CODING efforts once the PORTING has been completed. One of these efforts is a new touch interface, which is &#8211; by itself &#8211; a huge development effort. This is the reason why TDF will not be in the position of making ANY announcement about LibreOffice on Pads &#8211; including a roadmap &#8211; before 2013.</p> <p>I hope this clarifies the issue.</p> <p>UPDATE: <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-Cloud-not-coming-next-month-1479077.html" target="_blank">The H Open</a> explains it perfectly</p> <blockquote><p><strong>LibreOffice Cloud not coming next month</strong></p> <p>The Document Foundation The HTML5-based cloud version of LibreOffice is not coming next month, regardless of reports that it was due to go online in April. The Document Foundation&#8217;s Italo Vignoli has issued an &#8220;errata&#8221; concerning the comments which led to the reports that notes that the previously announced release timeframe for LibreOffice OnLine has not changed and is still &#8220;sometime in 2013&#8243;. What Vignoli did announce was that a roadmap for the development would be produced in &#8220;late April or early May&#8221;.</p> <p>LibreOffice OnLine is a version of LibreOffice that uses the Broadway GTK+ backend to render the user interface onto an HTML5 canvas in a browser; the Broadway backend is still listed as experimental by its developers.</p> <p>Vignoli also took the opportunity to correct the impression given in the reports that the Android port of LibreOffice was nearing completion, pointing out that the porting of the office suite&#8217;s code was at around 80% complete – that refers to the process of getting existing code to compile on the platform. The writing of the code needed to put a touch-oriented user interface &#8220;which is – by itself – a huge development effort&#8221; is still below 50% complete. The Document Foundation will not, because of this, be &#8220;making ANY announcement&#8221; about tablet versions of LibreOffice before 2013 and there will not be any roadmap published before that time.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vyi9Vip2oLIeiSaoXicQoDczXG4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vyi9Vip2oLIeiSaoXicQoDczXG4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vyi9Vip2oLIeiSaoXicQoDczXG4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/vyi9Vip2oLIeiSaoXicQoDczXG4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=PAr16neJoEo:sM9qw6woYzU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=PAr16neJoEo:sM9qw6woYzU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=PAr16neJoEo:sM9qw6woYzU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=PAr16neJoEo:sM9qw6woYzU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/PAr16neJoEo" height="1" width="1" /> Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:42:45 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=742 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/B5rAkuLdq48/ <p></p><p>Today I have uploaded on SlideShare my last three presentations:</p> <p>- LibreOffice Conference (together with Florian Effenberger and Michael Meeks)</p> <div id="__ss_12019781"> <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/italovignoli/achievements-12019781" title="The Document Foundation: One Year of Achievements" target="_blank">Achievements</a></strong> <div> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/italovignoli" target="_blank">Italo Vignoli</a> </div> </div> <p>- Linux Conference Europe 2011 in Prague</p> <div id="__ss_12019706"> <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/italovignoli/italo-linuxconeurope2011" title="LibreOffice at Linux Conference Europe 2011" target="_blank">LibreOffice at Linux Conference Europe 2011</a></strong> <div> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/italovignoli" target="_blank">Italo Vignoli</a> </div> </div> <p>- FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels</p> <div id="__ss_12019721"> <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/italovignoli/italo-fosdem2012" title="LibreOffice Development Directions" target="_blank">LibreOffice Development Directions</a></strong> <div> View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/" target="_blank">presentations</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/italovignoli" target="_blank">Italo Vignoli</a> </div> </div> <p>Enjoy</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/V_i9P5c0U8iUInfNrqeV8ofVPXM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/V_i9P5c0U8iUInfNrqeV8ofVPXM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/V_i9P5c0U8iUInfNrqeV8ofVPXM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/V_i9P5c0U8iUInfNrqeV8ofVPXM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=B5rAkuLdq48:XNn6ySDNckY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=B5rAkuLdq48:XNn6ySDNckY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=B5rAkuLdq48:XNn6ySDNckY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=B5rAkuLdq48:XNn6ySDNckY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/B5rAkuLdq48" height="1" width="1" /> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:10:36 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=710 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/TnagItLPD4I/ <p></p><p>I have just discovered Donut Charts, a visual feature which has been there for quite a long time, but I have never been able to master. It is a nice feature which comes handy to compare developer&#8217;s affiliation of LibreOffice with that of Apache OpenOffice.</p> <p>In fact, although we have published several times the pie chart showing the affiliation of TDF developers, there are people who keep on hinting that LibreOffice is controlled by SUSE. The Donut Chart seems to show the opposite, especially when looking at SUSE and IBM percentage of the respective communities.</p> <p><img title="pippo.jpg" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/pippo.jpg" alt="Pippo" width="600" height="423" border="0" /></p> <p>Here, I am comparing over 360 TDF developers with 21 Apache OO developers, which are a picture of the situation at the end of February 2012.</p> <p>I have not included in the count of TDF developers the former Sun/Oracle employees (53) and I have slightly reduced the count of volunteers as I did not want to include people like myself who have committed a patch but cannot by any mean be considered hackers.</p> <p>TDF has managed to attract over 360 new developers in 18 months to hack the copyleft licensed LibreOffice, at the monthly average of 20 new hackers. Apache OO has attracted 21 new developers in 7 months to hack the now permissively licensed Apache OO, at the monthly average of 3 new hackers. At this pace, Apache OO will reach 360 developers in September 2021.</p> <p>At the start of the LibreOffice project, when TDF developers were still a small number, someone has said: &#8220;Having an active contributor base of 150 coders would be an amazing accomplishment. Even a solid group of 30 coders, if not all from the same company, would be an impressive project&#8221;. LibreOffice now greatly exceeds both of those numbers (actually, it did so in less than four months, by the end of December 2010).</p> <p>And not only that: LibreOffice does so with a broad and diverse base of contributors and supporters, a feat that seems easy to achieve, but which the history of open source has proven again and again a tricky thing to get right.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HLe1ekf5s7sUqNzw7Ub4WQGE1ko/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HLe1ekf5s7sUqNzw7Ub4WQGE1ko/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HLe1ekf5s7sUqNzw7Ub4WQGE1ko/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HLe1ekf5s7sUqNzw7Ub4WQGE1ko/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=TnagItLPD4I:d5ksMtkDsSc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=TnagItLPD4I:d5ksMtkDsSc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=TnagItLPD4I:d5ksMtkDsSc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=TnagItLPD4I:d5ksMtkDsSc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/TnagItLPD4I" height="1" width="1" /> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:00:03 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=712 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/IVK2mTvXiGU/ <p></p><p>In this case, <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201203.mbox/%3C4F5FE2ED.8020203%40apache.org%3E" target="_blank">a few words</a> tell a lot more than a thousand pictures&#8230;</p> <blockquote><p>Well&#8230; I don&#8217;t think that LibreOffice would be the best option. To be honest I would point people to Microsoft Office. It has less bugs, it has full support and every time you buy it you help the economy and the many professional developers behind it that feed their families.</p> <p>If people can&#8217;t afford that and/or you mean strictly an OpenOffice replacement&#8230; end users would by happy with Lotus Symphony which is free (no FreeBSD port yet though).</p></blockquote> <p>Pedro Giffuni, Apache OOi &amp; FreeBSD Committer</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kkvj9E9LaOsCwWQnDvg7pqwpe6w/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kkvj9E9LaOsCwWQnDvg7pqwpe6w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kkvj9E9LaOsCwWQnDvg7pqwpe6w/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kkvj9E9LaOsCwWQnDvg7pqwpe6w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=IVK2mTvXiGU:h3bO4DcvJDw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=IVK2mTvXiGU:h3bO4DcvJDw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=IVK2mTvXiGU:h3bO4DcvJDw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=IVK2mTvXiGU:h3bO4DcvJDw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/IVK2mTvXiGU" height="1" width="1" /> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:01:47 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535701033592062760.post-2797050760411502303 http://ooomacros.blogspot.com/2012/03/otto-marzo.html Valerio, un utente della mailing list italiana di OpenOffice.org sta scrivendo del codice StarBasic per calcolare la parità di un numero. Dopo avere incontrato alcune difficoltà scrive un po contrariato: &gt; P.S. se penso che in C è così semplice calcolare la parità bit a bit ... ;-)) &gt; solo che poi non avrei tutte le altre comodità di Calc.La cosa mi ha incuriosito, e poi oggi è l'8 marzo e la Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:08:54 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Paolo) http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=691 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/BZX-hms4EpQ/ <p></p><p>I have changed the name of the blog, to reflect the focus on the thinking behind the marketing activity at The Document Foundation. I would like to make it clear that this is a personal blog, where I will express my personal opinions. Sometimes, these opinions are shared by the other members, but quite often they are not shared and start a positive discussion.</p> <p>The opinions expressed here cannot be attributed to The Document Foundation, even if I am one of the official spokespersons of the project. I am a volunteer without any corporate affiliation (I am a senior partner in a small Italian PR agency, focusing on high technology), and therefore I am speaking as an independent individual.</p> <p>For the sake of transparency, in the past – over ten years ago – I have been a marketing consultant for Novell, IBM and SunSoft (when Sun decided to spin off the software branch under a different brand, but this was long before OpenOffice). A long time ago, in the early eighties, I have been a senior executive at Honeywell Information Systems, and a fierce competitor of IBM.</p> <p>I have been involved in the high technology market since 1981, just a few weeks after the IBM PC announcement, which happened on my 27th birthday on August 12, 1981.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y3l2X2GJ0-mBr1o3h9qeFNE6EP8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y3l2X2GJ0-mBr1o3h9qeFNE6EP8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y3l2X2GJ0-mBr1o3h9qeFNE6EP8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Y3l2X2GJ0-mBr1o3h9qeFNE6EP8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=BZX-hms4EpQ:jeew233s-oc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=BZX-hms4EpQ:jeew233s-oc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=BZX-hms4EpQ:jeew233s-oc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=BZX-hms4EpQ:jeew233s-oc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/BZX-hms4EpQ" height="1" width="1" /> Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:01:46 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=679 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/0C1S3mciAbA/ <p></p><p>The visual representation gives a better flavour of the difference in activity and involvement between LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice.</p> <p><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tdf-nocommenvisual.jpg"><img title="tdf-nocommenvisual" alt="tdf-nocommenvisual" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tdf-nocommenvisual_thumb.jpg" width="650" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HTM72dXwjj9MwEcWkb2GTNVEwnU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HTM72dXwjj9MwEcWkb2GTNVEwnU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HTM72dXwjj9MwEcWkb2GTNVEwnU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/HTM72dXwjj9MwEcWkb2GTNVEwnU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=0C1S3mciAbA:vOkMqXUu1FQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=0C1S3mciAbA:vOkMqXUu1FQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=0C1S3mciAbA:vOkMqXUu1FQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=0C1S3mciAbA:vOkMqXUu1FQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/0C1S3mciAbA" height="1" width="1" /> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:36:12 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=673 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/v42YWAYQsW8/ <p></p><p>@ TDF, we are proud of our OOo heritage, as most of us have been active in the project for several years, and have spent there many hours.</p> <p>It looks like the same does not apply to Apache OpenOffice, which is a new project born in June 2011 (according to one of its most prominent members). This makes Apache OO the younger fork of the original code.</p> <p>As a consequence of this different situation, I have modified the infographic, which is now comparing the last six months instead of the last 15 months.</p> <p><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tdf-nocommentreloaded.jpg"><img title="tdf-nocommentreloaded" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tdf-nocommentreloaded_thumb.jpg" alt="tdf-nocommentreloaded" width="650" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-FStpXAFi-e5ho1ZorowufyZYjE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-FStpXAFi-e5ho1ZorowufyZYjE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-FStpXAFi-e5ho1ZorowufyZYjE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/-FStpXAFi-e5ho1ZorowufyZYjE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=v42YWAYQsW8:9F7kp3PH25I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=v42YWAYQsW8:9F7kp3PH25I:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=v42YWAYQsW8:9F7kp3PH25I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=v42YWAYQsW8:9F7kp3PH25I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/v42YWAYQsW8" height="1" width="1" /> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:27:55 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=670 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/ukk5Dt4RW_4/ <p></p><p>The infographic tells it all. Data have been extracted from Ohloh, using the same metric for both projects.</p> <p><a href="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tdf-nocomment.jpg"><img title="tdf-nocomment" src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tdf-nocomment_thumb.jpg" alt="tdf-nocomment" width="650" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OiICi_uVJrgj3VayCU40nwxnCF8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OiICi_uVJrgj3VayCU40nwxnCF8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OiICi_uVJrgj3VayCU40nwxnCF8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/OiICi_uVJrgj3VayCU40nwxnCF8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=ukk5Dt4RW_4:wFaKIXN70Gw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=ukk5Dt4RW_4:wFaKIXN70Gw:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=ukk5Dt4RW_4:wFaKIXN70Gw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=ukk5Dt4RW_4:wFaKIXN70Gw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/ukk5Dt4RW_4" height="1" width="1" /> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:20:09 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=662 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/hZjzqrScpBc/ <p></p><p>TDF has been announced on September 28, 2010. At the time, developers focusing on the LibreOffice source code were a rather small number. According to <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Apache+OpenOffice&project_1=LibreOffice">Ohloh</a>, in August 2010 hackers committing code were 41 for OOo and 50 for LibreOffice. Let&#8217;s assume then that LibreOffice hackers were just 9.</p> <p>I remember that several people pointed out immediately that the number of TDF developers was not adequate for the size and the scope of the project, and set the minimum at 25. I suspect that they were far too quick in expressing their judgement.</p> <p>In fact, the 9 TDF hackers were left alone just for a few hours.</p> <p>Between September 28, 2010, and September 30, 2010, 21 new developers joined the group (source of all numbers: <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/libreoffice">Ohloh</a>). In October 2010, new hackers were 86.</p> <p>The growth has never stopped. In fact, at the end of December 2011, the cumulative number of new LibreOffice developers was an astounding 379 (the image does not need additional comments).</p> <p><img src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/lo-cumulativenewcommitters1.png" alt="cumulative number of LibreOffice new committers" title="lo-cumulativenewcommitters.png" border="0" width="450" /></p> <p>Most of these hackers are volunteers, who donate their skills and their time to the project. Of course, most of them cannot contribute on a daily basis, although they are all doing wonders.</p> <p>Combining old and new developers, TDF hackers have always been at least twice as many as the minimum set at 25 (again, the image does not need additional comments).</p> <p><img src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/lo-oldnewcommitters.png" alt="old + new LibreOffice committers" title="lo-oldnewcommitters.png" border="0" width="450" /></p> <p>A quick final note to explain the sharp drop between March and April 2011. On April 15, 2011, Oracle <a href="http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/entry/openofficeorg_to_become_a_pure">announced</a> that it was going to stop the development of OOo (unfortunately, the original press release is no longer available).</p> <p>As a consequence, Oracle developers &#8211; whose contributions, merged by TDF developers, were duly counted &#8211; disappered almost immediately.</p> <p>The situation is easier to understand from the following histogram, which compares the number of LibreOffice and OOo committers since September 2010. Data for OOo are those extracted from <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice">Apache OOo</a>, which has replaced OOo at Ohloh.</p> <p><img src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/lo-comparison2.png" alt="comparison between LibreOffice and Apache OOo" title="lo-comparison.png" border="0" width="450" /></p> <p>I am quite amazed by the tiny number of Apache OOo developers since August 2011, although someone has tried to explain me &#8211; a recognized tech illiterate &#8211; that hackers are counted in a different way, and only a subset shows in Ohloh numbers.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/knldpDwhXu4W-nPlssyNEhoqVHg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/knldpDwhXu4W-nPlssyNEhoqVHg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/knldpDwhXu4W-nPlssyNEhoqVHg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/knldpDwhXu4W-nPlssyNEhoqVHg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=hZjzqrScpBc:yCgggxSUVq4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=hZjzqrScpBc:yCgggxSUVq4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=hZjzqrScpBc:yCgggxSUVq4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=hZjzqrScpBc:yCgggxSUVq4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/hZjzqrScpBc" height="1" width="1" /> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:26:16 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=654 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/HXv44RPcmRE/ <p></p><p><img src="http://www.italovignoli.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/6606258839_2c9c122a24_b.jpg" alt="6606258839 2c9c122a24 b" title="6606258839_2c9c122a24_b.jpg" border="0" width="400" /></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZYpdsQmghD4_sN33IngRqSH8KKo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZYpdsQmghD4_sN33IngRqSH8KKo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZYpdsQmghD4_sN33IngRqSH8KKo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ZYpdsQmghD4_sN33IngRqSH8KKo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HXv44RPcmRE:9yyyTkSZ_sA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HXv44RPcmRE:9yyyTkSZ_sA:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=HXv44RPcmRE:9yyyTkSZ_sA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=HXv44RPcmRE:9yyyTkSZ_sA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/HXv44RPcmRE" height="1" width="1" /> Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:50:25 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=652 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/sJ63q6nUZJ8/ <p></p><p>ODF 1.2, the document format adopted by LibreOffice, has been approved as an OASIS standard. Although we are still waiting the formal OASIS announcement, there have been a <a href="http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201109/msg00010.html" target="_blank">dry email</a> by Chet Ensign and a <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2011/09/odf12-approved.html" target="_blank">more enthusiastic</a> post by Rob Weir who provide several details about the story.</p> <p>ODF 1.0 is the ISO/IEC standard 26300:2006, and has been widely accepted by governments worldwide as the reference format for editing and exchanging documents. It will be soon updated, as soon as ISO/IEC JTC1 will approve ODF 1.2.</p> <p>Standard document formats are key for liberating the user from the lock in of proprietary formats. ODF has been inspired by OOo document format and is now supported by most personal productivity software, and many other computer programs. Once created with ODF, a document will be forever accessible, because the format is documented and the specifications are available to everyone.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0r-dmdOjUCYb5rkhsZf-ClOhwME/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0r-dmdOjUCYb5rkhsZf-ClOhwME/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0r-dmdOjUCYb5rkhsZf-ClOhwME/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0r-dmdOjUCYb5rkhsZf-ClOhwME/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=sJ63q6nUZJ8:QlBqEJS3yvY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=sJ63q6nUZJ8:QlBqEJS3yvY:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=sJ63q6nUZJ8:QlBqEJS3yvY:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=sJ63q6nUZJ8:QlBqEJS3yvY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/sJ63q6nUZJ8" height="1" width="1" /> Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:13:14 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=650 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/crOapsYiF6k/ <p></p><p>Oliver-Rainer Wittmann &#8211; a former Oracle OOo developer &#8211; has written a message on the Apache OOo-Dev mailing list, where he explains that &#8220;after some change acceptance in the last months, I have got the possibility to continue my engagement in OpenOffice &#8211; now under the Apache Foundation &#8211; as an employee of IBM&#8221;.</p> <p>I am happy to see that IBM is hiring people to work on AOOo, although one is definitely not enough. In my opinion, we will see similar messages in the near future, by other former Oracle OOo developers.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ctpQlQhHc_FbLRDcdth1JNqiL_Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ctpQlQhHc_FbLRDcdth1JNqiL_Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ctpQlQhHc_FbLRDcdth1JNqiL_Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ctpQlQhHc_FbLRDcdth1JNqiL_Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=crOapsYiF6k:PiJVyQNa-u0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=crOapsYiF6k:PiJVyQNa-u0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=crOapsYiF6k:PiJVyQNa-u0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=crOapsYiF6k:PiJVyQNa-u0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/crOapsYiF6k" height="1" width="1" /> Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:13:33 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=648 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/wouUI3tNHJ4/ <p></p><p>LibreOffice is one of the winners of InfoWorld <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/bossie-awards-2011-the-best-open-source-desktop-and-mobile-software-171722-0&current=6&last=13#slideshowTop">BOSSIE</a> &#8211; Best of Open Source &#8211; Awards 2011.</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/download/"><strong>LibreOffice</strong></a></p> <p>OpenOffice.org desperately needed a rejuvenating shot in the arm, and it&#8217;s come in the form of the LibreOffice project, a variant of OO.o developed by the Document Foundation (the folks behind the ODF standard).</p> <p>LibreOffice launches faster, runs more reliably, and sports an incrementally better set of features than OpenOffice.org &#8211; but what&#8217;s most important is the accelerated pace of development for the product.</p> <p>The newest features show that much more attention to improving performance and making the product more like a business tool and less a me-too effort.</p> <p>The latest version, <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/download/"> LibreOffice 3.4.3</a>, adds many useful functions: improved HTML export; better text rendering in Linux; better support for OLE links when importing an Excel document (crucial if you&#8217;re migrating away from Microsoft Office); fewer dependencies on Java for import/export and other tasks (another annoying shortcoming in OpenOffice.org); and a nonmodal Firefox/Chrome-like &#8220;Find&#8221; dialog.</p> <p>They&#8217;re good additions all around.</p> <p>LibreOffice&#8217;s spelling/grammar checking is still primitive compared to Microsoft Office, and there&#8217;s still a lot of clunkiness to the program.</p> <p>But the whole package is finally headed in the right direction.</p></blockquote> <p>Doug Dineley, Executive Editor/Test Center, InfoWorld:</p> <blockquote><p>In every software category worth mentioning, you&#8217;ll find a competitive open source solution. And in some cases, open source is the only solution. Our 2011 Bossie Award winners represent the best that open source has to offer in application development, desktop productivity, mobile computing, and the data center.</p></blockquote> <p>By the way, behind the ODF standard there is OASIS and not TDF, which is a supporter of the standard and will soon apply for OASIS membership.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ka_ug9pOqqBWMtqbHPZokw67H2Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ka_ug9pOqqBWMtqbHPZokw67H2Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ka_ug9pOqqBWMtqbHPZokw67H2Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Ka_ug9pOqqBWMtqbHPZokw67H2Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=wouUI3tNHJ4:9AdaBbY7zqo:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=wouUI3tNHJ4:9AdaBbY7zqo:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=wouUI3tNHJ4:9AdaBbY7zqo:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=wouUI3tNHJ4:9AdaBbY7zqo:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/wouUI3tNHJ4" height="1" width="1" /> Sat, 17 Sep 2011 22:20:07 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=646 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/KZOuxptu_zE/ <p></p><p>The guys at OpenSource Usability Labs have carried out an extensive survey of LibreOffice users, with over 5.400 answers (over 75% completed).</p> <p>Results have been summarized in three different posts.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.opensource-usability-labs.com/kde/2011/08/18/libreoffice-user-research-results-vol-1/"><b>LibreOffice User Research</b> – Results # 1 | OpenSource Usability Labs</a></strong></p> <p>This article is a summary of the first results from the latest <em>LibreOffice</em> user survey.</p> <p><font color="007000">http://www.opensource-usability-labs.com/kde/2011/08/18/libreoffice-user-research-results-vol-1/</font></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.opensource-usability-labs.com/tine20/2011/08/30/libreoffice-user-research-results-vol-2-2/"><b>LibreOffice User Research</b> – Results # 2 | OpenSource Usability Labs</a></strong></p> <p>Today you can learn more about the psychological construct of motifs. We included them as variables in the LO survey similar to the independent variables.</p> <p><font color="007000">http://www.opensource-usability-labs.com/tine20/2011/08/30/libreoffice-user-research-results-vol-2-2/</font></p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.opensource-usability-labs.com/tine20/2011/09/07/libreoffice-user-research-%E2%80%93-results-vol-3/"><b>LibreOffice User Research</b> &#8211; Results # 3 | OpenSource Usability Labs <b>&#8230;</b></a></strong></p> <p>How are different applications used and how is usage influenced by other variables?</p> <p><font color="007000">http://www.opensource-usability-labs.com/tine20/2011/09/07/libreoffice-user-research-%E2%80%93-results-vol-3/</font></p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SxWBD434gc5XhtQpMV1LCCKpFSw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SxWBD434gc5XhtQpMV1LCCKpFSw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SxWBD434gc5XhtQpMV1LCCKpFSw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/SxWBD434gc5XhtQpMV1LCCKpFSw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=KZOuxptu_zE:fX5iXs4h1Rc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=KZOuxptu_zE:fX5iXs4h1Rc:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=KZOuxptu_zE:fX5iXs4h1Rc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=KZOuxptu_zE:fX5iXs4h1Rc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/KZOuxptu_zE" height="1" width="1" /> Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:37:27 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=644 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/uSkqBSsuuLc/ <p></p><p>I have one quarter of Roman blood, and I have spent my youth in Rome where I have attended the primary school. I can still speak with a decent Roman accent, so AOOo &#8211; the short name for Apache OpenOffice &#8211; has the same sound of the shout used in Rome to grab attention: &#8220;ahooo&#8221; (where the H has no sound at all).</p> <p>AOOo, at the moment, has not produced anything worth of an &#8220;ahooo&#8221;. On the contrary, has raised a number of concerns in the media immediately after the announcement. Concerns shared by an increasing number of members of the OOo community.</p> <p>I sympathize with IBM, as since the inception of AOOo Big Blue has been object of many of the blames that should have been directed to Oracle.</p> <p>We should never forget that Oracle has generated most of the problems that have frustrated the community and led to the birth of The Document Foundation, then has shut down the entire OOo project with a single press release and subsequently fired around 120 people, and has eventually decided to choose Apache Foundation over The Document Foundation as the new house of OOo (generating a second wave of nasty feelings inside the community).</p> <p>IBM, as the main corporate sponsor of AOOo, is in a quite unconfortable situation (because many have perceived that the company has been instrumental for the move to Apache Foundation) but should not be blamed for Oracle faults.</p> <p>Rob Weir is working hard to keep together what is left of the OOo community and push forward AOOo. I believe it is important for IBM to engage with the community and contribute code, as a failure of AOOo would go against the interests of open standards, software freedom, choice and &#8211; ultimately &#8211; The Document Foundation.</p> <p>Looking at the list of committers, it is quite clear that the number of &#8220;real&#8221; developers is quite small (in relation to the total number of committers) and the number of &#8220;real&#8221; developers who have a decent understanding of OOo code is even smaller (and probably decreasing over time, if some of the former Oracle employees will be finding a job outside the OOo ecosystem).</p> <p>In addition, the majority of the committers who know the OOo code (former Hamburg developers, plus IBM and RedOffice chinese developers) have not been very active so far in the discussions.</p> <p>Today, IBM has the opportunity of hiring several of the former Oracle employees &#8211; who are looking for a new job &#8211; to work full time on AOOo, in order to speed up the process (before releasing the first AOOo version of OOo, based on OOo 3.4 Beta, the project needs to get rid of the many bugs affecting the code, and to replace the components licensed under GPL or LGPL: quite a significant amount of work).</p> <p>IANAD (I am not a developer), and therefore I cannot express a professional opinion, but I feel that IBM should hire around a dozen former Hamburg developers, in order to have a number of sponsored hackers similar to The Document Foundation. Otherwise, AOOo will risk to lag in a significant way behind LibreOffice or even fail, and no one will be happy and ever shout &#8220;ahooo&#8221;.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_hx7wPoU7BiV1wvtSD-mZX6rdKg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_hx7wPoU7BiV1wvtSD-mZX6rdKg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_hx7wPoU7BiV1wvtSD-mZX6rdKg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/_hx7wPoU7BiV1wvtSD-mZX6rdKg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=uSkqBSsuuLc:LT2fdm_Api4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=uSkqBSsuuLc:LT2fdm_Api4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=uSkqBSsuuLc:LT2fdm_Api4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=uSkqBSsuuLc:LT2fdm_Api4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/uSkqBSsuuLc" height="1" width="1" /> Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:08:16 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2950 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/06/17/odf-interoperability-berlin-odf-plugfest-14-15-july-2011/ <p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2604" title="ODF Plugfest logo" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/plugfestlogo-300x56.png" alt="ODF Plugfest logo" width="300" height="56" /><a href="http://www.odfplugfest.de/">The sixth ODF Plugfest</a> will take place on July 14th and 15th 2011, Invalidenstr. 48, 10557 in Berlin (Germany).<span id="more-2950"></span></p> <p>This Plugfest is a two day interoperability workshop on open document exchange formats hosted by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin, in collaboration with OpenDoc Society, the OASIS ODF TC, OASIS ODF OIC and the OASIS ODF Adoption TC.</p> <p><strong>About ODF Plugfests.</strong></p> <p><em><a href="http://plugfest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=plugfests:201102_maidenhead:info&do=backlink">The ODF plugfests</a> are an ongoing series of vendor-neutral events, bringing together implementers and stakeholders of the standard. The goal is to achieve maximum interoperability by <a href="http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/">running scenario-based tests</a> in a hands-on manner and discuss new and proposed features of the ODF specification.</em></p> Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:01:17 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2927 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/06/03/openofficeorg-finds-home-at-the-apache-foundation/ <p><a href="http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal">OpenOffice.org it is now an Apache Incubator proposal</a>, and <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/34638.wss">IBM has officially committed</a> to <a href="http://www.sutor.com/c/2011/06/some-remarks-on-openoffice-going-to-apache/">contribute to the project</a>, thanks to <a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/statements-on-openofficeorg-contribution-to-apache-nasdaq-orcl-1521400.htm">Oracle&#8217;s donation of the Openoffice.org code base to Apache</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/12/the-unsaid-document-foundation-more-talkbacks/">In the closing remarks</a> of the last blog entry around this topic I threw the idea of using an existing foundation, and I am glad to see that this eventually became a reality. <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/11/26/apache-incubator-extraordinary-made-ordinary-the-subversion-case/">I have been already writing about Incubation at Apache before</a>, you can learn more about it directly at the <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/incubation_at_apache_what_s">Apache Software Foundation blog</a>.</p> <p><strong>Let&#8217;s try now to better understand what OOo at Apache means for everyone.</strong></p> <p><span id="more-2927"></span></p> <p><strong>Users</strong>. OpenOffice.org development was dropped by Oracle, and many users were wondering about its future. The decision of IBM to <span>contribute staff resources to collaborate with the Apache community is associated with the perception of less future risk.</span></p> <p><strong>Developers</strong>. Under the Apache umbrella is plenty of projects that could work together on joint efforts, as it is <a href="http://old.nabble.com/OpenOffice.org-Apache-Incubator-Proposal-td31750699.html">already under investigation in Apache mailing-lists</a>. <a href="http://poi.apache.org/">Apache POI</a> (<a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/03/28/open-source-at-microsoft-microsoft-engages-sourcesense-to-develop-a-new-version-of-apache-poi-some-background/">coverage</a>), <a href="http://tika.apache.org/">Tika</a> or even other projects - actually not under Apache but released with an Apache license - like <a href="http://odftoolkit.org/projects/simple/pages/ReleaseNotes ">ODT Toolkit</a> can explore the potential for synergy.</p> <p><strong>OpenOffice.org derivatives</strong>. <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoffice-org.html">The large ecosystem of OpenOffice.org derivatives</a> can benefit from the continued development under the Apache umbrella, the success of the incubation process would help them all given the permissiveness of the license.</p> <p><a href="http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/openoffice-moving-to-apache-good-news-for-the-desktop-productivity-market">OpenOffice.org moving to Apache seems a good news</a> for all stakeholders to me. Of course as usual <a href="http://www.danablankenhorn.com/2011/06/can-apache-put-openoffice-back-together.html">code is the only things that matter</a>, and all you need to do is just to wait and see, or if you like you can join and participate.</p> <p><strong>Best whishes and kudos to</strong> <a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2011/06/apache-openoffice.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+robweir%2Fantic-atom+%28Rob+Weir%3A+An+Antic+Disposition%29">Rob Weir</a> and everyone else involved with this important transformation.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>. Read Rob Weir&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2011/06/openoffice-libreoffice-and-the-scarcity-fallacy.html">OpenOffice, LibreOffice and the Scarcity Fallacy</a>&#8221; to learn more about why OpenOffice.org at Apache is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%E2%80%93sum_game">non zero sum game</a>.</p> Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:11:40 +0000 http://www.icstools.it/blog/?p=1047 http://www.icstools.it/blog/2011/05/28/i-vantaggi-dellopen-source-spiegati-dalla-difesa-u-s-a/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-vantaggi-dellopen-source-spiegati-dalla-difesa-u-s-a <p>Il Dipartimento della Difesa degli Stati Uniti spiega in un corposo documento (rilasciato in open source) per quali motivi l&#8217;Esercito dovrebbe usare software libero: il documento si trova su <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/55742095/OTD-Lessons-Learned-Military-Final-V1">Scribd.com</a>.</p> <p>Alcuni passaggi sono molto significativi, in particolare:<br /> <em>DoD must have software that is easily adaptable to changing mission needs and can be evolved rapidly and delivered quickly at lower costs to meet mission requirements in a timely manner.</em> (Il Dipartimento della Difesa necessita di software facilmente adattabile alle variabili esigenze della missione e che possa essere evoluto rapidamente e consegnato velocemente a costi più bassi, per soddisfare i requisiti della missione in modo tempestivo.)</p> <p>E anche:<br /> <em>&#8230;a monopoly on the knowledge of a military software system and control of the software source code. This is optimal only for the monopoly contractor, but creates inefficiencies and ineffectiveness for the government, reduction of opportunities for the industrial base, severely limits competition for new software upgrades, depletes resources that can be used to better effect and wastes taxpayer-provided funds</em> (..il monopolio della conoscenza di un sistema software militare e di controllo del codice sorgente. Questo è ottimale solo per il fornitore monopolista, ma crea inefficienze e inefficacia per il governo, la riduzione di opportunità per la base industriale, limita gravemente la competizione per gli aggiornamenti software, spreca risorse, che possono essere utilizzate con un risultato migliore, e fondi forniti dai contribuenti).</p> <p>Che dire? Parole sante!</p> <p>E per finire un riassunto dei punti chiavi positivi dell&#8217;open source:</p> <ul> <li>Increased Agility/Flexibility (maggiore agilità/flessibilità)</li> <li>Faster delivery (consegna più rapida)</li> <li>Increased Innovation (maggiore innovazione)</li> <li>Reduced Risk (riduzione del rischio)</li> <li>Information Assurance &#038; Security (garanzia di informazioni e sicurezza)</li> <li>Lower cost (costo più basso)</li> </ul> <p>Gli stralci del documento e il documento sono di proprietà dell&#8217;U.S. government e sono rilasciati con licenza Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 (CC- BY-SA). Per maggiori informazioni vedi http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.</p> Sat, 28 May 2011 21:15:52 +0000 http://www.icstools.it/blog/?p=938 http://www.icstools.it/blog/2011/05/16/gestione-con-ooo-2-parte/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gestione-con-ooo-2-parte <p>Fatta la prima parte &#8211; studio &#8211; adesso si passa alla definizione del database.<br /> Prima domanda: che dati servono? Si crea quindi una lista di tutti i dati che dobbiamo registrare, per i vari oggetti-tabelle.<br /> Perciò, se per esempio ho un&#8217;anagrafica contatti:</p> <ul> <li>contatti</li> <ol> <li>nome</li> <li>cognome</li> <li>indirizzo</li> <li>fax</li> <li>telefono</li> <li>ecc.</li> </ol> </ul> <p>Un punto importante da osservare è la granularità dei dati, cioè se devo scrivere &#8211; ad esempio &#8211; nome e cognome in due campi separati o in uno unico, o se l&#8217;indirizzo è compreso di CAP e città e provincia oppure tutto in campi separati.<br /> Questo dipende da quale utilizzo può avere il database. Se devo inviare una mass-mail separando per CAP, oppure inviare delle lettere con scritto &#8220;Caro -utente-&#8221;, dovrò sicuramente suddividere i campi. In linea di massima, è sempre più sicuro suddividere i campi.</p> <p>Durante l&#8217;elencazione dei campi, risulterà che alcuni hanno una possibilità limitata di scelta: ad esempio, alcuni dipendenti di un&#8217;azienda faranno parte dell&#8217;ufficio acquisti, altri dell&#8217;ufficio vendite e così via. In questo caso è più comodo estrarre il campo e creargli una sua tabella dedicata: ci sarà quindi la tabella &#8220;Reparto&#8221;, mentre nella tabella &#8220;Dipendenti&#8221; sarà presente solo un campo collegato.</p> <p>Un altro punto da valutare è il riutilizzo dei dati: se il contatto diventerà in futuro un cliente, è preferibile riutilizzare i dati già inseriti. Quindi, invece di creare una tabella Contatti e una tabella Clienti, è possibile creare una tabella Partner con i soli dati comuni e delle tabelle collegate con i dati specifici (un contatto non avrà il codice fiscale, mentre un cliente sì), come proposto dal secondo dei testi indicati nel post precedente.<br /> In alternativa, un semplice campo che permette di scegliere: &#8220;cliente&#8221;, &#8220;contatto&#8221;, &#8220;fornitore&#8221;, ecc., se riteniamo accettabile di mettere tutti i campi che servono nella stessa tabella.</p> Mon, 16 May 2011 22:30:00 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2814 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/04/11/openofficeorg-30-italian-openofficeorg-faq-updated/ <p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2816" title="super faq openofficeorg" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/superfaqopenofficeorg-150x150.png" alt="super faq openofficeorg" width="75" height="75" />The latest version of &#8221;<em><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooodocs/files/FAQ%20i-a.c.s.o/OpenOffice3%20Soluzioni%20a%20raccolta/">OpenOffice 3 Soluzioni a raccolta</a>&#8220;</em> - an Italian OpenOffice.org FAQ built with the help of the community - is available for download at SourceForge, both in its <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooodocs/files/FAQ%20i-a.c.s.o/OpenOffice3%20Soluzioni%20a%20raccolta/FAQdiOpenOffice_Slim.11.pdf/download">slim</a> and <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooodocs/files/FAQ%20i-a.c.s.o/OpenOffice3%20Soluzioni%20a%20raccolta/SuperFAQdi_OpenOffice.11.pdf.zip/download">&#8216;fat&#8217; version</a>.</p> Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:40:06 +0000 http://www.icstools.it/blog/?p=923 http://www.icstools.it/blog/2011/03/05/gestione-con-ooo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gestione-con-ooo <p>Ci sono spesso richieste di informazioni sul forum italiano per la creazione di gestionali su OOo. Premetto che OOo non è adatto per creare gestionali, in quanto la sua funzione è quella di office automation, e non fornisce alcuna funzione a chi voglia cimentarsi in questo particolare campo di applicazione.<br /> Però&#8230; di gestionali ce n&#8217;é a bizzeffe, ormai si fanno con qualsiasi cosa capiti per le mani, quindi che male c&#8217;é a provarci? Io non lo faccio di sicuro, anche se ci ho messo le mani per un periodo, e mi sono reso conto che OOo è comodo per degli usi molto specifici, intendiamoci per chi ha bisogno di usare il 5% delle funzionalità di un gestionale (ci sono comunque molte aziende in questa condizione, visto che in media in Italia le aziende hanno 4 dipendenti).<br /> Quindi, per chi ci vuole provare, metterò giù un po&#8217; di idee e opinioni, oltre che un po&#8217; di codice.</p> <p>Per cominciare, l&#8217;extension Toools (sapete che OOo permette di installare, in maniera veramente semplice, dei programmi aggiuntivi, no? guardate il sito delle <a href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/">extensions</a> se ancora non lo avete visto) permette di gestire anagrafiche (clienti, fornitori, pagamenti, ecc.) e di creare documenti (fatture e note di accredito), a parte un gantt di programmazione di attività, che ora non interessa.<br /> E&#8217; quindi molto basilare come gestionale (non ci sono neanche i ddt), ma a qualcuno potrebbe bastare così, e va bene come esempio.</p> <p>Il primo punto da sviluppare è il database: direi che è utile studiare come strutturare un database, e un testo che ho trovato molto utile è stato questo:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.toolittle.org/downloads/Mid%20Level%20Tutorial%20for%20Base%20Teil%201.PDF">(link diretto al pdf &#8211; parte 1) -en </a></li> <li><a href="http://www.toolittle.org/downloads/Mid%20Level%20Tutorial%20for%20Base%20Teil%202.PDF">(link parte 2) -en </a></li> <li><a href="http://www.toolittle.org/downloads/Mid%20Level%20Tutorial%20for%20Base%20Teil%203.PDF">(link parte 3) -en </a></li> </ul> <p>Per uno studio più completo è utile integrare un manuale sulla teoria dell&#8217;SQL, anche se non strettamente necessario, come il seguente del Ministero del Tesoro: <a href="http://www.comunecampagnano.it/corsionline/Tesoro/Sql.pdf">(link diretto al pdf)</a></p> <p>Ore 00.26 &#8211; fine prima parte (n.b. non c&#8217;è una logica nella divisione di questo intervento, a parte l&#8217;orario di Morfeo <img src="http://www.icstools.it/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p> Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:44:40 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2678 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/02/14/focus-group-open-source-migration/ <p>&#8220;<a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/01/26/office-automation-suites-interoperability-and-migrations/">Office Automation Suites, Interoperability and Migrations</a>&#8221; event was eventually held last Friday in Rome at IBM&#8217;s office (sponsor of the event), presentations have been uploaded at the <a href="http://focusgroupopensource.wordpress.com/">website</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://focusgroupopensource.wordpress.com/migrazioni/">Alessandro Chinnici (IBM) gave an introductory speech</a> to explain IBM&#8217;s approach to open source and open standards, followed by <a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/davidjpearson">David Pearson</a>&#8217;s (IBM UK) <a href="http://focusgroupopensource.wordpress.com/migrazioni/ibm-david-pearson/">keynote about migrations</a>. David pointed the audience to some freely available resources, like the <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/ROICalc.nsf/mainForm?OpenForm">Free Office Suite ROI Calculator</a> and the <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/plugin.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=A1C19FE486585C86852577CB001176B3&form=home">Visual Basic Macro Scan Tool</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://nuvole.org/blog">Andrea Pescetti</a>, mantainer of the Italian Native Lang project OpenOffice.org, gave an interesting talk around OpenOffice.org procedures and practices for QA, explaining what volunteers do and which tools they use (some created by Andrea himself and now maintained by the community). Andrea spoke also about interoperability theory and practices.</p> <p><strong>Fabrizio Marchesano</strong> (<a href="http://www.frameitalia.it/">Frame</a>) shared some practical advices and tips to run migrations.</p> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:06:06 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=642 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/pJrk3wbKI9g/ <p></p><div id="__ss_6837038">I&#8217;ve been @ <a title="FOSDEM" href="http://fosdem.org/" target="_blank">FOSDEM</a> for the first time in my life, with several friends at <a title="The Document Foundation" href="http://www.documentfoundation.org" target="_blank">The Document Foundation</a>. On Sunday, we have been talking about the development of <a title="LibreOffice" href="http://www.libreoffice.org" target="_blank">LibreOffice</a>, and I have tried to outline what we have been doing and what we will be doing to support developers and attract more of them to the project.</div> <div><strong><a title="Marketing to Developers for Developers" href="http://www.slideshare.net/italovignoli/marketing-to-developers-for-developers">Marketing to Developers for Developers</a></strong></div> <div></div> <p>If you want to have a look at the articles that have been published so far, there is a specific section on <a title="LibreOffice in the press" href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_In_The_Press" target="_blank">TDF Wiki</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S2BjlyFUqjqAEvQv9T2eVGtp5Es/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S2BjlyFUqjqAEvQv9T2eVGtp5Es/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S2BjlyFUqjqAEvQv9T2eVGtp5Es/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/S2BjlyFUqjqAEvQv9T2eVGtp5Es/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=pJrk3wbKI9g:vpDBxqnNk9M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=pJrk3wbKI9g:vpDBxqnNk9M:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=pJrk3wbKI9g:vpDBxqnNk9M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=pJrk3wbKI9g:vpDBxqnNk9M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/pJrk3wbKI9g" height="1" width="1" /> Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:17:32 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2627 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/01/27/openofficeorg-33-download-it-now/ <p>The OpenOffice.org Project yesterday <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=433">just</a> announced the <a href="http://download.openoffice.org/">availability of OpenOffice.org 3.3</a>, see the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.3/">full list of the last release</a>.<span id="more-2627"></span></p> <blockquote><p>There is a lot that is new and enhanced in OpenOffice.org 3.3. But not least, it is also simply faster, both in startup time and in overall operation. Some of the of new elements include:</p> <p>* embedded standard PDF fonts<br /> * new document security and collaboration options<br /> * provisions for one million rows in a spreadsheet<br /> * new options for CSV (Comma Separated Value) import in Calc<br /> * ability to insert <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_chart_features_in_openoffice3">drawing objects in Charts</a><br /> * improved slide layout handling in Impress<br /> * a common search toolbar</p></blockquote> Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:20:56 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2624 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/01/26/office-automation-suites-interoperability-and-migrations/ <div class="ec3_iconlet ec3_past"><table><tbody><tr class="ec3_month"><td>Feb&nbsp;&rsquo;11</td></tr><tr class="ec3_day"><td>11</td></tr><tr class="ec3_time"><td>1:00 pm</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/12/30/focus-group-open-source-in-public-administrations/">As promised</a> we are finally organizing an <a href="http://focusgroupopensource.wordpress.com/">Open Source Focus Group</a> meeting to talk about office automation suites, interoperability and migrations.</p> <p><a href="http://focusgroupopensource.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/suite-di-office-automation-interoperabilita-e-migrazioni/">The event</a>, aimed at companies and organizations from the Public Sector, will be held at IBM&#8217;s offices in Rome on the 11th of February 2011. Among speakers <a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/davidjpearson">David Pearson</a> - Solution Architect at IBM Lotus Software Services Centre of Excellence - and <a href="http://nuvole.org/blog">Andrea Pescetti</a>, mantainer of the Italian Native Lang project OpenOffice.org.</p> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:08:08 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2603 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/01/18/odf-interoperability-maidenhead-odf-plugfest/ <p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2604" title="ODF Plugfest logo" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/plugfestlogo-300x56.png" alt="ODF Plugfest logo" width="300" height="56" /><a href="http://www.odfplugfest.co.uk/">The fifth ODF Plugfest</a> will take place in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead">Maidenhead</a> (UK) in the Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, on February 24/25th 2011.</p> <p>The first day will focus on technical interoperability sessions for vendors, while the second day will be a public session.</p> <p><span id="more-2603"></span></p> <p><strong>About ODF Plugfests.</strong></p> <p><em><a href="http://plugfest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=plugfests:201102_maidenhead:info&do=backlink">The ODF plugfests</a> are an ongoing series of vendor-neutral events, bringing together implementers and stakeholders of the standard. The goal is to achieve maximum interoperability by <a href="http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/">running scenario-based tests</a> in a hands-on manner and discuss new and proposed features of the ODF specification.</em></p> Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:55:43 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=641 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/1QcgJykwABg/ <p></p><p>Digging into my feeds, I have found an <a title="IBM vs. Oracle: What Larry Ellison Didn&rsquo;t Learn from Steve Jobs or 1960s IBM" href="http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/enderle/ibm-vs-oracle-what-larry-ellison-didn-t-learn-from-steve-jobs-or-1960s-ibm/?cs=44057" target="_blank">interesting article</a> about Oracle, which is definitely worth reading. Following the links inside the article, you can discover additional readings, which do open interesting perspectives on the company.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Rq9ojWCEG3uy2bfketKq78oQqFw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Rq9ojWCEG3uy2bfketKq78oQqFw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Rq9ojWCEG3uy2bfketKq78oQqFw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/Rq9ojWCEG3uy2bfketKq78oQqFw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=1QcgJykwABg:3l-4LpPtPbU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=1QcgJykwABg:3l-4LpPtPbU:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=1QcgJykwABg:3l-4LpPtPbU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=1QcgJykwABg:3l-4LpPtPbU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/1QcgJykwABg" height="1" width="1" /> Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:05:46 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2577 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/01/07/open-source-webinars-cloudera-infopeople-red-hat/ <p><a href="https://engage.redhat.com/forms/20110127GenerateValuewithJBossSOAPlatform?sc_cid=70160000000SqCAAA0">Generate New Value from Existing Assets with JBoss SOA Platform and Enterprise Data Services</a> - The final session in the four-part JBoss Integration <a href="http://www.jboss.com/promo/IntegrationWebinarSeries2010/?elq=00000000000000000000000000000000">Webinar Series: Increase Returns on Existing Investments</a>.<br /> 9am EST (GMT-5 New York) / 14:00 GMT / 3pm CET (GMT+1 Paris)</p> <p><a href="http://http://www.cloudera.com/company/events/"><span id="more-2577"></span>Cloudera Recorded Webinars</a> - Last year webinars are all available.<br /> (registered webinars)</p> <p><a href="http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/webcast_data/351/index.html">Open Office: What Libraries Need to Know</a> - At the end of the webinar, participants will:</p> <p>* Be familiar with the platform requirements for running OpenOffice<br /> * Be able to identify which versions of Microsoft products are compatible with OpenOffice, and vice-versa.<br /> (registered webinar)</p> Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:33:59 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2565 http://robertogaloppini.net/2011/01/04/the-open-source-year-ahead/ <p>I have been rarely playing the prediction game <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/01/01/commercial-open-source-2009-challenges-and-opportunities/">in the past</a>, but now that Red Hat finally seems to fulfill my <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/category/2007/01/03/a-newyears-prediction-red-hat-becoming-a-gorilla/">old predictions</a> - <a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/makara.html">also in the cloud</a> - it is time to join <a href="http://www.sutor.com/c/2010/12/predictions-for-open-source-in-2011/">Bob Sutor</a> and <a href="http://cabbey-blog.blogspot.com/2010/12/open-source-predictions-for-2011.html">others</a> to play again.</p> <p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2569" title="google insight: open vs cloud" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/googleinsightopenvscloud-300x168.png" alt="google insight: open vs cloud" width="300" height="168" /></p> <p><strong>Open Source and the Cloud</strong>.</p> <p><a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/07/27/open-source-oscon/">Open source is now the maturity phase</a>, and it is interesting to look at how compares open source and cloud computing (courtesy of <em>Google Insight for search</em>).</p> <p>But the open source world is not so small, looking at the same graph for different European countries makes a difference. While <a href="http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=open%20source%2C%20cloud%20computing&geo=FR&cmpt=q">France looks at the cloud</a> as much as North-Americans do, other countries (like <a href="http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=open%20source%2C%20cloud%20computing&geo=IT&cmpt=q">Italy</a>) are lagging behind (see also <a href="http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_region">EC2 statistics</a>).</p> <p><span id="more-2565"></span></p> <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/06/24/open-source-cloud-computing-notes-from-a-conference/">Open source vendors playing in the cloud</a> arena are growing in number, probably in 2011 others will come, but only who will be able to nurture its community has good chance to be a winner in 2012. Among interesting players I didn&#8217;t mention before I would definitely enlist <a href="http://www.cfengine.org/">Cfengine</a> and <a href="http://www.openstack.org/index.php">OpenStack</a>.</p> <p><strong>OpenOffice.org will probably be back in 2011</strong>. I expect Oracle to revitalize the OpenOffice.org community this year, probably focusing on enterprise-users. LibreOffice&#8217;s community will likely overcome <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/02/the-unsaid-document-foundation/">its organizational issues</a> in 2011. Novell might quit its involvment and LibreOffice would need at least a large sponsorship to fund new developments.</p> Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:42:26 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2559 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/12/30/focus-group-open-source-in-public-administrations/ <p><a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoffice-org.html"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2562" title="ooo forks" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/ooo-forks-150x150.png" alt="ooo forks" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/11/the-legacy-of-openoffice-org.html">The legacy of OpenOffice.org</a> and <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/galoppini/migrating-to-openoffice-org?src=embed">office migrations</a> will be at the center of the next Open Source Focus Group meeting, to be held in Rome in January 2011.</p> <p>In the meantime you might want to have a look at previous events - ranging from <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/09/10/open-source-licensing-made-easy-for-italian-public-administrations/">open source licensing</a> to <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/06/11/about-tenders-requesting-open-source/">tenders</a> and <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/12/13/open-source-marketplace-for-public-administrations-presentations-are-online/">marketplaces</a> - and presentations, all available on the new <a href="http://focusgroupopensource.wordpress.com/">Focus Group Open Source blog</a> hosted on <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a>.</p> Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:48:31 +0000 http://www.icstools.it/blog/?p=914 http://www.icstools.it/blog/2010/12/15/da-mysql-a-postgresql-perche/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=da-mysql-a-postgresql-perche <p>Ho migrato l&#8217;ultimo database realizzato da MySQL a PostgreSQL per 1 solo motivo, sufficiente però a dimostrare la correttezza del claim di PGSQL: &#8220;Il più avanzato database open-source esistente&#8221;: non è possibile in MySQL creare un trigger (ossia una funzione che viene eseguita ad ogni inserimento/aggiornamento/cancellazione di un record) che modifichi il risultato della query eseguita (almeno io non ci sono riuscito e ho trovato reperti su vari siti che dicono che non si può farlo, da parecchio tempo).<br /> La funzione di questo trigger è di numerare progressivamente le righe inserite dall&#8217;1 in avanti, tenendo conto che si tratta di una sub-form, per cui l&#8217;id dei record non è utile.</p> <p>Il trigger su PGSQL è il seguente:<br /> <code>CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION edil.incr_pos()<br /> RETURNS trigger AS<br /> $BODY$<br /> DECLARE<br /> v_pos RECORD;<br /> rec integer;<br /> BEGIN<br /> SELECT pos INTO v_pos FROM edil.prev_articoli<br /> WHERE id_prev_prodotti = NEW.id_prev_prodotti<br /> ORDER BY pos DESC LIMIT 1;<br /> rec := v_pos.pos+1;<br /> IF rec IS NULL THEN<br /> rec = 1;<br /> END IF;<br /> NEW.pos := rec;<br /> RETURN NEW;<br /> END</code></p> <p>e funziona tranquillamente.<br /> Mentre l&#8217;equivalente in MySQL no:<br /> <code>CREATE TRIGGER `edil`.`pos_prod`<br /> BEFORE INSERT ON `edil`.`prev_prodotti`<br /> FOR EACH ROW<br /> BEGIN<br /> SET NEW.pos = (SELECT MAX(prev_prodotti.pos) FROM edil.prev_prodotti AS prev_prodotti )+ 1;<br /> END</code></p> <p>(certo l&#8217;aspetto è un po&#8217; diverso <img src="http://www.icstools.it/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> )</p> <p>Questo dimostrerebbe che MySQL non ha aggiornamenti di sviluppo, ma solo di mantenimento.</p> Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:05:42 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=640 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/_Mlll_O48pA/ <p></p><p><a href="http://www.jolicloud.com" target="_blank">Jolicloud</a> 1.1 has just arrived, and is a nice upgrade to the previous version. The operating system now works on every PC and not just on netbooks, although &#8211; in my opinion &#8211; is really worth a try if you have a netbook. On other PCs, I personally prefer a more traditional OS like Ubuntu, just because I have a larger number of options.</p> <p>In any case, Jolicloud is extremely interesting, and gives a flavor of cloud based OS. Being a digital immigrant, I still prefer applications installed on my hard disk, but on specific hardware the concept of cloud applications is definitely interesting.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sELrWf2v0ctTvAJRa9JVJO8JaVo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sELrWf2v0ctTvAJRa9JVJO8JaVo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sELrWf2v0ctTvAJRa9JVJO8JaVo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/sELrWf2v0ctTvAJRa9JVJO8JaVo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=_Mlll_O48pA:HclSXNP3B6k:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=_Mlll_O48pA:HclSXNP3B6k:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=_Mlll_O48pA:HclSXNP3B6k:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=_Mlll_O48pA:HclSXNP3B6k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/_Mlll_O48pA" height="1" width="1" /> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 01:05:35 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2486 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/12/the-unsaid-document-foundation-more-talkbacks/ <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/02/the-unsaid-document-foundation/">&#8220;The  Unsaid Document Foundation&#8221;</a> <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/04/the-unsaid-document-foundation-talkbacks/">series</a> is disappointingly <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-November/002474.html">considered &#8220;fud&#8221; from LibreOffice developers</a>, and <a href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2010-11-12.html">Michael Meeks saying</a> (<a href="http://people.gnome.org/%7Emichael/blog/2010-11-02.html">again</a>) that I made some  good points, calls me a non-developer, probably  to infer that I am not the best person to make programming suggestions.</p> <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/">Commercial open source blog</a> readers care little to know about my computer science degree, or how much code I have been writing on a PDP-11 system. Therefore I would rather spend the rest of this blog entry sharing more thoughts about <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/414432/">LibreOffice future</a>.</p> <p><span id="more-2486"></span></p> <blockquote><p>In addition, each single module of LibreOffice will be undergoing an extensive rewrite, with Calc being the first one to be redeveloped around a brand new engine - code named Ixion - that will increase performance, allow true versatility and add long awaited database and VBA macro handling features. Writer is going to be improved in the area of layout fidelity and Impress in the area of slideshow fidelity. Most of the new features are either meant to maintain compatibility with the market leading office suite or will introduce radical innovations. They will also improve conversion fidelity between formats, liberate content, and reduce Java dependency.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://http//wiki.documentfoundation.org/Easy_Hacks">Volunteers working on easy-hacks</a> will hardly turn into code hackers able to make this kind of changes.  Full-time developers are needed, especially now that LibreOffice is meant to be something different.</p> <p><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/414432/">Apparently 90 developers joined LibreOffice</a>, but looking at the top ten contributors 8 of them are Novell&#8217;s employees, one is from Red Hat and only one is an independent developer. LibreOffice is far from being a multi-vendor open source project, and it is definitely not a community-led project.</p> <p><a href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2010-11-12.html">Michael says</a> that development decisions shouldn&#8217;t be taken by non-technical audiences, and I totally agree.</p> <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/02/the-unsaid-document-foundation/">Suggesting them to learn from FSF</a> <a href="http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-process.pdf/view">GPL3 process</a> of course I was thinking of potential stakeholders, especially those who could join the will-be foundation. Companies like Oracle or IBM, have a lot to offer, ranging from development to IP protection, but giving them a chance to join the debate requires a clear and well-defined process.</p> <p><a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2010-November/002474.html">LibreOffice developers say</a> talking about my suggestions say hat &#8220;<em>if we follow what he proposes, we don&#8217;t move anywhere</em>&#8220;. But having on board corporations may make easier to start a foundation, especially considering how much will cost to register the LibreOffice mark, foundation bylaws, etc.</p> <p><strong>Another option could be join an existing foundation, though.</strong></p> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:04:57 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2461 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/04/the-unsaid-document-foundation-talkbacks/ <p><a href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/">Michael Meeks</a>, famous hacker and LibreOffice advocate, <a href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2010-11-02.html">replied</a> to my <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/02/the-unsaid-document-foundation/">earlier post</a> giving his perspectives on many different subjects related to LibreOffice development.</p> <p>Having read his views with great attention - and keeping in mind his <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=meeks&go=Vai">long coding experience with OpenOffice.org</a>, as well as his ability to dig deep into complex subjects like <a href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html">copyright assignment</a> – I want to take a chance to go deeper into some points.</p> <p><span id="more-2461"></span></p> <p><a href="http://ideas.repec.org/p/wpa/wuwpio/0312005.html">Being a long time researcher on FLOSS voluntary organization of work</a>, I firmly believe that every community - included the OpenOffice.org community - has its own regulations and traditions governing the behaviour of its members.</p> <p><strong>OpenOffice.org is an hybrid kind of community</strong>, something between a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities_of_Practice">Community of Practice</a> (doing all core stuff ranging from <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html">opening</a> and <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bugtracking_for_Developer">managing issues</a>, to <a href="http://l10n.openoffice.org/">localizing OOo</a> or <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/Docs/QA-Reloaded-HowToStart.html">joining QA activities</a>) and what I would tentatively call a (User) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_interest">Community of Interest</a>, where actually users are both individuals or organizations. [see "<a href="http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/07/07/concentric-circles-of-community/">Concentric Circles of communities</a>"].</p> <p><a href="http://libobil.blogspot.com/2010/10/about-tdf-steering-committee.html">The TDF Steering Committee</a> well represents the OpenOffice.org community of practice: most of its members are involved with <a href="http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html">OpenOffice.org native lang projects</a>, marketing and other general development stuff. Code hackers, like Michael Meeks, are a de facto a minority, something really different from what happens at the Apache Foundation.</p> <p>The TDF Steering Committee seems to be modelled thinking of the set of values that actually governs the OpenOffice.org community, but coders usually play a major role in <a href="http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/07/09/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-community/">Developer Communities</a>, though.</p> <p><strong>Talking about code contributions</strong>, I read and heard few contributors warning about modifications that could break bridges with upstream piece of codes, while actually bringing in very little value (here few <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Easy_Hacks#Use_new_SAL_N_ELEMENTS_macro">other</a> <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Easy_Hacks#remove_all_the_bogus_comments_lying_around">examples</a>).</p> <p><strong>The point is, that all these decisions are making LibreOffice a fork</strong>. Similar decisions should probably be discussed or, at least, communicated.</p> <p><strong>Talking about copyright assignement</strong> Michael say that corporations are waking up to the problem. <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/10/13/upcoming-italian-open-source-conference-open-source-governance-by-inforav/">Having been talking about open source governance</a> with companies like Accenture, IBM, Microsoft or Oracle itself, I got a totally different feedback on this subject, though.</p> <p><strong>Again, opening a public consultation seems to me the best way to go.</strong></p> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:05:32 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2440 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/11/02/the-unsaid-document-foundation/ <p><a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LibreOffice-a-community-fork-for-OpenOffice-org-1097443.html"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2443" title="The Document Foundation" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/documentfoundation.png" alt="The Document Foundation" width="121" height="84" /></a>The <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/announce@documentfoundation.org/msg00000.html">will be Document Foundation</a> is out from a month, and it is now time to share some thoughts about past, present and future actions taken around subjects like copyright, the legal and governance structure and the code development process.</p> <p><span id="more-2440"></span></p> <p><strong>How did we know about the TDF?</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/announce@documentfoundation.org/msg00000.html">The TDF announce</a>, as the community itself  happened to know later, is the result of about 10 months of work, a period of time during which the self-selected group of the OpenOffice.org members - now known as the &#8220;<a href="http://libobil.blogspot.com/2010/10/about-tdf-steering-committee.html">TDF Steering Committee</a>&#8221; - took some important decisions.</p> <p><strong>TDF Fast Start, not without complications.<br /> </strong></p> <p>The TDF Steering Committee (SC) invited Oracle to join, asking them to give away the OpenOffice.org mark. Inviting a corporation to join a will-be foundation without a document describing a draft legal and governance structure sounds a bit naïve, though.</p> <p><strong>Why the SC gave such a short notice is unclear</strong>. OpenOffice.org community members have been treated like second citizens, while TDF first-hour supporters have been giving all the time to provide feedback and quotes.</p> <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/category/2010/10/13/openofficeorg-10th-anniversary-8-years-in-retrospective/">As a long time member</a> of the <a href="http://openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org community</a> and as a founding member of one the oldiest OpenOffice.org associations ( <a href="http://www.plio.it/">PLIO</a>), I found odd myself being noticed only two days in advance. Knowing about the decision to go without Oracle, some of us would have asked time for a second thought, maybe coming up with better alternatives.</p> <p><a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/1172/match=fioretti+turconi">Community members didn&#8217;t get a chance to give any advice</a>, though.</p> <p><strong>Code contributions: are they all good?</strong></p> <p><a href="http://http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Easy_Hacks">How to contribute is well explained</a>, but unfortunately some <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Easy_Hacks#cleanup_.28very.29_obsolete_types">not-so-innocent requests for contributions</a> are not without risks.</p> <p><a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Easy_Hacks#find_.2F_fix_all_German_spellings_in_internal_APIs">In fact fixing German mispelling in internal APIs</a> could bring to future problems, since additional upstream modifications will keep using the old APIs names. <a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Easy_Hacks#Removal.2FReplacement_of_the_String.2FUniString.2FByteString_with_OUString.2FOString_once_and_for_all">Other decisions</a> are considered even riskier by expert developers, so that &#8220;easy hacks&#8221; may easily turn into complicated issues to cope with in the future.</p> <p><a href="http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Development/Easy_Hacks&setlang=hu#Easy_Hacks">&#8220;Easy hacks</a>&#8221; let new <a href="http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/wordpress/?p=734">contributors feel part of something that looks thing</a>, but coding it is good only if it doesn&#8217;t increment project&#8217;s <a href="http://www.sonarsource.org/evaluate-your-technical-debt-with-sonar/">&#8220;technical debt</a>&#8220;.</p> <p><a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/709/match=pescetti">Including <strong>dictionaries in</strong> language packs is not the default</a>, but OpenOffice.org users were used to them.</p> <p><a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/182/match=qa">Also QA processes should be relevant to the LibreOffice project</a>.</p> <p><strong>Discussing and elaborating development guidelines should be a priority</strong>, probably more important than enabling people to make cosmetic changes.</p> <p><strong>Contributor agreements: are they bad?</strong></p> <p><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/407339/">SC members have been promoting the idea that copyright assignment is bad</a> from the very first day, while <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/msg00533.html">eminent members of our community asked to reconsider this position</a>. While individuals may prefer to avoid the burden of copyright agreements, corporations and companies tend to like them more.</p> <p>Looking for possible solutions to balance different interests in play should be a priority. <a href="http://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/1119-rfc-joomla-contributor-agreement.html">Take Joomla! (draft) contributor agreement</a>, or the <a href="http://www.adventuresinoss.com/?p=1300">OpenNMS approach</a> - both derived from <a href="http://oss.oracle.com/oca.pdf">Sun Contributor Agreement</a> -  are both some of the many available sources which would worth to be investigated further.<strong> </strong></p> <p><a href="http://sosopensource.com/88.html#more-88">Viable open source projects must be sustainable</a>, and LibreOffice is no exception to the rule. OpenOffice.org has always been a single vendor <a href="http://www.joelwest.org/Papers/WestOMahony2008-WP.pdf">sponsored open source community</a>, and until now it missed the opportunity to become a <a href="http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/08/09/the-golden-age-of-open-source/">corporate dominated development community</a>. Novell+Red Hat developers&#8217; involvment with LibreOffice is a confirmation of such possibility.</p> <p><strong>Having on board corporations should be a priority</strong>, and to get there the way to go is <a href="http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-process.pdf/view">truly open process (à la GPLv3)</a> - to discuss about all above mentioned issues.</p> Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:20:34 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2431 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/10/25/openofficeorg-links-odfdiff-openofficeorg-33-dave-nearys-commentary/ <p><a href="http://www.pincette.biz/odfdiff/index.xhtml">Comparing ODF documents</a> - ODFDiff compares ODF documents, and is available as an <a href="http://www.pincette.biz/odfdiff/odf_diff.oxt">extension</a> as well as a <a href="http://www.pincette.biz/odfdiff/odf_diff.jar">stand alone program</a>.<br /> <span id="more-2431"></span> <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-issues-first-OpenOffice-org-3-3-0-release-candidate-1110379.html">Oracle issues first OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 release candidate</a> - In case you missed it, the first <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_3">OpenOffice.org 3.3 RC1 is out</a>.<br /> <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/category/7/ http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/10/21/oracle-openoffice-org-libreoffice/ "><br /> Oracle, OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice</a> - Dave Neary wrote a commentary about some <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101014">decisions taken by some members of the OpenOffice.org Community Council</a>. While I can&#8217;t buy his (oversemplicistic) football allegory, his blog entry is one of the very few that I would recommend on this complex subject. Take a moment to read also the comments, especially the <a href="http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/10/21/oracle-openoffice-org-libreoffice/#comment-3172">foo&#8217;s ones</a>.<a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/category/7/ http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/10/21/oracle-openoffice-org-libreoffice/ "></a></p> <p>Post Scrittum: have a look also at Bruce&#8217;s Byfield&#8217;s <a href="http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/The-Cold-War-Between-OpenOffice.org-and-LibreOffice">&#8220;The Cold War Between OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice&#8221;</a> along with comments too.</p> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:03:38 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2407 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/10/13/openofficeorg-10th-anniversary-8-years-in-retrospective/ <p><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_Of_OpenOffice.org"><a href="http://openoffice.org"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2409" title="ooo 10years anniversary" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/ooo_10years_anniversary.png" alt="ooo 10years anniversary" width="200" height="201" /></a>OpenOffice.org went live just ten years ago</a>, on the 13rd of October 2000.Having been a community member for over 8 years, it is a good chance to recap what I have done until now.<span id="more-2407"></span></p> <p>I joined the OpenOffice.org community in 2002, and I created one of the first <a href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/03/22/free_conversion_to_pdf_rtf.htm">free software format file converter</a> based on the OpenOffice.org engine in 2003.</p> <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/02/22/openofficeorg-the-italian-openofficeorg-association-welcomes-microsofts-move-to-open-its-api/">Promoting OpenOffice.org nationally</a> was hard in 2003. Lobbing with some Italian free software organizations - namely Assoli and the Italian chapter of the FSFE -  I brought the Director of the information system of our Minister of Education to think that Italian schools needed to know more <a href="http://www.osservatoriotecnologico.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=4&Itemid=397&lang=en">also</a> about OpenOffice.org.</p> <p><strong>When Italy was at the forefront on OOo documentation</strong> I  collaboratively wrote also English user guides, but my main activity was and is about promoting OpenOffice.org by spreading the word through events, <span id="search"><em></em></span><span id="search">promotion, venue relations, and other collaborative efforts</span>.</p> <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/11/13/second-odf-plugfest-notes-from-the-first-day/">The Second ODF Plugfest event</a> is the last event I have been organizing, and it was the first time that it was held in collaboration with the OpenOffice.org conference, something I hope it will happen again.</p> Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:34:32 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=638 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/sBbSLYXfxXQ/ <p></p><p><b>Strong support for the first week of The Document Foundation</b></p> <p>The Internet, October 6, 2010 &#8211; One full week has gone by since the announcement of The Document Foundation, and we would like to share some numbers with the people who have decided to follow us since the first day.</p> <p>The beta of LibreOffice has been downloaded over 80.000 times. The infrastructure has expanded dramatically from 25 to 45 working mirrors in 25 countries (in every continent), including islands in the Pacific Ocean. This number is close to half the mirrors achieved by OpenOffice.org during ten years of history of the project.</p> <p>People have started to contribute to the code, suggesting features, committing patches and filing bugs. In just one week, around 80 code contributions (patches, and direct commits) have been accepted in LibreOffice from a total of 27 volunteers, several of them newly-won, with around 100 developers hanging out on the #libreoffice irc channel which is buzzing with activity (around 14,000 messages sent).</p> <p>Turning to the wider community, 2.000 people have subscribed to the list announce@ to keep up with the latest TDF news, and 300 people to the discussion list discuss@, where there has been an average of 100 messages per day.</p> <p>To round up the numbers, there are nearly 600 people following TDF tweets, over 150 following the identi.ca TDF account, and over 1.000 fans on Facebook. The traffic on the server has been in the region of 500 GB.</p> <p>In its only official response to the creation of the Foundation, Oracle has stated: “Oracle is investing substantial resources in OpenOffice.org. With more than one hundred million users, we believe OpenOffice.org is the most advanced, most feature rich open source implementation and will strongly encourage the Open Office community to continue to contribute through www.openoffice.org.”</p> <p>The Foundation understands from this that Oracle has no immediate plans to support the Foundation, or to transfer community assets such as the OpenOffice.org trademark. However, the Foundation hopes this position will change as the company sees the volunteer community &#8211; an essential component of OpenOffice’s past success &#8211; swing its support behind the new Foundation. In the meantime, the Foundation will continue software development under the LibreOffice brand.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AEnm-11Mm9YnHdVsJAmPheT8guQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AEnm-11Mm9YnHdVsJAmPheT8guQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AEnm-11Mm9YnHdVsJAmPheT8guQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AEnm-11Mm9YnHdVsJAmPheT8guQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=sBbSLYXfxXQ:NXRdmCEDWf4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=sBbSLYXfxXQ:NXRdmCEDWf4:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=sBbSLYXfxXQ:NXRdmCEDWf4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=sBbSLYXfxXQ:NXRdmCEDWf4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/sBbSLYXfxXQ" height="1" width="1" /> Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:35:50 +0000 http://www.italovignoli.org/?p=636 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/rqFxbQf6mB0/ <p></p><p>The announcement of The Document Foundation has generated a huge amount of buzz in the press, and there are many people who are commenting and speculating about TDF and LibreOffice.</p> <p>We are extremely happy for the coverage, but we would like to avoid spreading of inaccurate news in the press which might result from comments of people who are very close to the project but are not recognized spokespersons.</p> <p>When you have questions about the project you are free to get in touch with the Steering Committee members or with their deputies, which are listed on this page: http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/. They have a TDF email with the following syntax: firstname.lastname@documentfoundation.org. From their bio, it is easy to understand their main area of competence.</p> <p>There are also four press contacts &#8211; http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/ &#8211; who are happy to help for quotes and interviews.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2gtRfnb7sQLznDBF_aORRqB8J5Y/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2gtRfnb7sQLznDBF_aORRqB8J5Y/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2gtRfnb7sQLznDBF_aORRqB8J5Y/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/2gtRfnb7sQLznDBF_aORRqB8J5Y/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=rqFxbQf6mB0:DypvIwai0jM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=rqFxbQf6mB0:DypvIwai0jM:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=rqFxbQf6mB0:DypvIwai0jM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=rqFxbQf6mB0:DypvIwai0jM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/rqFxbQf6mB0" height="1" width="1" /> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:52:49 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2368 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/09/28/libreoffice-and-the-importance-to-be-called-a-community/ <p><a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/announce/msg00000.html">LibreOffice is born</a>, and if it is true that every end is a new begin is too early to tell if this is a good or a bad thing.<br /> Let&#8217;s start by looking at the foundations of this brand new <a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/">Document Foundation</a>.</p> <p>The Steering committe, created by cooptation by eminent contributors and project lang mantainers, has already made some choices, and until now the &#8216;community&#8217; behind OpenOffice.org had no chance to join the debate.</p> <p><a href="http://www.documentfoundation.org/faq/">The FAQ page</a> itself doesn&#8217;t say much about the governance model, while a number of open source thought leaders have been welcoming the news.</p> <p>How many vendors beyond Novell will eventually join the foundation and put their money (time) where their mouthes are?</p> <p>Ultimately an open source community is made of developers and users, and also the latter play an important role, especially for end-users applications.<br /> <strong><br /> How will users take to these changes?</strong></p> Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:03:59 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535701033592062760.post-4515384258041942302 http://ooomacros.blogspot.com/2010/09/la-comunita-openofficeorg-annuncia.html La comunità dei volontari che sviluppano e promuovono OpenOffice.org dà vita a una fondazione indipendente per assicurare il futuro e l'evoluzione del progetto The Internet, 28 sett 2010 - La comunità dei volontari che sviluppano e promuovono OpenOffice.org, il più importante software libero per la produttività individuale, annuncia una significativa evoluzione del progetto. Dopo dieci anni di Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:20:27 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Paolo) http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2355 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/09/24/more-about-the-openofficeorg-hackfest/ <p><a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/09/13/openofficeorg-braille-extension-macro-programming-book-hackfest/">Few days ago</a> I shortly mentioned the<a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Hackfest2010?goback=.gde_44772_member_29431824"> OpenOffice.org Hackfest</a>, and today I asked my friend <a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/about/organizingTeamBio/4"><span class="gI">Florian Effenberger</span></a> - OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead - to tell us more about the event, to be held on the 6-7 of November at the <a class="external text" title="http://wiki.attraktor.org/index.php/Mex" rel="nofollow" href="http://wiki.attraktor.org/index.php/Mex">Attraktor in Hamburg</a><span class="external text">.</span><span id="more-2355"></span></p> <p><strong>How did you come up with the idea to run an hack-fest?</strong></p> <blockquote><p>It&#8217;s always great to see people face to face and build a relationship with them. Meetings of the community usually strenghten it and help in getting more volunteers contributing to open source. In addition, to get into the OpenOffice.org codebase, an interactive workshop is much more helpful than a forum or a mailing list. So, we organized the HackFest. <img src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></blockquote> <p><strong>To whom this event is dedicated?</strong></p> <blockquote><p>It&#8217;s for people who are already OpenOffice.org hackers/coders, and for those aspiring to become.</p></blockquote> <p><strong>Is Oracle backing this initiative or it&#8217;s just a community event?</strong></p> <blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a pure community event, organized by community volunteers.</p></blockquote> <p><strong>How many attendees do you expect? Will you foster the creation of teams working on new extensions or what?</strong></p> <blockquote><p>10-30 attendees - there&#8217;s no really fixed agenda, the event will be run as an unconference, i.e. with and by the participants - so if there are two or more people wanting to hack on extensions, they&#8217;ll just do that.</p> <p>Goals of the event:<br /> - offer face time to existing devs, strengthen community &amp; bonding<br /> - get existing hackers up to speed quickly in unknown code areas<br /> - find new hackers in &amp; around Hamburg</p></blockquote> <p><strong>Thanks Florian, and happy hacking!</strong></p> Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:11:30 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535701033592062760.post-6252879941649377232 http://ooomacros.blogspot.com/2010/09/celle-di-calc.html p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }pre { margin-bottom: 0.1cm; color: rgb(0, 128, 0); } In un precedente post abbiamo visto come fare parecchie cose con le tabelle di Calc. Il passo successivo è riuscire a lavorare con intervalli e celle. Prima di tutto occorre senza dubbio ottenere il riferimento ad un oggetto tabella, ad esempio la tabella attiva: oSheet = Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:04:36 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Paolo) http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2310 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/09/13/openofficeorg-braille-extension-macro-programming-book-hackfest/ <p><a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/odt2braille-brings-Braille-to-OpenOffice-org-1051342.html">odt2braille brings Braille to OpenOffice.org</a> - The EU funded <a href="http://www.aegis-project.eu/">AEGIS</a> project - which formerly helped deliver <a href="http://odt2daisy.sf.net/">odt2daisy</a> which allows for the creation of DAISY3 format digital audiobooks from OpenOffice -  supported the development of <a href="http://odt2braille.sourceforge.net/index.html">odt2braille</a>, an extension which allows users to translate documents into Braille formats.<br /> <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/openoffice-ooobasic-calc-automation/book?mid=020307o0g39m"></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/openoffice-ooobasic-calc-automation/book?mid=020307o0g39m"><span id="more-2310"></span>Learn OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Macro Programming: OOoBasic and Calc automation</a> -<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/10/AR2010091002675.html">Learn more</a> about this brand new book recently published by Packt.</p> <p><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Hackfest2010?goback=.gde_44772_member_29431824">OpenOffice.org HackFest 2010</a> - The OpenOffice.org HackFest will take place on the weekend of November 6-7 2010 in the <a class="external text" title="http://wiki.attraktor.org/index.php/Mex" rel="nofollow" href="http://wiki.attraktor.org/index.php/Mex">Attraktor in Hamburg</a>, to register drop a short note to <a class="external text" title="mailto:hackfest@openoffice.org" rel="nofollow" href="mailto:hackfest@openoffice.org">hackfest@openoffice.org</a></p> Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:34:19 +0000 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535701033592062760.post-2594948509956976615 http://ooomacros.blogspot.com/2010/09/api-primi-passi.html OpenOffice.org mette a disposizione un sistema API (Application Programming Interface) che in sostanza è la tecnologia che ci permette di scrivere macro. Più dettagliatamente, si tratta di un'interfaccia di programmazione ovvero di uno “strato” software che ci consente di interagire con OpenOffice.org utilizzando un linguaggio di programmazione opportunamente predisposto.Per raffigurare la Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:30:00 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Paolo) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535701033592062760.post-415665633532716175 http://ooomacros.blogspot.com/2010/08/lavorare-con-le-tabelle-di-calc.html In questo post vedremo come effettuare via macro le operazioni più comuni sulle tabelle di OOo Calc.Per cominciare occorre ottenere un documento Calc. Con il codice seguente viene creato un nuovo documento.     sUrl = "private:factory/scalc"      oDoc = StarDesktop.loadComponentFromURL(sUrl,"_default",0, Array()) E' possibile usare lo stesso codice anche per aprire un documento esistente, è Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:42:42 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Paolo) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535701033592062760.post-4552792311316568344 http://ooomacros.blogspot.com/2010/08/ooocon-2010-remider.html <div>Tra pochissimi giorni inizierà l'annuale convegno mondiale di OpenOffice.org: <a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/index/index">OOoCon 2010</a>.<br />Quest'anno l'evento avrà luogo avrà luogo a Budapest in Ungheria, dal 31 Agosto al 3 Settembre.<br />Il <a href="http://www.plio.it/">PLIO</a> sarà ben rappresentato, infatti tra i relatori figurano:<br /><b>Italo Vignoli</b>, presidente, con ben tre presentazioni:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/191">"Selling" the migration concept</a></li><li><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/161">Marketing OOo in 2011 and beyond</a></li><li><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/160">The state of the Italian National Language Project</a></li></ul><ul></ul><b>Andrea Pescetti</b>, consigliere e mantainer del progetto linguistico Italiano, con una presentazione sugli strumenti linguistici di OpenOffice.org:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/262">Improving writing aids, the community way</a></li></ul><ul></ul>Per quanto riguarda la programmabilità di OpenOffice.org, macro ed extension, segnalo alcune presentazioni che ritengo molto interessanti:<br /><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><col width="403" /><col width="493" /> <tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="403"><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/206">Wrap up of the latest Extensions infra structure features</a>&nbsp; <br /><ul></ul></td><td width="493">di Juergen Schmidt</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td width="403"><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/235">Using UNO AWT for creating GUIs in extensions</a><br /><ul></ul></td><td width="493">di Mihaela Kedikova</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td width="403"><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/230">New Extensions in EuroOffice 2010</a><br /><ul></ul></td><td width="493">di Kazmer Koleszar, Gergely Farkas</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td width="403"><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/276">Extension Development for Non-programmers</a><br /><ul></ul></td><td width="493">di Dmitri Popov</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td width="403"><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/paper/view/265">VBA, can you hack it, yes you can!!</a><br /><ul></ul></td><td width="493">di Noel Thomas Power, Hui Li</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br />Bene, concludo con un in bocca al lupo ad Italo e Andrea e buon divertimento a chi ci sarà!!<br /><br /><br />a presto<br />Paolo<br /><br clear="left" /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/535701033592062760-4552792311316568344?l=ooomacros.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:22:48 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Paolo) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535701033592062760.post-7277197733375255732 http://ooomacros.blogspot.com/2010/08/durante-una-sessione-di-lavoro-con.html Durante una sessione di lavoro con OpenOffice.org, in un istante qualsiasi può esistere un solo <i>documento attivo</i> che corrisponde al documento contenuto nella finestra di OpenOffice.org che ha il <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_%28computing%29">focus</a> in quel dato momento.<br />Dato che, a differenza di MS Office, OpenOffice.org è un'applicazione monolitica, il documento attivo può essere di qualunque tipo: un foglio elettronico, un database, un documento di testo e altro ancora.<br />Per questo motivo, sviluppando macro, capita abbastanza spesso di avere la necessità di sapere il tipo di documento attivo per poter applicare i metodi appropriati.<br />In MS Office esiste un programma eseguibile associato a ciascun tipo di documento, in OpenOffice.org invece esiste un <i>componente</i> specifico associato a ciascun tipo di documento, perciò la questione si riduce a conoscere il componente attivo piuttosto che il documento attivo.<br />I componenti sono dei <i>servizi UNO</i><i><a class="sdendnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=535701033592062760#sdendnote1sym" name="sdendnote1anc">ⁱ</a></i> che hanno particolari caratteristiche. Senza volerci addentrare in dettagli, diciamo solo che i servizi UNO più complessi solitamente mettono a disposizione dei metodi specifici che permettono di identificare il servizio stesso e ottenere informazioni sulle caratteristiche supportate.<br />Vediamo ora i metodi più interessanti per il nostro utilizzo:<br /><br /><table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"><col width="101*" /> <col width="155*" /> <tbody><tr valign="TOP"> <th width="40%">Nome</th> <th width="60%">Descrizione</th> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="40%"><b>getSupportedServiceNames()</b></td> <td width="60%">Restituisce un array con i nomi di tutti i servizi UNO supportati dall'oggetto, incluso il servizio UNO principale. Questo metodo non prende argomenti</td> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="40%"><b>supportsService( String: ServiceName)</b></td> <td width="60%">Controlla se un particolare servizio è supportato dall'oggetto.<br />Il metodo prende in argomento il nome del servizio che si vuole testare e restituisce Vero (<b>True</b>) se il servizio è supportato, Falso (<b>False</b>) se il servizio non è supportato dall'oggetto.</td> </tr></tbody></table><br />Vediamo ora come utilizzare quanto osservato fino ad ora per risolvere il problema iniziale, ovvero determinare il tipo di documento attivo.<br />Prima di tutto otteniamo un riferimento al documento attivo:<br /><br /><pre><span> oDoc </span><span><span><span>=</span></span></span><span> StarDesktop.getCurrentComponent</span><span><span><span>()</span></span></span><br /></pre>Ora dobbiamo controllare se il componente attivo supporta alcuni servizi specifici che identificano univocamente il tipo di documento.<br />Per effettuare il test useremo il metodo <b>supportsService</b><br />Ecco l'elenco dei nomi dei servizi UNO con il tipo di documento associato:<br /><br /><table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"><col width="122*" /> <col width="134*" /> <thead><tr valign="TOP"> <th width="48%">Servizio UNO</th> <th width="52%">Tipo di documento</th> </tr></thead> <tbody><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="48%">com.sun.star.text.TextDocument </td> <td width="52%">Documento di testo (Writer)</td> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="48%">com.sun.star.text.WebDocument </td> <td width="52%">Documento HTML (Writer)</td> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="48%">com.sun.star.text.GlobalDocument</td> <td width="52%">Documento Master (Writer)</td> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="48%">com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument</td> <td width="52%">Foglio elettronico (Calc)</td> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="48%">com.sun.star.presentation.PresentationDocument</td> <td width="52%">Presentazione (Impress)</td> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="48%">com.sun.star.drawing.DrawingDocument</td> <td width="52%">Disegno (Draw)</td> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="48%">com.sun.star.formula.FormularProperties</td> <td width="52%">Formula matematica (Math)</td> </tr><tr valign="TOP"> <td width="48%">com.sun.star.sdb.OfficeDatabaseDocument</td> <td width="52%">Documento database (Base)</td> </tr></tbody> </table><br /><br />Non rimane altro che scrivere il codice che esegue materialmente il test:<br /><br /><pre><span><span><span>REM ***** BASIC *****</span></span></span><br /><br /><span><span><span>Sub</span></span></span><span> TestDocumentType</span>()</pre><pre><span> oDoc </span><span><span><span>=</span></span></span><span> StarDesktop.getCurrentComponent</span><span><span><span>()</span></span></span><br /><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>If</span></span></span><span> oDoc.supportsService</span><span><span><span>(</span></span></span><span><span><span>"com.sun.star.text.TextDocument"</span></span></span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>Then</span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox </span><span><span><span>"Documento di testo OOo Writer"</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>ElseIf</span></span></span><span> oDoc.supportsService</span><span><span><span>(</span></span></span><span><span><span>"com.sun.star.text.WebDocument"</span></span></span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>Then</span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox </span><span><span><span>"Documento HTML di OOo Writer"</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>ElseIf</span></span></span><span> oDoc.supportsService</span><span><span><span>(</span></span></span><span><span><span>"com.sun.star.text.GlobalDocument"</span></span></span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>Then</span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox </span><span><span><span>"Documento Master di OOo Writer"</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>ElseIf</span></span></span><span> oDoc.supportsService</span><span><span><span>(</span></span></span><span><span><span>"com.sun.star.sheet.SpreadsheetDocument"</span></span></span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>Then</span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox </span><span><span><span>"Foglio elettronico di OOo Calc"</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>ElseIf</span></span></span><span> oDoc.supportsService</span><span><span><span>(</span></span></span><span><span><span>"com.sun.star.drawing.DrawingDocument"</span></span></span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>Then</span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox </span><span><span><span>"Disegno di OOo Draw"</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>ElseIf</span></span></span><span> oDoc.supportsService</span><span><span><span>(</span></span></span><span><span><span>"com.sun.star.presentation.PresentationDocument"</span></span></span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>Then</span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox </span><span><span><span>"Presentazione di OOo Impress"</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>ElseIf</span></span></span><span> oDoc.supportsService</span><span><span><span>(</span></span></span><span><span><span>"com.sun.star.formula.FormulaProperties"</span></span></span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>Then</span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox </span><span><span><span>"Formula matematica di OOo Math"</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>ElseIf</span></span></span><span> oDoc.supportsService</span><span><span><span>(</span></span></span><span><span><span>"com.sun.star.sdb.OfficeDatabaseDocument"</span></span></span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span><span> </span><span><span><span>Then</span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox </span><span><span><span>"Documento database di OOo Base"</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><span><span><span>End If</span></span></span><br /><span> </span><br /><span><span><span>End Sub</span></span></span></pre><pre><span><span><span></span></span></span><br /></pre><pre><span><span><span></span></span></span></pre>Per testare il codice è sufficiente copiarlo in nuovo modulo nella libreria <i>Standard</i> del proprio utente, creare un nuovo documento di qualsiasi tipo, tornare nell ambiente di sviluppo (IDE) di StarBasic e lanciare la macro mediante l'apposito pulanste della barra degli strumenti oppure mediante il tasto <i></i><br />Per un uso più generalizzato sarebbe opportuno trasformare la routine dell'esempio in una funzione. <br />Effettivamente esiste già una funzione simile nella libreria Tools, modulo Misc:<br /><br /><div class="separator"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_clNDXaqgQhU/THcBZRexjYI/AAAAAAAAAEE/HCsE-TozDj0/s1600/Libreria+Tools+-+modulo+Misc.png"><img border="0" height="304" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_clNDXaqgQhU/THcBZRexjYI/AAAAAAAAAEE/HCsE-TozDj0/s640/Libreria+Tools+-+modulo+Misc.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />Si tratta della funzione <b>GetDocumentType().</b><br />Ecco come utilizzarla:<br /><br /><pre><span><span><span><span>REM ***** BASIC *****</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span><span><span><span>Sub</span></span></span> TestToolsFunction<span><span><span>()</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span> oDoc <span><span><span>=</span></span></span> StarDesktop.getCurrentComponent<span><span><span>()</span></span></span></span><br /><span> </span><br /><span> <span><span><span>'prima di utilizzar el efunzioi della libreria </span></span></span></span><br /><span> <span><span><span>'condivisa Tools occorre caricarla:</span></span></span></span><br /><span> BasicLibraries.loadLibrary.Tools</span><br /><span> </span><br /><span> <span><span><span>'ora è possibile richiamare la funzione</span></span></span></span><br /><span> sDocType <span><span><span>=</span></span></span> GetDocumentType<span><span><span>(</span></span></span>oDoc<span><span><span>)</span></span></span></span><br /><span> MsgBox sDocType</span><br /><span> </span><br /><span><span><span><span>End Sub</span></span></span></span></pre><pre><span><span><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></pre>La funzione inclusa nella libreria Tools purtroppo non è molto aggiornata e non è in grado di riconoscere i documenti OOo Base, i documenti HTML e i documenti Master<br />Alla luce di quanto illustrato fino ad ora dovrebbe essere piuttosto facile modificare la funzione della libreria Tools aggiungendo i tipi di documento mancanti.<br /><br />A presto<br />Paolo<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div id="sdendnote1"><div class="sdendnote"><a class="sdendnotesym" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=535701033592062760#sdendnote1anc" name="sdendnote1sym">i</a> La piattaforma UNO (Universal Network Objects) è la tecnologia sulla quale si basa l'interfaccia di programmazione di OpenOffice.org. Nella piattaforma UNO il concetto di “servizio” equivale al concetto di “oggetto” che possiamo trovare in altri ambienti/linguaggi come ad esempio Visual Basic </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/535701033592062760-7277197733375255732?l=ooomacros.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:09:36 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Paolo) tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-535701033592062760.post-6155326619993767502 http://ooomacros.blogspot.com/2010/08/ecco-il-sito-di-un-vero-appassionato-di.html Ecco il sito di un vero appassionato di <a href="http://www.mondoapi.it/">MACRO</a> e <a href="http://www.mondoapi.it/">API</a> !!<br />Vi prego non fatemela spiegare ;-)<br />Comunque posso assicurare che Luca Mazzocchi, autore del sito, non solo è un grande esperto di <span>macrofotografia</span> e profondo conoscitore del mondo dell'<span>apicoltura</span> ma è anche un programmatore di <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide">Macro</a> e <a href="http://api.openoffice.org/">API</a> di OpenOffice.org. :-)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/535701033592062760-6155326619993767502?l=ooomacros.blogspot.com" alt="" /></div> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:46:16 +0000 noreply@blogger.com (Paolo) http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2188 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/07/21/openofficeorg-download-petition-to-authorities-to-remove-bait-and-switch-advertising/ <p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2190" title="easy download logo" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/easydownloadlogo1.jpg" alt="easy download logo" width="226" height="72" /> <a href="http://www.aduc.it/">ADUC</a>, an Italian association of consumers, a couple of months ago wrote an article to inform about <a href="http://bit.ly/bu6yNB">easy-download</a> <a href="http://www.aduc.it/comunicato/gratis+praticamente+inesistente+internet+fax_17487.php">bait-and-switch practices charging a fee for open source programs download</a>, and later <a href="http://www.aduc.it/generale/files/file/allegati/20100609-espostoeasydownload-pubblicazione.pdf">wrote a petition</a> to the <a href="http://www.agcm.it/eng/index.htm">Italian anti-trust authority</a>.&nbsp;<img src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" class="mceWPmore mceItemNoResize" title="More..." /></p> <p>In the past <a href="http://www.agcm.it/agcm_ita/DSAP/Dsap_pi.nsf/a0d111d6626f957fc125652a00315873/f91306f2c7aa4454c125746b0048829b?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,Registro,italiano%20,Internet">ADUC obtained succesful resolutions</a> in similar cases, and I look forward to see if they will eventually manage to get Google stop sell google keywords ads to Euro Content ltd (easy download owner), as <a href="http://avvertenze.aduc.it/generale/files/file/allegati/20100713-espostoeasydownload2.pdf">recently asked to the anti-trust</a>.</p> <p><b>Kudos to ADUC to help with this issue</b>, OpenOffice.org users don&#8217;t deserve this kind of treatment.</p> Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:38:12 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2179 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/07/16/italian-industrial-association-meets-open-source/ <p><a href="http://www.assind.vi.it/"></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingridbd/4545890615/"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2180" title="Rotonda, Palladio (Vicenza)" src="http://robertogaloppini.net/wp-content/uploads/palladio-150x150.jpg" alt="Rotonda, Palladio (Vicenza)" width="150" height="150" /></a>Confindustria Vicenza, the local chapter of the Italian manufacturers&#8217; association, on the 13 of July hosted an event about open source entitled, &#8220;<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/33744497/Confindustria-Vicenza-Evento-13-luglio">Open Source, a 360-degree view: pros and cons, legal implications and hence who can profit from it</a>&#8220;.</p> <p>The event (<a href="http://www.assind.vi.it/video/videosp.nsf/codiceview/65?opendocument&Codice=65">videos</a>) was aimed to provide the audience with information about legal, organizational and technical impacts of open source adoption, among speakers a lawyer specialized in intellectual property laws (<a href="http://www.lucagiacopuzzi.it/">Luca Giacopuzzi</a>), a researcher of the <a href="http://www.univiu.org/research-training/researchtedis">TEDIS center</a> (<a href="http://www.firstdraft.it/2009/03/16/lofferta-di-servizi-open-source-in-italia/">Antonio Picerni</a>), Confindustria Vicenza&#8217;s ICT manager Franco Battistello and myself. <span id="more-2179"></span></p> <p><a href="http://it.linkedin.com/pub/matteo-salin/0/349/691">Matteo Salinas</a> opened the event welcoming attendees and introducing nicely speakers and topics.</p> <p><a href="http://www.assind.vi.it/video/videosp.nsf/68fa92e68e6baabdc12576be005b9373/d69237a597d544c5c1257760004cc817/$FILE/Galoppini%20-%201a%20parte.pdf">Speaking about open source at large</a>, I gave a presentation covering many issues, ranging from the dimension and <a href="http://dirkriehle.com/publications/2008/the-total-growth-of-open-source/">growth of open source</a> to the <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/06/12/open-source-business-models-lets-start-from-the-production-of-code/">production of code</a> and the <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/06/03/the-quintessence-of-open-source/">open source community factor</a>. <a href="http://sosopensource.com/34.html">How to find open source</a> software and eventually <a href="http://sosopensource.com/88.html">how to choose the best open source tools</a> were approached from a <a href="http://sosopensource.com/187.html">pragmatic viewpoint</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.assind.vi.it/video/videosp.nsf/68fa92e68e6baabdc12576be005b9373/d69237a597d544c5c1257760004cc817/$FILE/Picerni.pdf">Picerni presented findings from a research</a> about the <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2009/03/12/italian-open-source-offering-2008-viu-researchs-findings/">Italian open source offering</a>, sharing interesting numbers and figures.</p> <p><a href="http://www.assind.vi.it/video/videosp.nsf/68fa92e68e6baabdc12576be005b9373/d69237a597d544c5c1257760004cc817/$FILE/Giacopuzzi.pdf">Giacopuzzi&#8217;s speech covered all IP issues</a> related to software production and distribution, bringing on the table real cases and examples.</p> <p><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/galoppini/migrating-to-openoffice-org?src=embed">Talking about desktop migrations</a> I introduced the audience to the topic giving a picture of the whole process.</p> <p><a href="http://www.assind.vi.it/video/videosp.nsf/68fa92e68e6baabdc12576be005b9373/d69237a597d544c5c1257760004cc817/$FILE/Battistello.pdf">Franco Battistelli brought an interesting case study</a> about their own migration from Microsoft office to OpenOffice.org. In numbers: 120 PCs, 263 document templates, and 50.000 €  in licensing savings (managed with internal resources)!</p> <p><a href="http://it.linkedin.com/pub/giulia-marigo/6/789/27">Giulia Marigo</a>, ICT Manager at Coges Spa and member of Confidustria Vicenza&#8217;s ICT working group, closed the event showing a brand new internal forum aimed at sharing information about open source usage among associated companies.</p> <p><strong>Kudos to the organizers of the event!</strong></p> Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:18:23 +0000 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~3/eI0W2FLRbyY/news_story.php3 <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f6fu0UeYkr6Apvcl1nNgD-Pu0PE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f6fu0UeYkr6Apvcl1nNgD-Pu0PE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a><br /> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f6fu0UeYkr6Apvcl1nNgD-Pu0PE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/f6fu0UeYkr6Apvcl1nNgD-Pu0PE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true" /></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=eI0W2FLRbyY:Ro2eosQjYao:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=eI0W2FLRbyY:Ro2eosQjYao:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?a=eI0W2FLRbyY:Ro2eosQjYao:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ItalosOOoBlog?i=eI0W2FLRbyY:Ro2eosQjYao:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ItalosOOoBlog/~4/eI0W2FLRbyY" height="1" width="1" /> Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:01:28 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2067 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/05/24/openofficeorg-extensions-are-two-repositories-better-than-one/ <p>The Free Software Foundation <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-launches-free-software-extension-listing-for-openoffice.org">announced</a> an <a href="http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:OpenOfficeExtensions/List">alternative OpenOffice.org extensions repositor</a>y, which will list only extensions released under free software licenses. Before that the FSF asked the OpenOffice.org Community Council to list only free software extensions or to provide a second independent listing, but the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=417">OOo council responded negatively</a>.</p> <p><strong>Are two better than one?</strong></p> Mon, 24 May 2010 18:43:00 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/?p=2061 http://robertogaloppini.net/2010/05/18/openofficeorg-conference-2010-call-for-paper/ <p><a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010">OpenOffice.org Annual Conference</a> , now at its 10th edition, will be held in <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/category/2009/03/04/openofficeorg-conference-2009-is-orvietos-time/budapest.html">Budapest</a> (Hungary) and the <a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/schedConf/cfp">call for paper</a> is open until the 2nd of June. People intersting in attending OOoCon 2010 are invited to subscribe to the <a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/announcement/view/15">OOoCon 2010 mailing list</a>. To subscribe to the list send a blank email to <em>ooocon-discuss-subscribe &lt;at&gt; marketing.openoffice.org</em>.</p> <p>The OpenOffice.org Community is now <a href="http://www.ooocon.org/index.php/ooocon/2010/announcement/view/16">accepting proposals for hosting the next year conference</a>.</p> Tue, 18 May 2010 12:34:09 +0000