Coolest Open Source Products of 2008
ChannelWeb publishes “The 10 Coolest Open Source Products Of 2008,” selecting OpenOffice.org 3.0 as the number one coolest: The popular — and free — open source productivity suite hit its milestone 3.0...
View ArticleOpenOffice.org Template Repository
Mirroring the OpenOffice Extension repository, the project has recently set up a centralized OpenOffice template repository. It’s an easy way for non-programmers to get involved in the OOo project:...
View ArticleBritish Opposition Talks Up Open Source
The British opposition has become ever more aggressive in its support of open source software as a means to save money and, perhaps, increase the success rate of government IT projects. George Osborne,...
View ArticleOpenOffice.org on Identi.ca
As part of its marketing, outreach, and community support efforts, OpenOffice.org community members are forming groups on various social networking sites to create more communication between existing...
View ArticleDrupalCon DC 2009
Today is the first full day of DrupalCon DC, by far the largest DrupalCon to date. Last year’s US conference in Boston had 800 attendees, and this year over 1,300 tickets sold out a month before the...
View ArticleSweetcron
An open source lifestream software, Sweetcron, has been created by Tokyo-based web producer Yong Fook. Sweetcron can be seen in use on his site YongFook.com. Similar to FriendFeed, Facebook’s activity...
View ArticleBuddyPress 1.0 Arrives
Distributed social networking is percolating everywhere I look today. BuddyPress has been in development for a while, but it’s now matured to a 1.0 release, reports Andy Peatling: This release marks...
View ArticleKDE’s Social Desktop
Slashdot pointed out the gradual arrival of the social desktop elements long-planned by the KDE project in Social Desktop Starts to Arrive in KDE. The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the...
View ArticleMicroblogging OpenOffice.org
My team recently created a demonstration site to promote Six Apart’s new Motion platform and provide a space for OpenOffice.org community members and fans to share with each other at Share...
View ArticleWishler.com
Wishler is our new social wishlist sharing service. Using a bookmarklet, Wishler users can add items from any online store to their wishlists, and share them with friends. Our current site is a beta...
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