http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/bloq/ My personal blog is a project for me to understand the working code and how to make it even better. It is my project to dominate this bloq application and learn from it as much as I can. The blog also help me to post my thoughts that also represent a good presence on the Net. Hope this blogs become useful to people to do good for others. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:52:18 GMT jza@openoffice.org jza@openoffice.org en Alex Almost a year ago I decided to push the idea of chapters in the OpenOffice.org community, having one of the biggest OpenOffice.org community out there (the spanish one) we can't regionally cover the whole continent and Spain. So we decided to do small cells that will have the hability to get some outreach activities. Things like meetings, present themselves on events as well as organize some actions such as giving away or selling openoffice.org related merchandise like t-shirts and caps.This will encourage and strenghten the push for overal community growth as well as be able to promote the OpenOffice.org suite on a face-to-face strategy.This effort really didn't pick up that much since there hasn't realy been a roadmap on what to do. It had to happened what a few weeks ago did to make the people wake up and be enthusiastic about gettng together.An email from Pato IVAC calling out on a face to face meeting on Wed 23th August launche a discussion on both Argentina and Mexico on how to meet on each country.This are great news since it could be the step needed to encourage this face-to-face participation. There will still be the challenge of time, work schedules and all but at least this might reward the individuals on more knowledge and networking regarding using and promoting the OpenOffice.org product. http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/bloq/index.php?type=archiv&post=200608#prispevek369 So we need to update the company list from openoffice.org I want to have a really cool script that will make it more manageable and easier to understand. So what I am looking for is to apply some AJAX to the list and actually make the company profiles stored in a real database as opposed of being just a big html page.Using the server from openoffice-mexico.org it will be a good idea to have them work together and make OpenOffice.org a better site in itself.So the idea is simple, first we will be having a map which will be some kind of bitmap. This bitmap will hold the flags from the different countries and will retrieve a query that will print the list of companies from each country. Once the list is up we will be able to click on it and retrieve the profile of the company. http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/bloq/index.php?type=archiv&post=200607#prispevek342 OpenOffice.org marketing community has been very busy generating yet a new campaing. The "Take a Test Drive - Keep the Car!" campaing focus on the recent MS 2007 test drive. With OOo you not just take a test drive but also keep the 'car'. Now we need to spread the content into the different languages. Here is where the native lang communities such as OOo ES to step up and translate the campaign which since we have a different semantics a test drive might not fit well in spanish so some creativity opportunities might come out of the community.With the new development going on with the new generations of Office suites, OpenOffice.org Marketing is really maturing and becoming better organized. I am glad to see the new development comming up. http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/bloq/index.php?type=archiv&post=200607#prispevek338 So I saw the OOo new york ad campaign and it looks promising however the add looked really awful. It seems some designers have stepped in and finally we got a good Mockup of the design.However I was a bit confused why some people didn't took the idea of cooperating to this campaign because it wasn't done on their country. The problem with this is that it divides the community efforts for other divisions that are not so important. http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/bloq/index.php?type=archiv&post=200606#prispevek334 Cedric Bosdonnat has just give an update on his project to integrate OOo's UNO framework with the popular developer platform, Eclipse. Cedric mentions on his blog about OOoEclipseIntegration 1.0.3 has some improved documentation, better JavaDoc extensability and also an internal model refactoring. Cedric writes:Now you can create a new UNO project using a URE instance, the type browser will show you only the URE types and in a future version you will be able to create a new URE application and run it.You can download the plugin from his site at: http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr/ooeclipseintegration/ http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/bloq/index.php?type=archiv&post=200606#prispevek331