{"id":113,"date":"2004-04-27T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2004-04-27T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=113"},"modified":"2004-04-27T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2004-04-27T20:10:33","slug":"mascots-and-revamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/27\/mascots-and-revamps","title":{"rendered":"Mascots and revamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, everyone&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/04\/25\/236228&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=133&#038;tid=146&#038;tid=185&#038;tid=186&#038;tid=99\">got a misconception<\/a> of the new OOo Schools Mascot. It&#8217;s been blown out of proportion people, and there&#8217;s no point bombarding the marketing project &#8211; we&#8217;ve received quite a lot of crap for it. Here&#8217;s Bruce Byfield&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.openoffice.org\/servlets\/ReadMsg?list=dev&#038;msgNo=14079\">positive take<\/a> on it; Sander&#8217;s got a more interesting way &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.openoffice.org\/servlets\/ReadMsg?list=dev&#038;msgNo=14035\">lets feed the spammers<\/a>! It will soon leave the main website, and just be moved off to the schools sub-project. Let&#8217;s leave it at that folk, stop the bombardment, use all this energy to make OOo better okay?<\/p>\n<p>Lots of other things going on &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/archives\/fedora-announce-list\/2004-April\/msg00013.html\">fc2test3<\/a> is out officially; been using it for a few days already, its generally quite good. &#8220;Let&#8217;s fix Fedora&#8221; meeting was yesterday, talk became more active, new ideas are surfacing, only good things can happen (I&#8217;m overly-optimistic, some say).<\/p>\n<p>And my-opensource.org will get its revamp soon enough &#8211; it now hosts its first HOWTO on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-opensource.org\/howto\/qostrafficshaping-shorewall-wondershaper-howto.html\">Howto Configure QoS\/Trafficshaping on Shorewall with Wondershaper<\/a>. Rock. Ow Mun Heng should get a blog, and more should too; just added Kevin Francis to <a href=\"http:\/\/myoss.bytebot.net\/\">Planet MYOSS<\/a> (which is now on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetplanet.org\/\">Planet Planet<\/a> as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.gnome.org\/\">p.g.o&#8217;s planetarium<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Mascots%20and%20revamps&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F04%2F27%2Fmascots-and-revamps&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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