{"id":119,"date":"2004-05-02T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=119"},"modified":"2004-05-02T16:08:05","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T21:08:05","slug":"gnome-2-book-ooo-marketing-stints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/02\/gnome-2-book-ooo-marketing-stints","title":{"rendered":"GNOME 2 book; OOo marketing stints"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nostarch.com\/frameset.php?startat=gnome_foundation\">The Official GNOME 2 Developers Guide<\/a> and skimmed thru it. Definitely going to be a good read and reference point, though it does assume some fairly strong C skills &#8211; this is where a gap exists for complete newbies. So I&#8217;ve made my donation to the foundation :)<\/li>\n<li>Want GAIM, the CD player, or even up2date to sit on your &#8220;system tray&#8221;? Right click the GNOME panel, Add to Panel, Utility, and select Notification Area. <\/li>\n<li>Browsing JB Hifi (where I bought some CDs incidentally), I saw mini-CDR&#8217;s going for about $1\/CDR. That&#8217;s about 185MB of storage, and being mini-sized, it struck me. Seems like a good marketing tool to push some open source software, that runs on Microsoft Windows to &#8220;to-be converts&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozoo.org\/\">MozOO.org<\/a> distributes CDs that are full-sized, but their package set is definitely small enough for something like this.<\/li>\n<li>If Siemens thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/04\/29\/staroffice_reaches_maturity\/\">StarOffice is mature<\/a> enough, this is definitely good news for the OOo camp. A conclusion that training didn&#8217;t cost more &#8211; in Malaysia, &#8220;open source training&#8221; costs a bombshell &#8211; maybe costs can be drastically reduced by getting in-house training sorted by <a href=\"http:\/\/training.bytebot.net\/\">ByteBot.Net Training Materials<\/a>. Also, keep in mind that eWeek conducted an independent study to show that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1570801,00.asp\">OpenOffice.org is cheaper than Office 2003<\/a> in the SMB market.<\/li>\n<li>Dick Smith, in New Zealand, is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dse.co.nz\/cgi-bin\/dse.storefront\/en\/product\/XC4032\">selling OpenOffice.org<\/a> among a few other software packages for NZ$4.95.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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%20GNOME%202%20book%3B%20OOo%20marketing%20stints&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F05%2F02%2Fgnome-2-book-ooo-marketing-stints&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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So I&#8217;ve made my donation to the foundation :) Want GAIM, the CD player, or [&hellip;]<\/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%20GNOME%202%20book%3B%20OOo%20marketing%20stints&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F05%2F02%2Fgnome-2-book-ooo-marketing-stints&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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