There were those who complained about the labor conditions of those who picked grapes and sewed t-shirts. About pesticides on apples and growth hormones in milk. About generically modified corn and soy. About how governments conduct foreign … [Continue reading] about The New Technology Consumers
Apache OpenOffice 2013 Mailing List Review
I did a quick study of the 2013 mailing list traffic for the Apache OpenOffice project. I looked at all project mailing lists, including native language lists. I omitted the purely transactional mailing lists, the ones that merely echo code … [Continue reading] about Apache OpenOffice 2013 Mailing List Review
IBM Support for Apache OpenOffice
As you probably know, IBM has been involved with the OpenOffice.org community for many years. This included collaboration on ODF and accessibility at first, as we worked on our separate Lotus Symphony fork. And then in 2011 we followed the … [Continue reading] about IBM Support for Apache OpenOffice
The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 3
In the previous two parts (one and two) I described a model of product adoption and market share that could be built with a single survey question. I applied this model to the open source productivity suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice, looking at … [Continue reading] about The Power of Brand and the Power of Product, Part 3
Visualizing OASIS Technical Committees
So what do we have here? This is a simple social network visualization, of OASIS Technical Committees. Each circle in this graph represents a single Technical Committee (TC). The size of the circle is proportionate to how many members are on the … [Continue reading] about Visualizing OASIS Technical Committees