Nice article on print

It's not every day we or I get articles in the printed papers but this week I had the luck. Normally, when I speak to journalists, it's about IT matters and the articles is only on the internet sites.

I was contributing to an article, or more like a thema in a business paper this week. The paper is target small business (http://www.erhvervsbladet.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070913/NEWS03/70912011/0/NEWS04).

A double page in the paper was about open source in general and OpenOffice.org in particular. Quite a nice thing and a very good target audience, I think.

Quistions:

• How can I get more of this kind of artiles ?
• How can I get out of the internet- and IT magazines and into the printed business papers ?

Hangovers -sort of

Not literally, but after several months of struggles with the decision in the Parliament and writing the objections to ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (ECMA-376) hearing, I somehow find it nice just doing something else. I shipped the objections yesterday, witch is actually one week ahead. I'm proud to be ahead for once. I even had time to help one of the guys from Belgium with his objections. I got a lot of help during the process and it's nice to be able to pass it on to someone else.

I started to help translate OpenOffice.org 2.3 to Danish. We are already more than half way, so in a few days, I expect that to be finished as well. I'm happy that the translation is going smooth and without any problems. No discussions and arguing. Just translate the strings, one by one.

I'm looking forward to the summer holidays together with family and friends. Four weeks with no connection to the internet. Is that possible ? I'll bring some work, just in case I get bored, but my experience tells me that I won't be doing much of that. Unless of cause; if it rains. But I must prepare my speak in Barcelona. I'm really looking forward to OOoCon 2007. It will be nice to meet all the people I only know from e-mails and blog posts.

I hope to see the new eOffice from Symfoni Software before I go on vacation. I'm really excited about the Lotus Notes -> ODF integration.

The media is going on vacation too. I can see that more and more articles are just translations of stuff. Boring. I don't think I'll miss that part. The only exciting thing right now, is that all the papers is trying to analyze what will happen, now that the Parliament has finished their part. Will Microsoft keep the marked share ? Will OpenOffice.org finally get its break through ? How will the ISO election end ? and so on and so forth.

Well, we'll see about that later.

Decision is expected soon

The committee under the Parliament had a meeting yesterday. Guests speakers was:

• Jørgen Bardenfleth, Microsoft
• Mogens Kühn Pedersen, professor at Copenhagen Business School
• Representatives from Rambøll Management

The Parties Dansk Folkeparti (Morten Messerschmidt) and Socialdemokratiet (Sophie Hæstorp Andersen) feels that they are getting closer to a final decision. The Minister of Science and Technology Helge Sander (Venstre) needs a decision to work with. Start of implementation of resolution B 103 must be at the beginning of 2008.

Reference: Computerworld (Danish)

Change in media coverage

One positive thing that has happened over the last week or so, is that the debate has moved from the internet based IT-news to the printed press. The newspaper Børsen is covering the debate on print now. Other papers are following as well.

Today I gave an interview to another business paper called Erhversbladet. This is also a printed newspaper. I think it's very good that we can get into other media than dedicated IT-news. The question is, if it's too late now. I don't know when the final decision is made in th Parliament, but we still have a job to do regarding the ISO process.