Some interesting developments happening with OpenOffice as its changing its name to The Document Foundation and its corresponding suite to OpenLibre.
The FAQs do a nice job of laying out the key details associated with this changeover. One that caught my eye related to development:
We want The Document Foundation to be open to code contributions from as many people as possible. We are delighted to announce that the enhancements produced by the Go-OOo team will be merged into LibreOffice, effective immediately. We hope that others will follow suit.
No doubt we’ll see some compelling stuff come from this openness. I’d love to see some activity on their Education project.
Posted by IterativeLearner at 11:17 pm on September 28th, 2010.
Categories: Open Source, Software.
Caveat: I’m a big Zotero fan. I mean if you’re a serious, geeky academic researcher how could you not be?
But for those who had left Firefox for Chrome, or dedicated Mac users who love the aesthetics of Safari (and the engine power of Webkit), they were perhaps a little reluctant to venture outside the cozy confines of their browser homes.
But now today, Zotero announced that it will soon be releasing plugins for Chrome, Safari, and IE. So no more excuses. According to the post, this new version of Zotero will include a radically expanded API and mobile access. I’m very glad to see the addition of the mobile option, which is nearly a requirement for any new software rollout these days.
On the promotional end of things, they’re calling this Zotero Everywhere. I like it. Will there be a t-shirt?
Posted by IterativeLearner at 12:04 am on September 23rd, 2010.
Categories: Research, Software. Tags: Chrome, Firefox, InternetExplorer, Safari, Zotero.