andreasma_at_LibreOffice

I gave today a presentation about OpenOffice.org Portable on the OOoConference in Beijing. My presentation covers an overview about the usage, the technique behind, the installer, the known issues and the benefits for the user and the marketing of OpenOffice.org. There are many visiters of my presentation interested in getting a localised version.
I pointed them to the portableApps page to speek up, that there is a need for their language.
After the presentation I had a longer discussion with some very interesting people and gave a live demo of OOoPortable.

Yesterday I arrived in Beijing to attend the 6th OOoCon in Beijing. I did a little bit sightseeing with some other project members. There are some meetings today in the afternoon. I'm planning to attend the NLC meeting.

In the last days some authors from OOoAuthors discovered that there were some spam accounts on the site. They were able to get an account and put some content with links onto the site.
This leads to the question, if there is a product for the CMS of the site (Plone) to prevent this machine generated accounts and spam. And it is: qPloneCaptchas.
It is an product, that could be easily installed in a Plone-Site (e.g. version 3.1.6). I tried it in my buildout of Plone and it was a little bit complicated. I got a hint from an other Plone user and then it installed.
Now a new user had to read and write down the letters from the captcha. This should prevent machine generated accounts.

Since OpenOffice.org 3.0 rc4 is out, I worked with Marko on a Release Candidate for OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0. There are many things done now, but we have to find solutions for some issues. This may consume some time, so we are not sure, if we are able to get out a release in October. Finally we had to do some tests to make shure, that OOoPortable 3.0 works properly.

Today the RC3 of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is out. So I started the work for OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0 rc3 in collaboration with Marko. I hope we are able to finish this work at the end of this week.