andreasma_at_LibreOffice

Last weekend I set up a local installation of the current Joomla CMS, that we use to manage the website of our association OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. I used this local installation to check, if an upgrade to the current version 1.5.9 of Joomla works.
I had to use a special migration component, because there are some significant changes of the database structure. I installed this component inside the old Joomla instance and ran the migration script. At the end I exported the converted mysql database.
Next I created a new empty database inside my mysql instance, installed Joomla 1.5.9 and connected it to the new database. Then I installed inside the new Joomla instance a migration assistant and imported the converted database.
Next I installed some additional components and plugins and activated some components. Now every thing works on my laptop as expected.
Now we can setup a new instance in the wild and try to migrate the site of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.
I think we will manage this within a week.

On Sunday, the 8th of March I will give a presentation about OpenOffice.org Portable 3.0.1 at the Cebit 2009. My presentation take place in the OpenSouce Forum / Hall 6 at 1:00 pm.
If you are not at the Cebit on Sunday, you're able to watch my presentation via streaming: http://www.linux-magazin.de/events/cebit_open_source_forum

Today my new Logitech Presenter 2.4 GHz arrived. I tested it on my notebook with openSUSE 10.3 and OpenOffice.org 3.0.1. It works perfect. The presentation starts after I pressed the key with "F5" on it. The arrow keys works also fine. Now I'm looking forward to my presentation about OpenOffice.org Portable that I will give at the Cebit on the 8th of March.

Yesterday I started the buildout for the OOoAuthors test instance on the server of our association (OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.). The new instance with Plone 3.2.1 is now up and running. The content is visible inside the instance, but there are some issue to change the state of content to external visible. First I found out, that the add-on product CMF-Placeful-Workflow causes some problems. It was nearly imposible to change the state of folders to external visible. I unistalled this package and then I'm able to change the state of directories. But there are some issues left about the state of odt-files. They get currently no state and therefore it is imposible to change their state. They are currently only visible inside the Plone instance.

I started yesterday an update of my local test instance for OOoAuthors to Plone 3.2.1. Because there are changes in the way a Plone buildout works now, I had to change my buildout scripts. After some talks with the Plone community I managed to get the zeoserver with two instances build and running.
This new version of Plone is complete egg based. It seemed that updates become more easy in the future than they worked with versions up to 2.5.x (and also 3.1.x). This release of Plone is more oriented in changing the technique of installation. The next version 3.3 (planed for March) should ship some new key features, especially for WebDAV.
I will work on updating the test instance for the OOoAuthors site (on a server of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. - a association in Germany) over the weekend.