From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <orwittm...@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: Introduction and start working Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:08:01 +0200
> Hi Nakata Maho, > > thanks for the welcome. > > Until last Friday I had a 21" iMac PowerPC on my home desk, but now it > has been replaced by a new 27" iMac Intel. > Thus, my PPC iMac is more or less retired, but if needed I can wake > this machine up ;-) Congratulations for having Intel Mac. I still have PPC, but I really do retire to use PPC any more, too... Now I really love my new MacBookAir 11'...even I switched from FreeBSD as the Desktop OS. Thanks Nakata Maho > Best regards, Oliver. > > On 20.09.2011 13:39, Maho NAKATA wrote: >> Hello Oliver-Rainer Wittmann >> >> I'm very happy to work with you, again, and congratulations >> for new position at IBM. Do you still use PPC based Mac? >> Recently I bought MacBookAir and it is really nice laptop. >> >> Regards, >> Nakata Maho >> >> 2011/9/20 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann<orwittm...@googlemail.com>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, living in a small town near Hamburg, >>> Germany, >>> and I want to join Apache OpenOffice. >>> >>> In the last nine years I was working in Sun's/Oracle's OpenOffice.org >>> development team as a software developer. My main focus was on the >>> word >>> processing component Writer and on the OpenDocument support for this >>> component. >>> May be you know me from one of the last OpenOffice.org conferences >>> (OOoCons) >>> which I attended since 2008 as a speaker. >>> May be you know me as o...@openoffice.org as the Co-Lead of the >>> OpenOffice.org >>> Writer project. >>> May be you know me from the OASIS ODF TC - the technical committee >>> which is >>> responsible for the OpenDocument file format - on which I have been an >>> active member since December 2006 until this early summer. >>> >>> After same change acceptance in the last months I have got the >>> possibility >>> to continue my engagement in OpenOffice, now under the Apache >>> Foundation, as >>> an employee of IBM. I am aiming to be a valuable contributor to this >>> project. >>> >>> I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software >>> requirements as given on >>> http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: >>> - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll >>> -- take over issue 88652 >>> (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and >>> perform the given tasks. >>> - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe >>> -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. On my >>> -- system >>> (Windows 7) I have done a build without them and successfully >>> installed this >>> built version. Thus, I will provide a corresponding patch which only >>> removes >>> the check for the existence of these files in the configure script. I >>> will >>> ask others for verification on their Windows system, if a build and a >>> following installation is still possible. >>> Please let me know, if somebody else is already working on these >>> things or >>> if you have any remarks, pros, cons, ... >>> >>> Afterwards, I will have a closer look at >>> http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration. I will work on >>> certain >>> items of it starting with: >>> - A lot of stuff is mentioned (and marked as solved) on this page which >>> - only >>> needs to be done as proposed and discussed on this list, but as far as >>> I can >>> see not yet been done. >>> Please let me know your remarks or objections. >>> >>> >>> I am looking forward to good collaboration and building close >>> relationships. >>> >>> Best regards, Oliver. >>> >
