[steering-discuss] Reminder: SC call tomorrow
Hello, this is a short reminder that tomorrow, 1400 UTC, we will have our next SC call. Looking forward to hearing you, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[steering-discuss] Candidacy for BoD seat
Hello everyone, hereby I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at the Document Foundation. My name is Alexander Werner, I'm 24 years old and live only a few hundred meters away from Florian, who convinced me to run for for a seat. I'm a physics student and run a small company on the side. I'm also member of FroDev for years and auditor of a German registered association that is active in the electronic sports area. So I have quite an experience regarding German laws. I was part of the OpenOffice.org community since fall 2007 when Florian convinced me to join him at the Systems booth in Munich. Soon after that I became member of OOoDev e.V. and was at one more Systems (unfortunately the last one) and at every LinuxDay since then. I was involved in LibreOffice and the Document Foundation from the very beginning and helped to set up the infrastructure and wrote a little tool for the mailinglists that parses mails and strips html content and attachments and called it pymime.py. Now I am member of the admin-team and the little tool PyMIME has grown steadily. A complete rewrite is in the works and will provide enhanced scalability as well as a webservice where attachments are available after being striped from the original mail. I run for a seat at the BoD because I strongly believe in the success of FOSS, and the Document Foundation with its open and meritocratic structure is the right place to support one of the largest and most imporant FOSS-projects. I think that both my technological as well as legal background will help the Document Foundation. I am experienced with the sometimes restrictive and rigorous German laws, but also understand the needs of a free software developer. I hope that I will be able to mediate between these to worlds. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you, Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[steering-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat - Jesús Corrius
Dear friends, I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at The Document Foundation. I am Jesús Corrius, 32 years old. I live in Barcelona, Spain. I have a degree in Audiovisual Communication (Cinema major) for the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and another one in Software Engineering for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I also studied at the Universities of Valencia and Vilnius. I am currently teaching Software Development in a Free / Open Source environment in an International Master for students in Spain and South America. I am also currently working as a freelance software developer for the largest telecommunications company in Asia, and the second-largest in the world. I am a member of the association Softcatalà, that promotes the use of the Catalan language in computers and Internet and I have been involved in the translation of many projects to Catalan like GNOME, Mozilla and, of course, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. I am also a proud owner of a plastic rooster named Papuga, which has become an unofficial mascot of the LibreOffice Project. I was involved in the OpenOffice.org project for 10 years, as Catalan was the first non Sun translation included in OpenOffice. At the time Softcatalà was hired by Sun Microsystems Spain to work in the translations and provide full localized builds for Linux, Windows and Solaris. My work started many months before OOo 1.0 was officially released. During all those years I did many different works, including: translations, customized builds, representing the project in conferences, marketing, working in the cross-compilation, fixing the Windows build, teaching Catalan to Fridrich, and organizing the OpenOffice.org Conference in Barcelona in 2007. I also was on the founders of TDF and the LibreOffice project. I can wear many hats and I think I can help The Document Foundations in many areas, from engineering to community development. I strongly believe in the project and its community. But, please, vote for the others, they are all a lot better than me! :) -- Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org Document Foundation founding member Mobile: +34 661 11 38 26 Skype: jcorrius | Twitter: @jcorrius -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat - Jesús Corrius
Hi Jesús, Something in French says: if you didn't exist we should invent you :p I'd be very happy to see Papuga expressing his strong opinions at the BoD ;-) Kind regards Sophie On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org wrote: Dear friends, [...] -- Founding member of The Document Foundation -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?
Hi Gary, NoOp wrote (30-09-11 03:46) After all that + discussions on the -user list it seems that LO doesn't really care to provide any specific rules/regulations/FAQ regarding Top/Interspersed/Bottom posting on any of their lists. [...] Has not yet been forgotten. But to manage expectations: it won't be a medicine for all cures you know ;-) -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for Board: Michael Meeks
Hi there, I'd like to formally offer myself as a candidate for the Board of The Document Foundation. While, as a developer I have no great love for meetings and politics, my hope is that I'd have some useful perspectives to offer, with time to invest into working on issues which would enrich the board. Who am I ? briefly: a Christian, Hacker Husband. I bring lots of experience from many years at SUSE, helping to grow, lead and hack with some of the best Free Software developers in the world. That would allow me to bring a reasonably diverse set of skills and passions into the board on your behalf: + a pragmatic love of Free Software + IANAL; a deep legal and licensing understanding of the basis of successful Free Software communities + developer community building / mentoring / nurturing + marketing and PR experience with relationships to journalists + deep code understanding hacking experience + good relationships with many key hackers and companies in our space I've also been privileged to have lived through many spectacular failures inside communities outside OpenOffice, such as GNOME, or MeeGo, and hopefully gained some useful insights into avoiding their repetition. I am focused, on making LibreOffice the very best, most fun and featureful project that it can possibly be. I want us to attract and inspire the largest number of contributors to drive Free Software forward. Though I plan to carry on with that regardless of being a board member, if you think I'd be valuable there then please vote for me. I'd love to serve the membership in that way. Thank you, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com , Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for BoD seat
Hello everyone, hereby I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at the Document Foundation. My name is Alexander Werner, I'm 24 years old and live only a few hundred meters away from Florian, who convinced me to run for for a seat. I'm a physics student and run a small company on the side. I'm also member of FroDev for years and auditor of a German registered association that is active in the electronic sports area. So I have quite an experience regarding German laws. I was part of the OpenOffice.org community since fall 2007 when Florian convinced me to join him at the Systems booth in Munich. Soon after that I became member of OOoDev e.V. and was at one more Systems (unfortunately the last one) and at every LinuxDay since then. I was involved in LibreOffice and the Document Foundation from the very beginning and helped to set up the infrastructure and wrote a little tool for the mailinglists that parses mails and strips html content and attachments and called it pymime.py. Now I am member of the admin-team and the little tool PyMIME has grown steadily. A complete rewrite is in the works and will provide enhanced scalability as well as a webservice where attachments are available after being striped from the original mail. I run for a seat at the BoD because I strongly believe in the success of FOSS, and the Document Foundation with its open and meritocratic structure is the right place to support one of the largest and most imporant FOSS-projects. I think that both my technological as well as legal background will help the Document Foundation. I am experienced with the sometimes restrictive and rigorous German laws, but also understand the needs of a free software developer. I hope that I will be able to mediate between these to worlds. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. Thank you, Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Board of Directors Candidacy: Caolán McNamara
Who am I: Reasonably experienced software developer, involved in LibreOffice and predecessors since 2000. Employed by Red Hat since 2005, and Sun Microsystems prior to that. What I do: Full time LibreOffice developer. All round code dogsbody but, historically at least, most interested in file format import/export, e.g. much of binary MSWord import/export code is my fault. I currently help man the documentfoundation security list, review code, fix bugs and dabble in an occasional new feature. Why I'd be useful: I'll make no great claims to my utility in organizing matters legal, but both as a fulltime developer on the project and as a representative of a growing number of LibreOffice developers at Red Hat, I believe I can help provide a helpful balance of interests in the board. Full Name email: Caolán McNamara caol...@redhat.com Cooperate Affiliation: Red Hat, Inc. C. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] New way for non coders to help with calc unit tests
Hello guys, I want to present you the new way you can write build-time unit tests for calc. * How are the tests organized?* The tests are located in sc/qa/unit and consists of filters-test.cxx and the files in sc/qa/unit/data. In the data directory there is one directory per supported file extensions (ods, xls, xlsx) and one directory contentCSV that only contains csv files. Please don't touch the other directories, they are for special tests) At the moment we have a for-named-ranges test, a database ranges test , a formatting test and a standard content test file. Additionally there is one file per directory for bugfix tests so that import bugs that are fixed once will not reoccur. If possible a new test case should be added to each of the three directories so that we test as much as possible for every filter. * What can we test?* We can test the content of a calc document directly after loading it. It is quite easy to test the content of cells, that means the formula in a cell, the result as a value and the formatted result as a string. It is even possible to test the result of cells that are part of conditional formatting. It gets more complicated for other stuff since I don't have any csv handler for that or it might need some code to test it. We can't test any dynamic changes in calc documents with this test ( there is ucalc for these cases). So for unit tests that try to emulate user input and/or changes that go beyond what is done during loading, can't be tested with this easy unit test. * How to write a new test?* It's quite easy to write a new unit test. The first step is to create a document that should be tested or add/extend an existing sheet in a document. The second step is to create for every sheet a csv file that contains the expected result, formula or string that the test document should contain. *How can I get the existing files?* Either you have the source code already than it is in sc/qa/unit or you can get the files from: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/plain/sc/qa/unit/data I will create a wiki page for these information soon but feel free to ask me anything or make suggestions. I try to announce changes around this on the QA list. It would be amazing if some of the calc users would write or extend the existing tests. Even if you could provide just one or two test cases you would help very much ensure that our next release will contain less bugs and that calc becomes even more stable. Here are somethings, for instance, that could be tested or the test extended: - normal content - data pilot/pivot table - the functions document should be extended to all build-in functions ( testing special cases, normal behaviour, etc. ) - advanced functions like sorted content, autofilter, subtotals, scenarios, etc. - some of the import bugs fixed during the 3-4 release cycle I'm sure I missed a lot of important things and that is your big chance! Did you ever wanted to commit something to Libreoffice source code but you don't know how to code ? You don't have the time to get familiar with the code ? This is the perfect opportunity to get your first commit ;) You have a nasty bug that you don't want to see again ? Write a test file, add a csv file with the expected content and send it to the libreoffice...@lists.freedesktop.org list. I'm looking forward to all your great contributions that will help us to release a nice next version. Regards, Markus P.S. Links to all ods documents that we have at the moment: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/plain/sc/qa/unit/data/ods/bug-fixes.ods http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/plain/sc/qa/unit/data/ods/database.ods http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/plain/sc/qa/unit/data/ods/formats.ods http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/plain/sc/qa/unit/data/ods/functions.ods http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/plain/sc/qa/unit/data/ods/named-ranges-global.ods http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/plain/sc/qa/unit/data/ods/universal-content.ods -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [steering-discuss] Reminder: SC call tomorrow
Hi Florian, I won't be available due to a small family ride :-) Wish you all a successful meeting! Cheers, Christoph Am Freitag, den 30.09.2011, 13:59 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, this is a short reminder that tomorrow, 1400 UTC, we will have our next SC call. Looking forward to hearing you, Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat - Kalman Kemenczy
Dear All, I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at The Document Foundation. Who am I? I am Kalman Kemenczy, 39 year old product manager, proud father of 2 kids. I live in Budapest, Hungary. I spent 13 years at Novell in several positions (eg. consultant, service delivery manager, open source strategist). During that period I have been worked on several Linux Desktop / OOo / LibreOffice implementation projects especially in the government sector. Since 2004 I have been working as a translator (web, software, book) in several open source projects such as Mozilla and openSUSE. I am one of the founder of the Hungarian translator community (openscope.org) and Open Standard Alliance Hungary (nyissz). Currently I work at a Hungarian startup as product manager where I manage two agile, extremely rapid development teams and create product strategy according the market needs. What have I done for TDF? I was a big fan of the Go-OO project from the very beginning, so there was no question to support TDF on all levels. First of all I proudly managed the secret TDF dinner in Budapest during the OOo conference :) Later I organized a university program for Hungarian students to help them join easily to open source development communities, few of them landed in LibreOffice project. As an open source evangelist I gave presentation a lot on (mostly Hungarian) conferences. (Last time about LibreOffice at Software Freedom Day 2011, Szeged, Hungary: http://prezi.com/ycbqlykxq91a/ ) Why do I candidate for a seat in BoD? I have experience to build and manage open source user/developer community, agile product/project management and technology visioner. As BoD member I would like to keep the focus on the market/users needs and also help on product strategy and direction. I strongly believe in LibreOffice as a product and community. Should you have question, please let me know. best, kalman -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[steering-discuss] Board of Directors Candidacy: Caolán McNamara
Who am I: Reasonably experienced software developer, involved in LibreOffice and predecessors since 2000. Employed by Red Hat since 2005, and Sun Microsystems prior to that. What I do: Full time LibreOffice developer. All round code dogsbody but, historically at least, most interested in file format import/export, e.g. much of binary MSWord import/export code is my fault. I currently help man the documentfoundation security list, review code, fix bugs and dabble in an occasional new feature. Why I'd be useful: I'll make no great claims to my utility in organizing matters legal, but both as a fulltime developer on the project and as a representative of a growing number of LibreOffice developers at Red Hat, I believe I can help provide a helpful balance of interests in the board. Full Name email: Caolán McNamara caol...@redhat.com Cooperate Affiliation: Red Hat, Inc. C. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/steering-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for a BoD seat - Jesús Corrius
Dear friends, I would like to announce my candidacy for a Board of Directors seat at The Document Foundation. I am Jesús Corrius, 32 years old. I live in Barcelona, Spain. I have a degree in Audiovisual Communication (Cinema major) for the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and another one in Software Engineering for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. I also studied at the Universities of Valencia and Vilnius. I am currently teaching Software Development in a Free / Open Source environment in an International Master for students in Spain and South America. I am also currently working as a freelance software developer for the largest telecommunications company in Asia, and the second-largest in the world. I am a member of the association Softcatalà, that promotes the use of the Catalan language in computers and Internet and I have been involved in the translation of many projects to Catalan like GNOME, Mozilla and, of course, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice. I am also a proud owner of a plastic rooster named Papuga, which has become an unofficial mascot of the LibreOffice Project. I was involved in the OpenOffice.org project for 10 years, as Catalan was the first non Sun translation included in OpenOffice. At the time Softcatalà was hired by Sun Microsystems Spain to work in the translations and provide full localized builds for Linux, Windows and Solaris. My work started many months before OOo 1.0 was officially released. During all those years I did many different works, including: translations, customized builds, representing the project in conferences, marketing, working in the cross-compilation, fixing the Windows build, teaching Catalan to Fridrich, and organizing the OpenOffice.org Conference in Barcelona in 2007. I also was on the founders of TDF and the LibreOffice project. I can wear many hats and I think I can help The Document Foundations in many areas, from engineering to community development. I strongly believe in the project and its community. But, please, vote for the others, they are all a lot better than me! :) -- Jesús Corrius je...@softcatala.org Document Foundation founding member Mobile: +34 661 11 38 26 Skype: jcorrius | Twitter: @jcorrius -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved
The OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification 01 has been successfully advanced to an OASIS Standard, http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201109/msg00010.html. The final ballot results for approval of OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 is at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ballot.php?id=2115. Rob Weir has a nice summary on his blog, http://www.robweir.com/blog/2011/09/odf12-approved.html. He lists the names of the contributors of 1.2 from the specification. Some of those names will be familiar here. - Dennis -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
