Re: [discuss] Wiki's and Blogs for OOo?
Quoting Rigel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Presently the OOo initiative has several hundred if not thousands of members. Some of them even get paid. There are a number of developers donated by SUN Microsystems, and various user lists, language forums, discussion dialogues and the such. This doesn't even scratch the surface of users manual and permanent archiving needs of guides and reference material. I would like to extend the idea of implementing the advantage of taking ahold of Various OOo blogs, for different initiatives that are being worked on for OOo, and an OOo wiki designed to provide adaptable content to users as the software, and the communities grow. This would allow users, administrators, user support, and discuss members, as well as various language lists to collectively share their knowledge in a centralized, open environment. * I found this page on WikiPedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org * A new public wiki could be sponsord here in the mean time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org * MediaWiki can be launched on a server inside sun or remotely to host their own wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki I like MediaWiki because it has been designed with the user in mind, and with the internet in mind. The software is still evolving, and works very well in my opinion. Does anyone like these ideas? I don't see how OOo and its supporters have anything to lose really, except maybe a few keystrokes. Rigel We have a wiki por OOo extensions however there seem to be some death OOo projects like oooextras.sf.net which have been not moving for certain years. A wiki is a good idea but we really need to know what is that we triying to do. We have a knowledgebase already as well as a marketing site, there have been encouragement of the community to do sites like http://www.sreadopenoffice.org which is still in development. Others such as OOoAuthor and TutorialsforOpenOffice.org are example of some documentation sites and OOoForums.org is for discussions of use. Wiki is great but is also a challenge, writting a book in a wiki is hard to download and print and most end users are more used to have a PDF of the 'book' and print it out. So you would need to manage the effiency of a web-based only OOo guide. -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Stop the Manay Scandal
Hi, If you want to prevent someone from ruining your name, you have to seriously take a look at this company: www.manaysoftware.com. Manay has advertisements in cyberspace (Google, Yahoo, etc.) that promotes the set of 4 cds (including OpenOffice) for free and buried at the very bottom of the terms of use, which is itself in very small print at the bottom of their home page and no one can find to read at the time to place the order, is the stipulation that if 2 cds (within the set of 4) is not returned within 10 days of receipt (when the items arrive, you virtually have no time to return the software, needless you are even not aware of the hidden stipulation ), then you credit card will be billed $39.95, on top of the original $4.95 already paid for with the original shipping charge. Getting a refund is impossible. This kind of cheating really ruins the name of OpenOffice, as many victims think that Manay is the front store of the OpenOffice or Open Software Foundation. You must take a legal action to stop this scandal. Regards, Louis
[discuss] Conversions for Microsoft Works Format
Good morning. I am asking that the developers of OpenOffice integrate a file conversion into OpenOffice for Microsoft Works. No one even has a conversion program available and if there is one it cost more then Works. I hope some one is listening as this would greatly enhance the products usability and popularity. I use it all the time but could use the conversion for WKS and WPS files created by Works. Thank you. Larry Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Stop the Manay Scandal
Hi, On 7/18/05, 3DTime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If you want to prevent someone from ruining your name, you have to seriously take a look at this company: www.manaysoftware.com. snip... You must take a legal action to stop this scandal. Regards, Louis Louis, did you get burned by this scam? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Trouble with My Open Office .
Hello, I have a computer, about 1 year old, running Windows XP. The store I bought it from had your Open Office (1.1.0)already installed on it when I purchased the system (NEW System, not a Used one) For quite sometime, it worked fine for documents. However, about 4 months ago, something happened when I had a document opened. Now...every time I open a SAVED document, or try to open a NEW one, the screen comes up with a VERY LARGE tool bar at the top showing 3D Effects..Donuts... (along with other selections like Backgrounds, Bullets, all in color) I have to go to View Full Screen to make any changes on the document, or see what is written on the page below the LARGE tool bar. How Can I make this GO AWAY...I prefer to open the document, and see the format, layout that I need to work with. I went to the computer store, finally, this weekend..they said to contact you at your web site. Please tell me if there is some button or toggle to reset, so it works like it use to.I don't like having this come up on my documents, covering the full screen. Thank you, Pam D [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Wiki's and Blogs for OOo?
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Quoting Rigel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Presently the OOo initiative has several hundred if not thousands of members. Some of them even get paid. There are a number of developers donated by SUN Microsystems, and various user lists, language forums, discussion dialogues and the such. This doesn't even scratch the surface of users manual and permanent archiving needs of guides and reference material. I would like to extend the idea of implementing the advantage of taking ahold of Various OOo blogs, for different initiatives that are being worked on for OOo, and an OOo wiki designed to provide adaptable content to users as the software, and the communities grow. This would allow users, administrators, user support, and discuss members, as well as various language lists to collectively share their knowledge in a centralized, open environment. * I found this page on WikiPedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org * A new public wiki could be sponsord here in the mean time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org * MediaWiki can be launched on a server inside sun or remotely to host their own wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki I like MediaWiki because it has been designed with the user in mind, and with the internet in mind. The software is still evolving, and works very well in my opinion. Does anyone like these ideas? I don't see how OOo and its supporters have anything to lose really, except maybe a few keystrokes. Rigel We have a wiki por OOo extensions however there seem to be some death OOo projects like oooextras.sf.net which have been not moving for certain years. A wiki is a good idea but we really need to know what is that we triying to do. We have a knowledgebase already as well as a marketing site, there have been encouragement of the community to do sites like http://www.sreadopenoffice.org which is still in development. Others such as OOoAuthor and TutorialsforOpenOffice.org are example of some documentation sites and OOoForums.org is for discussions of use. Wiki is great but is also a challenge, writting a book in a wiki is hard to download and print and most end users are more used to have a PDF of the 'book' and print it out. So you would need to manage the effiency of a web-based only OOo guide. I was just thinking... You know. That it could be based sort of on the same method as the rest of the web. People can quickly find what their looking for, by following links around the wiki, and that members could be allowed to update the content accordingly. This would provide a fairly open, method of documentation creation, and collection. I was thinking that it would be better used to build the reference material, versus providing it, and perhaps provide an interim documentation source until the guides are ready to be published. That's all. Rigel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Trouble with My Open Office .
Hi, comments in line On 7/18/05, Pam Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a computer, about 1 year old, running Windows XP. The store I bought it from had your Open Office (1.1.0)already installed on it when I purchased the system (NEW System, not a Used one) For quite sometime, it worked fine for documents. However, about 4 months ago, something happened when I had a document opened. What was this something that happened. Do you remember what happened, or what you were doing at the time? Have you tried starting a new document and then saving that new document, closing it, and then re-opening it? I am guessing that there is some kind of weirdo code or something buried in the first document. By following my suggestion, you will know if the problem lies with the documents that you are opening, or the way that OpenOffice.org (OOo for short) is configured. By the way, you might also try downloading a newer version of OOo from the website. Please let me know if you have any problems with that. Please respond only to the list, because I actually am kind of a simple end user, too, and someone else on the list probably will solve your problem before I do. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Trouble with My Open Office .
Pam Drake wrote: Hello, I have a computer, about 1 year old, running Windows XP. The store I bought it from had your Open Office (1.1.0)already installed on it when I purchased the system (NEW System, not a Used one) For quite sometime, it worked fine for documents. However, about 4 months ago, something happened when I had a document opened. Now...every time I open a SAVED document, or try to open a NEW one, the screen comes up with a VERY LARGE tool bar at the top showing 3D Effects..Donuts... (along with other selections like Backgrounds, Bullets, all in color) I have to go to View Full Screen to make any changes on the document, or see what is written on the page below the LARGE tool bar. How Can I make this GO AWAY...I prefer to open the document, and see the format, layout that I need to work with. I went to the computer store, finally, this weekend..they said to contact you at your web site. Please tell me if there is some button or toggle to reset, so it works like it use to.I don't like having this come up on my documents, covering the full screen. Thank you, Pam D [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Pam, The fix is relatively simple. OOo remembers the last view you had when you used it last so if you have Gallery open when you close the document then it will open it when you relaunch the program. The toggle button that you so rightly assume is there is in the top tool bar on the right. It looks like a little picture frame. Mouse over it and the Gallery text box will popup. Click that and it will go away. If it's not visible, right click on the blank area of the toolbar and then click visible buttons in the dropdown menu. The gallery button is right near the bottom of that menu. Clicking it will toggle the gallery button on or off your toolbar . HTH Cheers Yo - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Wiki's and Blogs for OOo?
Rigel wrote: I was just thinking... You know. That it could be based sort of on the same method as the rest of the web. People can quickly find what their looking for, by following links around the wiki, and that members could be allowed to update the content accordingly. This would provide a fairly open, method of documentation creation, and collection. I was thinking that it would be better used to build the reference material, versus providing it, and perhaps provide an interim documentation source until the guides are ready to be published. That's all. We have 42 chapters published for OOo v1 and 46 for OOo v2. How many more do you need before you can call them ready to be published? Cheers, Daniel. -- /\/`) Leave your mark at OpenOffice.org /\/_/ /\/_/ OOoAuthors: http://oooauthors.org \/_/Knowledge Base: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/ / - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] new CCR - Laurent Godard
Laurent Godard is the new Community Council Representative winning with 53% of the total votes. Rene, Christian and Hirano received 14%, 17% and 16% of the votes respectively. Twice as many people participated in the voting for the Community Council Representative (CCR) compared to the previous election. The Community Council (http://council.openoffice.org/) pages will be updated shortly to reflect the new members. Congratulations Laurent, and thanks again to all nominees and participants. All the best Jacqueline McNally Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Wiki's and Blogs for OOo?
Daniel Carrera wrote: Rigel wrote: I was just thinking... You know. That it could be based sort of on the same method as the rest of the web. People can quickly find what their looking for, by following links around the wiki, and that members could be allowed to update the content accordingly. This would provide a fairly open, method of documentation creation, and collection. I was thinking that it would be better used to build the reference material, versus providing it, and perhaps provide an interim documentation source until the guides are ready to be published. That's all. We have 42 chapters published for OOo v1 and 46 for OOo v2. How many more do you need before you can call them ready to be published? Cheers, Daniel. Err... Daniel? I didn't mean to be offensive... It was... Just a thought Rigel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
