[discuss] Re: Open Office 2011
Hi On 2011-06-21, at 20:40 , Peter Junge wrote: Am 21.06.2011 08:52, schrieb David H. Lipman: From: M.R.R. Khanmrrk...@yahoo.com Gentlemen, Just today I received an email which informs that Open Office 2011 has been launched. With extreme desire I wanred to download this software, which is effective alternate to MS Office 2010 ! Office Code : 5013 is given to me. But I failed to download, as I do not have any credit card to pay. AND it is almost impossible to remit any forien exchange from Bangladesh. In local software market it is not available. As a citizen of Bangladesh, we have many limitations. Life is not as easy as in other places. I would most humbly request you to kindly give me this software free. It ould be a grate help to this elderly man. I am now 68. I attach my Photo. Please help me. I can download, if downlin is given to me. Thanks, With best regards, M.R.R.Khan Apt.403, 38 Naya Paltan, Dhaka 1000 Bangladesh Dummy -- OpenOffice is free. Open Office 2011 is either malware or a con job for your money. In other words -- wise up ! Contributions like this doesn't help anyone. Peter What does help a lot is for the emptor to send us (me) the details of the website. Not all sales of OOo are necessarily unscrupulous or illegal; what counts is making the source available. We list, in fact, many sellers of OOo on CDROMs, and in some places, it costs a lot more to download than to buy a CDROM. (This indeed leads to the wholesale piracy we see: it's cheaper for many to buy an illicitly copied version of, say, MS Office, than to download OOo licitly.) -louis-- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: oo and mobile devices
Hi Paul, On 2011-06-05, at 19:51 , Paul Gronbach Jr wrote: I am new to OO and recent technology advances; my question concerns using OO on or in sync with smart phones; which smartphones will I be able to use? TIA Welcome to the more or less here community! So far, there is no mobile device that can seamlessly sync with OOo. There are workarounds, and these continue to evolve. I use an iOS device(s) and keep synced via FileApp Pro, as well as Dropbox and the like. Android devices have similar apps. None allows you to edit freely ODF documents. What needs to be done is to persuade a deep pocket group to create these. It's not about (yet) putting OOo on a mobile device. It's about putting the ability to edit ODF documents on such devices—a much easier task. -- Paul Life is not a stopping point, it is the journey; so pay attention to and enjoy the journey! -louis -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: [fr-users] Fwd: [fr-discuss] Oracle arrête les développements OpenOffice
All, The mystery surrounding the future of Oracle's contributions to OpenOffice.org—of code, website, marketing, etc.—has not been cleared up over the weekend. I've written to my former colleagues asking for clarity but have not received a response. I will continue to pursue the matter, of course, and will let the community know as soon as I do, and as soon as I can communicate the knowledge. For now, in the wake of the shock of the news, nothing has much changed. We continue to work on 3.4, we continue to be used by tens of millions, we continue to plan ambitiously to offer all users around the world the better choice of open standards, open source, open community. And I continue to count on us all to imagine the opportunities open to us. OpenOffice.org is a necessary set of tools for the desktop, which, for all the glamour and clamour of the Cloud, is still where the work is done around the world. Until shortly…. Louis In the meantime, On 2011-04-16, at 07:18 , Jean-Paul BIBENS wrote: Bonjour, Difficile de s'y retrouver... J'ai en parallèle sans le moindre souci OOo 3.3 et LibO 3.3 Ce jour OOo 3.3 ma proposé une mise à jour que j'ai acceptée, curieux non ? Il est vrai que je ne l'avais pas utilisé depuis un certain temps ! J'ai pu constaté qu'il était resté à la 3.3.0. Par contre LibO 3.3 ne propose de mise à jour, mais en suivant le lien vers le site que la dernière version était 3.3.2.2 pour ce dernier. Après un souci d'installation me précisant qu'un usage devait utiliser LibO, ce qui n'était pas le cas. J'ai tenté le Setup.msi au lieu du Setup.exe et l'installation s'est déroulée jusqu'à la fin et j'ai donc LibO 3.3.2.2 au passage les icônes ont changé, mais je n'ai toujours pas trouvé d'option de mise à jour. J'ai vu qu'il y avait des forums Nabble pour LibO, mais pas trouvé de forum de NG comme ceux de Gmane, que je préfère aux autres forums. Est-il prévu des forums de NG pour LibO? J'ai essayé de voir sur le site oracle et sur le net pour voir quid d'OOo et LibO, ce n'est pas clair... Oracle parle d'un OOo payant et en parallèle d'un Cloud Office Oracle, mais les liens renvoient une erreur 404 (Fichier manquant). Par contre les liens sont actifs pour OOo français et en téléchargement il est proposé OOo 3.3.0 dans ses différentes versions ou une Béta de OOo 3.4. Je me réjouis que le site de LibO soit maintenant en français, je le visiterai plus souvent. Là encore pour certains liens de LibO surprise je me retrouve sur des liens conernant OOo. Difficile de s'y retrouver pour un usager de base, fidèle au produit depuis Star Office de Star division... Quel avenir pour OOo ? Il semblerait que la plupart des collaborateurs aient déserté pour rejoindre LibO. Quid de l'annonce d'hier en pratique ? Pour LibO cela semble plus clair, il va voler de ses propres ailes. Pour Oracle : a t'il renoncé à une suite bureautique ? Qu'en est-il pour : 1) OOo payant ? 2) Cloud Office ? Merci si vous pouvez éclairer ma lanterne à ces sujets. Un grand merci pour les collaborateurs d'OOo. Cordialement. Jean-Paul -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager Chair, Community Council OpenOffice.org Blog: http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/ -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: [native-lang-com] Japan Earthquake: Kazunari Hirano needs our help
All, On 2011-03-23, at 01:08 , Peter Junge wrote: OpenOffice.org Community, our long term friend and OOo contributer Kazunari Hirano from Japan lives in Ichinoseki (http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/201103/18/84/a0005484_21312387.jpg), which has been heavily shaken by the earthquake on March 11th. Ichinoseki is also located in the direct back-country of the coast areas of Rikuzentakada and Ofunato which have been devastated by the tsunami. Hundred thousands of people lost their homes and are still in need of an appropriate shelter. Now, Kazunari wants to prepare his little school as an emergency accommodation for evacuees. For the details please read: http://openoffice.exblog.jp/12298764/ What Kazunari needs most is money to take care of the expenses for his generous venture. For this reason, we are collecting donations for Kazunari using the channels of Team OpenOffice.org e.V.. You can send money via PayPal, credit card, bank transfer or check. For details please refer: http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html Every donation, that indicates the intended purpose with Earthquake Japan or similar keywords will go directly to Kazunari. *Please help Kazunari to help others!* This is a great opportunity to make donations for Japanese earthquake victims, knowing where the money goes and as well avoiding loss due to administrative expenses as they occur in larger relief organizations. I second Peter's request, via Khirano, and am glad to learn that not only is Khirano well, but that others involved in OpenOffice.org who live in Japan are also well. As many of you know, the Japanese OpenOffice.org community is one of the largest making up OpenOffice.org's global communities. Money is useful, but as recent reports have underscored, Japan is not Haiti, which a year ago, we recall, also suffered a devastating earthquake, and where Haiti constantly needs money, resources, and global attention, Japan's needs differ. But the larger issue, which by no means occludes the request forwarded by Khirano and presented here by Peter, is how can we, the OpenOffice.org community, working in concert with other Free and Open-Source communities around the world, help directly. I have been active in this effort and am seeking to help coordinate the global efforts so as to provide *effective* relief that is *community* based and that is *sustainable* as well as being *sustaining.* The distinction is that money is immensely useful and is always needed, but what really makes a difference that lasts is the establishment of community resources—informational, technological, personal—that allow the afflicted, the refugee, the deprived to gain from the global communities. I thank Peter for sending this out. I'll be issuing more information on how we, the OOo community and others, can complement the efforts outlined above with community action. Best regards, Peter (OpenOffice.org Marketing Project) P.S.: Forwarding this call for donations is of course welcome. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Development Manager OpenOffice.org -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: [marketing] Updates....
Hi On 2011-02-11, at 09:09 , Peter Junge wrote: So, you are stepping into independence without becoming libre? ;-) (SCNR this pun!) :-) Indeed, and I still believe that the future lies where the engine driving the train takes us, with the engineers tending it, and that we can see ahead if we work with the engineers, not with the tenders of the last car, the caboose. From there, you can only see the past. Been there. Me, I want to do the future thing. Good luck, Peter Thanks, Louis On 02/11/2011 09:58 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, I've left Oracle but continue to be involved in the management and leadership of OpenOffice.org and continue to promote the adoption and interoperability of the OpenDocument Format, or ODF. The most immediate and obvious change in my new status is of course that I can no longer receive mail to my (former) Oracle alias; please be so good as to send mail to louis[at]openoffice.org. As well, it also means that I will be able to focus more on Marketing and regional development, as well as engaging all the distributed efforts forming the growing OOo and ODF ecosystems. And it also means that, as always, I remain attentive to what you need, want, desire, wish for, and will try my best to communicate those desires to whomever must hear them. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Chair, Community Council Co-Lead, Marketing (and several other) Lead, Native Language Confederation (and others) and for now, Community Manager OpenOffice.org Blog: http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
[discuss] Updates....
All, I've left Oracle but continue to be involved in the management and leadership of OpenOffice.org and continue to promote the adoption and interoperability of the OpenDocument Format, or ODF. The most immediate and obvious change in my new status is of course that I can no longer receive mail to my (former) Oracle alias; please be so good as to send mail to louis[at]openoffice.org. As well, it also means that I will be able to focus more on Marketing and regional development, as well as engaging all the distributed efforts forming the growing OOo and ODF ecosystems. And it also means that, as always, I remain attentive to what you need, want, desire, wish for, and will try my best to communicate those desires to whomever must hear them. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Chair, Community Council Co-Lead, Marketing (and several other) Lead, Native Language Confederation (and others) and for now, Community Manager OpenOffice.org Blog: http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
[discuss] Call for Nominations for Community Council Seats
All, On behalf of the Community Council, I would like to announce the new round of elections for the Council and start the process by asking the OpenOffice.org Community members to nominate those they think would best contribute both to the Council and to OpenOffice.org. You may nominate yourself. Consider doing that. Or nominate someone you think has been particularly valuable for the project; he or she need not be a developer! This cycle, like the first one last year, is important. OpenOffice.org is ten this year and the eyes of the world are looking upon us with eagerness to see how we work with business, government, education, and individuals. Your voice, your input, your experience is needed to take OOo into its next decade. The rules for the process are detailed in a wiki on the subject.[0] I won't bore you by repeating them here; please visit the wiki page. Several categories of OpenOffice.org contributors make up the Council, for a total of ten persons. Those categories cover the breadth of OpenOffice.org and are detailed below. All but one, the permanent Sun/Oracle representative, are elected by community vote as stipulated in the Election Process Proposal. That seat is held by Stefan Taxhet. The terms of Pavel Janík, Martin Hollmichel and John McCreesh have reached their end and their seats are up for election. On behalf of all, I'd like to thank them for their long and immensely productive contributions to the Council! The seats open for election include a Native Language Confederation Representative (the seat now held by Pavel), a Code Contributor Representative (Martin) and Product Development Representative (John). Community members only vote for those who will represent the constituency: developers vote for the developer seat, product development for that seat, and so on. You will receive an email informing you of your constituency; this is based on your role in the Project. Details about the nomination: == The nomination process is normally allotted one week dated from this post; however, the last time we went through this, last year, we were asked to give more time for nominations, and so this time around, we are allowing two weeks for nominations commencing 1 March and ending 15 March at 24:00 UTC. We will be using tried and true technology for the actual voting: the Survey machine, and only Community Members will be allowed to vote. Results will be posted in accordance with the published Election Process Proposal and a copy of this message will also be posted to the wiki at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/call_for_nominations_201003.[1] A commissary will help coordinate the election process, and I'll serve in that role. The observers will be Sophie Gautier and Drew Jensen, as with last year's election. This announcement will be posted to the relevant public lists, as detailed in the Election Process wiki:d...@openoffice.org, d...@native_lang.openoffice.org, discuss@openoffice.org as well as d...@l10n.openoffice.org and project_le...@openoffice.org. Again, consider nominating yourself or someone equally interesting. We need energetic contributors who understand the Project and have a sense of its dynamic and potential. The world is changing--we know that-- and to make sure it changes for the better, join us on the Council. Louis [0] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/call_for_nominations_201003 -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
[discuss] November 2009 Election Results
All, The election held earlier this month ended quite satisfactorily and we held our first Council meeting with the newly elected members this last Thursday 26 Nov. [0]. On behalf of everyone concerned in the process, I'd like to congratulate all for the success of this first wave of elections. It was held according to the provisions of the new Election Process [1], and despite a few confusing mixups, went really very well. Next week, we'll start the next cycle. But for now The new members and the constituencies they will be representing are: ** Code Contributor Representative: Juergen Schmidt 51 Yes, 9 No (68) ** NLC Representative: Charles-H. Schulz 39 Yes, 3 No (111) ** Product Development Representative: Christoph Noack 31 Votes Christoph Noack 9 Votes Alexandro Colorado (49) The observers, Sophie Gautier, Drew Jensen, and Mechtilde Stehmann, have all approved and confirmed the results. My thanks to them and to Stefan Taxhet, who managed the voting apparatus that allowed us to vote. Please join me in welcoming Juergen, Charles and Christoph! I have no doubt they are all quite familiar to you, and I and everyone else on the Council, hope that you will grow more familiar with them and the working of the Council. The tenure of these new members is two years [2], so that gives us all time to develop a good relationship. And that relationship is really very important, as is knowing what the Council is about. The Community Council is your Council; its strength and relevance lie in the interest you take in it, and in the effort you put into it to make reflect your interests and to understand the interests of the community. Take a moment to look at the Council homepage [4] and constituting Charter [5] to see what we can and cannot do. Suggest items to the (open) agenda [3]. Contact your constituency representative about issues you find worth discussing. OpenOffice.org is a huge and varied community. But it has mission and a governing Council that gives that community voice. But only if you speak. Cheers, Louis Community Manager -- [0] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Minutes_20070918#2009-11-26 [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal [2] http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#CouncilMembers [3] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council#Meetings [4] http://council.openoffice.org/ [5] http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
[discuss] [council-discuss] Final draft of Vote 2009 November
All, By now you have met the candidates [0] and it is time to start voting. The Election Process [1] instructs us to allot two weeks for voting. That period will begin now and end 16 November 2009. We will be sending out the URL to voters where one will go to cast your votes very shortly, along with further instructions. We detail this in the Election Process and in the Council Charter [2], but it is worth going over here. We are voting here for ** One Code Contributor Representative. • Those who are in the Code Contributor Representative's constituency can vote. That includes all active code contributors - people who constantly contribute code to the project under the general rules of the project, as defined by following criteria: • contributor is a domain developer • contributor has commit access to the OpenOffice.org code repository • contributing code with the established child workspace processes • contributing under the accepted term and conditions of the project (SCA, formerly known as JCA or CA). • contributor constantly takes over ownership of child workspaces (took ownership of at least one CWS within the last 6 months). ** One Native Language Confederation (NLC, Lang) Representative. Those eligible include category leads, project leads and co-leads from native-lang projects, plus project lead and co-leads of l10n project. ** One Product Development Representative. Those eligible include category leads, project leads and co-leads of all OpenOffice.org projects (Accepted and Incubator) but not from the Native-Lang category or l10n project. We have compiled a list of those who are eligible to vote and we will invite the members of the constituencies by direct mail which explains how and where to vote. If you run into problems feel free to contact the commissary and observers. Commissary: Louis Suarez-Potts Observers: Drew Jensen, Mechtilde Stehmann, Stefan Taxhet Ciao, - Louis (on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Community Council) -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org ** URLs: [0] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Candidates_October_2009 [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process [2] http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@council.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@council.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
[discuss] Call for Nominations for Community Council Election
of the process a little, but which part has not been determined yet. If we cannot shorten the process and still keep everything satisfactory, then we won't. * Note: We have yet to identify our observers but for the purposes of this election, I shall serve as commissary. This announcement will be posted to the relevant public lists, as detailed in the Election Process wiki: d...@openoffice.org, d...@native_lang.openoffice.org, discuss@openoffice.org as well as d...@l10n.openoffice.organd project_le...@openoffice.org. Regards, Louis [0] http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/guidelines.html [1] http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#PowersoftheCouncil [2] http://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#CouncilMembers [3] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [discuss] new certification project
Hi, On 2009-10-05, at 16:15 , Cor Nouws wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote (5-10-2009 9:26) On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote (2-10-2009 19:40) This is a formal proposal to set up the certification project which would be a dedicated space toward the certification moving out of the Education project. We believe this will benefit the certification [...] I would like to understand what is the relationship with the request that you made to the Community Council to endorse a private initiative from you and Evan to set up a certification body for OpenOffice.org. Can you pls explain this? ask louis, he will probably explain you better since it was his idea to go to through the protocols to ask for a new project. Me I just want the certification.openoffice.org set in place so we can move on with our work. Apart from the importance of the OpenOffice.org Certification project, there is no need to have it separated for you to be able to continue the other track. So pls follow on the outcome of the request at the CC. Agreed. The wish to have the Cert project in accordance with the CC is distinct from the desire to have a representation of it on or in the OOo domain, which creating a project is all about. As I have seen no objections to the project and it's been discussed for a rather long time (and the proponents are justifiably eager to get this going), I'll set it up tonight. The new project would be, certification.openoffice.org . But what is important, is that the various roles are clear. Something we discussed already, so will not be new. Regards, Cor -- -Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter
Bernhard, On 2008-12-07, at 09:07 , Dr. Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi, I don't know if it is on purpose, that the Community Manager (Louis) is not part of the Community Council. ? I was elected and continue to be re-elected to this body, making me part of the CC. I am also a lead in the Website Project, an Accepted Project. He might be included as Sun Staff Member, but the only part where Community Managers are mentioned is the one about approving modifications to the charter. You misread my roles and also the CC, and forget history :-) But been part of the Council since its inception. best Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter
Lars, On 2008-12-07, at 10:13 , Lars Noodén wrote: One part I see that is very vulnerable to abuse, intentionally or accidentally, is the rush vote. Too much crap gets pushed through in emergency sessions in city councils and in student organizations. The contingency vote also gets tried, but most of the time it is simply a way of circumventing quorum. Speaking of which, what is quorum and how are decisions made? If I understand correctly, consent in § 5.2, and clarified in § 6.4 is meant to be consensus, in which case that's fine with me, with the following clarification: abstentions and non-votes counted as no. Again recent years have show us the problems of allowing abstentions to count as approval. -Lars This is not a city council. Nor does the CC have nearly as much power. We are not particularly vulnerable to abuse, from any side, as the funds we control, the power we have, is fairly limited, but it is for all that important to the community. best Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter
On 2008-12-07, at 11:02 , André Schnabel wrote: Hi Bernhard, Dr. Bernhard Dippold schrieb: I don't know if it is on purpose, that the Community Manager (Louis) is not part of the Community Council. He might be included as Sun Staff Member, but the only part where Community Managers are mentioned is the one about approving modifications to the charter. Well ... the Comunity Manager is allowed to be a member of the Council (as any community member is). But (imho) she (curentlly he) should be member, elected because of his reputation within the project, not because a pre-defined rule in the charter ;). I quite agree and always have. In fact, I fought hard in the first charter to make it that the CM must prove him or herself. But I'm also lead or co-lead of Website, Incubator, Native-Lang, and others, such as Distribution, Education, BizDev, though I confess my role is intentionally subdued now in those projects. André best louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
[discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter
All, *Introduction* Prompted by André Schnabel, Cor Nouws and others on the Community Council, the Community Council would like to change its enabling Charter to broaden eligibility and thus participation in the Council. This amended Charter, Version 1.2, has been unanimously approved by the Council, as well as by the Project Leads of Accepted, Native-Lang, and Incubator categories. The proposed amended Charter is at: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Charter_Proposal The key provisions relating to Council composition and eligibility are in #4: NEW: quote Council Members • The Ten Representatives: The Council will be a group of ten members, made up primarily of those individuals who are active contributors to the project, have taken responsibility for one or more aspects of it, and have the respect of their fellow contributors. This is in accordance with the principle of meritocracy upon which Open Source software throughout the world is built. The ten members will consist of representatives from following categories: • Three “Code Contributor Representatives” Three persons who represent the developers who actively contribute source code to the OpenOffice.org code repository. They communicate concerns and proposals of individual as well as corporate code developers. Typically they should be members of the core projects of OpenOffice.org. • Three “Product Development Representatives”: These three representatives will be responsible for representing general will of all project members contributing to the product development that goes beyond code contribution (e. g. documentation, qa, distribution, marketing ...). • Two Lang Representatives: Once elected, the Lang Representatives are expected to actively coordinate and communicate the concerns and proposals of all Native Language Projects so that no individual language or regional group is alienated from the mainstream of OpenOffice.org community life. • One Community Contributor Representative: One person who has demonstrated active participation in the Project and advocacy of end users, but is not eligible for election for any of the other seats on the Council. This particularly refers to prominent members of OpenOffice.org's online user community. • One Sun Staff Member: One representative from Sun Microsystems. As the founding member and sponsor of OpenOffice.org it is vital to understand Sun's strategy and position on OpenOffice.org issues. Therefore the council will include one person appointed by Sun who can represent Sun as well as championing Council recommendations and requests to Sun. /quote ***Process for changing the Charter*** The process is multistep and detailed: quote from http://council.openoffice.org/CouncilProposal.html Changes to this Charter: Any alteration of the terms of this charter requires a consensus vote of the Council, which must then be ratified by all of the following means: * A two-thirds majority vote of the Leads of the Accepted Projects (except Lang) and Community Managers. * A two-thirds majority vote of the Leads of Native Language Projects. * A plebiscite on discuss@openoffice.org or its successor(s) in purpose as a general Community forum. /quote -- The community manager (Louis) has approved the changes, as have at least 2/3 of the leads (primary leads) of the Accepted Projects and the Native-Language leads.-- ** We now need to conduct a plebiscite on this list, the primary discuss list for OpenOffice.org. A plebiscite here means a referendum on the merits of the proposal. Serious objections to the proposal at hand will stop its course, as such would identify logical shortcomings that must be addressed. A positive outcome, where there are no serious objections and the vote trend suggests that the community are in agreement, will put the proposal immediately into effect. I ask that you approve or disapprove of the proposal by indicating a +1/-1 and sending your vote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes, I know that it will clutter things up for a short while--one week. But keeping this public is good.) ** Eligibility to vote** Who can vote? Community members: those who have registered on the OpenOffice.org site. (See http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/guidelines.html , under Members.) If you have not yet registered, now is the time. ** Deadline: Voting will last until the end of Friday, 12 December, UTC.** ** Then what...?** Once we have voted, we can initiate the election process for the first two candidates, and I hope we can do it before the end of this year. (Details of the process will come soon, but it entails getting candidates to step forth and stand for election, then holding the election, a multi-week process.) Thanks, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, Community
Re: [discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008
On 2008-11-10, at 08:48 , Ian Lynch wrote: Go back a stage and I'd agree. You need strategies to enable users to become producers and education is the key. I quite agree, and that was a recurrent theme in my presentations. Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008
All, Others will write more about OOoCon 2008, and they should :-) There will also be videos and many blog accounts, including my own. But I thought I'd send in this brief summary of the 6th OOoCon, the first held in Beijing, but I hope not the last held in Asia. It was a success, at least if measured by the camaraderie created and renewed, the interest value of the panels, the (possible) expansion of the community. Our hosts, chiefly Redflag 2000, and other members of the Beijing area and Chinese NLC community, did a superb job of making us feel at home and providing the attendees with excellent hospitality. We all owe them our thanks for the honour shown us! China is serious, very serious, about Foss and OOo. They see its potential. The alternative is unacceptable. The problem, and I'm not sure it's exactly a problem, is moving ahead so that their use of Foss, and OOo, is sustainable. Put another way, consumption must be coupled with production, but, like everyone else, they lack those able to produce OOo, and China (to speak of a vast nation as a single they), like so many other polities and regions around the world, perceive Foss as implying an unfamiliar culture of production and distribution. Perhaps it does. But OOo is nothing if not very flexible and international, and does not impose a single way of doing things. We just want people to do things--collaboratively, and now. Time is not pausing while we catch our breath and neither is anyone else. As I said on the opening day: Act now. My thanks to all who attended and my hope that those of you who could not can catch the panels and discussions when they are posted and will comment on the content. The conversations begun in Beijing must be continued; what was said and done there should not be forgotten. OpenOffice.org has a reached a milestone, where our maturity as an application is recognized around the world (the numbers prove it) and our format, which allows so many other applications to work with it, gaining very quickly among governments. And this all means we need to inform the adopters how to work with us, to sustain the project; promote among users everywhere the idea of OOo as something more than a mere commodity but as something that is extensible, modfiable, and theirs, as well as a community thing. And we need to act now. Thanks to all, and thanks to Redflag 2000 and the Chinese Native Lang Community! Cheers, -louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008
On 2008-11-09, at 18:40 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: Beside the RedFlag people, how strong is the independent community of Chineese project? That's a fair question, and one whose answer will change as the new year begins. Basically, it's like in India: all over the place and not particularly focused. There are university elements, in Beijing and elsewhere, including HK, and outside of the China area (eg, Taiwan, the US), but focus and developmental efforts are lagging. That, as a result of OOoCon, I hope and will work as hard as I can to change. The Chinese and generally Asian market, including Malaysia, Indonesia, etc., represents billions of users (okay, exaggeration) but very few, outside of Redflag, contributors. What's the URL where the videos will be posted? Probably be linked to the OOoCon site. Any big development showcased during the conference? Not really, though I like to think that Kay Ramme's [EMAIL PROTECTED] is one such. I did make two strong proposals, which I'll be posting to the OOoCon site shortly (just returned), on regional groups and education. How much attention was there for ODF? compared to UOF A lot. There was also a whole day workshop on ODF. UOF is the national standard but the head of the body for it and the ODF folks are very willing and interested to work with each other to harmonize, so that there is not disjunctive incompatibility. Again, the take away for me was that: * producer not consumer is key * making producers is hard and entails both informing the user and also going half-way, with information, tools, outreach If we do not have more producers, then OOo--and every Foss project-- ceases being sustained and Foss becomes just freeware. Impressing this fact upon the governments adopting OOo, whether in Europe or Vietnam or Cambodia or Malaysia or Indonesia or Latin America or South Africa is paramount, as is providing the path for production. OOo has a brilliant future, all the more so given the dark economic times closing around us. But its brilliance depends on the concerted efforts on those users who become producers. -louis On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Others will write more about OOoCon 2008, and they should :-) There will also be videos and many blog accounts, including my own. But I thought I'd send in this brief summary of the 6th OOoCon, the first held in Beijing, but I hope not the last held in Asia. It was a success, at least if measured by the camaraderie created and renewed, the interest value of the panels, the (possible) expansion of the community. Our hosts, chiefly Redflag 2000, and other members of the Beijing area and Chinese NLC community, did a superb job of making us feel at home and providing the attendees with excellent hospitality. We all owe them our thanks for the honour shown us! China is serious, very serious, about Foss and OOo. They see its potential. The alternative is unacceptable. The problem, and I'm not sure it's exactly a problem, is moving ahead so that their use of Foss, and OOo, is sustainable. Put another way, consumption must be coupled with production, but, like everyone else, they lack those able to produce OOo, and China (to speak of a vast nation as a single they), like so many other polities and regions around the world, perceive Foss as implying an unfamiliar culture of production and distribution. Perhaps it does. But OOo is nothing if not very flexible and international, and does not impose a single way of doing things. We just want people to do things--collaboratively, and now. Time is not pausing while we catch our breath and neither is anyone else. As I said on the opening day: Act now. My thanks to all who attended and my hope that those of you who could not can catch the panels and discussions when they are posted and will comment on the content. The conversations begun in Beijing must be continued; what was said and done there should not be forgotten. OpenOffice.org has a reached a milestone, where our maturity as an application is recognized around the world (the numbers prove it) and our format, which allows so many other applications to work with it, gaining very quickly among governments. And this all means we need to inform the adopters how to work with us, to sustain the project; promote among users everywhere the idea of OOo as something more than a mere commodity but as something that is extensible, modfiable, and theirs, as well as a community thing. And we need to act now. Thanks to all, and thanks to Redflag 2000 and the Chinese Native Lang Community! Cheers, -louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Espantilde;ol IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED
[discuss] Re: [council-discuss] Suggestions for a new Community Council structure
Hi Michael, On 2008-05-23, at 10:57 , Michael Meeks wrote: Hi Louis, Note: the council is more than one person... We talked over these governance improvement suggestions over at OOoCon, as you may remember, and I've finally got around to putting them down in (hopefully) a clear form, as you suggested. I believe you encouraged me to post them for discussion - so here goes: snip We accept additions to the the council agenda: one need only go to the wiki (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/The_OpenOffice.org_Community_Council_Agenda ) and add the items you wish to discuss. I'll add your proposal for you. We'll endeavour to discuss this on the council list prior to or after initial mention at the next council meeting. Best, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Our New Look
Tonight, we launched a new look. It is simpler and more effective-- easier to find things, including the download button, support, information and other material users and developers want--and it also looks good. The styling changes affect quite a few pages, and we would like to hear your critiques. Please send them the website team, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The effort was led by Maarten Brouwers, our lead designer, with a lot of brilliant CSS styling and design by Ivan Miskovic, crucial suggestions by Graham Lauder, and invaluable work, feedback, and insight by Christian Lohmaier (co-lead of website), Alexandro Colorado, André Wyrwa, Kay Schenk, and many others not mentioned here but no less important. Thanks to all. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] New License and Contributor Agreement
All, Some interesting news. Summary * The license for code is changing from the early LGPL v 2.1 to 3.0 effective the Beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0. (The actual date of this beta has not been finalized.) * The Joint Copyright Assignment form (JCA) is being replaced by the Sun Microsystems Inc. Contributor Agreement (SCA). This change is effective immediately with this announcement. Background == Late last year, there was a discussion about the implications of the ratification of GPLv3 or LGPLv3 for OpenOffice.org among the OpenOffice.org project leads. The leads were generally in favour of adopting the updated licenses. The outcome of this and other discussions is that Sun is changing the license for the OpenOffice.org codebase to the more flexible and protective LGPL v3 [0], effective with the beta of OpenOffice.org 3.0 which is due later this year. This change is supported by the OpenOffice.org Community Council. This move forward is the natural evolutionary step to take for a codebase using a license from the FSF license family. The drafting process for the license involved substantial FOSS community input and we will benefit from this work. In particular, the new license includes additional protections for the community against software patents. OpenOffice.org will continue using the LGPL so as to minimize the disruption to our community and expanding ecosystem, which evolved around the LGPL codebase. The LGPL grants flexibility to a broad range of users and developers, while still ensuring that modifications to the code are contributed back to the community. The new license is a major reason to exchange the Joint Copyright Assignment(JCA) with the Sun Contributor Agreement(SCA) [1]. For OpenOffice.org there will be an addendum, which accommodates developers of the core OOo codebase and of non-core extensions through different contribution models. It does not change the fact that contributions to the product packaged as OpenOffice.org require an SCA. The addendum enables OpenOffice.org to more easily host the source code of extensions, and thus promotes collaboration with other interested parties on the respective extension in a familiar environment. There is similar flexibility for documentation. The creation of the related contribution guidelines is in progress. A large number of GPL/LGPL projects have already moved to v3 [2]. For OpenOffice.org the next major release is the right time to change. Preparations will start immediately, so that we can publish OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta under LGPLv3. The SCA, including the OpenOffice.org addendum, will be published on the OpenOffice.org site together with a FAQ and a pointer to the Sun SCA FAQ [3]. It comes into effect with this announcement. See also our FAQ on licensing. [4]. A copy of this announcement can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/newlicense2008.html . Regards, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems, Inc. [0] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html [1] http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sca.pdf [2] http://gpl3.palamida.com:8080/index.jsp [3] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement.jsp [4] http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] User Experience Project is an Accepted Project
Congratulations User Experience (UX) Project! Last week, the Community Council unanimously supported the move of the UX project from Incubator to Accepted. The change primarily gives the project more visibility and political power. And given the importance of this project, those are not bad things to have. What is the UX project? And why should you join it? As lead Lutz Höger phrased it, We are the User Experience community and our main goal is to make OpenOffice.org the best open source office suite in terms of usefulness, usability--and a pleasure to use. Our techniques for user- centred design provide insight into the needs and behavior of our end- users. We provide consultation for the development of both new and existing functionality, starting from the idea generation phase to the evaluation of the final implementation. Close cooperation with other efforts and projects in the OpenOffice.org community is the basis for the success of this cross-sectional activity. We invite you to join us on our mailing list discuss at ux.openoffice.org! Find out more about us and our work on http://ux.openoffice.org . Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems, Inc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program
All, On 7 December 2007, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced [0] a new million- dollar fund to foster innovation in six of the open-source projects it sponsors and contributes to. We are pleased to report that OpenOffice.org was included. The contest, which we have titled the OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program, commences tomorrow, 30 January, and we invite OpenOffice.org Community members to participate. What do you have to do to enter? To win a prize? Our rules, which will be posted later on today and linked to the OpenOffice.org homepage (www.openoffice.org ), explain these and many other details, and you must read them carefully. What are we looking for? In general terms, we are looking for superlative work that is useful to the Community; work that is challenging, that is non-trivial, and that furthers the Community as much as the software. You can enter alone or in a team; and if you are eligible, you could win a lot of money. But we explain all this in the rules, the link to which you will be able to find on the OpenOffice.org homepage. Note: The Program ends 23 June 2008 and begins 30 January 2008. For questions, send a note to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, The Members of the Program Committee Louis Suarez-Potts John McCreesh Pavel Janík Stefan Taxhet [0] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Fosdem 2008
Call for Papers and Workshops for Fosdem 2008 Developer Room for OpenOffice.org Fosdem 2008 (23-24 February, Brussels, Belgium) [0] is legendary for being a focused and exciting developer and contributor conference. This year, it will host a Developer Room (DevRoom) for OpenOffice.org from 23-24 Feb. (the weekend). [1] The purpose of the Developer Room is to give developers and other contributors the space and time to present and conduct workshops on OpenOffice.org and related technologies. We will have this room for the weekend, from morning to evening. All interested are welcome to participate, and if you have a new integration, extensions, add-on or functionality, here is your chance: you are invited! More particularly, we are looking for two sorts of proposals, with the emphasis on workshops: * Talks: 45 minutes plus 15 minutes questions and answers * Workshops: 1.5-2.0 hours, hands on demonstrations, questions/ answers, etc. Workshops should show, explain, describe what's possible with and for OpenOffice.org and how one can do the work demonstrated. If you feel confident to explain how to implement a new filter, how to build OpenOffice.org and fix bugs, how to develop extensions, how to conduct QA, how to write documentation and help, or simply why it is fun to develop for one of the biggest open source projects of the world, send us your proposal! Proposals should be 250-word abstracts for presentations and workshops. Submitters should make clear what projects in OpenOffice.org they have been working on, how developers or other contributors can benefit at Fosdem from their presentation/workshop, and anything else that can help in the judging. Submitters are also invited to create wikis providing more information. Our wiki page is at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page , but prior to creating any new page you should confer with the relevant project members and lead, so as to diminish informational chaos. ** Deadline: 27 January 2008 ** * Send proposals to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We will notify you shortly after 1 Feb. if you proposal is accepted or not. It is possible that we will have some funds available to subsidize travel and lodging for those whose proposals have been accepted (and are more or less local), but ask that you first look for funding on your own. If you will be needing funding, please indicate as much in your proposal. --The Fosdem 2008 Committee [0] Fosdem: http://www.fosdem.org/2008/ [1] http://www.fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/openofficeorg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] New Community Contributor Representative (CCR)
Happy new year all! I'm pleased to announce that Cor Nouws has been elected the new Community Contributor Representative (CCR) to the Community Council. Congratulations Cor! Kazunari Hirano (Khirano), who also stood for election, has agreed to be his deputy; thanks Hirano-san! The term of office is one year. As to the overall Council this year: Our goal this year is to be more active and more engaged; to represent the interests of the community as effectively as we can. You can help by contributing items to the agenda and suggesting topics. The agenda is on the wiki. See: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/The_OpenOffice.org_Community_Council_Agenda Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Reminder - Vote now for Community Contributor Representative
This is a reminder.Voting ends Saturday 22 December 23:59 UTC It's election season and time to vote for the Community Contributor Representative to the Community Council. It's been a while. The CCR holds a seat on the Community Council for one year (more or less) and represents you. Laurent Godard has been the most recent CCR. Voting begins immediately (now) and ends Saturday 22 December at 23:59 UTC. To vote, follow the instructions below, right after the candidate statements. There are two candidates for the CCR office. The candidate is supposed to be someone who is familiar with OpenOffice.org (project and product) and familiar to the community. He or she should be able to speak to the needs of endusers, non-coding contributors, businesses, as well as the Incubator project leads and members. Both candidates are qualified. They are: * Kazunari Hirano I am Kazunari Hirano from OpenOffice.org Japanese Native Language Project, working as Marketing Contact for Japan and Japanese language. I have been the deputy for CCR, leading OpenOffice.org CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Group. My focus is the localization of OpenOffice.org. I want to help localize OpenOffice.org to as many languages as possible. I and my team are starting Ainu and Klingon localizations. I write articles for OpenOffice.org Newsletter. Community is all about Communication and Motivation. I would like to open up a daily channel between Community Council and Community Members. Thanks. * Cor Nouws It's a honour for me that I've been asked to be a candidate. I am 48 yrs, Dutch, maried, three children, and - as far as time allows - do hobbies like sports and making music. I got involved in the OpenOffice.org community in 2004. The reason fits in the open source tradition: I run a small business supporting our great program and want to spent some energy to make it flourish even more. My activities for the project are various (marketing, qa, ux, Duth NL,...) which gives me a pretty good feeling of what is going on. I'm quite well aware of the special qualities of the OpenOffice.org project, such as the technical complexity, variation in background of people involved, vast interest of big players in the market, different needs for various groups and so on. I do have some experience in committees, which might be helpful to do some good work in the community council. --- To vote, you must be a registered OpenOffice.org community member. Here is how to vote: Log in to OpenOffice.org if you are not already logged in. Go to My start page, and click on the Vote! hyperlink on the right hand side. You will be taken to a page where you can cast your vote. (My start page is at : http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/StartPage) If you are not a member, now is the time to join. To register and join, go to http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Join. Then follow the instructions above. If you are curious about the Community Council, go to http://council.openoffice.org/ to learn more. ** Remember: Vote by Saturday 22 December 23:59 UTC.** Thanks to Ben Bois, Laurent Godard, and Stefan Taxhet, who have volunteered their time to set this poll up. -Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager Chair, Community Council - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Last Community Council Meeting IRC Log
Hi all, The IRC log of the last Community Council meeting (22th of November) can be found here : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Minutes The next meeting will be on the 5th of December but the time has yet to be determined, though probably after 17:00 UTC. You'll find the agenda of the next meeting here : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/The_OpenOffice.org_Community_Council_Agenda Feel free to add items to be discussed. Realistically, for any meeting, we can only discuss a handful of issues in an hour and half and items not discussed in one meeting are fairly sure to be discussed the next. best louis (and thanks to sophie for the gentle prod) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Education Project
Dear all, Apologies for multiple posting. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The newly active project, Education, focuses on helping students and teachers learn about how to work with OpenOffice.org. Our primary aim is not use but coding, though use is always nice. A lot of work has to be done to make this happen but the payoff is substantial. Students represent the largest potential group of new developers and we need to make it as easy for them and for their teachers to learn about how to code for OOo. Your help and participation is invited. Already, the community, stimulated by co-lead Eric Bachard's efforts, is growing rapidly. Join us at http://education.openoffice.org/ and participate on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. -louis lead, Education Project - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OpenOffice.org at foss.in
All, The OpenOffice.org presence in India is large and growing. Millions use it there, in numerous languages. This December, as part of the internationally renown foss.in conference held annually in Bangalore, OpenOffice.org will have its first Project Day: a day devoted to talks and workshops on OpenOffice.org, its code, architecture, community, extensions, future. You are invited. With members from the local community presenting on issues pertinent to India and with speakers flying in from Germany and Canada, the OpenOffice.org Project Day gives all Indian community members the opportunity not just to learn but to speak their own voice directly to the project leads. And as OpenOffice.org becomes the productivity platform of choice, those voices are ever more important. We look forward to seeing you there. To register for the conference, please go to: * http://foss.in/2007/info/Home . And to learn more about the OpenOffice.org Project Day, go to: * http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/foss.in_project_day.html - The OpenOffice.org Project Day group -- About OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source productivity suite. It includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, database, and other modules; it uses the ODF as its native file format as well as supporting other common file formats, including Microsoft Office. The software runs on all major platforms, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and is available in over 80 languages. OpenOffice.org is interoperable with other popular suites and may be used free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial; the license is LGPL. Since the project's creation by Sun Microsystems in 2000, more than 100 million have downloaded the product; thousands contribute to it. As an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors, the OpenOffice.org community has created what is widely regarded as the most important open-source project in the world today. The OpenOffice.org community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founder and primary contributor. Contacts Louis Suárez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 531-9513 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay Bangla Language Project Lead, Red Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] +91 996-060 3294 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Announcement: IBM Joins the OpenOffice.org Community
All, A Press Release was issued this morning to announce that IBM are joining the OOo community: The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. Besides working with the community on the free productivity suite's software, IBM will also leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its products. The full announcement is available at: * http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_release.html And Q A at: * http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_faq.html Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Interesting news
Worth reading: Andy Updegrove is predicting failure for OOXML in its rushed quest to be yet another ISO standard for office documents. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php? story=2007090315253367 -louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Regarding OpenOffice Suite
Hi On 2007-04-07, at 05:25 , Cor Nouws wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:48:04 -0500, Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about OpenOffice.org 2.x and beyond ( 16:15 – 17:00 ) on http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/schedule/ tuesday.html ?? I am not aware of any active development on this project, there might be a project like so. But that doesnt mean it will be in production anytime soon afaik. Sunbird is a 2.5 years and Thunderbird 3.5 years is much more mature and stable projects. It ís about extending and integrating Thunderbird and Lightning. Sun developers are simply involved. Fwiw, http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/mozilla_lightning_and_OOo.html quote During his OpenOffice.org roadmap presentation at the OpenOffice.org Conference in Lyon in September, Michael Bemmer mentioned the development of a Personal Information Manager (PIM). Can you tell us exactly what is under development? We are currently contributing to the development of the Mozilla Lightning project. Mozilla Lightning is an extension for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client, and covers feature areas like calendaring and task handling including backend support. Thunderbird provides the email and address book functionality. Support for various calendar servers and protocols will be added over time. Synchronization with PDAs is planned for the future, as well. What led to the decision to develop a PIM? Sun's StarOffice used to have a PIM including a simple calendar server, called StarOffice Schedule, up until version 5.2. When OpenOffice.org was founded, this functionality got dropped, due to technical and resource reasons. In addition, many configurations of Microsoft Office include Outlook. Finally, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice users, as well as product reviewers, frequently ask for a PIM. Why was Mozilla Lightning chosen as the basis for a PIM? Since OpenOffice.org is open source and runs on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mozilla Lightning was the obvious choice. Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are already well accepted among users, and recent surveys indicate that even on Linux Mozilla Thunderbird is the preferred email client nowadays. Thus, Mozilla Lightning was the best option both from a technical and a momentum point of view. /quote -- Cor Nouws Arnhem - Netherlands nl.OpenOffice.org - marketing contact Ciao louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Please, were are the portable versions of OpenOffice?
Hi On 2007-04-05, at 12:28 , paulus1 @gmail.com wrote: Always when there is a newer version of OpenOffice it is a horror to find the portable version in my own language. I don't understand why this is made so extremely difficult to find. Couldn't you centralize the portable (native) versions like the installable ones? The group op people using a portable version is growing and growing. Thank you for reading this matter. As far as I can tell, there are several individuals and groups offering portable versions of OOo. I'd be agreeable to listing PortableApps.com, John Haller's, and the SF project, for instance (they may all be the same?), on our Solutions page, [0] and a descriptive link to that page from our download page for 2.2.0. (We already link to it from Download Central, though it's admittedly buried and needs description.) (FWIW, the DE project lists OOo portable. [1] I mention this only for comparison purposes.) I'm not sure we can easily centralize localization information on the portable version. It'd be nice, to, however. It would be even better, though, if those making portable OOo would work more closely with us. For instance, they could join our Porting project, if relevant, or our Distribution project. AFAIK, they have not, though I'd be delighted to be proven wrong. Best, Louis [0] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions [1] http://de.openoffice.org/downloads/oooportable.html Paul - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Question
Hi On 2007-04-04, at 15:41 , Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:54:36 -0400 edward vergnaud wrote: Hi, I have paid $ 11.99 for the version 2.1. After I upgrade this version to 2.2 I got the feeling that this is a free software and I was not supposed to pay anything. It is free software. That freedom includes the right to sell it. Usually to recoup the cost of burning a CD. You also have the freedom to buy a CD, or download the program for nothing from the website. So no, you weren't really had. Hope that helps. -- Michael Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. Thanks, Michael. To add a little: OOo tries to work with sellers to ensure that a) they distribute accurate versions of OOo (basically, the same as what is available from the site; they can add other materials as they please) and b) to further promote the community. We list CDROM distributors at http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ We also list, in this vein, consultants offering support and help for OOo users on http://bizdev.openoffice.org/consultants.html I am, all the same, weekly sent mail by people outraged that someone should be selling OOo via eBay or simply online. I check every site. Most are abiding by the law and the source is freely obtainable and they have not used our trademark or graphics without our permission. But some are not, and those I politely ask to change their ways, pointing out that the law is on our side. They usually change their ways. Ciao, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] The ODF Toolkit Project
Press Release: The ODF Toolkit Project, OpenOffice.org The future of OpenOffice.org extends beyond the office suite. With the creation of our new ODF Toolkit Project (http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/), which we are announcing today, we are inviting developers everywhere to take the source of the world's leading Free and Open office productivity suite in bold new directions. These may include technologies that engage tools for collaboration, communication and content creation of every kind; tools that will complement and even transcend the already powerful productivity suite. The anchor of this new project is the OpenDocument Format (ODF), the ISO and OASIS standard format for office applications and the most flexible and adaptable format for the future. Any application can be engineered to express its files in the ODF and any application can open and edit ODF files created by another compliant application. Vendor lock-in, in which the user must continue to use expensive and proprietary software only because the files created using it are unreadable by other applications, has been the bane of governments, businesses, and individuals for at least the last twenty-five years. With the ODF users reclaim their works and vendor lock-in is eliminated. It is for this reason that governments and businesses are looking to the ODF and OpenOffice.org. The stakes are too high. The ODF Toolkit Project takes that freedom even further. Developers are not bound by the legacy constraints of the office suite; they will be able to more easily include ODF in their applications or create new applications that use ODF. It does not matter whether it extracts, manages, creates, or integrates information. The ODF Toolkit Project lowers the barriers to working with and implementing the ODF for all. Users will obviously benefit, and almost immediately. To give just an example: The future of collaboration and communication, not to mention much of commerce, depends on applications that can exchange files without the hassle of incompatibility; the future depends on truly open and flexible standards and formats. But much of what is created today and almost all that is exchanged uses proprietary formats, effectively limiting collaboration. With the ODF Toolkit Project, any suitable application, large or small, will find it easier to implement the ODF, allowing users to create and exchange, collaborate on or simply save their files as they please, without the fear of vendor lock-in or file obsolescence. Developers and others interested in contributing are invited to join us now and make something new! To learn more go to http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org . --The OpenOffice.org Team * About OpenOffice.org The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org's leading edge software technology (UNO) is also available for developers, systems integrators, etc. to use in OpenOffice.org extensions or in their own applications. OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300), as well as legacy industry file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 90 languages. OpenOffice.org software is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and may be used free of charge for any purpose, private or commercial. The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor. * Links The ODF Toolkit Project can be found at http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org You can go there to learn more and join the project. The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org To learn more about the Community see http://about.openoffice.org The Native Language Project is at http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html Further information about OpenOffice.org products: * The OpenOffice.org office suite for users: http://www.openoffice.org/product * OpenOffice.org Universal Network Objects (UNO) for developers: http://udk.openoffice.org * OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers: http://api.openoffice.org * Press Contacts Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 John McCreesh (UTC +0h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Referendum on changing length of CC service
All, You need to vote on this... The current length of service for Community Council office holders is not working out. We have found that the stipulated terms are just not long enough for us to get things done. Accordingly, on Wednesday, 2006-10-18, the Community Council consensually agreed to change the length of services. The project leads and native-language leads have also unanimously agreed to this change in term length. Right now it is 12 months for project/native- lang leads and 6 months for the CCR. The change would double that, to 24 months for leads and 12 months for the CCR. Why: When we first drafted the Charter creating the CC, we thought that 1 year and 6 months would be plenty time and that elections would be fun and easy to hold. This has not been the case. As I mentioned above, it actually takes us a lot longer to get things done than we anticipated. Elections are also not particularly fun. * The change would affect the *next* group of office holders, not the current one.* New elections can be held as soon as we settle this question. We will then be holding a staggered set of elections for eligible Community Council members, including for the Community Contributor Representative. Why hold a referendum? This change in length of service requires a change in our Charter. (See http://council.openoffice.org/CouncilProposal.html). The process for changing the Charter requires a ratification by the project leads then a general plebiscite on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The project leads have already ratified the change; all were in agreement and there were no disagreements. We need now to hold the plebiscite, and according to the Charter, we need to hold it on discuss@openoffice.org or an equivalent list. This plebiscite is a referendum and is meant to gauge community feeling. ** How to vote: use +1/-1 and send your vote to this list. I'd like to finish voting by Friday 16:00 UTC of this week so we can move ahead and hold general elections for new Council members next week. Thanks Louis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [discuss] size of OOo community
Hi On 2006-10-19, at 12:05 , Matthias Müller-Prove wrote: Hi, just read Louis' happy birthday keynote [1]. Now I am wondering how he has calculated the number of community members. 350.000 is really a lot! Maybe someone can point me to some other statistics on the distribution of active contributors. I use data collabnet provides. The number refers to those who have registered with OOo on the collabnet site and include duplicates (I have about 4 identities), and defunct entries. It's not accurate, and it's also closer to 400K now. However, what is useful is the curve of new members. During regular months, it stays fairly even; during big releases, it zooms. That's because, though we warn people that they are not registering the product, they try to do so anyway. Then again, lots really do want to help out. thanks in advance, Matthias Best, Louis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] GullFOSS
Have people come across this blog on OOo yet? It's quite good. http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS : on OOo engineering at Sun. Ciao, louis
[discuss] [pr] FINAL: OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Is Here.... And It's Our Birthday!
All, This is Friday 13 October and the day marks two important events: the immediate availability of OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 and our sixth anniversary. First things first. OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 is ready for download now. It is a significant release and recommended for all. As with all OpenOffice.org releases, it runs natively on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X (X11) and many other platforms; and it probably runs in your language. Check with your favourite Native Language Project to see if the application is available today. New features, bugfixes, and improvements include: * Enhanced PDF management * Direct export to LaTex * Nested queries in Base * New functionality in Calc and Impress * Mac OS X (X11) uses system fonts * And a lot more... But the most important is our improved use of extensions. We've been very busy here, and have succeeded in making it easier for developers of any level to create extensions (aka packages) for OpenOffice.org. With 2.0.4, a new door to the future is opened: Developers everywhere are invited to start writing extensions! To learn more, visit our Extensions Project, http:// extensions.openoffice.org/. Download the application now, start using it immediately, and write extensions tomorrow. * Download: http://downloads.openoffice.org/2.0.4/ * Release Notes: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.4.html And now our anniversary. Six years ago today, OpenOffice.org was launched as an open-source project. Wikipedia [0] has an excellent timeline, and in the last OOoCon we presented on the State of the Project [1], but the basic fact is that in the last six years we have helped shape a new world. Tens of millions of people use OpenOffice.org daily; governments have or are considering mandating it or its open-standard file format, the OpenDocument format, or ODF; and all have saved hundreds of millions of dollars and taken significant steps to ensuring that data is not lost to proprietary technologies. No small accomplishment. If you want to participate in this huge and peaceful movement for a better world, join us, spread the word, help us and yourself out. Build your world with OpenOffice.org. -The OpenOffice.org Team [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org [1] http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/state_of_the_project_year_6.html About OpenOffice.org The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as legacy industry file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 65 languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor. Links The OpenOffice.org Project can be found at http://www.openoffice.org The OpenOffice.org office productivity suite may be downloaded free of charge from http://download.openoffice.org Further information about the suite may be found at http://www.openoffice.org/product Press Contacts John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Links....
All, As many of you have noted, I flubbed the URLs in the announcement for our new OpenOffice.org 2.0.4. Sigh... These things happen, and I'm sorry. It was my error. Thanks for your patience, understanding and wit :-) Of course, the correct link to OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 is : * http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/index.html And release notes: * http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.4.html Thanks, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OOoCon 2006!
All, I'll be posting a longer article on OOoCon 2005 shortly, but I'd like to say that the recently concluded OOoCon 2006 was all we could have wanted and then a lot more. It was educational and fun; a meeting place for new friends and a rendezvous for those who meet but once a year. Organization was excellent, and the venue allowed us to hop from session to session. All in all, it was a success. My thanks to the organizers, especially Sophie Gautier, Charles Schulz, Cedric Bosdonnat, Marie Jo Kopp, and Jean François Donikian; and to everyone who participated. If you couldn't be there, Kiberpipa recorded most everything. [0] Cheers, Louis [0] http://ooocon-arnes.kiberpipa.org/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [discuss] Native Language Confederation-kannada not listed
Hi, On 2006-09-04, at 06:30 , Sanganagouda Khanagoudar wrote: Dear OpenOffice, I love openoffice, and I love my native language kannada more than anything. I want my favorate openoffice in Kannada. so please include kannada in the projects list for native languages. Native Language Confederation http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html I hope you will initiate this soon. Thanks for the hint. As Andreas mentioned, there are others working on it and it's surely in the Indic languages roadmap. We'd love to promote the group that does this, too. I'm cc'ing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list; why don't you continue the conversation there? Best, Louis Thanks and regards, Sangangouda. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] Developer Article Winner: Cédric Bosdonnat
All, Cédric Bosdonnat has once again won the Developer Article contest with a superb article on UNO, Understanding UNO. What is UNO? As Bosdonnat explains, UNO is the central concept in OpenOffice.org because it manages all the OpenOffice.org internal objects UNO provides a way to call other objects without taking care of their implementation language or their execution environment. The article is essential reading; congratulations! It is also the last winner for the foreseeable future, as we are putting the contest on pause. We still want developer articles, however, and so encourage you to send them in! * Understanding UNO http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno/ Article/Understanding_Uno -The Developer Article Contest Team smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] FINAL 1.2: OOoCon 2006 11-13 September
All, You are invited to one of the most important open source conference of the year: OOoCon 2006. To be held in Lyon, France, from 11-13 September, the conference will surely be the most enjoyable! This, our fourth conference, celebrates a year of triumphs. Governments, led by France, have adopted OpenOffice.org, replacing the proprietary Microsoft Office. Corporations such as Novell have switched entirely; and we have tracked over 67.5 million downloads to date. All want a suite that uses an open standard for the file format, that is flexible, that is easy to learn, and that is free. And the technology is getting better. With OpenOffice.org, developers can create extensions that add features and functionality. They can localize it for new languages faster than before. At the moment, we count over 75 languages, most supported. And users can install OpenOffice.org on both PPC and Intel Macs. All this has made OpenOffice.org, both the project and product, one of the most important forces in software history. Come to the conference to learn what governments, businesses, and developers are planning for the future. Come to hear keynotes by chief representatives of Novell, IBM, Sun, Google, and Ars Aperta speak on OpenOffice.org and its democratic file format, the OpenDocument Format. Come to see the new technologies, services, and information being exhibited by our sponsors, including Insa, CUsoon, IBM, Sun, Intel, NeoOffice, GrandLyon, Ville de Lyon, O3 Spaces, Google, and SCAI. Or just come for the fun. OOoCon is known for its conviviality and for the interesting people it brings together. There is no other event like it. We hope to see you there! -The OpenOffice.org Team About OpenOffice.org The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as legacy industry file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 65 languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor. Links The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org The OpenOffice.org office productivity suite may be downloaded free of charge from http://download.openoffice.org Further information about the suite may be found at http://www.openoffice.org/product Press Contacts John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [discuss] UNSUBSCRIBE From List
Hi On 2006-07-21, at 07:55 , Hannes Gruber wrote: Ave List, I once subscribed to the list, but now it is impossible for me to unsubscribe again. By now I have tried to send a mail to discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that did not work :-(. Is there any human address to write to, who can unsubscribe me from the List? Done. Ciao, Louis THX, Hannes Gruber - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index
There has been comment in the media about a report on a French language website: Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index The ZDNet article [1] claims to describe the proceedings of a confidential meeting within the French public administration. It is not appropriate for the OpenOffice.org community to comment on a leak from a private meeting. However, one of the people mentioned in the article, Eric Filiol, has posted two replies to the online article clarifying the purpose of the research and correcting some of the incorrect conclusions in the original article. The OpenOffice.org office suite is being widely adopted within the French public administration, and the OpenOffice.org community has been working closely with the departments involved. OpenOffice.org is pleased that its source code is being scrutinised by the most important and respected department of security in France. If security vulnerabilities are suspected, there is a well defined procedure within the IT industry for reporting, analysing, and resolving any issues, which aims to minimise any public announcement (and the resulting creation of exploits) until fixes are available. The OpenOffice.org community confirms it regards security as of the highest importance and will react immediately to any security issues reported by the French public administration or other competent bodies or individuals. -The OpenOffice.org Team [1] http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/ 0,39040745,39362096,00.htm See also, http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060718-7288.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Brief Downtime Today: 20:30 UTC
All, OpenOffice.org will be offline for about on hour commencing 20:30 UTC today. All mail lists, forums, IssueZilla, CVS, will be unavailable. Download sites and anoncvs will be unaffected. We regret the inconvenience. -Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Scheduled Maintenance: 2006-07-14 23:30 UTC
All, OpenOffice.org will be offline for about 1 hour commencing 23:30 UTC on 2006-07-14, today, for scheduled maintenance. CVS, SVN, mail lists, IssueZilla will all be unavailable. Anoncvs, the developer wiki, and the download servers will not be affected. We regret the inconvenience. Best, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Google backs OpenDocument format
Hi all, Not just interesting but cool :-) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9001713 FWIW, OOo is represented on the ODF Alliance by me. And I contacted Google a while ago on this issue though I cannot claim credit for persuading them. Ciao, Louis
[discuss] New Developer Article Contest Winner!
All, We have a new Developer Article Contest Winner: Kohei Yoshida Hacking Calc--The First Step, by Kohei Yoshida, has won June's contest. As have the other winners before him, Kohei Yoshida wins USD $750 and international fame. It's merited: Hacking Calc is important reading for any developer wanting to work with Calc, extend its functionality or fix a bug. To read it, go to: * Hacking Calc: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ Hacking_Calc_-_The_First_Step * Developer Article Contest Rules: http:// wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ OpenOffice.org_Developer_Article_Contest Congratulations! And don't hesitate to send in articles for July's contest! ;-) The OpenOffice.org Team - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Site Infrastructure Upgrade: Tuesday 20 June
All, Commencing Tuesday 20 March at 17:00 UTC, the OpenOffice.org site infrastructure will be upgraded. The site, including mail lists, CVS, Issue Tracker (IssueZilla), and all other elements will be functionally offline for the duration, anticipated to be forty-eight (48) hours. However, during the outage, a placeholder webpage listing download sites will be posted to www.openoffice.org. CollabNet has worked with the community on this upgrade for several months and together we have sought to ensure that the migration to the new (and improved) infrastructure will go smoothly. We regret the inconvenience this outage will produce. Some points... * The new infrastructure, CollabNet Enterprise Edition 3.5.1, should be faster and more robust * The new site allows for the use of the modern versioning system Subversion, and projects can explore its functionality * As to mail lists, forums, and other established functionality, such as Issue Tracker (IssueZilla), all that remains as at present * Note: For a period of about twelve hours after the migration process, we will have to run several indexers, and these may affect the behaviour of list and forum archives, among other things; performance may also be affected Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Site Infrastructure Upgrade: Tuesday 20 June
(Apologies: I meant, of course, 20 June, not 20 March. :-) All, Commencing Tuesday 20 June at 17:00 UTC, the OpenOffice.org site infrastructure will be upgraded. The site, including mail lists, CVS, Issue Tracker (IssueZilla), and all other elements will be functionally offline for the duration, anticipated to be forty-eight (48) hours. However, during the outage, a placeholder webpage listing download sites will be posted to www.openoffice.org. CollabNet has worked with the community on this upgrade for several months and together we have sought to ensure that the migration to the new (and improved) infrastructure will go smoothly. We regret the inconvenience this outage will produce. Some points... * The new infrastructure, CollabNet Enterprise Edition 3.5.1, should be faster and more robust * The new site allows for the use of the modern versioning system Subversion, and projects can explore its functionality * As to mail lists, forums, and other established functionality, such as Issue Tracker (IssueZilla), all that remains as at present * Note: For a period of about twelve hours after the migration process, we will have to run several indexers, and these may affect the behaviour of list and forum archives, among other things; performance may also be affected Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] New Developer Article Contest
All, New Winner, Developer Article Contest S. Sevki Dincer has won April's Developer Article Contest; congratulations! Sevki's article is a step by step guide on how to write a simple component (a Calc add-in) for OpenOffice.org (OOo) in C ++. The Developer Article Contest continues each month. Winners receive USD $750 plus invaluable attention and the gratification of helping others. Read our wiki on the matter for more information and start writing! The next deadline is the end of this month. Cheers, The OpenOffice.org Team URLs * Sevki Dincer's Simple Calc Add-In, http:// wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SimpleCalcAddIn * Developer Article Contest page, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ OpenOffice.org_Developer_Article_Contest - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OpenDocument Format = ISO 26300
All, 1 May 2006: The International Standards Organisation has today approved the standard file format to be used worldwide for the storage of files produced by office software (word processor documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, etc.). For the first time in the history of computing, software users will be guaranteed that they will be able to use their data in any compliant software package, both now and in the future. The point of an open standard is that any compliant application can use it. As Simon Phipps, the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, observed, This is a landmark moment for the Free/Open Source Software movement. An innovation that started here [at OpenOffice.org] has been reviewed, adopted and now endorsed at the highest level as an international standard. We now have a standard for productivity documents that is recognised by governments, which often require ISO approval. The OpenOffice.org productivity suite fully supports the new ISO/IEC 26300 standard (and since version 2.0 has has fully supported the OpenDocument format on which it is based). The Project has led the world in charting a new path. Louis Suarez-Potts, the OpenOffice.org Community Manager writes, The approval by the ISO helps level the playing field and helps clarify what is at stake: your intellectual property, your right to use innovative software. The open standard means not only that your property is not held hostage to the company making the application but also that new applications, new extensions, new ways of doing things can be created. The user wins. The time is now, the tools are here, the freedom is yours. -OpenOffice.org About OpenOffice.org The OpenOffice.org Community is an international team of volunteer and sponsored contributors who develop, support, and promote the leading open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard (ISO/IEC 26300) as well as legacy industry file formats and is available on major computing platforms in over 65 languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). The OpenOffice.org Community acknowledges generous sponsorship from a number of companies, including Sun Microsystems, the founding sponsor and primary contributor. Links The OpenOffice.org Community can be found at http://www.openoffice.org The OpenOffice.org office productivity suite may be downloaded free of charge from http://download.openoffice.org Further information about the suite may be found at http://www.openoffice.org/product/ Press Contacts Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (8) 9474-3021 John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] Brief Maintenance Downtime 2006-04-28 16:00 UTC
Starting at 16:00 UTC on Friday, 28 April, and lasting for about 20 minutes, the site will be down for maintenance. During this period, email, IssueZilla, CVS, and other site functionality will be unavailable. We regret this inconvenience and hope the brief interruption does not prove too disruptive. Regards, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] CP Hennessy: Winner, March Round Article Contest
All, New Developer Article Contest Winner: CP Hennessy! CP Hennessy has won the latest round of the contest with an excellent article on the citation facilities of OpenOffice.org. Titled, Current Implementation of the OpenOffice.org Bibliographic Component, the work examines the APIs available to the programmer to manipulate the citation data, and how these API calls actually map to real C++ classes in the OpenOffice.org source code. Winners of the rolling competition (a new one started for April at the beginning of the month; deadline is end of April) receive US $750 plus a lot of recognition and the satisfaction of knowing they are helping developers further OpenOffice.org. About CP: The CTO of OpenApp.biz, a content and document management company using the features of OpenOffice.org, CP has been a longtime contributor to OpenOffice.org who has previously done valuable work helping users, developers, and the general community work better together. Congratulations CP! You can find the article at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ Current_Implementation_of_the_OpenOffice.org_Bibliographic_Component or http://tinyurl.com/z3328 Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] Brief Maintenance Downtime 2006-04-17 17:30 UTC
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Re: [discuss] Norwegian government promotes open standards
Thanks, Martin! On 2006-04-14, at 06:51 , Martin Hauge wrote: The Norwegian Minister of Government administration and reform has established a committee for forming IT-standards for public sectors. One of the goals is to be more independent of Microsoft, and the standards are meant to be obligatory. Microsoft might be a dominating software producer also in the future, but then the company has to fulfil the demands for open standards, says the minister Heidi Grand Røys. The minister wants more competition and to make it more convenient to use other operating systems than Windows. I think, btw, it would be useful to start a section of our newsletter focused on ODF news. This will accomplish a couple of things: * make it apparent to the 30K or so who subscribe that ODF is gaining and often with it OOo * make it easier to identify areas that should be approached to consider OOo as a finished work and work in progress whose shape they can affect. best, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OOo at LWE: Thanks!
All, LinuxWorld Expo Boston ended yesterday night and it was from our perspective quite a success. We owe that to the very generous contributions of the community, in particular, David Byron, of PlataSoft, who, along with Allen Pulsifer of OpenOfficeTechnology, staffed the booth and gave brilliant spiels of what OpenOffice.org is, both as a project and product. Allen further coordinated with Bernhard Dippold to create a smashing (and by far most beautiful) banner for OpenOffice.org, all in a matter of days. My personal thanks to Allen and Bernhard and to the entire Art project, who came through with great ideas, lovely art, and calm competence--and all at the last minute. Crispian Thorne, up to Boston to sightsee, donated 1,000 brochures. These were invaluable. Sadly, though Kyle Korleski arranged to send over an equal number of cds, they never arrived; regrettable mixups. Jacqueline Rahemipour sent over OOo pins from Germany, which we handed out to the deserving. Several books illustrating how to use OOo, as well as one on the ODF, were displayed; all these added to the completeness of the booth and made it easily the best and one of the most popular .org booths there. Stefan Taxhet, of Sun, who flew in from Germany to help out, was at the booth much of the time, answering detailed questions on OOo; thanks. We didn't expect to encounter many (or any) developers, but we were a little pleasantly surprised: Liaisons were made between us and the many who went there, and in the next few weeks, as we follow up on these and other contacts, I expect to see some positive results. (I will send a more complete report to the appropriate list later.) I'd also like to thank Leon Shiman, of X.org. He arranged the full- day Government Day event, at which I spoke, and was a driver for making sure that OpenOffice.org was fully represented at the conference. And, I'd like to thank Jim McQuillan and the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) for their generosity: we used one of their terminals to show OOo on Linux; they were located way at the other end of the aisle, and this geographical difference impressed people. Intel lent us three boxes and flatscreened monitors, Sun one huge LCD monitor (which we used with the LTSP set up) and two other smaller flatscreened monitors. My thanks to them and my hope that we can work together like this again. Finally, Team OpenOffice.org made this event possible by (I hope) covering much of the costs of the event; my thanks. Others, such as Fantini Bakery, James of 8daysaweek, and Ann Pace, contributed much- needed cash; my enduring thanks: this event was expensive. And of course my thanks to everyone else I have not named but who helped out! LinuxWorld gave us the boothspace (thanks!) but everything else came from the community: you. Thanks Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Netiquette
Hi All, For some of you this is a reminder, for others, news: OpenOffice.org prides itself on being a welcoming and supportive place. Each member of the project, every subscriber of every list is responsible for maintaining a collaborative atmosphere. To help subscribers and members, we have drawn up guidelines for mail lists; these extend as well to general project behaviour. They can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html . General points: * Rudeness is not acceptable; be polite. The lists are not here for you to settle private disputes. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Microsoft bought openoffice.org
On 2006-04-01, at 09:59 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: Funny note at Linux Journals, happy fools day!!! http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2006-04-01-009-26-OS-CY-MS :-) Thanks to John, Cristian, Jacqueline. Cheers, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Updated and modified versions of the Australian English language files
Hi, On 2006-03-27, at 21:58 , Kelvin Eldridge wrote: Hi, This email is for Australian users of OpenOffice.org. Some of you will remember me as the person who created the Australian English dictionary for OpenOffice.org. I decided a while ago to make special versions of the language files for myself and my clients. These versions have the words with American spelling removed. Over 1,800 words have been removed from the dictionary and initial work has been started on the Thesaurus. For example the word organize has been removed whilst the word organise has been kept. In the Thesaurus the common words such as color and neighbor plus many others have been removed. This approach will not suit everyone as it is simply a matter of personal choice. If others are interested in obtaining the updated Australian English language files please visit www.JustLocal.com.au, click on the OpenOffice.org graphic and then complete the form. Thanks, Kelvin! But, would you be interested in placing the dictionary in our Lingucomponent area? See http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/spell_dic.html It lists, along with numerous others (which may be out of date?), Australian English. Best, Louis Thanks, Kelvin Eldridge - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Fwd: ODF Article for ILTA White Paper
Hi, The International Legal Technology Association needs a white paper on the ODF for lawyers by 31 March. Their original author cancelled. Details are at http://tinyurl.com/lrp7k As Ken Hansen of the organization put it, This would be an excellent opportunity to get ODF in front of the decision makers at law firms. There is no pay for this. License remains with the org but the author would be free to use the article elsewhere, I believe. (It would also be nice to have more of these articles for our own OOo purposes.) If you are interested, please let the ILTA and me know as soon as you can. Thanks! Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Fwd: ODF Article for ILTA White Paper
Hi, On 2006-03-24, at 09:05 , Lars D. Noodén wrote: Louis, Could you please post the URL? The tinyurl.com one doesn't work and in general archives poorly. e.g. 2,5,10 years from now www.ilta.org/whatever will be more useful than tinyurl.com/foo Sorry to hear the tinyurl didn't work. Here is the original: http://www.iltanet.org/communications/content_page.aspx? nvID=2305 Louis -Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Keep the market open by keeping software patents out (deadline 31 Mar 2006): http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/indprop/patent/ consultation_en.htm On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi, The International Legal Technology Association needs a white paper on the ODF for lawyers by 31 March. Their original author cancelled. Details are at http://tinyurl.com/lrp7k As Ken Hansen of the organization put it, This would be an excellent opportunity to get ODF in front of the decision makers at law firms. There is no pay for this. License remains with the org but the author would be free to use the article elsewhere, I believe. (It would also be nice to have more of these articles for our own OOo purposes.) If you are interested, please let the ILTA and me know as soon as you can. Thanks! Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] LinuxWorld Expo Boston 4-6 April
All, OpenOffice.org will be having a booth (#139) at this April's LinuxWorld Expo Boston and you are invited! You are also invited to help out. We need booth beings, artwork, clever presentations showcasing OpenOffice.org, and any other kind of moral, monetary, or vocal support you can offer. This event is of some importance, for it is taking place in what is widely perceived as the epicentre--Boston-- of the U.S. public sector move to using the open standard file format OpenOffice.org uses, the OASIS OpenDocument Format, or ODF. The old- but-powerful stick-in-the-mud elements have been resisting mightily, but the forces for freedom, open standards, and superior technology are advancing, and Massachusetts is still scheduled to adopt the ODF January 1, 2007. But nothing is absolutely certain. So, you can see why this event is of some importance and why we need to show just how good OpenOffice.org is. The event goes from 3-6 April, with the exhibition hall open from 4-6 April. You can learn more about it by going to http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ events/12BOS06A . If you can help out, in any way, let me know. I'm putting together the team for the exhibition at LWE Boston and time is speeding by. Send an email to louis at openoffice.org if you want to help out. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OOoCon 2006 Call For Papers
The OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2006) Call for Papers *Your proposal should be sent before 1 June 2006 in order to guarantee that it will be considered for inclusion in the Conference.* We are soliciting papers from the broad OpenOffice.org community on topics ranging from developing OpenOffice.org to marketing it; from the global politics of the free and open-source software (FOSS) movement to the technical challenges of localization. This conference is meant to be a forum for technical as well as general examinations of OpenOffice.org's place in the expanding world of FOSS. The conference will cover the following OpenOffice.org topics, organized into five tracks: 1. *General* OpenOffice.org 3.0 Commercializing, integrating, and supporting OpenOffice.org Migration methodology Marketing Funding the project, defining the product, and extending it Attracting people (programmers, documentation writers, linguists, support, marketing...) The OpenOffice.org Community: Past, Present and Future 2. *Education* OpenOffice.org in schools and universities Case studies of student's/pupil's help in developing OpenOffice.org Skill recognition 3. *Public Administration* Case studies of OpenOffice.org in government Government support of OpenOffice.org (and FOSS in general) Collaboration of PA in developing, deploying and using OpenOffice.org Government support 4. *Enterprises* Case studies of OpenOffice.org in private sector (SME - Small to Medium-sized Enterprise) Collaboration of SME in developing, deploying and using OpenOffice.org How the use of OpenOffice.org can expand beyond that of a mere office suite (ODF opens up new horizons) 5. *Development* The source and how to work with it The Roadmap Tools for development Integration and localization UNO and what it can do QA, user interface, and development processes Macros and installers Extensions Filters and other topics 6. *XML OASIS OpenDocument Format* OASIS OpenDocument XML format Introduction to XML Examples of XML technology XML: bridge between OpenOffice.org and other tools *Please submit a proposal by filling out the template and sending it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* *template for proposals http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/ paper_template.odt *As the OpenOffice.org community consists of members from countries all over the world the talk must be in English.* Please limit your presentation to 50 minutes including questions. Your proposal (abstract) must be sent before 1 June 2006 in order to be considered for inclusion in the Conference. A *presentation* is a general discussion of some topic, including (but not limited to) the software, the community, relationships with other software or communities, and political or philosophical issues. A *case study* is a specific type of presentation that tells what you did to achieve some result; this is usually a success story, but could include a discussion of what mistakes you made and how you overcame them. A *workshop* is a how-to session, in which the presenter gives step- by-step instructions for doing some task such as writing macros, setting up a database, or developing a complex spreadsheet. Workshops usually include some audience activities. A *BoF* (Birds of a Feather meeting) is an informal gathering of people in a particular group, or interested in a specific topic. Examples include the members of a native-language group, the marketing project, documentation writers, or Macintosh coders. A *panel discussion* involves a group of people (usually 3 or 4) led by a moderator. The participants make opening and closing statements on the topic, may discuss the topic among themselves, and may answer questions from the audience (usually submitted in advance). A *lightning talk* is a brief presentation on any topic relevant to the conference. It could be an interesting format to give many people the chance to make their point in a series of exactly 5 minute slots. The template for paper submission includes a section for requesting a travel subsidy. At this point we are not in a position to offer funding for all speakers, and those speakers who do get a subsidy are unlikely to have their full expenses covered. Each request will be considered on the basis of both merit and need, so if you are requesting a subsidy, please give as much information as possible to help us evaluate your request. Please note that someone presenting only a lightning talk is unlikely to receive assistance. An OpenOffice.org Impress template recommended for use for the conference presentations will be published around 1 June 2006. ... and keep a watch on http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/ for more information ... A Web version of this message is at http://marketing.openoffice.org/ ooocon2006/cfp.html. **And pass this message around**
[discuss] First Winner Developer Article Contest!
All, Cédric Bosdonnat has been chosen OpenOffice.org's first winner of the monthly Developer Article Contest. Congratulations! Cédric's winning entry related to work begun last summer, for Google's Summer of Code, where he initiated development of an Eclipse plugin for OpenOffice.org. (A brief interview of Cédric can be found at http:// www.openoffice.org/editorial/cbosdonnat.htm.) The Developer Article Contest continues each month, so if you want to try your hand, you have a fresh chance now. Winners receive USD $750 plus invaluable attention and the gratification of helping others. Read our document on the matter for more information and start writing! The next deadline is the end of this month. ** C. Bosdonnat's Winning Article, http:// wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/JavaEclipseTuto ** Developer Article Contest, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/ wiki/OpenOffice.org_Developer_Article_Contest -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Reactive to account New !!!
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[discuss] Google Acquires Writerly
This is not exactly stunning news. But Google has acquired Writerly http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39256660,00.htm or, http://tinyurl.com/kzd3z and, http://www.dvhardware.net/article10289.html Google has acquired Writely. This is an online word processor that enables you to edit documents online, and then publish and blog them online. It supports Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text and has a WYSIWYG interface to format your documents, spell-check them, etc. Cheers, Louis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 Is Here
All, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 is available today. It is ready now in English; check with the Native Language projects for other languages. The release is recommended for everyone. It contains some nifty new features, fixes many small bugs and resolves numerous issues. For instance, spellcheck dictionaries are now directly integrated into OpenOffice.org and are immediately available after installation; there is no need for extra downloads. The community have also added import filters for Quattro Pro 6 and Microsoft Word 2. As well, other import filters have been improved, so that documents created by other applications can be edited in OpenOffice.org more seamlessly. Continuing with the the push to enhance OpenOffice.org's business functionality, it is now easier to use mail merge. As well, integration with the KDE address book is now possible. The appearance of the application has also been enhanced, and for Linux users, there are new icon sets for KDE and GNOME. The result of this and the other improvements is not just a prettier OpenOffice.org but a friendlier and more capable suite. And it's free. * Get OpenOffice.org: http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.2/index.html * Release Notes: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/ 2.0.2rc4.html * Native Language Projects: http://projects.openoffice.org/native- lang.html About OpenOffice.org The OpenOffice.org Project is an international community of volunteers and sponsors including founding sponsor and primary contributor, Sun Microsystems. OpenOffice.org develops, supports, and promotes the open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org®. The project can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/. OpenOffice.org® supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) OASIS Standard and is available on major computing platforms in over 65 languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). Press Contacts Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (8) 9474-3021 John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (131) 523-9218 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] new download page
All, If you've tried to download OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 (you know, the one with the magical dictionaries), you may have noticed a new download page. And if you did, you'll have noticed how clean, how nice, how usable it is. Our thanks must go to Maarten Brouwers, who in the space of about two days designed it. Sure, he had lots of help from the website team, including Chad Smith, Kay Schenk, Christian Lohmaier, Dough Thompson, and James, of 8daysaweek, but he's the one who mainly did it. Thanks. We'll continue to update and enhance it as needed, including adding the German project's server randomizer. Meanwhile Thanks to the developers and many, many other contributors who have made OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 great. My own personal thanks to Éric Bachard and the Mac OS X team for the fantastic and really beautiful Mac OS X (X11) version. It's super. Cheers, Louis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] Correction to vnunet.com article
Dear All, The headline of Tom Sanders' article, Sun urged to give up OpenOffice control, [0] is wrong.[1] I did not urge on behalf of myself, the community or anyone else for Sun to give up OpenOffice.org control. Rather, as I understood it, the thrust of the interview had to do with inviting IBM to contribute to the code base. So far it has not. Sun's contributions to the community and to the code speak for themselves. All of us, including Sun, are working on making it easier for everyone to contribute as best they can to the project and code base. I look forward to years of contributions by all who value OpenOffice.org. Regards, Louis OpenOffice.org Community Manager [0] http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2149926/sun-urged-give- openoffice?page=2 [1] http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=2016 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Correction to vnunet.com article
Hi On 2006-02-09, at 03:09 , Sigrid Kronenberger wrote: Just to let you know, the wrong news has made it to some important German news-page. As you can see here: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69370 Louis, can you ask for a correction? I think, this will be very important. Yes, I can try. I already sent a note to Tom Sanders but have not heard back from him. I'll be happy to send it to others. Argh, Louis Sigrid Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Dear All, The headline of Tom Sanders' article, Sun urged to give up OpenOffice control, [0] is wrong.[1] I did not urge on behalf of myself, the community or anyone else for Sun to give up OpenOffice.org control. Rather, as I understood it, the thrust of the interview had to do with inviting IBM to contribute to the code base. So far it has not. Sun's contributions to the community and to the code speak for themselves. All of us, including Sun, are working on making it easier for everyone to contribute as best they can to the project and code base. I look forward to years of contributions by all who value OpenOffice.org. Regards, Louis OpenOffice.org Community Manager [0] http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2149926/sun-urged-give- openoffice?page=2 [1] http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=2016 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Correction to vnunet.com article
On 2006-02-09, at 03:46 , Cor Nouws wrote: Sigrid Kronenberger wrote: Just to let you know, the wrong news has made it to some important German news-page. As you can see here: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/69370 Louis, can you ask for a correction? I think, this will be very important. It's good to think about how media work. A correction might get lost in a small corner, while the wrong news spreads on and on ... Depending on the contacts you have with some journalists, it might even be better to wait a while, let the news spread, and then jump in with an well planed interview, including people with some status (just to mention a possibility), that gets a lot of attention. Actually, I'm moving on all fronts :-)--blog, corrections, etc. sigh, Louis Greetings, Cor Sigrid Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Dear All, The headline of Tom Sanders' article, Sun urged to give up OpenOffice control, [0] is wrong.[1] I did not urge on behalf of myself, the community or anyone else for Sun to give up OpenOffice.org control. Rather, as I understood it, the thrust of the interview had to do with inviting IBM to contribute to the code base. So far it has not. Sun's contributions to the community and to the code speak for themselves. All of us, including Sun, are working on making it easier for everyone to contribute as best they can to the project and code base. I look forward to years of contributions by all who value OpenOffice.org. Regards, Louis OpenOffice.org Community Manager [0] http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2149926/sun-urged-give- openoffice?page=2 [1] http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=2016 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cor Nouws www.nouenoff.nl - www.bsooo.nl - http://nl.openoffice.org Open. For business. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Linux binary distribution
Hi I'd like to formalize the list of linux distributions. Maybe it exists already and I just don't know about it, but I think it would do us all good to have a simple wiki or web page listing Linux distributions, location, and their status--hence wiki. I can start it or really anyone can ... best Louis On 2006-02-03, at 06:45 , Richard/g wrote: On Thursday 02 February 2006 23:50, Alexandro wrote: There are .deb distributions too, I think that the suggestion is more to make it easy to download. check it here: http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ debian/debian/pool/OOO680/ or here: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/openoffice.org for OOo2.0.1-2 Richard. On 2/2/06, Jem Berkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really think you would do the Linux user base a favour by offering, as you did before, generic binary installations (through some kind of setup program). I had been using that method throughout the 1.x releases and it was a reliable way to install and maintain OpenOffice no matter what the distribution was. The reason I suggest this is that not every distribution uses RPM. By offering your main Linux download based on RPM, you imply support for mainstream distributions only. Someone like myself who uses Slackware, and from time to time no distribution misses the previous distribution-neutral setup program. Jem Berkes University of Waterloo --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexandro Colorado - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org groups in Colorado?
Hi Solveig! On 2006-02-02, at 12:43 , Solveig Haugland wrote: Hi, My apologies for the very locally focused post. I've googled for existing local OpenOffice.org groups and didn't find anything. I was wondering if there are others in the Colorado/Front Range area who would be interested in doing something specifically regarding promotion of OpenOffice.org. Some thoughts are: - Getting together for a bimonthly or monthly breakfast to discuss implementation/migration, recent adoptions, potential adoptions, educational needs and opportunities, places to give talks to potential users, general networking, etc. - Organizing to give out materials and CDs at local events. - Doing something to link to decision-makers in governments, libraries, schools, etc. - Organizing a small local conference or fair, possibly piggybacking an existing conference in a related area like education. If you're interested, please contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, I think having local groups throughout the world is a great idea! What I would like to propose is simply to list them, along with contact information. Right now, some of the Native Language projects do this but its not particularly consistent, not that it needs to be. But we are moving to the world where having user groups is going to happen. And let's help it. I'd propose then to start with a wiki to which any group can add their information. If people are interested, let me know... Best, Louis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] Brief downtime today 21:45 UTC for 30 minutes
All, The OpenOffice.org site, mail lists, cvs, IssueTracker, will be offline for 30 minutes or less today beginning at 21:45 UTC. We very much regret the sudden notice and inconvenience. The downtime is to install a patch that should speed up dynamic pages. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Thanks
On 1/12/06 3:51 AM Nikolaidis Panos wrote: Hello, this mail is just for saying thanks to CPHennessy for his fast and helpfull reply to me. ++1 CP has been doing an amazing and consistent job moderating this and other lists. He deserves all our thanks! Thanks CP, Louis Best regards Panos Nikolaidis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Excellent article
Hi One of the questions I'm asked a lot when I go to conferences to present on OOo is, How do I do a batch conversion of my legacy files to OOo? I was thus very pleased to come across this article [0] which has a rather good answer: Most people know that you can use OpenOffice 2.0, the open source alternative to Microsoft Office, to open up a Microsoft Office file and then save it in OpenOffice's native format—a zipped file that includes the document's contents as an XML file conforming to the OASIS OpenDocument standard. This works for Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. (See the XML.com article Opening Open Formats with XSLT for an example of the kind of simple new application that this makes possible: a stylesheet that extracts the slide titles and notes from a slideshow file and stores them in a single file that you can use as speaker notes when giving a presentation.) After opening one of these file types, you can even export them to an Acrobat PDF file. Like a lot of single-file conversions, this involves opening up and filling out various dialog boxes. If you have hundreds of files to convert, this isn't very practical. What if you want to load XML versions of a large collection of Word files, Excel spreadsheets, or PowerPoint files into an XML-aware database where you can query the collection? What if you're the State of Massachusetts or IBM? Like its Microsoft counterpart, OpenOffice has a macro language. You can start up OpenOffice from the Linux or Windows command-line prompt with instructions to to run a particular macro, and you can even pass a filename as a parameter to that macro. Adding the -invisible switch to the command line tells OpenOffice to start up without the graphical user interface (GUI). Put all these together, and you've got a command line that converts a Microsoft Office file to an OpenOffice file (or an Acrobat file) with no use of the GUI. To convert a hundred files, you can use a Perl script or other scripting language to create a batch file or shell script that has the hundred commands necessary to convert those files. The rest of the article shows the macro. Cheers, Louis [0] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/11/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Unsubscribing
Hi I unsubscribed the poster early this morning, my time. In general, if someone wants to unsubscribe and has followed the suggestions that Michael provides below but is impatient anyway or efforts to unsubscribe are unsuccessful (or whatever), CPH or I can always unsubscribe the person. Cheers, Louis On 1/8/06 4:44 PM Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:57:40 -0600 jona keeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have unsubscribed, please take me off your email list snip To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] First allow a day for the system to catch up. If you are still getting fresh list traffic. Follow the loose method here. You must unsubscribe from the same email address as you subscribed from. As the footer says email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsub. You should receive a confirmation email to which you must reply. If the server gets no reply you will not be unsubbed. The confirmation email is to prevent joe or [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribing you. If you do not receive the confirmation email, then email the other address in the footer for help. If you still have problems after that you have defeated the automatic system somehow and I want to know how. Then please get back in touch with the list. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Office lite
Hi, On 1/6/06 1:50 AM Paul wrote: I don't believe that a 'lite' version is on the roadmap... No, at least not on Sun's, afaik. However, there is and has been and will continue to be real interest in the idea. The problem, as I understand it, is architectural. OOo is tightly integrated and it would require a re-architecture of the suite to produce a lite version. But, as I said, there is real interest in this. I get contacted by companies and individuals interested in it all the time. I also think that a re-architecture, if feasible (read: if people can or want to do this) that allows for componentization (so you can start Writer, say, without needing to start the entire application) is equally desirable. /paul Best, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Office lite
Hi, On 1/6/06 1:03 PM Rigel wrote: Daniel, has pointed out, as I understand it, that 90% of the office suite sits on a data processing component that allows the application to do its work. The other 10% is skin's for the applications buttons and windows, as well as some exporting functionality. It is this integration that allows for the transfer of images to text documents, to spreadhseets, to the presentation. Since SUN doesn't have direct access to the Windows OS, and since it's written to run on several platforms, they had to write it to be dependant on itself. You can find more specific information if you subscribe to the developers list. A lot of the interest, I should add, focuses on Linux. The idea for these people is that an OOo that could run easily on lightweight systems with restricted memory (phones, handhelds, etc.) would be a boon. As the file format (OpenDocument) would remain the same, the argument goes, OOo users would not be left out and those wanting the full array of features and functionality on Windows would get it. Some interested parties include Nokia. An OpenDocument viewer could also do this, and for all I know, would be able to run lightly on any platform. There was talk of this last year but I don't know the current status. But why not work immediately on something that satisfies Linux needs, if there are resources for it? I think it is worthwhile to be flexible :-) Cheers Louis PS, the dev list you refer to is probably dev@openoffice.org, a fine list. Other key developer lists are dev@api.openoffice.org and [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a fuller listing, see http://projects.openoffice.org/accepted.html Rigel On 1/6/06, Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 1/6/06 1:50 AM Paul wrote: I don't believe that a 'lite' version is on the roadmap... No, at least not on Sun's, afaik. However, there is and has been and will continue to be real interest in the idea. The problem, as I understand it, is architectural. OOo is tightly integrated and it would require a re-architecture of the suite to produce a lite version. But, as I said, there is real interest in this. I get contacted by companies and individuals interested in it all the time. I also think that a re-architecture, if feasible (read: if people can or want to do this) that allows for componentization (so you can start Writer, say, without needing to start the entire application) is equally desirable. /paul Best, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] OpenOffice Add-On
Hi, On 1/3/06 11:51 PM tony cardone wrote: You guys should add a Publisher-like program. Except that, its great. Well, it's an interesting idea but you need to excite developers in it. That's the way things work... Also, I could not register. I would like a user name of one of the following tcardone05; tcardone5; tonycardone Please reply or tell which address to send the register problem to. I got a script-type error. Hm. Keep in mind that this is an intensely public list: without exaggeration, thousands have access to it and may even read it. Email me directly and I can fix your registration problems. Cheers, Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Gemstone accounting - an OOo database application
Roger, On 1/3/06 8:26 PM Roger Keays wrote: Ninth Avenue Software is proud to announce the first release of Gemstone Accounting, a cross-platform, multicurrency, double-entry accounting system (phew, that's a lot of adjectives!). This initial prototype release is built as an OpenOffice 2.0.1 database and is free to download and use. You may also modify it as you like for your own purposes. Thanks for letting us know! (I also followed the discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and look forward to its resolution.) I am always interested in tracking new deployments and employments of OpenOffice.org and would like to add you to a rather informal list. I'm thinking of creating a new wiki for this purpose--another one that tracks major deployments has been a great success. Can I add your company to it? I'd also like to follow up with some questions. We can do this offlist and I can then, with your permission, publish it. Yes? For the Major Deployments Wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments If anyone else knows of any--and major is a flexible term--please add to the list. thanks, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Updates
Malik, On 12/24/05 10:54 PM MalikZZ wrote: Hi there. I'm a new user to OpenOffice.org, but I find it to be just as good as the regular MS products I have used so far. Great! Though to confess, I tend to find it better than MS :-) Some good news first - Singapore's government institutions are thinking of moving towards OpenOffice.org for its day-to-day document handling, with the Ministry of Defence taking the lead. By now, MINDEF (Ministry of Defence, Singapore) should have completed its conversion to OpenOffice.org. Well done, guys! (That's insider news, by the way! Don't publish it yet until the media reports it!) :-) We actually have a page I set up to track major deployements of OOo, and it would be great to add Singapore. See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Major_OpenOffice.org_Deployments Now the bad news... The one thing I noticed is that for OpenOffice, whenever there is a new release users would have to download the entire program instead of just having the new features plugged in as an update. As a result, I have to wait around 30 mins for the entire installation file to download. Correct me if I'm wrong, but OpenOffice could use a Update feature like Windows Update and many other non-MS programs (esp anti-virus programs where users download small definition files). I would be grateful if the updates came in smaller doses rather than having to download the entire OpenOffice program. It couldMany others, for a long time, have also wanted this. The issue is that those who have wanted it have not also been those who could make it. I think such a feature, which is present on StarOffice, would be terrific. One could even have something like Thunderbird's automatic update. But, developers (or developer companies) need to be interested in this sort of thing. Cheers, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] others profiting from your wonderfull software?
Hi, On 2005-12-23, at 12:16 , John Sheridan wrote: if you do a search on ebay for openoffice, hundreds of sellers are listing your software as a link to purchase from THEM? are you aware of this? Yes. It is legal. We have an About Us page on EBay that supposedly helps in limiting crass exploitation. are they paying you any royalties or donations? Some assist in the project. See http://distribution.openoffice.org/ cdrom/ The point of this project, which is led by Alex Fisher, is that we can help normalise the code offered to users, as well as adding things to it that enhances their experience of OOo, such as documentation, etc. What we really do not want is for endusers to get terrible versions of OOo that sour them not only to us but to open source in general. as great as your software is, I think if they are selling your software, they should be paying you for it. I think, quite strongly, that one has the civic responsibility of contributing, too, provided one can. It hardly goes without saying and needs in fact reminder: Open source is not simply (usually) gratis. I hope there is something you can do. Well, see above. Every now and then, I will contact eBay directly. To me, it's no surprise that since 2.0 we've seen many more of these. 2.0 is very good software! and it's easy to make a buck off it among the gullible of the earth. But many distributors are not unscrupulous. Hence the website and project. BTW, there was a recent discussion of this topic in the Marketing Project, and one of the sellers responded at length. His response: http://tinyurl.com/dljqe Cheers and happy holidays, Louis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [discuss] OOo macros
Hello Ian, On 2005-12-22, at 02:44 , Ian Laurenson wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:25 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [snip] These seem to me to be quite reasonable! In the meanwhile, if your macros are not already prominently promoted, now is the time. Ideally, of course, we could host the macros, but if licensing is an issue, then simply a link should seem a good start. The macros are LGPL licensed so I don't think licensing is an issue. I have signed a JCA (I hope it was received as I got no confirmation). So I think the legal issues are covered. Good; then let's post macros to the site. :-) We don't have a Macros project as such but I'd be happy to consider creating it. Russ (and now James) at ooomacros.org have done a great job in hosting macros, but I confess I never quite felt sure when one of my macros was ready to be released - so having them on a site where I could pull them or rapidly update them was/is important to me. Okay. I like their site too, and I just wish the license allowed for greater commingling. So, for now, a link to http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ would be greatly appreciated. Okay. I can think of a couple of places to link it from-- documentation, if Scott and Gerry are agreeable, Support, and even indirectly, from the download pages. But I'm serious about creating a macros project. I think it would be really useful. Cheers, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] OOo macros
Hi, On 2005-12-22, at 11:45 , Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hello Ian, On 2005-12-22, at 02:44 , Ian Laurenson wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:25 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [snip] These seem to me to be quite reasonable! In the meanwhile, if your macros are not already prominently promoted, now is the time. Ideally, of course, we could host the macros, but if licensing is an issue, then simply a link should seem a good start. The macros are LGPL licensed so I don't think licensing is an issue. I have signed a JCA (I hope it was received as I got no confirmation). So I think the legal issues are covered. Good; then let's post macros to the site. :-) We don't have a Macros project as such but I'd be happy to consider creating it. I think the extensions project should also host this kind of extensions. Macros comes often as a complete library and deployed as an UNO package. As far as i can remember we want collect and provide this kind of extensions their. extensions project = developing extensions, hosting extensisons, QA for extensions or better classification of extensions, marrthem as final, beta or whatever, ... Okay, I defer to your wisdom. It's fine with me to host them there, as long as we host macros and as long as endusers and contributors are aware that we are hosting macros that they can actually use and add to. Cheers, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
MEDIA ALERT
21 December 2005
New release of the free office suite OpenOffice.org offers additional
features
The OpenOffice.org Project today released version 2.0.1 of its office
suite. Eight weeks after the major release 2.0 was published, a first
update is available that brings along new features and remedies minor
bugs.
The main focus of the new release was correcting bugs, in particular in
localisations. However, a number of new features were added as well. So,
for example, it is now possible to disable and hide particular
application settings, which comes in handy for central administration in
networks. Moreover, a new keyboard shortcut permits the user to return
to a saved cursor position. The bullets and numbering feature has been
expanded, and a new mail merge feature is available.
Last but not least, Macedonian has been added as an official language.
Several other localized versions are also available, such as Turkish,
Russian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Estonian and Bulgarian.
About OpenOffice.org
The OpenOffice.org Project is an international community of volunteers
and sponsors including founding sponsor and primary contributor, Sun
Microsystems. OpenOffice.org develops, supports, and promotes the
open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org. The project can
be found at http://www.openoffice.org/.
OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications
(OpenDocument) OASIS Standard and is available on major computing
platforms in over 60 languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU
Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL).
Media Contact
{MarCon contact details here)
Press Contacts
Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
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+61 (8) 9474-3021
John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
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+44 (131) 523-9218
Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
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+1 (416) 625 3843
Worldwide Marketing Contacts
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Re: [discuss] Missing feature - Issues with Find Replace
Ian, As always, thanks. On 2005-12-21, at 15:32 , Ian Laurenson wrote: To make life easier for people migrating to OpenOffice.org and to get around some of the limitations in the find and replace I have written a macro called IanndFindReplace available from: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ The instructions for installing in OOo2.0 need updating but if you look at the instructions for installing libraries for the KeyHandler, you should be able to work it out. However, I think that it is time that my macro is retired and that similar features be part of standard OOo. Namely: These seem to me to be quite reasonable! In the meanwhile, if your macros are not already prominently promoted, now is the time. Ideally, of course, we could host the macros, but if licensing is an issue, then simply a link should seem a good start. Ciao, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Thank you for all your hard work.
Hi all, Thanks, Chad, you expressed it very well. I hope everyone gets to enjoy the holidays and have a great new year's! Cheers, Louis On 2005-12-21, at 15:25 , Chad Smith wrote: Dear OpenOffice.org (if you are reading this - that means you 8^ ), I would just like to take a moment and thank everyone who has contibuted to OpenOffice.org over the past year for their help in not only promoting OOo, but helping contribute to a project that selflessly helps others. There is no way I can list everyone, if for no other reason is I don't know anywhere near all the thousands who have contributed. But there are a few people who have contributed that I have been able to see the fruits of their labor, or hear others tell about it. First of all, I'd like to thank Ian. Ian Lynch has spent countless hours working with companies, governments, schools, and individuals promoting a true education of computer use - not just rote memorization of how to do something in a given program - and the use of freely available, high quality open source software, including OpenOffice.org as its flagship. His passionate dedication to open source, open market, and open standards has been demonstrated in his deeds as well as vocalized by his words. Ian and I don't always get along, or agree, but there is no question that Ian is an intelligent, dedicated, and hard-working promotor of many open projects, and I am glad that OpenOffice.org is one of the many things he had dedicated his efforts toward. Thank you Ian! I would also like to thank Louis. Louis Suarez-Potts has worked hard behind the scenes, many times, and not always telling everything he does to the list, to maintain order in the sometime crazy world of an open source project. Louis has gone above and beyond his job title of Community Manager, volunteering many hours of his own off-the-clock time to this project, and has done an excellent job in creating press releases, coordinating events, overseeing changes to the website, and aiding in the transistion from OOo 1.x to 2.0. Louis doesn't have an easy job, and can sometimes be an easy target for critizism, but he continues to work hard to make OOo the best coordinated project it can be. Thank you Louis! I would like to continue expressing my gratitude to Ryan. Ryan Singer has spent many hours of his own time, and many dollars of his own money, serving OpenOffice.org as Marketing Contact for the West Coast of the US, and working on the project in other ways, including during his time as a Sun employee. Ryan's help was indespenible in bringing together the first ever US OOo MiniCon eariler this year, which, from all accounts, was a successful and fruitful event. Thank you Ryan! If you would indulge me, I'd like to also say thank you to Jacqueline. Jacqueline McNally has served as the project lead of Marketing for OpenOffice.org for over a year now. Before that she served (if my memory holds true) as Marketing co-Lead as well. Jacqueline has had her hands full with the launch of OOo 2.0 - and before that keeping the name and mission of OpenOffice.org out there so new users could find the best Free office suite in the world! It can't be easy keeping people who volunteer their time and talents focused on an overriding goal, but under Jacqueline's leadership, OpenOffice.org adopted a 5-year plan called the Strategic Marketing Plan - http://marketing.openoffice.org/strategy/ - which aims to do just that. Thank you Jacqueline! And if I can take just a bit more of your time - I'd like to thank Daniel. Daniel Carrera has served in many roles here at OpenOffice.org - he's the head of OOoAuthors, the Lord Captain Commander of OpenOffice.org (ding) (otherwise known as the Community Council Representative), has helped create installers on operating systems he doesn't even use, and much, much more. Daniel's efforts to promote and enhance OpenOffice.org have been too many to mention, and I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you Daniel! As I said when I started, this was by no means an attempt to list and/or thank everyone who has contributed to OpenOffice.org. These are just a few of the people I have noticed making large contributions to the cause. In fact, I could go on naming and thanking just the ones I personally have noticed, like Rod, CPH, Jonathon, Jean, Jason, Lars, and others. The list goes on and on. This was just kind of a reminder that we are all volunteers here - even the ones who may work for Sun or CollabNet or in any other way profit off of OpenOffice.org - *NO ONE* makes the kind of money they deserve off of the work they put into this project. The work that is being done here is invaluable - it's beyond Dollars, or Euros, or Pounds, or Yen. Over a year ago, maybe even two years ago now, when I first started on these list - I got into a coversation with Daniel and others about why
Re: [discuss] IBM sits out Office document standards effort
Hi, On 2005-12-21, at 12:19 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This ZDNN (http://news.zdnet.com/) story has been sent to you from [EMAIL PROTECTED], who added this comment: What do you all think? Is this a win for OpenOffice.org - or just OpenDocument? Are those the only choices? :-) I tend to think both might win or anyway benefit here. It also makes a difference, I like to think, that we are open source and freely available. best, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Mac OS X.3.9
Hi Perry, On 2005-12-21, at 19:30 , Perry Prince wrote: I have an iBook G4 - OS 10.3.9. I have been using AppleWorks V 6.2.9, mainly for its word processing, data base spreadsheets. My question is will Openoffice work with a Mac and will I be able to import the files into openoffice. thank you Perry Prince I use OOo on my Mac all the time. Admittedly, I am running 10.4.3, but before then was on 10.3.x, and used an earlier version of the OOo for X11. I also used NeoOffice/J, which is derived from OOo and is also free. It's maintained by a different project. To get the application, go to http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo- osx_downloads.html Cheers, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] keynote
Hi, On 2005-12-03, at 03:51 , Olivier Nyssen wrote: This project has been stopped by its creator. I think its a very useful program that maybe could be integrated in OO ? http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html Thanks. Hm, the project is interesting. I'll contact them and see if they'd be interested in working with OOo. Ciao, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] ask for a new NL project
Hi, On 2005-12-03, at 02:51 , Laurent Godard wrote: Hi all Following this important revelation http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/161213from=rss I officially ask here for the creation of an Alien Native-Lang Project :) Perhaps they can work with the Klingon group... :-) BTW, what ever happened to them? Ciao Louis Laurent smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [discuss] Stockholm to evaluate OOo / Novell's Linux Desktop
Hi, On 2005-11-28, at 05:10 , Lars D. Noodén wrote: The city of Stockholm will be doing a technical evaluation of Novell's Linux Desktop which includes OpenOffice. The evaluation should be finished in March. Fantastic. I wish I had known of these early plans when I was there, in Stockholm, October. The thought is to phase it (OOo ? or Novell's Linux ?) in on new machines. The article (in Swedish) is a bit unclear about the difference between the desktop operating system and the applications and seems to be confusing the two. http://computersweden.idg.se/ArticlePages/ 200511/28/20051128101851_CS002/20051128101851_CS002.dbp.asp Would someone be able to translate this? I'll meanwhile ask the journalist, who speaks English quite well, for details. The article does mention savings, but only in the context of licensing fees. There does seem to be some implied confusion on the part of the author at the end regarding open formats and open source. And without that distinction a quote taken out of context at the end suggests, incorrectly, only ideological reasons behind the decision. best, Louis -Lars smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] Interesting news: Microsoft to standardize Office formats
Interesting news indeed. Martin LaMonica, Staff Writer, Published: November 21, 2005 Microsoft intends to submit Office file formats to the European standards body ECMA International, a move the company hopes will allay concerns over the company's level of control over document formats. http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1012_3-5965443.html An interesting point: As part of its standardization effort, Microsoft will change the license in an effort to remove virtually all the barriers to having developers work with the file formats. Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady said that, based on Microsoft's previous ECMA standardization efforts, it's not clear that Microsoft will relinquish control of the Office formats to other companies. He noted that Microsoft submitted its C# and Common Language Runtime software to ECM, and both are used by the open-source project Mono. But Mono is eyed warily by Microsoft, he said. 'It's interesting that Microsoft would feel compelled to make this move but at the end of the day, it's still a format controlled by a single commercial entity, O'Grady said. The article is worth reading. And consider the virtue in being open source. Ciao, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Enough! Was [Re: [discuss] Chad is not welcome as a guest on my home computer if he cannot be civil and courteous to others on the list]
Hi Okay, this thread is going nowhere. I understand you are trying to encourage others to be civil but the subject line is not a good way of going about it. Our mail list guidelines specifically prohibit personal attacks or other rude behaviour. See http://www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html The rules apply to all. I will remove those from the list who violate the guidelines. Do not continue this thread. And all: behave nicely. Louis Community Manager On Nov 1, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Brian Lunergan wrote: * PGP Signed by an unknown key: 11/01/05 at 12:26:03 Daniel Kasak wrote: M. Fioretti wrote: In the last year C. Smith has repeatedly annoyed many other members of this list. +1 Yet another Dan. I also remember this individual's name as the *only* person on this list who continually insults other users, both novice and professional, and attempts to assert his supposed God-like status at the expense of all others interested in open discussion. There is another metaphor even more apt to cover this situation. This list may require a subscription but it is read not on the internet but downloaded and held on the private space of the hard disk on my home computer. In a sense the list is a guest in my home for calm, civil, courteous discussion of the Openoffice suite. Rules of courtesy apply. I do not allow a guest in my home to insult or belittle another guest. If they continue they are simply not invited back until they show they're willing to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. Whether you call it filtered, killfiled, or blocked, that is what I have done with Chad. -- Brian Lunergan Nepean, Ontario Canada * Unknown Key * 0xA8CCF485 (L) --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0544-0, 2005-10-31 Tested on: 31/10/05 10:26:07 PM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[discuss] Thanks!
Thanks to all who made the launch of 2.0 so successful! As of this writing, I expect at least a million people have downloaded the application and have begun to use it. The launch was brilliant. it would not have been possible without the contributions of the mirrors (over 100!), without the dedication of the P2P group, led by Deepankar Datta, without the help of the website team, without the fantastic work of the PR group. I've already thanked some, but I'd like in particular to thank Charles Schulz, NLC lead, for his key suggestions and dedication in coordinating the NLC groups, Craig Adams for coming up with draft after draft and for his exemplary good humour and patience, Jacqueline McNally, Marketing lead, for putting together the strategy, Press Kit, marketing material and so much else, Javier Sola for sending in, at the last minute a breath of passion and good sense, Erwin Tenhumberg, for giving us sanity checks on what was said, Khirano, John McCreesh, Bernhard Dippold, and the PR list and IRC channel members for their company, comments, and more, Maarten Brouwers, Christian Lohmaier, Volker Merschmann, Kay Schenk, G. Roderick Singleton for the seagull emergent graphic(s) and for a clean website, and Stefan Taxhet, who made sure that everything was done and that the application was there for the demanding public. And my thanks to the developers, the porters, localisers, supporters, NLC groups, and QA team who have made OpenOffice.org 2.0 what it is: The best, most reliable, most desired, most localised, most ported, most supported, and most promising free productivity suite in the world. And if I failed to list all who made the launch so successful--well, my apologies! Best, Louis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[discuss] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here
All, OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here 20 October, 2005 OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source. Besides a powerful new database module and advanced XML capabilities, OpenOffice.org natively supports the internationally standardised OpenDocument format, which several countries, as well as the U.S. state of Massachusetts, have established as the default for office documents. More than any other suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 gives users around the globe the tools to be engaged and productive members of their society. Available in 36 languages, with more on the way, and able to run natively on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X (X11) and several other platforms, OpenOffice.org banishes software segregation and isolation and dramatically levels the playing field. And, with its support for the OASIS standard OpenDocument format, OpenOffice.org eliminates the fear of vendor lock in or format obsolescence. The OpenDocument format can be used by any office application, ensuring that documents can be viewed, edited and printed for generations to come. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is a breath of hope for small economies that can now have a local language office suite well adapted to their needs and to their economical possibilities, reducing their dependency on the interests of proprietary software vendors. OpenOffice.org is on a path toward being the most popular office suite the world has ever seen and is providing users with safety, choice, and an opportunity to participate in one of the broadest community efforts the Internet has ever seen. As a member of that community, I'd like to offer my heartiest congratulations. - Jonathan Schwartz - President and CEO of Sun Microsystems. Built by a community including Sun Microsystems, its primary sponsor and contributor, Novell, Red Hat, Debian, Propylon, Intel, as well as independent programmers, translators, writers, and marketers; OpenOffice.org 2.0 demonstrates the success, dedication and proficiency of the open source software community. That community now includes the City of Vienna, which recently started deploying OpenOffice.org throughout. We are very happy about the functionality and quality of the OpenOffice.org software. We are confident that OpenOffice.org will be made available to all of our 18,000 workstation users. - Brigitte Lutz, City of Vienna. Louis Suárez-Potts, OpenOffice.org Community Manager, commented that OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the culmination of a collaborative process involving thousands working in dozens of languages everywhere in the world. It shows that open source can produce software of the highest quality and assure the robustness, usability and security that users expect in their office suite. In addition to the OpenDocument format, the redesigned user interface and a new database module, OpenOffice.org 2.0 also adds improved PDF support, a superior spreadsheet module, enhanced desktop integration and several other features that take advantage of its advanced XML capabilities, such as the ability to easily create, edit and use XForms. For more detailed information regarding OpenOffice.org 2.0, please refer to the Press Kit at http://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/ index.html . Congratulations All, The OpenOffice.org Community - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
