Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-09-30 Thread Nino Novak
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 12:51, Clayton wrote: > Licensing is a tough topic. In a perfect world all OOo Docs would be > under a single license. Reality is though... they're not. > > The Wiki itself is also a minefield of mixed licensing. This is, > unfortunately, a product of how the Wiki

Re: [documentation-dev] Chinese translation of the OOo User Guides

2009-09-30 Thread Clayton
T. J. Frazier wrote: > T. J. Frazier wrote: >> Clayton wrote: > ... > >>> >>> I've contacted this user and asked that they join this mailing list so >>> that we can assist then, and undo the "damage" done to the English pages >>> without loosing their translations. >>> >>> C. >> Do we need a "Tran

Re: [documentation-dev] Chinese translation of the OOo User Guides

2009-09-30 Thread Clayton
T. J. Frazier wrote: > Clayton wrote: >> A new user popped up on the OOoWiki, and this person has been busily >> translating the OOo3 User Guides into Chinese. See: >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Claire >> >> The problem is, this person is doing the edits right i

Re: [documentation-dev] Chinese translation of the OOo User Guides

2009-09-30 Thread T. J. Frazier
T. J. Frazier wrote: Clayton wrote: ... I've contacted this user and asked that they join this mailing list so that we can assist then, and undo the "damage" done to the English pages without loosing their translations. C. Do we need a "Translators' How-To" (or Help)? BTW, let's get this G

Re: [documentation-dev] Chinese translation of the OOo User Guides

2009-09-30 Thread T. J. Frazier
Clayton wrote: A new user popped up on the OOoWiki, and this person has been busily translating the OOo3 User Guides into Chinese. See: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Claire The problem is, this person is doing the edits right in the English pages instead of crea

[documentation-dev] Chinese translation of the OOo User Guides

2009-09-30 Thread Clayton
A new user popped up on the OOoWiki, and this person has been busily translating the OOo3 User Guides into Chinese. See: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Claire The problem is, this person is doing the edits right in the English pages instead of creating a Chinese pa

[documentation-dev] Doc Project IRC channel

2009-09-30 Thread Clayton
Hi everyone. I've registered an IRC channel for the docs project. This is a public channel, and open to anyone to join. The channel name is: #openoffice.org-docs Feel free to pop in an chatter anytime. I've added it to the IRC channel list here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/IRC_

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-09-30 Thread Alan
I know there are solutions. Anytime people at core want to work together, help each other and contribute to a shared goal, there are solutions. When humans have a true desire to work together and a shared vision of the future There is no red tape that can stop them. Nothing will stand in t

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-09-30 Thread Sophie
Hi Clayton, Clayton wrote: Alan wrote: (eg you can't make a blanket copyright statement for the Wiki that affects and changes the license for existing content) Why not? You can if it's there from day one... but on the OOo Wiki.. it hasn't been clearly stated from day one thus the ambiguit

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-09-30 Thread Jean Weber
User guides produced by OOoAuthors are dual-licensed: the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), version 3.0 or later. We determined that translators and others could use it under the PDL as "original documentation". What all that means

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-09-30 Thread Clayton
Alan wrote: > (eg you can't make a blanket copyright statement for the Wiki > that affects and changes the license for existing content) > > Why not? You can if it's there from day one... but on the OOo Wiki.. it hasn't been clearly stated from day one thus the ambiguity, and the pages with c

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-09-30 Thread Alan
(eg you can't make a blanket copyright statement for the Wiki that affects and changes the license for existing content) Why not? There has to be a way people can get together and de-complicate things. Why should licensing tie knots in people who want to work together and have common desires?

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: [l10n-dev] Re: [documentation-dev] Issues with formatting in HC2/swriter/guide.po

2009-09-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Sophie wrote: ... I was not speaking of spaces but about the that appears in this string for example : Choose Edit - AutoText. I know that you change to , and this cannot be rolledback, but this appears at several places in the strings with no logic for me. I just wanted

[documentation-dev] Re: [l10n-dev] Re: [documentation-dev] Issues with formatting in HC2/swriter/guide.po

2009-09-30 Thread Sophie
Hi Uwe, Uwe Fischer wrote: Hi Sophie, please refer to the mail thread "IMPORTANT: Helpcontent changes in m57" by Frank Peters on the d...@l10n mailing list for some explanation. We know that this accident caused some irritation and additional work for translators, and we apologize. For tr

Re: [documentation-dev] Issues with formatting in HC2/swriter/guide.po

2009-09-30 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Sophie, please refer to the mail thread "IMPORTANT: Helpcontent changes in m57" by Frank Peters on the d...@l10n mailing list for some explanation. We know that this accident caused some irritation and additional work for translators, and we apologize. For translations, it is not necessa

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-09-30 Thread Clayton
Nino Novak wrote: > In the Germanophone Community the concern has been raised that > contributions to the localized User Guide Wiki pages can not be ported > back to the OOoauthors ODT documents as the ODTs are multiple licensed > (CC-BY as well as GPL and PDL) and the wiki pages - so far - are

[documentation-dev] Issues with formatting in HC2/swriter/guide.po

2009-09-30 Thread Sophie
Hi Uwe, It seems there is several issues with formatting in the HC2/swriter/guide.po since the update to DEV300m60, see : Clear the “Apply border” check box. Choose Edit - AutoText. Select the AutoText that you want to insert, and then click Insert. You can also click t