Re: Jars for Report Builder: where to get them ?

2017-01-14 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Nevermind .. I found them. On 01/14/17 11:05, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hi; Anyone has the jars required by the report builder [1]? I think we should upload them to a folder in ooo-extras. Regards, Pedro. [1] http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/About-reportbuilder-source-code-td4672788.html

Jars for Report Builder: where to get them ?

2017-01-14 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi; Anyone has the jars required by the report builder [1]? I think we should upload them to a folder in ooo-extras. Regards, Pedro. [1] http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/About-reportbuilder-source-code-td4672788.html

Re: future of OpenOffice

2017-01-14 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Quoted from the posting from Simon Phipps dated 12 Jan 2017: ... The Document Foundation takes much of the Apache OpenOffice AL2 licensed software and rebases LO on it. This allows integration of OpenSymphony code. Completely permissible under the AL2. They re-did the license of all the source a

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: mabdul [mailto:mab...@eclipso.de] > > You are basically right, but let me give the following information. > > > > Team OpenOffice was such a project. The participants were > mainly experienced OpenOffice developers from SUN Microsystems. > > > > See: > > > https://web.archive.org/web/

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread mabdul
Hi, On 14.01.2017 11:00, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:legi...@gmail.com] > >> We see in Star citizen how mighty crowd can be. >> >> Maybe a platform would be great where people can pledge money >> for something >> they need. >> If the needed budget is reached,

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread mabdul
Hi esh, On 14.01.2017 11:53, esh1907 wrote: > No chance as long as Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of Apache. > The best thing that can happen to wonderful OpenOffice is to ditch Apache > for an independent commercial company. Believe me: MS doesn't follow Apache OpenOffice any longer as they kno

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
We also need to split tasks out into those that primarily need OpenOffice user skills, and those that require digging deeply into the implementation code. In the long term, I think I may be on the leading edge of a major future source of open software developers - retirees. On 1/14/2017 12

Re: Copyleft vs Permissive

2017-01-14 Thread esh1907
A model of 100% volunteer based software project is futile. Only a combination of payed workers and volunteers is viable. On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: > On 11.01.2017 11:00, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: > >> Am 11.01.2017 um 09:44 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: >> >> For mos

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread esh1907
No chance as long as Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of Apache. The best thing that can happen to wonderful OpenOffice is to ditch Apache for an independent commercial company. On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Hi at all > > If we compare AOO to day with the good old Open

Re: future of OpenOffice

2017-01-14 Thread esh1907
-1 for ASF+TDF On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:43 PM, suhail ansari wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Suhail and I have some suggestions for OpenOffice community. > > OpenOffice is very popular and it attracts large number of downloads. My > suggestion is that Apache software foundation should talk to th

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: Raphael Bircher [mailto:rbircherapa...@gmail.com] > > This is just an idea. I am not sure if we can do business > within the ASF > > or > > if we have to found a 3rd party entity for this. > > It definitely need a external instance. In this case, it is inappropriate to discuss the su

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:legi...@gmail.com] > We see in Star citizen how mighty crowd can be. > > Maybe a platform would be great where people can pledge money > for something > they need. > If the needed budget is reached, payed developers implement it. > Or we could do it as a bo

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread Raphael Bircher
Am .01.2017, 09:24 Uhr, schrieb Peter Kovacs : We see in Star citizen how mighty crowd can be. Maybe a platform would be great where people can pledge money for something they need. If the needed budget is reached, payed developers implement it. Or we could do it as a bonus system. You pledg

Re: Copyleft vs Permissive

2017-01-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
Maybe market based is the wrong expression. How about market oriented...? # We are more innovative! # Have more features! # We have faster release cycles! # We are no 1 open Source Office suite. They are not community focused arguments, not open source focused arguments. All the Best Peter Dr.

Re: Copyleft vs Permissive

2017-01-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
Dave Fisher schrieb am Sa., 14. Jan. 2017, 04:56: > Hi - > > If Oracle or IBM thought they had any additional advantage with Apache > OpenOffice development then the history of this project would differ. > Obviously however you do not know what their reasons for the decision is. They could have c

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-14 Thread Peter Kovacs
We see in Star citizen how mighty crowd can be. Maybe a platform would be great where people can pledge money for something they need. If the needed budget is reached, payed developers implement it. Or we could do it as a bonus system. You pledge money on a bug/enhancement, if the bug gets include