Re: updating the translation process

2024-08-14 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello Peter, Mechtilde and me have some experiece with the scripts, which should automate the conversion processes. We can talk about that topic at FrOSCon. The problem are IMO - as you wrote - non-compatible versions of the tools and the OS (and Python). Kind regards Michael Am 14.08.24

FrOSCon 2024

2024-08-08 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) [0] is this year on August, 17th and 18th in St. Augustin, Bonn, Germany. Apache OpenOffice will participate with a booth (like every year). Kind regards Michael [0] https://froscon.org/en/ OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: Ope

T-DOSE 2024

2024-06-04 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, like in the past Apache OpenOffice (and Apache) had a booth at 2024 edition of T-DOSE. T-DOSE 2024 happened on 1 and 2 June, again at the Weeffabriek in Geldrop (near Eindhoven) [0]. T-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Free Sof

Fwd: Your proposal: Apache OpenOffice and Free Software for business tasks

2024-04-30 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, we will have a booth on T-DOSE. https://t-dose.org/2024/ Regards Michael Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Your proposal: Apache OpenOffice and Free Software for business tasks Datum: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:06:40 - Von: T-DOSE 2024 Antwort an: T-DOSE 2024

Re: AOO will have a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2024

2024-03-24 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
  Matthias All the best Peter Am 17. Februar 2024 12:23:59 MEZ schrieb Matthias Seidel : Hi, Am 09.02.24 um 12:48 schrieb Dr. Michael Stehmann: Hello, we will have a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2024 again. Date is the 16th and 17th of March 2024 and the place is Chemnitz in Germa

AOO will have a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2024

2024-02-09 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, we will have a booth at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2024 again. Date is the 16th and 17th of March 2024 and the place is Chemnitz in Germany. Helpers are welcome. You will find more about this great event at https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2024/en Kind regards Michael OpenPGP_sign

Re: FOSDEM 24

2024-01-30 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Mechtilde and I plan to be there on Saturday (only). Regards Michael Am 14.01.24 um 12:12 schrieb Matthias Seidel: Hi All, Does anyone plan to go to FOSDEM [1] in Brussels this year? I am still undecided, but it is always nice to meet persons in real life! Regards,    Matthias [1]

Re: Open letter to TDF

2023-12-11 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, I don't think an open letter is a good idea. Maybe we would get public attention. But IMO it is better to get it for our product. I don't think, we'll get more developers in that way. All developers of LibreOffice know very well, were and how hey can find and contact us. Kind regards

Re: Tip

2023-07-29 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, what is the problem? One can export a PDF and - with an extension - it is also possible to import a PDF. And with this extension one can use a PDF also as a container for odf documents. There are only limitations to create PDF forms. To create PDF documents one does not need Adobe.

T-DOSE 2023

2023-04-29 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hallo, die T-DOSE [0] hatte am 22. und 23.04.2023 in Geldrop (nahe Eindhoven).nach vier Jahren in neuer, sehr feiner Location einen echten Neuanfang. Sie fand in einer alten Webfabrik statt, die neben einen Webereimuseum nun ein Kulturzentrum beherbergt. Die Organisation war wieder hervorrage

Re: T-DOSE 2023

2023-01-08 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
"Open Source Software" and "Free Software" are synonymic amd I prefer to talk abaout freedom. Kind regards Michael Am 08.01.23 um 18:32 schrieb Pedro Lino: T-DOSE == Technical Dutch Open Source Event There is no mention to Free Software on the website. OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPG

Re: T-DOSE 2023

2023-01-08 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 08.01.23 um 17:24 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 4:18 PM Dr. Michael Stehmann < anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de> wrote: Hello, T-DOSE 2023 will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of April 2023, at a new location the Weeffabriek in Geldrop (near Eindhoven). T-DOSE is

T-DOSE 2023

2023-01-07 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, T-DOSE 2023 will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of April 2023, at a new location the Weeffabriek in Geldrop (near Eindhoven). T-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Free Software. During this event, Free Software projects, developers

FrOSCon 2021 - link to 'booth'

2022-08-18 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Free Software and Open Source - these are the topics of FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference). Every year in August the computer science department of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, supported by FrOSCon e.V., will organize an exciting program with talks an

Re: [AOO4.1.13] Performance Issues in writer with OLE objects

2022-08-02 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, I am wondering, what is going on here. Looking from past to future: Before moving rights, IMO we have to find substitute persons to do the jobs. Kind regards Michael Am 02.08.22 um 11:19 schrieb Matthias Seidel: I am not sure what happened here... But his statement is clear, he now w

Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, NG talked about a GNU/Linux user who wants to install RPM or deb packages. Linux != Windows and Linux is not a Windows for poors. It is free as in free speech not as in free beer. If you want to use a Free Software operating system you can't expect, that the developers want to infanti

Re: Installation

2022-07-08 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, just some remarks: Am 08.07.22 um 13:22 schrieb NG: Hello, "2. cd into the DEBS or RPMS subdirectory of the installation directory. You should see a lot of debs here and one sub-directory called "desktop-integration"." A novice new to Linux is unlikely to know what "cd" means,

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2022

2022-03-14 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Mechtilde did a great job running the Apache OpenOffice (virtual) booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage this weekend. On both days she has some usefull talks with users of free office suites. Sje got an interesting feed back afterwards: AOO starts on a netbook considerably quicker and ne

Participation at Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2022

2022-01-24 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, like in the last years Apache OpenOffice will participate at the "Chemnitzer Linux Tage" (Chemnitz Linux Days). https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en/ In 2022 the Chemnitz Linux Days have found a place on a weekend in March again, still in a different form, namely virtual.

Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org?

2021-11-11 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello Jörg, please read what Matthias really wrote. There is _no_ sentence "Jörg is a liar." written by hin. So it is your own and very special allegation he might called you a liar. I wrote: "we know that you have another point of view regarding facts than some other participants of this l

Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org?

2021-11-10 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 10.11.21 um 18:38 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: A mailing list is not a lawless space! But free speech is free speech - on mailing lists as anywhere else. Who claims freedom of opinion has to bear contradiction. Free speech has implications; sometimes it causes a lack of friends and understanding

Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org?

2021-11-10 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hi Jörg, we know that you have another point of view regarding facts than some other participants of this list. You should accept that nearly noone wants to discuss that in extenso because iz is totally useless. We don't need more quarrels, so please stopp your blaming. Kind regards Michae

Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org?

2021-11-09 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 08.11.21 um 20:13 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: I'm afraid, Marcus, we have a problem of understanding what "all" means. For me, this is the community and not a few privileged people who are in PMC. Maybe some may see it as a privilege. I see it as a (little) burden I bear voluntarily.

Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org?

2021-11-06 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
of options. https://whimsy.apache.org/committers/moderationhelper Let me know if this works for you. If you have forgotten your apache password then reset at https://id.apache.org Regards, Dave On Nov 6, 2021, at 11:28 AM, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: Hello Jörg, you are so right. As I

Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org?

2021-11-06 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 06.11.21 um 20:26 schrieb Dave Fisher: The mechanism to contact moderators is to send an email to users-de-own...@openoffice.apache.org I've gotten one from Marcus, but it was really empty. Kind regards Michael OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org?

2021-11-06 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
...@wtnet.de] Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2021 1:25 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org? Am 06.11.21 um 12:36 schrieb Dr. Michael Stehmann: I'm one of the moderators of users-de. IMO I'm not the only one. I have gotten some of the spam p

Re: Who moderates users...@openoffice.apache.org?

2021-11-06 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
hello, I'm one of the moderators of users-de. IMO I'm not the only one. I have gotten some of the spam postings in the past and rejected them. But it seems so, I got not all. There should be a ban for some email addresses, but I'm busy at the moment. Because it's not trivial it would take som

Re: OpenOffice needs better UI

2021-09-02 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, just my 2 cents as an extension author. Am 02.09.21 um 13:43 schrieb Peter Kovacs: In addition to the UI redesign, is it possible for us to develop a web-page based office suite similar to Google docs or Office 365 ? This is a very long road. I see open questions towards cooperative w

Re: OpenOffice needs better UI

2021-08-31 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hi, are 6 menu types more "light-weightedness"? Regards Michael Am 31.08.21 um 14:18 schrieb Nagy Ákos: Hi, in LibreOffice you can choose from 6 menu types. If isn't attached, can view here: https://ibb.co/Ctqf8Fr OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: OpenOffice needs better UI

2021-08-31 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, people, who want "light-weightedness", can use OOo4Kids or help to continue it's development. Kind regards Michael OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

FrOSCon 2021 - link to 'booth'

2021-08-18 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Free Software and Open Source - these are the topics of FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference). Every year in August the computer science department of the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, supported by FrOSCon e.V., will organize an exciting program with talks and

Fwd: FrOSCon 2021: Event Details

2021-08-02 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, I have asked for a "booth" for Apache OpenOffice. Ich habe dort einen "Stand" angemeldet. Kind regards Freundliche Grüße Michael Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: FrOSCon 2021: Event Details Datum: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 21:41:19 +0200 Von: proje...@lists.froscon.de Antwort

CHemnitz Linux Days 2021 - URL of our BBB room

2021-03-06 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, the Chemnitz Linux Days will happen on 13th and 14th of March 2021. This year in a different form, namely virtual. Our booth is also different. We will get a place in a virtual world reproducing the building and a BigBlueButton room. You will find the program of the Chemnitz Linux Days

Chemnitz Linux Days 2021

2021-02-27 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, the Chemnitz Linux Days will happen on 13th and 14th of March 2021. This year in a different form, namely virtual. Our booth is also different. We will get a place in a virtual world reproducing the building and a BigBlueButton room. You will find the program of the Chemnitz Linux Days 2

Macro book

2021-01-29 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Andrew Pitonyak puplished his book "OpenOffice.org Macros Explained" on 19th of June 2018 (4.th edition). Now there is an extended german translation available: https://www.uni-due.de/~abi070/ooo.html It's a great work. As far as I see it's the only up-to-date and available book for

Fwd: CLT2021/B132: Ausstellerzusage "Apache OpenOffice"

2021-01-23 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
OpenOffice" Datum: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:48:58 +0100 (CET) Von: l...@linux-tage.de An: anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de Hallo Frau Mechtilde Stehmann, Hallo Herr Dr. Michael Stehmann, in den vergangenen Wochen habt ihr euch als Aussteller mit dem Titel "Apache OpenOffice" bei de

Who is the Project? was: OS2 code

2021-01-20 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Your question is valis. But the answer is might be a little fuzzy. From a formal view an Apache Project needs a PMC with some members and some committers (all PMC members are "committers", but some committers might not be PMC members). But that is not the whole truth, esp. not for the

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hi, I think we have to differ between responsibility and merit and support. On the webpage we IMO have to clarify we are not responsible for the OS/2 port and the merits belong to others. But in our code we IMO should do what is in our potentials to support such a port. So please keep the

Re: Short report of our anniversary meeting

2020-10-20 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello Pedro, thank you for your notice. The key server system is sadly broken. So I attach my public key for your personal keyring. Regards Michael Am 20.10.20 um 11:38 schrieb Pedro Lino: > Hi Michael > > Just a short message to let you know that my email is warning "Unable to > verify sign

Short report of our anniversary meeting

2020-10-20 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, on Saturday, 17th of October 2020 we celebrated our twa anniversaries: 20 years OpenOffice and 8 years Apache Top Level Project with a meeting of project members. We met us in a Big-Blue-Button room. https://bbb.daten.reisen/b/mec-egg-wfg-l7x Ancient friends visit us and new face

Re: Just another Anniversaries Event

2020-10-16 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Invitation! Room is now open (Mechtilde will let you in) https://bbb.daten.reisen/b/mec-egg-wfg-l7x CU Michael Am 16.10.20 um 10:50 schrieb Dr. Michael Stehmann: > Hello, > > both anniversaries of the Apache OpenOffice Project are a very good > reason for a meeting of the project

Re: My opinion (was: Happy birthday OpenOffice)

2020-10-16 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, > Our project is a community of people working together making software, > documentation, helping users etc. for the public good. > If others use our contributions and don't give back. That's okay. That's > on them. > That's part of what makes us Apache. > > Best regards, > Carl That is

Just another Anniversaries Event

2020-10-16 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, both anniversaries of the Apache OpenOffice Project are a very good reason for a meeting of the project members. But unfortunately this can not happen in "real live". But we are able to meet us online. From tommorow (Saturday, 16th of October 2020) 09:00 a.m. CEST (= 07:00 UTC) (open end)

Re: Building AOO under Debian9

2020-09-30 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello Don, in configure.sh I had this line : --with-build-version="aoo42x-$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") - `uname -sm`\n ${GitHash}" Because I want to have the corresponding git hash I built, I need the output in two lines. Thanks for your help Kind regards Mechtilde Am 30.09.20 um 08:38 schrieb

Fwd: T-DOSE 2020 Corona virus update: Postponed a second time

2020-09-15 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
FYI Michael Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Re: T-DOSE 2020 Corona virus update: Postponed a second time Datum: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 09:13:01 +0200 Von: Dr. Michael Stehmann An: T-DOSE Organisation Hello, it is a sad message, but a responsible decision. Clausula rebus sic

Fwd: T-DOSE 2020 Corona virus update: Postponed a second time

2020-09-15 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
FYI Michael Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: T-DOSE 2020 Corona virus update: Postponed a second time Datum: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:31:56 +0200 (CEST) Von: T-DOSE Organisation An: Dr. Michael Stehmann Dear Dr. Michael Stehmann, In the light of the recent upsurge of COVID-19

Re: Logo for About dialog in 4.1.8

2020-09-10 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 10.09.20 um 10:22 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: >> -Original Message- >> From: Dr. Michael Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de] >> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020 10:09 AM >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Logo for About dialog

Re: Logo for About dialog in 4.1.8

2020-09-10 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 10.09.20 um 09:54 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > > a bad looking logo *is* a problem. > The Logo, I voted for is not bad looking in my eyes. For me it seems also proper for example for stickers. IMO it not a "love it or hate it" design and that is an advantage in my eyes. Kind regards Mi

Logo for About dialog in 4.1.8

2020-09-10 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, "open source" or "open-source" is not my wording; I prefer "Free Software". But it is ok for me and for that purpose. So let us continue our work. A "-" is not so important to discuss it intensively. It is more important to solve the problems to get a very proper build until anniversary.

Re: [vote] Logo for About dialog in 4.1.8 [was: Re: About 20th anniversary plans]

2020-09-09 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
+1 (binding, if that matters) Kind regards Michael Am 08.09.20 um 19:10 schrieb Pedro Lino: > Hi Matthias, all > >> On 09/08/2020 3:11 PM Matthias Seidel wrote: > >> I am still not sure what I should vote for/against? >> >> The graphic (which one)? Or committing it to branch 418? > > I call f

Re: Decisions and Behavior

2020-07-08 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 08.07.20 um 09:24 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > Michael, that's completely undisputed, but that's not the issue here. > > (Moreover, this was clearly not about the protection of individual data, > because the data is known to everyone. After all, the confidentiality of the > personal word

Re: should we conduct a 20 year anniversary online conference / meetup?

2020-07-07 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 07.07.20 um 07:25 schrieb Peter: > > - Michael will have a talk on the history of our booth (in german) > It will be more about the history of germanophone community (ok - booths will also be on topic). Kind regards Michael signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Decisions and Behavior

2020-07-07 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 06.07.20 um 17:22 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > And I believe the maximum possible openness is what we should live in a free > project every day. This does not mean that there can't be reasons to discuss > certain things confidentially, but you should use this possibility with a > great se

Re: New Committer: Detlef Nannen

2020-07-03 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello Jan-Christian, Am 03.07.20 um 17:57 schrieb jan-christ...@wienandt.de: > I can speak my mind on my own. That was also my guess. And that means we do not need a "tribunus plebis". Thank you for this clarification. Kind regards Michael signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signat

Re: New Committer: Detlef Nannen

2020-07-02 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello Jörg, Am 01.07.20 um 16:58 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: >> Is this your opinion or the opinion of Jan-Christian? > > STOP! > I'm only speaking specifically in person here. Try not to doubt that! > > (In fact, I haven't had the chance to talk to Jan at all, because I've only > known about the de

Re: New Committer: Detlef Nannen

2020-07-02 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 01.07.20 um 16:52 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: >> >> If you want to build a team, performance is not the only thing that >> counts. But I do not see the problem n practice. I do not >> know anybody, >> who has personal aversions in this case. > > Then you didn't read Mathias' statement on de-

Re: New Committer: Detlef Nannen

2020-07-01 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 01.07.20 um 16:08 schrieb Dr. Michael Stehmann: > Is this your opinion or the opinion of Detlef? This was a mistake: The right question is: Is this your opinion or the opinion of Jan-Christian? Or are there more people involved in producing the flyers? Excuse my mistake. Kind rega

Re: New Committer: Detlef Nannen

2020-07-01 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 01.07.20 um 15:06 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > Power, including the PMC, should be used responsibly. That is evidently true. Personal sympathies are not a good signpost; performance alone should count. If you want to build a team, performance is not the only thing that counts. But I do not see

Re: New Committer: Detlef Nannen

2020-07-01 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hi Jörg, that is in general no secret and well known: The PMC of an Apache project closely monitors the contributions of individuals. When a PMC member nominates an individual, it is usefull the member talks to other members before the nomination. The committee votes to decide whether the contr

Re: my wiki account no longer works.?

2020-05-15 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 14.05.20 um 22:09 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: >> Did you use your LDAP credentials? > > That tells me nothing. I receive my emails via POP3 and store them locally. For Jörg: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol For non-german speakers: https://en.wikipedia.

Re: Meeting friends

2020-03-21 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Yes, I got an email and I have notified our plans to come in October. Kind regards Michael Am 21.03.20 um 13:24 schrieb Matthias Seidel: > T-DOSE postponed: > > https://t-dose.org/news/t-dose-2020-postponed/ > > Regards, > >    Matthias > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: Meeting friends

2020-03-10 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Chemnitz has been unfortunately cancelled, but we are looking forward to T-Dose [0]. Regards Michael [0] https://t-dose.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Meeting friends

2020-03-09 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, this friday evening we (Mechtilde and me) were guests at the "LibreOffice Community-Treffen 2020" [0]. We had some interesting "small talks" and could explain to some people, we did not met before, why we support Apache OpenOffice. We will meet some of our friends next weekend in Chemnitz

How our project recently works

2020-02-06 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, I would like to tell you (just as an example) about a few things in which I was and am at best peripherally involved: The primary purpose of the described acts was to provide developers and other commiters to make the work of contributors easier: 1. We moved our version control system fro

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2020

2020-02-04 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, in 2020 the Chemnitz Linux Days have found a place on a weekend in March again. Pick up your schedule and make a big mark on 14th and 15th of March 2020. https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2020/en Venue: Technische Universität Chemnitz Zentrales Hörsaal- und Seminar-Gebäude Reichenh

Re: Hiii

2019-12-06 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, I try to say it in a few words: You have to study only two things: Thinking (as a developer) and learning (to become a better developer). Everything else is volatile. And we can offer you only honour, glory and much experience - and "blood, toil, tears and sweat". Some questions: What

Re: PMC Chair

2019-11-23 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 22.11.19 um 23:29 schrieb Simon Phipps: > (FWIW, I asked not as a criticism but because previous chair rotations were > discussed here (as far as I remember!) and I wondered why this one was done > privately.) If a person wants to have a break and only one person wants to do the job, IMO dis

FOSDEM 2020

2019-11-22 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, following the published list https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-11-19-accepted-stands/ our stand request was not accepted. But some of us (for example Mechtilde, Matthias, me) will be at FOSDEM 2020, so people can meet us. On one side I am a little bit disappointed and sad, becau

Re: volunteer activity tracking

2019-11-21 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 21.11.19 um 14:42 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > Or are members of the PMC not allowed to have different opinions when voting? > And if they may, may they not have different opinions in the future than at > the time when they became a PMC member? > Normally we discuss to get a consensus. C

Re: volunteer activity tracking (was: Ariel is back in our PMC and developer circle)

2019-11-20 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, Am 20.11.19 um 09:33 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > Hello Peter, > >> -Original Message- >> From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:pe...@apache.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 7:50 AM >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: volunteer activity tracking (was: Ariel is back in >> our

AOO at ApacheCon Europe 2019

2019-10-26 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, the ApacheCon Europe took place on October 22-24, 2019 in Berlin (Kulturbrauerei). Three of us (Mechtilde, Matthias and me) joined in this event to meet Apache people from all over the world, to learn how Apache works and to know more about Apache projects (over 350). And we also used the

Re: New helper

2019-10-26 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello and welcome, your skills are really needed here. The first thing you should try is to build AOO. You will find our repos here: https://github.com/apache/openoffice And guides here: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step What is your favor

Fwd: Acknowledging your stand request (Apache OpenOffice)

2019-09-26 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, stand request done. FYI below. Thanks to all, who helped to improve the text. Kind regards Michael Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Acknowledging your stand request (Apache OpenOffice) Datum: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:51:55 + Von: sta...@fosdem.org An: anw...@rechtsanwa

Re: FOSDEM 2020

2019-09-19 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello and thank you very much. There is only one question left: Am 19.09.19 um 13:33 schrieb Matthias Seidel: >> Description of project(s) for publication: >> >> Apache OpenOffice is the Free and Open Productivity Suite to handle >> office tasks. The roots of Apache OpenOffice go back more than

FOSDEM 2020

2019-09-17 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, we are planning to join next FOSDEM like we did in the past. To get a booth (stand) we have to write a request. The deadline for this request will come soon. Among other things we have to answer two questions. With help from Peter I sketched a text for this purpose. Feel free to criticize

FOSDEM 2020

2019-09-17 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, we are planning to join next FOSDEM like we did in the past. To get a booth (stand) we have to write a request. The deadline for this request will come soon. Among other things we have to answer two questions. With help from Peter I sketched a text for this purpose. Feel free to criticize

Re: SHA1/MD5 in sal/rtl/source/digest.c patch license able for OO

2019-07-26 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
OT: Hi, Raphael - wb Regards Michael signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

AOO at T-DOSE

2019-04-23 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, as expected our booth request was successfull. So AOO will participate at T-Dose in Eindhoven/NL [0] on May 11th 2019. Your are welcome to visit this great event and our booth and talk with us. Kind regards Michael [0] http://t-dose.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital sig

Re: FOSDEM

2019-01-29 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 29.01.19 um 01:22 schrieb Peter Kovacs: > Hello, > > Instead I try to come to Chemnitz. I hope my life is quieter by then. > We have a quota for four booth attendees there, now we are only three. So please annonce your coming early enough to get you on the list. The catering for participan

Re: FOSDEM 2019: no Open Document Editors devroom?

2018-12-21 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Ok, good news. If we'll get a stand (booth) also, erverything will be fine. Regards Michael signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Speichern

2018-12-07 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, You are on a wrong mailing list here. Better take users...@openoffice.apache.org Regards Michael Hallo, Du bist hier auf der falschen Liste. Deine Fragen sind hier besser aufgehoben: users...@openoffice.apache.org Gruß Michael Am 07.12.2018 um 10:23 schrieb Dietmar: > Hallo, > heute

Re: AAO writer RC-2

2017-08-27 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
I have also a problem with a form under Debian 64 bit, but in _Base_. This problem is a little bit older (4.1.3), but that form was designed and works under older versions of AOO under Debian 32 bit. The form is contained in an .odb and connected to a MySQL (Mariadb) DBMS. Trying to go in a cell

Re: Apache OpenOffice NG

2017-04-22 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 22.04.2017 um 10:46 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > Note: under a cloud office I understand an Office running in the browser, a > normal > Desktop Office, installed in the LAN(*), is for me not a cloud office. > Yes, cloud means more than a server installation. Kind regards Michael P.S.: Why should

Re: Apache OpenOffice NG

2017-04-22 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 22.04.2017 um 10:02 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > > In this case, I say: I need, even in the future, a _desktop_ office. For me > this > is a question of security, because in today's reality, the cloud is only safe > until the next hacker attack. > "There is no cloud, just other people's computers.

Re: [lazy consensus] FreeBSD as a new supported platform?

2017-01-25 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 24.01.2017 um 23:02 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > > I see some risk of confusion here. I mean, there is surely a set of > "privileged" platforms that are those for which we build and make > available releases from our download page: Windows, MacOS X, and Linux > variants. Then there is a set of "

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

2017-01-22 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 23.01.2017 um 03:00 schrieb toki: > On 01/22/2017 09:20 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >> When LibreOffice forked that code, as the license allowed, some were unhappy >> in any case. > > The sequence was: > * Star Office: Owned by StarDivision, a German corporation; AFAIK the story started

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

2017-01-21 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hi, IMO Raphael's suggestion will work under Apache rules. It is normal that developers of Apache projects are paid by companies etc. to contribute to the project. Whether Raphael`s plan will work as a "business model", we will see. Kind regards Michael signature.asc Description: OpenPGP dig

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

2017-01-20 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 20.01.2017 um 12:38 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > > >> I think LibreOffice are to a certain degree correct. The ASF is not >> capable to do the Project Open Office at this Point. The structure of >> Libre Office is a much more healthy one for the kind of Project >> Libre/Open Office is. > > Yes,

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

2017-01-15 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, there are 3 items stated: - fixing major bugs - improving import filters - improving and creating new extensions IMO all 3 points are important. Topic one and two have to be done by core developers. Topic three can also be done by others and in collaboration with LO people. So IMO we h

Re: Copyleft vs Permissive

2017-01-13 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 14.01.2017 um 00:55 schrieb Peter Kovacs: > > You see that on the LO vs. OO discussion. Most of the LO argument are > market based one. If you think outside the market its all not an issue. > What Reamains is the strength of Open source as such. > In my eyes we are in a super strong position,

Re: future of OpenOffice

2017-01-12 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 13.01.2017 um 01:26 schrieb Simos Xenitellis: > > There is the standing issue with the old www.openoffice.org > that has been repurposed as the front page for Apache OpenOffice. > > I would expect that the historical hostname "www.openoffice.org" to simply > show > a list of OpenOffice.org-b

Re: future of OpenOffice

2017-01-12 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 12.01.2017 um 19:21 schrieb Dave: > On 12.01.2017 16:54, RA Stehmann wrote: >> Is the past on topic for the future? > > Assuming that you are responding to my post in this thread, I do not want to answer to your post, but the questions are caused by the post of Nagy Ákos some minutes before.

Re: Copyleft vs Permissive

2017-01-11 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 11.01.2017 um 22:49 schrieb Peter Kovacs: > Thanks michael for your explanations. Was really interesting, even if I > have another point of view :-D > IMO there are a lot of points of view possible, when you are talking about copyleft. And most of these are valid, if you don't say, that one po

Re: future of OpenOffice

2017-01-11 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 11.01.2017 um 09:44 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > For most of my career, the only way I had of earning a living was > writing software. The FSF's basic philosophy is that programmers should > have no right to own and control the products of their labor. That does > not seem very free to me. For

Re: future of OpenOffice

2017-01-11 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, this discussion is really useless. We have to do more urgend tasks yet. If TDF people want to talk with us, they know where to find us. And vice versa. We have talked a lot in the past. But at the moment I can not see any topic, which is worth to be discussed another time again. If LO pe

Re: Community shirts for FOSDEM

2017-01-03 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 03.01.2017 um 20:08 schrieb Matthias Seidel: > Hello Michael, > > I have ordered some buttons [1], diameter: 22mm > > If you want, I can send you 20 of them and you can take them to FOSDEM? > We have some buttons of a similar kind. So please don't send them. We have used these buttons as giv

Re: Community shirts for FOSDEM

2016-12-21 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 21.12.2016 um 14:44 schrieb Peter Kovacs: > cool! I gladly take one if you have them. > I need a XL size. If you have one for those I take one. :) > Also do you get any money for the shirt? > It is not a shirt - it is just a button. We got the buttons from the ASF, They used them at CONs. The

Re: Fwd: Ihre Praesentation bei den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2017

2016-12-05 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 05.12.2016 um 15:40 schrieb Matthias Seidel: > Thank you for your constant presence on such events! > Without my wife Mechtilde and my daughter Michaela (my core booth team) I could not do that job. They do lot of work at the booths (also before and after the events); so I have rather the ro

Fwd: Ihre Praesentation bei den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2017

2016-12-04 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, our application for a booth at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2017 (march 11.-12. 2017) for your information. Chemnitz is in Germany (Free State Saxonia). Kind regards Michael Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Ihre Praesentation bei den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2017 Datum: Sat

Re: Who goes to the FOSDEM

2016-12-01 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hi Raphael, Mechtilde and I will go to FOSDEM 2017 to become the AOO part of the common Apache booth. Michaela will come with us. Kind regards Michael Am 02.12.2016 um 03:10 schrieb Raphael Bircher: > Hi at all > > Sorry for the crossposting, but I wonder who pans to attend the FOSDEM > at Brux

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