Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Augustine Souza
On 11/9/11, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Florian, > > I'll open a wiki page tomorrow with some requirements listed so that we > come up with some criteria for a forum platform. Others are free to fill > the page as well. > If I'm not mistaken, we already have several "threads" on various aspects of

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Florian, I'll open a wiki page tomorrow with some requirements listed so that we come up with some criteria for a forum platform. Others are free to fill the page as well. Best, Charles. Le 8 nov. 2011 22:58, "Florian Effenberger" a écrit : > Hi, > > Cor Nouws wrote on 2011-11-08 21:29: > >> I

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Cor Nouws wrote on 2011-11-08 21:29: Indeed, luckily not all topics are urgent :-) to be clear on this: I think that it becomes more and more urgent. Based on the feedback I get, many users really demand an official forum, and the mailing lists and their gateways do not work out for them

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Florian, Florian Effenberger wrote (08-11-11 15:33) of course, there is no need to hurry, but why not start (in case we want to go for it) now, so we have enough time to evaluate and decide? Yes, not doing things in a rush is good. What I was referring to: if there is less need to hurry, w

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, maybe I put it the wrong way. Of course, there are always services that are inly available with ads, then we sometimes have no choice. However, when thinking about eithe modifying existing services that have ads, to fit our needs, like for a forum, or to setup our own without ads, I have a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 15:34 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hi, > > ads, independent to what they advertise for, are basically a no go for me. > Howdy Florian right, well I have no doubt of the sincerity behind that comment, but it does get a bit dicey in practice IMO. For instance very f

Re: [board-discuss] Fwd: Liaison between LO and Calligra project

2011-11-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michiel Leenaars wrote: > ... but to have a tenacious bulldog appointed within these > projects that makes sure that progress is made even if people are > swamped. > Hi Michiel, sorry, that's not gonna fly here. Participants in this project are often self-directed and volunteers, or employees of

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, ads, independent to what they advertise for, are basically a no go for me. Florian *** This message has been sent from my tablet. Please excuse the possible briefness. Augustine Souza schrieb: >On 11/8/11, drew wrote: >... >> >> Right, LibreOfficeForum.org was almost first out of the

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, of course, there is no need to hurry, but why not start (in case we want to go for it) now, so we have enough time to evaluate and decide? Better than doing things in a rush later on. :-) The topic itself is not new, it has in fact been up already since nearly the beginning of TDF. Florian

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice in press release about extensions

2011-11-08 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi Italo, At 14:32 8-11-2011, Italo Vignoli wrote: Christophe Strobbe wrote: Thanks for your comment. I have changed the paragraph to: "LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) is a free and open-source office suite based on the OpenOffice.org source code. It is a community-driven project of

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice in press release about extensions

2011-11-08 Thread Italo Vignoli
Christophe Strobbe wrote: Thanks for your comment. I have changed the paragraph to: "LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) is a free and open-source office suite based on the OpenOffice.org source code. It is a community-driven project of The Document Foundation. The Document Foundation was

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice in press release about extensions

2011-11-08 Thread M Henri Day
2011/11/8 Christophe Strobbe > Hi Italo, > > > At 13:01 8-11-2011, Italo Vignoli wrote: > >> Christophe Strobbe wrote: >> >>> "LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) is a free and open-source >>> office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of >>> OpenOffice.org. The Document Fo

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice in press release about extensions

2011-11-08 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi Italo, At 13:01 8-11-2011, Italo Vignoli wrote: Christophe Strobbe wrote: "LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) is a free and open-source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. The Document Foundation was formed in September 2010 and has released

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice in press release about extensions

2011-11-08 Thread Italo Vignoli
Christophe Strobbe wrote: "LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org/) is a free and open-source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org. The Document Foundation was formed in September 2010 and has released several new versions of LibreOffice since that time.

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice in press release about extensions

2011-11-08 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi Fernand, At 12:21 8-11-2011, Fernand Vanrie wrote: (...) Wat kind of extensions ? (...) The new extension is an accessibility checker for ODT documents. This is a pure Java-based extension that uses a taskpanel for its UI. We plan to submit it to the LibreOffice core once we have received

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Vote for MC elections

2011-11-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Volker, Volker Merschmann wrote (08-11-11 11:19) I offered my help as I thought form the discussions that more persons are really needed. If this is not really the case, I am fine with withdrawing my offer. I think that is a friendly step at the moment. For sure, we will remember your name

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice in press release about extensions

2011-11-08 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Christophe , Wat kind of extensions ? Greetz Fernand Hi, At K.U.Leuven we have been working on three extensions for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org. One of them is new; two others will be updated this week. We are planning a press release about this and would like to know how LibreOffice and

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice in press release about extensions

2011-11-08 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi, At K.U.Leuven we have been working on three extensions for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org. One of them is new; two others will be updated this week. We are planning a press release about this and would like to know how LibreOffice and TDF would like to be mentioned in this. The current te

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Vote for MC elections

2011-11-08 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 23:14 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > Florian Effenberger wrote (07-11-11 12:11) > > Ok. So I take it that you propose Simon and Norbert as seat holders, > > which means we have one deputy role open at the moment? > > Currently I'm not able to follow any discussion on numbers, but

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
So looking at the contributions to this discussion so far - many thanks for those :-) - I see various subjects: - about technical possibilities; - some with politics; - and the question itself. Reading the various opinions, sooner or later, there will be fora, that are clearly recognised as lin

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Augustine, *, On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Augustine Souza wrote: > On 11/8/11, drew wrote: > > en.libreofficeforum.org is not too shabby at all and would serve the purpose. > > If I remember there was some opposition to Google ads featuring > competing software but that's really a non-iss

Re: [tdf-discuss] Are we sure not to release 3.4.4-RC3? This is the last release until February and 3.5.0 one!

2011-11-08 Thread Carlo Strata
Il 07/11/2011 18:51, Uwe Altmann ha scritto: Am 07.11.11 17:43, schrieb Thorsten Behrens: Absolutely! That's the whole point in development, to make a better version! :) No, not necessarily. An old saying goes: If debugging is the process of eliminating errors in a computer program then program

Re: [tdf-discuss] Are we sure not to release 3.4.4-RC3? This is the last release until February and 3.5.0 one!

2011-11-08 Thread Carlo Strata
Thank you Thorsten! Carlo Il 07/11/2011 17:43, Thorsten Behrens ha scritto: Carlo Strata wrote: That bug is not even fully analysed, let alone fixed yet - so why should we even start pondering to delay a release of an otherwise improved version? You are right, but this one is the only one I r

[board-discuss] On project leads and formal roles

2011-11-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, This is a short reminder about our policy concerning formal roles and project team leads. We usually refrain from making any sort of statement on whether this or that team needs a project lead or doesn't need one. We believe that in some cases a team will need a lead and in some ot

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi *, Cor Nouws wrote (29-10-11 00:16) Now I wonder: what about the future of forums for LibreOffice? It looks convenient to have all at one place. On the other side: LibreOffice will grow to be different more and more. Different code base, more functions. So apart from that it is maybe not fai