Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-04 Thread Michael Meeks
can easily be twisted into a threat to exclude people that don't join day one :-) Thanks, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines +

RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-17 Thread Michael Meeks
imately lead to both success for LibreOffice, and a single united project again in the long run. But - beyond this, I don't think any good purpose is solved in discussing it acrimoniously and at length. All the best, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com

Re: [tdf-discuss] News about the world outside LO :)

2011-07-15 Thread Michael Meeks
ll no code - I'm not trying to hold my breath like I did the first time ;-) But perhaps there'll be something useful we can re-use. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [steering-discuss] BOD elections

2011-07-25 Thread Michael Meeks
or the election though. Thanks ! Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow

2011-07-27 Thread Michael Meeks
s coming to fix bugs in LibreOffice I'm afraid. If we want it done, we have to do it ourselves. If you know what a database is, and how to use it, then you are probable quite able to invest some time in building the latest code and having a poke at it. Sorry, Michael

Re: [tdf-discuss] IAccessible2, IBM, Oracle (was: (...) Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice)

2011-07-29 Thread Michael Meeks
g on something for which a duplication of effort has been promised for years is hard to get excited about I'm afraid. All the best, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discus

[tdf-discuss] Candidacy for Board: Michael Meeks

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Meeks
to drive Free Software forward. Though I plan to carry on with that regardless of being a board member, if you think I'd be valuable there then please vote for me. I'd love to serve the membership in that way. Thank you, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <

[tdf-discuss] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-05 Thread Michael Stahl
hmm... don't know if there is a online web frontend on Apache servers already, hope the old site still works (at least the Schemas it uses should be reasonably up-to-date AFAIR): http://tools.odftoolkit.org/odfvalidator/ of course the ODF validator also has a command line interface. regards, mic

[tdf-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-06 Thread Michael Stahl
not familiar with officeotron (but have no doubt it is worth checking out), but the latest version of the ODF Toolkit ODF validator can also check various conformance conditions in the ODF package specification (ODF 1.2 part 3) (mostly implemented by yours truly). regards, michael -- Unsubscribe ins

[tdf-discuss] Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board: Michael Meeks

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
lict. It reduces the risk of unfortunate incentives during the development process and it appears to work really well, not just for us - but for many other Free Software projects that have adopted it. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer

Re: [steering-discuss] size of to be elected MC

2011-10-31 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2011-10-29 at 18:47 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > five regular members > plus two deputies +1 :-) -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? h

Re: [steering-discuss] Preparing elections for the membership committee

2011-11-01 Thread Michael Meeks
freeze membership applications. +1 > we take the existing MC (needing a deputy for Thorsten, since > he's in the BoD already) and have a gentlemen's agreement that they step > back on let's say effective July 1st. +1 :-) Michael.

[board-discuss] Re: [steering-discuss] BoD and deputies: vote on fixed times for regular BoD calls

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Is there a reason to stop early like that ? Thanks, Michael (who just filled it out) -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Meeks
'd be fantastic to have your long experience of the project, wide contacts, as well as sheer hard work applied to this essential administrative task :-) Thanks for caring, and getting stuck in, All the best, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Ps

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

2011-11-08 Thread Michael Meeks
any discussion on numbers, but it would > be my suggestion to accept Drew his kind offer to help in the MC Right; but now we have another offer of a deputy. Either way - we should put this to a vote on the public list. All the best, Michael. -- michae

Re: [tdf-discuss] Vote on forums

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Adams
lists. > If you don't speak, we can't hear you. Um, do we need to? This is your thing. Just avoid terms like "overwhelming majority" (Jonathan Aquilina - above) please. Try "critical mass" it sounds buzz-word sufficient. -- Michael -- Unsubscribe instructions

Re: [tdf-discuss] Auto saving and google cloud connect oo2gdocs

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Adams
format at one time by design. It should be possible to achieve in Macros however. * Record a Macro doing what you want. * Add an interval timer with loop. * Turn standard auto-save off. * Run the macro. HTH -- Michael -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documen

Re: [tdf-discuss] Vote on forums

2011-11-11 Thread Michael Adams
of us that don't need to vote. We are happy with mailing lists. But this thread shows that we have a voice too, so as not to be forgotten. -- Michael -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/h

Re: [tdf-discuss] overall communication guidelines and reply-to mangling

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Meeks
ng etc.) is just basic politeness IMHO. Great to see Italo wrote that up. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffi

Re: [tdf-discuss] overall communication guidelines and reply-to mangling

2011-11-28 Thread Michael Meeks
end a mail to unsuscribe-foo@a.b.c i) confirm un-subscribe from unsubscribe-foo@a.b.c In my view, most people fall down at a) - they just never appear to get a reply to their message. To ask someone to do steps b->i in order to interact with us is one that strangles community IM

Re: [tdf-discuss] overall communication guidelines and reply-to mangling

2011-12-07 Thread Michael Meeks
omewhere comes from the sysadmin team, and it seems we're iterating towards a consensus that the discuss list is perhaps not the best place to start before any change took place ;-) HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant id

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Naming builds. Please???

2011-12-08 Thread Michael Adams
** Why not add this to "Insert - Field" as "Insert - Field - Program Version" and "Insert - Field - ODF Version". -- Michael -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.lib

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice buttons for web site use

2011-12-10 Thread Michael Meeks
o us with ? :-) if so, I'm not sure we have one. All the best, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-he

[tdf-discuss] Re: [libo-marketing-priv] Can we replace "Floppy Disk"

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Meeks
the UX people I've talked to ask to do it. All we need is for someone to submit a patch we can merge that has the updated tango icons overwriting the save / saveas icons. An Easy Hack suitable for someone of the smallest talents ;-) HTH, Michael. -- michael

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Meeks
't belong on the libreoffice developer list; please drop that one from the CC. Thanks, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.li

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Please do write them; then we'll review/merge and bundle them. Real is better than imaginary when it comes to code ;-) so get stuck in ! prove the power of python by writing some fantastic functionality with it. All the best, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com &l

Re: [tdf-discuss] Cores and threads

2013-04-03 Thread Michael Meeks
rd on doing some larger changes here for LibreOffice 4.1. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-li

Re: [tdf-discuss] Licensing question

2013-07-26 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Michael, On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 09:53 +0200, RA Stehmann wrote: > So: why does LibreOffice use the MPL? The MPLv2 has many advantages and some weaknesses, as do all licenses depending of course on what you want to achieve. Having said that, personally I believe it is a great choice

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: AMD joins LibreOffice, adds GPU grunt to free software suite

2013-07-27 Thread Michael Meeks
for 4.2 - but that work is ongoing. Of course if you have a fast AMD GPU as well, that should give the best performance :-) ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: disc

Re: [tdf-discuss] Process for resolving security issues

2014-03-05 Thread Michael Meeks
the security process - and work hard to make a security and high quality product for their users. I'm sorry if that's a bit harsh - but the discourse here has already plumbed the depths before you arrived =) (not your fault of course); and there are plenty of things to be working on

Re: [tdf-discuss] Realtime collaboration without a browser, CMU Link Grammar checker

2018-04-18 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Keith, On 18/04/18 18:39, Keith Curtis wrote: > 1. Have you thought about creating a plugin for realtime collaboration > without running in a browser ? Yes. Checkout eg. https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-03-26-collaboration.html In a nutshell - I for one aba

Re: [tdf-discuss] Why a school not migrate to libreoffice

2018-11-14 Thread Michael Meeks
ry bug report. ATB, Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, GM Collabora Productivity Hangout: mejme...@gmail.com, Skype: mmeeks (M) +44 7795 666 147 - timezone usually UK / Europe -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://

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