Re: [discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-10 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 00:43 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > On 2008-11-09, at 18:40 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > Beside the RedFlag people, how strong is the independent community of > > Chineese project? > > That's a fair question, and one whose answer will change as the new > year beg

[discuss] Who produces OOo?, was: first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 00:43:12 AM -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: thanks for the interesting report, but... > OOo has a brilliant future, all the more so given the dark economic > times closing around us. But its brilliance depends on the concerted > efforts on those users who become producers.

Re: [discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-10 Thread Alexandro Colorado
> Again, the take away for me was that: > > * producer not consumer is key > * making producers is hard and entails both informing the user and also > going half-way, with information, tools, outreach > > If we do not have more producers, then OOo--and every Foss project--ceases > being sustained a

[discuss] Re: Resizing images

2008-11-10 Thread Clarke Rice
Clarke Rice wrote: >>> Right-click, format image, delete cropped areas, compress all images >>> - it's a lot easier than putting all the images into Photoshop and >>> reformatting them. Yep, useful tool. >> Maybe open GIMP or another editor like some programs do. > Look into programs like 'Graphic

Re: [discuss] Re: Resizing images

2008-11-10 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hello, Am Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:59:22 - schrieb "Clarke Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > > Surely I can't be the only person here who, to save space or whatever > has cropped images already in the document or resized them and then > thought to myself "this doesn't need to take up 1MB anymo

Re: [discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2008-11-10, at 08:48 , Ian Lynch wrote: Go back a stage and I'd agree. You need strategies to enable users to become producers and education is the key. I quite agree, and that was a recurrent theme in my presentations. Louis -