[discuss] Re: Open Office 2011

2011-06-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2011-06-21, at 20:40 , Peter Junge wrote: Am 21.06.2011 08:52, schrieb David H. Lipman: From: M.R.R. Khanmrrk...@yahoo.com Gentlemen, Just today I received an email which informs that Open Office 2011 has been launched. With extreme desire I wanred to download this software,

[discuss] Re: oo and mobile devices

2011-06-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Paul, On 2011-06-05, at 19:51 , Paul Gronbach Jr wrote: I am new to OO and recent technology advances; my question concerns using OO on or in sync with smart phones; which smartphones will I be able to use? TIA Welcome to the more or less here community! So far, there is no mobile device

[discuss] Re: [fr-users] Fwd: [fr-discuss] Oracle arrête les développements OpenOffice

2011-04-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager Chair, Community Council OpenOffice.org Blog: http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/ -- - To unsubscribe send email

[discuss] Re: [native-lang-com] Japan Earthquake: Kazunari Hirano needs our help

2011-03-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
this call for donations is of course welcome. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Development Manager OpenOffice.org -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email

[discuss] Re: [marketing] Updates....

2011-02-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
if we work with the engineers, not with the tenders of the last car, the caboose. From there, you can only see the past. Been there. Me, I want to do the future thing. Good luck, Peter Thanks, Louis On 02/11/2011 09:58 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, I've left Oracle but continue

[discuss] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
means that, as always, I remain attentive to what you need, want, desire, wish for, and will try my best to communicate those desires to whomever must hear them. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Chair, Community Council Co-Lead, Marketing (and several other) Lead, Native Language

[discuss] Call for Nominations for Community Council Seats

2010-02-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
/call_for_nominations_201003 -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org

[discuss] November 2009 Election Results

2009-11-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The election held earlier this month ended quite satisfactorily and we held our first Council meeting with the newly elected members this last Thursday 26 Nov. [0]. On behalf of everyone concerned in the process, I'd like to congratulate all for the success of this first wave of

[discuss] [council-discuss] Final draft of Vote 2009 November

2009-11-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. If you run into problems feel free to contact the commissary and observers. Commissary: Louis Suarez-Potts Observers: Drew Jensen, Mechtilde Stehmann, Stefan Taxhet Ciao, - Louis (on behalf of the OpenOffice.org Community Council) -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems

[discuss] Call for Nominations for Community Council Election

2009-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
://council.openoffice.org/councilcharter12.html#CouncilMembers [3] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org

Re: [discuss] new certification project

2009-10-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2009-10-05, at 16:15 , Cor Nouws wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote (5-10-2009 9:26) On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote (2-10-2009 19:40) This is a formal proposal to set up the certification project which would be a dedicated

Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter

2008-12-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Bernhard, On 2008-12-07, at 09:07 , Dr. Bernhard Dippold wrote: Hi, I don't know if it is on purpose, that the Community Manager (Louis) is not part of the Community Council. ? I was elected and continue to be re-elected to this body, making me part of the CC. I am also a lead in the

Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter

2008-12-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Lars, On 2008-12-07, at 10:13 , Lars Noodén wrote: One part I see that is very vulnerable to abuse, intentionally or accidentally, is the rush vote. Too much crap gets pushed through in emergency sessions in city councils and in student organizations. The contingency vote also gets

Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter

2008-12-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2008-12-07, at 11:02 , André Schnabel wrote: Hi Bernhard, Dr. Bernhard Dippold schrieb: I don't know if it is on purpose, that the Community Manager (Louis) is not part of the Community Council. He might be included as Sun Staff Member, but the only part where Community Managers

[discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter

2008-12-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
of the process will come soon, but it entails getting candidates to step forth and stand for election, then holding the election, a multi-week process.) Thanks, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org

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

[discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Others will write more about OOoCon 2008, and they should :-) There will also be videos and many blog accounts, including my own. But I thought I'd send in this brief summary of the 6th OOoCon, the first held in Beijing, but I hope not the last held in Asia. It was a success, at

Re: [discuss] first summary of OOoCon 2008

2008-11-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
on the concerted efforts on those users who become producers. -louis On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Others will write more about OOoCon 2008, and they should :-) There will also be videos and many blog accounts, including my own. But I

[discuss] Re: [council-discuss] Suggestions for a new Community Council structure

2008-06-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Michael, On 2008-05-23, at 10:57 , Michael Meeks wrote: Hi Louis, Note: the council is more than one person... We talked over these governance improvement suggestions over at OOoCon, as you may remember, and I've finally got around to putting them down in (hopefully) a clear

[discuss] Our New Look

2008-03-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Lohmaier (co-lead of website), Alexandro Colorado, André Wyrwa, Kay Schenk, and many others not mentioned here but no less important. Thanks to all. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org

[discuss] New License and Contributor Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems, Inc. [0] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html [1] http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sca.pdf [2] http://gpl3.palamida.com:8080/index.jsp [3] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement.jsp [4] http

[discuss] User Experience Project is an Accepted Project

2008-03-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
efforts and projects in the OpenOffice.org community is the basis for the success of this cross-sectional activity. We invite you to join us on our mailing list discuss at ux.openoffice.org! Find out more about us and our work on http://ux.openoffice.org . Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts

[discuss] OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program

2008-01-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, The Members of the Program Committee Louis Suarez-Potts John McCreesh Pavel Janík Stefan Taxhet [0] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[discuss] Fosdem 2008

2008-01-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Call for Papers and Workshops for Fosdem 2008 Developer Room for OpenOffice.org Fosdem 2008 (23-24 February, Brussels, Belgium) [0] is legendary for being a focused and exciting developer and contributor conference. This year, it will host a Developer Room (DevRoom) for OpenOffice.org

[discuss] New Community Contributor Representative (CCR)

2008-01-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/The_OpenOffice.org_Community_Council_Agenda Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

[discuss] Reminder - Vote now for Community Contributor Representative

2007-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
above. If you are curious about the Community Council, go to http://council.openoffice.org/ to learn more. ** Remember: Vote by Saturday 22 December 23:59 UTC.** Thanks to Ben Bois, Laurent Godard, and Stefan Taxhet, who have volunteered their time to set this poll up. -Louis Suarez-Potts

[discuss] Last Community Council Meeting IRC Log

2007-11-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, The IRC log of the last Community Council meeting (22th of November) can be found here : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Minutes The next meeting will be on the 5th of December but the time has yet to be determined, though probably after 17:00 UTC.

[discuss] Education Project

2007-11-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Dear all, Apologies for multiple posting. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . The newly active project, Education, focuses on helping students and teachers learn about how to work with OpenOffice.org. Our primary aim is not use but coding, though use is always nice. A lot of work has

[discuss] OpenOffice.org at foss.in

2007-11-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The OpenOffice.org presence in India is large and growing. Millions use it there, in numerous languages. This December, as part of the internationally renown foss.in conference held annually in Bangalore, OpenOffice.org will have its first Project Day: a day devoted to talks and

[discuss] Announcement: IBM Joins the OpenOffice.org Community

2007-09-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org technology in its products. The full announcement is available at: * http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_release.html And Q A at: * http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_faq.html Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[discuss] Interesting news

2007-09-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Worth reading: Andy Updegrove is predicting failure for OOXML in its rushed quest to be yet another ISO standard for office documents. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php? story=2007090315253367 -louis

Re: [discuss] Regarding OpenOffice Suite

2007-04-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-04-07, at 05:25 , Cor Nouws wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:48:04 -0500, Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about OpenOffice.org 2.x and beyond ( 16:15 – 17:00 ) on http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/schedule/ tuesday.html ?? I am not

Re: [discuss] Please, were are the portable versions of OpenOffice?

2007-04-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-04-05, at 12:28 , paulus1 @gmail.com wrote: Always when there is a newer version of OpenOffice it is a horror to find the portable version in my own language. I don't understand why this is made so extremely difficult to find. Couldn't you centralize the portable (native) versions

Re: [discuss] Question

2007-04-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-04-04, at 15:41 , Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:54:36 -0400 edward vergnaud wrote: Hi, I have paid $ 11.99 for the version 2.1. After I upgrade this version to 2.2 I got the feeling that this is a free software and I was not supposed to pay anything. It is free

[discuss] The ODF Toolkit Project

2007-01-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
(UNO) for developers: http://udk.openoffice.org * OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers: http://api.openoffice.org * Press Contacts Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 John McCreesh (UTC +0h00) OpenOffice.org

[discuss] Referendum on changing length of CC service

2006-10-30 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, You need to vote on this... The current length of service for Community Council office holders is not working out. We have found that the stipulated terms are just not long enough for us to get things done. Accordingly, on Wednesday, 2006-10-18, the Community Council consensually

Re: [discuss] size of OOo community

2006-10-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2006-10-19, at 12:05 , Matthias Müller-Prove wrote: Hi, just read Louis' happy birthday keynote [1]. Now I am wondering how he has calculated the number of community members. 350.000 is really a lot! Maybe someone can point me to some other statistics on the distribution of

[discuss] GullFOSS

2006-10-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Have people come across this blog on OOo yet? It's quite good. http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS : on OOo engineering at Sun. Ciao, louis

[discuss] [pr] FINAL: OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Is Here.... And It's Our Birthday!

2006-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
the suite may be found at http://www.openoffice.org/product Press Contacts John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Louis Suarez-Potts

[discuss] Links....

2006-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
://download.openoffice.org/2.0.4/index.html And release notes: * http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.0.4.html Thanks, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[discuss] OOoCon 2006!

2006-09-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, I'll be posting a longer article on OOoCon 2005 shortly, but I'd like to say that the recently concluded OOoCon 2006 was all we could have wanted and then a lot more. It was educational and fun; a meeting place for new friends and a rendezvous for those who meet but once a year.

Re: [discuss] Native Language Confederation-kannada not listed

2006-09-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-09-04, at 06:30 , Sanganagouda Khanagoudar wrote: Dear OpenOffice, I love openoffice, and I love my native language kannada more than anything. I want my favorate openoffice in Kannada. so please include kannada in the projects list for native languages. Native Language

[discuss] Developer Article Winner: Cédric Bosdonnat

2006-08-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Cédric Bosdonnat has once again won the Developer Article contest with a superb article on UNO, Understanding UNO. What is UNO? As Bosdonnat explains, UNO is the central concept in OpenOffice.org because it manages all the OpenOffice.org internal objects UNO provides a way to

[discuss] FINAL 1.2: OOoCon 2006 11-13 September

2006-08-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
be found at http://www.openoffice.org/product Press Contacts John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00

Re: [discuss] UNSUBSCRIBE From List

2006-07-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2006-07-21, at 07:55 , Hannes Gruber wrote: Ave List, I once subscribed to the list, but now it is impossible for me to unsubscribe again. By now I have tried to send a mail to discuss- [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that did not work :-(. Is there any human address to write to, who can

[discuss] Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index

2006-07-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
There has been comment in the media about a report on a French language website: Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index The ZDNet article [1] claims to describe the proceedings of a confidential meeting within the French public administration. It is not appropriate for the

[discuss] Brief Downtime Today: 20:30 UTC

2006-07-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, OpenOffice.org will be offline for about on hour commencing 20:30 UTC today. All mail lists, forums, IssueZilla, CVS, will be unavailable. Download sites and anoncvs will be unaffected. We regret the inconvenience. -Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org CollabNet

[discuss] Scheduled Maintenance: 2006-07-14 23:30 UTC

2006-07-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. Best, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] Google backs OpenDocument format

2006-07-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, Not just interesting but cool :-) http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9001713 FWIW, OOo is represented on the ODF Alliance by me. And I contacted Google a while ago on this issue though I cannot claim credit for persuading them.

[discuss] New Developer Article Contest Winner!

2006-07-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, We have a new Developer Article Contest Winner: Kohei Yoshida Hacking Calc--The First Step, by Kohei Yoshida, has won June's contest. As have the other winners before him, Kohei Yoshida wins USD $750 and international fame. It's merited: Hacking Calc is important reading for any

[discuss] Site Infrastructure Upgrade: Tuesday 20 June

2006-06-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
and forum archives, among other things; performance may also be affected Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] Site Infrastructure Upgrade: Tuesday 20 June

2006-06-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
indexers, and these may affect the behaviour of list and forum archives, among other things; performance may also be affected Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[discuss] New Developer Article Contest

2006-05-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, New Winner, Developer Article Contest S. Sevki Dincer has won April's Developer Article Contest; congratulations! Sevki's article is a step by step guide on how to write a simple component (a Calc add-in) for OpenOffice.org (OOo) in C ++. The Developer Article Contest continues each

[discuss] OpenDocument Format = ISO 26300

2006-05-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. Louis Suarez-Potts, the OpenOffice.org Community Manager writes, The approval by the ISO helps level the playing field and helps clarify what is at stake: your intellectual property, your right to use innovative software. The open standard means not only that your property is not held

[discuss] Brief Maintenance Downtime 2006-04-28 16:00 UTC

2006-04-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
too disruptive. Regards, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] CP Hennessy: Winner, March Round Article Contest

2006-04-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[discuss] Brief Maintenance Downtime 2006-04-17 17:30 UTC

2006-04-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
too disruptive. Regards, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Norwegian government promotes open standards

2006-04-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks, Martin! On 2006-04-14, at 06:51 , Martin Hauge wrote: The Norwegian Minister of Government administration and reform has established a committee for forming IT-standards for public sectors. One of the goals is to be more independent of Microsoft, and the standards are meant to

[discuss] OOo at LWE: Thanks!

2006-04-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
was expensive. And of course my thanks to everyone else I have not named but who helped out! LinuxWorld gave us the boothspace (thanks!) but everything else came from the community: you. Thanks Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[discuss] Netiquette

2006-04-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
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Re: [discuss] Microsoft bought openoffice.org

2006-04-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2006-04-01, at 09:59 , Alexandro Colorado wrote: Funny note at Linux Journals, happy fools day!!! http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2006-04-01-009-26-OS-CY-MS :-) Thanks to John, Cristian, Jacqueline. Cheers, Louis

Re: [discuss] Updated and modified versions of the Australian English language files

2006-03-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-03-27, at 21:58 , Kelvin Eldridge wrote: Hi, This email is for Australian users of OpenOffice.org. Some of you will remember me as the person who created the Australian English dictionary for OpenOffice.org. I decided a while ago to make special versions of the language

[discuss] Fwd: ODF Article for ILTA White Paper

2006-03-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
as soon as you can. Thanks! Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Fwd: ODF Article for ILTA White Paper

2006-03-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
/ consultation_en.htm On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi, The International Legal Technology Association needs a white paper on the ODF for lawyers by 31 March. Their original author cancelled. Details are at http://tinyurl.com/lrp7k As Ken Hansen of the organization put

[discuss] LinuxWorld Expo Boston 4-6 April

2006-03-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
the team for the exhibition at LWE Boston and time is speeding by. Send an email to louis at openoffice.org if you want to help out. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail

[discuss] OOoCon 2006 Call For Papers

2006-03-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
The OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2006) Call for Papers *Your proposal should be sent before 1 June 2006 in order to guarantee that it will be considered for inclusion in the Conference.* We are soliciting papers from the broad OpenOffice.org community on topics ranging from developing

[discuss] First Winner Developer Article Contest!

2006-03-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
/OpenOffice.org_Developer_Article_Contest -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Reactive to account New !!!

2006-03-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I removed this user and filed issue #62988 asking support to block this user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and preferably all of @paypal.com -louis On 2006-03-09, at 16:14 , PayPal wrote: Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006

[discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
This is not exactly stunning news. But Google has acquired Writerly http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39256660,00.htm or, http://tinyurl.com/kzd3z and, http://www.dvhardware.net/article10289.html Google has acquired Writely. This is an online word processor that enables you to

[discuss] OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 Is Here

2006-03-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
] +61 (8) 9474-3021 John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (131) 523-9218 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org

[discuss] new download page

2006-03-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, If you've tried to download OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 (you know, the one with the magical dictionaries), you may have noticed a new download page. And if you did, you'll have noticed how clean, how nice, how usable it is. Our thanks must go to Maarten Brouwers, who in the space of about

[discuss] Correction to vnunet.com article

2006-02-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Dear All, The headline of Tom Sanders' article, Sun urged to give up OpenOffice control, [0] is wrong.[1] I did not urge on behalf of myself, the community or anyone else for Sun to give up OpenOffice.org control. Rather, as I understood it, the thrust of the interview had to do with

Re: [discuss] Correction to vnunet.com article

2006-02-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, I can try. I already sent a note to Tom Sanders but have not heard back from him. I'll be happy to send it to others. Argh, Louis Sigrid Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Dear All, The headline of Tom Sanders' article, Sun urged to give up OpenOffice control, [0

Re: [discuss] Correction to vnunet.com article

2006-02-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
planed interview, including people with some status (just to mention a possibility), that gets a lot of attention. Actually, I'm moving on all fronts :-)--blog, corrections, etc. sigh, Louis Greetings, Cor Sigrid Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Dear All, The headline of Tom

Re: [discuss] Linux binary distribution

2006-02-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi I'd like to formalize the list of linux distributions. Maybe it exists already and I just don't know about it, but I think it would do us all good to have a simple wiki or web page listing Linux distributions, location, and their status--hence wiki. I can start it or really anyone can

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice.org groups in Colorado?

2006-02-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Solveig! On 2006-02-02, at 12:43 , Solveig Haugland wrote: Hi, My apologies for the very locally focused post. I've googled for existing local OpenOffice.org groups and didn't find anything. I was wondering if there are others in the Colorado/Front Range area who would be interested

[discuss] Brief downtime today 21:45 UTC for 30 minutes

2006-01-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Thanks

2006-01-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 1/12/06 3:51 AM Nikolaidis Panos wrote: Hello, this mail is just for saying thanks to CPHennessy for his fast and helpfull reply to me. ++1 CP has been doing an amazing and consistent job moderating this and other lists. He deserves all our thanks! Thanks CP, Louis Best regards

[discuss] Excellent article

2006-01-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi One of the questions I'm asked a lot when I go to conferences to present on OOo is, How do I do a batch conversion of my legacy files to OOo? I was thus very pleased to come across this article [0] which has a rather good answer: Most people know that you can use OpenOffice 2.0, the open

Re: [discuss] Unsubscribing

2006-01-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi I unsubscribed the poster early this morning, my time. In general, if someone wants to unsubscribe and has followed the suggestions that Michael provides below but is impatient anyway or efforts to unsubscribe are unsuccessful (or whatever), CPH or I can always unsubscribe the person. Cheers,

Re: [discuss] Office lite

2006-01-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 1/6/06 1:50 AM Paul wrote: I don't believe that a 'lite' version is on the roadmap... No, at least not on Sun's, afaik. However, there is and has been and will continue to be real interest in the idea. The problem, as I understand it, is architectural. OOo is tightly integrated and it

Re: [discuss] Office lite

2006-01-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
dev@openoffice.org, a fine list. Other key developer lists are dev@api.openoffice.org and [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a fuller listing, see http://projects.openoffice.org/accepted.html Rigel On 1/6/06, Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 1/6/06 1:50 AM Paul wrote: I don't

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice Add-On

2006-01-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 1/3/06 11:51 PM tony cardone wrote: You guys should add a Publisher-like program. Except that, its great. Well, it's an interesting idea but you need to excite developers in it. That's the way things work... Also, I could not register. I would like a user name of one of the

Re: [discuss] Gemstone accounting - an OOo database application

2006-01-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Roger, On 1/3/06 8:26 PM Roger Keays wrote: Ninth Avenue Software is proud to announce the first release of Gemstone Accounting, a cross-platform, multicurrency, double-entry accounting system (phew, that's a lot of adjectives!). This initial prototype release is built as an OpenOffice

Re: [discuss] Updates

2005-12-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Malik, On 12/24/05 10:54 PM MalikZZ wrote: Hi there. I'm a new user to OpenOffice.org, but I find it to be just as good as the regular MS products I have used so far. Great! Though to confess, I tend to find it better than MS :-) Some good news first - Singapore's government

Re: [discuss] others profiting from your wonderfull software?

2005-12-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2005-12-23, at 12:16 , John Sheridan wrote: if you do a search on ebay for openoffice, hundreds of sellers are listing your software as a link to purchase from THEM? are you aware of this? Yes. It is legal. We have an About Us page on EBay that supposedly helps in limiting crass

Re: [discuss] OOo macros

2005-12-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello Ian, On 2005-12-22, at 02:44 , Ian Laurenson wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:25 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [snip] These seem to me to be quite reasonable! In the meanwhile, if your macros are not already prominently promoted, now is the time. Ideally, of course, we could host

Re: [discuss] OOo macros

2005-12-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2005-12-22, at 11:45 , Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hello Ian, On 2005-12-22, at 02:44 , Ian Laurenson wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:25 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [snip] These seem to me to be quite reasonable! In the meanwhile, if your macros

[discuss] OpenOffice.org 2.0.1

2005-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
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Re: [discuss] Missing feature - Issues with Find Replace

2005-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Ian, As always, thanks. On 2005-12-21, at 15:32 , Ian Laurenson wrote: To make life easier for people migrating to OpenOffice.org and to get around some of the limitations in the find and replace I have written a macro called IanndFindReplace available from:

Re: [discuss] Thank you for all your hard work.

2005-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
he had dedicated his efforts toward. Thank you Ian! I would also like to thank Louis. Louis Suarez-Potts has worked hard behind the scenes, many times, and not always telling everything he does to the list, to maintain order in the sometime crazy world of an open source project. Louis

Re: [discuss] IBM sits out Office document standards effort

2005-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2005-12-21, at 12:19 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This ZDNN (http://news.zdnet.com/) story has been sent to you from [EMAIL PROTECTED], who added this comment: What do you all think? Is this a win for OpenOffice.org - or just OpenDocument? Are those the only choices? :-) I tend

Re: [discuss] Mac OS X.3.9

2005-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Perry, On 2005-12-21, at 19:30 , Perry Prince wrote: I have an iBook G4 - OS 10.3.9. I have been using AppleWorks V 6.2.9, mainly for its word processing, data base spreadsheets. My question is will Openoffice work with a Mac and will I be able to import the files into openoffice.

Re: [discuss] keynote

2005-12-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2005-12-03, at 03:51 , Olivier Nyssen wrote: This project has been stopped by its creator. I think its a very useful program that maybe could be integrated in OO ? http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html Thanks. Hm, the project is interesting. I'll contact them and see if they'd

Re: [discuss] ask for a new NL project

2005-12-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2005-12-03, at 02:51 , Laurent Godard wrote: Hi all Following this important revelation http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/12/01/161213from=rss I officially ask here for the creation of an Alien Native-Lang Project :) Perhaps they can work with the Klingon group... :-)

Re: [discuss] Stockholm to evaluate OOo / Novell's Linux Desktop

2005-11-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2005-11-28, at 05:10 , Lars D. Noodén wrote: The city of Stockholm will be doing a technical evaluation of Novell's Linux Desktop which includes OpenOffice. The evaluation should be finished in March. Fantastic. I wish I had known of these early plans when I was there, in

[discuss] Interesting news: Microsoft to standardize Office formats

2005-11-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Interesting news indeed. Martin LaMonica, Staff Writer, Published: November 21, 2005 Microsoft intends to submit Office file formats to the European standards body ECMA International, a move the company hopes will allay concerns over the company's level of control over document formats.

[discuss] Enough! Was [Re: [discuss] Chad is not welcome as a guest on my home computer if he cannot be civil and courteous to others on the list]

2005-11-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Okay, this thread is going nowhere. I understand you are trying to encourage others to be civil but the subject line is not a good way of going about it. Our mail list guidelines specifically prohibit personal attacks or other rude behaviour. See

[discuss] Thanks!

2005-10-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks to all who made the launch of 2.0 so successful! As of this writing, I expect at least a million people have downloaded the application and have begun to use it. The launch was brilliant. it would not have been possible without the contributions of the mirrors (over 100!), without

[discuss] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here

2005-10-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here 20 October, 2005 OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org

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