Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-14 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi, let me introduce myself a little bit more as promised in my voting email ;-) My name is Juergen Schmidt (jsc) and i work on the project since 1997, started at StarDivision -> Sun -> Oracle where i am still employed today. But i am here as individual and everything i will do and say here is ba

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-13 Thread Dieter Loeschky
Hi, I'm with the OpenOffice.org code base since the very first beginning. While still being an Oracle employee, my engagement here will be on an individual base. Here are some aspects of my OOo history in a nutshell: - started at Star Division as lead developer of the Impress application C++

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: > Andy, > > Fáilte! Sounds like you get the "Apache Way" just great :-) +1 > "I don't really have any background in this, but [... list of awesome > things you've already done.]" > > Willing hands are always welcome, and a dose of humility c

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-11 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi Peter, On 11.06.2011 19:49, Peter Korn wrote: I doubt I'll contribute much direct code to the effort, but I look forward to helping with design decisions that affect accessibility. Would be nice to continue working with you on accessibility :) Malte.

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-11 Thread Ross Gardler
Hi Peter, The vote is currently open and thus the proposal has been fixed until the end of the vote. Once the vote has completed and the podling PMC has been formed I will ensure your request is processed. Thanks for your interest. Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 11

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-11 Thread Peter Korn
Hi, My name is Peter Korn, and I've been working on accessibility for the last 20 years.  I started that career developing assistive technologies for folks with vision impairments, and then moved to Sun where I worked on platform accessibility frameworks. 

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-10 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob, Thanks. > But as you know, translation is only one part of localization.  I hope > that with your participation, and with help from RedOffice experts who > have joined this project, that we can further improve the CJK support in > OOo. You are right! This is what I would like to help dev

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Brouwer
Hi all, My name is Simon Brouwer. For my profession, I develop electronics and firmware for auto-ID equipment such as hand-held data collection terminals. In my free time I have been active in OpenOffice.org since 2001 and have been project lead of the Dutch native-lang subproject since its b

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Brouwer
Hi Malte, great to have you on board :) Best regards Simon Op 10-6-2011 18:16, Malte Timmermann schreef: Hi, my name is Malte Timmermann, and I work on the code base of OpenOffice.org since 1991 - almost from the beginning. It started with StarDivision, later acquired by Sun, later acquire

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-10 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi, my name is Malte Timmermann, and I work on the code base of OpenOffice.org since 1991 - almost from the beginning. It started with StarDivision, later acquired by Sun, later acquired by Oracle. While still being an Oracle employee, my engagement here will be on an individual base. Amon

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-10 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Marcelo H.Fortino wrote: > >> Hi Rob and all, >> >> > My name is Marcelo Horacio Fortino and I've been using this suite since 1999 > when I get an StarOffice 5.1 CD from Sun. > > Since then I had worked with all OpenOffice.Org and lastly with LibreOffice > flavors

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-10 Thread Marcelo H.Fortino
Hi Rob and all, My name is Marcelo Horacio Fortino and I've been using this suite since 1999 when I get an StarOffice 5.1 CD from Sun. Since then I had worked with all OpenOffice.Org and lastly with LibreOffice flavors and I've been promoting and installing these suites hundreds of times

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread donald_harbison
Indeed! Hat's off to Germany, the place of OpenOffice.org birth... Onward! "Manfred A. Reiter" wrote on 06/09/2011 03:47:05 PM: > From: "Manfred A. Reiter" > To: general@incubator.apache.org, j...@gmx.de > Date: 06/09/2011 03:47 PM > Subject: Re: Request

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Andy Brown
Nóirín Plunkett wrote: Andy, Fáilte! Sounds like you get the "Apache Way" just great :-) "I don't really have any background in this, but [... list of awesome things you've already done.]" Willing hands are always welcome, and a dose of humility can be a refreshing change :-) Noirin Thanks

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Nóirín Plunkett
Andy, Fáilte! Sounds like you get the "Apache Way" just great :-) "I don't really have any background in this, but [... list of awesome things you've already done.]" Willing hands are always welcome, and a dose of humility can be a refreshing change :-) Noirin On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:43 PM,

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Christoph, 2011/6/9 Christoph Jopp : > Am 09.06.2011 18:32, schrieb Manfred A. Reiter: >> upps forgot ... >> >> reunification if somehow possible ... to be even stronger ;-) >> ( please observe: in reunification we as germans have some experiences ;-) ) > > I hope it will not take 40 years ;-)

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Andy Brown
Hi All. After reading the messages by others I feel very out of place. I do not have any formal background to speak of that would relate to this or any other project. The only thing that I feel I can bring is an open mind and willingness to work and learn. I first used StarOffice back in 1

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, wrote: > > I think it would be good if the proposed committers who have not yet done > so, could post a quick note to the list, to introduce yourself and your > interest in this project.   Think of this as an opportunity to introduce > yourself to your future co

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 09.06.2011 18:32, schrieb Manfred A. Reiter: > upps forgot ... > > reunification if somehow possible ... to be even stronger ;-) > ( please observe: in reunification we as germans have some experiences ;-) ) I hope it will not take 40 years ;-) > > 2011/6/9 Manfred A. Reiter : > [...] > >>

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
upps forgot ... reunification if somehow possible ... to be even stronger ;-) ( please observe: in reunification we as germans have some experiences ;-) ) 2011/6/9 Manfred A. Reiter : [...] > Interested in helping: > Marketing, OOo in education sector, fundraising, documentation, > community for

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
2011/6/7 > > By my count we have now have over 60 individuals listed on as proposed > committers for the Apache OpenOffice project.   I think this is a > respectable start, though obviously the project will need to have a strong > commitment to recruiting additional developers and growing the proj

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread robert_weir
Kazunari Hirano wrote on 06/09/2011 08:46:05 AM: > Let us open up new markets and allow all the people on the earth to > use our great Office Suite in their native languages! > We are all sure that OpenOffice.org/StarOffice/StarSuite benefit them. > Thanks > > It is very exciting to work with va

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Roman H. Gelbort
El 07/06/11 14:12, robert_w...@us.ibm.com escribió: > I think it would be good if the proposed committers who have not yet done > so, could post a quick note to the list, to introduce yourself and your > interest in this project. Hi people. I'm a community member of OpenOffice.org since 2002. My

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Sorry! I inserted a odd sentence, "I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the parents who have helped enact this important change by expressing concerns to both the school and council" Please ignore :) Thanks, khirano -

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob and all, I am Kazunari Hirano (khir...@openoffice.org). http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Khirano I am one of adminstrators for OpenOffice.org Comunity Forum Japanese. http://user.services.openoffice.org/ja/forum/ I am OpenOffice.org Marketing Contact (MarCon) Japan. http://ma

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: > Richard S. Hall wrote (08-06-11 11:03) >> >> On 06/08/2011 04:16 AM, Christian Lippka wrote: >>> >>> Moin Moin [1], >>> >>> my name is Christian Lippka and I work on the donnated code base since >>> 1998 >>> [..] >> >> I just wanted to say that th

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Carl Marcum
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I think it would be good if the proposed committers who have not yet done so, could post a quick note to the list, to introduce yourself and your interest in this project. Think of this as an opportunity to introduce yourself to your fut

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Richard S. Hall wrote (08-06-11 11:03) On 06/08/2011 04:16 AM, Christian Lippka wrote: Moin Moin [1], my name is Christian Lippka and I work on the donnated code base since 1998 [..] I just wanted to say that this is one of the best messages I've read throughout this entire ordeal. Thanks.

Re: Document automation with ODF (was Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?)

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Fisher
>> Of course we had been using ODFDOM but the issue is how do you get ODF >> transformed accordingly to other formats such as RTF, AFP or PDF and >> make those formats look consistent with what you would get if doing >> the transformation natively during design time in OO or Symphony. >> >> > >

Re: Dcument automation with ODF (was Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?)

2011-06-08 Thread dsh
Actually I evaluated XSL-FO rendering engines quite excessively including Apache FOP. At that point in time (2009) Apache FOP still had performance issues in scenarios where you would generate thousands of business correspondence documents to be sent to clients on a daily basis. In the end we decid

Dcument automation with ODF (was Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?)

2011-06-08 Thread robert_weir
dsh wrote on 06/08/2011 12:15:52 PM: > > Of course we had been using ODFDOM but the issue is how do you get ODF > transformed accordingly to other formats such as RTF, AFP or PDF and > make those formats look consistent with what you would get if doing > the transformation natively during design

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread dsh
Of course we had been using ODFDOM but the issue is how do you get ODF transformed accordingly to other formats such as RTF, AFP or PDF and make those formats look consistent with what you would get if doing the transformation natively during design time in OO or Symphony. Anyway I suspect that's

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread robert_weir
dsh wrote on 06/08/2011 10:37:46 AM: > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:58 PM, wrote: > > A sufficiently complex business application based on OpenOffice is going > > to involve document manipulations at both tiers. For example, we recently > > (at IBM) made an insurance solution that involved us

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Ian Lynch
> > I think it would be good if the proposed committers who have not yet done > so, could post a quick note to the list, to introduce yourself and your > interest in this project. Think of this as an opportunity to introduce > yourself to your future collaborators on Apache OpenOffice. > Ian Lyn

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread dsh
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:58 PM, wrote: > A sufficiently complex business application based on OpenOffice is going > to involve document manipulations at both tiers.  For example, we recently > (at IBM) made an insurance solution that involved using Symphony, extended > with a Plugin, submitting d

RE: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ssage- From: Christian Lippka [mailto:c...@lippka.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 01:17 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves? [ ... ] So for me it is obviously love and passion and it would make me sad to not even tr

RE: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
t-Montb%C3%A9liard>. -Original Message- From: eric b [mailto:eric.bach...@free.fr] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 01:44 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re : Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves? Hello, My name is Eric Bachard. In the real life, I&#x

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread robert_weir
"Andre Schnabel" wrote on 06/08/2011 04:40:56 AM: > > > Von: Yegor Kozlov > > > > > I'm interested in bringing the ODF Toolkit to Apache and integrating > > this API with Apache POI. With ODF, POI will become a universal API > > for Office documents covering most of popular office formats. >

Re: Re : Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Marcelo H.Fortino
El 08/06/11 10:43, eric b escribió: Hello, My name is Eric Bachard. In the real life, I'm Professor of Applied Physics at UTBM (see [1]). In my spare time, I'm contributing to free software, as core developer. Contributing to OpenOffice.org since 2004, my skills are C++ / C, objective C, s

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Yegor Kozlov
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Andre Schnabel wrote: > Hi, > >> Von: Yegor Kozlov > >> >> I'm interested in bringing the ODF Toolkit to Apache and integrating >> this API with Apache POI. With ODF, POI will become a universal API >> for Office documents covering most of popular office formats.

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 06/08/2011 04:16 AM, Christian Lippka wrote: Moin Moin [1], my name is Christian Lippka and I work on the donnated code base since 1998 when I was hired by StarDivision which was then consumed by Sun and later bought by Oracle. Oracle is also my current employer. I am here as an individual

Re : Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread eric b
Hello, My name is Eric Bachard. In the real life, I'm Professor of Applied Physics at UTBM (see [1]). In my spare time, I'm contributing to free software, as core developer. Contributing to OpenOffice.org since 2004, my skills are C ++ / C, objective C, shell and Perl. I know well OpenOff

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Yegor Kozlov > > I'm interested in bringing the ODF Toolkit to Apache and integrating > this API with Apache POI. With ODF, POI will become a universal API > for Office documents covering most of popular office formats. As I see this the second time in an introduction now - please b

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Christian Lippka
Moin Moin [1], my name is Christian Lippka and I work on the donnated code base since 1998 when I was hired by StarDivision which was then consumed by Sun and later bought by Oracle. Oracle is also my current employer. I am here as an individual, so everything I do and say is based on my own opi

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread Yegor Kozlov
My name is Yegor Kozlov. I'm a Java developer, committer and a PMC in the Apache POI project. I've been hacking Microsoft Office formats since 2005 and got pretty solid knowledge of the internals of MS Excel and PowerPoint. I'm interested in bringing the ODF Toolkit to Apache and integrating this

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-07 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jun 7, 2011, at 6:54 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > Dave Fisher wrote on 06/07/2011 09:23:25 PM: > >> >> Sure. Hi everyone (maybe the people that Rob knows should introduce >> themselves as well - some of us are new to the community.) >> >> My name is David Fisher. I have been in the

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-07 Thread robert_weir
Dave Fisher wrote on 06/07/2011 09:23:25 PM: > > Sure. Hi everyone (maybe the people that Rob knows should introduce > themselves as well - some of us are new to the community.) > > My name is David Fisher. I have been in the software industry for > over 30 years. I've worked in many computer

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-07 Thread Dave Fisher
Sure. Hi everyone (maybe the people that Rob knows should introduce themselves as well - some of us are new to the community.) My name is David Fisher. I have been in the software industry for over 30 years. I've worked in many computer languages - FORTRAN, PL/1, C, C++, Postscript, Java, Bas

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-07 Thread Jomar Silva (Cuca)
Hi, I'm Jomar Silva, member of the OASIS ODF TC since 2008 and I've been ahead of the ODF Alliance Latin America since 2007. I use OpenOffice since it was StarOffice, and I'm very active on the FLOSS and Open Standards evangelization in South America. I've being working closelly with the BrOffice

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-07 Thread carl.mar...@codebuilders.net
Hi all, I'm Carl Marcum. Independent Java developer. Lately I have been doing custom OOo installations and extensions for a client. I look forward to helping out with the project where ever I can. Best regards, Carl Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-07 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:12 PM, wrote: > > I think it would be good if the proposed committers who have not yet done > so, could post a quick note to the list, to introduce yourself and your > interest in this project. Think of this as an opportunity to introduce > yourself to your future colla