Re: Volunteers needed: To update NL download pages later this week

2012-05-01 Thread Simon Brouwer
Hi Arial, I (simonbr) will be updating the Dutch NL homepage. Best regards Simon Op 1 mei 2012 om 4:19 schreef Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org: Hi Rob, * On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 03:41:29PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: The following tasks are on the wiki and need owners:

Re: New group Apache OpenOffice on XING

2012-05-01 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Monday, 30. April 2012 at 21:57, Donald Harbison wrote: I have a Xing account, but of course, do not speak German. I'm happy to be one of the moderators. well there is an English part as well but I wouldn't expect too much activities there. I can add you. I have received already a

Re: Volunteers needed: To update NL download pages later this week

2012-05-01 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi all Am 30.04.12 21:41, schrieb Rob Weir: The following tasks are on the wiki and need owners: [...] Manually update the downloads from the German NL homepage Nik and I take over this part. We have allready worked on this over the week-end and will finish today evening or tomorrow Greetings

Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the ODFAuthors website and will put the compiled draft book there soon. Then I'll go back to my travel photos and to the LibreOffice books.

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread eric
Hi, Le 01/05/2012 12:23, Jean Weber a écrit : The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. What about wait for the Apache OpenOffice availability *before* to stop ? IMHO, it should be more easy to find contributors once we'll

Re: [RELEASE] new DL test...needs review and comments, and probably correction

2012-05-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Kay, Kay Schenk schrieb: Regina-- Thanks for all this work. Please see comments inline below... On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Regina Henschelrb.hensc...@t-online.dewrote: Hi, my test results are below, all on German WinXP Home, SP3. [..] With Opera 11.62

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
On 01/05/2012, at 20:37, eric eric.bach...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Le 01/05/2012 12:23, Jean Weber a écrit : The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. What about wait for the Apache OpenOffice availability *before* to stop

Introduction

2012-05-01 Thread Giuseppe Castagno
Hi there, a few words to introduce myself. My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy. I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer. I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at openoffice.org). Years back, in OpenOffice.org I

Re: Introduction

2012-05-01 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi Giuseppe Am 01.05.12 13:25, schrieb Giuseppe Castagno: Hi there, a few words to introduce myself. My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy. I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer. I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Jean, et al. On 2012-05-01, at 06:23 , Jean Weber wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the ODFAuthors website and will put the compiled draft book there soon. Then I'll

Re: Pages in the social media

2012-05-01 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi. 2012/4/29 Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.com Hi. 2012/4/29 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. 2012/4/28 Dave Fisher

Re: Pages in the social media

2012-05-01 Thread Claudio Filho
Hi 2012/5/1 Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.com: Alessandro, what think edit page G+ for AOOBr ? As we have an official page in G+, but not yet have the Brazil. Very good, Albino. For brazilian profile is essential this social networks. I think that you can do for pt-BR in Twitter and

Re: Pages in the social media

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Claudio Filho filh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi 2012/5/1 Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.com: Alessandro, what think edit page G+ for AOOBr ? As we have an official page in G+, but not yet have the Brazil. Very good, Albino. For brazilian profile is essential

Re: Ref cover sheet attempt and Happy Birthday, OpenOffice!

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Nancy K nancythirt...@yahoo.com wrote: Golly, a BIRTHDAY - I downloaded a free trial Illustrator and worked this up really quickly.  It just didn't seem right not to attempt something for a 10 year old! I read that Apache celebrated their birthday in

Re: After AOO 3.4?

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I'm already starting to get questions on what we'll be doing after AOO 3.4 is released.  Based on previous conversations on this list, I'm able to speak confidently about a few things: 1) We'll probably graduate to a Top

Re: Introduction

2012-05-01 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Benvenuto Giuseppe! On 05/01/12 06:25, Giuseppe Castagno wrote: Hi there, a few words to introduce myself. My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy. I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer. I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known

What do we need to do in BZ after AOO 3.4 is released?

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
Today, among the 100 version strings the users need to scroll through in BZ, we have AOO340-dev. What do we want after we release AOO 3.4? Add AOO340? (Or just rename AOO340-dev to AOO340?) Add AOO341-dev? Add AOO450-dev? Also, are there any products that can be removed or demoted to

Re: Pages in the social media

2012-05-01 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi. 2012/5/1 Claudio Filho filh...@gmail.com 2012/5/1 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: 1) Do we have a ooo-geral-ptbr mailing list set up already? If not, I'd recommend starting with that. Having a strong pt_br presence in the project, to support translation, marketing, communications and

Introductions

2012-05-01 Thread Stuart Swales
I was lead for en-GB prior to the move to Apache. I have signed an ICLA and would request committer status so that I could have Pootle access once again. en-GB is very, very, close to being complete - several city and town councils and a major newspaper are using OpenOffice en-GB in the UK and

Re: Pages in the social media

2012-05-01 Thread luizheli
Hello, I mean that in any case I'm available to help publicize the project whether or not a PPMC member. I think Brazil has a great potential and can work well with Apache OpenOffice. rgds, Luiz Oliveira Em 01-05-2012 11:55, Albino Biasutti Neto escreveu: Hi. 2012/5/1 Claudio Filho

Re: Pages in the social media

2012-05-01 Thread Claudio Filho
2012/5/1 luizheli luizh...@gmail.com: I mean that in any case I'm available to help publicize the project whether or not a PPMC member. I think Brazil has a great potential and can work well with Apache OpenOffice. Luiz, maybe is a good idea you introduce your self in a new thread. Best,

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 12:23, Jean Weber wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the ODFAuthors website and will put the compiled draft book there soon. Then I'll go

Re: Ref cover sheet attempt and Happy Birthday, OpenOffice!

2012-05-01 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 16:13, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Nancy K nancythirt...@yahoo.com wrote: Golly, a BIRTHDAY - I downloaded a free trial Illustrator and worked this up really quickly. It just didn't seem right not to attempt something for a 10 year old!

Re: Ref cover sheet attempt and Happy Birthday, OpenOffice!

2012-05-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Nancy K nancythirt...@yahoo.com wrote: Golly, a BIRTHDAY - I downloaded a free trial Illustrator and worked this up really quickly. It just didn't seem right not to attempt something for a 10 year old! I read that Apache celebrated their birthday in

Re: Pages in the social media

2012-05-01 Thread luizheli
ok Claudio, Thanks Luiz Em 01-05-2012 12:31, Claudio Filho escreveu: 2012/5/1 luizheli luizh...@gmail.com: I mean that in any case I'm available to help publicize the project whether or not a PPMC member. I think Brazil has a great potential and can work well with Apache OpenOffice. Luiz,

Re: [RELEASE] new DL test...needs review and comments, and probably correction

2012-05-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.comwrote: Kay- I've setup a new script for you to use for Openoffice downloads from Apache mirrors- simply replace closer.cgi with aoo-closer.cgi in your paths. Please don't forget this or users could be directed to mirrors

Re: [RELEASE] new DL test...needs review and comments, and probably correction

2012-05-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.dewrote: Hi Kay, Kay Schenk schrieb: Regina-- Thanks for all this work. Please see comments inline below... On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Regina Henschelrb.henschel@t-online.** de rb.hensc...@t-online.dewrote:

Re: What do we need to do in BZ after AOO 3.4 is released?

2012-05-01 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 16:41, Rob Weir wrote: Today, among the 100 version strings the users need to scroll through in BZ, we have AOO340-dev. What do we want after we release AOO 3.4? Add AOO340? (Or just rename AOO340-dev to AOO340?) Renaming sounds good to me and all issues with

Re: Pages in the social media

2012-05-01 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi. I created account AOOBr social networking: identi.ca and twitter: @apacheoobr Best, Albino @bino28

Re: Introductions

2012-05-01 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 16:58, Stuart Swales wrote: I was lead for en-GB prior to the move to Apache. I have signed an ICLA and would request committer status so that I could have Pootle access once again. en-GB is very, very, close to being complete - several city and town councils

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Juergen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.comwrote: On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 12:23, Jean Weber wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the

Re: Logo of AOO in SVG?

2012-05-01 Thread imacat
On 2012/04/29 00:06, Ian Lynch said: Here is a fully svg version. It's close but not absolutely identical, not sure how important that is. Got to rush to the gym now. Only 16k Thank you. I'm looking for the AOO SVG logo at the same time. I have an additional question: Where can I find

Introduces

2012-05-01 Thread luizheli
Hi, I am Luiz Oliveira, a journalistfrom Brazil. I led for a time the nationwide BrOffice users group. At the time we still had a magazine[1] created to give tips on the use of OpenOffice.org suite / BrOffice, designed by my friend Claudio Filho. I helped organize some editions of the National

Re: [Spi-private] OpenOffice funds

2012-05-01 Thread MJ Ray
Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com I'm jumping in and speaking as a mentor of AOO and ASF VP of Community Development. Thanks - and just to be clear, I'm only speaking as an ordinary contributing member of SPI, who felt a responsibility to ask what I felt were obvious questions. So, I

Re: Introduces

2012-05-01 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi Luiz. 2012/5/1 luizheli luizh...@gmail.com Hi, I am Luiz Oliveira, a journalistfrom Brazil. I led for a time the nationwide BrOffice users group. At the time we still had a magazine[1] created to give tips on the use of OpenOffice.org suite / BrOffice, designed by my friend Claudio

Re: CWS licensing query ...

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 22:59 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: On 19 April 2012 17:24, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: 1. Are those SGA's unmodified, and/or does the scope extend beyond the plain list of files, and just one version of them ? The SGAs

Re: Logo of AOO in SVG?

2012-05-01 Thread Ian Lynch
On 1 May 2012 17:35, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: On 2012/04/29 00:06, Ian Lynch said: Here is a fully svg version. It's close but not absolutely identical, not sure how important that is. Got to rush to the gym now. Only 16k Thank you. I'm looking for the AOO SVG logo at

Re: Logo of AOO in SVG?

2012-05-01 Thread imacat
On 2012/05/02 01:09, Ian Lynch said: On 1 May 2012 17:35, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: On 2012/04/29 00:06, Ian Lynch said: have an additional question: Where can I find the Nimbus Sans L font? Is it the same as Liberation Sans? Or is it free to download somewhere?

Re: Legal question about (re)licensing

2012-05-01 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We accept relatively small contributions without an ICLA.   But all contributions get reviewed, and all releases go through scans (what we call RAT == Release Audit Tool) and are voted on in a transparent, open process. RAT

Re: Legal question about (re)licensing

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We accept relatively small contributions without an ICLA.   But all contributions get reviewed, and all releases go through scans (what we call RAT

Re: CWS licensing query ...

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 22:59 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: On 19 April 2012 17:24, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote:        1. Are those SGA's unmodified, and/or does the scope extend           beyond the

Re: CWS licensing query ...

2012-05-01 Thread Dave Fisher
On May 1, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 22:59 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: On 19 April 2012 17:24, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: 1. Are those SGA's unmodified, and/or

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 04/30/2012 07:00 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com �wrote: snip

Re: CWS licensing query ...

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On May 1, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 22:59 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: On 19 April 2012 17:24, Michael Meeks

Re: Legal question about (re)licensing

2012-05-01 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On 05/01/12 12:20, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: ... For larger contributions, an ICLA (or an SGA) is in order. Ditto for smaller ones, if there are questions/concerns. Remember, any committer can veto a patch. So incoming patches without an ICLA need to meet a high bar to get into the code. My

Re: What do we need to do in BZ after AOO 3.4 is released?

2012-05-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 05/01/2012 06:24 PM, schrieb Juergen Schmidt: On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 16:41, Rob Weir wrote: Today, among the 100 version strings the users need to scroll through in BZ, we have AOO340-dev. What do we want after we release AOO 3.4? Add AOO340? (Or just rename AOO340-dev to AOO340?)

Re: Legal question about (re)licensing

2012-05-01 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Michael, Michael ... On 05/01/12 11:38, Michael Meeks wrote: Hi Rob, So what exactly LO has is license soup as far as I am concerned. The situation is reasonably simple currently; yet it is of course made un-necessarily difficult by IBM Oracle's insistence on choosing yet

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.comwrote: On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 04/30/2012 07:00 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 05/01/2012 08:23 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 04/30/2012 07:00 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Kay

Re: CWS licensing query ...

2012-05-01 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On 05/01/12 12:07, Michael Meeks wrote: ... or something - though, clearly there are prolly some interesting new files there too - which would fall foul of the list in the SGA I guess. Anyhow - most interested in the status of those. Of course we don't release CWSs at all, those

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 05/01/2012 08:23 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 22:10, Kay Schenk wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.comwrote: On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Marcus

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 22:11, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 05/01/2012 08:23 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am

Re: Volunteers needed: To update NL download pages later this week

2012-05-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On 04/30/2012 12:41 PM, Rob Weir wrote: The following tasks are on the wiki and need owners: Manually update the downloads from the Arabic NL homepage Manually update the downloads from the Czech NL homepage Manually update the downloads from the German NL homepage Manually update the

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 05/01/2012 10:27 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 05/01/2012 08:23 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM,

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On 05/01/2012 01:58 PM, Juergen Schmidt wrote: On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 22:10, Kay Schenk wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.comwrote: On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon,

Re: What do we need to do in BZ after AOO 3.4 is released?

2012-05-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Rob, Rob Weir schrieb: [..] Also, are there any products that can be removed or demoted to components under another product? What we have now is simpler than what we had with OOo, but it is still very complicated with a lot of dead wood at the top level. Yes, the list is far too large.

Re: Volunteers needed: To update NL download pages later this week

2012-05-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 1 May 2012 17:08, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:41 PM, Rob Weir wrote: The following tasks are on the wiki and need owners: Manually update the downloads from the Arabic NL homepage Manually update the downloads from the Czech NL homepage Manually update the

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed directory structure on dist

2012-05-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 05/01/2012 11:09 PM, schrieb Juergen Schmidt: On Tuesday, 1. May 2012 at 22:11, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 05/01/2012 08:23 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: On 4/30/12 11:16 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 04/30/2012 12:47 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Marcus

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating for me

Re: [RELEASE] new DL test...needs review and comments, and probably correction

2012-05-01 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Joe, I now understand what needs to be done to use the aoo-closer.cgi as a webpage of our own design. For example: (1) Create create trunk/cgi-bin/aoo-download.cgi in the project or ooo-site using the aoo-mirrors.list. Use the MIRRORS_LIST env. (2) Create downloads/aoo.mdtext file by

Re: Getting Started with AOO book

2012-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I think the trick is finding the right people, of connecting volunteers with volunteer opportunities.  Realistically, if someone was really interested in tech writing, they probably would not be on this list.  The traffic

Re: [Spi-private] OpenOffice funds

2012-05-01 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:05 PM, MJ Ray m...@debian.org wrote: Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com I'm jumping in and speaking as a mentor of AOO and ASF VP of Community Development. Thanks - and just to be clear, I'm only speaking as an ordinary contributing member of SPI, who felt

Re: AOO nears graduation

2012-05-01 Thread Wolf Halton
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: I just published a piece on ComputerWorld titled Is OpenOffice.org an Apache project yet? [1] In this piece I examine what the common behaviours found in a typical Apache Top Level Project are and comment on how

Re: After AOO 3.4?

2012-05-01 Thread Yan Ji
From QA perspective, I think we need to build up the QA project and process asap. Automation framework and test tool should be available soon for all tester in this project. Thanks Best Regards, Yan Ji On Apr 29, 2012, at 12:32 AM, Rob Weir wrote: I'm already starting to get questions on

Re: After AOO 3.4?

2012-05-01 Thread Zhe Liu
In addition, QA site is too old and need updated. 2012/5/2 Yan Ji yanji...@gmail.com: From QA perspective,  I think we need to build up the QA project and process asap. Automation framework and test tool should be available soon for all tester in this project. Thanks Best Regards, Yan Ji

Re: Legal question about (re)licensing

2012-05-01 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: On 05/01/12 12:20, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: ... For larger contributions, an ICLA (or an SGA) is in order.  Ditto for smaller ones, if there are questions/concerns.  Remember, any committer can veto a patch.  So incoming

Re: Introduces

2012-05-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
Welcome Luiz, Great timing. AOO3.4 is almost complete and planning is starting for upcoming releases. For my part, I've recently joined the project and will be focusing on the user experience design and product direction. Your experience and background could be of huge assistance to the UX

Re: After AOO 3.4?

2012-05-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, From a UX perspective, we need a story about how people use our product in the context of their lives. Features lists are good for planning, but alone aren't enough to understand how we will deliver a compelling offering that helps people do the stuff they want to get done. Who are

[USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN] - Story tellers wanted

2012-05-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
Do you like to write and tell stories? Do you want to bring an Apple-like approach to designing our products? AOO UX could use your support. To better understand how people integrate our product into their lives, the UX sub-community is looking to author a series of stories and usage scenarios.

Re: [USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN] - Story tellers wanted

2012-05-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Kevin, On 1 May 2012 23:11, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: Do you like to write and tell stories? Do you want to bring an Apple-like approach to designing our products? AOO UX could use your support. To better understand how people integrate our product into their lives, the

Re: [USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN] - Story tellers wanted

2012-05-01 Thread Chong Minsk Goh
Hi Kevin, This is an interesting topic. I am keen to write stories on using AOO for work. Could you provide more details? Cheers Minsk On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts lsuarezpo...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin, On 1 May 2012 23:11, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com

Re: Legal question about (re)licensing

2012-05-01 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On 05/01/12 21:42, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: On 05/01/12 12:20, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: ... For larger contributions, an ICLA (or an SGA) is in order. Ditto for smaller ones, if there are questions/concerns. Remember, any committer can

Re: Legal question about (re)licensing

2012-05-01 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: I think you are just trying to find some silly excuse to complain about code that *you* clearly didn't write or own. All the code either from version control or bugzilla was provided by Oracle That is not what was said in

[RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1

2012-05-01 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
The vote period for releasing Apache OpenOffice (incubator) RC1 has concluded. The ballot passed. VOTE TALLY +1: IPMC members: +1 Marvin Humphrey +1 Dave Fisher +1 Jim Jagielski For reference see also the vote thread on ooo-dev

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1

2012-05-01 Thread Maho NAKATA
congratulations! 2012/5/2 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com The vote period for releasing Apache OpenOffice (incubator) RC1 has concluded. The ballot passed. VOTE TALLY +1: IPMC members: +1 Marvin Humphrey +1 Dave Fisher +1 Jim Jagielski For reference see also the vote

Re: After AOO 3.4?

2012-05-01 Thread Yong Lin Ma
Agree with having a maintenance branch for traslation and critical bug fix. It is time to unlock the code base to allow contributors to submit improvments for later release. On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Rob Weir wrote: 1) We want to have a

Re: After AOO 3.4?

2012-05-01 Thread Yong Lin Ma
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: On 04/29/12 23:55, Juergen Schmidt wrote: ... I think it all depends on how fast we plan to release 4.0. It looks likely that merging Symophony may be easy for the IBM guys, since symphony already updated theit base OOo,