Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread Pedro Giffuni
+1 approve > > >Subject: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC > >This is a call for vote on selecting the following list as the starting >membership for the Apache OpenOffice PMC, to be listed in the TLP resolution.  >The voting is for t

Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread Donald Harbison
+1 On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: >> This is a call for vote on selecting the following list as the starting >> membership for the Apache OpenOffice PMC, to be listed in the TLP >> resolution. The voting is for the entire slate as listed. >> >> Apache OpenOffice PMC St

Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread Graham Lauder
> This is a call for vote on selecting the following list as the starting > membership for the Apache OpenOffice PMC, to be listed in the TLP > resolution. The voting is for the entire slate as listed. > > Apache OpenOffice PMC Starting Membership: > Andre Fischer (af) > Andre

Re: Help us brainstorm ideas for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2012-10-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
On the subject of snapshots, we should be mindful to also perform other period snapshots: - Facebook comments - Google+ comments - Twitter comments - Forum topics of interest - etc. Again, harvest and post to community wikis for reference. Managing the social data is Effort, but i

Re: Help us brainstorm ideas for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2012-10-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
Agreed, let's close the session and capture the results in the community wiki. Moving forward, I like the idea of running targeted sessions for specific topics. For example, our next topic could ask people to share their usage scenarios for social integration. No wrong answers, just a way to get

Re: [Call for review] improvements for linear/axial gradients #120604 and #120957

2012-10-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
Good stuff. Thanks. I'm a big fan of gradient fills UI ;) On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > > On 01.10.2012 17:38, Kevin Grignon wrote: > >> Any impact on the UI here? >> > > No, just corrections in painted representations :-) > > On Sat, Sep 29, 201

2012-10-01 Status: PPMC and Committer Roster

2012-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
As of the end of day 2012-10-01, the Apache OpenOffice podling has 118 committers with 73 on the PPMC. Since the previous, 2012-09-02 report, there is an increase of 8 committers and 1 PPMC member (a returnee). CURRENT PPMC AND COMMITTER STATUS 1 champion 5 mentor 1 mentor/committer 7

Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread Carl Marcum
+1 Best regards, Carl On 10/01/2012 06:38 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: This is a call for vote on selecting the following list as the starting membership for the Apache OpenOffice PMC, to be listed in the TLP resolution. The voting is for the entire slate as listed. Apache OpenOffice PMC Starti

Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread imacat
On 2012/10/02 06:38, Andrew Rist said: >Apache OpenOffice PMC Starting Membership: >Andre Fischer (af) >Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) >Andrew Rist (arist) >Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) >Armin Le Grand (alg) >Dave Fisher (wave) >Donald Harb

Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread tj
[ X ] +1 approve [ ] 0 abstain [ ] -1 disapprove, for the following reasons: /tj/

Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread Dave Fisher
[X] +1 approve [ ] 0 abstain [ ] -1 disapprove, for the following reasons: Regards, Dave On Oct 1, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > This is a call for vote on selecting the following list as the starting > membership for the Apache OpenOffice PMC, to be listed in the TLP resol

Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread Albino B Neto
Hi On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > [ ] +1 approve > [ ] 0 abstain > [ ] -1 disapprove, for the following reasons: +1 Albino

RE: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[ X ] +1 approve [ ] 0 abstain [ ] -1 disapprove, for the following reasons: -Original Message- From: Andrew Rist [mailto:andrew.r...@oracle.com] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 15:38 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache Op

[DISCUSS] [PMC] PMC Chair Nominations

2012-10-01 Thread Andrew Rist
The nominations are in and we have three open nominees (with two nominees declining, so far). I'll hold the discussions open for 72 hours (more if necessary). It would also be good to hear from the nominees, in terms of their thoughts and interest in the position. That's your topic - discuss.

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 10/02/2012 12:33 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 10/01/2012 01:32 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: A response to this thread in general. Why has no action been taken on this yet? I'm not trying to blame or accuse anyone, but I would like to figure out wh

[VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-01 Thread Andrew Rist
This is a call for vote on selecting the following list as the starting membership for the Apache OpenOffice PMC, to be listed in the TLP resolution. The voting is for the entire slate as listed. Apache OpenOffice PMC Starting Membership: Andre Fischer (af) Andrea Pescetti (pe

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 10/01/2012 11:53 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On 10/01/2012 01:46 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 10/01/2012 01:32 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: A response to this thread in general. Why has no action been taken on this yet? I'm not trying to blame or accuse anyone, but I would like to figure out why noth

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 10/01/2012 01:32 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> A response to this thread in general. >> >> Why has no action been taken on this yet? >> >> I'm not trying to blame or accuse anyone, but I would like to figure >> out why nothing has happened here

The OpenOffice team (Re: Need help, I can't open a presentation on my computer ....)

2012-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/10/2012 Stan Helton wrote: I am not a member of the AOO team, but I have applied and am awaiting approval. I'm not sure I understand this. What "application" did you send? We still have many outdated pages on our website, so you might have followed old or unclear instructions. There i

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On 10/01/2012 01:46 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 10/01/2012 01:32 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: A response to this thread in general. Why has no action been taken on this yet? I'm not trying to blame or accuse anyone, but I would like to figure out why nothing has happened here yet. This is one examp

Re: Call for comments: Webpage for Listing OpenOffice Consultants

2012-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/09/2012 Rob Weir wrote: I have an English version, and an Italian one that is identical to the Italian version except it says "Ciao" in the title. For testing purposes only, of course. But if anyone wants to check in a real translations of those strings, it will be more interesting. Tha

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 10/01/2012 01:32 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: A response to this thread in general. Why has no action been taken on this yet? I'm not trying to blame or accuse anyone, but I would like to figure out why nothing has happened here yet. This is one example of several where issues seem to be discussed

Re: Seeking OpenOffice consultants -- help us validate our new consultants listings

2012-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > On 1 October 2012 20:25, Albino B Neto wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> > These three are closely-related and it will probably require an >> > iterative approach to get these right. So it would be of grea

Re: Seeking OpenOffice consultants -- help us validate our new consultants listings

2012-10-01 Thread Ian Lynch
On 1 October 2012 20:25, Albino B Neto wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > These three are closely-related and it will probably require an > > iterative approach to get these right. So it would be of great help > > to me if a few (3-4) consultants on the ooo-dev

Re: Help us brainstorm ideas for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2012-10-01 Thread Albino B Neto
Hi Update: 1.099 people have submitted 894 ideas and cast 13.080 votes Albino

Re: Seeking OpenOffice consultants -- help us validate our new consultants listings

2012-10-01 Thread Albino B Neto
Hi. On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > These three are closely-related and it will probably require an > iterative approach to get these right. So it would be of great help > to me if a few (3-4) consultants on the ooo-dev list would be willing > to work with me to get their listi

Seeking OpenOffice consultants -- help us validate our new consultants listings

2012-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
I'd ready to take the consultants directory forward. The main remaining tasks are: 1) Confirm that the current data schema is adequate. 2) Write up submissions requirements for consultants, to get their listings added 3) Get initial listings added These three are closely-related and it will pr

Re: Help us brainstorm ideas for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2012-10-01 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 12:53:10 -0400 Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > As we perform the fin

Re: Need help, I can't open a presentation on my computer ....

2012-10-01 Thread Stan Helton
Koreen, I tried to open the file with both AOO and MS PowerPoint. The file is heavily corrupted and will not open properly in either program. The only fix is to try to get a fresh uncorrupted copy of the file. The problem is not OpenOffice, it is the file itself. Sorry for the bad news. Sin

Re: Help us brainstorm ideas for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2012-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Rob Weir wrote: As we perform the final preparations to release Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 it is

LinuxPPC: gccinstlib.pl and linker script

2012-10-01 Thread Pavel Janík
Hi, on my Linux/PPC box (Debian 6.0.5): gcc --print-file-name libgcc_s.so prints: /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libgcc_s.so This file is a linker script: /* GNU ld script ... not a real ELF library. This breaks the expectation of the gccinstlib.pl script. To workaround this, I have cha

Re: [WWW] promoting track OpenOffice on ApacheCon EU 2012

2012-10-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On 10/01/2012 07:34 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 01.10.2012 16:17, Dave Fisher wrote: On Oct 1, 2012, at 5:17 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, our collection of ideas for future versions of AOO is ending today. Thus, I would like to take over the "marketing banner" in ord

Re: [Call for review] improvements for linear/axial gradients #120604 and #120957

2012-10-01 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Kevin, On 01.10.2012 17:38, Kevin Grignon wrote: Any impact on the UI here? No, just corrections in painted representations :-) On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote: Hi Regina, On 26.09.2012 17:34, Armin Le Grand wrote: Hi Regina, On 25.09.2

Re: [Call for review] improvements for linear/axial gradients #120604 and #120957

2012-10-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
Any impact on the UI here? On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote: > Hi Regina, > > > On 26.09.2012 17:34, Armin Le Grand wrote: > >> Hi Regina, >> >> On 25.09.2012 20:50, Regina Henschel wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have attached patches to >>> https://issues.apac

Re: [UX] New words for toolboxes in customize dialog

2012-10-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
Regina, Great eye. Subtle but important. >From the current UI, it appears that the collection of shapes is called a "toolbar" according to the instructional text in the customize dialog. Back in the editor, other toolbars can be created by dragging a drop down menu off the drawing toolbar. Other

Re: [UX] New words for toolboxes in customize dialog

2012-10-01 Thread TJ Frazier
On 9/30/2012 12:50, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, when you customize the drawing bar in Draw or Impress, you will notice that the commands "Curve", "Rectangle", "Ellipse", and "Text" are used twice. One of them is the simple object, the other is the toolbox, which contains similar objects. This is

Re: [WWW] promoting track OpenOffice on ApacheCon EU 2012

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 01.10.2012 16:17, Dave Fisher wrote: On Oct 1, 2012, at 5:17 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, our collection of ideas for future versions of AOO is ending today. Thus, I would like to take over the "marketing banner" in order to promote track OpenOffice on ApacheCon EU 2012. Th

Re: [Call For UI Review] About the attribute list level of paragraph style

2012-10-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Oliver, I shorten the mail a little bit Oliver-Rainer Wittmann schrieb: Hi Regina, On 01.10.2012 14:18, Regina Henschel wrote: [..] Oh no, then I was not clear. I try again. It is not possible to set a paragraph reference into the list style, the list style dialog should not be changed bu

Re: [WWW] promoting track OpenOffice on ApacheCon EU 2012

2012-10-01 Thread Dave Fisher
On Oct 1, 2012, at 5:17 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > our collection of ideas for future versions of AOO is ending today. > Thus, I would like to take over the "marketing banner" in order to promote > track OpenOffice on ApacheCon EU 2012. > > The change is already on on staging

Re: [PROPOSAL] Reinvigorate extension authors community

2012-10-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-01, at 08:49 , Rob Weir wrote: > 5 days have passed and no objections were raised, so I'll start moving > this forward. Great, thanks. Louis > > -Rob > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm shifting my focus more to >> the e

Re: [PROPOSAL] Reinvigorate extension authors community

2012-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
5 days have passed and no objections were raised, so I'll start moving this forward. -Rob On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm shifting my focus more to > the extended OpenOffice ecosystem rather than day-to-day release-cycle > tasks. One

Re: [Call For UI Review] About the attribute list level of paragraph style

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi Regina, On 01.10.2012 14:18, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Oliver, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann schrieb: Hi, On 30.09.2012 00:04, Regina Henschel wrote: Huaidong Qiu schrieb: Hi all, I need some advice from the UI expert about the list level attribute of Numbering Enhancement feature. I need a U

Re: [Call For UI Review] About the attribute list level of paragraph style

2012-10-01 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Oliver, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann schrieb: Hi, On 30.09.2012 00:04, Regina Henschel wrote: Huaidong Qiu schrieb: Hi all, I need some advice from the UI expert about the list level attribute of Numbering Enhancement feature. I need a UI to link a numbering level of a list style to a paragrap

[WWW] promoting track OpenOffice on ApacheCon EU 2012

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, our collection of ideas for future versions of AOO is ending today. Thus, I would like to take over the "marketing banner" in order to promote track OpenOffice on ApacheCon EU 2012. The change is already on on staging server - http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/ Best regards, Oliver.

Re: [ACEU FUNDING][DISCUSS] draft for announcing "ticket discount application process"

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 01.10.2012 14:00, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: below is my draft for the announcement of the application process for the "ACEU 2012 non-Apache committer ticket discount for AOO community members". ... I am aiming to reach consensus on this announcement until Thurs

[REQUEST] promoting ApacheCon EU 2012, track OpenOffice on our forum

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, I would like to ask our forum people to "spread the word" about the track OpenOffice at the ApacheCon EU 2012 in the forum. Feel free to take the content of my today's post about it on ooo-dev, ooo-users and ooo-announce. Thx in advance, Oliver.

Re: [ACEU FUNDING][DISCUSS] draft for announcing "ticket discount application process"

2012-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: below is my draft for the announcement of the application process for the "ACEU 2012 non-Apache committer ticket discount for AOO community members". ... I am aiming to reach consensus on this announcement until Thursday afternoon in order to let the application proc

Travel Brazil to ApacheCon Europe

2012-10-01 Thread Albino B Neto
Hi I was looking over the fares, thinking only to participate in ApacheCon Europe. (: >From Brazil to Germany it costs less than R$ 1,600.00 (BRL). Out of curiosity, one of Brazil will participate in the event? Albino

Re: Need help, I can't open a presentation on my computer ....

2012-10-01 Thread Stan Helton
Hello Koreen, I am not a member of the AOO team, but I have applied and am awaiting approval. Your attachment did not come through the system. If you want to send me the problem files I will try to help. I have been using OOo and now AOO for many years. If I cannot solve your problem I may b

Re: Did we ever reach consensus on support for Windows 2000

2012-10-01 Thread Rob Weir
A response to this thread in general. Why has no action been taken on this yet? I'm not trying to blame or accuse anyone, but I would like to figure out why nothing has happened here yet. This is one example of several where issues seem to be discussed at length, but nothing ever happens. 1) Do

[ACEU FUNDING][DISCUSS] draft for announcing "travel expense subsidy application process"

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, below is my draft for the announcement of the application process for the "ACEU 2012 travel expense subsidy for AOO community members". It should be sent to the mailing lists ooo-announce, ooo-users and ooo-dev. It should also be posted in the forum. I am aiming to reach consensus on thi

[ACEU FUNDING][DISCUSS] draft for announcing "ticket discount application process"

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, below is my draft for the announcement of the application process for the "ACEU 2012 non-Apache committer ticket discount for AOO community members". It should be sent to the mailing lists ooo-announce, ooo-users and ooo-dev. It should also be posted in the forum. I am aiming to reach co

Re: [Call For UI Review] About the attribute list level of paragraph style

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 30.09.2012 00:04, Regina Henschel wrote: Huaidong Qiu schrieb: Hi all, I need some advice from the UI expert about the list level attribute of Numbering Enhancement feature. I need a UI to link a numbering level of a list style to a paragraph style. I want add a list box control into

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC Chair

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 27.09.2012 23:54, Andrew Rist wrote: I would like to nominate Andrea Pescetti. Andrea is one of the most active and well respected members of the project, and I believe he would make a great PMC Chair. I am supporting the nomination of Andrea. Thus, +1 from my side. Best regards, Oliv

OpenOffice track on ApacheCon EU 2012, Nov. 5th - 8th, Sinsheim, Germany

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, the ApacheCon is back in Europe [1], [2]. It will take place in Sinsheim, Germany in the first week of November 2012 (5th - 8th). The cool thing for the Apache OpenOffice (incubating) project is that the conference has got an OpenOffice track [3]. Please look into the conference schedule f

Re: Ask for advice:cloud office interoperability

2012-10-01 Thread Ian Lynch
On 1 October 2012 05:41, zheng.easyfan wrote: > > HI, Zhun Guo: > > In general, I agree with your second point in the mail that, we should > make better interoperability of office productions. And my opinion here is > that, in the category of interoperability, we even should not trying to > sepa

Re: [QUESTION] What to do to post to ooo-announce?

2012-10-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 28.09.2012 17:37, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 09:58:15AM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, I am currently perparing a message to promote ApacheCon EU 2012 and the OpenOffice track. I want to post it to ou

Re: Need help, I can't open a presentation on my computer ....

2012-10-01 Thread Ian Lynch
On 1 October 2012 07:48, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 02:04:32 -0400 > "Koreen" wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I was able to open 3 other PowerPoint presentations with the OpenOffice > Impress (or something), but I have a fourth one that will NOT open at all. > I even had trouble gettin

Re: [DISCUSS]: AOO 3.4.1 reflection and lessons learned

2012-10-01 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - see comments inline On Sep 29, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 28/09/2012 Kevin Grignon wrote: >> I really like to identify opportunities for improvement, capture them in a >> some-day-maybe list (a.k.a. opportunity backlog). ... >> I'd like to be able to easily and quickly