Re: Apache Asia Roadshow 2012 - Dec 13th Beijing

2012-10-25 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > I'm moving this thread over to con...@apache.org which is the right > address to continue this conversation. > > +1 for the event - you all have run this type of event several times > before, so I trust that you know what you are doing an

Re: OOoCon videos/material

2012-10-19 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile > wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 07:53:18AM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > >> Can we get these all on Youtube? What special status does one need > >> to do more than a short 5 minute video o

Re: ACEU 2012 - travel subsidy Gary E. Domke

2012-10-15 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:18 PM, gary_domke wrote: > Gary E. Domke > > > > gary_do...@sbcglobal.net > > > > incubator > > > > I've been an Open Office user since the inception of the community and > program (incubator) and do truly love the concept, the product and the > nature of the contributors.

Re: Graduation timeline: A reminder for project members, press and list observers

2012-10-15 Thread Donald Harbison
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile >> wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 04:50:06PM +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: The fact that it never occurred to anyone participati

Re: Proposed resolution: Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-10 Thread Donald Harbison
he Apache OpenOffice Project; and be it further > > RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are > appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache OpenOffice Project: > > * Andre Fischer (af) > * Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) > * Andrew Ri

Re: [RESULT][VOTE][PMC] PMC Chair

2012-10-10 Thread Donald Harbison
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > The Vote started on 2012-10-04 has ended. > > Results: > Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) - 28 (24 PPMC + 2 Committers + 2 Community) > Drew Jensen (atjensen) - 3 (3 PPMC) > > There were no other votes cast. > > The PPMC has approved Andrea Pescetti f

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-10 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > excuse my top posting but I think we can relax a little bit. The situation > now is clear enough and the code will be changed accordingly when we use it > and merge parts of it in our main trunk. > I can understand you Rob and I a

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] PMC Chair Nominations

2012-10-05 Thread Donald Harbison
pescetti) >> >>Active Nominees (No Reply Yet): >>Drew Jensen (atjensen) >> >> >> >>Declining Nominees: >> >>Donald Harbison (dpharbison) >>Pedro Giffuni (pfg) >>Louis Suarez-Potts (louis) >> &g

Re: [VOTE][PMC] PMC Chair

2012-10-05 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > This is a call for vote on selecting the PMC Chair the Apache OpenOffice > PMC. > Per the IPMC's "Guide to Successful Graduation" [1] the Apache OpenOffice > podling needs to select a PMC to be listed in the TLP resolution. > > > Everyone in the

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] PMC Chair Nominations

2012-10-04 Thread Donald Harbison
ccepted Nomination): >Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) > >Active Nominees (No Reply Yet): >Drew Jensen (atjensen) > > > >Declining Nominees: > >Donald Harbison (dpharbison) >Pedro Giffuni (pfg) >Louis Suarez-Potts (louis

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

2012-10-01 Thread Donald Harbison
> 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) >&g

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC Chair

2012-09-28 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:06 AM, imacat wrote: > On 2012/09/28 10:55, Yong Lin Ma said: >> I would also like to nominate >> Donald Harbison (dpharbison) I decline this nomination in favor of Andrea Pescetti. >>Louis Suarez-Potts (louis) >>

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC Chair

2012-09-28 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:54 PM, 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. +1 Andrea has demonstrated a solid understanding of open source community

Re: [proposed PMC] call for feedback: Are you willing to serve as a PMC member?

2012-09-26 Thread Donald Harbison
ial post of thread [1]) proposed PMC list is: > >> Proposed Working List: >> >>Andre Fischer (af) >>Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) >>Andrew Rist (arist) >>Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) >>Armin Le Grand (alg) >>Dave Fisher (wave) >&g

Re: [PMC] Proposed Initial PMC List and process

2012-09-26 Thread Donald Harbison
the finalized Initial PMC List > * 72 hour vote on the resulting list as the initial PMC list (ending >next Wed.) > > > Proposed Working List: > >Andre Fischer (af) >Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) >Andrew Rist (arist) >Ariel Constenla-Haile (arie

Amazon Download of Apache OpenOffice

2012-09-17 Thread Donald Harbison
My Amazon contact informed me by email on Sep 12 that Apache OpenOffice is now available for download. Apologies to the community here for my slow action. Many know that I am dealing with a family medical situation that is taking about 95% of my attention at the moment. The downloads are here: h

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

2012-09-10 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: > Best wishes to you and your family. > > Family is the most important thing. > > Best regards, > Carl > > > On 09/06/2012 04:28 PM, Donald Harbison wrote: > >> I feel it necessary to explain why I have

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

2012-09-07 Thread Donald Harbison
ttm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Don, > > > On 07.09.2012 09:41, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >> On 9/6/12 10:28 PM, Donald Harbison wrote: >> >>> I feel it necessary to explain why I have been absent from discussions >>> here >>> and on ooo-p

[PERSONAL] My absence

2012-09-06 Thread Donald Harbison
I feel it necessary to explain why I have been absent from discussions here and on ooo-private recently. My wife was stricken with a serious medical emergency Wednesday, August 29th. She is recovering after surgery, and is in an intensive care unit here in one of the top hospitals in Boston. Needl

Re: draft graduation resolution

2012-08-24 Thread Donald Harbison
Fixed a minor typo...this looks good to me. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: > On 08/20/2012 01:28 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I put a draft of the graduation resolution onto the wiki: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** >> Graduation+Resolution+%**28d

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposed PMC Chair nomination process

2012-08-23 Thread Donald Harbison
If I recollect correctly, Ross volunteered to work the roster issue on behalf of the PPMC and as one of more active mentors. He's pretty busy at the moment, but I think we can put this taskforward for his attention and action. On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > @sebb >

Re: "Social integration" for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

2012-08-22 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Kevin Grignon wrote: > KG01- see comments inline > > On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 , Rob Weir > wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Phillip Rhodes > > > wrote: > > > Per Rob's email about the "Help us brainstorm ideas for Apache > > > OpenOffice 4.0" I wa

Re: [DISCUSS] AOO Ready to Graduate

2012-08-19 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > We've had several prods from our mentors suggesting that we are ready > to graduate. But I think there was general recognition that with > graduation comes a little hump in extra work, both for the project as > well as the IPMC and Infra, espec

Re: [DISCUSS] OpenOffice Track: ApacheCon Europe

2012-08-14 Thread Donald Harbison
On Monday, August 13, 2012, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 13/08/2012 Donald Harbison wrote: > >> By now everyone must be aware that the CFP system will be closing >> tomorrow, >> August 13th. We'll have an idea of what was submitted this week. >> > > As

Re: [DISCUSS] OpenOffice Track: ApacheCon Europe

2012-08-14 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Donald Harbison > > > wrote: > > By now everyone must be aware that the CFP system will be closing > tomorrow, > > August 13th. We'll have an idea of what was submitted this week. I

[DISCUSS] OpenOffice Track: ApacheCon Europe

2012-08-12 Thread Donald Harbison
By now everyone must be aware that the CFP system will be closing tomorrow, August 13th. We'll have an idea of what was submitted this week. In the meantime, let's have a discussion about how we want to shape our track beyond those proposals. Here's an outline to get the discussion moving... REME

Fwd: ApacheCon Europe CFP closes Monday!

2012-08-11 Thread Donald Harbison
Cross posting to ensure everyone in Apache OpenOffice is not unaware that the CFP system will close for ApacheCon Europe on Monday. It's August, it's summer for some of us, and it's the weekend, but this is your best chance to get your submission reviewed. I'll come on the list with some addition

Re: Hi Everybody

2012-08-08 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:48 AM, 李震宁 wrote: > Hi Everybody: > > I’m Michael Lee from China Standard Software. I’m very glad to meet you. > And I want to say it was a pleasure meeting you in Beijing on June 29th at the Open Source Summit conference. > > We have been cooperating with IBM since 20

Re: Blog post draft: OpenOffice Conference Call for Papers

2012-08-06 Thread Donald Harbison
Andrea, I hope that you submit a proposal for a talk. We need the impressive Italian community to represent key aspects of the proejct and participate at ApacheCon Europe. Please encourage others from Italy to join the effort. Make sure folks know that the deadline is August 13th, not August 3rd a

Travel Assistance: ApacheCon Europe

2012-08-03 Thread Donald Harbison
The Apache OpenOffice project has a fund established with the Apache Treasurer for the purpose of providing travel assistance to members of the OpenOffice community needing financial assistance to attend ApacheCon Europe. The deadline for application is August 16, 2012. I suggest that we give spec

Fwd: Venue visit ApacheCon EU Sinsheim Notes

2012-08-03 Thread Donald Harbison
Forwarding and cross posting. I hope folks don't mind. I think it's important that everyone see what the ApacheCon Europe venue looks like as we move forward and build our OpenOffice track within. As another reminder, we have until August 13th to submit proposals for talks, an extension from the p

Re: Call for Papers for ApacheCon Europe 2012 now open!

2012-08-01 Thread Donald Harbison
Please note that the deadline for submitting a proposal for a talk at ApacheCon Europe has been extended to Monday, August 13th. For all the detail see: http://www.apachecon.eu/ On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Donald Harbison wrote: > Cross posting here in case folks missed this. I'm

Re: Help spread the word [Re: Announcement: OpenOffice at ApacheCon Europe: Call for Papers now Open!]

2012-08-01 Thread Donald Harbison
Please note the deadline for submissions to the CFP system is now Monday, August 13th See: http://www.apachecon.eu/ for all the details, and how to submit your proposal. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > Please help spread the word. > > I've send to ooo-dev, ooo-users and ooo-

Re: AOO 3.4.0 download stats update

2012-08-01 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > I just checked in an update to the download stats for AOO 3.4.0: > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ > > > > Congratulations, everyone. > Indeed! > > > > -Rob > > > > So...10M in b

Re: Some requests... ApacheCon and OpenOffice

2012-07-27 Thread Donald Harbison
Thanks Ross. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > The ApacheCon CFP closes on Aug 3rd. I'd like to float some ideas for > sessions that I would love to see there. I'm not equipped to deliver > sessions on AOO so I'm pitching them here in case someone wants to > submit them. If

Re: AOO 3.4.1 and Mountain Lion support?

2012-07-26 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Am 26.07.12 20:26, schrieb Larry Gusaas: > >> On 2012-07-26 12:02 PM Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> Has anyone upgraded yet and tried installing 3.4.0 or 3.4.1? I heard >>> that having a digital signature is now required. Is that true? Any >>> workaro

Fwd: Call for Papers for ApacheCon Europe 2012 now open!

2012-07-25 Thread Donald Harbison
Cross posting here in case folks missed this. I'm putting together a blog post and will further amplify the communications of this opportunity to our broader community. The primary concern here is the short time to submit your proposal. The deadline is August 3rd. While it may be extended, I do n

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Call For Papers Now Open: ApacheCon Europe 2012

2012-07-25 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Donald Harbison wrote: > The ASF announced the CFP is now open for ApacheCon Europe 2012.[1] > > We have proposed a concept wherein the Apache OpenOffice project will work > to build a program for sessions, hacking and community development. T

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Call For Papers Now Open: ApacheCon Europe 2012

2012-07-17 Thread Donald Harbison
The ASF announced the CFP is now open for ApacheCon Europe 2012.[1] We have proposed a concept wherein the Apache OpenOffice project will work to build a program for sessions, hacking and community development. This is the 'conference-within-a-conference idea where we work to fill a minimum of a f

Re: Medal from Swedish computer magazine

2012-07-02 Thread Donald Harbison
Martin, Thank you very much for recognizing Apache OpenOffice on your Top 20 list. Would you consider writing an article about our project? There are several ways we could work together to do this. One way is for you to send us a list of your interview questions. We will reply on email and you wi

Re: RE: Open the UOF2.0 source codes

2012-06-29 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:49 PM, hongyun.an wrote: > Dear everyone: > > Thanks to all your help,so far I have finished merging the UOF v2.0 source > code to the Aoo3.4(svn version1354914) both on the Windows and Linux. > This is great news! Thank you Hongyun. (Forgive the delay, I am a little s

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache OpenOffice Conference 2012

2012-06-27 Thread Donald Harbison
ontrol over what we want to do for now at least. A good plan will trump no plan or a lousy plan on any given day. /don > > Regards, > Kevin > > > > On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:11 AM, Donald Harbison wrote: > > > We have the opportunity to frame up and build a 'confer

Fwd: a request of publishing

2012-06-22 Thread Donald Harbison
Hirano-san Will you please respond to Go Hanazono? It would be great to have you represent the project in Japan in this respect. I don't believe he needs to get any special permission from the PPMC to distribute a DVD. See the FAQ on Distribution. *http://s.apache.org/aWk* ===

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache OpenOffice Conference 2012

2012-06-21 Thread Donald Harbison
nute challenges (sometimes during the coffee break) to > tackle. > > > > Peter > > > > > > On 6/21/2012 4:00 AM, Donald Harbison wrote: > > > >> Forgive the top posting... I am just alerting everyone that I have > updated > >> the planning wiki [1]

Re: [Spi-private] OpenOffice funds

2012-06-20 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Don, > > On 2012-06-20, at 10:46 , Donald Harbison wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Wolf Halton > wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Donald Harbison >> > >&g

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache OpenOffice Conference 2012

2012-06-20 Thread Donald Harbison
questions and discussion. If you decide to volunteer, please identify yourself and the aspect of the project you are most interested to help with. Thanks! On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Donald Harbison wrote: > We have the opportunity to frame up and build a 'conference within a >

Re: [Spi-private] OpenOffice funds

2012-06-20 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Donald Harbison >wrote: > > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Wolf Halton > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:05 PM, MJ Ray wrote: > > > > > > &g

Re: [Spi-private] OpenOffice funds

2012-06-19 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:05 PM, MJ Ray wrote: > > > Ross Gardler > > > 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 > > con

Re: Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface

2012-06-19 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be > useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA > > Regards, > > -Rob > Nice job! Very clearly presented.

Re: Your website contains 3 (found thus far) spelling errors

2012-06-12 Thread Donald Harbison
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hello Lynnette, > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:36:56AM -0700, Lynnette Boucher wrote: > >Hello Ariel, I've just looked, and only the first spelling error > >has been corrected. The latter two remain unchanged... > > Please try

Re: [Discuss] Guidance regarding acceptable interaction on mailing lists

2012-06-12 Thread Donald Harbison
Sorry for top posting...meant to post this to ooo-dev, not ooo-private. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Donald Harbison wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:11 PM, David McKay wrote: > >> As I mentioned back at the start of April, I think that we could do with >> som

[PROPOSAL] Apache OpenOffice Conference 2012

2012-06-08 Thread Donald Harbison
We have the opportunity to frame up and build a 'conference within a conference' within the ApacheCON EU 2012 venue, November 5 - 9th in Sinsheim, Germany. I've pulled an outline together on the wiki [1]. This is a 'call-to-action'. If you want to see this idea become a reality, now is the time t

Re: 3,027,168 downloads

2012-06-06 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > We hit 3 million early this morning. > Onwards! This is great to see. > > I've updated the chart here: > http://people.apache.org/~robweir/aoo-downloads.html > > -Rob >

Re: LinuxTag 2012 Berlin

2012-05-30 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: > > On 5/30/12 3:10 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: > > >> Hi, > > > > > > Hi Juergen, > > > > > > Please don't see this as a criticism directed at you, this is simply a > constructive critique of the content and suggestions for future > interactions

Re: AOO 2 million?

2012-05-24 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thursday, May 24, 2012, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Rob Weir > > wrote: > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Kay Schenk > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 05/24/2012 11:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > >> > > >> Just checking the numbers: we appear to be at 1.8 million f

Re: AOO 2 million?

2012-05-24 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Just checking the numbers: we appear to be at 1.8 million for AOO 3.4 > install downloads. > > It might make sense to put out another story when we hit 2 million. > Maybe this can be combined with the piece on Symphony that Don was > working on?

Re: Discussions should be on ooo-dev@

2012-05-17 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thursday, May 17, 2012, Shane Curcuru wrote: > As a general rule, any discussion about the AOO project of any kind should > be held on the ooo-dev@ mailing list, or the appropriate more focused > publicly archived list (ooo-marketing@, qa, native language list, users, > etc.). > > If you're in

Re: [PROPOSAL] [USER EXPERIENCE] - Create ooo-ux mailing list

2012-05-16 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wednesday, May 16, 2012, Dave Fisher wrote: > > > On May 16, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Kevin Grignon > > > wrote: > >> Hello All, > >> > >> I would like to propose the creation of an > >> ooo-ux@incubator.apache.orgmailing list. > >> > >> The fre

Re: [ANNOUNCE] IBM SGA/CCLA Submitted for Symphony Source Code Contribution

2012-05-16 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: > > A few minutes ago, I submitted the IBM Software Grant Agreement and > > Corporate Contributor License Agreement for IBM Lotus Symphony > > contribution. This action means infra can begin to prepare to receive the > > 'Contribution" into sv

Re: [ANNOUNCE] IBM SGA/CCLA Submitted for Symphony Source Code Contribution

2012-05-16 Thread Donald Harbison
all of us working together here. We have our ideas, but recognize that we are all equal in the project and are dedicated to working in the Apache Way. [1]*http://s.apache.org/SL9* On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Donald Harbison wrote: > A few minutes ago, I submitted the IBM Software Grant

Shout Out for our Mentors!

2012-05-09 Thread Donald Harbison
While we're in the honeymoon period following our successful launch of Apache OpenOffice 3.4, I want to give a special SHOUT OUT! to our mentors. We wouldn't be here at this point in the project's development without your help and counsel. You agreed to take this podling on as huge and gnarly as yo

Re: Special Thanks to Andrew Rist

2012-05-09 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > As we celebrate the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4, I want to just > take moment to recognize one project member who has been very busy, > but also very quiet. > > The transition from Oracle to Apache did not end with Oracle > submitting an SGA

Re: After AOO 3.4?

2012-05-08 Thread Donald Harbison
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: > Understanding who does what with our product is very important to defining > a product direction that resonates with our users. > > The user experience team is about to refresh the UX work products on the > wiki. An updated set of user roles/p

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Released

2012-05-08 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:38 PM, RGB ES wrote: > 2012/5/8 Hagar Delest : > > Thanks! > > > > Published right after the announce on the English forum: > > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=53705 > > NL admins have been warned too, HU and NL forumshave posted too. > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Released

2012-05-08 Thread Donald Harbison
ig change since the draft. ^^; > > On 2012/05/09 00:36, Albino Biasutti Neto said: > > Hi. > > > > 2012/5/8 Donald Harbison > > > >> Thanks Albino! > > > > Very happy in announce! > > > > I was waiting for oficial announcement. > > &g

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Released

2012-05-08 Thread Donald Harbison
Thanks Albino! On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Albino Biasutti Neto wrote: > Hi. > > 2012/5/8 Rob Weir > > > The Apache OpenOffice Podling Project Management Committee is pleased > > to announce the release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4, available on > > Windows, MacOS and Linux. > > > > Downloads ar

Re: "Google Docs Boasts 450 New Fonts and 60 New Templates"

2012-05-04 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57426699-93/google-docs-boasts-450-new-fonts-and-60-new-templates/ > > > > Is there any easy way to tell how many templates we have in our > > template

Re: Introduces

2012-05-03 Thread Donald Harbison
al draft of the Press Release for your translation. I hope to deliver this to you by the end of tomorrow, Friday, May 4. That should give you enough time to prepare your plans for Brasil, and coordinate our schedules for announcement on May 8th. Thank you! /don > rgs > > Luiz > >

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

2012-05-03 Thread Donald Harbison
Juergen et al, (*and I mean everyone*!), This is so amazing. My 'hats', my 'Apache Hat', 'my IBM Hat', are off to you guys. If I may be so direct as to say, we have come together in a new way, fashioning the future from the past. This may sound simple, but it is not. I think we can agree on this.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Official Facebook Fan Page for AOO

2012-05-03 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I think we should have an official Facebook "fan page" in time for the > release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4. I think this is critical, since the > average end user does not subscribe to mailing lists, or even use > Google+ or Twitter. But almost

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

2012-05-02 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Albino Biasutti Neto wrote: > Hi. > > 2012/5/2 Claudio Filho > > > 2012/5/2 Kay Schenk : > > > YAY! Much thanks and applause to our release manager, Juergen and many > > > others who made this a reality! > > > > Juergen did a incredible work studing all process and

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

2012-05-02 Thread Donald Harbison
While we're all thrilled about this, I have to ask us to keep this information to ourselves until we formally announce next week. To prematurely announce this publicy will be unhelpful to our overall goals of managing the user experience for downloading and equally important the extent to which we

Re: Introduces

2012-05-02 Thread Donald Harbison
Welcome Luiz! I'm sure you and Claudio and other Brazilians will have alot of work to do! I hope that you can write about our news when it becomes officially public as soon as next week. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Albino Biasutti Neto wrote: > Hi Luiz. > > 2012/5/1 luizheli > > > Hi, > >

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

2012-05-02 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Jürgen Schmidt > wrote: > > The vote period for releasing Apache OpenOffice (incubator) RC1 has > > concluded. > > > > The ballot passed. > > > > VOTE TALLY > > > > +1: > > > > IPMC members: > > > > +1 Marvin Hum

Re: Happy Birthday, OpenOffice!

2012-04-30 Thread Donald Harbison
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Anyone remember what happen 10 years ago today April 30th, 2002? > > http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/ooo_release.html > > And today the vote to approve the Apache OpenOffice 3.4 release ends. > > OpenOffice.org 1.0 took the community 18 month

Re: New group Apache OpenOffice on XING

2012-04-30 Thread Donald Harbison
I have a Xing account, but of course, do not speak German. I'm happy to be one of the moderators. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a new group Apache OpenOffice on XING that is under control > of the project. > > https://www.xing.com/net/**pri344752

Re: AOO nears graduation

2012-04-30 Thread Donald Harbison
Thanks Ross, I think we can take up this topic once the 3.4 release cycle is complete and we've flattened any issues that arise from it. On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > I just published a piece on ComputerWorld titled "Is OpenOffice.org an > Apache project yet?" [1] > > In

Re: So, we have a RC1 ? (Was: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1)

2012-04-27 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Claudio Filho wrote: > Hi > > > From: Jürgen Schmidt > > Subject: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1 > > >> 35 Votes +1 > >> 1 Votes 0 > >> 1 Votes -1 > > Only for register: +1 (committer) > > So, we have a RC1? And a press rel

Re: Draft chapters of "Getting Started with AOO" need reviewers

2012-04-26 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, Bob Smith wrote: > Can I pleasw unsubscribe? Send email to: ooo-dev-usubscr...@incubator.apache.org ...should do the trick. > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Guy Waterval > > >wrote: > > > Hello Jean, all > > > > First, many thanks for your work. > > > > 2

Re: Draft chapters of "Getting Started with AOO" need reviewers

2012-04-25 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > It is, and continues to be a feature of OpenOffice.org that it offers, on > install, to automatically open selected Microsoft Office formats in > OpenOffice. (I assume this is .doc, .xls, and .ppt) > > Has promotion of this as a software pr

Re: RC testing

2012-04-25 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > On Wednesday, 25. April 2012 at 08:11, RGB ES wrote: > > Today I took my book, a +300 pages Writer document with +70 pictures, > > +20 tables, +30 Math objects, tons of headings on several levels, > > several page styles, a text full of Gr

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

2012-04-23 Thread Donald Harbison
+1 PPMC non-binding. On Friday, April 20, 2012, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a call for vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache > OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating). This will be the first incubator release for > Apache OpenOffice and a key milestone to continue the success

Re: [Proposal]"Transition" logo to use on release announcement

2012-04-22 Thread Donald Harbison
Ricardo, Thank you very much for you work on this. I think the extra effort to refine the concept is really looking good. I'll even bet that Drew with his media skills could do a little animation as Rob had suggested. We can use this in our announcement content. Very nice. Thanks! /don On Sun,

Re: Mirroring both OOo and AOOo Fwd: [Daniel Shahaf: Opt-out from mirroring resource-intensive projects]

2012-04-20 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Daniel Shahaf schrieb: > > OOo PPMC: >> >> Several mirror operators have asked whether they are expected to carry >> both their preexisting/legacy OOo mirrors and the AOOo mirror. >> >> We're assuming the legacy OOo mirrors

Re: [Proposal] Official Google+ Page for Apache OpenOffice

2012-04-19 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Like Twitter and Facebook, Google+ is a good way to engage with users > and the larger OpenOffice ecosystem. Unlike Twitter, Google+ has some > enhanced capabilities, such as ease of sharing pictures and video and > chat "hangouts". The user ba

Re: Seeking PPMC volunteers for shared project Twitter account

2012-04-19 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > I can support up to 10. Please send me your Twitter account name. > Also follow the account here: https://twitter.com/#!/apacheoo > > Please add me. My twitter account name = dpharbison > I'll give you access to the account and send you instru

Re: Please help.

2012-04-17 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Brian N wrote: > To anyone who can assit, > > I have just finished battling with HP support who then informed me that my > problem wasn't theirs to support and that they only provided a plugin > developed by open office to save my scan files as " name.odf" mind you

Re: Expanding Review and Contributions as AOO 3.4 Approaches

2012-04-17 Thread Donald Harbison
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:21 PM, drew wrote: > Howdy, > > I have a few basic questions - sorry if this has been covered and I > missed it. > > How extensive an announcement are we looking for with this? > > The files are not on the mirror system at this moment, right, so it's > premature to blast

Re: Fake OOo download website that loads malware

2012-04-10 Thread Donald Harbison
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:33 PM, floris v wrote: > > Hello, in the old oooforum.org forum this topic was posted: > > http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=485494#485494 > > > > It appears that if you download and install OOo from > > h

Re: ImSoftwareSystems QA team

2012-03-26 Thread Donald Harbison
On Monday, March 26, 2012, wrote: > > > Hi All, > > From ImSoftwareSystems there are 4 people participating in the > qa of AOO. Welcome! It's great to see new companies volunteering support. How does Im Software plan to benefit from Apache OpenOffice? I ask since I volunteered to help with the p

Re: AOO 3.4 Project Status wiki

2012-03-21 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Simon Brouwer wrote: >> Hi Simon, >> >> Thanks for this initiative! >> >> After months of absence I am looking to become active again in the project, >> and this will help to know what is going on. >> > > Hi Simon, w

Re: Let's be social

2012-03-16 Thread Donald Harbison
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > This us, of course, great. However I hope people will refrain from piling > into any and every remark that can be interpreted as negative towards AOO. > It simply looks foolish. Do not feed the trolls. > > +1 (!) ... > Of course sharing inte

Re: Blog idea: interviews with AOO developers

2012-03-16 Thread Donald Harbison
roject yet. I am still avialable - I guess I hid my offer > between ideas on my last post. > >> > > > > Hi Nancy, > > > > This is good. We have three people willing to do interviews. Now we > > just need a willing victim, or two or three. Plan B is we all > > interview ea

Re: Let barking dogs bark

2012-03-14 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > I would recommend that no one respond to the following: > > +1 > > http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2012/03/14/brand-confusion/ > > It really serves no purpose to do so. > > I would also suggest that those who intent is to simply st

Transliteration Font Support of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 and beyond...

2012-03-13 Thread Donald Harbison
I'm looking for advice on the current state of transliteration support in OpenOffice. Is anyone familiar with this issue? My Dad is a Sanskrit scholar, now 98 years old. Some of his manuscripts were authored in WordPerfect circa 1985 with special macros to enable him to do the transliteration from

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Donald Harbison
how many years > experience you have working with OpenOffice. * community member since 2005 (starting at OpenOffice.org conference in Koper, Slovenia) * IBM liaison manager for corporate sponsorship of OpenOffice.org community since 2005 * Since 2005, ODF program director -- managing IBM support

Re: Where to hold an event

2012-02-20 Thread Donald Harbison
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:57 AM, eric b wrote: > Hi, > > Le 20 févr. 12 à 15:43, Donald Harbison a écrit : > > > There are good flights from Beijing to Frankfurt and/or >> Helsinkibelieve it or not. So this would be good for Chinese developers. >> >>

Re: Where to hold an event

2012-02-20 Thread Donald Harbison
There are good flights from Beijing to Frankfurt and/or Helsinkibelieve it or not. So this would be good for Chinese developers. I suggest we think about travel hubs; plane, trains, and not so much automobiles. So the Frankfurt airport, and connectivity by train from other locations in Europe

Re: Blog idea: interviews with AOO developers

2012-02-16 Thread Donald Harbison
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Donald Harbison wrote: > > > Um, you missed my raised hand here. This will be lots of fun...and as a > > non-coder, I see this project as a no-brainier...plus, as a community we &g

Re: Blog idea: interviews with AOO developers

2012-02-15 Thread Donald Harbison
Um, you missed my raised hand here. This will be lots of fun...and as a non-coder, I see this project as a no-brainier...plus, as a community we are still trying to understand who is who and what is binding us together. On Wednesday, February 15, 2012, Ross Gardler wrote: > it's a real shame nobo

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