Re: Estimating contributors by looking at wiki accounts?

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
body contributes to AOO >> anymore >> because Apache rules makes it far to difficult and restrictive), makes it >> worth while to publish a figure on our web, especially a figure saying >> e.g. >> "during the last year we had xxx active contributors and xx activ

AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
I am thinking about what new project volunteers need to get started. Obviously there are area-specific things. For example, developers need to know how to download and build. Translation volunteers need to understand Pootle, etc. But there are also some basic things that all volunteers should pr

Re: OOoCon videos/material

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
to the video recording as we > move forward. > > In the past, companies like kiberpippa officially support OOoCon media > management. I am not sure if ASF has something like this, however we > could plan some process to have a good quality recording. > > On 10/19/12, Rob Weir w

Estimating contributors by looking at wiki accounts?

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
I recently saw another open source project claim that they had over 3000 contributors. They derived this estimate by looking at the number of user accounts they had in their wiki. That is quite clever, I thought. Since we use the same wiki software, I thought I'd check this metric for us. Our w

Re: Submission to consultants directory

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Russell Ossendryver wrote: > Name: World Label Inc > Country: Global > Practice: Other > Description: WorldLabel specializes in developing templates for pre-press > printing applications with an emphasis on labeling for address, shipping, > CD and media, barcoding

Re: OOoCon videos/material

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Donald Harbison wrote: > 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 g

Re: CMS diff: DA.OpenOffice - En komplet fri kontorpakke

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
e is a place for this in the form? I'm not sure. Take a look: http://www.openoffice.org/da/ Regards, -Rob > Jan. > > 2012/10/19 Rob Weir > >> 2012/10/19 jan iversen : >> > Got it, my failure (it was obvious a bit too late when I made it) >> > >

Re: OOoCon videos/material

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
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 on Youtube? > > http://support.g

Re: CMS diff: DA.OpenOffice - En komplet fri kontorpakke

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
-) -Rob > jan. > > > 2012/10/19 Rob Weir > >> 2012/10/19 jan iversen : >> > Hi Rob >> > >> > I just followed your youtube video :-) and CMS sent this off, more or >> less >> > automatically. >> > >> >> One thing I

Re: CMS diff: DA.OpenOffice - En komplet fri kontorpakke

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
e is checked in then the template is applied. Mdtext is converted to HTML, and the HTML is inserted into the "skeleton" of the template, with standard navigation, headers, footers and other page elements applied. So when you think of a page, concentrate on the content. The rest will come from

Re: OOoCon videos/material

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> Found them: :) >> http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/media/index-2007.html > > Excelent resource, thanks. > > The site is very fast. I´m saturating my FTTH just downloading 3 videos. >

Re: [WWW]: shared ideas and looking for feedback

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I had problems to find a good place for the German translation > of the graduation press release. And I thought that it is probably a > good idea to cleanup the whole page with a clear and well defined > structure. I know t

Re: CMS diff: DA.OpenOffice - En komplet fri kontorpakke

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
This won't work. The existing page is HTML, so the additional text needs to be in HTML as well, including for paragraphs and for hyperlinks, etc. One idea to simplify it would be to have only a "tease" of the story, maybe a sentence or two, and then link to this page for the full story: http:/

Re: OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-10-18 Thread Rob Weir
Thanks. I added to the blog post. -Rob On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Juan C. Sanz wrote: > It's finished and published: > http://www.openoffice.org/es/noticias/graduacion.html > > Regards > Juan Carlos > > El 18/10/2012 21:32, Juan C. Sanz escribió: > >> I'm starting Spanish translation >> R

Re: OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-10-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Is the ASF blog down? > Havent been able to get in for a few minutes now. > It appears to be down, yes. So all the links on Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and in email, to our announcement as well as the ASF announcement are dead. Not go

Re: New wiki page: Graduation Infrastructure Changes

2012-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 10/17/2012 08:53 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> A new wiki page. I created it now because I needed the URL for a blog >>> post. But

Re: New wiki page: Graduation Infrastructure Changes

2012-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > A new wiki page. I created it now because I needed the URL for a blog > post. But is is only a placeholder now. > > I'm hoping we can track items similar to how we did during the > migration from Sun to Apache infrastr

Re: discussion on new l10n workflow

2012-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
we change the workflow it would be easy to add en and us as translated > languages, and in first version they are simply copies of the source. > > rgds > Jan I. > > On 17 October 2012 14:22, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:22 PM, jan iversen >>

Re: Entry in the consultants directory

2012-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Hi Jörg > > Am 17.10.12 08:31, schrieb Jörg Schmidt: >> Hello, >> >> a company has sent me his data that I pass here. >> >> Can you please make the entry in the consultant directory. >> >> Here are the data: >> >> >> in-put GbR - Das Lin

Re: discussion on new l10n workflow

2012-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:22 PM, jan iversen wrote: > Finally I have finished describing the current process, and also combining > all the notes on open issues I could find. > > Please have a look at: > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:L10proc.pdf > > and > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Loc

Re: [DISCUSS] defining roles for management, coordination, work items...

2012-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 10/16/2012 02:47 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >>> >>> [top posting -- old discussion/business] >>> >>> I just created

Re: [DISCUSS] defining roles for management, coordination, work items...

2012-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
here is a way we can track this in one place? Maybe add a "role" column to the "people" page? I dunno. -Rob > > > On 09/09/2012 11:02 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Sep 9, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> >>> >>> >>&

Re: discussion on new l10n workflow

2012-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On 10/16/12, jan iversen wrote: >> Sorry for asking but what is ML discussions ? > > Mailing list archives. This emails are publicly available on the web. > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-l10n/ > >> >> I will hap

Re: Language Pack Pt

2012-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: >> >> Jean is not subscribed, so he missed all your answers. >> Recall that moderated messages have a header field >> >> Delivered-To: moderator for SOME_AOO_LIST >> >> that can be used to filter/tag moderated

New wiki page: Graduation Infrastructure Changes

2012-10-16 Thread Rob Weir
A new wiki page. I created it now because I needed the URL for a blog post. But is is only a placeholder now. I'm hoping we can track items similar to how we did during the migration from Sun to Apache infrastructure, and keep the status of the migration up-to-date here: https://cwiki.apache.or

Re: Problems sign in consultants directory

2012-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> Here is the updated version: >> http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultant-submission.html >> >> I split out the XML instructions from the main part, and added an >> example of a non-XML submission. > > yes, that's much better - s

Re: Problems sign in consultants directory

2012-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> On 10/14/12, Rob Weir wrote: >>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>>> On 10/14/12, Rob Weir wrote: >>>>>

Support questions to ooo-private?

2012-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
I know there was a mystery why we were getting a few questions/week to ooo-private. I think I found a clue. Start from the bug tracking page, our BZ instance: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/ Note the language at the bottom "In case of problems with the functioning of Apache OOo Bugzilla...". A

Re: Terms of Service on Forums

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > This page is blank and now redirects to /license.html > Thanks! -Rob > If someone cares to change it go ahead. > > Regards, > Dave > > On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> A quick remind

Re: Terms of Service on Forums

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
y past proposal and run with it, or create an alternative and resolve this issue. Regards, -Rob On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Can someone take ownership of this issue? > > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118939 > > Look at http://user.services

Re: Ipad application

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: . . . > >> > This reminds me...do we want to add "rollapp" to the porting page? >> > >> > https://www.rollapp.com/OpenOffice >> > >&

Re: [PROPOSAL][WWW] style and content changes to home page

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 10/14/2012 05:56 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Marcus (OOo) >> wrote: >>> >>> Am 10/14/2012 05:17 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 a

Re: There is an "orb logo with gulls" on openSUSE installer

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, RGB ES wrote: > Yesterday I upgraded my system to openSUSE 12.2. The installer, when > copying packages to the hard drive offer a slide show to highlight the main > openSUSE characteristics. What caught my eye on this slide show is the part > that talk about the o

Re: Ipad application

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >> Hi Wayne; >> >> I am not aware of anyone working with us on an iOS port. >> >> The IBM Lotus Symphony Viewer will work for read-only purposes: >> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibm-lo

Re: Open Office - Upgrade to 3.4.1

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:57 AM, gail beale wrote: > I currently have open office version 3.4 on my laptop. I have been notified > that an upgrade is available and I attempted to download it. > > I received a warning that the upgrade was unsigned and could cause significant > damage to my pc.

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

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
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: >>>>

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

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
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 participating in the definition >> of the PMC membership is, in my opinion, a major failing of process which >> was designed t

Re: Problems sign in consultants directory

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> > i think this reference is perhaps not the totally >> appropriate assistance. Please consider two things: >> > >> > - not all speak english well and want to post on mailing-lists >> >> I understand. We can add translations of that page if

Re: Problems sign in consultants directory

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On 10/14/12, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> On 10/14/12, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Alexandro Colorado >>>> w

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

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Sent from my tablet > On Oct 13, 2012 11:00 PM, "Kay Schenk" wrote: >> > > ?.. > >> >> It never occurred to me that any of them would have necessarily been >> interested. > > The fact that it never occurred to anyone participating in the def

Re: [PROPOSAL][WWW] style and content changes to home page

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 10/14/2012 05:17 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Marcus (OOo) >> wrote: >>> >>> Am 10/14/2012 04:10 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012

Re: Problems sign in consultants directory

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> This is covered in the instructions here: >> >> "If you are not familiar with XML, please submit the equivalent >> information in a post to the ooo-dev list and we can help you format >> it for submission. But your listing will ap

Re: Problems sign in consultants directory

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On 10/14/12, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> Please write an example on the page, not just throw the XML file doing >>> something as simple as >>>

Re: Problems sign in consultants directory

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
a freeform > XML. > In the current form it is restricted to enumerated values. This list can expand on request, but I'd like to not have it be freeform so it can be used as a categorization field. The field is the freeform field, where they can put anything relevant. > On 10/14/

Re: [PROPOSAL][WWW] style and content changes to home page

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 10/14/2012 04:10 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Marcus (OOo) >> wrote: >>> >>> Am 10/10/2012 09:08 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: >>> >>>&g

Re: Problems sign in consultants directory

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > I now have sent an invitation to 41 companies relating to an entry in the > directory: > http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html > > And I got the first reply: > > >> Listings must be submitted to the oo

Re: [PROPOSAL][WWW] style and content changes to home page

2012-10-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 10/10/2012 09:08 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > >> On 09/10/2012 Kay Schenk wrote: >>> >>> http://www.openoffice.org/test/ ... >>> I am invoking *lazy consensus* on these changes and put this in place >>> sometime on Sat, PDT -- say 15:30,

Re: Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > > Couple of questions: > > (Q) it was stated to me at one time that integrating changes between AOO and > LO would not be overly complicated (bad memory, but maybe it was Tom Davis > referencing the fact that Symphony was kept in sy

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

2012-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > > > > - Original Message ----- >> From: Rob Weir > ... >>> >>> As a minor update, the only observation we received so far (besides a >>> substantial number of +1 votes, no abstentio

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

2012-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> Also, there are some administrative steps that we'll need to take care >> of over the weekend, assuming the IPMC vote passes: >> 1) Sending a [VOTE][RESULTS] post to the IPMC list >&

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

2012-10-12 Thread Rob Weir
I'd like to make sure that we're all on the same page with graduation and how this process works. The vote that is ongoing now is a vote by the Incubation Project Management Committee (IPMC) on whether or not to *recommend* graduation to the ASF Board. So if this vote passes, which looks likely,

Re: Outreach techniques -- what works

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Oct 11, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > >> >> Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2012 um 19:03 schrieb Rob Weir: >>> Some quick observations based on recent experience and metrics. I >>> think this i

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Hi, > > On 2012-10-11, at 20:52 , Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >>> On 2012-10-11, at 24:24 , Rob Weir wrote: >>>> OK. So we've said that we're happy to share a

Re: OpenOffice for Android

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:10 PM, David Paenson wrote: > Dear all, > > I keep on thinking: wouldn't it be wonderful if OpenOffice was > available for tablets running Android? > > Yesterday I had to tell a student who had bought a cheap tablet > including external keyboard she had better resell it a

At the sound of the beep...

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
At the sound of the beep Apache OpenOffice 3.4 downloads will exceed 20 million. Congrats, everyone. -Rob

Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Sylvain DENIS wrote: > Hello, > > I can help in french ;) > Thanks. Look for a note direct from me in a few minutes. -Rob > greetings > > Sylvain DENIS > > Le 11/10/12 19:05, Rob Weir a écrit : > >> On Thu, Oct 11, 201

Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed

2012-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello Rob, > >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] >> So areas where I could use help: >> >> 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who >> should be invited. German, Fr

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 09/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >> And indeed this happened today: FOSDEM organizers, who received an >> application from Apache OpenOffice and one from LibreOffice, asked >> whether we can share a devroom. Of course this was alread

Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
So here's where we are with the consultants listing: 1) XLST script, data file, strings for en and it are checked in under ooo-site/content/bizdev/consultants 2) Announcement to ooo-dev/ooo-users/forums/twitter/google+/facebook (but not ooo-announce since that is almost all end-users) 3) Blog po

Re: commit after review vs lazy consensus (was Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation)

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > > > > - Original Message ----- >> From: Rob Weir >> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:05 AM >> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards grad

Re: [Localization] Issues login into Pootle

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > I've been having issues login into pootle, seems it doesnt recognize > my previous account. Not sure if this is an INFRA issue or should it > be address on this ML? > This is an Apache-wide Pootle instance and no legacy OOo accounts w

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > ... >>> >>> Who "praised" my axe? I recall *you* threatened to veto it :-P. >> >> Yes, I did. And I've learned from my error. So in this case I'd seek >> lazy consensus first ;-) >> >>> And now that

Extensions Directory and New API mailing list

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
Hello Roberto, Hopefully you saw the announcement of the new ooo-api mailing list. The focus for this would be application developers working with OpenOffice. I imagine it should be a useful list for any extension author to join. Is there any way we can promote this at the Extensions Repository?

Re: Marketing events

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Ian Lynch wrote: >> >> >> > +1, this is just brainstorming about something of common interest so at >> > this stage its best to be as public as possible. If there is a clear >> > proposal outside the scope of ASF then we should move it outside. >> >> OK. >> >> > Th

Re: question about consultants page

2012-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > If the information on the page > http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultant-submission.html still in > discussion, or can I already send my XML file to > "ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org"? > Submissions are welcome. We've receive

Re: Marketing events

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Oct 9, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > On 9 October 2012 21:37, Raphael Bircher wrote: > >> Am 09.10.12 22:19, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Raphael Bircher >> wrote: >>>> Am 09.10.12 21:07, schrieb Rob Weir: >>

Re: [PROPOSAL][WWW] style and content changes to home page

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > Please have a look when you get a moment at the test area for home pages in: > > http://www.openoffice.org/test/ > > I have moved what were basically permanent items on our social networking > areas and blog to the > "I want to stay in touch..."

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
be accurate, I did contribute one (unused) patch to >> LibreOffice and I also provided private review of a patch that has been >> released in LibreOffice for reducing the information leakage and ease of >> known-plaintext attacks on encrypted (save with Password) ODF files.

Re: Marketing events

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Am 09.10.12 21:07, schrieb Rob Weir: >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: >>> On 9 October 2012 18:00, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/9/12, Ian Lynch wrote: >>>>

Re: Marketing events

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 12-10-09, at 15:07 , Rob Weir wrote: > >> For 3rd party fundraising, we would need to tread very carefully here, >> in terms of trademark use, avoiding appearance of affiliation or >> endorsement, etc

Application Developers, you are invited to join the Apache OpenOffice API mailing list

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
We have a new mailing list in the OpenOffice project --- ooo-...@incubator.apache.org. The focus of this list is for discussions related to OpenOffice macros, scripting and extensions. All topics related to application development with OpenOffice are welcome, including questions, suggestions for

Re: Marketing events

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > On 9 October 2012 18:00, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> On 10/9/12, Ian Lynch wrote: >> > OOo had a substantial community marketing project with community members >> > attending key events. How do we improve on that now with AOO? >> >> I remembe

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hello; > > - Original Message - >> From: Rob Weir > ... >> >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton >> wrote: >>> I'm sorry, Rob. Those files are toxic *for me*. I c

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
is included in a release. > When can the ASF expect the letter from IBM that you have offered to request? > When I know I'll post that info. -Rob > - Dennis > > -Original Message- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 10:

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
ut I could not produce > anything based on it since I can't provide sanitary provenance. Sanitary > provenance is a standard I must satisfy for myself.] > > -Original Message- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 09:14 > To:

Re: Marketing events

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > OOo had a substantial community marketing project with community members > attending key events. How do we improve on that now with AOO? > We have an ooo-marketing (cc'ed) mailing list with 113 subscribers. So it shows that there is some interes

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
t; Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 23:36 > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation > > > On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton >> wrote: > [ ... ] >>> I nos

Re: Draft Blog Post: Calling all Consultants

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
lex requirements, etc., users might need some extra help, > some professional expertise to help them get where they want to go." > > Don > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> Was thi

Re: Need Apache Member/Officer to submit list creation request (Was: [PROPOSAL] Reinvigorate extension authors community)

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Rob Weir schrieb: > >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile >> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 12:17:31PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>

Re: Installation patches

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > In the last days I looked into how to create installation patches for > updating AOO. Using patches instead of full installation packages would > lead to smaller files to distribute for updating AOO on the next release. > > I have cre

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2012, at 3:56 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 a

Re: Policy question: How to link to books about OpenOffice?

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 12-10-08, at 17:24 , Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Rob Weir wrote: >>> I'm hesitant to just list every book that is published. ... >>> List them only when requested (like we do with consult

Re: Need Apache Member/Officer to submit list creation request (Was: [PROPOSAL] Reinvigorate extension authors community)

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 12:17:31PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> Did anyone ever get a notification on this? >> >> I just tried subscribing to ooo-api@i.a.o and it said I was already >> subscribed. So it look

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton >> wrote: >>> The proposed PMC chair is not an officer of the PPMC. The PPMC has no >>> chair. &

Re: Policy question: How to link to books about OpenOffice?

2012-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 02/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >> >> One way to think of it is to treat the publisher or author (for >> self-published books) as the "consultant" in the terms of the policy. >> They are the ones providin

Re: Draft Blog Post: Calling all Consultants

2012-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Was this a typo? > Note: At Apache we never play for development, and we do not recommend > or endorse specific consultants. > > pay-play? > Yes, it should be "pay". Thanks, -Rob > On 10/

Draft Blog Post: Calling all Consultants

2012-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=calling_all_openoffice_consultants Comments are welcome. -Rob

Outreach techniques -- what works

2012-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
Some quick observations based on recent experience and metrics. I think this is important when we consider ways of reaching out for volunteers. Facts: 1) Adding something an the www.openoffice.org homepage, as a news story, gets around 80K hits/day 2) Adding something to the header on all of oo

Re: Need Apache Member/Officer to submit list creation request (Was: [PROPOSAL] Reinvigorate extension authors community)

2012-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Ross Gardler >> wrote: >>> On 2 October 2012 15:40, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >>>> Dave Fisher wrote on Tue, Oc

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > Juergen -- see below > > > On 10/08/2012 04:45 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> we made good progress towards graduation and I would like to discuss the >> next steps. >> >> - we have selected the initial PMC roster >> - we have selecte

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > The proposed PMC chair is not an officer of the PPMC. The PPMC has no chair. > > I suppose the updated graduation resolution would need to be balloted here. > Then the IPMC can vote on it on their list for graduation. > > Also, all of

Re: New spreadsheet functions

2012-10-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi all, > > it might be overlooked, so I want to draw your attention to the commit of > CWS calcishmakkica in r1381446 to r1381452 on 5.Sept. 2012. (You remember > the long lasting attempt to get it?) It contains in the main the work of > Ma

Re: Companies supporting Free Software Projects

2012-10-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Marc Rabell Gabarró wrote: > Hi All, > > My name is Marc Rabell and I'm a student from the Open Univeristy of > Catalonia in Spain. > > In our project we are analyzing the companies which are behind the most > important Free Software projects for the Windows plat

Re: Which See Gull is Our Logo?

2012-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On 10/4/12, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> On 10/4/12, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile >>>> wrote

Re: Which See Gull is Our Logo?

2012-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On 10/4/12, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile >> wrote: >>> Hi Andrew, >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:21:39AM -0700, Andrew Rist wrote: >>>&

Re: Which See Gull is Our Logo?

2012-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:21:39AM -0700, Andrew Rist wrote: >> >The original icon is from Stella Schulze, as seen in >> >http://www.openoffice.org/ui/VisualDesign/OOo3_refresh.html >> >http://www.openoffice.org/ui/Visua

Re: [WWW] Do we need a new site logo (for graduation) -- call for volunteers

2012-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Kevin Grignon > wrote: > >> Sounds like a great opportunity to clean up the graphic resources >> >> Do we have an inventory of all locations where the logo occurs throughout >> the product touch points: web, app

Re: Need Apache Member/Officer to submit list creation request (Was: [PROPOSAL] Reinvigorate extension authors community)

2012-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 2 October 2012 15:40, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Dave Fisher wrote on Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 07:33:16 -0700: >>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5334 >>> >>> Someone else beat me to it. >> >> Actually they didn't, as of right now

Re: Calling all consultants, developers, trainers, etc., offering professional services related to OpenOffice

2012-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
I'll check it in. And if the volume becomes heavy enough that the PMC does not feel able to review submissions within 72 hours, then speak up and we can pause to catch up. -Rob On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > We're in the process of creating an updated OpenOffice

Calling all consultants, developers, trainers, etc., offering professional services related to OpenOffice

2012-10-04 Thread Rob Weir
We're in the process of creating an updated OpenOffice professional services directory, to replace the outdated one that we removed from the website a few months ago. You can see the new page here, still with some test data, but also a real listing: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.ht

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