Re: [VOTE][PMC] PMC Chair

2012-10-05 Thread Wolf Halton
[] Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) [ X ] Drew Jensen (atjensen) -- Wolf Halton -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Open-Source Software in Libraries - http://FOSS4Lib.org Advancing Libraries Together - http://LYRASIS.org Apache Open Office Developer wolfhal...@apache.org

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

2012-10-05 Thread Wolf Halton
[ X ] +1 approve [] 0 abstain [] -1 disapprove, for the following reasons: -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Open-Source Software in Libraries - http://FOSS4Lib.org Advancing Libraries Together - http://LYRASIS.org Apache Open Office Developer

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC Chair

2012-09-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Sep 29, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 12-09-29, at 03:48 , Dave Barton b...@apache.org wrote: Original Message

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC Chair

2012-09-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Sep 29, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 12-09-29, at 03

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

2012-09-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/27/2012 05:03 AM, schrieb Wolf Halton: I think it more feasible to edit the website than to test on win2k in any meaningful way. I understand it in this way, that you suggest to delete the Windows 2000 support

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

2012-09-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/29/2012 10:27 PM, schrieb Wolf Halton: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 09/27/2012 05:03 AM, schrieb Wolf Halton: I think it more feasible to edit the website than

Re: Change of 'soffice' name

2012-09-26 Thread Wolf Halton
annoyed when softwares go to war against one another, as would be the effect if OpenOffice just removed LO when it was installed. I will look into a more scalable and friendly option. -- Wolf Halton This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Open-Source Software in Libraries - http

Re: Call for comments: Webpage for Listing OpenOffice Consultants

2012-09-26 Thread Wolf Halton
of a link on the service-providers page, the moderation would be less work. Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On Sep 26, 2012 8:29 PM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: On 9/26/2012 4:58 PM, Rob Weir wrote: Another one of those larger

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

2012-09-26 Thread Wolf Halton
I think it more feasible to edit the website than to test on win2k in any meaningful way. Are we claiming to support win98se? or winME? Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On Sep 24, 2012 7:06 AM, Stuart Swales stuart.swales.croftnu...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [DISCUSS] Code of Conduct

2012-09-22 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:16 PM, David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com wrote: On 12/09/12 19:02, Kay Schenk wrote: On 09/11/2012 02:50 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 11.09.2012 07:51, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi, We have a code of conduct here:

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-21 Thread Wolf Halton
My list of 10: Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) Andrew Rist (arist) David Fisher (wave) (Apache Membeber) David McKay (thegurkha) Donald P. Harbison (dpharbison) Drew Jensen (atjensen) Jürgen Schmidt (jsc) Pedro Giffuni (pfg) Peter Junge (pj) Yang Shih-Ching (imacat) -- This Apt Has Super Cow

Re: Unofficial Apache OO Debian repository updated

2012-08-26 Thread Wolf Halton
Sounds like it might not take too much effort to get it to work in Ubuntu. Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On Aug 24, 2012 4:37 PM, Marcelo Santana msant...@cnen.gov.br wrote: On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:45:38 +0800, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating), RC2

2012-08-18 Thread Wolf Halton
+1 Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On Aug 16, 2012 4:38 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following

Re: OO Sold on eBay

2012-08-12 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 9:48 AM, dan roch dan.gum.tree...@gmail.com wrote: FYI I don't know if this goes agaist OO rules but this user on eBay is selling copies of OO. There is no rule against selling open

Re: [RELEASE] Next Release - 3.4.2? 3.5? 4.0?

2012-07-11 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.dewrote: Hi all, Shenfeng Liu schrieb: Hi, all, Since we are stepping forward to the 3.4.1 release smoothly, I think maybe it is time for us to look ahead for our next release now. I remember we had a discussion

Re: Terms of Service on Forums

2012-07-07 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:31 AM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:01 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Let's step back a little. The markup that I created was designed to morph the Oracle

Re: Java

2012-07-06 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:59 AM, suhail ansari suhaila...@gmail.com wrote: OpenOffice should be rewritten in JavaFX. Hmm... I should learn to search for email addresses before engaging into long discussions about

Re: Terms of Service on Forums

2012-07-05 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.netwrote: Le mer. 04 juil. 2012 04:44:19 CEST, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : Yes - it goes to the page on the website - a page I tried to get people to look at for fixup months ago - but there was no interest in doing

Re: Terms of Service on Forums

2012-07-04 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: @Rob, Yes, I am seeing what you are seeing. Concerning the ToU for the forums, it is the same as what was previously on the web site.

Re: Outline frustration

2012-06-24 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Nancy Ritter ritte...@gmail.com wrote: I am an unsubscribed or unregistered user. I am preparing a document for myself and prefer to set my own outline and not have the text document decide for me. After correcting the misguided program's decisions several

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache OpenOffice Conference 2012

2012-06-20 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: As stated before, you can count me in for the CFP Jury. I've been a member of the jury for the OOo Conferences 2007 - 2010. In 2010, I have been the head of the jury. I would do this again, if no one else volunteers. But,

Re: [Proposal] Guidelines for list conduct policy

2012-06-19 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:42 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 16:21 -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:33 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 00:14 +0200, RGB ES wrote: 2012/6/20 drew jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com:

Re: [Proposal] Guidelines for list conduct policy

2012-06-19 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:42 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 16:21 -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:33 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 00

Re: Do we want to drop platform support of RedHat 5 and SuSE 10

2012-06-18 Thread Wolf Halton
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Herbert Duerr h...@apache.org wrote: On 18.06.2012 10:37, Ji Yan wrote: According to build guide[1], gcc 4.2.3 is the current reference compiler which means Linux build should be compiled against RedHat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6 or SuSE Linux Enterprise

[Proposal] Guidelines for list conduct policy

2012-06-16 Thread Wolf Halton
This is a draft with the additions from the group, for a lazy consensus. I am envisioning that the final draft can be added to the sign-in progress for the various mailing-lists and also as a link to the project mailing-list page. I have not included any pieces about what happens to an individual

Re: Draft Blog post: OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-03 Thread Wolf Halton
The .org is in Apache is probably too clever, but it the rest of the article is fine. Wolf http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

2012-06-02 Thread Wolf Halton
When the US gov went to word from wordperfect sometime around 1994, pretty much everybody who interacted with the government went to MS Office within a year or so. I expect we will see a similar effect from Brazil and other governments moving to OFF. When I installed 3.4 on windows 7 and on Ubuntu

Re: [PROPOSAL] Starting the graduation process

2012-06-02 Thread Wolf Halton
+1 to start graduation process. To me it seems that just as in an apprenticeship system, graduation does not imply perfection or mastery of the endeavour, but readiness to attempt journeyman-level work. Wolf http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache

Re: Debian repository for AOO

2012-05-31 Thread Wolf Halton
Paolo, Yes please. An english translation published on the en support forum would ne great. Wolf http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 31, 2012 8:51 AM, Paulo de Souza Lima paulo.s.l...@varekai.org wrote:

Re: Dealing with a large and diverse project - Native Languages and project teams

2012-05-20 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Paulo de Souza Lima paulo.s.l...@varekai.org wrote: 2012/5/20 Paolo Pozzan pa...@z2z.it Reading to all other messages in this thread, I think many missed the point. The problem is not about what language to use, but how to manage the to-be-volunteers

Re: [UX] Questions for users

2012-05-20 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.comwrote: Hi. 2012/5/20 Paulo de Souza Lima paulo.s.l...@varekai.org I think you mean How old are you? =) Sorry, thanks. Maybe we could contribute to improve those questions. My 2 cents: Are you using it at

Re: Wikipedia pages

2012-05-20 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Edward martinezedward...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/20/2012 02:28 AM, sebb wrote: FYI: Just noticed that the Wikipedia office suite comparison page [1] has an entry for Apache OpenOffice. This says that the licence is LGPL, which is wrong. The correct license

Re: [UX] Questions for users

2012-05-20 Thread Wolf Halton
Lima paulo.s.l...@varekai.org wrote: Maybe we could think in a question database and decide where to ask later. So we could arrange questions in many different ways, depending on the research objetives. What do you think? 2012/5/20 Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com question -- Paulo de

Re: HELP NEEDED: CERTIFICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A TENDER

2012-05-20 Thread Wolf Halton
Miss Cubilla, isn't certifying a platform usable with a software the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer? Perhaps I do not understand the request. Wolf Halton http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 20

Re: Troll warning

2012-05-18 Thread Wolf Halton
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 18 May 2012 13:21, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

Re: Another special Thanks for the Apache infra structure team

2012-05-11 Thread Wolf Halton
http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 10, 2012 4:17 PM, Roberto Galoppini rgalopp...@geek.net wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: +1 On 5/10/2012 8:26 AM,

Re: Can you please send less emails...

2012-05-11 Thread Wolf Halton
Have fun on vacation. I will personally send 3.7 fewer emails. Wolf http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 11, 2012 3:50 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On May 11, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Juergen

Re: Shout Out for our Mentors!

2012-05-09 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: A big +1. I'm sure that it's sometimes not that easy to manage all this people. ;-) Thanks Marcus Am 05/09/2012 09:32 PM, schrieb Donald Harbison: While we're in the honeymoon period following our successful

Re: how to get information out about non-Apache builds/packages

2012-05-09 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Do we want to do something to make folks aware of non-Apache packs for AOO (3.4.0 and beyond). I don't know how this has been done in the past, if at all. Right now I know there is a download on freebsd.org, and Wolf has

Re: Asking PMC Help to Co-maintain the Official Taiwan Plurk Account

2012-05-08 Thread Wolf Halton
Sure. Happy to help. Contact off-list. Wolf http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 8, 2012 9:39 PM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: Dear all, I would like to Asking help from PMC members to

Re: [PROPOSAL]: Apache OpenOffice Next-Gen logo...

2012-05-08 Thread Wolf Halton
Interesting! Seems reminiscent of the Mac square smiley-face logo. It looks like you could make a go at a square logo there, which would be a useful addition. I suggest we go slow with changing main logos, because they are not for showing our creativity but to show continuity to a public with

Re: Are there 3 wiki websites?

2012-05-08 Thread Wolf Halton
At least 3 wikis. Ooo4kids is a different organization that is aimed at a younger demographic. I do not know a lot about their mission. Wiki.services.openoffice.org is for how-to articles about using openoffice and existed in similar form when Sun owned the openoffice project. cwiki is about/for

Re: Can somebody remind me how to pull source?

2012-05-06 Thread Wolf Halton
developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 5, 2012 6:05 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-05-05 at 11:35 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: Thanks Raphael Exactly what I was looking for. Hi Wolf And to get the AOO340 tagged branch this line would work: svn co https://svn.apache.org

Problems adding to wiki

2012-05-06 Thread Wolf Halton
Hi, I went to https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/wiki-home.html to add a page about the Ubuntu Apache-OpenOffice Packaging team, and found my username/pass was unknown user: wolfhalton email: wolfhal...@apache.org Thanks, Wolf -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com

Re: Would there be any interest in starting a AOO Group on Launchpad

2012-05-05 Thread Wolf Halton
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Claudio Filho filh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi 2012/5/2 Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com: Apparently Launchpad makes its own debs, so that is not necessary. Humm... i started to study the debian package system, and isn't easy to do this. Automated system

Can somebody remind me how to pull source?

2012-05-05 Thread Wolf Halton
I want all the source so I am thinking it will be a pattern like: svn pull openoffice/something -Wolf -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Open-Source Software in Libraries - http://FOSS4Lib.org Advancing Libraries Together - http://LYRASIS.org Apache Open Office

Re: Would there be any interest in starting a AOO Group on Launchpad

2012-05-05 Thread Wolf Halton
Great! http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 5, 2012 8:19 AM, Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. 2012/5/5 Claudio Filho filh...@gmail.com Hi 2012/5/5 Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com

[Ubuntu Packaging] Project and blueprint related to the team

2012-05-04 Thread Wolf Halton
Hi Y'all I have added a project and a blueprint for developing the packages. There was a much older unofficial openoffice.org project from 2009 but it was empty and I have asked its maintainer to join the new team. Drew, you were saying we should upload the source and see how launchpad makes

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-03 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Juergen Schmidt wrote: We can of course create a further link aoo, aooffice, apacheoo or apacheopenoffice. But I would like to keep soffice as well because it is used in many places. It would definitely make sense

Re: I want to stay informed about OpenOffice option for the home page?

2012-05-03 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/03/2012 09:43 AM, Rob Weir wrote: One thing we don't have any more is that registration dialog from OpenOffice.org. Does anyone recall what that used to do? For example, did it sign users up for the

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-03 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.netwrote: Le Wed, 2 May 2012 19:30:22 -0300, Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.com a écrit : 2012/5/2 Wolf Haltonwolf.hal...@gmail.com Well I have both LO and AOO running simultaneously on my system right now. Should

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-03 Thread Wolf Halton
http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 3, 2012 5:20 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 16:29 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le Wed, 2 May 2012 19:30:22 -0300

Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-02 Thread Wolf Halton
I am attempting to install from a sourceforge download and I would like to have one of 2 things. 1. a repo to set in my sources.list for Ubuntu 12.04 2. The list of what order to install all these deb packages. Wolf -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Advancing Libraries

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-02 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:47 PM, drew jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 12:40 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: I am attempting to install from a sourceforge download and I would like to have one of 2 things. 1. a repo to set in my sources.list for Ubuntu 12.04

Would there be any interest in starting a AOO Group on Launchpad

2012-05-02 Thread Wolf Halton
, Wolf Halton wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:47 PM, drew jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 12:40 -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: I am attempting to install from a sourceforge download and I would like to have one of 2 things. 1. a repo to set in my

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-02 Thread Wolf Halton
Thanks Rory On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2012 12:40:03 -0400 Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: I am attempting to install from a sourceforge download and I would like to have one of 2 things. 1. a repo to set in my

Re: Would there be any interest in starting a AOO Group on Launchpad

2012-05-02 Thread Wolf Halton
You are in. The group is https://launchpad.net/~apacheopenoffice On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: On 5/2/2012 11:41 AM, Wolf Halton wrote: I was about to commit the AOO code to a PPA for myself, but as Drew mentioned, it might be a lot more fun

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-02 Thread Wolf Halton
I had just that issue. LO uses /usr/bin/soffice as well. Can we just change that in the integration code so it s-links to /usr/bin/aooffice, or would it be better to push that over to the Ubuntu packagers? On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.netwrote: Le Wed, 2

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-02 Thread Wolf Halton
Wed, 2 May 2012 16:53:15 -0400, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com a écrit : I had just that issue. LO uses /usr/bin/soffice as well. Can we just change that in the integration code so it s-links to /usr/bin/aooffice, or would it be better to push that over to the Ubuntu packagers? On Wed

Re: [Spi-private] OpenOffice funds

2012-05-01 Thread Wolf Halton
a responsibility to ask what I felt were obvious questions. So, I can't see any of these emails: [...] For more information on this please see the mail sent by Wolf Halton to treasu...@spi-inc.org on 19 March 2012 (subject monies collected for OpenOffice.org) and copied to bo...@spi

Re: AOO nears graduation

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

Re: Possible fraud??

2012-04-17 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: On 13/04/2012 Keith Shafe wrote: There is a guy on ebay selling Open Office 3.3 which I was led to believe was a free download. I don't know the EBay Terms and condition, but the license does not forbid this kind

Re: SPI

2012-04-17 Thread Wolf Halton
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: treasu...@spi-inc.org Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Feb 22, 2012 4:33 AM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: That is a good point. It will be included in the proposal

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-04-07 Thread Wolf Halton
Office 2.x to write a textbook in 2006. Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com On Apr 7, 2012 12:40 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 12/03/2012 Rob Weir wrote: Here's my idea: Respond to this note and tell me how many years experience you have working with OpenOffice

Re: And idea for OOo

2012-04-04 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Apr 3, 2012, at 6:20 AM, RGB ES wrote: El día 3 de abril de 2012 15:03, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com escribió: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Cody Miller codymiller1...@live.com wrote: Hello, I

Re: Works 4.5

2012-04-03 Thread Wolf Halton
If you still have Works on some machine, save all the files as .rtf Rich Text Format. Works is a little proprietary thing that was never ported to anything. I have seen times when even MS Office would not import Works native documents. -Wolf On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:26 AM, David Terron

Re: And idea for OOo

2012-04-03 Thread Wolf Halton
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Cody Miller codymiller1...@live.comwrote: Hello, I have a really great idea for the OpenOffice Community. Almost every Office Suite has its own storage house (cloud drive) nowadays, and I was thinking that OOo should have its own too. But I was also thinking

Re: How to make a Linux port of CVE-2012-0037

2012-03-23 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We need a few things: 1) Someone to build the patch (http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-0037-src.txt) 2) Someone to create install instructions for the patch 3) One or more people to test the patch 4)  

Re: AOO timeline of accomplishments

2012-03-08 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:09:33 -0500 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I am working on a

Re: AOO-3.4 Test on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha/beta

2012-03-02 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:57:11 -0500 Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: I have started a test on Ubuntu 12.04 I am an alpha-tester for Ubuntu and usually have a VM or 3 running with the developer's snapshot of Ubuntu

Re: selling open office

2012-02-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: On 2012-02-28 12:23 PM, flamin hotdog wrote: hi, i was wondering where you stand on people selling open office. i know of somebody who is selling open office on ebay for profit. thanks andy As other folks have

AOO-3.4 Test on Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha/beta

2012-02-29 Thread Wolf Halton
I have started a test on Ubuntu 12.04 I am an alpha-tester for Ubuntu and usually have a VM or 3 running with the developer's snapshot of Ubuntu. I put 3.4 on one of these boxes and have done manual installs of the pieces. The default LibreOffice interferes with my AOO install Wolf -- This Apt

Re: [MIGRATION] Shut down on remaining Oracle web resources

2012-02-22 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:19 AM, imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw wrote: On 2012/02/22 13:14, Andrew Rist said: I would like to set the date for shutting down these Oracle hosted resources as March 15. (no Shakespeare references, please) This will include mailing lists, mail forwarder,

Re: SPI

2012-02-21 Thread Wolf Halton
the proposal would be for event + travel. there is a hope that Co-location will mean event costs will be very low, but this may not be possible. Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Feb 21, 2012 8:08 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ross, I made

Re: http://www.openoffice.org/

2012-02-14 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote:        Hi Marcus, On 13.02.2012 21:57, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 02/13/2012 06:02 PM, schrieb Armin Le Grand: I just tried a naked http://www.openoffice.org/ and landed on the Apache incubator page, nonetheless

Re: http://www.openoffice.org/

2012-02-14 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote:        Hi Wolf, On 14.02.2012 14:08, Wolf Halton wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Armin Le Grandarmin.le.gr...@me.com  wrote: [..] That is the proper landing page for openoffice.org, but we

Re: Logo - banner artwork

2012-02-14 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: Hi, Worked on the logo and banner, etc yesterday. There was a request for something more square and that ended up getting me to think about a more

Re: Proposal for use of funds collected by SPI

2012-02-12 Thread Wolf Halton
such an event, but count me out of the organising team. Ross On 12 February 2012 03:07, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- Sab 11/2/12, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com ha scritto: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: I'm happy to answer any

Proposal for use of funds collected by SPI

2012-02-10 Thread Wolf Halton
our software with the money, per ASF rules. I volunteered to move this forward and I would like your feedback, maybe a general poll of what you, the community, would like to do with the money. Once I have some idea of your wishes, I will connect the dots to close this issue. Cheers, Wolf Halton

Re: Proposal for use of funds collected by SPI

2012-02-10 Thread Wolf Halton
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Summary: SPI has been collecting moneys for the OpenOffice.org project for quite a while.  They wanted to help the project and their help is appreciated

Re: Seeking Bugzilla Admin Volunteers

2012-01-18 Thread Wolf Halton
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: I volunteer. I'll need your BZ login ID, which is not necessarily the same as your Apache ID. http://sourcefreedom.com On Jan 12, 2012 2:16

Has docs converter been created?

2012-01-18 Thread Wolf Halton
The department I work for has just standardized on MS Office 2010 and I am constantly getting broken-xml docx files that I cannot look at in either OOo or LibreOffice 3.4. I was reading a thread on the forum from 2007 when docx first came out and we were having to suggest people use MS Office for

Re: Team OpenOffice White Label Office (powered by Apache Open Office)

2012-01-18 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- Mer 4/1/12, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org ha scritto: ... It doesn't make sense to me that all of the above must use a different name than OpenOffice, since some of them are exactly equal to OpenOffice, just

Re: Has docs converter been created?

2012-01-18 Thread Wolf Halton
...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:49 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Has docs converter been created? Hi Wolf, On Jan 18, 2012, at 5:16 AM, Wolf Halton wrote: The department I work for has just standardized on MS Office 2010 and I am constantly getting

Re: Seeking Bugzilla Admin Volunteers

2012-01-16 Thread Wolf Halton
I volunteer. http://sourcefreedom.com On Jan 12, 2012 2:16 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: As far as I have been able to determine, no one in the project seems to have the ability to do anything in our Bugzilla instance beyond the basic operations that any member of the public is able

Re: Too many lists

2011-12-28 Thread Wolf Halton
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Dec 28, 2011 3:16 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: Hi Y'all Would

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-11-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 29 Nov 2011, at 12:17, Michael Meeks wrote: I've finally got around to setting up: officesecur...@lists.freedesktop.org It is intended as a vendor neutral, neutrally hosted list for reporting security

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Trademark and Brand

2011-11-17 Thread Wolf Halton
One might note 35 ppmc voted and I believe that is more than 1/2 of the PPMC http://sourcefreedom.com

Re: [VOTE] Trademark and Brand

2011-11-11 Thread Wolf Halton
c) Apache Open Office -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-10-25 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.comwrote: On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 10:22 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: You are welcome! I'm looking for common ground and I am trying to listen to logic. :-) So where does that leave us ? one approach that hasn't

Re: [proposal] development for the first AOO release

2011-10-25 Thread Wolf Halton
Pedro ++ On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Please note that we are doing both simultaneously to avoid breaking the build. We do have to update the task list. There are some uncommitted advances (libegg, ucpp) and some WIP (nss), but there are still

Re: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists

2011-10-20 Thread Wolf Halton
Do any of these lists have publicly accessible archives? It would be a shame to lose those, when the lists shut down. I suspect messages about OOo 1.x are pretty much dead, or at least the software is pretty much obsoleted. Those archives might be less useful. Just wondering.. -- This Apt

Re: [Proposal] Renaming of OpenOffice.org

2011-10-20 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 10/18/2011 18:53, Kay Schenk wrote: On 10/18/2011 02:58 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: massive snippery snip-ectomy Why not have both Apache Open Office and OpenOffice.org? 1) We already have both and people are

Re: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists

2011-10-20 Thread Wolf Halton
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Do any of these lists have publicly accessible archives? It would be a shame to lose those, when the lists shut down. I suspect messages about OOo

Re: [VOTE] Acceptance of the OpenOffice.org Proposal

2011-10-18 Thread Wolf Halton
+1 On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.auwrote: -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, 19 October 2011 8:17 AM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [VOTE] Acceptance of the OpenOffice.org

Re: ooo-security and securityteam@ OO.o coordination

2011-10-13 Thread Wolf Halton
+1 - This looks sensible. The fewer times a single person can accidentally break the chain of communication, the better. -Wolf -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com

Re: Catching up

2011-09-06 Thread Wolf Halton
Congratulations on the new job, Wanda. I think a documentation team list would be a good idea as well, as it would be far easier to filter by sent_to than by topic or content. -Wolf On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Wanda Phillips wetcoastwri...@me.comwrote: Yes, thanks Rob, the emails sort of

Re: Fundraising

2011-08-15 Thread Wolf Halton
, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Would a for-profit be able to retain Section 8 in the license? Wolf Halton wrote on Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 05:35:57 -0400: One way th handle the issue is to have both a non-profit and a for-profit arm to an organization.  The NGO

Re: Request for comments: Community Wiki Services web page.

2011-08-08 Thread Wolf Halton
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Terry Ellison te...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 08/08/11 02:23, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: +1 to move to PostgreSQL. It's more work but it's also more portable than the other option that I would have suggested: ZFS. Picking up Wolf and Pedro's point. We used to

Re: Request for comments: Community Wiki Services web page.

2011-08-08 Thread Wolf Halton
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 6:48 AM, TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 8/8/2011 05:46, Terry Ellison wrote: On 08/08/11 01:41, TJ Frazier wrote: snip Methinks I see a small change in the qualifications. As one such user (sysop), I gladly volunteer to continue in that role. I can submit

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