Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-04-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
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. This could be in any capacity, as a coder, tester, documentation, marketing, forum volunteer, whatever. The future is probably more important than the

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-04-07 Thread Wolf Halton
I have been using Open Office since (I think) 2002 or 2003. I was a support forum contributor since 2003. I was part of the meta-planning team; along with Drew, Terry E, and the other Terry from Oz, who incubated the Sun-server-based user support forums. I dropped into the background and used Open

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-20 Thread O.Felka
Am 12.03.2012 13:50, schrieb Rob Weir: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we best refute that statement?

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Clarence GUO
Hi~ Rob, I was working in Symphony project for 6 years as a developer. My area focuses on chart2, sd, sc, also has some experience on svx, svtools, vcl, and so on. Thanks Regards, Clarence 2012/3/12 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Yong Lin Ma
I am from Symphony team. I am the architect of IBM Symphony. It would back to end of 2002 when we started to work on a project called OpenStorm which was based on OpenOffice.org 1.4. Almost ten years from today. OpenStorm was embedded into Lotus Notes after that. In 2008, Symphony 1.0 was

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread lifeng wang
I am a new comer of AOO project, And have nearly half a year experience about this project as tester. I will follow AOO and become faimilar with AOO gradualy. 2012/3/13 Kevin Sisco kevinsisco61...@gmail.com I do feel that we need to continue to focus on the issues at hand. We wouldn't want

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread chengjh
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we

RE: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread YangTerry
I also a new comer for this project, I have half a year test experience on OpenOffice. Now I'm focus on SpreadSheet testing. Thanks, Terry Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:52:26 +0800 Subject: Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice? From: phoenix.wan...@gmail.com To: ooo-dev

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread shzh zhao
Hi, I was working in Symphony project for 6 years as a developer. My area focuses on interoperability with MS BIFF,chart,datapilot,1 million row,copy/paste, filter,encryption,performance and so on. Thanks Regards, aoo.zhaos...@gmail.com 2012/3/13 lifeng wang phoenix.wan...@gmail.com I am a

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Steve Yin
Hi Rob, I joined Symphony team four years ago. My focus areas are PDF export, drawing layer, MSO file format, MSO encryption, Accessibility, and shell mechanism. I've contributed Encryption support for Microsoft Word 97/200/XP filter feature for openoffice.org and put Symphony IA2 feature on

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Lei Wang
Hello Rob I am Spreadsheet team leader for Lotus Symphony Development. I participated with several work related with OpenOffice from 2002. I did performance improvement for Symphony start up, document loading and saving. I fix issues and add new features for Spreadsheet. I implemented a well

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread linyi li
Hi Rob, I am a new comer of Symphony and did test job nearly 4 months. Now I am focus on automation test of AOO. 2012/3/12 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Liu Da Li
I am from Symphony team, the Symphony ISV Enablement Team Lead. In 2003, I am work as a tester in OpenStorm project which was based on OpenOffice.org 1.4. In 2007,the first symphony version be released, I lead the Symphony ISV enablement team to promote Lotus Symphony on the market. We training

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Steve Yin
Hi Rob, I joined Symphony team four years ago. My focus areas are PDF export, drawing layer, MSO file format, MSO encryption, Accessibility, and shell mechanism. I've contributed Encryption support for Microsoft Word 97/200/XP filter feature for openoffice.org and put Symphony IA2 feature on

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Shane Curcuru
+1 to Pedro's point that the main end-user channel is crucially important. In one way, it feels like there are two discussions in this sub-thread: - Rob zeroing in on his infographic idea (and building at least a small subset of good data on participant history). It will make a good blog

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Yong Lin Ma
Although most people introduced themselves before. It is still good and meaningful to see people gathered and say hello to each other in single thread. This also can give us an impression that how many contributors are active after 9 months. On 2012-03-12 5:49 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: On Mar

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread yue helen
It's really encouraging and warm to see many people active here...also allows me a chance to introduce myself. I joined Symphony development in 2002. My experience includes the development on SmartSuite filters which was contributed to OOo by my colleague, ODF, PDF, XForms and some miscellaneous

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Jomar Silva
I don't know what you guys think about it, but showing some numbers about ODF TC members contributing with the project can be useful too. Best, Jomar On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the

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: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Donald Whytock
Having seen some of the other comments here, let me rephrase my position... Current interest in OOo is by way of my employer using it as a document-to-PDF-converter server. For this to work as a long-term solution, OOo (and now in its home as AOO) needs to stay current with the industry, both on

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Armin
Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy,

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Armin armin.le.gr...@me.com wrote: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Shane, On Mar 13, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: +1 to Pedro's point that the main end-user channel is crucially important. In one way, it feels like there are two discussions in this sub-thread: - Rob zeroing in on his infographic idea (and building at least a small subset

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Mar 2012, at 15:37, Armin wrote: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On 03/13/12 10:50, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi Shane, On Mar 13, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Shane Curcuru wrote: +1 to Pedro's point that the main end-user channel is crucially important. In one way, it feels like there are two discussions in this sub-thread: - Rob zeroing in on his infographic idea (and

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Joe Schaefer
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Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Pedro Giffuni
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Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Yuri Dario
Hi, I started working on OpenOffice source code in 2005, and I did the porting to the OS/2 platform since then. My knowledge is mostly related to low level os interfacing. -- Bye, Yuri Dario /* * OS/2 open source software * http://web.os2power.com/yuri * http://www.netlabs.org

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Armin
Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 13 Mar 2012, at 15:37, Armin wrote: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread Armin
OOps, sorry for posting twice, I hit the send button too fast. What I forgot: All this is the past and I'm proud to be part in a community where I could read multiple times that the answer is in the code. A big +1 for that! I'm looking forward to interesting changes, Lets go :-) I'm not clear

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-13 Thread tanli li
Hi, I am from Symphony team. I take Symphony co-edit plugin development for half a year from July,2010. And then I work on Symphony Document and Spreadsheet development from April,2011 till now.

Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we best refute that statement? Here's my idea: Respond to this note and

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Claudio Filho
Hi 2012/3/12 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: How many years were you doing this before the project came to Apache? Rob, my data: * I was lead of L10N of OOo for pt-BR between 2001 - 2007; * I was NL lead of pt-BR 2002 - 2009; * I sent the patchs for support to pt-BR in the code; * I was marketing

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 12.03.2012 13:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we best refute that statement?

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 3/12/12 1:50 PM, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we best refute that statement? Here's

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Armin
Hi Rob, just in short form from vacation: - Working on OpenOffice/StarOffice since 1996 (StarDivision) - Quickly got responsible for all DrawingLayer tasks, mainly in Draw/Impress team - Added e.g. the first 3D engine, made office flicker-free, safe repaints, MVC-separation - Responsible for

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Simon Phipps
On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we best refute that

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Simon Phipps
On 12 Mar 2012, at 15:38, Rob Weir wrote: I'll decline your attempt to divert the conversation. It's far from it Rob. It's a polite and serious question. No-one I know doubts the experience of the former OpenOffice.org developers who joined this project, so I am rather surprised to see you

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 15:38, Rob Weir wrote: I'll decline your attempt to divert the conversation. It's far from it Rob. It's a polite and serious question. No-one I know doubts the experience of the former

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 3/12/12 4:34 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 12:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy,

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:57:00 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 15:38, Rob Weir wrote: I'll decline your attempt to divert the conversation. It's far from it Rob. It's a polite and

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Herbert Duerr
On 12.03.2012 13:50, Rob Weir wrote: Here's my idea: Respond to this note and tell me how many years experience you have working with OpenOffice. I've been working on it since 2000. My specialties are i18n, text, graphics, platform integration, algorithms, performance, debugging, keeping

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Simon Phipps
On 12 Mar 2012, at 16:08, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/12/12 4:34 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: Out of interest, where have you seen that statement from an authoritative source? The former community seems spread between the AOO project and LibreOffice to me, and all the comments I have seen (and

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:57:00 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 15:38, Rob Weir wrote: I'll decline your attempt

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Rob, Rob Weir schrieb: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we best refute that statement? Here's my idea:

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 3/12/12 5:19 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 12 Mar 2012, at 16:08, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/12/12 4:34 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: Out of interest, where have you seen that statement from an authoritative source? The former community seems spread between the AOO project and LibreOffice to

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread eric b
Hi Rob, Le 12 mars 12 à 13:50, Rob Weir a écrit : I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. IMHO we should not spend too much of (our precious)

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Roberto Salomon
The best response that can be given to such statements is a stable and reliable binary release of Apache OpenOffice for as many platforms as possible. I like to think that AOO is not in a market-share competition with LO. Both projects aim towards delivering a working, reliable office suite that

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread drew jensen
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 08:50 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we best refute that

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 2:24 PM, drew jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 08:50 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On 03/12/12 13:42, Rob Weir wrote: I'm not suggesting we argue with anyone. I'm suggesting we make truthful positive statements about this project and the experience level of its participants. FWIW, and just my humble opinion ... I don't think we should spend time discussing such arguments

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Donald Whytock
yes, and: +1 (BTW, very little personal experience with actually using OOo; my various employers have used and supplied MSO. But strongly in favor of bucking monopolies.)

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: As said by several ones, let the code speak... As long as there is no release, it will be too easy to say: look, there is nothing concrete yet after so many months of incubation. If people were saying only that we

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 12.03.2012 14:33, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 12.03.2012 13:50, Rob Weir wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Dave Fisher
On Mar 12, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: On 03/12/12 14:48, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Pedro Giffunip...@apache.org wrote: On 03/12/12 13:42, Rob Weir wrote: I'm not suggesting we argue

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I jest,of course. But seriously, there are some claiming that all of the OpenOffice.org project went over to LibreOffice and that the Apache has zero experience with this code base. I know this sounds crazy, but how can we

Re: Is any one here familiar with OpenOffice?

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Sisco
I do feel that we need to continue to focus on the issues at hand. We wouldn't want this project to fall into extinction after all these years now would we? On 3/12/12, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: On 03/12/12 13:42,