Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-07 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Wed, 9/7/11, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 06/09/11 05:34, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, all, I am afraid we must still do this. Perhaps it's easier to find the people that oppose .. Can we legally make a call to everyone that opposes the change to speak up before a

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: ... one alternative would be to upload the doc to Apache-Extra.org.  Projects there are hosted by Google Code, and also agree to these guidelines:

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Wearing my IBM hat, the larger issue, one that may not concern everyone here but does concern me, is the impact the license choice has on our ability to attract corporate-sponsored contributors to an effort that is not using a

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Wearing my IBM hat, the larger issue, one that may not concern everyone here but does concern me, is the impact the license choice has on our ability to

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob, Something to remember is that Symphony is only the three main apps. It does not cover, for example, Base. So even if we did switch to Symphony docs for the core, we'd still need to find a way to cover the other pieces. Does that mean we could have for AOO a commun trunk with

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob, Something to remember is that Symphony is only the three main apps. It does not cover, for example, Base.  So even if we did switch to Symphony docs for the core, we'd still need to find a way to cover the

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 22:29, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm fairly sure that whatever route AOOo chooses to take, I won't be interested in being part of it. I had no real idea of what would be involved here (I

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 07:01, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Regardless of what the other members of ODFAuthors choose to do regarding AOOo and the existing user guides, and where they choose to do it, I am burnt out and not interested in continuing. That includes, in case it's not

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Wanda Phillips
Jean, You will be missed! Your dedication, attention to detail, and global view of the project made the wheels turn and kept the work on track. With Hazel and you moving on, we'll have big boots to fill. I appreciate your effort and I wish I had been able to work more closely with you. Thank

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Dave Fisher
I am also extremely disappointed by the tone of many of the conversations on ooo-dev - particularly in the last week, and I understand if you have no desire to add unhealthful stress to life. It's a problem for me as well. Wishing you all the best and sorry this happened. Best Regards, Dave

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/09/11 05:34, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, all, I am afraid we must still do this. Perhaps it's easier to find the people that oppose .. Can we legally make a call to everyone that opposes the change to speak up before a certain deadline? I don't know if that would be legal, but

Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
Just trying to be quite clear on something here, since every time the topic turns up, it seems to mutate into a wider discussion without actually answering the question of the relationship of the existing user guides to AOOo. We have established that relicensing the existing OOo user guides

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Just trying to be quite clear on something here, since every time the topic turns up, it seems to mutate into a wider discussion without actually answering the question of the relationship of the existing user guides to

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Mon, 9/5/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: ... We have established that relicensing the existing OOo user guides (which are licensed CC-BY) to the Apache license is not practical. Does this mean, as Rob has suggested, that these guides *cannot* be part of the official

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Shane Curcuru
The fundamental point is that Apache projects need to produce useful software for the public good, under the Apache license. I.e. users of Apache software have expectations that they can make use of Apache products - as well as the source code of those projects - under the Apache license.

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: What should I tell the small group that remains from the ODFAuthors team that has been working on the user guides? Feel free to share this note.  You could invite them to discuss here at ooo-dev, or I'd be happy to answer

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 07:52, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: What should I tell the small group that remains from the ODFAuthors team that has been working on the user guides? Feel free to share this note.  You could

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I think Rob's suggestions for boldly going where OOo Docs have not gone before are good ones, but they won't happen immediately. In the short term (for the

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Wearing my IBM hat, the larger issue, one that may not concern everyone here but does concern me, is the impact the license choice has on our ability to attract corporate-sponsored contributors to an effort that is not using a

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I think Rob's suggestions for boldly going where OOo Docs have not gone before are good

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I think Rob's

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Dave Fisher
On Sep 5, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Jean Weber wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Jean; Continuing on the topic of my general ignorance ... --- On Mon, 9/5/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: ... It's not clear to me that the user guides produced by ODFAuthors are in fact official documentation even though they are made available as ODT and PDF through the OOo

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:53, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: Hi Jean; Continuing on the topic of my general ignorance ... --- On Mon, 9/5/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: ... It's not clear to me that the user guides produced by ODFAuthors are in fact official

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread TJ Frazier
On 9/5/2011 22:57, Jean Weber wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:53, Pedro F. Giffunigiffu...@tutopia.com wrote: Hi Jean; Continuing on the topic of my general ignorance ... --- On Mon, 9/5/11, Jean Weberjeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: ... It's not clear to me that the user guides produced by

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
Responding to some other points in this note On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:53, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: I recall someone (maybe you) had said that the ODFAuthors wanted to keep independent. If they want to join the podling they are welcome. Sure. Each person can choose

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-05 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:57:50 +1000, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:53, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: ... We are talking about the same documents here? http://documentation.openoffice.org/ That page is just a portal; most of its links point