Re: LibreOffice relicensing efforts

2012-05-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
See below (Nonsense words? iPad's spellchecker.) -- Louis Suárez-Potts On 2012-05-23, at 9:55, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Shane, Thanks for the links. It's good. I like it. What do you like? :) Thanks, khirano On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Shane Curcuru

Re: LibreOffice relicensing efforts

2012-05-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
, and echoes familiar sentiments. I should have preferred a simple un-rhetoricized statement about the license and what it implies for both implementations. Louis I like it. :) Thanks, khirano On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: See below

Re: LibreOffice relicensing efforts

2012-05-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
mentioned, encouraging. Louis //drew I like it. :) Thanks, khirano On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: See below (Nonsense words? iPad's spellchecker.) -- Louis Suárez-Potts On 2012-05-23, at 9:55, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com

Re: LibreOffice relicensing efforts

2012-05-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
LO(L). Lots of Love, Louis On 2012-05-23, at 15:58 , Donald Whytock wrote: Um, guys? As this concerns a LibreOffice webpage over which the AOO committers largely have no control, is it better to have this argument here or on a LibreOffice-related list? Don

Re: Some of our contributors page

2012-05-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 2012-05-24, at 20:58 , Rob Weir wrote: It would be great if we could keep this page up-to-date: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html New committers especially should add their info here. It is good first commit you can make. You can do it via SVN or using the

Re: [WWW] What to do with OOo related domains?

2012-05-25 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-05-23, at 12:21 , Andrew Rist wrote: As part of the transfer of the web properties of OOo to the ASF, the set of related domains has also been offered to ASF. We (PPMC) need to decide what we want to do with the related domains. There are three obvious options available to us:

Re: [WWW] What to do with OOo related domains?

2012-05-25 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-05-25, at 20:34 , Albino Biasutti Neto wrote: Hi. 2012/5/25 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com On 2012-05-23, at 12:21 , Andrew Rist wrote: As part of the transfer of the web properties of OOo to the ASF, the set of related domains has also been offered to ASF. We (PPMC

Re: AOO 2 million?

2012-05-25 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-05-25, at 21:09 , Rob Weir wrote: So maybe we just make a smaller announcement, via ooo-dev/ooo-users and social media for the 2 million mark, when we actually hit it. Then for the larger Symphony announcement we also note the 1 year achievement as well as give an updated

Re: [WWW] What to do with OOo related domains?

2012-05-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-05-26, at 11:10 , Shane Curcuru wrote: Sun allowed them to operate. It wasn't Sun. Sun and Oracle, for that matter, didn't even really turn a blind eye. For most of its history with OOo/SO, Sun couldn't care less and when it did notice bad actors (defrauders, scammers, etc.) it acted

Re: AOO 3.4 downloads by language and country

2012-05-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Thanks, this is quite useful. Louis On 2012-05-28, at 16:12 , Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: My bad! Have been misled by some entries with just 2 downloads but still in the top 10 of the related flavor. I just checked in

Mirrors [Was: Re: [o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de: [postmas...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de: Benachrichtigung über den Übermittlungsstatus]]

2012-05-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi All, j On 2012-05-29, at 02:49 , Carsten Otto wrote: Dear anyone, another week has passed without any response. Please take care of this issue! Exclamation marks aside, this issue ought to be corrected and probably could be done expeditiously, though not by me. Tora is no longer

Re: [PROPOSAL] Starting the graduation process

2012-05-30 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-05-30, at 11:05 , Pedro Giffuni wrote: I will do this next week. I will probably use Apache extras and at a later time we could leave there the old GPL'd stuff too (unsupported of course). Pedro. A good solution, i'd guess, and thanks. but this leaves the obvious question, of

Re: Friendly Web www.OOoNinja.com

2012-06-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-05-31, at 10:09 , drew wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 09:20 -0400, drew wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 20:53 +0800, bjcheny wrote: Hi, When I go through some links from Office OpenXML, I find this: http://www.oooninja.com/ It's aimed to bring news/tips/howtos for openoffice.org. And

Re: What to do with the Czech homepage?

2012-06-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-06-02, at 18:37 , Marcus (OOo) wrote: @Pavel: Could you sheet some light on the cz webpage? What do you think? Should Pavel be disinclined to update these—I have no reason to think he would be, and he's been involved with OOo and AOO for about as long as I—the Czech community

Re: Looking for an old file

2012-06-04 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 4 June 2012 13:09, drew jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, At one time there was a brochure focused on recruiting folks to come work on the project, it was in Spanish IIRC. The file name as ManualVoluntarioAF.odg Anyone have a local copy of that? My guess is that Alexandro

Re: MSO on ipad in November

2012-06-04 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-06-03, at 18:01 , Raphael Bircher wrote: It's all a question of the money. Am 03.06.12 23:50, schrieb Ian Lynch: http://read.bi/LdKYRD How easy to package AOO for Android and iPad? At the recent ODF Plugfest in Brussels we discussed the state of the art, esp. for ODF editors

Re: 3,027,168 downloads

2012-06-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi all, On 2012-06-06, at 11:29 , Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:57:52 -0400 Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We hit 3 million early this morning. Onwards! This is great to see. The

Re: Approaching 5M downloads

2012-06-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-06-19, at 13:37 , Rob Weir wrote: We're at 4,922,774. So we should hit 5M late tonight or early tomorrow morning (UTC). I'll work on a blog post highlighting that milestone and give a general update on what we are working on. After that I plan to stop reporting on each 1M

Re: [PROPOSAL] Apache OpenOffice Conference 2012

2012-06-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-06-18, at 09:43 , Dave Fisher wrote: On Jun 18, 2012, at 1:44 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:52 AM, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: Looks like this thread didn't continue. Maybe because other topics that started a bit later were interfering.

Re: [Spi-private] OpenOffice funds

2012-06-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-06-19, at 21:26 , Sam Ruby wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com wrote: Wolf, have the funds been received by Fundraising@ ? The funds have not been received. If it would help if we sent out an invoice, let me know (off-list) what should

Re: [Spi-private] OpenOffice funds

2012-06-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Don, On 2012-06-20, at 10:46 , Donald Harbison wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com Don, Louis has been leading the charge here for a little while and I have fallen out of

Re: [PROPOSAL] Updated Distribution FAQ

2012-06-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 2012-06-20, at 13:06 , Kay Schenk wrote: I am using lazy consensus to put out an updated copy of: http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/ A draft is here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/*DRAFT*+Distribution+FAQ Is this adequate for replacing the

Re: [EVENT] OSCON?

2012-06-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 2012-06-21, at 10:56 , Donald Harbison wrote: Is anyone planning on attending OSCON 2012 in Portland Oregon, July 16 - 20? http://www.oscon.com/oscon2012 It'd be great to know if the project will have any representation there. I'll be there, too, but was not planning on presenting on

Re: Twitter Word Cloud for OpenOffice

2012-06-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 2012-06-26, at 17:01 , Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:47:00 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I took all the tweets from June that mentioned 'OpenOffice' and then removed the word 'OpenOffice' as well as the string 'RT/. (If they were left in they would

Re: Twitter Word Cloud for OpenOffice

2012-06-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-06-26, at 15:47 , Rob Weir wrote: I took all the tweets from June that mentioned 'OpenOffice' and then removed the word 'OpenOffice' as well as the string 'RT/. (If they were left in they would dominate over the other terms). I then created a 'world cloud' using the Wordle applet:

Re: www.BrOffice.org -- does anyone have a contact?

2012-07-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-07-05, at 17:52 , Rob Weir wrote: http://www.broffice.org/ Website has a nice link on the home page for AOO, but it goes to the dev snapshot wiki page. It would be much better to point to http://www.openoffice.org/pt-br/ Thanks! -Rob Yes. I can raise this with the BrOffice

Re: www.BrOffice.org -- does anyone have a contact?

2012-07-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
I contacted him already Brief and mobile - louis On 2012-07-06, at 3:45, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: On 7/5/12 11:52 PM, Rob Weir wrote: http://www.broffice.org/ Website has a nice link on the home page for AOO, but it goes to the dev snapshot wiki page. It would be

Apache OpenOffice (I) at Oscon

2012-07-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi I'm at Oscon for most of the week Oscon is the open source convention of note and where the term, open source was in fact coined. It draws those from all sectors. Apache has a room tomorrow, where I can present a brief (or boringly long) summary of work being done. I expect critiques as well

Re: Apache OpenOffice (I) at Oscon

2012-07-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm at Oscon for most of the week Oscon is the open source convention of note and where the term, open source was in fact coined. It draws those from all sectors. Apache has a room tomorrow, where I can present a brief (or boringly long) summary of work

Re: Ubuntu package for building AOO

2012-08-07 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On Mon 06 August 2012 at 11:02 , Andre Fischer wrote: Hi, I just wanted to let you know that over the weekend I played around with Ubuntu metapackages and came up with one that pulls in all packages that have to be installed in order to build Apache OpenOffice. I have put the

Re: [VOTE] Apache OpenOffice Community Graduation Vote

2012-08-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
I've gone over the issues, strengths, and weaknesses, too, and: +1 Louis On 12-08-21, at 21:21 , Ian C i...@amham.net wrote: +1 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Claudio Filho filh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Extremely out, in function of personal problems, but giving my vote: +1 Apache

Re: Stale links...

2012-09-03 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 3 September 2012 02:16, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: I was looking here: http://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html Do we continue using that very very old support page? I had replaced it with http://suppport.ooo but that was, uhm, more than five years ago. And

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

2012-09-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Thanks, Don, for the explanation. My best wishes for your wife's speedy recovery and strong desire to see you active (and happy) here on the lists. Best, Louis On 6 September 2012 16:28, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com wrote: I feel it necessary to explain why I have been absent from

Re: Specific actions needed for developing the community

2012-09-07 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi All, (sorry for delay and silence, have been having to deal with actual work related things) On 12-09-07, at 09:48 , Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 September 2012 14:06, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Top posting because we have a specific ecosystem issue that needs

Re: [DISCUSS] ML Moderators

2012-09-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-08, at 20:58 , Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: On 9/9/2012 6:41 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi - Since Rob and Dennis will be leaving their ML moderators it is time to revisit all of the lists. There are others that need action. I think we should be replacing mentors (unless

Open World Forum Paris

2012-09-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi All, Open World Forum is an interesting conference held annually in Paris. This year, it's from 11-13 October. The URL: http://www.openworldforum.org/ The focus is opens source, open knowledge, open practice, and there are usually big companies and projects but also much smaller efforts

Re: Moderating ooo-private

2012-09-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-15, at 11:34 , Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: With regard to inappropriate messages to ooo-private, I agree that it is a good idea to provide better information and to discourage the use of ooo-private for this kind of traffic. I think one problem is that some

Re: Moderating ooo-private

2012-09-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi On 12-09-15, at 21:17 , tj t...@apache.org wrote: On 9/15/2012 17:51, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 12-09-15, at 11:34 , Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: With regard to inappropriate messages to ooo-private, I agree that it is a good idea to provide better information

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 12-09-17, at 19:13 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I've recently seen a few requests for ability to download AOO via a torrent. something we do not currently provide. I see that OOo did this for legacy versions: http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/p2p/ According to the

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-09-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-17, at 20:28 , Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: That said, I don't know many people coming writing in to thank us for the P2P alternative. AFAIK. There used to be. The lack now, if there is one, suggests the marketing alternative: to announce this so that people can use it.

Marketing--?

2012-09-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
ON marketing… There was there is there will be a marketing effort. But what is going on with it? I'd like to help out. louis

Re: Marketing--?

2012-09-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-18, at 10:29 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts lo...@apache.org wrote: ON marketing… There was there is there will be a marketing effort. But what is going on with it? I'd like to help out. You (and anyone else

Re: [PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
I would agree with Peter's list but would ask that Ian Lynch be considered. Here's why: Whom do we have speaking on behalf of education and ecosystem development? As I'm not on this list—and I'm not suggesting I ought to be—I think that someone like Ian, who's work is so involved with OO and

Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-19, at 10:05 , Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/19/12 3:56 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: I would agree with Peter's list but would ask that Ian Lynch be considered. Here's why: Whom do we have speaking on behalf of education and ecosystem development? As I'm

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 12-09-19, at 10:29 , Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: -1 This procedure lacks transparency and accountability. It is incompatible with how project governance is accomplished. My recommendation is that those who have some reason to require anonymity with regard to

Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-19, at 12:09 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: How would you deal with opacity here as to how these names were suggested? These are individual's stated preferences. Nothing more, nothing less. Unless we require that everyone give a complete, detailed justification for every

Re: [PERSONAL] My Idea from a Europe Tour

2012-09-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
R, On 12-09-19, at 16:06 , Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi at all I have a bit a crazy Idea. I plane a Tour across same Countrys of Europe, only with my floorball sick, my bicycle and my computer. The main goal is to go from floorball club to floorball club and make a training

Re: [PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
, that certain areas do need to be served. This is not about ego. The structure of this discussion has already ensnared a few. I would rather, as I mentioned, use a wiki. I'll get to that when I have time tomorrow. Thanks Louis On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui

Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 12:26 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List On 09/19/2012 10:38 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: [ ... ] In this way, a wiki

Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
My list: (Haven't had time to do the wiki; been involved in meets and -ings.) This is a provisional list. Given the nature of the beast, it is meant to propose those who can broaden the project's ambit and reach, and it also does a pitiful job of that. -louis Dave Fischer (wave) Donald

Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-20, at 18:43 , Albino B Neto bin...@apache.org wrote: I am subscribe in lists of AOO: announce, commits, dev, l10n, mkt, pvt, qa, user. What, not marketing? :-) Louis

Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 23 September 2012 21:26, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: My list is: Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) Andrew Rist (arist) Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) Donald Harbison (dpharbison) Jürgen Schmidt (jsc) Kazunari Hirano (khirano) Oliver-Rainer Wittmann (orw)

Re: [DISCUSS] ML Moderators

2012-09-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
that Dennis has thoughtfully provided. I think the action list and number of moderators needed is: ooo-commits - 2 + Peter Junge + Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com - robweir ooo-dev - 1 - robweir + bmcs + mayongl + Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com ooo-issues - 2 + Peter Junge + Louis

Re: [PROPOSAL] Fund Allocation for ApacheCon EU 2012, Germany in Nov. 2012

2012-09-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 12-09-24, at 09:22 , Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: No objections are raised in the last days. I will work on its realization. We need a small group for the granting process. Currently we have: - Peter Junge - Oliver-Rainer Wittmann Who else want to join? I

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-09-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-24, at 07:59 , Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/24/12 1:20 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: FOSDEM, one of the biggest Free and Open Source Software events in Europe, is coming again on 2-3 February 2013 in Brussels. Attendance is free and, moreover, Developer Rooms can

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-09-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-24, at 10:52 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Depending on the feedback of the organizers I can also think about a joined devroom with the LibreOffice folks. Space for devrooms is limited and I can of course think about a joined effort here. I am at least open for this if

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-09-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Sylvain, On 12-09-24, at 12:08 , Sylvain DENIS sylvain.tech...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I am not a developer but user and representative Apache OpenOffice Belgium. I defend Apache OpenOffice in education in Belgium (french). I will at FOSDEM. This is an opportunity to meet and discuss even

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-09-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-24, at 15:32 , Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: That would definitely be good for me too, and it's enough to declare in our application that we are available for such a solution. Note that there is no need for a joint proposal: FOSDEM organizers will collect the

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

2012-09-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
HI, On 12-09-26, at 05:37 , Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, this is a call for feedback to the people who are (currently) on the proposed PMC list. Please provide feedback, if you are willing to serve as a PMC member. I'm willing and able to serve on the PMC.

Re: Amazon Download of Apache OpenOffice 3.4

2012-09-27 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 12-09-19, at 03:10 , Issac Goldstand is...@volo-net.com wrote: On 17/09/2012 19:01, Dave Fisher wrote: On Sep 15, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: 8. Going through the one-click purchase of the $0.00 software, I was not sent the executable. Instead, I was sent an

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed Initial PMC List

2012-09-27 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Thanks, Andrew. Actually, Andrew, thanks for doing so much of this. Cheers Louis On 12-09-27, at 17:50 , Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: I would like to propose the following list as the initial PMC for Apache OpenOffice. I will leave the discussion on this list open until at

Re: Call for comments: Webpage for Listing OpenOffice Consultants

2012-09-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-09-28, at 08:39 , Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: One specific comment: On 9/27/2012 5:02 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: ...snip... My solution was to ask the NLCs for assistance here and to place a rule regarding advertising. The rule I drafted was never formally enacted

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC Chair

2012-09-30 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On Saturday, 29 September, 2012 at 10:07 , Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com (mailto:lui...@gmail.com) wrote: On 12-09-29, at 03:48 , Dave Barton b...@apache.org (mailto:b...@apache.org) wrote: Original Message

Re: [PROPOSAL] Reinvigorate extension authors community

2012-10-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-01, at 08:49 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: 5 days have passed and no objections were raised, so I'll start moving this forward. Great, thanks. Louis -Rob On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm

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

2012-10-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi Rob and everyone else, --- Louis Suárez-Potts Age of Peers, Inc. PPMC Member Apache OpenOffice @luispo On Tuesday, 2 October, 2012 at 16:31 , Rob Weir wrote: snip Allow me a spasm of frustration. We went through this nearly a decade ago and it was not a short process nor

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] PMC Chair Nominations

2012-10-03 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-03, at 17:57 , Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: We have heard from Andrea. Drew and Louis, do you care to respond? yes; was waiting for AP. So, from me: 1. decline in favour of Andrea 2. +1 for Andrea, in anticipation of a vote on this matter. Should there be need, want,

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

2012-10-08 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-08, at 17:24 , Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Rob Weir wrote: I'm hesitant to just list every book that is published. ... List them only when requested (like we do with consultants)? This is probably the best option. List them but screen out ones that we consider to

Re: Marketing events

2012-10-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-09, at 15:07 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org 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. We can't have an outside group raising and spending money on behalf of an ASF

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-11 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2012-10-11, at 24:24 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org 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

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-11 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 2012-10-11, at 20:52 , Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org 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 devroom. This is good. Are we still waiting to hear from LO? Yes; apparently LibreOffice had

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Andrea, On 12-10-15, at 18:17 , Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 15/10/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: would it be possible to ask back to the organizers? A deadline is a deadline and we would like to know where we are. The organizers should be able to give an answer in the next

Re: OOoCon videos/material

2012-10-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-19, at 19:47 , Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 10/19/12, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: On 10/19/2012 1:01 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On 10/18/12, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 10/18/12, Christoph Jopp j...@gmx.de wrote: ... The videos of the

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-22, at 04:49 , Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/21/12 11:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 16/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I've asked the organizers to inform us about their decisions. I expect to receive news in the next days; I'll keep you informed when I do.

Re: [ApacheCon EU] China: Visas to Germany

2012-10-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Sorry for top post but: Are there not other Apache EU projects suffering the same effects? Louis On 22 October 2012 22:34, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: Hi, I have heard several Chinese speakers who want to present at the ApacheCon EU 2012 are having problems with getting their visa

Re: [ApacheCon EU] China: Visas to Germany

2012-10-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi On 22 October 2012 22:50, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: On 10/23/2012 10:40 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: Sorry for top post but: Are there not other Apache EU projects suffering the same effects? Indeed, I also considered to sending this information to the ApacheCon list

Re: Updated Stats page

2012-10-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Thanks. Louis On 12-10-23, at 14:48 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:10 PM, jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.com wrote: A report would serve the same purpose, and posted with regular intervals (like 1 month), with figures based on e.g. last month, last half year.

Re: discussion on new l10n workflow

2012-10-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi Jan, On 12-10-16, at 12:22 , jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.com wrote: Finally I have finished describing the current process, and also combining all the notes on open issues I could find. Thanks. A lot of work. Last it was dealt with was probably (prior to Apache's advent) back in…. I

Re: discussion on new l10n workflow

2012-10-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
wikis, etc. best louis Jan I. On 24 October 2012 20:18, jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your kind words. see below please: On 24 October 2012 19:49, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jan, On 12-10-16, at 12:22 , jan iversen jancasacon

Re: [PROPOSAL] difficulty field for Bugzilla

2012-10-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Emphatic +1 Louis On 12-10-24, at 15:08 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: As you have probably noticed, I'm engaged in a variety of initiatives to grow the community, bring in more volunteers, etc. One additional piece that I think would be useful is to add a new field to Bugzilla to

Re: discussion on new l10n workflow

2012-10-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
of the early 2000s.) Best Louis jan. On 24 October 2012 21:53, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 12-10-24, at 14:35 , jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.com wrote: May I politely ask if there are other comments or more importantly objections ? Press on. And expect

Re: [PROPOSAL] difficulty field for Bugzilla

2012-10-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-24, at 16:28 , Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: @Regina, Yes, Wizard is a reference to the level of mastery that a solver must possess, and is one of those which one of these words does not belong solutions. There is a well-known *logarithmic* difficulty scale

The Impossible Question

2012-10-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi Every now and then a user finds the experience of downloading, installing, using AOO disappointing and frankly frustrating if not worse. They will usually go to the user forums, but sometimes they will contact the Apache Foundation directly. Okay, but this does not really help them. What we

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-26, at 17:33 , Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: Hello, -Original Message- From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] On Behalf Ideas? What do you mean? Better design or more/better content? If you feel content, maybe even local resources would

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-26, at 17:38 , Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.comwrote: On 12-10-26, at 17:25 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Of course, the real question, Louis, is what do *you* want to do? Be cynical, or I mean

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-27 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-27, at 13:05 , Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Also, what about the Support page. Is the order of items OK. If not, what should they be? The order there is totally up for grabs and there is no reason in that page's case to abide by precedent (just the expectation that others

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-28, at 19:30 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 23/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: New Volunteer Orientation root page: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/orientation/ This is an excellent

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-28, at 23:33 , Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: That's the way to grow. Raising money to send the existing volunteers to travel to more places is only growth for the airline industry. It is not growth for the project. We need to find people who are able to succeed in a

Re: old business...old OpenOffice domain names registered by Oracle (primarily)

2012-10-31 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-31, at 14:17 , Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: On 10/31/2012 8:54 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 10/30/2012 04:14 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: On 10/30/2012 1:39 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Looking at old threads, I'm a bit confused about the outcome of this one:

Re: old business...old OpenOffice domain names registered by Oracle (primarily)

2012-10-31 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-31, at 16:24 , Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: The thread name is correct. This is old business.. Yes and no. You seem to miss my point. I'll rephrase it. Old business: cleaning up and clarifying the status of the domains associated with OpenOffice.[xy] New business:

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-31 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Roberto, On 12-10-31, at 15:14 , Roberto Galoppini rgalopp...@geek.net wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 29/10/2012 Roberto Galoppini wrote: A more diverse and sustainable project. For example, until few years ago having OOo integrated or

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