Unsubscribe On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi David, > > > Let me point out that we do not work Hierarchial. This might be strange, > but thats how it is. The focus is on your desicion. You decide the amount, > and the activity. There is no responsibility to do anything, only the > respect from those that are interested in OpenOffice when you get involved. > We currently have no company that is looking for any positions. :P > > I understand that a lot of people have difficulties with this approach, so > I try to give some lead. And usually Recruitment is quite quiet, since it > has only the purpose to be an entrypoint for newcommers to give some > orientation and space. We hope that they join the community and get > involved there. If there is in need or you have some Questions that you > feel fit on recruitment then feel free to do so. The Recruiters (where I > think I am the most active one) will try our best to support. > > > In general the Bugzilla Bugtracker has a lot of tasks where one can find > something to do. (I think over 3K open request, a lot of them Rubbish, old > whishes or whatever). > > > We currently have following dev Topics in Discussion: > > # There is the general Idea to do some generic Code maintenance by > replaceing the good ols C arrays with the more modern Container based > approches. > > # TOP Community Issue is that under certain conditions OpenOffice writes > rubbish to disk, destroying all users work. It is currently in Analysis. > > # Our Microsoft compatibility sucks. There is the Idea to integrate OOXML > from Apache POI. This is kind of difficult since we use a SAX API and POI > does not support that, plus has limitations. > > # We still use 20 year old dmake. Damjan is migrating to gmake toolset, > maybe this could be supported. > > # pushing next Release to public: i think we have work to do to iron out > bugs so we cann call it stable. The dream is we manage it this year. (So > far we also dreamed of releasing 4.1.4 in Q1 maybe Q2.) > > > I recommend to try build OpenOffice first. The build Process has a charm > on its own and the Code is also not very intuitive. So participating is not > easy task. > > In all questions the dev Mailing list is the place to talk to. > > Since all Volunteers are doing this in their freetime, sometimes you need > to have patience and be persistant. If you assume that everybody has around > the time for this Project as you, you are not so far from the truth I > believe. > > You are free and welcome to help as you think best. Sorry to stress that a > bit. ;) > > If none of the active topics suits you I can try and dig some other stuff > out. No issue. Could take a while thought. > > > I hope this helps you and you have interest enough to make your way into > the Project. :) > > > So data sientist?! Well I am happen to be active in that Area (roughly > lol). So what you are looking into? SAS or more in python and R ? - Just > courious. > > > Have Fun! > > All the Best > > Peter > > > On 22.10.2017 20:08, David Larson wrote: > >> >> I have been waiting for some time to see message activity here that makes >> sense. It has been pretty quiet. Thanks for your reply. >> >> >> I am an experienced software engineer with skills in C, C++, Assembly, >> Java, SQL and so on, in addition to constantly learning new skills. Let me >> turn your question around. I am willing to take a chance to help >> volunteer a little of my time to make OpenOffice better. What do you want >> me to do? I don't have much spare time while I strive to pivot my career >> toward data analysis and find a job opportunity near me (or remote access) >> that doesn't include hidden age discrimination. Do you have a list of >> tasks available? Are you interested in adding new tasks such as fixing the >> spreadsheet filtering bug? I signed up expecting to see some activity and >> instructions on how to get started helping that I could focus on a task to >> help such as debugging, fixing something, code reviewing, mentoring making >> unit tests or even reproducing bugs. My last email was both to declare >> OpenOffice as still being a worthwhile product and suggest possible ideas >> that occur to me. >> >> >> Getting to know people with similar interests but different perspectives >> while helping is a plus. Nobody knows my accomplishments except my former >> job coworkers because I haven't been a social media type person trying to >> promote everything I do and I haven't yet placed any of my personal >> projects on public github repositories. I prefer to spend most of my time >> focused on accomplishing the next something. >> >> Best regards, >> David >> >> www.linkedin.com/in/davidmlarson >> twitter @dynadml >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> >> *Sent:* Sunday, October 22, 2017 10:24 AM >> *To:* recruitment@openoffice.apache.org; David Larson >> *Cc:* arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com >> *Subject:* Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl >> >> Hi David Larson, >> >> What do you want? This list is ment for people who are interested in >> joining OpenOffice to improve the application OpenOffice. >> Nothing more nothing less. >> >> Do you want to join or are you looking for coworkers? >> >> All the best >> Peter >> >> On 21.10.2017 14:45, David Larson wrote: >> > I use openoffice portable so its handy when I need it but out of the >> way (not using computer resources when I don't use it). I do the same with >> the chrome browser as it launches too many processes for my tastes. I >> don't use Microsoft Office as its too integrated with the OS. I want my >> computer to be like a transformer Lamborghini not an overburdened bus. I >> put 32gb of ram in each of my computers and I still feel that way as I have >> my own plans for the data space. >> > >> > >> > One slightly annoying behavior of openoffice to fix is sometimes when I >> start it the first time it complains about needing to clean up and quits >> before starting but it works the second time I try, however then it tends >> to state it is recovering documents I last worked on when I already have >> them saved and puts them into a read only state. In addition, there is >> document formats that probably need to be added. On the ancient side, there >> is Wordstar which I discovered I still have old resumes written in and have >> to resort to a different tool to recover their valuable content. On the >> current side, I am suspicious that the latest Word like formats supported >> are getting stale with the Office fans out there. Hopefully these are not >> beyond our reach. I don't personally care about spreadsheet file formats >> at this time as I only use them for my own experiments nor for presentation >> formats usually although I may care for those soon. I do care about some >> recent new spreadsheet misbehaviors with moderately sized data sets I have >> been seeing which I don't like... mostly regarding auto filters that cause >> weird results that are difficult to undo. This problem interferes with my >> efforts to develop the information I need for a special new kindle book on >> SQL. Do we have a comprehensive list of the latest formats, bugs, and >> important features that should be supported but may not be? >> > >> > >> > Note I am willing to use github for public projects and I am using >> Atlassian Bitbucket for my private projects as I can have 4 coworkers in it >> for free in that we can use to get started saving the world from data >> overload. >> > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > From: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> >> > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 12:44 AM >> > To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org >> > Cc: arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com >> > Subject: Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl >> > >> > CCing R J for the answer below. When someone is new, please reply to >> > list+sender. 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Andrea. >> > >> > On 20/10/2017 David Larson wrote: >> >> Hi R J, >> >> >> >> What programming languages are you learning/using and what are your >> interests? >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: Arjay Woodmaster <arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com> >> >> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:50 AM >> >> To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org >> >> Subject: Introduction of: R J Wahl >> >> >> >> Hi I am R J Wahl. >> >> I am from South Africa. >> >> I am interested in general programming, computers and heavy metal. >> >> >> >> I decided to look at open source projects as a learning curve towards >> >> becoming a better programmer. >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> R J Wahl >> >> >> >> >> >
