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. R J, you may want to subscribe to the list, see > https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public Mailing Lists - Apache OpenOffice - Project Website<https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public> openoffice.apache.org Mailing Lists Apache OpenOffice Public Mailing Lists¶ We welcome you to join our mailing lists and let us know about your thoughts or ideas about Apache OpenOffice. > Mailing Lists - Apache OpenOffice - Project > Website<https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public> Mailing Lists - Apache OpenOffice - Project Website<https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public> openoffice.apache.org Mailing Lists Apache OpenOffice Public Mailing Lists¶ We welcome you to join our mailing lists and let us know about your thoughts or ideas about Apache OpenOffice. > openoffice.apache.org > Mailing Lists Apache OpenOffice Public Mailing Lists¶ We welcome you to join > our mailing lists and let us know about your thoughts or ideas about Apache > OpenOffice. > > > > . 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 >>
