[steering-discuss] Update on the Foundation

2010-12-20 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dear friends, The Steering Committee would like to provide you an update regarding the status of the establishment of our Foundation. We have spent quite some time evaluating the legal, fiscal, financial and practical options that were available to us. Assessing these took us considerable

[steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread David Nelson
Hi Klaus, Bernhard, Florian, all, :-) On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: So Florian can't bring up the website *now* - that's a great pity (especially with regards to the immense work David put into the site during the last week), but we can't do

[steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread David Nelson
Hi Bernhard, :-) On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: PPS: I still believe, that the visible part of the main page should not contain more than a few lines of text, a download button (can lead to the download page) and links to the most interesting

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi David, *, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:05 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Twitter and blog in the scrolling area are ok, but I think a news area is more important than those tow. Christian,

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
SilverStripe? Is that something that will look a bit like the ribbon-bar in the 2007-2010 MicroSquish Office? Regards from Tom :) From: Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Cc:

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi David, *, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:35 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: [...] IMHO, I would scrap the current theme and make a new one. I've never done a SilverStripe theme before, but once

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I thought Joomla was far easier to use than Drupal and has a much larger faster community?  SilverLight website looks very dated or is it just starting-up? Please don't start trolling. 1st of all it is SilverStripe,

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread David Nelson
Hi Christian, :-) Thanks for your reply. OK, I've noted about working with the git repo. Let's see if there's any kind of go-ahead from Florian and Christoph. If we wait for answers from everyone, we'll never get anywhere and the subject will just drown in circular, endless discussions. My aim