Heightlights 2013?

2013-12-30 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi at all I like to make a short Video about the Heightlights 2013 of Apache OpenOffice. The following points I have in mind. - FOSDEM 2013 - Release 4.0 with the sidebar improvement. - Download Records in one day - Social Media success. - Better Press feedback (if you have sam good Article,

Re: Heightlights 2013?

2013-12-30 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi, Some numbers for the forum (thanks also to Rory who monitored the users activity for several weeks), take what you want (it applies to English forum only): - more than 100 postings per day (by comparison, the users ML is moribund) - 20-25 new topics per day - 20-25 new Users per day -

Re: Heightlights 2013?

2013-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Raphael Bircher wrote: I like to make a short Video about the Heightlights 2013 of Apache OpenOffice. I had a draft blog post about this. I've now incorporated your suggestions there. Feel free to give feedback on content. It is based on the popular TimelineJS tool. It is in Roller as a

Downloading problems with some Browsers

2013-12-30 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On the en-Forum there have been some reports of Download interrupted, from memory these are mostly from users of Chrome browser. We normally advise use (either permanently or on a one off basis) of Firefox. A current case is

Re: addition of new languages to a release...was [RELEASE]: proposal for our next release AOO 4.1

2013-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: Is it any benefit to just release language packs for the new languages since 4.0 as opposed to a full version IN a language -- assuming we want to get these out sooner than the next major release date? No benefit. The process would be the same. And breaking the symmetry

Re: Downloading problems with some Browsers

2013-12-30 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Rory, It might help to know which version he was downloading and also which sourceforge mirror. You could then compare the length that google reported vs. the size of the same file from http://www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.0.1/binaries - don't reference that in the forum - it is there

Service notice: SVN down Tuesday at 20:00 UTC

2013-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
As communicated by Infra, SVN will be unreachable due to maintenance and updates in about 21.5 hours, i.e., Tuesday at 20:00 UTC. The interruption will last 1-2 hours. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-12-30 Thread Southwest Media
I cannot find an acceptable contact for my problem with open office and I HATE forums they are for lazy companies who do not want to service customers.. I have a question who at this organization can I e mail my question too?? I cant stop this crazy thing from trying to self correct and its

Re: Can you help me to what provider should I use for using .ods file

2013-12-30 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Anik, Anik Ghosh schrieb: Hi, Can you help me to what provider should I use for using “.ods” file. For e.g .xls = Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=+ txtExcelPath.Text + ;Extended Properties=\Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;IMEX=1\; .xlsx= Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-12-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Southwest Media wrote: I cannot find an acceptable contact for my problem with open office and I HATE forums they are for lazy companies who do not want to service customers.. I have a question who at this organization can I e mail my question

Re: New committer: Tsutomu Uchino (hanya)

2013-12-30 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache OpenOffice has asked Tsutomu Uchino to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted and taken the ID hanya. A warm welcome to Tsutomu !