Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread mabdul
On 16.01.2017 06:30, Peter Kovacs wrote: > Maybe the title is misleading, but this thread is about how to build a > developer team that advocates in user interest. > Shouldn't we focus on this? > > For me MS has nothing to do with the conflict between ASF and Team > OpenOffice. I think the core

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:legi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 6:31 AM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute! > > Maybe the title is misleading, but this thread is about how to build a > developer team

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Peter Kovacs
Maybe the title is misleading, but this thread is about how to build a developer team that advocates in user interest. Shouldn't we focus on this? For me MS has nothing to do with the conflict between ASF and Team OpenOffice. I think the core conflict was about market names. They should not have

Re: Question -- building AOO 4.1.3 on Windows

2017-01-15 Thread Hong
Thanks, will try to find it. On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > The "autoconf" tool is part of Cygwin. > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Hong wrote: > > > As in my screenshot, I did not see an autoconf file in my download as >

Re: Question -- building AOO 4.1.3 on Windows

2017-01-15 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
The "autoconf" tool is part of Cygwin. On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Hong wrote: > As in my screenshot, I did not see an autoconf file in my download as well. > I was curious why was it too. Autoconf is a project file, not a Cygwin > command/tool? > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017

Re: Question -- building AOO 4.1.3 on Windows

2017-01-15 Thread Hong
As in my screenshot, I did not see an autoconf file in my download as well. I was curious why was it too. Autoconf is a project file, not a Cygwin command/tool? On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > Hi > > Please run "autoconf" first, which will generate

Re: Question -- building AOO 4.1.3 on Windows

2017-01-15 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Hi Please run "autoconf" first, which will generate "configure" from " configure.in". Damjan On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Hong wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to build AOO 4.1.3 on a Windows machine. > > My source code was from this page,

Question -- building AOO 4.1.3 on Windows

2017-01-15 Thread Hong
Hello all, I am trying to build AOO 4.1.3 on a Windows machine. My source code was from this page, https://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html (from the zip, not from the svn checkout) I was following through this guide,

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello, I could involve me in Gallery extensions as I'm already active in Wikipedia in macro/microphotography (User:Softenpoche). As I'm not a coder, I can not help for other extensions. Regards -- gw 2017-01-15 18:59 GMT+01:00 Dr. Michael Stehmann < anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de>: > Hello,

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Pedro
On 15/01/2017 19:28, toki wrote: On 01/15/2017 02:52 PM, Mathias Röllig wrote: Many companies need to import MS document formats. They don't have the choice to teach all customers to send an other document format. That might be the case in the United States, but in Europe, the legal

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Mathias Röllig
Many companies need to import MS document formats. They don't have the choice to teach all customers to send an other document format. That might be the case in the United States, but in Europe, the legal requirement is to use ODF file formats. I can only speak for my experiences in Germany.

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > From: Dr. Michael Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de] > there are 3 items stated: And I have a fourth: We should maintain the high quality standards of OO. > - improving import filters +1 Greetings, Jörg

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hello, there are 3 items stated: - fixing major bugs - improving import filters - improving and creating new extensions IMO all 3 points are important. Topic one and two have to be done by core developers. Topic three can also be done by others and in collaboration with LO people. So IMO we

HTTPS redirection for openoffice.apache.org

2017-01-15 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hello all, FYI: With the help of Infra I was able to set permanent HTTPS redirection for openoffice.apache.org. That means every call to http://openoffice.apache.org will be redirected to https. I do not expect any trouble but in case of just drop me a note... Kind regards, Matthias

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Mathias Röllig
Hello, You all talking about the standalone product. It is a good point but only a piece. Many companies need to import MS document formats. They don't have the choice to teach all customers to send an other document format. So for the acceptance there is a big need to improve the import

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, 2017-01-15 14:18 GMT+01:00 Hagar Delest : > Le 14/01/2017 à 11:58, mabdul a écrit : > >> Believe me: MS doesn't follow Apache OpenOffice any longer as they know >> that in the next ~10 years OpenOffice cannot hurt MS. Moreover they have >> switched to a

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 14/01/2017 à 11:58, mabdul a écrit : Believe me: MS doesn't follow Apache OpenOffice any longer as they know that in the next ~10 years OpenOffice cannot hurt MS. Moreover they have switched to a subscription based model (Office365) latetly to secure their userbase and even increase the

Re: What is the oldest Linux that AOO can run on? Is there a policy wrt baseline libraries/distro release?

2017-01-15 Thread ninja_glace
Fernando, Here are the system requirements [1] for AOO 4.1.x: GNU/LINUX ("LINUX") * Linux kernel version 2.6 or higher, glibc2 version 2.5 or higher * Free memory of 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended) * 400 MB available disk space * X-Server with 1024 x 768 pixel

Fwd: New Pootle Account

2017-01-15 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hello all, Found this on l10n@ Maybe some of the Pootle admins could take care of it... Kind regards, Matthias Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff:New Pootle Account Datum: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:08:25 - Von:Manuela Silva Antwort an: