Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

2015-10-28 Thread Ian Lynch
r 2015 at 22:52, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the > 4.1.2 Release announcement, with a sentence like > > "The OpenOffice community dedicates version 4.1.2 to the memory of Ian > Lyn

Re: Please join me in congratulating Marcus.

2015-03-31 Thread Ian Lynch
+1 Ian Ofqual Accredited Qualifications https://theingots.org/community/index.php?q=qualifications Headline points in the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 school league tables Baseline testing and progress measures https://theingots.org/community/Baseline_testing_info The Learning Machine Limited,

Re: [DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-20 Thread Ian Lynch
My view is more positive. Louis has at least one thing in his favour - long term experience. Also I think he has a clear track record of commitment to the project in difficult times. I have had differences with him in the past, but I think that is just part of any pluralist system. I don't

Re: [DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-19 Thread Ian Lynch
+1 On 19 January 2015 at 00:27, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 17/01/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: It's true the two last nominees -- Jan and Louis -- did discuss their views at length, but there was not really much discussion on the selections from this list. Contrast this from the

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-13 Thread Ian Lynch
Sounds a bit like the Marcons for marketing in the original OO.o project. On 13 January 2015 at 09:45, RA Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de wrote: On 12.01.2015 23:22, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: Of course, the community could create such roles—Marketing Leads, say. Done that before,

Re: Concerns about the AOO community

2014-10-02 Thread Ian Lynch
It would be better for the projects to merge, but the details (license, community) clearly matter a lot to some people. If there was a better spirit of cooperation most of the effort could go into AOO with just some minor things for the GPL version derived from it in an agreed way so that that

Re: Concerns about the AOO community

2014-10-01 Thread Ian Lynch
As a moderator of the dev list, I can't say I have noticed any reduction in traffic. If anything its increasing. On 1 October 2014 21:34, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On G+ I have hold a conversation with Bruce Byfield and Jos from KDE about the continuation of the Apache

UK government preparing to switch to AOO?

2014-01-29 Thread Ian Lynch
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications https://theingots.org/community/faq#7.0 Headline points in the 2014, 2015, 2016 school league tables www.th

Re: UK government preparing to switch to AOO?

2014-01-29 Thread Ian Lynch
to the risk of change. The government is desperate to demonstrate strategies to save money to reduce the budget deficit in ways other than cutting public services. On 29 January 2014 12:53, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote

Re: 80 million downloads

2013-12-02 Thread Ian Lynch
the freedom of the user as Ubuntu does, and yet claims to work with and for a community that supposedly contributes to instituting freedom, not something more ironic. louis On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: We use Ubuntu throughout the company

Re: 80 million downloads

2013-12-01 Thread Ian Lynch
We use Ubuntu throughout the company and don't have any problems with it - well certainly no more than Windows and Apple Users seem to have. I suggest if AOO is difficult to install in Ubuntu for a non-developer its really up to those that have the skills and knowledge to change that..well that

Re: Lost my way

2013-11-26 Thread Ian Lynch
Hi, I think you are confusing us with Wikipedia. Apache OpenOffice has no specific relationship to Wikipedia. If yo made an entry in Wikipedia you should be able to find it with Wikipedia search if you can remember any key words or phrases in the article. On 26 November 2013 15:34, G and M

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-11-10 Thread Ian Lynch
Apache Open Office is not Microsoft Office. We make it as compatible as we possibly can but since MS does not tell us exactly how it organises its data that is not always easy. I don't think anyone has ever claimed OpenOffice to be able to provide complex MS documents with 100% fidelity. If you

Re: Open Office

2013-11-06 Thread Ian Lynch
- The word *criteria* is often treated as singular or even uncountable, but these uses are usually still considered incorrect; the standard singular form is *criterion http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/criterion*. The standard and most common plural form is *criteria*; less common is

Re: Big mistake

2013-10-25 Thread Ian Lynch
Just to expand a little on Rob's reply. We do take complaints seriously but you will appreciate that as a volunteer organisation we don't always have the resources to respond immediately to every individual problem. Our aim is to provide useful free office software to as many people who can

Re: AOO on Nexus 7 and the Kim Komando Show

2013-10-22 Thread Ian Lynch
it is for x86 to scale down without melting your device or a hole in your pocket ;-). On 22 October 2013 03:22, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: Given the number of Android devices out there and growing I can see

Re: Version 4.1

2013-10-21 Thread Ian Lynch
Hi Michael, We have tested the file you sent and we can't replicate the problem. The sheet is very simple and if there was a bug in the software it would certainly be affecting many other people. So all I can think is that it is something in the way your system is set up. We know that a partial

Re: AOO on Nexus 7 and the Kim Komando Show

2013-10-21 Thread Ian Lynch
Given the number of Android devices out there and growing I can see a time where if its not editable there it won't be worth considering. On 21 October 2013 23:18, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Drew, I've not tested this on my Chrome set up (VM install. of Chrome OS). But I'm

Re: Version 4.1

2013-10-20 Thread Ian Lynch
Take a look at http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9t=45671 Someone here had a similar problem due to an incomplete download. Try reinstalling to be sure you have the full software. You are not subscribed to the list so I have ccd the message to you as you won't see replies that

Re: Version 4.1

2013-10-20 Thread Ian Lynch
Have you tried uninstalling AOO, downloadong it again from http://www.openoffice.org/download/ and reinstalling? Chances are that if this error was a bug, other people would have reported it. So be sure you have the complete downlaod and installation running first. Back up any files first just to

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-07 Thread Ian Lynch
Probably best to choose a specific feature or aspect of AOO that would be a popular benefit to a lot of people. That is the difficult bit. What is likely to be possible? Maybe further improvements to Word import/export or something? Abilty to fully edit pdf files? Whatever is chosen needs wide

Re: I'm ready to give up on Open Office

2013-10-06 Thread Ian Lynch
...and of course keep a backup history. Save regularly under different version names so that if something goes wrong you can find out where and revert to a version that is not too far from the current version. This is really a sensible strategy whatever software you are using if the work is

Re: I'm ready to give up on Open Office

2013-10-06 Thread Ian Lynch
Don't think he is subscribed to the list so he won't see your message. On 5 October 2013 23:29, Vladislav Stevanovic stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Bob, I am just another user of Oo like you. Your letter shows me that you really love Oo but, problems push you in that way that

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-09-16 Thread Ian Lynch
First, you need to be subscribed to the mailing list to see replies. I cc'd you e-mail address for this one. This is an English language list. Apache OpenOffice is a volunteer community. It is entirely made up from volunteers and we need more in different countries to support different languages.

Re: The Names of OpenOffice (How users are finding our website)

2013-08-16 Thread Ian Lynch
Surprised there is no 开放式办公 (Open Office in Chinese) given the population. Though on a recent trip to China I was surprised at how low the awareness was of AOO. On 16 August 2013 13:21, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 August 2013 12:56, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: And update of

Re: The Names of OpenOffice (How users are finding our website)

2013-08-16 Thread Ian Lynch
to know much about FOSS. Perhaps we just have a very big potential but untapped market in China ;-). On 16 August 2013 14:45, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: Surprised there is no 开放式办公 (Open Office in Chinese) given

Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post

2013-08-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a top 10 list of ways in which AOO is great for

Re: Certified DEVs

2013-06-09 Thread Ian Lynch
:04, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed that LibreO has 26 Certified Developers. http://www.documentfoundation.org/certification/developers/ While we have the concept of a committer here at AOO is there something specific for active code developers? Would it be worth considering

Re: Certified DEVs

2013-06-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On 9 June 2013 20:35, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Jun 9, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Ian Lynch wrote: My main thought was market confidence. If LO can say they have 26 developers working on code it would be interesting

Re: Certified DEVs

2013-06-09 Thread Ian Lynch
On 9 June 2013 22:18, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: As I said, let's not worry about the certification thing. I doubt it is really worth the effort developing a formal certification program for so few. It really has

Re: OpenOffice Community Survey

2013-04-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On 11 April 2013 13:21, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: I think we should try to make a survey that would help us to figure out the Net Promoter score, a customer loyalty metric ranging from -100%

Re: Furious

2013-03-06 Thread Ian Lynch
On 6 March 2013 16:14, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Joshua Mills joshuaharrymi...@gmail.com wrote: Your website is as impossible to navigate as your programme. You've put in

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Lynch
On 19 January 2013 11:04, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: That dies of course rely on having at least a significant minority of drug free competitors! :-) I think you pasted your reply into the wrong GMail

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On 18 January 2013 09:16, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Oracle Cloud Office cannot be compared with developments like StarPortal or Sun ONE Webtop that needed office processes to run on client side. Oracle

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On 18 January 2013 13:18, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: What we really need is a cloud version of AOO like Google Docs. We don´t *need* ONE thing. That´s the beauty of open source, ´we´ could do *several* things

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On 18 January 2013 22:16, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-01-18, at 15:48 , Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 January 2013 17:41, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: It wasnt an edition