Re: CMS Build Down?

2014-04-16 Thread Samer Mansour
Yes it was unable to connect in chrome, which might explain why my browser was hanging when I clicked request to stage, the backend code is probably blocking while it isn't able to connect to staging to stage. This may interfere with Rob updating logo to the doodle on the home page if not fixed

Re: Close, but not quite 100 million...

2014-04-14 Thread Samer Mansour
I heard we're getting close. Here is a doodle I put together: http://s28.postimg.org/t2b93detp/1_Mill_AOOClear140px.png http://s14.postimg.org/twbuik4dd/1_Mill_AOOClear80px.png When I see we hit 1,000,000 I can resize, position and update our social media profile backgrounds. Samer. On Sun,

Re: FW: Quote requested-Open Office 3

2014-04-14 Thread Samer Mansour
Odd, I thought this was pretty obvious: https://www.openoffice.org/why/why_sme.html Its only 2 clicks into the site. I want to learn more - Businesses, third bullet down. This may be a product of our localized sites not existing / being updated. This person was inquiring for a Malaysian

Re: Close, but not quite 100 million...

2014-04-14 Thread Samer Mansour
Oh wow, :S !!! Good catch. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On 14.04.2014 15:32, Samer Mansour wrote: I heard we're getting close. Here is a doodle I put together: http://s28.postimg.org/t2b93detp/1_Mill_AOOClear140px.png

Re: Close, but not quite 100 million...

2014-04-14 Thread Samer Mansour
Here we go: http://s28.postimg.org/nuwli5jd9/100_Mill_AOO140px.png Let me know what sizes we need, I can also rearrange to fit a less wide format if needed. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Oh wow, :S !!! Good catch. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM

Re: Quote requested-Open Office 3

2014-04-14 Thread Samer Mansour
, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/14/2014 07:20 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 2014-04-14, at 09:39, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Odd, I thought this was pretty obvious: https://www.openoffice.org/why/why_sme.html Its only 2 clicks into the site. I

Re: Close, but not quite 100 million...

2014-04-14 Thread Samer Mansour
wrote: Am 04/14/2014 04:03 PM, schrieb Samer Mansour: Here we go: http://s28.postimg.org/nuwli5jd9/100_Mill_AOO140px.png Let me know what sizes we need, I can also rearrange to fit a less wide format if needed. The graphic looks perfect for such a celebration. Thanks for the work

Re: Close, but not quite 100 million...

2014-03-06 Thread Samer Mansour
I can see what I can do tonight after I do another icon. I should do a design so that I can update the twitter, google+ and facebook profile as well when that happens. We would have that graphic ready on the social media backgrounds before we make the posts on them saying saying [yay 1,000,000

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2014-02-27 Thread Samer Mansour
jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: On 2/25/14 1:58 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 02/24/2014 07:32 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 2/19/14 4:18 AM, Samer Mansour wrote: Good eye on the green, that was a mistake, correcting now and uploading a new copy shortly. Yeah @2 for their retina display

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2014-02-17 Thread Samer Mansour
Schmidt wrote: On 12/13/13 6:37 AM, Samer Mansour wrote: Just so you don't think I died in a fire. I'm just under a lot of pressure at my new workplace and I'm working weekends because we're flying by the edge of our seats at this start up. I just ordered my family gifts online. I'm trying

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2014-02-17 Thread Samer Mansour
the circle with the gull and the context offset in the lower left corner. Samer On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/17/2014 08:41 AM, Samer Mansour wrote: Sorry about this situation. I will produce the following pngs for macOS today. The cwiki seems

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2014-02-17 Thread Samer Mansour
I know for windows 48x48 is used in windows 8 in a lot of defaults. I'm hoping I'm not too late to get the list of all icons sizes/formats needed to finish this before the next release. Anyone know when the next release is? On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2013-12-12 Thread Samer Mansour
the new year. Just need to squeeze it in. On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: On 11/23/13 6:45 PM, Samer Mansour wrote: I think I found what we need with the following: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/34834886/logo-w-offset3.png

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2013-11-20 Thread Samer Mansour
I've been so busy at work in the last week, let me set myself a reminder to review this on Saturday and give everyone an update and propose how to move forward. On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: On 11/4/13 8:23 PM, Samer Mansour wrote: This is just

Re: [Proposal] Update 'Get It Here' Banner

2013-11-15 Thread Samer Mansour
Ok no one voted +1 nor -1 explicitly, but it sounds like people are happy with the new banner. On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, Just realized the 'get it here' image is out dated. So I whipped together a new banner with a design I've

Re: [Proposal] Update 'Get It Here' Banner

2013-11-12 Thread Samer Mansour
this Pootle instance and can they assist me with setting this up? - Samer :D On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, Just realized the 'get it here' image is out dated. So

Re: [Proposal] Update 'Get It Here' Banner

2013-11-12 Thread Samer Mansour
it completed end of April 2014, a possible english version available early March 2014. I just started a new job, but some reason I'm getting more things done these days, maybe just Autumn-fever. Samer Mansour On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013

[Proposal] Update 'Get It Here' Banner

2013-11-10 Thread Samer Mansour
) This is what I'm proposing to replace: http://dynomie.com/ext/getithere2.png I would replace the current one with the same dimensions so that it updates nicely on other sites with the existing logo code (if they pointed to our hosted image). Lazy consensus as usual, 72 hours. Samer Mansour

Re: [Proposal] Update 'Get It Here' Banner

2013-11-10 Thread Samer Mansour
I forgot to mention, I can also have translated versions publicly available. This would make it easier for other localizations to adopt the banner as well. Samer On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone, Just realized the 'get it here' image

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2013-11-04 Thread Samer Mansour
This is just a reminder that this coming Nov 9th is the end of the 30 day window for list folk to submit ideas, whether in words or images. After this date, I will compile the ideas and feedback. Samer Mansour On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hello

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2013-10-18 Thread Samer Mansour
Andrea, I've done as you said and attached to the bug ticket. https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123491 If everyone can lazy agree we should commit it. Samer Mansour On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: On 18/10/2013 Jürgen Schmidt wrote

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2013-10-14 Thread Samer Mansour
Hello, Here is another stab where I keep the gulls in the logo, scroll down to october 15th. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4.1+-+Desktop+Icons These are high contrast. You can desaturate them and they are still distinguishable. Samer Mansour On Mon, Oct 14, 2013

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2013-10-10 Thread Samer Mansour
know, ie font dialog, . Samer On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Armin Le Grand armin.le.gr...@me.comwrote: On 10.10.2013 09:00, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: On 10.10.2013 05:01, Samer Mansour wrote: Hello, I'm proposing to have the icons (and related assets) updated for AOO 4.1

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2013-10-10 Thread Samer Mansour
some ideas onto https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4.1+-+Application+And+Launcherwhile I am waiting for the Nov 9th deadline for icons to pass. Samer On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: On 10/10/2013 Samer Mansour wrote: When I have

Re: Facebook Likes Almost Tripled Since February

2013-10-09 Thread Samer Mansour
Raphael, I don't think we can effectively chase down every group or page. We should follow up on malicious pages though. I did a shallow search in the results. There is one fb page with recent announcements but doesn't look malicious. Here is the page: https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOpenOffice

Re: [CWiki] new default access rights active

2013-10-04 Thread Samer Mansour
I can't seem to add (or delete old) attachments such as screen captures. Can anyone else confirm this behavior? It might need to turned on for the whitelist? On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: I've enabled the following people

Facebook Likes Almost Tripled Since February

2013-10-04 Thread Samer Mansour
Hey Everyone, Awesome realization, I was documenting some changes to our social profiles (screen captures), and since February 8th, 2013 we went from just over 3,500 likes to just under 9,400 likes today. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/34834928/facebook-account.png

Re: [CWiki] new default access rights active

2013-10-04 Thread Samer Mansour
Confirmed it works thanks!!! Yeah I was feeling a like it was going to be a lot of work. On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Samer Mansour wrote: I can't seem to add (or delete old) attachments such as screen captures. Can anyone else confirm

Re: [CWiki] new default access rights active

2013-10-02 Thread Samer Mansour
I also use the CWiki to document marketing activities. Username is smansour -Samer On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Vladislav Stevanovic stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, About permission for translating and editing cwiki on Serbia, I am interesting for that too. Regards,

Re: Skills, Resources and Mentors

2013-10-01 Thread Samer Mansour
It is not letting me edit in either firefox or chrome. Is there something we can add to the URL to go directly to the page editor for a page, any work arounds? -Sam On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Ricardo Berlasso rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/10/2 Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net

CMS diff:

2013-07-23 Thread Samer Mansour
Clone URL (Committers only): https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://ooo-site.apache.org/download%2Fimages%2Faoo-logo-100x100.png Samer Mansour Index: trunk/content/download/images/aoo-logo-100x100.png

Re: CMS diff:

2013-07-23 Thread Samer Mansour
done. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Samer Mansour anonym...@apache.org wrote: Clone URL (Committers only): https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://ooo-site.apache.org/download%2Fimages

Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

2013-07-17 Thread Samer Mansour
+1 On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:55 AM, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.eduwrote: +1 From: Jürgen Schmidt [jogischm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:40 AM this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2

Re: Possible show stopper on Windows 8, please verify

2013-07-16 Thread Samer Mansour
We found the mystery trick. Have Windows File Explorer open. I overlooked that in my environment because its seems so core to the OS. Here is the video of the error reproduced: https://t.co/VLAyfSGwQC This fix sent to me by Herbert Duerr via e-mail fixes the issue.

Re: Possible show stopper on Windows 8, please verify

2013-07-16 Thread Samer Mansour
Oh and great work everyone! To the people who helped verify and volunteer coders who helped fix the bug! On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: We found the mystery trick. Have Windows File Explorer open. I overlooked that in my environment because its seems

Possible show stopper on Windows 8, please verify

2013-07-15 Thread Samer Mansour
I just got my testlink set up, and received a couple test cases 7 hours ago. The first test I went to do I couldn't complete because it caused what I think is a show stopper for windows 8 (if its reproducible) Can anyone copy or cut contents to their system clipboard in windows 8 using the 4.0.0

Re: Possible show stopper on Windows 8, please verify

2013-07-15 Thread Samer Mansour
AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: I just got my testlink set up, and received a couple test cases 7 hours ago. The first test I went to do I couldn't complete because it caused what I think is a show stopper

Re: Installation on Windows 8, 64bit

2013-07-15 Thread Samer Mansour
I have opened a new bug, with the version from about in the comments, please let me know if this is still the same bug. I did a upgrade from 3.4.1 to 4.0.0. Hiding the side panel did not affect outcome. https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122752 On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Andre

Re: [UX][DESIGN EXPLORATION] - flat application icons

2013-07-09 Thread Samer Mansour
of course) On 08.07.2013 17:21, Samer Mansour wrote: Hi Everyone, took another stab: https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** AOO4+-+Desktop+Iconshttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Desktop+Icons Upon scaling down, I can tweak line thicknesses to create

Re: Logo next steps

2013-06-06 Thread Samer Mansour
Congrats Chris! Ok girls and guys, I've already made a dent in documenting where the logo appears in the different sections: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4+-+Application+And+Launcher I don't have sizes, but I want to review those sections and document new sizes with

Re: Results from AOO 4.0 Logo Poll

2013-05-05 Thread Samer Mansour
one or more revised designs. Of the top scoring logos, two were from Kevin Grignon, one from Samer Mansour, two from Michael Acevedo and one from someone I haven't seen on the mailing list, but whose entry on the wiki was from Chris R. Maybe it makes sense in the next round to aim for one

Re: New committer: Donald Whytock (dwhytock)

2013-05-02 Thread Samer Mansour
Welcome and congrats On May 2, 2013 8:57 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache OpenOffice has asked Donald Whytock to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that he has accepted and taken the ID dwhytock. A warm welcome to Donald

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-04-17 Thread Samer Mansour
have a box for comments. -Rob Regards, Kevin On Apr 15, 2013, at 6:27 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Summary of feedback (which I found made points): Samer - Lets go

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-04-16 Thread Samer Mansour
Armin, The application icons may differ from the logo. Are you talking about these: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/02+-+Design+Proposal+Samer+Mansour+2013.03.03 It may have been the first version of that that I removed a few months back. There was some design faux pas

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-04-13 Thread Samer Mansour
Summary of feedback (which I found made points): Samer - Lets go flat, its strong in all aspects brought up. Kay S. - Agrees with flat logo. Poll should be limited to few. Robin - Wordmarks need more attention (not logo specific), Vasilis logo is cool, downside too different. Robin made a similar

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-04-05 Thread Samer Mansour
:50, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/5/13 6:01 AM, Samer Mansour wrote: Hello Everyone, Can I propose we move forward with this logo: http://imagebin.org/252847 I kept the current official blue

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-04-04 Thread Samer Mansour
made by the two O's as many people's designs had suggested. The font is Roboto Condensed which is Apache 2.0 Licensed. The source file is an SVG created in Inkscape. The above is a png export. Samer On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I will wait

Re: Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-03-31 Thread Samer Mansour
design. It might be too different from the current, but it's a very good logo imo. Robin On 28 Mar 2013, at 12:38, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Robin brought up a good point that we should pick a logo before we start work on the application artifacts

Conversation: Pick A Logo

2013-03-28 Thread Samer Mansour
didn't need to be complex and completely new. That simple was actually beautiful. Thoughts? Agree? Disagree (and your solution is)? Samer Mansour

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-26 Thread Samer Mansour
be updated between releases as well. Samer Mansour On Mar 26, 2013 6:02 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le 26/03/2013 15:05, Rob Weir a écrit : But I think we should align with the user's thinking at this point. They've launched OpenOffice, presumable *to do a task

Re: updating Splashscreen

2013-03-25 Thread Samer Mansour
I think we should start first with what the purpose of the splash screen is: 1 Welcome users. Hi I'm OpenOffice. 2 Provide loading progress. If loading is so fast do we even need a bar. Perhaps a spinning circle is better to show activity. 3 Is there any specific requirements. Ie. Legal, asf

Re: Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-03-06 Thread Samer Mansour
That looks great! On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 02/03/2013 Samer Mansour wrote: I've populated some minimal how to participate info on https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/** Apache+OpenOffice+4.0+Brand+**Refresh+Projecthttps

Re: Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-03-02 Thread Samer Mansour
at 3:26 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Grignon if you have spare time and experience in the area of design language and messaging your help would be really appreciated as I have limited experience in this area. If you have a cwiki account, I don't mind if you alter

Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27

2013-02-25 Thread Samer Mansour
On 1) Can I suggest we make the graphic change maybe 3-5 days before DFD. Make an earlier blog post letting people know its coming up. We should go viral before the day. I could create a small page about AOO and DFD and what it means to us. Much like the download page, we can assign the social

Re: Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-02-23 Thread Samer Mansour
is something +2 agree with. If more input is given, my good faith says it will converge to a high percentage of the community's desires, but not necessarily everyone's. Samer Mansour On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: On 2/22/13 1:21 AM, Dave Fisher wrote

Re: Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-02-23 Thread Samer Mansour
those. I'll begin working with Robin F., Chris R., and Michael A. this week in the mean time. Samer Mansour On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Everyone, Let me first admit I felt Saturday (72 hrs) was short, but at the same time necessary. I expected

Re: [RELEASE]: proposed schedule for AOO 4.0

2013-02-20 Thread Samer Mansour
I will be driving the branding effort from the marketing team. I agree design work needs to be done early. 04/04 is a good target. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: On 2/20/13 10:46 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi, we make good progress with the

Branding Refresh For AOO 4.0 [Closing in 72hrs]

2013-02-20 Thread Samer Mansour
Hello AOO Dev and Marketing Community, The main subject of this e-mail is to call for an end date to proposals. In 72hrs (saturday) we will be closing branding proposals. - - - - - I am heading up the branding effort for the AOO 4.0 release and we can unanimously agree the 4.0 release will be a

Re: Website Translation Solution Proposal

2013-02-20 Thread Samer Mansour
This is an early investigation, I'm not familiar with Pootle. I will check to see if we can create a process to notify translators when something needs translating, such as their mailing list. In either situation I think we'll be gaining more translations with less overhead work. Its an

Re: Sidebar color scheme survey

2013-02-07 Thread Samer Mansour
I like 2A, 2B, 1B in that order. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Shenfeng Liu liush...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/2/8 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: KG 01 On Feb 8, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Rob Weir

Re: $21 million per day

2013-02-06 Thread Samer Mansour
If this is a metric we are interested, we can easily get better ideas of unknowns with polls. Though not scientific, its better to hold up claims we have than nothing. A marketing activity would be to do polls, announce on the download and home page, and announce via social media updates/tweets.

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Apache OpenOffice 4 logo proposals...

2013-01-02 Thread Samer Mansour
Everyone who was involved with that video: awesome! Totally love the white outline looking icons on solid background. Its an immediate eye catcher for users to know what file type a document is, no matter the size of the icon (think file explorer detail view 16x16). Floating this idea: when you

Re: [proposal] Add Symphony gradients

2012-12-18 Thread Samer Mansour
+1, the symphony gradients feel softer, they aren't screaming attention. We might want to offer those for less distraction when they user 'feels' for it. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 12/18/2012 03:07 PM, schrieb Armin Le Grand: Hi List, when