[dev] Re: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ is down...

2011-05-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I've asked directly of the maintainer of record, once, and so let's see. The Why no doubt has to do with the uncertainties surrounding Oracle's relation to OOo commercial deployment (selling). -louis On 2011-05-26, at 03:34 , Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 25/05/11 19:53, Volker Merschmann a

[dev] Re: [marketing-dev] OpenOffice.org status and v3.4 final release

2011-04-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2011-04-26, at 10:23 , Allen Pulsifer wrote: Greetings, Normally the OpenOffice.org holds a Release Status Meeting every Monday and reports the minutes at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ReleaseStatus_Minutes . I notice that no meeting has been held the last two Mondays. Is

[dev] Re: [native-lang-com] Japan Earthquake: Kazunari Hirano needs our help

2011-03-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
this call for donations is of course welcome. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Development Manager OpenOffice.org -- - To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email

[dev] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
means that, as always, I remain attentive to what you need, want, desire, wish for, and will try my best to communicate those desires to whomever must hear them. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Chair, Community Council Co-Lead, Marketing (and several other) Lead, Native Language

[dev] Re: [marketing] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
if we work with the engineers, not with the tenders of the last car, the caboose. From there, you can only see the past. Been there. Me, I want to do the future thing. Good luck, Peter Thanks, Louis On 02/11/2011 09:58 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, I've left Oracle but continue

[dev] Call for Nominations for Community Council Seats

2010-03-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
/Election_Process_Proposal [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/call_for_nominations_201003 -- Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org

[dev] November 2009 Election Results

2009-11-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The election held earlier this month ended quite satisfactorily and we held our first Council meeting with the newly elected members this last Thursday 26 Nov. [0]. On behalf of everyone concerned in the process, I'd like to congratulate all for the success of this first wave of

[dev] Re: [marketing] openoffice....@fosdem 2010

2009-11-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks! Louis PS, Juergen et al., let's see if we can produce collateral that can be widely reused, so as to save money. On 2009-11-11, at 05:44 , Juergen Schmidt wrote: Hi, i just want o inform you that i have requested an OpenOffice.org stand and again an OpenOffice.org Developer

[dev] Community Council/Items/Candidates October 2009 - OpenOffice.org Wiki

2009-10-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Items/Election_Process_Proposal [2] http://council.openoffice.org/#council -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[dev] Fwd: Prix Ars Electronica 2009 - Call for Entries

2009-01-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
This might be of interest. Or maybe it's just spam? Begin forwarded message: From: communit...@prixars.aec.at Date: 16 Jan 2009 3:26:27 GMT-05:00 To: lui...@mac.com Subject: Prix Ars Electronica 2009 - Call for Entries Dear Friend and Participant of Prix Ars Electronica, The 23rd Prix Ars

[dev] Re: [council-discuss] Suggestions for a new Community Council structure

2008-06-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Michael, On 2008-05-23, at 10:57 , Michael Meeks wrote: Hi Louis, Note: the council is more than one person... We talked over these governance improvement suggestions over at OOoCon, as you may remember, and I've finally got around to putting them down in (hopefully) a clear

[dev] Our New Look

2008-03-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Lohmaier (co-lead of website), Alexandro Colorado, André Wyrwa, Kay Schenk, and many others not mentioned here but no less important. Thanks to all. Best, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. OpenOffice.org

[dev] New License and Contributor Agreement

2008-03-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems, Inc. [0] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html [1] http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sca.pdf [2] http://gpl3.palamida.com:8080/index.jsp [3] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/contributor_agreement.jsp [4] http

[dev] User Experience Project is an Accepted Project

2008-03-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
efforts and projects in the OpenOffice.org community is the basis for the success of this cross-sectional activity. We invite you to join us on our mailing list discuss at ux.openoffice.org! Find out more about us and our work on http://ux.openoffice.org . Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts

Re: [dev] Butler Office Pro - really a violation ?

2008-02-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Time out. This flame war is not really a discussion any longer on Butler Office. It's become a free for all with fire. We all have better things to do. So: enough blather. No more waste of time. This thread is cut. Louis On 2008-02-09, at 24:01 , Michael Meeks wrote: On Fri,

Re: [dev] Butler Office Pro - really a violation ?

2008-02-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2008-02-09, at 01:12 , sophie wrote: Hi all, I answer here but this is not an answer to Michael's mail and this is why I top post. Please all, there is no need for more provocations. The world is not perfect, but it can be worse and it has been in the past. May I remember you that

[dev] OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program

2008-01-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, The Members of the Program Committee Louis Suarez-Potts John McCreesh Pavel Janík Stefan Taxhet [0] http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/awards/index.jsp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[dev] fosdem 2008 wiki

2008-01-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, Jesús Corrius created a wiki for our fosdem 2008 presence: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Marketing/FOSDEM_2008 I just put a link to it on the homepage but please inform your communities of its existence--and that we really want the Community to consider presenting at this

[dev] Fwd: Last Chance to Submit a Proposal

2008-01-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I hope that all will consider submitting proposals Louis Begin forwarded message: From: O'Reilly Open Source Convention [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14 Jan 2008 8:27:02 GMT-05:00 Subject: Last Chance to Submit a Proposal O'Reilly Open Source Convention - OSCON July 21-25, 2008 Oregon

[dev] Reminder - Vote now for Community Contributor Representative

2007-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
above. If you are curious about the Community Council, go to http://council.openoffice.org/ to learn more. ** Remember: Vote by Saturday 22 December 23:59 UTC.** Thanks to Ben Bois, Laurent Godard, and Stefan Taxhet, who have volunteered their time to set this poll up. -Louis Suarez-Potts

[dev] Last Community Council Meeting IRC Log

2007-11-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi all, The IRC log of the last Community Council meeting (22th of November) can be found here : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Minutes The next meeting will be on the 5th of December but the time has yet to be determined, though probably after 17:00 UTC.

[dev] OpenOffice.org at foss.in

2007-11-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The OpenOffice.org presence in India is large and growing. Millions use it there, in numerous languages. This December, as part of the internationally renown foss.in conference held annually in Bangalore, OpenOffice.org will have its first Project Day: a day devoted to talks and

[dev] FOSS.IN and OpenOffice.org

2007-09-30 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, India's FOSS.IN is rightly considered one of the more important annual FOSS events. It's also large, fun, and exciting. This year, OpenOffice.org is honoured to have a Project Day, either 4 or 5 December, and all are invited to submit proposals. Our theme is Building the Indian

[dev] Announcement: IBM Joins the OpenOffice.org Community

2007-09-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org technology in its products. The full announcement is available at: * http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_release.html And Q A at: * http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_faq.html Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

Re: [dev] Re: [releases] 2.2.0 Release Date

2007-03-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks for the minutes. On 2007-03-05, at 10:31 , Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, please find the latest minutes of the release status meeting here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ ReleaseStatus_Minutes#2007-03-05 In short: the new estimated release date for 2.2 will be March

[dev] The ODF Toolkit Project

2007-01-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
(UNO) for developers: http://udk.openoffice.org * OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers: http://api.openoffice.org * Press Contacts Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 John McCreesh (UTC +0h00) OpenOffice.org

[dev] Students!

2007-01-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Dear all but especially students (and recent students), Kay Ramme has been leading an update of our to-dos and the results are so far great. See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/To-Dos . One of the drivers for this is that we are starting to work more with colleges and universities

[dev] OpenOffice.org 2.1 Is Here

2006-12-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Objects (UNO) for developers: http://udk.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers: http:// api.openoffice.org/ Press Contacts Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 John McCreesh (UTC +0h00

[dev] Template Clipart Contest!

2006-09-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The Documentation Project is holding a competition for templates and clipart, and there is *prize money.* The goal is to increase our trove. Frankly, we don't have enough; users are feeling deprived. That means over 50 million people. You can help change that... and also maybe win

[dev] Scheduled Maintenance Tuesday 01:00 UTC

2006-08-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
, anoncvs, and the wikis at wiki.services.openoffice.org will remain online. Sorry for the inconvenience. Best, Louis Suarez-Potts CollabNet smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[dev] Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index

2006-07-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
There has been comment in the media about a report on a French language website: Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index The ZDNet article [1] claims to describe the proceedings of a confidential meeting within the French public administration. It is not appropriate for the

[dev] Scheduled Maintenance: 2006-07-14 23:30 UTC

2006-07-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. Best, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[dev] New Developer Article Contest Winner!

2006-07-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, We have a new Developer Article Contest Winner: Kohei Yoshida Hacking Calc--The First Step, by Kohei Yoshida, has won June's contest. As have the other winners before him, Kohei Yoshida wins USD $750 and international fame. It's merited: Hacking Calc is important reading for any

[dev] OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Here. Download It Now.

2006-06-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org

[dev] OpenWengo Summer Projects

2006-06-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
they don't have much time. We will need both mentors and students. If you feel you can help mentor students (you should be a developer with a good knowledge of OOo) let me or Julien Gilli julien.gilli (at) wengo.fr know. Thanks! -Louis [0] http://www.openwengo.org/ -- Louis Suarez

[dev] Site Infrastructure Upgrade: Tuesday 20 June

2006-06-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Upgrade [2] http://www.collab.net/rn/3_5_1.html Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet - To unsubscribe, e

[dev] Site Infrastructure Upgrade: Tuesday 20 June

2006-06-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
other things; performance may also be affected [0] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Upgrade [2] http://www.collab.net/rn/3_5_1.html Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet

[dev] New Developer Article Contest

2006-05-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, New Winner, Developer Article Contest S. Sevki Dincer has won April's Developer Article Contest; congratulations! Sevki's article is a step by step guide on how to write a simple component (a Calc add-in) for OpenOffice.org (OOo) in C ++. The Developer Article Contest continues each

[dev] Google Summer of Code and OpenOffice.org

2006-05-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
[Sorry for late posting] All, OpenOffice.org is proud to participate in the Summer of Code initiative sponsored by Google, and you are invited to join in the fun Last year's SoC was hailed by both students and mentors as a success, [0] and we hope this year's will be even

[dev] Fwd: Massachusetts Request for Information (RFI) - ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office Suite

2006-05-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
This is fairly important... Begin forwarded message: From: Boldman, Claudia (ITD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 3, 2006 5:16:59 PM EDT (CA) To: Boldman, Claudia (ITD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Massachusetts Request for Information (RFI) - ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office Suite This

[dev] OpenDocument Format = ISO 26300

2006-05-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. Louis Suarez-Potts, the OpenOffice.org Community Manager writes, The approval by the ISO helps level the playing field and helps clarify what is at stake: your intellectual property, your right to use innovative software. The open standard means not only that your property is not held

[dev] CP Hennessy: Winner, March Round Article Contest

2006-04-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Cheers, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[dev] Scheduled Maintenance 2006-04-01 01:00-09:00 UTC

2006-03-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
apologize for the inconvenience but wish to alert you that you will still be able to download OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 by going to one of the downloads sites listed during the outage on the OpenOffice.org homepage, http://www.openoffice.org/. Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[dev] OOoCon 2006 Call For Papers

2006-03-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
The OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2006) Call for Papers *Your proposal should be sent before 1 June 2006 in order to guarantee that it will be considered for inclusion in the Conference.* We are soliciting papers from the broad OpenOffice.org community on topics ranging from developing

[dev] First Winner Developer Article Contest!

2006-03-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
/OpenOffice.org_Developer_Article_Contest -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dev] Please help. I can't get registered at www.openoffic.org. Has been 2 weeks.

2006-02-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Bill, I'll deal with this. Best, Louis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[dev] OpenOffice.org Developer Article Contest starts on February 1, 2006

2006-01-31 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org Developer Article Contest starts on February 1, 2006 === Dear developers and technical writers, OpenOffice.org, with the support of Team OpenOffice.org e.V. and extra sponsorship from Sun Microsystems,

Re: [dev] issuezilla/cvs etc infrastructure

2006-01-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-01-27, at 10:39 , Caolan McNamara wrote: It seems that issuezilla and cvs have been having continual problems for a number of months now :-( I presume that this affects internal Sun development as well as externals ? Is there any information from collab.net on what the actual

[dev] Brief downtime today 21:45 UTC for 30 minutes

2006-01-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [dev] Re: [native-lang] GPLv3

2006-01-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi On 2006-01-17, at 18:26 , Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Louis, The summit lasts until Tuesday of this week but the discussion period will be fairly long afterward. The issues that I am interested in are coincidentally the obvious ones: * patents * internationalization Can you tell us more

Re: [dev] GPLv3

2006-01-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-01-16, at 18:24 , Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi Louis, *, On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:14:21AM -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: please respond on dev@openoffice.org [...] Let me know on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list what is important to your communities and to you regarding the GPL

[dev] OpenOffice.org 2.0.1

2005-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (131) 523-9218 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 Worldwide Marketing Contacts http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

[dev] P2P Project

2005-12-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Everyone! The P2P project needs you :-) See http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ Deepankar Datta, who helped to put the project into shape and who initially created and maintained the Web pages, no longer has the time to manage the project. Adrian Mcneil and Mike Niblett (who does the

[dev] A genuine open-standard format

2005-11-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
General Public Licence (LGPL). Press Contacts Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +61 (8) 9474-3021 John McCreesh (UTC +00h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00

[dev] Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

2005-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (131) 523-9218 Louis Suarez-Potts OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625-3843 Copyright © 2005 - OpenOffice.org ---///--- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[dev] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Candidate

2005-09-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, OpenOffice.org 2.0 has gone from being a Beta to a Release Candidate (RC). Congratulations to all who made this possible! As an RC, OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC still--even more so--needs to be downloaded and tested by the community. So we urge you to go to http://

[dev] License Simplification

2005-09-02 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, On 2 September 2005 Sun Microsystems announced that it was retiring the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL), an Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved software license. In recent weeks, the OSI, which authorises open-source licenses, has been discussing limiting license

[dev] Vote for Community Contributor Representative

2005-07-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
for OpenOffice.org's votes and surveys! -Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[dev] OOoCon 2005 Call For Papers

2005-06-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The third international OpenOffice.org Conference, OOoCon 2005, will be held in Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia, this year, from 28-30 September, and you are invited! Promoted this year as a joint effort by the Slovenian and Italian OpenOffice.org language projects, the conference provides the

[dev] OOoCon 2005

2005-05-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The third international OOoCon will be held this year from 28 to 30 September in Koper (Capodistria), Slovenia. Make your plans now! As in previous years, the conference will bring together developers and distributors, users, businesses, and governments from all parts of the

Re: [dev] Linux distros

2005-03-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi Maybe the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is better? Everything about installation (= supported platforms) is discussed there. As well, for all things related to releases, releases@openoffice.org Thanks, Jacqueline!! Regards, Robert best Louis

[dev] Winner, OpenOffice.org 2.0 Splashscreen Competition

2005-02-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, Thousands of OpenOffice.org community members participated in the voting for the OpenOffice.org 2.0 splashscreen. People could vote for their favourite three choices from the eleven splashscreens shortlisted form over 340 submissions from 103 artists and designers. We are pleased to