Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, Von: Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com It looks good to me and covers most of the points I am familiar with in other volunteer organisations. The ND Manifesto is mentioned twice, but I don't know what or where that is. thanks for the reminder - I changed the text to be links.

[tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
When will it be possible to send messages to the TDF mail lists via Gmane *without* having to be subscribed to the mail lists themselves? Currently, to use Gmane you need to be subscribed to both it *and* the TDF lists which completely defeats the purpose of the Gmane interface. NB Gmane already

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 09:15 +0200, Erich Christian wrote: Hi Jean, * Am 19.10.2010 08:46, schrieb Jean Hollis Weber: On Mon, 2010-10-18, André Schnabel wrote: To get things started, I put some notes at the wiki: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership It looks good to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Harold Fuchs wrote on 2010-10-19 09.52: When will it be possible to send messages to the TDF mail lists via Gmane *without* having to be subscribed to the mail lists themselves? Currently, to use Gmane you need to be subscribed to both it*and* the TDF lists which completely defeats the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Isa this the Hotel California? Can't Delist

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Paul, Paul A Norman wrote on 2010-10-19 04.29: I have tried to delist from this fiasco and I am still getting emails I propose you actually do *read* the e-mails that are sent to you. 1. E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe 2. Then you

Re: Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-19 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Ramon, * Von: Ramon Sole ramon.s...@opscons.com I would seriously reconsider the way I deal with my volunteer communities. Agree. And that's they're doing exactly. They're asking TDF involved people to resign from their OOo responsabilities. Nobody asked to nobody to leave the Ooo

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
On 19 oct. 10, at 18:15, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote on 2010-10-19 02.22: I would like to propose that unlike what existed under Sun and Oracle, the linguistic communities _including_ the English speaking community, are all identified by a specific

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hallo André, André Schnabel schrieb: For discussion please use this mailinglist and try to keep the thread alive. If a new thread is started, please add at least the tag [SC] and the word Membership in the subject. I'm looking forward to a constructive discussion, Very little response so

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] Meeting minutes at the wiki

2010-10-19 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:09:56PM +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Daniel Veillard wrote on 2010-10-18 15.05: I would suggest to create a blog aggegator (planet.documentfoundation.org) and post both (or just links) to try to reach a larger audience. have you actually tried

Re: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-19 Thread Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis
Christoph, you have a really good point. And the true that the try to catch strategic is a bad one past some degree, now is the time to innovate as MSOffice have taken a radical UI approach change and leave us with the possibility to innovate based in the LibO / old MSOffice UI even if we start to

RE: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-19 Thread Xi Embalsado
Basically, you NEED to change the UI itself. According to what I've watched in the Renaissance project of OpenOffice.org, they will try a UI that will look like the Ribbon but a more dynamic strip of UI above and below the document contents. After these mockups they actually similar to the

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 18 ottobre 2010 alle ore 18:44:25, André Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net ha scritto: To get things started, I put some notes at the wiki: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership I've read that post, but I think you're reiterating an old misconception by confusing the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Isa this the Hotel California? Can't Delist

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Gianluca Turconi wrote on 2010-10-19 13.39: Maybe, you could skip passage #1 and directly attach the unsubscription address to the ML messages. the unsubscription addresses are different for digest and non-digest subscriptions. Therefore, I refer to the help address, which shows both

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-18 6:13 PM, Andy Brown wrote: Not trying to put words in your mouth, so to speak, but I think you intended without instead of with. Which I agree with. There should have been better planing on several levels. This isn't productive... how about making suggestions for how to improve

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-18 6:27 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Even if the Reply=To were modified, wouldn't the inclusion of the OP on the messages fall apart as soon as somebody didn't use Reply All? The purpose of Reply-To header is to manage how replies are handled. Reply All is not necessary if the Reply-To

RE: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-19 Thread Xi Embalsado
I'm not a programmer but... If you make a choice for the end users to choose what UI they should use. Before using LibreOffice, a dialog box will show up saying what UI do you prefer. Classic or Modern (Just make sure put a description as tool tips) so there will be no depreciation of UI's

RE: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Xi Embalsado
Sorry for typing that (I was too excited for the RTM version). I have a question... Why is the Beta 2 twice as big as Beta 1? -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at

Re: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-19 Thread Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis
2010/10/19 Xi Embalsado newecrea...@hotmail.com Basically, you NEED to change the UI itself. According to what I've watched in the Renaissance project of OpenOffice.org, they will try a UI that will look like the Ribbon but a more dynamic strip of UI above and below the document contents.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibO Beta 2 Writer/Web (Html Document)

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-18 10:39 PM, Paul A Norman wrote: I've tried to delist and I am still getting emails. What precisely have you done? Did you follow the full process, including the *confirmation* step (seems to be the one that mtrips up most people)... I had some real issues with the Writer/Web html

RE: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-19 Thread Xi Embalsado
I know... Just thirsty for change... Maybe try the Mozilla thunderbird UI in future releases. -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi, 2010/10/19 Xi Embalsado newecrea...@hotmail.com: Sorry for typing that (I was too excited for the  RTM version). I have a question... Why is the Beta 2 twice as big as Beta 1? It contains about fifty languages for the UI. Regards Volker -- ++ Volker Merschmann - ODF-Software

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
On 19 oct. 10, at 19:35, Cor Nouws wrote: In any case, the current global lists are not global, they are English lists and should be identified as such. They are handling global items, as I see it. I do not mind if some people post there in a language that I do not understand (and there

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 07:49 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: ... how about making suggestions for how to improve things going forward and stop complaining about what is already done? IIRC, several people have suggested some small changes to the current website that would make a significant

RE: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Xi Embalsado
Sorry... I'm new here and my inbox is getting to be 700 messages filled up. -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All

Re: [tdf-discuss] Isa this the Hotel California? Can't Delist

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-19 7:44 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: the unsubscription addresses are different for digest and non-digest subscriptions. Therefore, I refer to the help address, which shows both ways. We already had complaints from people who didn't manage to unsubscribe from the digest... I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-19 8:11 AM, Xi Embalsado wrote: WOW! I could never fit a size 50 to a size 2! Well at least don't go to the Microsoft Office size (600MB) Better make things in separate languages. Sorry for some big comments there... What would make more sense to me is to make one installer with

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-19 8:12 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 07:49 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: ... how about making suggestions for how to improve things going forward and stop complaining about what is already done? IIRC, several people have suggested some small changes to the

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-19 Thread Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis
If wee want a really customizable UI the best way is to go to something like Mocilla XULL adapted to LibO, but is needed to put limitations to the customization of what can be done to make the core and a UI with a good decoupling and prevent a bloated system ( basically limiting it exclusively to

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-19 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-10-19 07:54, Xi Embalsado a écrit : I'm not a programmer but... If you make a choice for the end users to choose what UI they should use. Before using LibreOffice, a dialog box will show up saying what UI do you prefer. Classic or Modern (Just make sure put a description as tool

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Gianluca, Von: Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com I've read that post, but I think you're reiterating an old misconception by confusing the Document Foundation with the wider LibreOffice Community. Hmm .. so the first topic (term definition Member) is not very clear. I'm

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:37:02 +0200, Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com wrote: I've read that post, but I think you're reiterating an old misconception by confusing the Document Foundation with the wider LibreOffice Community. Fully agree. Compare the OpenStreetMap Foundation. They

Re: LibO Install/Update ( was [tdf-discuss] Automatic Updates)

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-17 10:05 PM, Paul A Norman wrote: Re early discussion on Wondpws install and unpacked install files... Would they need to be present for the Windows Control Panel/ Add remove Programs/ Support Info - - Repair button to work? Yes. This is why I always store these on a shared

Re: [tdf-discuss] Isa this the Hotel California? Can't Delist

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-19 5:12 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: I propose you actually do *read* the e-mails that are sent to you. 1. E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe 2. Then you get To unsubscribe send a message to:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread James Wilde
On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:49 , Charles Marcus wrote: ... This isn't productive... how about making suggestions for how to improve things going forward and stop complaining about what is already done? (from the original post) Action point 1: redirect TDF to LibO and not vice versa or have TDF

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread James Wilde
On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:49 , Charles Marcus wrote: ... This isn't productive... how about making suggestions for how to improve things going forward and stop complaining about what is already done? Better still, kill the conversation in here, as has been suggested twice now, and continue it

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) Maybe you could just get yourselves sponsored as an Apache Software Foundation project and avoid a lot of duplicated work, wasted time and endless discussion setting things up? David Nelson -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-19 9:00 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:50 , Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-10-18 6:27 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Even if the Reply=To were modified, wouldn't the inclusion of the OP on the messages fall apart as soon as somebody didn't use Reply All? The purpose

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Bernhard Dippold wrote (19-10-10 00:23) Hi Barbara, all, [...] It's hard to read all the mails and to reply to the most important only (in my eyes). I will probably not be able to contribute much to this thread (or to the wiki) during the next few weeks - but I promise to stay on

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 19 ottobre 2010 alle ore 14:42:26, Andre Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net ha scritto: Hmm .. so the first topic (term definition Member) is not very clear. I'm not speaking about members of legal entity The Docuemnt Foundation but of those people who will be recognised as the community

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 19 ottobre 2010 alle ore 14:43:01, Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de ha scritto: Fully agree. Compare the OpenStreetMap Foundation. They have about 30,000 active contributors, aka community members, but around 250 or so active foundation members. Membership is formally

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jean-Christophe, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote (19-10-10 14:10) On 19 oct. 10, at 19:35, Cor Nouws wrote: In any case, the current global lists are not global, they are English lists and should be identified as such. They are handling global items, as I see it. I do not mind if some

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Karl-Heinz Gödderz
Hi, André Schnabel schrieb: One of the very basic questions to answer is: Who is a member at TDF. Is there meant the membership in the TDF or in the LibreOffice-Community? Well - we (the Steering Committee) do not have a detailed answer on this, as we think that the voice of our

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-19 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 19 ottobre 2010 alle ore 14:35:45, Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis el...@users.sourceforge.net ha scritto: If wee want a really customizable UI the best way is to go to something like Mocilla XULL adapted to LibO I know people who would kill because of XUL slowness in Moz UI. :) --

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
On 19 oct. 10, at 23:13, Cor Nouws wrote: Joining the global users lists, gives the largest public, so more knowledge / international exchange. I find that useful in some cases. That works only for people who understand English. So it is not global by definition. That is true, so a

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
2010/10/18 André Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net Hi, as you all know, we are working to make The Document Foundation an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation. This Foundation should be lead by it's members, based on their merit. One of the very basic questions to answer is:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Drew Jensen
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 18:25 +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: On 19 oct. 10, at 18:15, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote on 2010-10-19 02.22: the global discussion list should not be a mere discussion list but a policy list where only items of global

Re: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-19 Thread ian . lynch
true is that the user needs are the best inspiration for the innovation. So t reach the masses we need a user interface for mobile devices and web access but that has coding implications beyond just the UI. -- Ian -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-18 20:22, Jean-Christophe Helary a écrit : I would like to propose that unlike what existed under Sun and Oracle, the linguistic communities _including_ the English speaking community, are all identified by a specific language marker and that all the lists that do not use that

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
On 20 oct. 10, at 00:05, Marc Paré wrote: I was under the impression that we were all in agreement, that the lingua franca of the mailists is English and that localized mailists were to encourage users to contribute in their own language. I think that is a mistaken view of the issues at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread jonathon
On 10/19/2010 09:25 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: There is no need for a global user list and the global discussion list should not be a mere discussion list but a policy list Global lists should be multi-lingual. Use it for support or discussion, or marketing for languages or regions

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org Le Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:05:50 +0200, Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com a écrit : In data 19 ottobre 2010 alle ore 14:34:33, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org ha

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Il 19/10/2010 17.19, Charles-H. Schulz ha scritto: [...] So, if I understand you well, you do indeed raise a good question, but one which, to me, adds more gray zones. Let me rephrase how I understand your position: you are afraid that we're mixing the membership of the Foundation and the

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:42:00 -0500, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org a écrit : 2010/10/18 André Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net Hi, as you all know, we are working to make The Document Foundation an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation. This Foundation should be

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:39:29 +0200, Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com a écrit : Il 19/10/2010 17.19, Charles-H. Schulz ha scritto: [...] So, if I understand you well, you do indeed raise a good question, but one which, to me, adds more gray zones. Let me rephrase how I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Jon Hamkins
On 10/19/2010 12:52 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: Currently, to use Gmane you need to be subscribed to both it *and* the TDF lists which completely defeats the purpose of the Gmane interface. I agree, having to sign up in two places is inconvenient, and it shouldn't be that way, but it doesn't

Re: Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Ramon Sole ramon.s...@opscons.com wrote: Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: On 18/10/10 21:32, Ramon Sole wrote: Hello *, I'm not talking about Charles, but i.e in the Spanish Communitiy the Project Leader has closed the subscription to the OOo spanish

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Drew Jensen
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 17:53 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote: Hi all! Am Dienstag, den 19.10.2010, 11:29 +0200 schrieb Stefan Weigel: Very little response so far. My personal reason why I didn´t respond: 100% accordance. +1 (but I will continue to think about that...) ;-) +1 ;-)

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenSuSE and Libò

2010-10-19 Thread Carlo Strata
Il 15/10/2010 12:50, Petr Mladek ha scritto: Kohei Yoshida píše v St 13. 10. 2010 v 11:55 -0400: Sorry for the top-posting, but I wanted to preserve the context for Petr (CC'ed). Petr is the man you want to talk to with this sort of question. I'm sure he'll provide more details on this.

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] Meeting minutes at the wiki

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Daniel, Daniel Veillard wrote on 2010-10-19 11.43: Damn, I really had tried ... I probably failed to type this correctly thoughconfused/, sorry ! I see the link now in Contact, so really was may fault. no problem. I agree the website could use some improvement, and we're working on

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-19 Thread Jon Hamkins
On 10/19/2010 06:00 AM, James Wilde wrote: On Oct 19, 2010, at 13:50 , Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-10-18 6:27 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Even if the Reply=To were modified, wouldn't the inclusion of the OP on the messages fall apart as soon as somebody didn't use Reply All? The purpose of

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Charles Marcus wrote on 2010-10-19 14.37: Was it you that complained about this before? All you have to do is subscribe to the NOMAIL version of the list, this way you are a member and can post, but do not get emails from the list - so it does NOT defeat the purpose. But... yes,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Isa this the Hotel California? Can't Delist

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Charles Marcus wrote on 2010-10-19 14.45: Again, the problem is people are not REPLYING TO the confirmation email they get. This needs to be documented much more prominently. I look into providing a web interface soon. In the meantime, people simply need to read their mail ;) Florian

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Jon Hamkins wrote on 2010-10-19 18.43: Unless the reply should be addressed to someone other than the sender, the Reply-To shouldn't be set. Mailing list servers often add a Reply-To header, so that discussion is directed to the list. the reply-to header is set on purpose. When replying

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenSuSE and Libò

2010-10-19 Thread Petr Mladek
Carlo Strata píše v Út 19. 10. 2010 v 18:25 +0200: Il 15/10/2010 12:50, Petr Mladek ha scritto: You might find the first packages at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/LibreOffice:/Unstable/ I'm preparing my notebook to the Italian Linux Day (on October the 23th). On my OpenSuSE

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 19 October 2010 13:37, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2010-10-19 3:52 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: When will it be possible to send messages to the TDF mail lists via Gmane *without* having to be subscribed to the mail lists themselves? Currently, to use Gmane you need to

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-19 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/10/19 7:00 AM James Wilde wrote: At the moment I'm using Mac Mail, which pulls the sender's name if I press Reply, and everybody's name if I press Reply All. As far as I remember Outlook has the same characteristics. I can't remember what T-Bird did on Linux and I haven't used

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-19 Thread Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis
2010/10/19 Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com In data 19 ottobre 2010 alle ore 14:35:45, Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis el...@users.sourceforge.net ha scritto: If wee want a really customizable UI the best way is to go to something like Mocilla XULL adapted to LibO I know people

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 19.10.2010 20:10, schrieb Marc Paré: Hierarchy: We need to talk about Hirachy for sure but ... The Document Foundation is the umbrella group where all projects answer to it. Presently, under this umbrella, there is only 1 project: LibreOffice. There is however, the potential for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-19 11:17, Jean-Christophe Helary a écrit : On 20 oct. 10, at 00:05, Marc Paré wrote: I was under the impression that we were all in agreement, that the lingua franca of the mailists is English and that localized mailists were to encourage users to contribute in their own

Re: [tdf-discuss] RE: Localized marketing mailing lists - based on regions rather than on languages

2010-10-19 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote: • From: Bernhard Dippold • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:46:30 +0200 2) Name these lists according to the ISO country code of the most active group inside this region. It is unlikely that EN-CA

[tdf-discuss] Unsubscribe

2010-10-19 Thread donald_harbison
-- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-19 15:00, André Schnabel a écrit : Hi, Am 19.10.2010 20:10, schrieb Marc Paré: Hierarchy: We need to talk about Hirachy for sure but ... The Document Foundation is the umbrella group where all projects answer to it. Presently, under this umbrella, there is only 1 project:

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-19 15:09, Mike Dupont a écrit : 2010/10/19 André Schnabelandre.schna...@gmx.net: this just moves the problem from defining a TDF-member to the problem of Here is a sarcastic definition of member : A member of DF is someone who is not working for some big unenlightened company

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Harold, Harold Fuchs wrote on 2010-10-12 10.28: I just noticed that the TDF Donations web page at http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ gives bank account details for something called Openoffice.org Deutschland e.V. Does this mean the money goes to Oracle? no. Team

Re: [tdf-discuss] Isa this the Hotel California? Can't Delist

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-19 12:48 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: In the meantime, people simply need to read their mail ;) Heh... I guess that day will come around the same time that hell freezes over, pigs fly and monkeys come out of my butt... ;) -- Best regards, Charles -- E-mail to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/10/19 2:33 PM Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-10-19 2:43 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: if even the GMANE admins cannot tell me exactly how to make it work that their verified accounts can send to us without subscription, I honestly don't care a lot. I seem to recall once when I was

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-19 4:44 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: The following is from http://gmane.org/post.php: *Posting Messages* snip Here's how it works. 1. The first time you post something to a newsgroup, Gmane spools the message and sends you an email asking you to respond.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/10/19 2:51 PM Charles Marcus wrote: So... according to this, Harold and/or anyone else using gmane should already be able to post? Has anyone tested it? Only if you are subscribed to the mailing list as well. Gmane says posting is allowed but they only go through if you are also

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 10/18/2010 11:38 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 17:09 +1300, Paul A Norman wrote: Yep I've had two confirmtatoin that I have left the list and still the emails come rolling Does this constitute nuisnace email now? Paul Sure - you click on reply to the confirmation emails -

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Jon Hamkins
On 10/19/2010 10:55 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/10/19 10:06 AM Jon Hamkins wrote: On 10/19/2010 12:52 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: Currently, to use Gmane you need to be subscribed to both it *and* the TDF lists which completely defeats the purpose of the Gmane interface. I agree, having to

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-19 Thread Jon Hamkins
On 10/19/2010 09:51 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Jon Hamkins wrote on 2010-10-19 18.43: Unless the reply should be addressed to someone other than the sender, the Reply-To shouldn't be set. Mailing list servers often add a Reply-To header, so that discussion is directed to the list. the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
On 20 oct. 10, at 04:02, Marc Paré wrote: Hmmm... then, the fact remains that a multilingual mailist model will always be difficult to accomplish. The amount of energy spent on translating from one language to another would certainly affect the overall effectiveness of the group.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-19 20:53, Drew Jensen a écrit : On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 09:37 +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: Howdy Jean-Christophe, On 20 oct. 10, at 04:02, Marc Paré wrote: Hmmm... then, the fact remains that a multilingual mailist model will always be difficult to accomplish. The amount

RE: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-19 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi! Am Dienstag, den 19.10.2010, 19:35 +0800 schrieb Xi Embalsado: Basically, you NEED to change the UI itself. According to what I've watched in the Renaissance project of OpenOffice.org, they will try a UI that will look like the Ribbon but a more dynamic strip of UI above and below the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-19 20:58, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-19 20:53, Drew Jensen a écrit : On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 09:37 +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: Howdy Jean-Christophe, On 20 oct. 10, at 04:02, Marc Paré wrote: Hmmm... then, the fact remains that a multilingual mailist model will always

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/10/19 4:27 PM Jon Hamkins wrote: On 10/19/2010 10:55 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: Wrong. The purpose of gmane is to receive and write messages with a newsreader rather than an email client. Oh, please. 1. This purpose is *also* not defeated by having to be subscribed to the mailing

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-10-19 21:10, Marc Paré a écrit : Hmmm... then, the fact remains that a multilingual mailist model will always be difficult to accomplish. The amount of energy spent on translating from one language to another would certainly affect the overall effectiveness of the group. Satisfying

Re: [tdf-discuss] Multilingualism and discussions

2010-10-19 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-10-19 11:21, jonathon a écrit : On 10/19/2010 09:25 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: There is no need for a global user list and the global discussion list should not be a mere discussion list but a policy list Global lists should be multi-lingual. Use it for support or

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Marco, M. Fioretti wrote (20-10-10 05:46) [...] The real question was why didn't the TDF founders who have/had official roles in OOo publicly resign from those roles on Sept 28th, one second BEFORE announcing the birth of TDF? Would'nt it have been much more proper, considering that creating