[steering-discuss] SPI BOD meeting 8th June

2011-06-07 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi all, For information the Board of Directors of Software in the Public Interest will hold a public board of directors meeting this Wednesday 8th June 2011 at 20:30 UTC. As the liaison for TDF, I'll attend the meeting. Kind regards Sophie -- Founding member of The Document Foundation --

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, FYI: We asked the Membership Committee to follow-up with some information on membership status and elections soon, so stay tuned. :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 |

Re: [steering-discuss] Request for official statement about dedicated logos for community groups

2011-06-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Bernhard, Bernhard Dippold wrote on 2011-05-16 23.31: Therefore I'd like to propose my position as starting point for a SC discussion, leading to a decision we can base our work on and upload to the wiki for future reference. currently working on some older mails... has this already been

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 18:44, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, FYI: We asked the Membership Committee to follow-up with some information on membership status and elections soon, so stay

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-07 Thread David Nelson
Hi, I remember that, some time ago, Michael Meeks suggested OpenSTV as a tool (http://www.openstv.org/). -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: QA manual test Litmus session on 3.3.3Rc

2011-06-07 Thread sophie
Hi Plino, On 07/06/2011 02:51, plino wrote: [...] It would help if every time a user asks for a bug fix or a new feature, someone didn't say excellent, why don't you fix it / add it yourself? If LO has hundreds of developers then maybe there is no need for everybody to learn how to code and fix

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...? [WAS Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?]

2011-06-07 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2011/6/6 Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com: On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Volker Merschmann wrote: 2011/6/6 Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com: Until the TDF has taken that last step, expect to be

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Gary, NoOp wrote (07-06-11 03:05) 2. @TDF: More importantly (from my POV) - what, if any, affect will this have on TDF/LO if OOo 'dies in Apache'? It has become clear to me the last week or so, that there is a close to fundamental difference in the approach by IBM. This has been

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...? [WAS Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?]

2011-06-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Robert Burrell Donkin wrote (07-06-11 09:00) The TDF certainly seems confident. People (and corporations) are often reluctant to accept claims from campaigning organisations without public evidence. Hopefully, we might be able to work together to establish clearly and in public where the TDF is

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...? [WAS Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?]

2011-06-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Jim Jagielski wrote on 2011-06-06 22.13: Good to see the list... Not knowing things for sure, but I would guess that Oracle had issues with #3, which gave away (what I would expect to be) huge chunks of h/w infrastructure, esp to

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...?

2011-06-07 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 6/7/11 1:50 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Thx for the clarification... BTW, it also mentions integration with Oracle ERP and CRM stacks Did you really want (and expect) direct access to such incredibly sensitive and important parts of Oracle's business structure? How does that help the

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...?

2011-06-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 7, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote: I do not think that going over our letter to Oracle with the intent of finding areas where it could have been improved does any good to the exhisting and future relationships. I agree... My going over it was simply to indicate areas which

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...?

2011-06-07 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 6/7/11 3:21 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: I agree... My going over it was simply to indicate areas which I *think* (again, I have no idea, nor do a *want* to know) may have been reasons Oracle declined, since that seems a point that people are extremely curious about. Provided that they

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...? [WAS Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?]

2011-06-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote on 2011-06-07 09.00: (I'll try to avoid asking too many questions at once) Feel free, I try to reply to all of them, if they haven't been replied in the meantime by someone else. Hard time following all mail threads. :-) 1. What would constrain this legal

Re: [tdf-discuss] Simple solution to avoid #VALUE required

2011-06-07 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Regina Henschel schrieb: I have just a look in the spec. Thank you for information, good to know! Workaround exist some: Currently I use aSUM()-Workaround, but the problem is that some of the Workarounds might be fixed away in future?! (1) Write 0, and format the cell to not show the

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...?

2011-06-07 Thread Robert Derman
Italo Vignoli wrote: On 6/7/11 3:21 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: I agree... My going over it was simply to indicate areas which I *think* (again, I have no idea, nor do a *want* to know) may have been reasons Oracle declined, since that seems a point that people are extremely curious about.

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-07 Thread NoOp
On 06/07/2011 01:01 AM, Cor Nouws wrote: ... Apologies if this may have already been asked answered. If so, can someone point me to the appropriate messages within the hundreds of posts many, many threads on the ASF incubator list, or on this list? Well, as much letters I spend on the

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-07 Thread NoOp
Repeat. On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, NoOp wrote: On 06/04/2011 05:10 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: ... Whether OOo lives or dies in Apache, Oracle has made it abundantly clear that this is it... This is one promise I fully expect Oracle will keep :/ Interesting... Could you clarify that

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 21:05, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 06/04/2011 05:10 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: ... Whether OOo lives or dies in Apache, Oracle has made it abundantly clear that this is it... This is one promise I fully expect Oracle will keep :/ Interesting... Could you

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-07 Thread NoOp
On 06/07/2011 05:26 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 21:05, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 06/04/2011 05:10 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: ... Whether OOo lives or dies in Apache, Oracle has made it abundantly clear that this is it... This is one promise I fully expect Oracle will