[board-discuss] feedback needed for TDF annual report

2013-03-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, one of the legal requirements of running a foundation is to send in an annual report. In fact, it's two reports: One financial report, which mostly Thorsten takes care of (thanks so much!), and one activity report, which is mostly on my desk at the moment. We need to list all

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Keith, On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 16:16 -0800, Keith Curtis wrote: I see how LO is heading in this direction, but you could be explicit about it, create more workitems, There always plenty of work-items and opinions; the only shortage is of people to work on them. Working code speaks far

[tdf-discuss] feedback needed for TDF annual report

2013-03-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, one of the legal requirements of running a foundation is to send in an annual report. In fact, it's two reports: One financial report, which mostly Thorsten takes care of (thanks so much!), and one activity report, which is mostly on my desk at the moment. We need to list all

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
How could I infer? Because, as I stated, it was *specifically* inferred to other entities who subsequently asked me if I knew the real answer. As such, I specifically asked the 2 controlling bodies of the 2 projects. I rec'd a responses quickly from AOO, but none was coming from LO, and therefore

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Charles Jenkins
I'm with you on the UI design, Keith. The way software looks influences how people perceive its capability, and LO looks like something from the 90's. I like your design because it's attractive, yet leaves the menus in place for those users who can't get into using the ribbon. Now on the idea

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-11 Thread Simon Phipps
Since you answered a different question and continue to allege your question has not been answered, I will ask again: How could you infer *from any earlier answer* that triple-licensed contributions would be inherently refused as you allege? Like Andrew Pitonyak and Jonathon Blake I read exactly

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: Hi Keith, On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 16:16 -0800, Keith Curtis wrote: I see how LO is heading in this direction, but you could be explicit about it, create more workitems, There always plenty of work-items

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
exhaustively, yes, but not concretely. The exhaustive reply boils down to it depends, which is really no answer at all. Furthermore, it implies that the simply inclusion of the alv2 as part of the license suite *does* change the dynamic, since something provided under mpl-lgplv3 as not handed the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-11 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: exhaustively, yes, but not concretely. The exhaustive reply boils down to it depends, which is really no answer at all. Furthermore, it implies that the simply inclusion of the alv2 as part of the license suite *does*

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Keith Curtis
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Charles Jenkins cejw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with you on the UI design, Keith. The way software looks influences how people perceive its capability, and LO looks like something from the 90's. I like your design because it's attractive, yet leaves the menus in

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Jim, There's something quite wrong in this conversation. Some entity -a corporation or a government- has approached you and asked you questions on how to contribute to LibreOffice (by the way, please be so kind as using the term LibreOffice and not LO). As the Chairman of the Apache

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-11 Thread Jim Jagielski
As stated, they contacted me because they had been told that such licensing was not accepted to BOTH parties, not just one. This should have been clear from my 1st post. That is why I asked both parties. On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Jim, I do not know who made these assertions to this entity, however it is really important to understand that it was not the Document Foundation. We have never been in contact with such parties. Let me stress again that it is necessary for this entity to contact us directly. Thanks, Charles.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-11 Thread Charles Jenkins
I'm making some progress. Here's my code so far: == Public Sub OpenExcelFile(excelPath As String) Attempt1: on error goto Fail1 ' snip The Excel method that doesn't work ' under LO, and which I don't own copyright to exit sub Fail1: resume Attempt2

[tdf-discuss] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-03-11 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello, There is one week left to the deadline to apply for GSoC 2013 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Are there any plans to send an application for TDF and LibreOffice ? Immanuel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

Re: [tdf-discuss] Google Summer of Code 2013

2013-03-11 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Immanuel, On 11/03/2013 16:13, Immanuel Giulea wrote: Hello, There is one week left to the deadline to apply for GSoC 2013 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Are there any plans to send an application for TDF and LibreOffice ? Information can be found here

Re: [tdf-discuss] Macro Difficulties

2013-03-11 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Charles, *, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Charles Jenkins cejw...@gmail.com wrote: dim dummy() ' Empty array of parameters starDesktop = createUnoService(com.sun.star.frame.Desktop) url = ConvertToUrl( ExcelPath ) doc = starDesktop.loadComponentFromURL( url, _blank, 0,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Keller
While working on my wiki page about a new Writer toolbar, I realized that independently of my proposal, I believe it makes sense for LibreOffice to prefer Python. I see how LO is heading in this direction, but you could be explicit about it, create more workitems, perhaps track it like you do

Re: [tdf-discuss] Experimental UI for LibreOffice proposal

2013-03-11 Thread Wolfgang Keller
I'm working on a proposal for building an experimental new LibreOffice toolbar / UI in Python: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu Err, I would like to point out the fact that trying to emulate MS in any way is always a B-A-D idea. Especially, but not limited to GUI ergonomics,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Dual licensing of patches and code

2013-03-11 Thread Joel Madero
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Jim, I do not know who made these assertions to this entity, however it is really important to understand that it was not the Document Foundation. We have never been in contact with such parties.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Install path for LibreOffice under Windows

2013-03-11 Thread Andras Timar
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote: So my question is: is there any reason that LibreOffice under Windows does not install to \LibreOffice\? Not really. AFAIK it is just a legacy setting. Default install location can be changed either from installer UI, or by the