Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice Conference 2013 Proposals

2012-12-20 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, As a follow-up to Fabian's message, you can contact me as well. I am the project team lead for the Montreal host application, and I'll be able to answer your questions. You can reach me by email at : giulea.immanuel (a) gmail.com Immanuel Giulea On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 3:08 PM

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice Conference 2013 Proposals

2012-12-23 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Good morning Cor, On behalf of the Montreal host team, I have read your questions, and have passed them along for internal discussion, and will post the response on the mailing list. Cheers from Montreal, Immanuel Giulea On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote

[tdf-discuss] Libre Office listed in petition to promote the use of free software in our schools

2012-12-28 Thread Immanuel Giulea
posts from TDF core team on twitter and Facebook will help this initiative. Just a thought. Cheers from Montreal, Canada Immanuel Giulea -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe

[tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

2012-12-29 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, Microsoft put out a three-page document that hits on some of the weaknesses of LO (and bundles LO with OOo): http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/0/D/D0DA0C4B-22DE-40C7-A84D-0C7E03347A9C/Considering-LibreOffice-and-OO-v2.pdf Is there some materials that can explain the strong

Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

2012-12-29 Thread Immanuel Giulea
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Immanuel Giulea giulea.imman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Microsoft put out a three-page document that hits on some of the weaknesses of LO (and bundles LO with OOo): http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/0/D/D0DA0C4B-22DE-40C7-A84D-0C7E03347A9C

Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

2012-12-30 Thread Immanuel Giulea
The documentation linked below is from version 6.1 and included integration with OpenOffice only. We are assuming that LibreOffice would handle it the same. OpenERP released version 7 not long ago, and it would be better to confirm integration, and for them to update their docs. So far, I couldn't

Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

2012-12-30 Thread Immanuel Giulea
-_Microsoft_Office Should the Feature Comparison be moved to marketing or if left alone, referred to from the marketing materials? On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Immanuel Giulea giulea.imman...@gmail.com wrote: The documentation linked below is from version 6.1 and included integration

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

2012-12-30 Thread Immanuel Giulea
initiative and input for this! Immanuel Giulea wrote (29-12-12 22:04) What are the plans on CIMS for LO 4.0 ? https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/**ReleaseNotes/4.0#Corehttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Core I've some documentation from some years back. Will try next weeks

[tdf-discuss] LO4 and CMIS integration

2012-12-31 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Thanks for the link Dennis, great start. I digged further into it and found that CMIS v1.1 was recently released (0). I also found that there was a presentation about LO/CMIS during LibOCon2012 (1)(2) And there's a good explanation with screenshots for integration with Alfresco (3) So far, what

[tdf-discuss] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2012-12-31 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, In the marketing materials that I am writing covering LO vs AOO, I was wondering if it would be relevant to go into an explanation about why the GPL/LGPL licence used by LO was superior to the ASL as a true open source. I found this great document that explains the three most common

[tdf-discuss] Targeting LO4 at MSO 2003 users

2012-12-31 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, With only six weeks before the release, I was wondering if there was a marketing plan/strategy in place (or to be discussed at the Jan. marketing call) for targeting current MSO 2003 users with WinXP and Vista. Cheers, Immanuel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and OpenERP

2012-12-31 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, I got in touch with Fabrice Henrion (Director of Business Development Americas at OpenERP) via LinkedIn, and here was his response to two points the mailing list raised previously 1- Intentions to have an integration with LibreOffice? We don't intend to work on a LibreOffice

RE: [tdf-discuss] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2012-12-31 Thread Immanuel Giulea
I understand that differences between licences are technical and seem trivial to end-users. So if not the licences, how is LO different from AOO? In terms that end-users can understand. Immanuel On Dec 31, 2012 8:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: That is completely

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO vs AOO : GPL/LGPL vs ASL licences

2013-01-02 Thread Immanuel Giulea
into a closed source application, even if the user saw fit to do it. But in general the essence is correct. Better or worse is a matter of opinion. On 2013-01-01 1:17 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 12/31/2012 02:40 PM, Immanuel Giulea wrote: In the marketing materials

[tdf-discuss] IBM donates code for Lotus Symphony to Apache

2013-01-21 Thread Immanuel Giulea
I know talking about Apache is not one of our main priorities. But I still wanted to share the news about Lotus Symphony and OpenOffice merging back after their fork. https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/merging_lotus_symphony_allegro_moderato What real impact, if any, will this have on

[tdf-discuss] Check for updates still shows 3.6.5 in LibreOffice (3.6.1.2)

2013-02-07 Thread Immanuel Giulea
I currently have 3.6.1.2 installed and when I clicked on Check for updates it only shows me 3.6.5 Is this normal ?? Immanuel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [board-discuss] Re: [ANN] LibreOffice 2013 conference poll final result

2013-02-11 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Klaibson Ribeiro klaib...@gmail.comwrote: LibreOffice Conference may occur in continent different, for example: 2014: North American or Central American. 2015: Asian or Oceania 2016: South American 2017: Africa. 2018: Europe. My suggestion

[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?

[tdf-discuss] End of Life support for MSO 2003 countdown ?

2013-04-18 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, What are your thoughts about having a countdown towards April 8 2014 when MS will stop supporting MSO 2003? AOO has a blog dedicated to this: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/one_year_until_the_end Should LibreOffice do the same? Offer this deadline as an additional incentive to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: End of Life support for MSO 2003 countdown ?

2013-04-22 Thread Immanuel Giulea
I remember seeing a discussion about the White Paper, and I hope that translations to other languages will be done. That will help a lot. Here in Canada, the Quebec government is about to spend 1.4 billion $ to upgrade 500,000 desktops from MSO 2003 to MSO 2013. This is only the provincial

[tdf-discuss] Membership Application Process

2013-06-13 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, I hope this is the correct mailing list to ask a question about the application process to become a member of TDF. I have joined the mailing lists in December 2012 when I started the organizing committee for the Montreal application to the LOCon 2013. From what I read on the wiki (1)

Re: [tdf-discuss] Membership Application Process

2013-06-13 Thread Immanuel Giulea
I plan to submit a bug report very soon. Are these valid contributions? Best, Joel Cheers! Immanuel On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Immanuel Giulea giulea.imman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I hope this is the correct mailing list to ask a question about the application

[tdf-discuss] Hackfest kit ?

2013-06-17 Thread Immanuel Giulea
Hello all, I am planning a hackfest/hackathon in Montreal, Canada and I was wondering what resources were available to prepare such an event? From among all those who have organized/been to such an event, what is your feedback/input? Cheers from Montreal! Immanuel -- To unsubscribe e-mail

[tdf-discuss] AMD joins LibreOffice, adds GPU grunt to free software suite

2013-07-03 Thread Immanuel Giulea
This is a big one! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/03/amd_joins_libreoffice_hsa/ Well done to TDF, and thanks for continuing to make LibreOffice just awesome !! Cheers from Montreal! Immanuel p.s. on unrelated news: we have now hundreds of PCs with LibreOffice in Montreal. -- To

[tdf-discuss] Fwd: [CivicAccess-discuss] French Gendarmerie: Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%

2013-10-01 Thread Immanuel Giulea
PVI | FYI Curation by/par Immanuel Giulea -- Forwarded message -- From: Glen Newton glen.new...@gmail.com Date: 2013-10-01 12:22 PM Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] French Gendarmerie: Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40% To: GOSLING members in Ottawa ottawa-gosl