Hi, Florian, Claire,
On 3/3/2010 04:59, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi Claire,
Claire Wood wrote on 2010-03-02 14.17:
Maybe Florian could look at that and give us feedback, as he is probably
a more frequent user of Base than me. I do think that some things for
Base and Calc which are written with novices/intermediate users,
actually expect the user to have had previous experience with similar
applications, which might not be the case.
oh, I'm sorry - I don't use Base at all, and the request came from a
third party. I just forwarded it to this list, because I thought it
might fit, and I pointed the sender to the archives and invited him to
subscribe to d...@doc :-)
On a slightly lighter note, which you might find hillarious - I
certainly did and I'm sure anyone else in the UK would find it equally
funny. They wanted me to get a form signed by OOo to say that I was a
volunteer. (You have to declare that you're working voluntarily and not
getting paid so that it doesn't affect your benefits while you're
searching for work.) I had to explain that it couldn't be done because
the person that would need to sign it was probably on the other side of
the world! It served to show that systems in this country need to be
dragged into the 21st century and account for people using the internet.
Hm, are they fine with an e-mail or a fax? I don't know you very well,
so I can't write anything, but if someone asks me for a reference, and I
know him from my work within OOo, I'm happy to write a few lines.
However, of course, no official organization stands behind that, so I
don't know if they would accept it.
Florian
This sounds like something the Council might want to handle, with a
boilerplate letter, (assuming I have the facts straight) something like:
Subject: Unpaid volunteers
OO.o employs and pays no one. The few people who do get paid for their
work here are employed by sponsoring companies, such as Oracle; those
companies generously donate their employees' time to OO.o. All others
are purely unpaid volunteers.
(This to go out over the chairman's signature, as email or fax.)
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