Dude, for a "tech sherpa with decades of experience" you don't seem to
understand how a email list works. You *are* subscribed - so your email
wasn't moderated. And moderation doesn't include deleting personal
information - it is just weeding out spam. Your whole email - toll-free fax
line and all - has been sent to tens of thousands of people - and is
searchable by all major search engines, from now until the Internet blows
up.
Also, a "tech sherpa with decades of experience" shouldn't really be using a
Word Processor to build websites, should he? I mean, ever heard of
Dreamweaver? How about Notepad? I mean, I'm no tech sherpa - advanced
user, but I don't need a word processor to do any heavy lifting for my
websites. I mean, Nvu is just as easy to use to put pics and columns in
place as OOo Writer - and its code is much cleaner. I'm sure as a
multi-decade sherpa of the tech set, you know what I mean.
Also, Mr. Guru, I'm sure you release what an "open source project" is. Just
in case you, er um, I mean someone else reading this thread, doesn't - I'll
post a link. http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php (I'm sure if you
somehow didn't know what open source is, you could have found it, via
Google, WikiPedia, Yahoo, MSN, Ask....... but again, there are tens of
thousands of people reading this, so I'll help them out.) As an open source
project, OpenOffice.org belongs to the community - well, to the world,
actually - and therefore, we all are the management/leadership. So your
personal information got to the right people - aka, the world. :) Also, as
an open source project, no "bona-fieds" are needed - or wanted. (Is
bona-fied a noun? I thought it was an adjective.) And while we are all
surely impressed with your creditential - it doesn't really matter. It's
volunteer work. You don't get paid, therefore you don't get hired,
therefore we don't care about your resume - or, sorry - your "bona-fieds".
If you have something to contribute that doesn't interfere with your
obviously hectic, fulfilling, complex, and busy lifestyle - please feel
free. Otherwise, please don't complain when your personal information is
broadcast to the universe when you put it on a public list.
I'm not sure how much help you will be in coding, however, since you have
problems using a WYSIWYG HTML editor to build a website, and for some reason
have to rely on a Word Processor that is in no way designed to do that.
Maybe HTML is too simple of a language for a tech sherpa with experience
spanning 3 decades, 2 centuries, and 2 millienia to bother with. I don't
know.
But, hey, best of luck in getting Nvu, another open source, volunteer based,
no money to earn there, project to hire you. I'm sure they will be tickled
to death to have a 40 plus year old self-professed expert who can't even use
their software help them get their little project up to at least the level
of a word processor.
Thanks again for applying. We'll be in touch.
-The Mgmt
On 7/22/06, J. Peltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ref: Nvu v 1.0 and OpenOffice.org (OOo) v 2.0
NOTE
====
PLEASE DO NOT POST PUBLICLY without editing
out personal information (beyond Who I am" line).
This background info is only to establish bona-fides
for Nvu & OOo management/leadership purposes. This
is my first contribution.
I should be glad to correspond further, this
subject toward establishing a working relationship.
But my focus remains on using the tools while
participating passively ("lurking") as needed for
the most part.
I am relying on the truth of the OOo website
statement that "... if you are not already subscribed,
your message will be moderated." For now, I should
desire to keep as low a public profile as possible.
I have plenty of other things to keep me very busy
without having to be in the center of activities. I
can jump in when I believe I have something to
valuable enough contribute.
- - - - begin comment for public posting - - - -
Comment on Nvu & OOo interoperability
=====================================
Due to Nvu's apparent limited content editing
abilities, I've found it necessary to use OOo for the
heavy lifting to get the look & feel of the pages I'm
trying to produce. I find it not too difficult to
go back and forth between OOo & Nvu, always
publishing to .html format. So far I haven't discovered
any real incompatibilities.
I'd like to see greater interoperability between
the two applications, perhaps to the point where
Nvu can essentially become an integrated web publishing
component or plug-in for OOo. The wider vision potential
of what I envision should beat any MS Office - FrontPage -
Publisher combination.
The above comment is from initial efforts at
using Nvu (i.e. a new user, not entirely familiar with
all its capabilities -- learning via the "school of
hard knox" a.k.a. "hacking" my way to knowledge/learning.)
After exploring Nvu a bit for it's stability and
usability, I have just begun to use it for some real
work -- in this case to produce documentation for a
non-commercial CD for small distribution.
- - - - end public comment - - - -
- - - - - Who I am - - - -
===========================
For several decades now, I have acted as an
advanced user ("sherpa") wringing out the best of new
technology while trying to do real work and providing
feedback to developers. My real focus is to try to
get real work done while secondarily trying to
contribute toward advancing the state of art with the
goal of making my own job easier.
I understand enough of IT to generally know
what is possible and could actually develop some code
myself, should the need be strong enough to go thru
the effort & detailed learning required to do a
good job at it. (Going back to the early 1980's I
found myself in the position of having to do so.) Along
the way, my learning efforts included attending classes
at Berlin Technical University studying Informatik as
well as self-study and taking other university level
courses in programming and technical engineering (i.e.
software, hardware, and systems).
I authored the article: "HumanML: The Vision"
published by Thompson SourceMedia in their DM Direct
Newsletter, July 29, 2005 Issue; available on line
at URL:
http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleID=1033534
and in their dataWarehouse.com Newsletter, available on
line at URL:
http://www.datawarehouse.com/article/?articleId=5561
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tel: 410.903.0401 (mobile, voxmail)
fax: 888.824.7594
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