ReHi Tom and Danishka:
(Tom: Please see personal message below).
For all:
Being a long time techie who first got his nose into technology about
half a century back, I love the open source approach. I think it is more
socially fair to all, and that I see as globally essential.
When Oracle bought out Sun Microsystems, many of us knew that Open
office would slowly become "less open", and it seems to me that a number
of Oo users, (I remember one German engineer amongst others) wisely
decided we needed a suite that was totally and irrevocably dedicated to
being non-profit and open source.
At the time, I was able to use this on my Windows XP based platforms,
but not on the Fedora ones.
Since then, I have upgraded the hard drive on the laptop I rebuilt when
someone had walked on it and broken the screen. Instead of the original
160 Gb. hard drive, it now uses a Seagate Momentus 500 Gb. Hybrid
SSD/conventional Hard drive. I Find that Seagate's interface technology
for dynamically optimizing the use of the 2 storage areas and rendering
the whole to the system as one hard drive works very well in Fedora.
Fedora 13 loaded a fresh install like wildfire.
Shortly thereafter, I got an automatic upgrade that ended up installing
Fedora 15, i386 on the machine, and that runs as well as any, although I
found I needed to add Docker to it for legibility of the preferred icons.
Fedora 15 came with LibreOffice - hooray!
I imagine when I upgrade the other Linux installation to F15 x-86_64, it
will also come with Libre Office.
That machine dual boots Win XP and Linux and can handle a third platform
if needed, all BIOS controlled. It has 4 physical SATA hard drives. One,
a 160 Gb. is currently failing, and in a week or so will be replaced
with an SSD.
The purpose of this is for the swap files, so it is partitioned with 3
primary partitions, one a Linux Swap partition of about 12 Gb. (Lots of
space here), and an extended partition.
The 2 other primary partitions are used to divert the Windows
pagefile.sys (read swap file) so that Windows does not have to wait for
the boot drive to seek in order to swap.
This, like Seagate's Momentus drives, should speed up the system for all
the platforms considerably.
The third primary partition,. and the remaining space, can be used for
swap files associated with specific applications, especially those which
are processor intensive, such as Photoshop, Gimp, VideoLan, Cinelerra, etc.
I have yet to investigate whether Libre Office can use this kind of
dedicated swap space or not, especially as I use Libre Office Draw
extensively, and some of the drawings are quite data-large.
Hopefully this little message will generate some added excitement for
readers about what one can do on a fairly frugal budget when one wants
to enough.
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_*Tom:*_
Knowing you are in the U.K., and myself living in Greater Montreal,
Canada, I get a chuckle at your comment of "English or American".
We all know that for any language that is spoken in multiple countries
(What better example than English?), the computing world has to treat
each dialect as a completely separate language.
Personally I speak Canadian English first, Multinational French second,
and some Spanish third, and have given speeches in all 3, although much
more limited in Spanish.
In Montreal, there is no majority. One can reasonably expect there to be
80 languages in a day. This being such a tower of Babel, I don't have to
spend money getting on an airplane, the whole world is on my doorstep!
to me this is great, Je les apprivoiserai tous!
The same in the U.S. there are about 10 Americans for every Canadian,
and there's lots of variety.
Personally, I expect to treat each person anywhere for what they are and
for what their culture has made them, and have fun doing so! so in the
U.S. I absorb as much of the <<langage>> or manners of speaking as I
can, and can make others happy because I do.
I also can use snippets from non-English languages with a unilingual
English audience, expecting them only to get a clue from the sound of it
("vocal variety" as Toastmasters would call it.)
"Blimey!" (smile and chuckle!
On 6/26/2011 06:35, Danishka Navin wrote:
Hi Tom,
I got your point and feel free to update the Documentation Team as well.
Best Regards,
Danishka
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tom Davies<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi :)
This is being discussed by the steering committee but i thought the
Documentation Team might be interested too. I think there are political
reasons
making it far better to distribute Documentation in English or American or
something so that's not really something we can usefully discuss. I just
think
it's great to hear of widespread large-scale adoption of LibreOffice.
Regards from
Tom :)
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Danishka Navin<[email protected]>
To: Tom Davies<[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, 26 June, 2011 3:40:20
Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Distributing the book "Getting Started
with
LibreOffice 3.3"
Hi,
I am not going to localize it as Sri Lanka use two languages (Sinhala and
Tamil)
and we have lack of human resources to manage it.
Lets try to print the book and distribute.
I did not talk with the documentation team directly.
Best Regards,
Danishka
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Tom Davies<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi :)
Did you manage to discuss this on the Documentation Mailing List? Right
now
they are about to set-up a space for French translators to do translation
work
in the very modern looking Alfresco workspace rather than using the more
traditional translation tools. So, it's a good time to join the
documentation
mailing list. Is the language Togalog? I think that's one language that
LibreOffice is missing at the moment& not just in documentation.
Regards from
Tom :)
________________________________
From: Charles-H. Schulz<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sat, 25 June, 2011 15:56:22
Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Distributing the book "Getting Started
with
LibreOffice 3.3"
Danishka,
We are studying your request and you will get an answer by Wednesday.
Apologies for the delay.
Best,
Charles.
Le Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:24:10 +0530,
Danishka Navin<[email protected]> a écrit :
Hi,
I am looking for distributing the book "Getting Started with
LibreOffice 3.3" among local schools
as a LibreOffice promotion activity in Sri Lanka. And its for* free
of charge*.
At the moment I am thinking about the way I could increase the
knowledge/support about LibreOffice within my community.
There is a high possibility if the Document Foundation and LibreOffice
Documentation Team allow
us to print this book locally and and redistribute for free of charge
among the schools and relevant places like public libraries.
As you may know Sri Lanka is a* developing country*. So, the cost of
this book is not affordable to many people.
What I am planning is to write to the "President's Task Force for the
English and ICT" and relevant organizations like Ministry of
Education, ICT Agency of Sri Lanka, and National Institute of
Education, etc by requesting arranging necessary for local printing
and distribution of more this book.
They could find funds from the local or international sponsors.
I would like to here a positive response from TDF and documentation
team before I write to above mention organizations.
I hope we could print and distribute more than 10,000 copies of this
book.
[1]
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/getting-started-with-libreoffice-33/14703788
8
Note: If all parties agreed to this proposal the selected material
will be the latest version of the "Getting Started with LibreOffice"
Because Getting Started with LibreOffice 4.x might be released when I
ended up with solving each issue.
I need a written permission before I write the local organizations.
Best Regards,
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