Hi :) >From the few chats i have had with exclusively Apache people i think they are >quite happy for people to be in both communities. I think the licensing of >your work is different but that's about it. Apparently Oracle got a bit >stuffy about higher ranking people in 'their' community working here too but I >think Apache are a lot more sensible. 'Our' licensing is CC by SA so that >people can modify it and distribute it as widely as they like. Regards from Tom :)
--- On Thu, 3/11/11, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Noise Re: About fdo#40162 - > Missing section in README_en-US installation instructions > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, 3 November, 2011, 18:30 > On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 10:56 +0100, > Alexander Thurgood wrote: > > Le 27/10/11 15:09, julien2412 a écrit : > > > > Hi Julien, > > > > > > > Second point : do you know if there's a doc in > progress about Base for > > > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ ? > > > > There is/was a Getting Started with Base Guide in > English that I started > > translating into French. I am about halfway through > that translation, > > but stalled it when I encountered various problems > with Base at the > > time, i.e. before people like you, Lionel and Terry > started working on > > the Base bugs ;-) > > > > I guess now would be a good time to take that up > again, if I can > > physically find the time to do so. > > > > I know the German user mailing list is busy with > preparing a German > > translation of the English Base user guide, but they > have had to > > adapt/change quite a few bits because of the problems > they encountered > > when using Base and when following the initial English > getting started > > guide. I believe that Robert Grosskopf (regular Base > user, bug reporter > > - at least on the German mailing lists) is heading up > that translation > > effort, the aim, I think, is to post it to ODFAuthors > once it is > > finished. AFAIK, the database example that they will > provide with their > > Guide is completely different to the one proposed in > the current English > > guide. > > > > Alex > > There is a link to Getting Started > with Base for LibreOffice on the > page you mentioned. It is based on the the Getting Started > with Base > written for OOo written by yours truly with the help of a > few others > that were greatly appreciated. > I would like to see some people > working on a Base Guide for > LibreOffice. I would even like to collaborate with anyone > willing to do > this (if I'm allowed to do this since I am presently > working on a Base > Guide for Apache Open Office). Base is not as hard to learn > as most > people think. It does help to have a background in algebra > for formulas > used in a query. What would be great for someone who knows > something > about the algebra of sets. This only has to be something > fairly > elementary (e.g.: intersections, unions, cross products). > > Dan > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived > and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
