It's really encouraging and warm to see many people active here...also allows me a chance to introduce myself.
I joined Symphony development in 2002. My experience includes the development on SmartSuite filters which was contributed to OOo by my colleague, ODF, PDF, XForms and some miscellaneous aspects. I had my contribution to ODF/Open Formula spec. I then moved to team management by leading dev team. I'm also familar with the feature comparison of office products, so I can also help on planning, prioritization, communication, documentation if time allows. Helen 2012/3/13 Yong Lin Ma <mayo...@gmail.com> > Although most people introduced themselves before. It is still good > and meaningful to see people gathered and say hello to each other in > single thread. This also can give us an impression that how many > contributors are active after 9 months. > > > > > On 2012-03-12 5:49 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Mar 12, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Pedro Giffuni<p...@apache.org> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On 03/12/12 14:48, Rob Weir wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Pedro Giffuni<p...@apache.org> > wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On 03/12/12 13:42, Rob Weir wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I'm not suggesting we argue with anyone. I'm suggesting we make > >>>>>>> truthful positive statements about this project and the experience > >>>>>>> level of its participants. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> FWIW, and just my humble opinion ... > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I don't think we should spend time discussing such arguments > >>>>>> when we have the one instrument that defines the true > >>>>>> continuation of the project, namely www.openoffice.org . > >>>>>> > >>>>> Oh, I'm sure we all have our own preferred ways of doing this. The > >>>>> nice thing is that they are not mutually exclusive. We only need to > >>>>> agree to be accurate and positive. We don't need to agree on a > >>>>> narrow set of specific communications. Some volunteers might work > >>>>> better with HTML, others with YouTube videos, others with graphics. > >>>>> Let's find more ways of saying "yes and" instead of "no, but". > >>>>> > >>>>> -Rob > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> You didn't get it: the channel matters. > >>>> > >>>> If a blog from the Apache Foundation says "OpenOffice is not > >>>> dead" and a blog from TDF says "OpenOffice.org is dead", > >>>> well ... both can be wrong or right ... > >>>> > >>>> OTOH, If the openoffice.org says "alive and kicking" the > >>>> message is way more credible. > >>>> > >>> > >>> So that is a "yes, and" statement. Yes, let's do the home page, and > >>> the other things as well, if we have volunteers to do them. They work > >>> together. Certainly the home page gets a lot of traffic, so it can > >>> reinforce a message. > >>> > >>>> This said ... I don't feel confident enough to modify the > >>>> main page: if I, for example, screw things up badly and > >>>> want to revert my changes, can I do that easily in > >>>> Apache CMS? > >>>> > >>> > >>> It may depend on whether you want to change only the main index.html > >>> page, or change the repeated page elements that appear on every page. > >>> Dave would know how far you can go without forcing a complete rebuild. > >> > >> > >> We now use Server Side Includes and there are no longer any sledgehammer > >> builds. > >> > >> I have a notion to make it easy to add news to the main page. The > buttons > >> are a current issue on the main page and the downloads. > >> > >> It is safe to change/update news stories using the Apache CMS > Bookmarklet > >> directly from www.openoffice.org. If you are not a committer then you > can > >> create a patch. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Dave > >> > >> > >>> > >>> -Rob > >>> > >>>> cheers, > >>>> > >>>> Pedro. > >> > >> > > >
