Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice general ideas and suggestions
Hi Nancy, Am 30.09.2010 um 05:29 schrieb Nancy Ward: 2. The discuss@documentfoundation.org NEEDS to at least offer the option to allow users to receive one or two all messages combined Email (usually called Digest option) instead of so many separate Emails being received by all of us. How and where would this be accomplished at the discuss@documentfoundation.org website ? see here http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/ : == Discussions: To discuss our ideas, goals and visions, feel free to join our discussion mailing list by sending an empty e-mail to discuss+subscr...@documentfoundation.org. For receiving a digest of the mail archive, subscribe yourself at discuss+subscribe-dig...@documentfoundation.org. To unsubscribe yourself again, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org. == Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee Member at The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 Fax: +49 8341 99660889 Mobile: +49 151 14424108 Skype: floeff | Twitter/Identi.ca: @floeff smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOfficeForum.org is now functioning
thank you Sam Sam schrieb: Hello Document Foundation / LibreOffice, I would like to offer to the LibreOffice community a support forum that I have just created on a reliable host: http://libreofficeforum.org It is my hope that LibreOfficeForum.org will serve as a central point for English language support. I am also fluent in the Spanish language, and if necessary I could create a similar forum for that language if you would like. I have been administering community forums with Drupal for quite a few years now, and I feel confident that with the help of some additional honest, polite moderators, we could maintain a high level of organization on LibreOfficeForum.org. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks again for your time and efforts. Sincerely, Sam Same question as I posted in the forum: can we support other languages also in that forum? I thought about having http://libreofficeforum.org/de/ for german e.g. or /es/ for spanish. so anyone can search his problem in all languages he can understand and doesn't have to remember that the english forum has the name x, the german y and the spanish z or so. could anyone see what I mean? Best regards Karl-Heinz -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOfficeForum.org is now functioning
Why making several forums? Make 1 Forum, 1 Maincategorie for language. So people like me, who speaks french, german, english, nederlands, can use the same forum and don't have to register 4 different accounts! 2010/9/30 Karl-Heinz Gödderz de...@gukk-online.de thank you Sam Sam schrieb: Hello Document Foundation / LibreOffice, I would like to offer to the LibreOffice community a support forum that I have just created on a reliable host: http://libreofficeforum.org It is my hope that LibreOfficeForum.org will serve as a central point for English language support. I am also fluent in the Spanish language, and if necessary I could create a similar forum for that language if you would like. I have been administering community forums with Drupal for quite a few years now, and I feel confident that with the help of some additional honest, polite moderators, we could maintain a high level of organization on LibreOfficeForum.org. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks again for your time and efforts. Sincerely, Sam Same question as I posted in the forum: can we support other languages also in that forum? I thought about having http://libreofficeforum.org/de/ for german e.g. or /es/ for spanish. so anyone can search his problem in all languages he can understand and doesn't have to remember that the english forum has the name x, the german y and the spanish z or so. could anyone see what I mean? Best regards Karl-Heinz -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.orgdiscuss%2bunsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Correct Forum for Build Questions
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com wrote: this was in the Document Foundation IRC. Can some one add information on dependencies in 'How to Build' doc if deps are required. Cypher3c hi, I am trying to build LibreOffice on windows with MinGW, and I was wondering what the dependencies are Cypher3c i tried ./autogen.sh --with-distro=Win32, but it complained when trying to make symbolic links from .git/hooks/commit-msg to ../../commit-msg.g Cypher3c I am building on Windows 7 x64 I saw this after he left the channel -- Danishka Navin http://danishkanavin.blogspot.com Um, Hi, remember me? I'm the OP. I'm all for discussion on development issues, but could you please not hijack the thread? I'd like to see if there is someone who can answer my question. I've Googled the error number and it doesn't seem to come up with anything relevant. I'm not sure what make means by rebuild the modules since I have the latest RPMs available for Fedora 13. Should I take this question to IRC? Thanks. George -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOfficeForum.org is now functioning
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 13:38 +0200, Karl-Heinz Gödderz wrote: Mike Houben schrieb: Why making several forums? Make 1 Forum, 1 Maincategorie for language. So people like me, who speaks french, german, english, nederlands, can use the same forum and don't have to register 4 different accounts! Thank you Mike. This is the point. I wanted to ask, if this is possible. Hello Folks, First time here, so let me introduce myself. My name is Drew, and I have been hanging out with the OO.o community for a little while. If I may wanted to jump in here with. One quick point - web forums with multiple languages requiring multiple user accounts. Currently on the OpenOffice.org web forums that is a problem, but not one that is a technical problem as much as historic. Many of the forums run on different hosts, managed by different teams, launched from within different NLC groups. In the case of the 10 forums found at user.services.oo.o they should of had a common user database and shared user accounts - and would of if the original site admin had not decided to put that off till needed - he was a fool. Anyway - to make a long story short - in the end it was decided not to put in the work to 'clean up' the user accounts into a common database mostly because there was always talk of having a consolidated login for all systems within OO.o, not just the forums - that just never quite seemed to materialize. *Another subject for discussion here perhaps, cause it is a lot easier IMO to do this if it starts now, rather then try to bolt it on later - personally I was, and am, in favor of using OpenID as the mechanism for this..but there are other solutions for sure. OK - so about forums in general. Load - currently the user.services forum on a busy day handles about 80,000 unique visitors. oooForum.org, an English only forum, has about 75,000 unique visitors on a busy day. The busiest days are always just after a new release, major releases see the largest spikes in traffic, minor releases much smaller spikes, but they do spike. I have no, reliable, data on the other forums, German, Norsk, etc. alright - well this is getting rather long. Just wanted to pass this along - The user.services forum, and oooFourm.org are 100% volunteer run - the user.services site is hosted on a server in the machine room in Hamburg DE, at the OpenOffice.org facility, under an agreement between the forum volunteers group (this is our governing body) and Sun Microsystems - Under that agreement it was understood that the forum is owned by the Volunteers with Sun providing only hosting services. The oooFourm.org is owned by an OO.o community member with hosting provided, pro bono and has been such for nearly 10 years now. The day the new foundation was announced I opened discussions within the volunteer group about exercising the part of the agreement that would allow us to move the forum, or a copy of it, to a different host. This would include not just the phpBB code but the full database behind it. That discussion is actively under way. Thanks, Drew -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Getting up to speed
On 9/30/10 8:33 PM, jcausey...@totehmoon.com wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:39:57 +0530, Danishka Navin danis...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.orgwrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Jeff Causey jcausey...@totehmoon.comwrote: Hi Everyone! Been a (mostly) lurker on the OOo marketing related lists for a while with some very minor contributions. I fall pretty firmly in the end user category. Just a congrats to those who have been involved in helping the community take this step. Not sure what I may be able to do to help out, but I'm here and ready if needed. The less technical thing to do is to donate money through paypal. +1 and spreading the work about TDF, and get more people in to this familly. Thanks! Jeff Causey Thanks! Yep, been tweeting and FB'ing about it already, made a donation, signed the petition and passed it on to some others. Jeff Causey -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] dvd/cd-rom
On Thu Sep 30 2010 07:50:26 GMT-0700 (PDT) Erich Christian wrote: Hi Andy, I've downladed your win-iso to have a closer look and in case you are curious here's a possible link to ours http://ooodev.cs.utah.edu/prooo-box-cd/prooo-box-3.2.1-1_CD_Win_de.iso We'd prefer to stay with a GUI but make it way easier to handle and customize. Of course also on our disks the big cleanup is comin' up. There are many weblinks on the disks but we want to offer complete offline functionality and content as far as possible, so they got an icon to make it easy to tell the difference. The DVD provides all installers and developer tools incl. source, a live-version of the GUI is online here http://live.prooo-box.org/de/ and here's a list of mirrors for all actually available disks http://www.prooo-box.org/download.html We'd appreciate coordinating our work for future plans in case you're interested in and in doing something new - we are :-) Thanks Erich. I have added to my todo list and will have a look. I am always interested in trying new and better things. I am only a distributor and not the person in charge so it would only be a local thing for me. Andy -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOfficeForum.org is now functioning
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 09:53 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: On Thu Sep 30 2010 08:41:17 GMT-0700 (PDT) Nancy Ward wrote: From: Mike Houben Why making several forums? Make 1 Forum, 1 Maincategorie for language. So people like me, who speaks french, german, english, nederlands, can use the same forum and don't have to register 4 different accounts! And then there's me, who can speak only US English. Can't even master British English or Australian English. Then you have us that only speak American, an not very well. ;) Andy Right - does anyone know the ISO code for Spanglish? -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ?
On 09/29/2010 10:45 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: This depends very much on the reaction of Oracle: If they insist on keeping the trademark given to Sun Microsystems because the community hadn't an entity to claim violations and abuse, we will not be able to use our good name OpenOffice.org any more. That would be unfortunate. Changing a name is a big loss of identity that would take work to recover. On the other hand, LibreOffice does the advantage that the product name isn't a URL. One poster on ./ quipped that perhaps the new name should be OpenOffice.org/index.html. That's harsh, but has a kernel of truth -- who hasn't, at one time or another, had to waste time explaining the issue with OpenOffice vs. OpenOffice.org? Not that LibreOffice as a name doesn't have its own problems. Libre is pronounced differently in Spanish and French, I'm told, and the word is a struggle for Americans. But what's done is done. Now is the time for everyone to get behind the new name. Jon -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ?
Not that LibreOffice as a name doesn't have its own problems. Libre is pronounced differently in Spanish and French, I'm told, and the word is a struggle for Americans. But what's done is done. Now is the time for everyone to get behind the new name. Nice thinking, Jon! But I add that libre speech is widely used in the community through the acronym FLOSS -- ~~~ Prof. Román H. Gelbort http://www.piensalibre.com.ar 10 años usando OpenOffice.org, libre, gratuito y seguro ~~~ -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
[tdf-discuss] Patching
This is something I have been asked in various places in Spanish. How will policies added patch? The question is that we all like to have many and nice new features. But, in production environments, it is equally important (or more) to have stability. We will have two versions? (Advanced and stable) Are all questions to begin (or continue) building Commonwealth Office as a building with good bases. -- ~~~ Prof. Román H. Gelbort http://www.piensalibre.com.ar 10 años usando OpenOffice.org, libre, gratuito y seguro ~~~ -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Volunteering for the Document Foundation
Hi Per, Per Eriksson wrote: Hello, This is Per Eriksson from the Swedish NLC and the qa project. I have waited for this moment for a long time and would like to know how I best can help out, with the new infrastructure, localization and qa work and processes. If there is any need for a technical person or for planning, please advice me on this : ) Thanks a lot for your help proposal, this is great to have you here, I'm really happy to see all our friends join :) As Andre told you, we are going to organize ourself with more infrastructure in the next days and we will come back to you for sure once done! Kind regards Sophie -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Spanish how to LibreOffice
In data giovedì 30 settembre 2010 19:23:07, Esteban Monge ha scritto: Hello. Hello I wrote a little guide here (1) in spanish to install LibreOffice with OpenOffice.org in Debian. I recommend DokuWiki as CMS, have cool options, such social networking integration, comments, it's a great tool for translations and updates. (1) http://www.nuevaeralatam.com/doku.php?id=libre_office thank you very much, Esteban, I'm not Spanish your suggestions are very use ful :-) -- Valter Registered Linux User #466410 http://counter.li.org Kubuntu Linux: www.kubuntu.org OpenOffice.org: www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Patching
Il 30/09/2010 22:09, Roman Gelbort ha scritto: ...zoot The question is that we all like to have many and nice new features. But, in production environments, it is equally important (or more) to have stability. I agree! We will have two versions? (Advanced and stable) I hope so! Is crucial to have a stable version. Bart Aimar -- web: http://aimar.mrjive.it -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice icon
Hello, I'm the mantainer of the free software concept map: http://es.gnu.org/~reneme/fsmap/en/fsmap-en.svg (Its didactical matherial for teachers to explain free software. It is translated to 30 langues) I made one libre icon for LibreOffice: http://www.saberlibre.net/libreofficeicon.svg I propose you to use this icon to refer to LibreOffice. Its LGPL licenced. (you can read more in the svg metadata) I want to change the map. I want to change the reference to openoffice to o ne reference to the LibreOffice. It will be like this catalan version im working on: http://es.gnu.org/~reneme/fsmap/ca/fsmap-ca-2.svg Do i have your permision to use that icon to refer libreOffice? At least un til we have one more official version or until you accept my little contributio n. (I'll be very happy to know something i contributed is used in the program i use to teach offimatics) Regards -- René Mérou -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Spanish how to LibreOffice
Ditto Steve! I'm about to do another tutorial on how to apply the Spanish Language pack in the vanilla version of Office Free for those who want to try in Spanish. Cool, if you need help I can help you. -- Tec. Esteban Monge Marín Tel: (506) 8337-3301 www.nuevaeralatam.com -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Spanish how to LibreOffice
exelente trabajo! ¿Pudiste seguirlo e instalarlo? You can follow it and install it? -- Tec. Esteban Monge Marín Tel: (506) 8337-3301 www.nuevaeralatam.com -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Volunteering for the Document Foundation
Hi Sophie and Per, Congratulations! Our dream has come true, I think. :) When The Document Foundation/LibreOffice organise its infrastructure, I would like The Document Foundation/LibreOffice to make a rule for domain names for language project, similar to the OpenOffice.org infrastructure, because we are moving from OpenOffice.org as a native language project. For example, LibreOffice Japanese language project will have http://ja.libreoffice.org which will be redirected to http://ja.documentfoundation.org Is this possible? Thanks, khirano On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Sophie sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi Per, Per Eriksson wrote: Hello, This is Per Eriksson from the Swedish NLC and the qa project. I have waited for this moment for a long time and would like to know how I best can help out, with the new infrastructure, localization and qa work and processes. If there is any need for a technical person or for planning, please advi ce me on this : ) Thanks a lot for your help proposal, this is great to have you here, I'm really happy to see all our friends join :) As Andre told you, we are going to organize ourself with more infrastruct ure in the next days and we will come back to you for sure once done! Kind regards Sophie -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot b e deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ -- Kazunari Hirano - Marketing Project Coordinator - OpenOffice.org Japanese Language Project http://ja.openoffice.org/ -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ?
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Jon Hamkins jon.hamk...@jpl.nasa.govwrote: Not that LibreOffice as a name doesn't have its own problems. Libre is pronounced differently in Spanish and French, I'm told, and the word is a struggle for Americans. But what's done is done. Now is the time for everyone to get behind the new name. I, too, think the name is unfortunate in the way it sounds orally. OpenOffice is immediately understood, LibreOffice will almost always have to be spelled or explained after being spoken. I think many will wonder if the product has some connection with astrology (Libra). Lane -- Lane Lester The Web Doctor http://www.the-web-doctor.com/ You can have your own website for just $10+10+10! Click here to visit one of my sites.http://pageswirl.com/rotate.php?user=lanelester -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Volunteering for the Document Foundation
Hello, Still recovering from the leap the community has taken, but it looks promissing. You can count on my support in whatever way I can. I fully agree with below, as LibreOffice should also be language oriented and not nation oriented. Trust you all agree. Leo Moons Nous sommes condamnés à être libres (even more than before) Op 30/09/2010 23:58, Kazunari Hirano schreef: Hi Sophie and Per, Congratulations! Our dream has come true, I think. :) When The Document Foundation/LibreOffice organise its infrastructure, I would like The Document Foundation/LibreOffice to make a rule for domain names for language project, similar to the OpenOffice.org infrastructure, because we are moving from OpenOffice.org as a native language project. For example, LibreOffice Japanese language project will have http://ja.libreoffice.org which will be redirected to http://ja.documentfoundation.org Is this possible? Thanks, khirano On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Sophie sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi Per, Per Eriksson wrote: Hello, This is Per Eriksson from the Swedish NLC and the qa project. I have waited for this moment for a long time and would like to know how I best can help out, with the new infrastructure, localization and qa work and processes. If there is any need for a technical person or for planning, please advi ce me on this : ) Thanks a lot for your help proposal, this is great to have you here, I'm really happy to see all our friends join :) As Andre told you, we are going to organize ourself with more infrastruct ure in the next days and we will come back to you for sure once done! Kind regards Sophie -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot b e deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
[tdf-discuss] Hi there
Hello, My name is Pedro and I`m writing to offer my help to build this amazing project. I currently work as a support engineer at Atlassian and I could help with translations (I`m brazilian, so I can translate to portuguese), help with documentations and with IT infrastructure if necessary. Regards, Pedro Corá -- ped...@gmail.com :-) *facebook.com/pcora821* *flickr.com/pedro* -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
[tdf-discuss]
Khalid BAHIRI Consultant NTIC et sécurité informatique kbah...@orange.fr Tél. 06 08 72 94 86 -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice general ideas and suggestions
? From: Jon Hamkins Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:20 PM To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice general ideas and suggestions On 09/30/2010 08:27 AM, Nancy Ward wrote: As a beta tester for Microsoft, I'm solidly in the NNTP court. In NNTP, threads are much easier to keep up with and I always know what I've read and what I haven't. Well, it depends on what client you are using. Thunderbird, for example can sort email by thread and indicate what you have and haven't read -- and it will handle NNTP as well. So for at least one client, there is no functional difference between email and NNTP. Given the increasing lack of support for NNTP, I'm not sure it makes sense to move to it. Jon :: For the moment, I'm using Windows Live Mail, which has an NNTP newsreader and regular non-threaded email. I've tried Thunderbird (a couple years ago) but it didn't do what I needed. It may be different now Other than this group, I have no reason to sort email by threads since I don't carry on multiple conversations with friends and family. Having said that, I'm also thinking of trying out Seamonkey. Microsoft created an app that allows forums to be read as NNTP; however, it will only work with Microsoft's forums as far as I know. Jochen Kalmbach created a Community Forums NNTP Bridge that works quite well translating forums to NNTP. Some of the denizens here may know him; the guy's a genius, and if he could be recruited for this project . . . Not that anyone here would be interested in the Bridge, but if someone wishes to contact him about maybe working with y'all, well, here's his URL: http://communitybridge.codeplex.com/ Nancy Ward Windows 8 Beta Ferret -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ?
? From: Jon Hamkins Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:03 PM To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ? On 09/29/2010 10:45 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Not that LibreOffice as a name doesn't have its own problems. Libre is pronounced differently in Spanish and French, I'm told, and the word is a struggle for Americans. But what's done is done. Now is the time for everyone to get behind the new name. Jon :: Since I grew up to the ripe old age of 7 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, some of the spanish I learned has stuck, especially the bad words. I don't understand why, but Libre to me says Liberty. I would pronounce it Leebreh, which is probably totally wrong. I was surprised when someone said that Libre means free. -- Nancy Ward Windows 8 Beta Ferret -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ?
2010/9/30 Nancy Ward nlrai...@live.com ? From: Jon Hamkins Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:03 PM To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ? On 09/29/2010 10:45 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: Not that LibreOffice as a name doesn't have its own problems. Libre is pronounced differently in Spanish and French, I'm told, and the word is a struggle for Americans. But what's done is done. Now is the time for everyone to get behind the new name. Jon :: Since I grew up to the ripe old age of 7 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, some of the spanish I learned has stuck, especially the bad words. I don't understand why, but Libre to me says Liberty. I would pronounce it Leebreh, which is probably totally wrong. I was surprised when someone said that Libre means free. 1. Yes, in Spanish it IS pronounced (sorta) like that. 2. Liberty and Libre come from the same Latin root. 3. Richard Stallman loves that Spanish has a distinction between free speech (discurso libre) and free beer (cerveza gratis). And I do too . That's exactly why the new project was rebranded LibreOffice, and I honestl y would stick with the name even if Oracle returned the trademark to the community. -- Nancy Ward Windows 8 Beta Ferret -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.orgdiscuss%2bunsubscr...@document foundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot b e deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ - Carlos Solís -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
