[steering-discuss] Updates on Bylaws and Federal State

2011-04-27 Thread Florian Effenberger

Hello,

here's a short update on the current status of our bylaws, and on the 
possible German federal states.


Bylaws:
Thanks to the wonderful support of our German community, we received 
lots of feedback with regards to the translated bylaws 
(http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws/de). Folks, thanks a 
lot, this was real helpful input! We're of course happy to get more 
feedback, but in order to move on, only mistakes or real bad wording 
should be changed at this state.


Statutes:
We've started the progress of working on the legal statutes. These will 
be different from the bylaws as the legal requirements are tight. Some 
things missing in the bylaws have to be in the statutes, other things 
mentioned in the bylaws do not fit into statutes. What we will do is to 
work on legally acceptable statutes, that then will be enhanced by 
policies, so the full spirit of the bylaws is retained. As soon as we 
have a first draft, we will share it. One point that we need to deal 
with is our membership definition. We will have to be precisely on what 
that means, and what rights and duties membership brings. Noteworthy is 
also that some other rules (like definition of the ESC) should probably 
not be in the statutes.


Federal State:
We also have some feedback with regards to the ideal German federal 
state to found the foundation in. The following list is without taking 
into account where we have active people at (which IMHO is a very 
crucial point).


	- Hamburg: Very liberal state. Even the reason for the foundation 
(Stiftungszweck) might be slightly changed under certain 
circumstances. Question is, if we want to have it that liberal.


	- Berlin: Has some different regulations than other federal states, 
with some advantages and disadvantages.


	- Hesse: As the person in charge has changed recently, it's 
undetermined if things will be as liberal as they have been in the past. 
Worth a try.


- Bavaria: Might require an independent accountant, but not sure.

What should be possible is to have the foundation set up in one federal 
state, but have the office in another, as long as it is still in 
Germany. So, for example, we could set up the foundation in Berlin if 
this fits best to our plans, but have the office in Hesse or Bavaria, 
which could be more comfortable with regards to the location of active 
people.


European Foundation:
It is still unclear when and if the European foundation will be legally 
fixed, and how it would look like. We should take precautions so we can 
convert our foundation later on if desired, but details are hardly 
forseeable at the moment.


So, this was just an update, no need to act at the moment, we're working 
on this. By saing me, let me tell I am only the messenger here. Thanks 
to the folks working on this in the background, you do a tremendous job!


Florian

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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-27 Thread sb73542
Hi again,

Thanks to everyone who has expressed a balanced, objective opinion about
this.

I don't want to spend a lot time here arguing about ads. I understand that
it's a sensitive subject, I'm sorry that some people disagree, and I
respect their opinions. But I would like to mention that I don't really
have any control over the ad content, that is determined by Google. That
being said, It seems rather strange to refer to Microsoft Office as
competition and to show such a level of contempt toward it. I personally
do not own, use, or even like Microsoft Office. But it isn't a taboo,
shady, spammy, startup job. Like it or not, it's the industry standard
still, and will continue to be so for a long time. Irrational hatred and
attempts to obliterate all references to Microsoft or any other commercial
project are counterproductive and don't seem to agree with the free spirit
around LibreOffice. I have made a conscientious, informed, intelligent
decision to use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and no amount of
forum ads will sway me. I would hope and expect that most other users of
the forum will likewise have the presence of mind to make a rational
decision based on their own needs.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading!
Sam from LibreOfficeForum.org


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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Question about proposing the creation of a new format

2011-04-27 Thread Ian Lynch
On 26 April 2011 22:48, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote:

 I think this is a very interesting issue. We are moving from the dominant
 technologies that were designed to put information on paper to the
 dominant
 need of presenting information on screens. With the revolution in digital
 readers this is only going to increase and then what relevance has
 document
 formats that are primarily designed to target hard copy output? If odf
 does
 not adapt it will become obsolete.
 

 Seems to suggest that LO should become some sort of html (or any other
 electronic format) editor?


Its already a sort of XML editor :-)



I am constantly irritated by having to download pdfs, .docs and so on when
all I want to do is view the information without cluttering up my download

 May I suggest to use the 'load url' bar to read documents directly on
 the web? As for pdf documents, evince can open directly from the url
 when activated via the command terminal


There are a number of reasons why this is clumsy. Ok, its a work around but
its not an elegant solution. Most people produce most of these documents
simply because they are locked into a desktop applications mentality and
don't think about what the purpose of the document really is. This isn't
going to change over night but we are clearly in a transition from desktop
being king to at least desktop a lot less important. IMHO, LO needs to be
looking several years ahead because we know how long development can take.
.


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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-27 Thread Jaime R. Garza
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:13, sb73...@libreofficeforum.org wrote:

 Hi again,

 Thanks to everyone who has expressed a balanced, objective opinion about
 this.

 I don't want to spend a lot time here arguing about ads. I understand that
 it's a sensitive subject, I'm sorry that some people disagree, and I
 respect their opinions. But I would like to mention that I don't really
 have any control over the ad content, that is determined by Google. That
 being said, It seems rather strange to refer to Microsoft Office as
 competition and to show such a level of contempt toward it. I personally
 do not own, use, or even like Microsoft Office. But it isn't a taboo,
 shady, spammy, startup job. Like it or not, it's the industry standard
 still, and will continue to be so for a long time. Irrational hatred and
 attempts to obliterate all references to Microsoft or any other commercial
 project are counterproductive and don't seem to agree with the free spirit
 around LibreOffice. I have made a conscientious, informed, intelligent
 decision to use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and no amount of
 forum ads will sway me. I would hope and expect that most other users of
 the forum will likewise have the presence of mind to make a rational
 decision based on their own needs.

 That's all for now. Thanks for reading!
 Sam from LibreOfficeForum.org


Well, there is a Competitive Ad
Filterhttp://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=21593for
Google Ads, so that's not an excuse. It sould be just silly if there
was
no possibility to filter competitors. And just to clarify, MS Office is
still the defacto standard, and The Document Foundation Community and
LibreOffice community want to change that. Do you really think you help the
cause by advertising MS Office? Your moral arguments are just not realistic,
we all live in the real world, and competition exists!!

Cheers!

Jaime

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[tdf-discuss] Desktop Summit

2011-04-27 Thread Doug Bash
The TDF people are understandably busy with organisational tasks, nonetheless, 
it is a bit surprising that there seem to be no plans for a LO presence in 
Berlin this August at the GNOME-KDE fest. Could we not, at least, have 
recommendations for a couple of hotels we might congregate at and a barĀ  where 
we could push a few tables together and hang a nice green LibreOffice banner?

Doug Bash

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Re: [tdf-discuss] Desktop Summit

2011-04-27 Thread Florian Effenberger

Hi Doug,

Doug Bash wrote on 2011-04-27 13.17:

The TDF people are understandably busy with organisational tasks, nonetheless, 
it is a bit surprising that there seem to be no plans for a LO presence in 
Berlin this August at the GNOME-KDE fest. Could we not, at least, have 
recommendations for a couple of hotels we might congregate at and a bar  where 
we could push a few tables together and hang a nice green LibreOffice banner?


thanks for the reminder. I forwarded it to our German mailing lists, we 
have a few people in Berlin. :)


Florian

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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Question about proposing the creation of a new format

2011-04-27 Thread James Wilde
snip

I use LibO for writing, and produce ebooks from the output.

There are many ebook formats, as has already been pointed out by others, the 
main two being mobi (Kindle) and epub (almost every other e-reader).  I am 
active in a forum on ebooks, called mobileread.com.  I think I can say that the 
majority of writers there use one of two methods for creating ebooks.  Either 
they use a service called Smashwords, which takes MS Word documents and 
produces about six different kinds of ebooks, including pdf, txt, rtf, which 
most people don't count as ebook formats.  Or they use a program called 
Calibre, which has its support forum on mobileread.com, and which takes odt 
files as its preferred input.  These two methods I would call the professional 
approach.

On the other hand, someone interested in converting some of their documents to 
ebook (read epub) format for storage and use on their e-reader can make use of 
an extension which has been available for some time for OOo.  I can't remember 
how good this is, since it's a long time since I used it, but I think it 
produces acceptable quality for what we can call the non-professional approach.

My take on this suggestion is that LibO does what it does well.  Production of 
epub documents is a marginal requirement, which does not need to be addressed 
with a built-in function.  Professionals won't use it, and non-professionals 
are adequately served by the extension I mentioned - I believe there are now 
several btw.

So the bottom line is that I vote against incorporating epub production into 
LibO Writer.

Just my 2c

//James
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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-27 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:13 AM,  sb73...@libreofficeforum.org wrote:
 Hi again,

 Thanks to everyone who has expressed a balanced, objective opinion about
 this.

 I don't want to spend a lot time here arguing about ads. I understand that
 it's a sensitive subject, I'm sorry that some people disagree, and I
 respect their opinions. But I would like to mention that I don't really
 have any control over the ad content, that is determined by Google. That
 being said, It seems rather strange to refer to Microsoft Office as
 competition and to show such a level of contempt toward it. I personally
 do not own, use, or even like Microsoft Office. But it isn't a taboo,
 shady, spammy, startup job. Like it or not, it's the industry standard
 still, and will continue to be so for a long time. Irrational hatred and
 attempts to obliterate all references to Microsoft or any other commercial
 project are counterproductive and don't seem to agree with the free spirit
 around LibreOffice. I have made a conscientious, informed, intelligent
 decision to use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and no amount of
 forum ads will sway me. I would hope and expect that most other users of
 the forum will likewise have the presence of mind to make a rational
 decision based on their own needs.


How about the issue that I mentioned earlier?

At http://www.sitedossier.com/ip/174.121.218.38 it shows that there
are 858 websites
hosted at the same dedicated server as LibreOfficeForum.org.

Examples include:
http://www.1dayacuvuemoistreviews.com/ Ad website for Acuvue
products (contact lenses)
http://1dayacuvuereviews.com(ditto)
http://www.acuvueadvanceforastigmatismreviews.com/
http://www.acuvueadvancereviews.com/
http://www.acuvuebifocalreviews.com/
http://www.acuvuecontactlensreviews.com/
http://www.acuvueoasysforastigmatismreviews.com/
http://www.acuvueoasysforpresbyopiareviews.com/
http://www.1luv2ya.com/(I have no idea what this is about)
http://proxyblind.org/   (Free Anonymous Proxy)
http://www.chinatradestudy.com/   (Unnamed website carrying Reuters stories)
http://carsbuysell.ca/  (Classified ads, almost
empty website)
http://www.awm-search-engine-optimization.co.uk/   (redirects to SEO website)

And LibreOfficeForum.org is at No 238 in the list.

Apart from the ads that you have on LibreOfficeForum.org you also benefit
from the increase in the ranking by Google for all the websites, due
to hosting LibreOfficeForum.org.

What's the business plan in running the dedicated server at
174.121.218.38 and how does LibreOfficeForum.org
fit to all these?

It makes it quite uncomfortable to host a free and open-source project
on an ad-supported platform.
With what I currently know, I would opt for no association to
LibreOfficeForum.org.

Simos

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[tdf-discuss] Next IRC QA session

2011-04-27 Thread Sophie Gautier

Hi all,

I'm adding the dev list in cc but only for information, please follow 
the discussion on the tdf-discuss@list.


I would like to organize a new IRC QA session during the RC period. The 
last one, hum, was a bit empty, but we won't resign ;)
So I think we (I) should dedicate a bit more organization and dedication 
to it.
What I would like to organize first is the presence of the mentors 
during the whole period, we should have somebody available and really on 
line during a dedicated period of time, even making some noise on the 
channel (dancing with the bot is an option, yes :) to make sure 
newcomers won't go away by lack of activity.


So some questions:
- what would be the best period (imho the Friday and Saturday is still a 
good idea)?
- who would be available and when (on the 2 days, we will see the exact 
date later) ?
- who would like to prepare a presentation of the different QA tasks 
(mostly BZ, but speaking a bit of the tests would be good too). We will 
fix a date and time to play it twice, once for each main time zone.


Don't hesitate to make any comment or suggestion, even if it's new for 
you, this will help us to polish the organization.

Thanks in advance
Kind regards
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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Question about proposing the creation of a new format

2011-04-27 Thread Ian Lynch
 My take on this suggestion is that LibO does what it does well.  Production
 of epub documents is a marginal requirement


I'm sure that is what MSFT thought about Windows in relation to cell phones
and tablets ;-)

, which does not need to be addressed with a built-in function.
  Professionals won't use it, and non-professionals are adequately served by
 the extension I mentioned - I believe there are now several btw.


So the bottom line is that I vote against incorporating epub production into
LibO Writer.Just my 2c

I don't think that was a specific proposal at this point, just that the
entire LO proposition could become marginalised by mobile technologies and
e-publishing in a relatively short space of time.


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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-27 Thread James Wilde

On Apr 26, 2011, at 18:57 , David Nelson wrote:

 Hi Sam,
 
 I regretfully have to inform you that I had to remove the link to the
 LibreOfficeForum.org site at the request of Drew Jensen seconded by
 Charles Schulz. Sorry about that. Personally, I have no issues with
 your site.
 
 I think Drew is willing to debate the matter. Maybe a solution could
 be found? Would removing the advertising be a possibility?
 
 Anyway, just to keep you informed...
 
I don't know whether I've missed something coming to this thread late, but is 
there an explanation of why they requested that the link be removed?

//James


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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-27 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 17:55 +0200, James Wilde wrote:
 On Apr 26, 2011, at 18:57 , David Nelson wrote:
 
  Hi Sam,
  
  I regretfully have to inform you that I had to remove the link to the
  LibreOfficeForum.org site at the request of Drew Jensen seconded by
  Charles Schulz. Sorry about that. Personally, I have no issues with
  your site.
  
  I think Drew is willing to debate the matter. Maybe a solution could
  be found? Would removing the advertising be a possibility?
  
  Anyway, just to keep you informed...
  
 I don't know whether I've missed something coming to this thread late, but is 
 there an explanation of why they requested that the link be removed?

Hi James,

That would best come from me perhaps.

The reason is actually rather simple - during this discussion it was
apparent that a number of people where strongly opposed to linking
directly to that forum. I do not think anyone would say that any type of
agreement let alone consensus had been reached.

while this was going one of the people with edit rights to the main web
pages added links to the site, without I believe realizing that this was
being discussed still.

My asking that person to remove the link should be construed as meaning
that the action was not appropriate at this time.

Beyond that I would like to make a few comments more directly to a few
points raised, but they would be best added to the emails in which they
were raised and I will do so as time permits during the day.

I hope that answers your question on the specific point.


Best wishes,

Drew Jensen




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[tdf-discuss] numbering in contents but not document

2011-04-27 Thread todd rme
Hi, is there a way to have a heading that is numbered in the table of
contents but is not numbered in the document?  So, for instance, the
Table of Contents shows 1. Introduction, but the body of the
document shows just Introduction?

-Todd

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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Question about proposing the creation of a new format

2011-04-27 Thread Mark Preston
Dear good gods alive no! :eave the HTML to proper HTML IDE tools like
Eclipse and don't try to be everything in one package.

On 26/04/2011 22:48, e-letter wrote:
 I think this is a very interesting issue. We are moving from the dominant
 technologies that were designed to put information on paper to the dominant
 need of presenting information on screens. With the revolution in digital
 readers this is only going to increase and then what relevance has document
 formats that are primarily designed to target hard copy output? If odf does
 not adapt it will become obsolete.

 
 Seems to suggest that LO should become some sort of html (or any other
 electronic format) editor?
 
 I am constantly irritated by having to download pdfs, .docs and so on when
 all I want to do is view the information without cluttering up my download
 
 May I suggest to use the 'load url' bar to read documents directly on
 the web? As for pdf documents, evince can open directly from the url
 when activated via the command terminal
 

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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-27 Thread Ben McGinnes
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On 28/04/11 12:40 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:

 How about the issue that I mentioned earlier?

 At http://www.sitedossier.com/ip/174.121.218.38 it shows that there
 are 858 websites hosted at the same dedicated server as
 LibreOfficeForum.org.

*Sigh*

bash-3.2$ dig -x 174.121.218.38

;  DiG 9.4.3-P3  -x 174.121.218.38
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51994
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;38.218.121.174.in-addr.arpa.   IN  PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
38.218.121.174.in-addr.arpa. 43154 IN   PTR 26.da.79ae.static.theplanet.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
218.121.174.in-addr.arpa. 43154 IN  NS  ns2.theplanet.com.
218.121.174.in-addr.arpa. 43154 IN  NS  ns1.theplanet.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.theplanet.com.  3069IN  A   207.218.247.135
ns2.theplanet.com.  39823   IN  A   207.218.223.162

;; Query time: 32 msec
;; SERVER: 192.231.203.132#53(192.231.203.132)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 28 09:35:03 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 158

bash-3.2$

Oh, gosh, what a surprise a free forum hosted on a shared hosting
platform using virtual hosting/domains.

If you want that site to have a dedicated IP, perhaps you should speak
to the domain owner about funding a move to a VPS or colocated box.


Regards,
Ben


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Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums... again

2011-04-27 Thread Jon Hamkins

On 04/26/2011 09:57 AM, David Nelson wrote:

Hi Sam,

I regretfully have to inform you that I had to remove the link to the
LibreOfficeForum.org site at the request of Drew Jensen seconded by
Charles Schulz.


+1

I appreciate the effort Sam has made to create libreofficeforum.org. 
Like Sam, I feel that the general user community prefers forums to 
mailing lists, and that a well-implemented forum can really help grow 
the libreoffice community and provide a sense that the project is 
well-supported.  I also firmly believe that having an easy and 
recognizable URL is important -- oooforum won't work in the long-term.


Unfortunately, Sam made several poor choices in setting up 
libreofficeforum.org.


First, he apparently didn't discuss with the community at large (on the 
mailing lists) or the steering committee about what would make a good 
forum -- he just announced to the mailing list, in the first week of 
Oct. 2010, that he had created libreofficeforum.org.  It was set up the 
way he set it up, and that was that.  Several what the...? comments 
were made at the time, especially since the site had several flaws.


People have complained about the ads from day 1.  People have complained 
about MSO being advertised.  People have also said that they will not 
provide support on this site because of this.  As for me, well, I agree 
with these complaints 100%.  This is like selling candy to raise money 
for a tooth-decay foundation.  It makes no sense, and it creates a 
mixed-up message where the message should be very clear.


Sam said he needs to have ads, and he doesn't want to discuss the issue 
of ads here.  I'm sorry, but that is the major problem with the site. 
That issue needs to be hashed out, if not here, by the Steering 
Committee.  If the site needs to have ads, then we don't need the site, 
IMHO.  I'd much rather live with http://www.oooforum.org and

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum in the short-term.

In any case, I think we oughtn't link to libreofficeforum.org from the 
official LibO site until we either reach consensus here on the mailing 
list, or the Steering Committee has come to a decision.


 Jon

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Re: [tdf-discuss] numbering in contents but not document

2011-04-27 Thread Irmhild Rogalla

Todd,

Am 27.04.2011 19:33, schrieb todd rme:
 Hi, is there a way to have a heading that is numbered in the table of
 contents but is not numbered in the document?  So, for instance, the
 Table of Contents shows 1. Introduction, but the body of the
 document shows just Introduction?

it's better to ask such questions at the users-list (see 
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/); there you'll get 
help. This discuss list is more for general discussions about LibO.


regards
Irmhild

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