[board-discuss] TDF Travel Reimbursement Policy
Hi there, please find attached a document with a proposed outline on how TDF should handle travel reimbursals, and a helpful Calc template for requesting actual money out of us. The policy is based on other German charities' versions, and hopefully accomodates all relevant needs. I'd like to put it up for approval vote for tonight's call. Many thanks to Italo for drafting it! Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint tdf-travel_refundform_2012-05-15.ots Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet-template tdf-travel_reimbursement_2012-05-15.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text pgpaevQlGv7L5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [board-discuss] TDF Travel Reimbursement Policy
Hi, Thorsten Behrens wrote on 2012-05-16 09:56: please find attached a document with a proposed outline on how TDF should handle travel reimbursals, and a helpful Calc template for requesting actual money out of us. thanks a lot for your and Italos work on this! The only change I propose (sorry for being late here): - Non-reimbursable are first class tickets = I would write that this is only true if the first class ticket is more expensive Reason: At least with Deutsche Bahn (German railways), sometimes the 2nd class unbound tickets are more expensive than the 1st class date-bound tickets, so economically, it might make more sense to use a 1st class ticket, and we shouldn't exclude that. Florian -- Florian Effenberger, Chairman of the Board Tel: +49 8341 99660880 | Mobile: +49 151 14424108 The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
Re: [board-discuss] TDF Travel Reimbursement Policy
Florian Effenberger wrote: - Non-reimbursable are first class tickets Amended version attached. Cheers, -- Thorsten Behrens, Director, Deputy Chairman of the Board The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint tdf-travel_reimbursement_2012-05-15_2.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text pgpubeTbPl3C0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
On 16/05/2012 07:28, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Jonathan, Le 2012-05-16 01:02, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : Bibliography creation as well as source citations are very very important. Regards Jonathan Aquilina On May 15, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Thanks, I am looking for people who are using specific extensions in their academic work. Maybe I should post this on the users' list as well. I was hoping that some people who work in academia could chime in and say what extensions they were using specifically for use in academia. Cheers, Marc Hey Mark I wrote this from a students perspective. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list of any extensions/add-ons to LibreOffice that are available right now. Is LibreOffice sufficient as is, or do any of you have any suggestions of add-ons that are really needed for such a setting as a college/university/academic environment? I think that LibreOffice, and specifically LibreOffice Writer, is quite good in writing essays. You can use page and paragraph styles in order to create a structured document. The documentation has more information about this, or see http://simos.info/blog/archives/651 Actually this is very important, because the proper use of styles can help you manage big documents. You can use math equations as in http://www.libreoffice.org/features/math/ so no third-party tool is required. You can manage your bibliography with Zotero (Firefox Add-on), which has a feature to export to LibreOffice. Simos -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
On 16/05/2012 08:18, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list of any extensions/add-ons to LibreOffice that are available right now. Is LibreOffice sufficient as is, or do any of you have any suggestions of add-ons that are really needed for such a setting as a college/university/academic environment? I think that LibreOffice, and specifically LibreOffice Writer, is quite good in writing essays. You can use page and paragraph styles in order to create a structured document. The documentation has more information about this, or see http://simos.info/blog/archives/651 Actually this is very important, because the proper use of styles can help you manage big documents. You can use math equations as in http://www.libreoffice.org/features/math/ so no third-party tool is required. You can manage your bibliography with Zotero (Firefox Add-on), which has a feature to export to LibreOffice. Simos Simos what about citation of sources and bibliographies, as well as appendices for lets say a thesis? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/05/2012 08:18, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list of any extensions/add-ons to LibreOffice that are available right now. Is LibreOffice sufficient as is, or do any of you have any suggestions of add-ons that are really needed for such a setting as a college/university/academic environment? I think that LibreOffice, and specifically LibreOffice Writer, is quite good in writing essays. You can use page and paragraph styles in order to create a structured document. The documentation has more information about this, or see http://simos.info/blog/archives/651 Actually this is very important, because the proper use of styles can help you manage big documents. You can use math equations as in http://www.libreoffice.org/features/math/ so no third-party tool is required. You can manage your bibliography with Zotero (Firefox Add-on), which has a feature to export to LibreOffice. Simos Simos what about citation of sources and bibliographies, as well as appendices for lets say a thesis? You can cite your bibliography in the document using 'Insert→citation. There are more bibliography tools, if you are interested to test them out, JabRef, http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ Mendeley, http://www.mendeley.com/ (+document management, closed source). Regarding appendices, see http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg14422.html I wonder if there is a document on the LibreOffice Wiki about all these. That is, a document that explains how to use LibreOffice Writer for academic work. Simos -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
RE: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
-Original Message- From: Simos Xenitellis [mailto:simos.li...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 8:48 AM To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/05/2012 08:18, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list of any extensions/add-ons to LibreOffice that are available right now. Is LibreOffice sufficient as is, or do any of you have any suggestions of add-ons that are really needed for such a setting as a college/university/academic environment? I think that LibreOffice, and specifically LibreOffice Writer, is quite good in writing essays. You can use page and paragraph styles in order to create a structured document. The documentation has more information about this, or see http://simos.info/blog/archives/651 Actually this is very important, because the proper use of styles can help you manage big documents. You can use math equations as in http://www.libreoffice.org/features/math/ so no third-party tool is required. You can manage your bibliography with Zotero (Firefox Add-on), which has a feature to export to LibreOffice. Simos Simos what about citation of sources and bibliographies, as well as appendices for lets say a thesis? You can cite your bibliography in the document using 'Insert?citation. There are more bibliography tools, if you are interested to test them out, JabRef, http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ Mendeley, http://www.mendeley.com/ (+document management, closed source). Regarding appendices, see http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg14422.html I wonder if there is a document on the LibreOffice Wiki about all these. That is, a document that explains how to use LibreOffice Writer for academic work. Simos Indeed such a page or rather a chapter about usage of LIBO from the perspective of a young starting academic would be a very good thing to have. Maybe with the help of some fore runner academia? Might also be interesting idea for other professional areas. Pieter -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
Hi Marc! 2012/5/15 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com I need to work out a short note about use of LibreOffice in an academic environment. What would some of you, who are using LibreOffice, consider necessary to use LibreOffice in an academic setting. I am not looking for a wish-list, but a list of any extensions/add-ons to LibreOffice that are available right now. Is LibreOffice sufficient as is, or do any of you have any suggestions of add-ons that are really needed for such a setting as a college/university/academic environment? Thanks for any input. Marc I am a senior researcher at the University of Eastern Finland, and have used OOo/LibO for years. I think LibO is good enough for basic writing and presentations. Extension I have found useful: - alternative search, compose special characters, linguist, convert text to number, notes anchor. Support for many languages (Finnish + English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish) is essential for researcher's in any small language area. I can do almost everything I need with LibO. There are, however, two big missing features I would favor. The first missing feature is the management of bibliographic information (references, citations). In the past – as a Windows user – I used to create my list of references by using EndNote. It's a great tool for a social scientist. We really need something like it. The other missing feature is real multimedia support for Impress (adding videos and sound in presentations, don't work now, actually). There are only few templates for academic use, for thesis, papers for review in journals etc.To create a proper file for their final version of their theses is a nightmare for most students using Word. A nice template for this would be appreciated very much. best regards JusSi -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Volunteers for completing International Websites Maintainer list
Hi, I started a table listing International Websites Maintainers on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Website/Web_Sites_services#International_Sites. It would be great if you would add information concerning other maintainers you know, and may be also add info to http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language. Best regards Rainer Bielefeld -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
Hello! On Wed, 16 May 2012 10:16:26 +0300 Jussi Silvonen jussi.silvo...@gmail.com wrote: ... The other missing feature is real multimedia support for Impress (adding videos and sound in presentations, don't work now, actually). I used videos and sounds in my LO Impress presentations many times and it worked great. Currently I'm using LO 3.5.3 Regards, Vladimir - v...@ukr.net -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
Marc, So far I've avoided commenting on your request for two main reasons: I was obliged to retire last February so am no longer an academic as such and also it was not clear what you were meaning. Let me say that I never had problems with LibO (since the addition of free-motion paths into Impress) for academic work. True, there are differences in the way LibO and MS manage insertion of bibliography, citations, references and so on but so what? You just get used to the different way of working. I had issues - probably my fault for not working it out - getting text to flow round a graphic in any shape other than a rectangle. That can be a real bother. I also don't like the way floating text boxes drift around not just the page but the whole document when format changes are made - or even worse when sections are moved! I also never managed to put a working spreadsheet into a text document, though it is something I use only rarely. Finally, the real bugbear I have is that you can't quick-roll a database on the fly. Either the database has to exist before you start (even if empty) or you are tied into one highly restricted way of working. I do hope this helps in some way. On 16/05/2012 06:28, Marc Paré wrote: Hi Jonathan, Le 2012-05-16 01:02, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : Bibliography creation as well as source citations are very very important. Regards Jonathan Aquilina On May 15, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Thanks, I am looking for people who are using specific extensions in their academic work. Maybe I should post this on the users' list as well. I was hoping that some people who work in academia could chime in and say what extensions they were using specifically for use in academia. Cheers, Marc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] security-related information, CVE-2012-1149, CVE-2012-2334
https://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/ CVE-2012-1149 Integer overflows in graphic object loading An integer overflow vulnerability in LibreOffice graphic loading code could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of LibreOffice. Thanks to Tielei Wang via Secunia SVCRP for reporting this flaw. Users are recommended to upgrade to 3.5.3 to avoid this flaw CVE-2012-2334 Denial of Service with malformed .ppt files Reading invalid record lengths in LibreOffice powerpoint (escher) import code could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) on vulnerable installations of LibreOffice. Thanks to Sven Jacobi for reporting this flaw. Users are recommended to upgrade to 3.5.3 to avoid this flaw C. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
Hi Mark Le 2012-05-16 09:29, Mark Preston a écrit : Marc, So far I've avoided commenting on your request for two main reasons: I was obliged to retire last February so am no longer an academic as such and also it was not clear what you were meaning. I am not sure it there is such a thing as a retired academic. :-) Let me say that I never had problems with LibO (since the addition of free-motion paths into Impress) for academic work. True, there are differences in the way LibO and MS manage insertion of bibliography, citations, references and so on but so what? You just get used to the different way of working. I had issues - probably my fault for not working it out - getting text to flow round a graphic in any shape other than a rectangle. That can be a real bother. I also don't like the way floating text boxes drift around not just the page but the whole document when format changes are made - or even worse when sections are moved! I also never managed to put a working spreadsheet into a text document, though it is something I use only rarely. Finally, the real bugbear I have is that you can't quick-roll a database on the fly. Either the database has to exist before you start (even if empty) or you are tied into one highly restricted way of working. I do hope this helps in some way. Thanks for the information. I will keep this in mind when writing my blurb. I was really looking for ways that academics may have added extensions to LibreOffice to make it more usable in academia, but this still helps. Cheers, Marc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Re: security-related information, CVE-2012-1149, CVE-2012-2334
On 05/16/2012 08:57 AM, Caolán McNamara wrote: https://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/ CVE-2012-1149 Integer overflows in graphic object loading An integer overflow vulnerability in LibreOffice graphic loading code could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of LibreOffice. Thanks to Tielei Wang via Secunia SVCRP for reporting this flaw. Users are recommended to upgrade to 3.5.3 to avoid this flaw CVE-2012-2334 Denial of Service with malformed .ppt files Reading invalid record lengths in LibreOffice powerpoint (escher) import code could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (application crash) on vulnerable installations of LibreOffice. Thanks to Sven Jacobi for reporting this flaw. Users are recommended to upgrade to 3.5.3 to avoid this flaw C. Thanks for posting that - it's very much appreciated. Any idea if 3.5.3 also addresses this one that also came out today? http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-2149.html LO 3.5.3.2 still has a filter for WPD files, and it would be very nice if it continue to do so if the filter can be patched rather than removed like AOO. Thanks Gary Lee -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: security-related information, CVE-2012-1149, CVE-2012-2334
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 12:29 -0700, NoOp wrote: Any idea if 3.5.3 also addresses this one that also came out today? http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-2149.html This is actually libwpd, which gets bundled into non-distro builds. The advisory relates to a very old version of libwpd bundled into the last OpenOffice.org release. LibreOffice 3.3.X already contained a sufficiently recent version of libwpd to be unaffected by that, so you're fine with any version of LibreOffice. the filter can be patched rather than removed like AOO. The filter got removed from AOO due to being under the LGPL (!) https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/ipclearance.html C. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Re: security-related information, CVE-2012-1149, CVE-2012-2334
On 05/16/2012 01:09 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 12:29 -0700, NoOp wrote: Any idea if 3.5.3 also addresses this one that also came out today? http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2012-2149.html This is actually libwpd, which gets bundled into non-distro builds. The advisory relates to a very old version of libwpd bundled into the last OpenOffice.org release. LibreOffice 3.3.X already contained a sufficiently recent version of libwpd to be unaffected by that, so you're fine with any version of LibreOffice. the filter can be patched rather than removed like AOO. The filter got removed from AOO due to being under the LGPL (!) https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/ipclearance.html ... Thanks! -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
