Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
Am 10/11/2012 12:11 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: So here's where we are with the consultants listing: 1) XLST script, data file, strings for en and it are checked in under ooo-site/content/bizdev/consultants 2) Announcement to ooo-dev/ooo-users/forums/twitter/google+/facebook (but not ooo-announce since that is almost all end-users) 3) Blog post 4) I also went through the legacy consultant listings and reviewed the websites of the English-speaking entities. Where one appeared to still be relevant I sent them an email and pointed them to the new listing instructions and invited them to submit a new listing. This was a judgement call, but generally if the website was still up and I found an explicit mention of OpenOffice services then I considered it relevant. But if it was just a generic IT services company with no mention of OpenOffice then I did not send an invite. Of course, nothing prevents them from submitting a listing, and if they do we review it like any other. 5) What we have so far is here: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html Note, there are more coming. One was posted to the list today that I need to check in. And there are a few more were I was emailed that they were interested and would submit a listing. So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. If you can help I can send you a spreadsheet of the websites and an English version of my invitation note. Maybe 30 or so per language. 2 (less urgent) At some point we might enable the automatic generation of the HTML from the XML + XSLT. Since I don't speak Perl I'm going to need someone else to tackle this. Thanks! -Rob I've committet a localized version for DE. Marcus
Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
On 11/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. Just post a quick request in English to ooo-progetto-it: I'll moderate it through, adding a brief explanation, and we will surely find volunteers who can take care of this. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: Hello Rob, From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. If you can help I can send you a spreadsheet of the websites and an English version of my invitation note. Maybe 30 or so per language. I think I can help you with the german consultants. I already know most of the german consultants personally, for example, all on: http://www.frodev.org/dienstleister Thanks. I will email you the spreadsheet with the German listings. Is anyone able to help with French, Italian or Spanish? -Rob Greetings, Jörg
Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
Hello, I can help in french ;) greetings Sylvain DENIS Le 11/10/12 19:05, Rob Weir a écrit : On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: Hello Rob, From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. If you can help I can send you a spreadsheet of the websites and an English version of my invitation note. Maybe 30 or so per language. I think I can help you with the german consultants. I already know most of the german consultants personally, for example, all on: http://www.frodev.org/dienstleister Thanks. I will email you the spreadsheet with the German listings. Is anyone able to help with French, Italian or Spanish? -Rob Greetings, Jörg
Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
Hi On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Sylvain DENIS sylvain.tech...@gmail.com wrote: I can help in french ;) greetings So good. Volunteers are showing up (: -- Albino
Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Sylvain DENIS sylvain.tech...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I can help in french ;) Thanks. Look for a note direct from me in a few minutes. -Rob greetings Sylvain DENIS Le 11/10/12 19:05, Rob Weir a écrit : On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: Hello Rob, From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. If you can help I can send you a spreadsheet of the websites and an English version of my invitation note. Maybe 30 or so per language. I think I can help you with the german consultants. I already know most of the german consultants personally, for example, all on: http://www.frodev.org/dienstleister Thanks. I will email you the spreadsheet with the German listings. Is anyone able to help with French, Italian or Spanish? -Rob Greetings, Jörg
Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
So here's where we are with the consultants listing: 1) XLST script, data file, strings for en and it are checked in under ooo-site/content/bizdev/consultants 2) Announcement to ooo-dev/ooo-users/forums/twitter/google+/facebook (but not ooo-announce since that is almost all end-users) 3) Blog post 4) I also went through the legacy consultant listings and reviewed the websites of the English-speaking entities. Where one appeared to still be relevant I sent them an email and pointed them to the new listing instructions and invited them to submit a new listing. This was a judgement call, but generally if the website was still up and I found an explicit mention of OpenOffice services then I considered it relevant. But if it was just a generic IT services company with no mention of OpenOffice then I did not send an invite. Of course, nothing prevents them from submitting a listing, and if they do we review it like any other. 5) What we have so far is here: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html Note, there are more coming. One was posted to the list today that I need to check in. And there are a few more were I was emailed that they were interested and would submit a listing. So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. If you can help I can send you a spreadsheet of the websites and an English version of my invitation note. Maybe 30 or so per language. 2 (less urgent) At some point we might enable the automatic generation of the HTML from the XML + XSLT. Since I don't speak Perl I'm going to need someone else to tackle this. Thanks! -Rob
Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
On 10/10/12, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: So here's where we are with the consultants listing: 1) XLST script, data file, strings for en and it are checked in under ooo-site/content/bizdev/consultants 2) Announcement to ooo-dev/ooo-users/forums/twitter/google+/facebook (but not ooo-announce since that is almost all end-users) 3) Blog post 4) I also went through the legacy consultant listings and reviewed the websites of the English-speaking entities. Where one appeared to still be relevant I sent them an email and pointed them to the new listing instructions and invited them to submit a new listing. This was a judgement call, but generally if the website was still up and I found an explicit mention of OpenOffice services then I considered it relevant. But if it was just a generic IT services company with no mention of OpenOffice then I did not send an invite. Of course, nothing prevents them from submitting a listing, and if they do we review it like any other. 5) What we have so far is here: http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html Note, there are more coming. One was posted to the list today that I need to check in. And there are a few more were I was emailed that they were interested and would submit a listing. So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. If you can help I can send you a spreadsheet of the websites and an English version of my invitation note. Maybe 30 or so per language. 2 (less urgent) At some point we might enable the automatic generation of the HTML from the XML + XSLT. Since I don't speak Perl I'm going to need someone else to tackle this. I added strings_es.xml for spanish. Isn't this possible to do this in Python? I thought the server support it. Thanks! -Rob -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed
Hello Rob, From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. If you can help I can send you a spreadsheet of the websites and an English version of my invitation note. Maybe 30 or so per language. I think I can help you with the german consultants. I already know most of the german consultants personally, for example, all on: http://www.frodev.org/dienstleister Greetings, Jörg
Re: [WEBSITE] - help needed to update outdated web content
On 06/13/2012 07:48 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: KG02 - See comments inline. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.comwrote: KG01 - See comments inline. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin-- On 06/11/2012 10:55 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: Hello All, I need some help. Currently the UX page on http://www.openoffice.org/ux/ is outdated. Please remove all content from this page and insert a link to the new AOO UX homepage: http://wiki.services.**openoffice.org/wiki/Apache_** OpenOffice_User_Experiencehttp://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice_User_Experience I can do this for you...but are you sure we should remove the references to the Specification Project and Accessibility Project also? I can probably get to this tomorrow. KG01 - Thanks for your support. As a starting point, I'd like to propose we consolidate all content in a single trusted source - the new AOO UX page. We can provide links to Spec Project and Access Projects from this new AOO UX page, assuming this efforts are active. I'll capture an action item to ensure that I move over all the relevant, active links. KG02 - Ok, page contents captured. I will review and create links in new AOO UX page. Feel free to proceed with clean up. Thanks again for your help. Clean slate :) OK -- I can get to this later today...I will just remove all content, and link to the new UX wiki site as you requested, Once we get settled, we can spend some time to create a better UX page for www.openoffice.org. However, it is very low priority right now. Please advise. Regards, Kevin -- --**--** MzK There's no crying in baseball! -- Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), A League of Their Own -- MzK There's no crying in baseball! -- Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), A League of Their Own
Re: [WEBSITE] - help needed to update outdated web content
KG01 - See comments inline. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin-- On 06/11/2012 10:55 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: Hello All, I need some help. Currently the UX page on http://www.openoffice.org/ux/ is outdated. Please remove all content from this page and insert a link to the new AOO UX homepage: http://wiki.services.**openoffice.org/wiki/Apache_** OpenOffice_User_Experiencehttp://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice_User_Experience I can do this for you...but are you sure we should remove the references to the Specification Project and Accessibility Project also? I can probably get to this tomorrow. KG01 - Thanks for your support. As a starting point, I'd like to propose we consolidate all content in a single trusted source - the new AOO UX page. We can provide links to Spec Project and Access Projects from this new AOO UX page, assuming this efforts are active. I'll capture an action item to ensure that I move over all the relevant, active links. Once we get settled, we can spend some time to create a better UX page for www.openoffice.org. However, it is very low priority right now. Please advise. Regards, Kevin -- --**--** MzK There's no crying in baseball! -- Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), A League of Their Own
Re: [WEBSITE] - help needed to update outdated web content
KG02 - See comments inline. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.comwrote: KG01 - See comments inline. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kevin-- On 06/11/2012 10:55 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: Hello All, I need some help. Currently the UX page on http://www.openoffice.org/ux/ is outdated. Please remove all content from this page and insert a link to the new AOO UX homepage: http://wiki.services.**openoffice.org/wiki/Apache_** OpenOffice_User_Experiencehttp://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice_User_Experience I can do this for you...but are you sure we should remove the references to the Specification Project and Accessibility Project also? I can probably get to this tomorrow. KG01 - Thanks for your support. As a starting point, I'd like to propose we consolidate all content in a single trusted source - the new AOO UX page. We can provide links to Spec Project and Access Projects from this new AOO UX page, assuming this efforts are active. I'll capture an action item to ensure that I move over all the relevant, active links. KG02 - Ok, page contents captured. I will review and create links in new AOO UX page. Feel free to proceed with clean up. Thanks again for your help. Clean slate :) Once we get settled, we can spend some time to create a better UX page for www.openoffice.org. However, it is very low priority right now. Please advise. Regards, Kevin -- --**--** MzK There's no crying in baseball! -- Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), A League of Their Own
Re: [WEBSITE] - help needed to update outdated web content
Hi Kevin-- On 06/11/2012 10:55 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: Hello All, I need some help. Currently the UX page on http://www.openoffice.org/ux/ is outdated. Please remove all content from this page and insert a link to the new AOO UX homepage: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice_User_Experience I can do this for you...but are you sure we should remove the references to the Specification Project and Accessibility Project also? I can probably get to this tomorrow. Once we get settled, we can spend some time to create a better UX page for www.openoffice.org. However, it is very low priority right now. Please advise. Regards, Kevin -- MzK There's no crying in baseball! -- Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), A League of Their Own
Re: HELP NEEDED: CERTIFICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A TENDER
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-05-20, at 21:22 , Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Miss Cubilla, isn't certifying a platform usable with a software the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer? Perhaps I do not understand the request. If I had to guess, Acer needs to be sure that it has permission to copy and redistribute the AOO software. The attachment (stripped when sent to the list, but I have a copy as moderator) was a permission that Microsoft granted for X copies of Office that must be fulfilled via an authorized Microsoft OEM licensee. Of course, we have no such OEM restrictions with AOO. The license permits anyone to copy, modify and redistribute. In particular, Acer can source directly from us, or from any 3rd party if it is convenient to have someone provide additional testing or patch support. My experience has also been that government agencies refuse to have anything to do with software unless it passes all the license and operational tests proprietary software sold by a single vendor does. Put another way, it's difficult for these public sector institutions to adopt open source software because it deviates from the very narrow range of permissible options. I've encountered this situation many times, in countries all around the world, including Canada, those of South East Asia, and so on. Acer might be able to help her out. But I'd be quite interested to work with her to see if she can still satisfy the government requisites. The fact that the Apache Foundation is a separate and independent foundation with legal status will help her and others in similar situations, but if not this government then others, I know, will likely want to be able to assign liability and other faults to an identifiable legal entity. I'd be curious how Apache deals or has dealt with other similar situations. My guess—from downloading enough Apache software in my time—is by not making any claim, save caveat emptor. Europe has the IDABC eGovernment procurement guidelines that take in notice the procurement for free open source software. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vq=cache:vUzwKXE0-xcJ:https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/studies/OSS-procurement-guideline-public-final-June2010-EUPL-FINAL.pdf+hl=enpid=blsrcid=ADGEESi3ZJO0Tue68X-1q1YUV5c0X2a4zAM6rKo_aDViCYX0CmwAqqlurLgIBP_i8AAZCHu16ZV6ncpa7IhY21j3erMn-Q9qSYrZjWSu9nvnHlKoB95yTqx4jjalxGx9eEDRM8Txh1lMsig=AHIEtbTOkGC1vI93bIQXwQqwgR64RdhWbw -louis -Rob Thanks for contacting us. As someone who has long championed the use of OpenOffice in education, and specifically on netbooks and other portable and mobile devices, I'm delighted to learn of your tender. You probably know this, and if you do, my apologies, Apache OpenOffice is free to use and distribute as you will and is licensed under the Apache License v.2. I have not tried Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on the Acer Travelmate. My guess is that it works fine. However, issuing a statement to that effect, as a System Builder, may pose some logistical problems, as we are an open source project composed of numerous groups operating within the Apache Software Foundation. But your request is important. I'd like therefore to see if this solution works for you and the government: A request to test Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (for Linux, Windows 7, 8) be filed. As we are not a company as such, at least not in the ways that Microsoft is, actually obtaining the Acer netbooks for the testing could be a problem. Further, there is no saying when the test on the Acer machines would be done, as it would depend upon the availability of resources. We do not profit from Acer's use of AOO, from your distribution or any company's, at least not directly. Do you have any we can test? Are you perhaps in contact with Acer and able to connect us to that company, so that they can test the application on any of their devices? (Joining the project is not hard; we would welcome your participation and also that of Acer.) Alternatively, perhaps you or your colleagues might find it actually fastest to install AOO 3.4 (in Spanish) on the machines? The government may not approve of such a manoeuvre, as you are not the System Builder. But by joining Apache and participating, even in a modest way, say by describing what your company is doing and planning, you can effectively become part of the community building the application. These are the possibilities that may help you at this stage. I would suggest you write to us soonest with more ideas on how you wish to proceed. Again, your efforts are laudable and praiseworthy. But you are not alone. Portugal has gone through something similar—I can put you in touch with the principal agents there—as has Brazil. And there are other countries in Europe whose sub-national governments have also considered
Re: HELP NEEDED: CERTIFICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A TENDER
Hola Veronica, OpenOffice es un producto de la Fundacion Apache, con gusto te pondre en contacto con el area de trademark para que supervisen este proceso. Sin embargo te aviso que la licencia ASF es una licencia abierta por lo que no necesita de una autorizacion explicita para motivos de redistribución. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Veronica Cubilla veronica.cubi...@cubixlat.com wrote: Who may concern: Regards from Panama!! This is Veronica Cubilla from Cubix Panama (www.cubixlat.com ) an International Wholesaler who participated with a VAR in a tender of 17,800 laptops with Education Minister in Panama that will be used by teachers. One of the requirements of this tender was to include in the proposal Open Office. The laptop we proposed was the Acer Travelmate P243 which have 320GB of HDD. What we need for you is a Certification Letter for Acer as a System Builder who can replicate your software in this laptop, using Apache Open Office 3.4. If you need any other information about this tender you can see it in: http://www.panamacompra.gob.pa/ambientepublico/VistaPreviaCP.aspx?NumLc=2012-0-07-0-08-AV-008941esap=1nnc=1it=1, where you can also find Microsoft letter certificating the usage of Win 7 Pro (which is attached). Thanks in advance for your help. [image: Vero Cubilla]
Re: HELP NEEDED: CERTIFICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A TENDER
Dear Ms Cubilla, Thanks for contacting us. As someone who has long championed the use of OpenOffice in education, and specifically on netbooks and other portable and mobile devices, I'm delighted to learn of your tender. You probably know this, and if you do, my apologies, Apache OpenOffice is free to use and distribute as you will and is licensed under the Apache License v.2. I have not tried Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on the Acer Travelmate. My guess is that it works fine. However, issuing a statement to that effect, as a System Builder, may pose some logistical problems, as we are an open source project composed of numerous groups operating within the Apache Software Foundation. But your request is important. I'd like therefore to see if this solution works for you and the government: A request to test Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (for Linux, Windows 7, 8) be filed. As we are not a company as such, at least not in the ways that Microsoft is, actually obtaining the Acer netbooks for the testing could be a problem. Further, there is no saying when the test on the Acer machines would be done, as it would depend upon the availability of resources. We do not profit from Acer's use of AOO, from your distribution or any company's, at least not directly. Do you have any we can test? Are you perhaps in contact with Acer and able to connect us to that company, so that they can test the application on any of their devices? (Joining the project is not hard; we would welcome your participation and also that of Acer.) Alternatively, perhaps you or your colleagues might find it actually fastest to install AOO 3.4 (in Spanish) on the machines? The government may not approve of such a manoeuvre, as you are not the System Builder. But by joining Apache and participating, even in a modest way, say by describing what your company is doing and planning, you can effectively become part of the community building the application. These are the possibilities that may help you at this stage. I would suggest you write to us soonest with more ideas on how you wish to proceed. Again, your efforts are laudable and praiseworthy. But you are not alone. Portugal has gone through something similar—I can put you in touch with the principal agents there—as has Brazil. And there are other countries in Europe whose sub-national governments have also considered or are deploying OpenOffice on education-ready netbooks. (Norway has used Intel education netbooks, for instance.) Finally, you wrote to a very public list. You can find archives publicly available via the usual search engines. Your message has no particularly personal content, so rest assured. But do expect that my colleagues will likely also respond—indeed, I see that Alexandro has already done that. By the way, I am curious if your company would also be providing the education offices support? Regards, Louis Suárez-Potts Apache OpenOffice PPMC PS, Lo escribió en inglés por que es la convención por estas listas abiertas. On 2012-05-18, at 17:50 , Veronica Cubilla wrote: Who may concern: Regards from Panama!! This is Veronica Cubilla from Cubix Panama (www.cubixlat.com ) an International Wholesaler who participated with a VAR in a tender of 17,800 laptops with Education Minister in Panama that will be used by teachers. One of the requirements of this tender was to include in the proposal Open Office. The laptop we proposed was the Acer Travelmate P243 which have 320GB of HDD. What we need for you is a Certification Letter for Acer as a System Builder who can replicate your software in this laptop, using Apache Open Office 3.4. If you need any other information about this tender you can see it in:http://www.panamacompra.gob.pa/ambientepublico/VistaPreviaCP.aspx?NumLc=2012-0-07-0-08-AV-008941esap=1nnc=1it=1, where you can also find Microsoft letter certificating the usage of Win 7 Pro (which is attached). Thanks in advance for your help. image001.jpg
Re: HELP NEEDED: CERTIFICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A TENDER
Miss Cubilla, isn't certifying a platform usable with a software the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer? Perhaps I do not understand the request. Wolf Halton http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On May 20, 2012 6:20 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Ms Cubilla, Thanks for contacting us. As someone who has long championed the use of OpenOffice in education, and specifically on netbooks and other portable and mobile devices, I'm delighted to learn of your tender. You probably know this, and if you do, my apologies, Apache OpenOffice is free to use and distribute as you will and is licensed under the Apache License v.2. I have not tried Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on the Acer Travelmate. My guess is that it works fine. However, issuing a statement to that effect, as a System Builder, may pose some logistical problems, as we are an open source project composed of numerous groups operating within the Apache Software Foundation. But your request is important. I'd like therefore to see if this solution works for you and the government: A request to test Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (for Linux, Windows 7, 8) be filed. As we are not a company as such, at least not in the ways that Microsoft is, actually obtaining the Acer netbooks for the testing could be a problem. Further, there is no saying when the test on the Acer machines would be done, as it would depend upon the availability of resources. We do not profit from Acer's use of AOO, from your distribution or any company's, at least not directly. Do you have any we can test? Are you perhaps in contact with Acer and able to connect us to that company, so that they can test the application on any of their devices? (Joining the project is not hard; we would welcome your participation and also that of Acer.) Alternatively, perhaps you or your colleagues might find it actually fastest to install AOO 3.4 (in Spanish) on the machines? The government may not approve of such a manoeuvre, as you are not the System Builder. But by joining Apache and participating, even in a modest way, say by describing what your company is doing and planning, you can effectively become part of the community building the application. These are the possibilities that may help you at this stage. I would suggest you write to us soonest with more ideas on how you wish to proceed. Again, your efforts are laudable and praiseworthy. But you are not alone. Portugal has gone through something similar—I can put you in touch with the principal agents there—as has Brazil. And there are other countries in Europe whose sub-national governments have also considered or are deploying OpenOffice on education-ready netbooks. (Norway has used Intel education netbooks, for instance.) Finally, you wrote to a very public list. You can find archives publicly available via the usual search engines. Your message has no particularly personal content, so rest assured. But do expect that my colleagues will likely also respond—indeed, I see that Alexandro has already done that. By the way, I am curious if your company would also be providing the education offices support? Regards, Louis Suárez-Potts Apache OpenOffice PPMC PS, Lo escribió en inglés por que es la convención por estas listas abiertas. On 2012-05-18, at 17:50 , Veronica Cubilla wrote: Who may concern: Regards from Panama!! This is Veronica Cubilla from Cubix Panama (www.cubixlat.com ) an International Wholesaler who participated with a VAR in a tender of 17,800 laptops with Education Minister in Panama that will be used by teachers. One of the requirements of this tender was to include in the proposal Open Office. The laptop we proposed was the Acer Travelmate P243 which have 320GB of HDD. What we need for you is a Certification Letter for Acer as a System Builder who can replicate your software in this laptop, using Apache Open Office 3.4. If you need any other information about this tender you can see it in: http://www.panamacompra.gob.pa/ambientepublico/VistaPreviaCP.aspx?NumLc=2012-0-07-0-08-AV-008941esap=1nnc=1it=1, where you can also find Microsoft letter certificating the usage of Win 7 Pro (which is attached). Thanks in advance for your help. image001.jpg
Re: HELP NEEDED: CERTIFICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A TENDER
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Miss Cubilla, isn't certifying a platform usable with a software the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer? Perhaps I do not understand the request. If I had to guess, Acer needs to be sure that it has permission to copy and redistribute the AOO software. The attachment (stripped when sent to the list, but I have a copy as moderator) was a permission that Microsoft granted for X copies of Office that must be fulfilled via an authorized Microsoft OEM licensee. Of course, we have no such OEM restrictions with AOO. The license permits anyone to copy, modify and redistribute. In particular, Acer can source directly from us, or from any 3rd party if it is convenient to have someone provide additional testing or patch support. -Rob Thanks for contacting us. As someone who has long championed the use of OpenOffice in education, and specifically on netbooks and other portable and mobile devices, I'm delighted to learn of your tender. You probably know this, and if you do, my apologies, Apache OpenOffice is free to use and distribute as you will and is licensed under the Apache License v.2. I have not tried Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on the Acer Travelmate. My guess is that it works fine. However, issuing a statement to that effect, as a System Builder, may pose some logistical problems, as we are an open source project composed of numerous groups operating within the Apache Software Foundation. But your request is important. I'd like therefore to see if this solution works for you and the government: A request to test Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (for Linux, Windows 7, 8) be filed. As we are not a company as such, at least not in the ways that Microsoft is, actually obtaining the Acer netbooks for the testing could be a problem. Further, there is no saying when the test on the Acer machines would be done, as it would depend upon the availability of resources. We do not profit from Acer's use of AOO, from your distribution or any company's, at least not directly. Do you have any we can test? Are you perhaps in contact with Acer and able to connect us to that company, so that they can test the application on any of their devices? (Joining the project is not hard; we would welcome your participation and also that of Acer.) Alternatively, perhaps you or your colleagues might find it actually fastest to install AOO 3.4 (in Spanish) on the machines? The government may not approve of such a manoeuvre, as you are not the System Builder. But by joining Apache and participating, even in a modest way, say by describing what your company is doing and planning, you can effectively become part of the community building the application. These are the possibilities that may help you at this stage. I would suggest you write to us soonest with more ideas on how you wish to proceed. Again, your efforts are laudable and praiseworthy. But you are not alone. Portugal has gone through something similar—I can put you in touch with the principal agents there—as has Brazil. And there are other countries in Europe whose sub-national governments have also considered or are deploying OpenOffice on education-ready netbooks. (Norway has used Intel education netbooks, for instance.) Finally, you wrote to a very public list. You can find archives publicly available via the usual search engines. Your message has no particularly personal content, so rest assured. But do expect that my colleagues will likely also respond—indeed, I see that Alexandro has already done that. By the way, I am curious if your company would also be providing the education offices support? Regards, Louis Suárez-Potts Apache OpenOffice PPMC PS, Lo escribió en inglés por que es la convención por estas listas abiertas. On 2012-05-18, at 17:50 , Veronica Cubilla wrote: Who may concern: Regards from Panama!! This is Veronica Cubilla from Cubix Panama (www.cubixlat.com ) an International Wholesaler who participated with a VAR in a tender of 17,800 laptops with Education Minister in Panama that will be used by teachers. One of the requirements of this tender was to include in the proposal Open Office. The laptop we proposed was the Acer Travelmate P243 which have 320GB of HDD. What we need for you is a Certification Letter for Acer as a System Builder who can replicate your software in this laptop, using Apache Open Office 3.4. If you need any other information about this tender you can see it in: http://www.panamacompra.gob.pa/ambientepublico/VistaPreviaCP.aspx?NumLc=2012-0-07-0-08-AV-008941esap=1nnc=1it=1, where you can also find Microsoft letter certificating the usage of Win 7 Pro (which is attached). Thanks in advance for your help. image001.jpg
Re: HELP NEEDED: CERTIFICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A TENDER
On 2012-05-20, at 21:22 , Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Miss Cubilla, isn't certifying a platform usable with a software the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer? Perhaps I do not understand the request. If I had to guess, Acer needs to be sure that it has permission to copy and redistribute the AOO software. The attachment (stripped when sent to the list, but I have a copy as moderator) was a permission that Microsoft granted for X copies of Office that must be fulfilled via an authorized Microsoft OEM licensee. Of course, we have no such OEM restrictions with AOO. The license permits anyone to copy, modify and redistribute. In particular, Acer can source directly from us, or from any 3rd party if it is convenient to have someone provide additional testing or patch support. My experience has also been that government agencies refuse to have anything to do with software unless it passes all the license and operational tests proprietary software sold by a single vendor does. Put another way, it's difficult for these public sector institutions to adopt open source software because it deviates from the very narrow range of permissible options. I've encountered this situation many times, in countries all around the world, including Canada, those of South East Asia, and so on. Acer might be able to help her out. But I'd be quite interested to work with her to see if she can still satisfy the government requisites. The fact that the Apache Foundation is a separate and independent foundation with legal status will help her and others in similar situations, but if not this government then others, I know, will likely want to be able to assign liability and other faults to an identifiable legal entity. I'd be curious how Apache deals or has dealt with other similar situations. My guess—from downloading enough Apache software in my time—is by not making any claim, save caveat emptor. -louis -Rob Thanks for contacting us. As someone who has long championed the use of OpenOffice in education, and specifically on netbooks and other portable and mobile devices, I'm delighted to learn of your tender. You probably know this, and if you do, my apologies, Apache OpenOffice is free to use and distribute as you will and is licensed under the Apache License v.2. I have not tried Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on the Acer Travelmate. My guess is that it works fine. However, issuing a statement to that effect, as a System Builder, may pose some logistical problems, as we are an open source project composed of numerous groups operating within the Apache Software Foundation. But your request is important. I'd like therefore to see if this solution works for you and the government: A request to test Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (for Linux, Windows 7, 8) be filed. As we are not a company as such, at least not in the ways that Microsoft is, actually obtaining the Acer netbooks for the testing could be a problem. Further, there is no saying when the test on the Acer machines would be done, as it would depend upon the availability of resources. We do not profit from Acer's use of AOO, from your distribution or any company's, at least not directly. Do you have any we can test? Are you perhaps in contact with Acer and able to connect us to that company, so that they can test the application on any of their devices? (Joining the project is not hard; we would welcome your participation and also that of Acer.) Alternatively, perhaps you or your colleagues might find it actually fastest to install AOO 3.4 (in Spanish) on the machines? The government may not approve of such a manoeuvre, as you are not the System Builder. But by joining Apache and participating, even in a modest way, say by describing what your company is doing and planning, you can effectively become part of the community building the application. These are the possibilities that may help you at this stage. I would suggest you write to us soonest with more ideas on how you wish to proceed. Again, your efforts are laudable and praiseworthy. But you are not alone. Portugal has gone through something similar—I can put you in touch with the principal agents there—as has Brazil. And there are other countries in Europe whose sub-national governments have also considered or are deploying OpenOffice on education-ready netbooks. (Norway has used Intel education netbooks, for instance.) Finally, you wrote to a very public list. You can find archives publicly available via the usual search engines. Your message has no particularly personal content, so rest assured. But do expect that my colleagues will likely also respond—indeed, I see that Alexandro has already done that. By the way, I am curious if your company would also be providing the education offices support? Regards, Louis Suárez-Potts Apache OpenOffice PPMC
Re: about 3.4 (crash) - user help needed
Heather, I'm forwarding your issue along to our development list. Could you also provide more details (operating systems, steps you a taking, and what the system does in response to your action). This will help us solve your problem. Regards, Kevin On Thursday, May 17, 2012, Heather Dafoe wrote: Hello there I was wondering if there was a fix for the crashing of open office 3.4 and if so could someone help me. I am using this product in my business and would like to continue using it. Thank you, Heather Dafoe Office Administrator Simpson Welding Inc. Phone: (905) 352-3743 Toll Free: (877) 352-WELD Fax: 905-352-2520 www.simpsonwelding.ca
HELP NEEDED
Hello, I'm sorry if I'm writing to the wrong email adres but i can't find the support email adress. i need help! i saved last night an odt file 28 apges long terribly important to me and now when i tried to open it it asks about the ASCII FILTER wich i have no idea what it is. how can a solve this problem? seraching in the net i found no solution... please help me or at least tell me what email adress i should write to.thank youmarco datola
Re: HELP NEEDED
On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:35:37 +0200 (CEST) kod...@libero.it kod...@libero.it wrote: Hello, I'm sorry if I'm writing to the wrong email adres but i can't find the support email adress. i need help! i saved last night an odt file 28 apges long terribly important to me and now when i tried to open it it asks about the ASCII FILTER wich i have no idea what it is. how can a solve this problem? seraching in the net i found no solution... please help me or at least tell me what email adress i should write to.thank youmarco datola As OpenOffice is distributed at no cost, there is no formal support service, other than the goodwil of Users who give of their time in supporting it, eith on a mailing list such as this, or on the User Forum http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum Tha ASCII filter message means that OpenOffice canot understand your file. This is _bad_ news. In OpenOffice, go to /Tools /Options/ Openoffice.org : Paths and write down the path listed there for temporary files. Now exit OpenOffice. Go to the location listed and see if there are any files there with arbitrary names (example:xryt.bak or sqfge.tmp) and approximately the correct date. Copy these to another directory and rename them to type .odt, then see if they will open with OpenOffice. If not, forget about them. Copy your damaged file to another file called Filename.zip. See if that will open with WinZip or 7zip. If it does, copy out content.xml; this will contain your data, but you will have to edit it heavily to get it reformated to your desire. If you are not computer savvy, get someone who is to help you. Why did this happen? Were you working to a USB stick? If so, you may not have observed the correct procedure to remove a USB device. If you were working to the hard disk, you may have closed down the computer too quickly, before the disk buffers flushed, and the file may be only partially written. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie
Re: HELP NEEDED
On 05/14/2012 09:34 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:35:37 +0200 (CEST) kod...@libero.itkod...@libero.it wrote: Hello, I'm sorry if I'm writing to the wrong email adres but i can't find the support email adress. i need help! i saved last night an odt file 28 apges long terribly important to me and now when i tried to open it it asks about the ASCII FILTER wich i have no idea what it is. how can a solve this problem? seraching in the net i found no solution... please help me or at least tell me what email adress i should write to.thank youmarco datola As OpenOffice is distributed at no cost, there is no formal support service, other than the goodwil of Users who give of their time in supporting it, eith on a mailing list such as this, or on the User Forum http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum Tha ASCII filter message means that OpenOffice canot understand your file. This is _bad_ news. In OpenOffice, go to /Tools /Options/ Openoffice.org : Paths and write down the path listed there for temporary files. Now exit OpenOffice. Go to the location listed and see if there are any files there with arbitrary names (example:xryt.bak or sqfge.tmp) and approximately the correct date. Copy these to another directory and rename them to type .odt, then see if they will open with OpenOffice. If not, forget about them. Copy your damaged file to another file called Filename.zip. See if that will open with WinZip or 7zip. If it does, copy out content.xml; this will contain your data, but you will have to edit it heavily to get it reformated to your desire. If you are not computer savvy, get someone who is to help you. Why did this happen? Were you working to a USB stick? If so, you may not have observed the correct procedure to remove a USB device. If you were working to the hard disk, you may have closed down the computer too quickly, before the disk buffers flushed, and the file may be only partially written. Sometimes this happens because the file was saved with a specific file extension; for example, saving an ODT file as bob.doc rather than bob.odt. Sometimes the file is simply damaged. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
More help needed for AOO Getting Started guide: Calc
Is this statement correct? Each spreadsheet can have many sheets, and each sheet can have many individual cells. In Calc 3.4, each sheet can have a maximum of 1,048,576 rows and 1024 columns.
Re: More help needed for AOO Getting Started guide: Calc
Yes, I think it's correct. 2012/4/26 Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com: Is this statement correct? Each spreadsheet can have many sheets, and each sheet can have many individual cells. In Calc 3.4, each sheet can have a maximum of 1,048,576 rows and 1024 columns. -- Best Regards From aliu...@gmail.com
