[native-lang] IRC meeting for NLC 2005-01-25 0800 UTC

2005-01-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi I'd like to call an emergency meeting of the NLC leads to discuss the issues surrounding the Stylist vs Styles issue that has been discussed on the mail list. The meeting will be via IRC. I propose Tuesday 2005-01-25 0800 UTC, which should be okay for all of us. (It's midnight for me, but that

[native-lang] Minutes from NLC 2005-01-25 meeting

2005-01-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
2005-01-25 21:00 UTC Attendees: 19 NLC leads, including Charles Schulz, lead of NLC and Louis Suarez-Potts, Co-Lead. This emergency meeting was called to address the issues raised by the Stylist/Style issue discussed on dev@native-lang.openoffice.org and elsewhere and of particular concern

Re: [native-lang] Question about HSQLDB call for funds in your communities ?

2005-02-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Sophie, Hi to all, I would like to know how the HSQLDB call for funds is percieved in your projects. Is it something that surprised members but do they tend to agree with, or is it something that really frightened them because of how that could influence the final quality of the embedded

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org Joins the Call to Action in OASIS

2005-02-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, OpenOffice.org joins with the other signatories to protest the patent policy adopted by OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, the international consortium responsible for e-business standards. The call to action, issued by noted open-source

Re: [native-lang] EN Native-Lang

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello, Hello, I have to say that I'm a little bit confused by all this. Even though I am in favor of an EN native-lang project, I'm afraid it would be created now for the bad reasons. It is not because the Marketing project pretendedly does a bad job that an EN project should be created.

Re: [native-lang] EN Native-Lang

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Sophie, If I agree that an EN project should not be created out of frustration, however I think that what Ryan and Ian expressed has to be taken into consideration. I'm surprised that we say no to people offering time an energy to our community. I feel that this is not the concept of the

Re: [native-lang] EN Native-Lang

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Jonathon, A north_american_regional_group would, by default, have to include, at a minimum, Spanish, and French. [French being an official language of Canada. Spanish being an official language in two states and the dominant language in five states of the united states. Not really. You

Re: [native-lang] EN Native-Lang

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi I think it was agreed that one born out of frustration was not a good idea which is why there has been backing off. That does not mean that in principle an EN project is not needed for the reasons Charles and Sophie articulate. To me its simply a matter of symmetry and being seen to be

Re: [native-lang] fisl6.0

2005-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Anyone planning to go to the 6th International Free Software Forum http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/ June 1-4, 2005, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil ? Yes. If you wish to present a paper, the Call for Papers deadline is Monday 28 Feb, see: https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/papers/index.en.html Thanks!

[native-lang] Re: [discuss] NLC IRC Conferences

2005-02-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello Daniel and Ian, [snip] I'm maintaining the conference schedule here: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/conference/ I noticed in the schedule of the conference that Ian is listed as hailing from the English community and Daniel from English/Spanish comm. There is at present no English

Re: [native-lang] Re:[native-lang] Re: [l10n-dev] N. Korean localization : Impossible?

2005-04-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi charles-h.schulz wrote: First, OOo is not bound by US law. In fact, one wonders what law is applicable to us since we have no legal existence as a united body (sigh, sigh). But the fact that Collabnet and Sun take part in the process make the things more difficult since they're based in the

Re: [native-lang] Re: [Fwd: polish nlc proposal]

2005-04-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello Adam, you still seem to have troubles with the mailing list... We'll check that out later. Very strange. Adam, I added you to the subscribers' list for [EMAIL PROTECTED] best Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[native-lang] OEM Project Revives

2005-04-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
HI *, We are creating the OEM (sub) project in Distribution, and would like the input from NLC leads. The OEM project lists OEMs distributing OOo plus lists *what* they should be distributing; the model is the cdrom project. Lars Noodn and Anthony Long are the leads. Many of the NLC leads

Re: [native-lang] Integrating OOo Online Glossary Management to xy.openoffice.org

2005-04-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello David, On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 13:10 +0200, David Fraser wrote: Cool. Where do we find out what kinds of web apps are possible to support on CollabNet / OOo websites and who do we talk to about such things? Louis, in the first place. My company (Ars Aperta) can, in theory, host the

[native-lang] Apps for server [WAS: Re: [native-lang] Integrating OOo Online Glossary Management to xy.openoffice.org

2005-04-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Even if this very generous offer is not realizable, I think it makes sense to start compiling a list of things we would like on a non-SourceCast server--what technologies, etc. 1) PHP + MySQL (for web forms, and interesting web-based services). 2) A Wiki. 3) A CMS

Re: [native-lang] Spreading OpenOffice Tamil

2005-04-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
was not only popular but--he he--so much more popular and interesting than that other suite. Congratulations and again, please send me a link. best Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail

[native-lang] add ons and ISVs

2005-04-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Erwin and I are trying to gather information about all the add ons, plug ins, and ISVs out there for or distributing OOo. I opened two issues for this purpose: 1. Add ons: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33986 2. ISVs: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=48079

Re: [native-lang] Adding information for Albanian native-lang project

2005-04-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hello Shkumbin, congratulations for your site! Would you like me to announce it publicly? I can draft an announcement that can be included in the OpenOffice.org Monthly newsletter, and elsewhere. Stefan, could you please add the Albanian NL project to the list

Re: [native-lang] Update: Sun/NLC meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Louis, Hi Christian, * I think your comments address the larger issue of handling RFEs generally, not the particular one of getting representative NLC leads early into discussions with Sun on the app's direction. However, the point you repeatedly made, that Sun's decision making process is

Re: [native-lang] Re: Update: Sun/NLC meeting

2005-05-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
[Hi all, This is the 7th time I try to post on the list, I put Charles in copy in case he could forward it, thanks] As I explained to Sophie directly, she was not subscribed; now she is, as an allowed poster. Best, Louis - To

Re: [native-lang] Update: Sun/NLC meeting

2005-05-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Andre, On Thursday, May 5, 2005, at 8:24 AM GMT +0200, Andre Schnabel wrote: Hi Louis, Whom to listen to. Thos who might raise profit? Sun SO listens now to its StarOffice clients and hardly at all, we believe, to OOo's. StarOffice clients pay money, OOo's do not. So maybe there

Re: [native-lang] Update: Sun/NLC meeting

2005-05-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
HI, On Wednesday, May 4, 2005, at 3:30 PM GMT +0100, Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi Louis, all Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Friends, Earlier this year,[1] we held an emergency meeting whose purpose was to clarify the position of the NLC leads regarding changes made to OOo and to see about being

Re: [native-lang] Update: Sun/NLC meeting

2005-05-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On Thursday, May 5, 2005, at 8:53 PM GMT +0900, Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Louis and all, What is NDA? NonDisclosure Agreement? Yes. Customarily used by corporations to preserve secrets. The point would be that StarOffice is a proprietary product manufactured for a profit. To gain access to early

Re: [native-lang] Scots Gaelic

2005-05-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi All, On Thursday, May 5, 2005, at 10:15 PM GMT +0100, John McCreesh wrote: I've just been told that the Scots Gaelic version of OOo 1.1.4 funded by the Scottish Executive is now complete, and work is underway on producing CDs for distribution to schools. The official launch is next month.

[native-lang] Community Contributor Representative Election!

2005-06-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
that this is but one of several other elections being run concurrently. -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[native-lang] Vote for Community Contributor Representative

2005-07-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
for OpenOffice.org's votes and surveys! -Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2

2005-08-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
resolves issues found, the sooner we can come out with a production-ready 2.0 :-) As to what 2.0 does: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/ index.html Spread the word, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[native-lang] License Simplification

2005-09-02 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, On 2 September 2005 Sun Microsystems announced that it was retiring the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL), an Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved software license. In recent weeks, the OSI, which authorises open-source licenses, has been discussing limiting license

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Candidate

2005-09-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, OpenOffice.org 2.0 has gone from being a Beta to a Release Candidate (RC). Congratulations to all who made this possible! As an RC, OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC still--even more so--needs to be downloaded and tested by the community. So we urge you to go to http://

[native-lang] Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

2005-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (131) 523-9218 Louis Suarez-Potts OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625-3843 Copyright © 2005 - OpenOffice.org ---///--- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[native-lang] Docs and Files

2005-10-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The site is getting hammered. We need for you to help out. Please do not link directly to public images, guides, how-tos in the Docs/Files section. Place those high-visibility files in CVS and ask that they be staticised. Now. Same goes for Issue Tracker objects. Thanks louis

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here

2005-10-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here 20 October, 2005 OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org

[native-lang] Thanks!

2005-10-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Thanks to all who made the launch of 2.0 so successful! As of this writing, I expect at least a million people have downloaded the application and have begun to use it. The launch was brilliant. it would not have been possible without the contributions of the mirrors (over 100!), without

Re: [native-lang] Opinions about OOo future

2005-11-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2005-11-08, at 13:58 , Laurent Godard wrote: I too think that it makes sense to separate an OOo entity (foundation or not) from an OpenDocument one. I wish things were clear and simple and that what we wished were always so. For now, I think that the status quo wrt OOo will

Re: [native-lang] list of major OOo deployments

2005-12-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Christian, On 2005-12-03, at 09:57 , Christian Lohmaier wrote: Hi Louis, *, On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:19:52PM -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: I'm once again compiling my informal list of major OOo deployments and need help. I'd also like to make the list public and easily editable

[native-lang] P2P Project

2005-12-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Everyone! The P2P project needs you :-) See http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ Deepankar Datta, who helped to put the project into shape and who initially created and maintained the Web pages, no longer has the time to manage the project. Adrian Mcneil and Mike Niblett (who does the

[native-lang] download list...

2005-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, Lots of new projects... and in the new wealth, some projects have not been added to http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html or to the download list at http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.1/index.html . If you need your project added, please file an issue, www component,

[native-lang] Re: Map of OOo developers around the world

2005-12-21 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Eike Rathke has created a map of OOo developers around the world. He announced this on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The map includes (or will) not just coders but others involved in making OOo. See http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=devmsgNo=15618 (or http://tinyurl.com/cp7ju) for more

Re: [native-lang] [Fwd: [pr] OpenOffice.org Announces Version 2.0.1 (Final)]

2005-12-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2005-12-22, at 06:17 , Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hello Rajesh, I've put Louis in copy as he's updating those pages at the moment. Thanks, Charles. Rajesh Ranjan wrote: Hi, Three Indian Languages Hindi, Punjabi and Gujrati has passes test QA -

[native-lang] localisation qa process and webpages

2005-12-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi all, First, thanks all for using, when you can, the localisation qa process! In case you are not yet familiar with it, it is here, http:// qa.openoffice.org/localized/index.html Some important points: * Once a localized build has been tested and it has passed the tests, then its entry

[native-lang] GPLv3

2006-01-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
please respond on dev@openoffice.org Hi *, I'm here at MIT in Boston representing OOo at the GPLv3 meeting and I'd like for the NLC leads and developers on dev@openoffice.org to tell me what you are interested in. Yes, OOo uses LGPL but that's not at issue here. Let me know on the

Re: [native-lang] new members

2006-01-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2006-01-25, at 05:07 , Charles-H.Schulz wrote: I think we do have some guidelines, however, for the design of web pages, don't we? We do, cited in /styles/ . But the download pages need to be updated, and I am not sure we have current download page templates. Those are important.

Re: [native-lang] using the wiki

2006-01-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-01-25, at 05:17 , Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hi, this is question to Louis but also to the NL project leads. What do you think about using the OOo wiki? It is already used for development, for marketing to some extent, and for other works. I do not have anything anything

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org Developer Article Contest starts on February 1, 2006

2006-01-31 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org Developer Article Contest starts on February 1, 2006 === Dear developers and technical writers, OpenOffice.org, with the support of Team OpenOffice.org e.V. and extra sponsorship from Sun Microsystems,

Re: [native-lang] Re:[native-lang] Finnish Native-Lang group awarded

2006-02-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2006-02-06, at 17:56 , Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's under Suomi. I should probably also put a Finnish (fi) there... I remember there was a discussion about this when the project was launched. I think Asmo wanted it to be called and registered as Suomi.

[native-lang] FWD--Creating Locale Files for African Languages

2006-02-27 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
distribute this message widely. Alberto Escudero-Pascual Louise Berthilson [1] Example of locale http://www.it46.se/downloads/locale/sw_TZ.xml [2] PanAfrican Localisation Woorkshop http://www.bisharat.net/PanAfrLoc/ -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org smime.p7s

Re: [native-lang] Collabnet templates

2006-03-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Lars, the current version, 2.6.x, is changing shortly; when, I don't know, but probably by summer. the templates may change, too, or at least some. The subsequent version will have a lot more documentation. The one we are using was a quite early version of the app and lacked crucial

Re: [native-lang] Collabnet templates

2006-03-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi On 2006-02-28, at 19:37 , Lars D. Noodén wrote: Hi, How can the Collabnet-generated pages be changed? e.g.http://sv.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMemberList I don't believe then can be, at least not by non-CollabNet people. What you can do, probably, is use static html pages that

[native-lang] Indic Language Updates

2006-03-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
At the recent LinuxAsia 2006 conference, held in Delhi last month [0], I met with Sankarshan Mukhopadhay, lead of the Bengali language project, among other thigns. I also met with some members of his team who were able to attend the conference. And I am glad I met with them all. There are

Re: [native-lang] Reactive to account New !!!

2006-03-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
user removed. See i#62988 Louis On 2006-03-09, at 15:39 , PayPal wrote: Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:31:17 +0800 (CST) br / br / Unauthorized access to your PayPal account! br / br / br / We

[native-lang] LinuxForum 2006 update and beyond

2006-03-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
LinuxForum this year saw Simon Phipps give a brilliant presentation and a packed news conference where he, Søren Thing Pedersen, Grete (name?) and a regional Microsoft exec. discussed--*not* the right word--the merits of ODF and MS' Open XML. Groklaw has an account,

Re: [native-lang] LinuxForum 2006 update and beyond

2006-03-10 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-03-10, at 06:56 , Lars D. Noodén wrote: On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [snip] * Local to the Danish project: Greenland/Faroe localizations: aboriginal languages. I need contacts in the Greenland government, I daresay, to get this going

[native-lang] First Winner Developer Article Contest!

2006-03-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
/OpenOffice.org_Developer_Article_Contest -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[native-lang] OOoCon 2006 Call For Papers

2006-03-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
The OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2006) Call for Papers *Your proposal should be sent before 1 June 2006 in order to guarantee that it will be considered for inclusion in the Conference.* We are soliciting papers from the broad OpenOffice.org community on topics ranging from developing

[native-lang] Scheduled Maintenance 2006-04-01 01:00-09:00 UTC

2006-03-28 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
apologize for the inconvenience but wish to alert you that you will still be able to download OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 by going to one of the downloads sites listed during the outage on the OpenOffice.org homepage, http://www.openoffice.org/. Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[native-lang] Brief Maintenance Downtime 2006-04-17 17:30 UTC

2006-04-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
too disruptive. Regards, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [native-lang] Proposal of a New Native-Lang Project for Tibetan

2006-04-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-04-07, at 05:53 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Jia, Jiayanmin a écrit : Hello Charles-H. Schulz, I have signed and faxed the JCA. thanks. What is left to do now for you would be to submit your ssh keys (see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NLC for

[native-lang] Migration Documents Wiki Created

2006-05-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Sent to com@native-lang.openoffice.org Hi I began populating the page with some obvious contenders and also created a minimalist table for the wiki. I just created it in HTML then cut and pasted; worked for me. But if you have any skill with wikis, go for it. :-) The table is truly

Re: [native-lang] Migration Documents Wiki Created

2006-05-09 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2006-05-09, at 09:59 , Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello Louis, hello all, Louis Suarez-Potts a écrit : Sent to com@native-lang.openoffice.org Hi I began populating the page with some obvious contenders and also created a minimalist table for the wiki. I just created it in HTML

Re: [native-lang] New Co-Lead in the germanophone project

2006-05-11 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hello Marko! On 2006-05-10, at 10:25 , Marko Moeller wrote: Hi all, Jacqueline was so kind to send You a short report of my election as the new Co-Lead in the Germanphone project. I will try to follow the footsteps of Helga and the other former Germanphone Co-Leads to continue our work

Re: [native-lang] 2.0.3 feature guide

2006-05-15 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-05-15, at 13:37 , Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi all, For you information, with the help of Cor, I've completed the feature guide for 2.0.3 which is available here for the moment. http://fr.openoffice.org/files/documents/ 67/3279/203_newfeatures_05_15.odt Thanks!! Please don't

[native-lang] New Developer Article Contest

2006-05-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, New Winner, Developer Article Contest S. Sevki Dincer has won April's Developer Article Contest; congratulations! Sevki's article is a step by step guide on how to write a simple component (a Calc add-in) for OpenOffice.org (OOo) in C ++. The Developer Article Contest continues each

Re: [native-lang] Events

2006-05-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-05-17, at 16:45 , Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi Louis, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hi I'd like to list all events related to OOo that the OOo community members will be speaking at or holding workshops in. We used to do a version of this but it became too unwieldy as more and more

[native-lang] Site Infrastructure Upgrade: Tuesday 20 June

2006-06-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
other things; performance may also be affected [0] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Upgrade [2] http://www.collab.net/rn/3_5_1.html Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager CollabNet

[native-lang] Re: Introducing an upcoming NL Project

2006-06-22 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
(Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 Is Here. Download It Now.

2006-06-29 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
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[native-lang] Interview: Mathias Bauer, Jürgen Schmidt

2006-07-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
the shape of things to come for OpenOffice.org. See: http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/interview- mathias_bauer_juergen_schmidt.html -Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail

[native-lang] New Developer Article Contest Winner!

2006-07-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, We have a new Developer Article Contest Winner: Kohei Yoshida Hacking Calc--The First Step, by Kohei Yoshida, has won June's contest. As have the other winners before him, Kohei Yoshida wins USD $750 and international fame. It's merited: Hacking Calc is important reading for any

[native-lang] Brief Downtime Today: 20:30 UTC

2006-07-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, OpenOffice.org will be offline for about on hour commencing 20:30 UTC today. All mail lists, forums, IssueZilla, CVS, will be unavailable. Download sites and anoncvs will be unaffected. We regret the inconvenience. -Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org CollabNet

Re: [native-lang] Re: [com] Asian CJK Group Announced!

2006-07-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2006-07-20, at 02:43 , Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi, The CJK Group would like to learn from the older NL Groups such as Eurasian NL Group and Indic NL Group. I would like to encourage them to create their NL Group wiki. Thanks, khirano Asian CJK NL Group wiki:

[native-lang] Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index

2006-07-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
There has been comment in the media about a report on a French language website: Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index The ZDNet article [1] claims to describe the proceedings of a confidential meeting within the French public administration. It is not appropriate for the

[native-lang] EuroOscon 2006

2006-08-14 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org will be at EuroOscon 2006. It'll be held in Brussels, from 18-21 September. We'll have three hours set aside for discussions, tutorials, debates, and so on. That's two back-to-back BoFs. I'm also working on seeing if we can get an exhibit set up. But the BoFs may be more

[native-lang] Re: [discuss] Native Language Confederation-kannada not listed

2006-09-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2006-09-04, at 06:30 , Sanganagouda Khanagoudar wrote: Dear OpenOffice, I love openoffice, and I love my native language kannada more than anything. I want my favorate openoffice in Kannada. so please include kannada in the projects list for native languages. Native Language

[native-lang] Re: [project leads] Documentation Template Contest

2006-09-18 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Well, we have not quite kicked off the contest. That will happen this week :-) But *everyone* on this planet really should send in templates, anyway. ciao Louis On 2006-09-14, at 18:06 , Scott Carr wrote: The Documentation Project and Worldlabel invite everyone to participate in our

[native-lang] Template Clipart Contest!

2006-09-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, The Documentation Project is holding a competition for templates and clipart, and there is *prize money.* The goal is to increase our trove. Frankly, we don't have enough; users are feeling deprived. That means over 50 million people. You can help change that... and also maybe win

[native-lang] Template/Clipart contest!

2006-09-25 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
who might be interested. We need for people to learn of this contest and that they, too, can participate. Help us get more templates; spread the word! Thanks, Louis -- Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [native-lang] Proposal for New NLC Project

2006-09-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Amer, et al., Project has been added. Congratulations, Louis On 2006-08-31, at 01:16 , Amer Javaid wrote: Hi! My team wants to develop an OpenOffice NLC project targeted for URDU language. This language is a native language of more than 500 million people in Pakistan India and is

[native-lang] [pr] FINAL: OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Is Here.... And It's Our Birthday!

2006-10-13 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
the suite may be found at http://www.openoffice.org/product Press Contacts John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Cristian Driga (UTC +0200) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] +40 7887 000 60 Louis Suarez-Potts

[native-lang] Two Weeks Remaining for Contest!

2006-10-16 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
submissions Cheers, Louis Suarez-Potts Community Manager OpenOffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[native-lang] OpenOffice.org 2.1 Is Here

2006-12-12 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Objects (UNO) for developers: http://udk.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers: http:// api.openoffice.org/ Press Contacts Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 John McCreesh (UTC +0h00

[native-lang] Re: [council-discuss] Communication on security alerts

2007-01-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-01-07, at 04:34 , sophie wrote: Hi all, I'm ccing the Community Council list too because I think it's a very important question to be discussed. There have been a security alert related largely by the press these last days. I for myself have learned it simultaneously by

Re: [native-lang] Proposal: Kurdish NLC project

2007-01-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Welcome to the projects! I created the project, updated the right pages. Now we have to get your ssh2 key accepted Ciao louis On 2006-12-14, at 05:47 , Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Erdal, Welcome to the Native-Lang Confederation... at last! :-) So, here's a little bit of paperwork for

[native-lang] Students!

2007-01-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Dear all but especially students (and recent students), Kay Ramme has been leading an update of our to-dos and the results are so far great. See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/To-Dos . One of the drivers for this is that we are starting to work more with colleges and universities

[native-lang] The ODF Toolkit Project

2007-01-23 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
(UNO) for developers: http://udk.openoffice.org * OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers: http://api.openoffice.org * Press Contacts Louis Suarez-Potts (UTC -05h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 (416) 625 3843 John McCreesh (UTC +0h00) OpenOffice.org

[native-lang] Fwd: ODF Alliance Action Alert: Contradictions in Ecma Office Open XML (OOXML)

2007-01-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Marino Macich of the ODF Alliance, of which I am a member, representing OOo, sent me this. Most here are probably aware of the drama b/w ODF vs OOXML. The issues transcend the technical; they have real social importance. Best, Louis --- Subject: ODF Alliance Action Alert: Contradictions

Re: [native-lang] Broken link on http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html

2007-02-06 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi, On 2007-02-06, at 16:10 , John McCreesh wrote: The link to Telugu (te) appears to be incorrect ... fixed. I was just in the area of India (Hyderabad) where Telegu is spoken, too :-( I presented on OOo, the ODF Toolkit, and how to contribute to a group of enthusiastic CS students.

[native-lang] Using Bouncer for Downloads

2007-02-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, As many of you are aware, we use Bouncer for downloads. [0] This is a sophisticated (to me, anyway) download mechanism that more or less does what load balancing does: it alleviates downloaders of confusing choice and chooses available servers that have the application. Each mirror

Re: [native-lang] Using Bouncer for Downloads

2007-02-07 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi, On 2007-02-07, at 15:57 , Andrea Pescetti wrote: Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: As many of you are aware, we use Bouncer for downloads. ... It would be great if all used it, as it would not only simplify things for your users but also allow us to better track downloads, For this very same

Re: [native-lang] Using Bouncer for Downloads

2007-02-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2007-02-08, at 03:37 , sophie wrote: Hi Louis, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, As many of you are aware, we use Bouncer for downloads. [0] This is a sophisticated (to me, anyway) download mechanism that more or less does what load balancing does: it alleviates downloaders

Re: [native-lang] Using Bouncer for Downloads

2007-02-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
. These are good points. I'll communicate them to Corey at OSU. Kind Regards Marko Best, louis sophie wrote: Hi Louis, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: All, As many of you are aware, we use Bouncer for downloads. [0] This is a sophisticated (to me, anyway) download mechanism that more or less does what

Re: [native-lang] Problems to pass changed files to my pap project.

2007-02-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-01-31, at 07:43 , Peter M. Damiana wrote: Dear All, I worked on my webpage for the pap-project and tried to send it through openoffice.org, however, I haven't seen any changes. I tried with cygwin and TortoiseSVN-1.4.0.7532-Windows-XP. I went through the manual and checked

Re: [native-lang] a new blog to summarize news

2007-02-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2007-02-05, at 13:46 , John McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 17:13 +0100, sophie wrote: Hi all, I've opened a new blog that has an English category. In this blog I'll try to summarize the important (or what I find important ;-) news for our projects that I read on the several

Re: [native-lang] International Mother Language Day - 21 February

2007-02-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Did a special page for this get created? If so, where? I'd like to have a little blurb on the OOo homepage and would also like to link to that page... ... and it's really close to 21 Feb. Ciao louis On 2007-02-15, at 13:43 , John McCreesh wrote: International Mother Language Day - 21

Re: [native-lang] International Mother Language Day - 21 February

2007-02-19 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
hi, On 2007-02-19, at 22:26 , Bernhard Dippold wrote: I added http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/images/ mother_language_day_1600px.png and http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/images/ mother_language_day_1000px.png and blurbed from the homepage, http://www.openoffice.org/ Thanks to

Re: [native-lang] Please join (and spread the word): Community member's photos for poster

2007-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Folks, this is our opportunity to finally do what we've wanted: get a living snapshot (so to speak) of the project teams :-) I would imagine we can abstract the map and images from the headline and make it the face of OOo, or some such. So: Please encourage your project members to add

Re: [native-lang] New language coordinator for Danish/Denmark

2007-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Leif, On 2007-02-21, at 15:10 , Leif Lodahl wrote: Hi, The Danish community has elected me to succeed in the position of coordinator in Denmark. Thank you very much to Søren Thing Pedersen for his hard work over the last years. I have learned a lot from him and I hope you will stay

[native-lang] Major OOo deployments

2007-02-24 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
All, I was looking through the wiki on Major OOo deployments [0] and noticed that there were a lot that were not accounted for. Please, if you know of any, add them to the wiki. We use this (or least I do) for a lot of marketing. It has enormous persuasive force, both for those wanting to

Re: [native-lang] CampOpenOffice.org in 2007

2007-02-26 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-02-26, at 07:35 , Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello everyone, some of you already may have heard about the DE project's so-called CampOpenOffice.org, which has been held in 2006, and will be held again in 2007. I have posted a summary last September, which you can read at

[native-lang] Hello Vitor Domingos?

2007-03-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Vitor, I seem to have trouble contacting with you... If you receive this, can you get back to me? Thanks Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[native-lang] Jumpstart Localisation !

2007-04-05 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
I just learned of this event in Bangalore. Perhaps some will be able to make it? It's 6-8 April 2007. best, Louis http://www.iosn.net/regional/jumpstart-localisation/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

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