Re: AOO questions on Google

2012-12-23 Thread janI
Thanks for the summary ! Personally I asumed that LO would be #1, but I am amazed about #2 (MS Office interoperability and Other formats) I thought that was one of our very strong sides. I might be worthwhile to look a bit deeper into that, and see if the cause for the questions is in lack of

RE: Announce

2012-12-23 Thread RogAdele
Dear Andrea and all old friends at Open Office, I used OO since its=20 inception way back to get away frm Microsoft. I also am gradually=20 gravitating towards Linux to further divorce myself from Microsoft! However about 3-4 yrs ago the was a rift amongst OO's due to its = ownership=20 resulting

Wiki down (mwiki)

2012-12-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I assume this is redundant since it already appears at http://status.apache.org/ but the OpenOffice wiki (the mwiki) has been down for about 7 hours. Are the correct people (probably: imacat, Raphael, Ian) already receiving the Nagios notifications from status.apache.org? Otherwise we might

Re: Wiki down (mwiki)

2012-12-23 Thread janI
HI. No I do not receive these notifications !! And I can see that svn is down as well, so it is a more serious problem. I will have a look at the server. How can I get these notifications, I am a member of infrastructure_interest now. Rgds jan I. On 23 December 2012 13:51, Andrea Pescetti

Re: [WEBSITE] Holiday logo version

2012-12-23 Thread Roberto Galoppini
Hi Michael, great job! Would you mind to do that also for the AOO banner on SourceForge directory (http://sourceforge.net/directory)? Roberto On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Michael Acevedo vea1...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw the logo in the page. It looks very nice and funny. On Saturday,

Re: Announce

2012-12-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/12/2012 RogAdele wrote: CAN NOT THESE TWO FACTIONS SETTLE AND COME TOGETHER AS ONE HUGE THREAT TO OFFICE? Well, I've nothing to add to what I've already written on this: the Apache OpenOffice side did show willingness to cooperate. But cooperation needs willingness on both sides. You

RE: AOO questions on Google

2012-12-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Concerning Microsoft Office interoperability, I suspect the absence of a way to save documents in OOXML formats is a detractor from Apache OpenOffice 3.4. There are the usual interchange fidelity issues as well, depending on which interchangeable formats are used. - Dennis -Original

Re: AOO questions on Google

2012-12-23 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi, Long time since I said anything and so how about, Happy Holidays, to start. Just to say that the #2 doesn't surprise me at all and yes I would strongly suspect it has lots to do with OOXML. Don't forget that this does not necessarily mean interoperability with MSO it also means

Re: New documentation list active

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrea Pescetti wrote: The documentation mailing list is now active. It took a while this time, but Infra was experimenting with the new tools, it should get better in future. The mailing list address is d...@openoffice.apache.org To subscribe, as usual, send a message to

Re: [DISCUSS] Recourse for Sites Which Do Not Acknowledge Trademarks

2012-12-23 Thread Kay Schenk
On 12/22/2012 03:46 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: One of the ways that sites that offer downloads of Apache OpenOffice (or OpenOffice.org) often do is: (1) Don't acknowledge that the trademarks are the Apache Software Foundation's. (2) Make use of the project's and ASF's resources to offer free

Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:1+mid:pkyogj4m45anxuxg+state:results. I propose to start merging and updating the User FAQ's from the website

Re: Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2012-12-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+**list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-** dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.**apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:**

Re: Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2012-12-23 Thread janI
On 23 December 2012 19:31, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.netwrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+**list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-** dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.**apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:**

Re: AOO questions on Google

2012-12-23 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
No save as for docx is why libre is installed on a few machines i sometimes deal with. Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G F C. Costero fjcc.apa...@gmail.com wrote: Since there is some interest in this particular topic, here are the 9 questions I categorized as MS Interoperability with the number

Re: Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+**list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-**

Re: Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
janI wrote: On 23 December 2012 19:31, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.netwrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+**list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-** dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.**apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:**

Re: AOO questions on Google

2012-12-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:00 PM, F C. Costero fjcc.apa...@gmail.com wrote: I did a little summary of the questions posted so far on Google. The attached file shows: Thanks for the summary. I was hoping we could collect questions for the remainder of the month and then pick the top questions

User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2012-12-23 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello; The ASF is a non-profit organization, we don't pay for coding but concerning docx support there was a talk from Matthias Stürmer in ApacheConEU: http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/presentation/46/ This effort, of course, predates the establishment of AOO as a TLP so we were not consulted.

Re: New documentation list active

2012-12-23 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi 2012/12/23 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: The mailing list address is d...@openoffice.apache.org Good! -- Albino www.albino.ws

Re: Request Mwiki account

2012-12-23 Thread Helen russian
Hello Mwiki account has been created for you. You have a email. -- WBR, Helen 2012/12/24 MartaPoloUsaola marta...@gmail.com: My choice of user names: - ies.galileogalilei.alcorcon - marta...@villatic.org - martadcm Thanks Marta Polo Usaola marta...@gmail.com

Fwd: wiki.open office Volunteer Application

2012-12-23 Thread 陶然
-- Forwarded message -- From: 陶然 doreentr0...@gmail.com Date: 2012/12/18 Subject: Re: wiki.open office Volunteer Application To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Hi, Thank you for the account!But I can not edit mwiki after I logged in.I wonder that if I can get more permit to edit

Re: Link to Contact Us is broken on openoffice.apache.org

2012-12-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Thank you for reporting this, we'll make sure is corrected ASAP. On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:35 AM, SmallVillage Astrologer color...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Just a little thing I noticed while browsing the website at openoffice.apache.org. The link to Contact Us which located in website