Re: OpenOffice and SourceForge: cruel wedding

2016-01-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Patience! Let's see what Roberto has to say Something has been puzzling me lately. What if this is delliberate?. I mean, people setting up these "fake AOO" sites and then joining the SF.net advertisers network only to

Re: OpenOffice and SourceForge: cruel wedding

2016-01-08 Thread Roberto Galoppini
Thanks for your patience, what follows it's the result of a joint meeting with our AdOps team and our Managing Director. Ad Ops has paused the Google Ad Exchange ad serving on SourceForge.net's Apache Open Office project pages. This will continue while the team completes our review of the Ad

Updating the WHY section of www.openoffice.org

2016-01-08 Thread Jan Høydahl
Hi I filed bug https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126777 about outdated WHY sub page "Office 2003 EOL”. See issue for details. Dennis requested that the discussion continues in this mailing list. My initial concern was that an outdated web page looks really bad, referring to 2014 as a

Re: OpenOffice and SourceForge: cruel wedding

2016-01-08 Thread toki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/2016 20:54, Roberto Galoppini wrote: > Thanks for your patience, what follows it's the result of a joint meet ing > with our AdOps team and our Managing Director. Is "our AdOps team" a SourceForge team, or an Apache Software Foundation

New Dev Volunteer

2016-01-08 Thread Mugdha Mohapatra
Hello! I'm Mugdha. I'm from India, doing BE(Hons.) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani University. I really want to contribute to this open source project. I know the basics in C and C++ language. Any help would to get me started would be appreciated.

Re: New Dev Volunteer

2016-01-08 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Hi Mugdha Welcome to Apache OpenOffice! It's wonderful of you to want to contribute. Your C and C++ skills would be valuable here. If you wish to get started with development, you should probably first check out the source code and get it to compile (what platform are you on?):