RE: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Right, thanks. I talk to Ward (Cunningham) practically every week, and I still confuse his name with Ward Christensen when typing it in text. Christensen was a well-known CPM-80 open-source contributor from the 1980s. (In his day job, he was an IBM tech rep.) - Dennis -Original Message

Re: OOO SDK

2013-03-01 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hi Henry, On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 03:54:05PM -0600, Henry Tiquet Leyva wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm learning how to use the "sequences" in the OOO SDK. What language binding are you using? UNO IDL has the type sequence that is mapped to different types in each language binding http://wiki.openoff

Re: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I don't think entropy is the proper term. > > The physicists version that I learned was in the following form: > > 1. You can't win. > 2. You can't even break even. > 3. And you can't get out of the game. > > I think an appropriate con

Re: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Joseph Schaefer
His last name is Cunningham, not Christensen, and I enjoyed his bar camp talk quite a bit at this year's Apachecon. Pity the AOO contingent was small this time round. On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I don't think entropy is the proper term. > > The physicists version th

RE: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I don't think entropy is the proper term. The physicists version that I learned was in the following form: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't even break even. 3. And you can't get out of the game. I think an appropriate concern, here, has to do with technical debt. The longer the technical debt

Re: Draft blog post: Istanbul to Islamabad

2013-03-01 Thread Kadal Amutham
The thickness of a CD is 1.2mm. If 40 million CDs are stacked one over the other, it will reach a height of 48KM ( 1.2 mm x 4000 / 1000 ) in meter. It will be taller than the tallest mount Everest by 4 times. This is close to highest altitude achieved by a jet plane. ( Kindly recheck the calcul

Re: New DEFLATE algorithm from Google

2013-03-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi On 13-03-01, at 17:15 , Rob Weir wrote: > http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/02/compress-data-more-densely-with-zopfli.html > > 8% better compression at the cost of slower compression. > Decompression speed is said to be unchanged. Apache License 2.0. > > Do we have any use for this

New DEFLATE algorithm from Google

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2013/02/compress-data-more-densely-with-zopfli.html 8% better compression at the cost of slower compression. Decompression speed is said to be unchanged. Apache License 2.0. Do we have any use for this? Probably not a good trade-off for the use of DEFLATE in

Re: update service for not released languages [was: Re: Registration]

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:26 PM, janI wrote: > On 1 March 2013 21:00, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> Are we expecting any change to Pootle in the near term? If so, what and >>> when? >>> >> >> The changes look trivial but are not so trivial since Pootle accounts are >> now lin

Re: Sidebar: new developer builds

2013-03-01 Thread Mechtilde
Hallo Andre, Am 20.02.2013 13:07, schrieb Andre Fischer: > Hi, > > after some very hard work the Impress panels are now migrated to the > sidebar. These are panels for > > - Layouts > - Master pages (all, recent, used) > - Custom animation > - Slide transition > - Table > > I have created new

Re: update service for not released languages [was: Re: Registration]

2013-03-01 Thread janI
On 1 March 2013 21:00, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > >> Are we expecting any change to Pootle in the near term? If so, what and >> when? >> > > The changes look trivial but are not so trivial since Pootle accounts are > now linked to committer accounts. Currently anonymous users can

Re: update service for not released languages [was: Re: Registration]

2013-03-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Are we expecting any change to Pootle in the near term? If so, what and when? The changes look trivial but are not so trivial since Pootle accounts are now linked to committer accounts. Currently anonymous users can suggest translations, and users cannot register (they have t

Re: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Donald Whytock wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> I'd love to hear your thoughts, and see your improvements or corrections. > > "Entropy. The longer we go without solving some of the above problems > the worse things will get." > > I'd l

Re: Draft blog post: Istanbul to Islamabad

2013-03-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_40_mllion_downloads We're at 39,695,540 right now, so we should hit 40m before Monday. I'll hold the post until them. If anyone has any other good analogies or visualizations of 40m let me know. Nice post. I wo

Re: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > I apologize in advance for talking like a corporation. But I think > there is some good things we can borrow from corporate thinking, and > one is to discuss and adopt long-term strategic plans. The danger of > not doing this is that continually

Re: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:21 AM, janI wrote: > On 1 March 2013 16:19, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I apologize in advance for talking like a corporation. But I think >> there is some good things we can borrow from corporate thinking, and >> one is to discuss and adopt long-term strategic plans. The dan

Re: Draft blog post: Istanbul to Islamabad

2013-03-01 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_40_mllion_downloads > > We're at 39,695,540 right now, so we should hit 40m before Monday. > I'll hold the post until them. > > If anyone has any other good analogies or visualiza

Re: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread janI
On 1 March 2013 16:19, Rob Weir wrote: > I apologize in advance for talking like a corporation. But I think > there is some good things we can borrow from corporate thinking, and > one is to discuss and adopt long-term strategic plans. The danger of > not doing this is that continually focus on

Re: Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > I'd love to hear your thoughts, and see your improvements or corrections. "Entropy. The longer we go without solving some of the above problems the worse things will get." I'd like to see a slightly-less-apocalyptic wording for this, in light o

Re: where do we keep a list of translators ?

2013-03-01 Thread janI
On 1 March 2013 16:26, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:13 AM, janI wrote: > > On 1 March 2013 13:29, Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Andrea Pescetti > wrote: > >> > >> > janI wrote: > >> >> I am (as usual) confused > >> > > >> > And, as usual, it is not your fa

Re: where do we keep a list of translators ?

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:13 AM, janI wrote: > On 1 March 2013 13:29, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >> > janI wrote: >> >> I am (as usual) confused >> > >> > And, as usual, it is not your fault! >> > >> >> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages >>

Strategic Planning: Website

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
I apologize in advance for talking like a corporation. But I think there is some good things we can borrow from corporate thinking, and one is to discuss and adopt long-term strategic plans. The danger of not doing this is that continually focus on what is immediately in front of our eyes, workin

Re: where do we keep a list of translators ?

2013-03-01 Thread janI
On 1 March 2013 13:29, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > janI wrote: > >> I am (as usual) confused > > > > And, as usual, it is not your fault! > > > >> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages > >> This page contains among others a list of all languages

Draft blog post: Istanbul to Islamabad

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_40_mllion_downloads We're at 39,695,540 right now, so we should hit 40m before Monday. I'll hold the post until them. If anyone has any other good analogies or visualizations of 40m let me know. -Rob

Re: how to change the setup

2013-03-01 Thread FR web forum
Right click on the file and choose Rename menu. Give the name as you want. - Mail original - De: "2" À: dev@openoffice.apache.org Envoyé: Vendredi 1 Mars 2013 10:08:36 Objet: how to change the setup Hi, How to change thenameoftheinstallation package before building? I think the "Apac

Re: update service for not released languages [was: Re: Registration]

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Feb 28, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 28/02/2013 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: >> I had a look and an additional text is possible - see attached screenshot. >> The additional text should be translated into the corresponding language. > > This could be a good idea. We surely don

Re: where do we keep a list of translators ?

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > janI wrote: >> I am (as usual) confused > > And, as usual, it is not your fault! > >> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages >> This page contains among others a list of all languages, and who works on >> them. >> I thought this page was rep

Re: where do we keep a list of translators ?

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:31 AM, janI wrote: > Hi. > > I am (as usual) confused, I was asked today on mwiki, why I had changed the > page: > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages > > This page contains among others a list of all languages, and who works on > them. > > I thought this page was rep

Re: where do we keep a list of translators ?

2013-03-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
janI wrote: I am (as usual) confused And, as usual, it is not your fault! http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages This page contains among others a list of all languages, and who works on them. I thought this page was replaced by the one rob created sometime ago in cwiki, but at least one u

where do we keep a list of translators ?

2013-03-01 Thread janI
Hi. I am (as usual) confused, I was asked today on mwiki, why I had changed the page: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages This page contains among others a list of all languages, and who works on them. I thought this page was replaced by the one rob created sometime ago in cwiki, but at l

how to change the setup

2013-03-01 Thread 2
Hi, How to change thenameoftheinstallation package before building? I think the "Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_1.0.1_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe" is not accurate, it can be installed in the system with x64, so "Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_1.0.1_Win_install_en-US.exe" is better. BTW, if I wa

Re: update service for not released languages [was: Re: Registration]

2013-03-01 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 01.03.2013 00:51, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 28/02/2013 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: I had a look and an additional text is possible - see attached screenshot. The additional text should be translated into the corresponding language. This could be a good idea. We surely don't want to n