Going

2016-01-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
OpenOffice and other Apache projects…. I'll remain subscribed to this and other lists, but am leaving the PMC. You can always reach me via the usual ways. Cheers, Louis --- Louis Suárez-Potts Skype: louisiam Twitter: @luispo Personal: http://www.luispo.com/ signature.asc De

Re: Going

2016-01-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 29 Jan 16, at 12:31, Kay Schenk wrote: > > I'm happy to see that you're still remaining on the "dev" list. ☺ I might that way help out or at least gripe entertainingly and occasionally voice the desire that users of AOO and LO be better served by not having to figure out which project to

Re: Going

2016-01-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
is > > >> -----Original Message- >> From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 10:53 >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Going >> >> >>> On 29 Jan 16, at 12:31, Kay Schenk wrote: >>

Mac Dev. Builds?

2016-02-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
So, what's going on with the OS X dev builds? They have not been there for some time now. louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Mac Dev. Builds?

2016-02-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 16 Feb 16, at 12:40, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 02/16/2016 05:50 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> So, what's going on with the OS X dev builds? They have not been there for >> some time now. >> >> louis > > We don't have a Mac bui

Re: Finally retiring from openoffice.org

2016-06-08 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Greetings, Oliver-Rainer! Welcome to the afterlife! :-) With fond memories--and better expectations, louis On 8 June 2016 at 13:44, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > for a long time I had contributed to openoffice.org. > But since approx. 1.5 years I was not able to continue my engageme

Re: Spelling of Ancient Greek

2016-06-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
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Re: [VOTE] Recommend Marcus Lange (marcus) as the New Vice President for Apache OpenOffice

2016-09-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
+1 Louis > On 15 Sep 2016, at 11:54, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> [BCC to PMC] >> >>RESOLUTION: That Marcus Lange (marcus) be recommended to the >>Apache Software Foundation Board to serve as Vice President >>for Apache OpenOffice. >> >> The Vice Pre

Meson: yet another build system

2016-11-29 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Pedro, * Thanks for the hint. I've not tried Meson (http://mesonbuild.com/index.html) out yet and am just reading up on "Wrap",* the tech that Meson uses. BTW, "Why is it called Meson? (When the name was originally chosen, there were two main limitations: there must not exist either a Debian p

Re: Meson: yet another build system

2016-12-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 05 Dec 2016, at 11:32, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >> Objective C? Yacc? Cygwin? Custom compiler flags to disable C++ exception >> handling, build some files with optimizations disabled? >> >> Our build systems are not our biggest problem. Meson, or SCons, or others, >> could be good if we were

Re: Quote requested-Open Office 3

2014-04-15 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 15 Apr 2014, at 18:21, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 14/04/2014 Rob Weir wrote: >>> https://www.openoffice.org/faq.html >> There is also these FAQ's on the wiki: >> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ >> Why do we have two places for FAQs? I'm sure there was a good reason >>

Re: Softpedia: Apache OpenOffice Downloaded More than 100 Million Times, but Not on Linux

2014-04-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 18 Apr 2014, at 11:16, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> Havent read the article yet, but what was the percentage of Linux downloads >> in OpenOffice.org? And how does Apache OpenOffice Linux downloads compared >> to this one? >> > > I have n

Re: Softpedia: Apache OpenOffice Downloaded More than 100 Million Times, but Not on Linux

2014-04-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 18 Apr 2014, at 13:25, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 18 Apr 2014, at 11:16, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> Havent read the article yet, but what was the percentage of Linux downloads >>> in Op

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 20 Apr 2014, at 14:02, Hagar Delest wrote: > IMHO, most users just take what's provided by default. Unless it is too buggy. > So I think that basically, we are back to the question: why AOO is still not > available in the standard packages? There are several ways of answering your question

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
chenk wrote: >> >> >> On 04/20/2014 11:53 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >>> >>> On 20 Apr 2014, at 14:02, Hagar Delest >>> wrote: >>> >>>> IMHO, most users just take what's provided by default. Unless it is >>>&g

OpenBSD?

2014-04-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
I'm not sure I am up on the latest. Who's doing the OpenBSD port? Just curious. OpenBSD remains, afaict, a quite useful port, for any number of excellent geek reasons. Cheers, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@op

Re: OpenBSD?

2014-04-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 22 Apr 2014, at 17:56, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 04/22/2014 09:57 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> I'm not sure I am up on the latest. Who's doing the OpenBSD port? >> >> Just curious. OpenBSD remains, afaict, a quite useful port, for any

Re: OpenBSD?

2014-04-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Sorry, was getting sloppy (rushed). Quote is from Wikipedia on OpenBSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD -louis On 22 Apr 2014, at 18:13, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2014, at 17:56, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> >> >> On 04/22/2014 09:57 AM, Louis

Re: Native Language and Localization pages on cwiki might benefit from some organization

2014-04-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 24 Apr 2014, at 18:45, Kay Schenk wrote: > Currently, we have these four areas/page on the cwiki -- > > Native Language Projects (under Project Planning) > Localization Plan (under Project Planning) > Localization Planning (top level) > Localization Volunteers (top level) > > Can someone m

Knowtilus Apps' iOS Textilus App

2014-05-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
I came across Textilus for iOS. It claims that it can "Create and edit documents for Microsoft Word, Open Office, Scrivener, Nisus Writer, etc." (http://www.textilusapp.com/ See "Features.") Does anyone have any experience with it? There's a free version, which I'm about to try. "Free" means I

Re: [RELEASE] No multimedia support in MacOSX

2014-05-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 02 May 2014, at 10:54, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi, > > Please some native English speaker add this item in the Known Issues > section of the 4.1 Release Notes > > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124800 > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argent

Re: [RELEASE] No multimedia support in MacOSX

2014-05-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 02 May 2014, at 12:19, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> oddly, I seemed unable to edit the release notes > > Your account has been whitelisted. You should now be able to edit > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Relea

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 13 May 2014, at 08:04, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> * An interesting academic study would be to evaluate the effect Google has >> had in popularizing open standard formats, like ODF, which for >> unconscion

Re: [www] [SUGGEST] Change "Native Language" to Dropdown/select box

2014-05-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 13 May 2014, at 05:44, Tal Daniel wrote: > I'd like to suggest to replace the "Native Language" link, on > www.openoffice.org menu to a more visible dropbox. > > E.g. Product | Download | ... | "Lanauge: [English ]" > > I believe users are more accustomed to select their language from a se

Re: [www] [SUGGEST] Change "Native Language" to Dropdown/select box

2014-05-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
site visitor to understand what does this link >>> mean). >>> >>> This would also allow faster move to a translated version of the site, >> for >>> people who prefer to read it in their language. >>> >>> + Another suggestion is to move t

Re: Apache@ OSCON question

2014-06-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
HI Dennis, *, On 21 Jun 2014, at 21:01, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I am willing to make a day trip from Seattle to the OSCON Expo Hall. > That is affordable for me and appealing if can meet ASF and > especially AOO folks that I have not yet met in person. > > (I have started some work on

Re: Work on Change-Tracking

2014-06-27 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
ve an updated (that is, current) ODF SDK? (Perhaps out of the ODF Toolkit project?) -louis > -- Dennis E. Hamilton >dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430 >https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A > > > > -Original Message- > From: Loui

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
here's > some areas I could contribute to. I've previously had many discussions about > this with Louis Suárez-Potts, who suggested I introduce myself here. I've been communicating with Peter now for about two years, since I first came across UX Write when looking for good iOS

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-08-02, at 10:24, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > The Support that is done is to receieve OOXML not to produce them, the > discussion issue would be to support legacy formats like .doc or .xls. > > I still dont see a point to generate OOXML and most people dont care > as long as they can

Re: opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org unavailable

2014-08-04 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 4 August 2014 04:28, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 01/08/14 22:32, Regina Henschel wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I cannot get http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/ > > returns > > "Service Temporarily Unavailable" > > > > But that is already some time so. Does someone know, what to do in those > > ca

Re: About debugging tokenizer of writerfilter

2014-08-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-08-10, at 09:54, Hung Mark wrote: > > Hi Peter and Regina, > > I realized that I might have skipped important steps. > Later on I built with debug=t and install the so file, it printed another > error message. > And I guess that pre-installed libreoffice in my ubuntu 12.04 might affec

Re: [RELEASE]: propose RC2 on revision 1616946

2014-08-12 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-08-12, at 08:33, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > > it could but confluence is a piece of shit and I have to save so many > times until it is really saved correct that I personally don't have > interest to edit it for now. Do you know if a bug report has been filed against this with Atlasssian

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 (RC3)

2014-08-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 15 Aug 14, at 03:15, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate > (RC3) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1. > +1 louis signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: ASF banner ads

2014-08-25 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-08 -25, at 17:12, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 31/07/2014 Rob Weir wrote: >> Noticed this: >> http://www.apache.org/ads/ >> It is a directory of banners that can be added to the website to >> promote ASF-wide things like ApacheCon. > > With ApacheCon EU now approaching, we could defi

Re: Concerns about the AOO community

2014-10-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-10 -23, at 07:36, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:31 AM, RA Stehmann > wrote: >> Two thoughts: >> >> 1. Concerned people found it problematically that OOo depended so much >> on SUN and later Oracle. >> >> So the situation under the "roof" of the Apache Software Founda

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-10 -24, at 11:15, Roberto Galoppini > wrote: > > 2014-10-24 16:41 GMT+02:00 Rob Weir : > >> Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the >> continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a >> proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOffic

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-27 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Malte! So, you do realize this is probably one of the very very few witness accounts we have of the origins of StarOffice? (later OpenOffice) ... and if you were to consent to writing more--or being interviewed in a podcast for more--we, or at least I, would be grateful... and better informed of th

Re: ODF Plugfest #10, London, 2014-12-08/09

2014-10-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-10 -26, at 11:35, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 25/10/2014 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> http://plugfest.opendocumentformat.org/ >> An opportunity for the primary implementers of ODF to get together, >> explore some test cases, and provide a little advocacy for what the >> local civil a

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
st different technology - now written for the browser. Right. Can you edit in the browser? I mean, edit ODF or OOXML docs. using, for instance, Chrome or Firefox or Safari? > > Best regards > Malte. > Best, Louis > > > On 27.10.2014 19:57, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:

Re: To receive answers to my posts

2014-11-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-11 -19, at 06:15, Peter Junge wrote: > > Another option would be writing a filter rule for you email client. This > works extremely well with Thunderbird but the web clients of popular email > services are usually very limited when it comes to filtering. If you use Gmail, you can ea

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-11-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-11 -23, at 12:58, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the >> continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a >> proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOff

Re: Unofficial photos ApacheCon EU 2014

2014-11-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 23 November 2014 at 05:38, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >> I am not certain about Andrea. >> > > Yes, that's me; and thanks Michal for taking pictures, now we only need > the text to make a short blog post... > > Also, who is in the seat in one of the photos? >>

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-11-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
14 at 11:48 PM, Roberto Galoppini < > roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2014-11-23 21:55 GMT+01:00 Louis Suárez-Potts : > > > > > > > > > On 2014-11 -23, at 12:58, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:

Re: Officeshots.org

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, > On 02 Dec2014, at 17:43, Michiel Leenaars > wrote: > > Dear Apache OpenOffice developers, > > > as some of you will know we have the 10th ODF plugfest coming up next > week, hosted by the UK Cabinet Office [1] - for which you are all > invited, of course. For that purpose (and to suppo

Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting "Quick Office Pro" messages

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 02 Dec2014, at 18:23, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 12/02/2014 02:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> There's an app for Apple devices called Quick Office Pro. It is totally >> unrelated to OpenOffice project and code. A link to it is >> https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/quickoffice-pro/id88901151

Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting "Quick Office Pro" messages

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 02 Dec2014, at 21:05, jonathon wrote: > > > > On 03/12/14 00:01, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> The ® name for them is “Quickoffice®-Pro”. > > That is the name of the software. > I've seen three or four different names for the vendor

Re: [PROPOSAL] Rejecting "Quick Office Pro" messages

2014-12-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 02 Dec2014, at 21:43, jonathon wrote: > > > > On 03/12/14 02:15, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> Recall that Google owns Quickoffice. > > I do not assume that any of the programs carrying the QuickOffice > moniker in the iTunes store is the same program

Re: oooforum

2014-12-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 05 Dec2014, at 19:41, Andreas Säger wrote: > > Am 05.12.2014 um 01:15 schrieb Andrew Douglas Pitonyak: >> I did a scrape of the pages, and it is about 8GB last time I did it. Off >> hand, I expect that a huge chunk of that is SPAM, especially since most >> of the SPAMS have large graphics i

Re: Quick question????

2014-12-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Peter, I use OpenOffice on several machines, Mac and Windows, and “operate” a variety of MS files and formats, from .docx and .xlsx to the earlier sort. I have not had difficulty opening and editing and then saving *as* MSFT files. Depending on the document, the fidelity of translation, from MSF

Re: Need more information

2014-12-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Dear Mr Kawthekar, > On 05 Dec2014, at 22:07, Pramod Kawthekar wrote: > > Dear Sir, > > > > We are planning to implement Op[en office in our Office. I( have some issues > / point , please send me the solution. > > > > 1. Can we use open office on think client Ubentu server ( Linex)

Re: Open Document Editors Devroom at FOSDEM 15, Brussels, 31 Jan 2015

2014-12-08 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 07 Dec2014, at 17:42, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Reminder: one week left for submitting talks proposal for FOSDEM. Deadline is > Sunday 14 December. All details below and at > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_talks_open_document > Regards, > Andrea. Thanks, Andrea. I’m hoping

Re: Reporting broken download link

2014-12-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Elizabeth, Have you filed an issue on this matter? louis > On 09 Dec2014, at 14:48, Elizabeth Morgan > wrote: > > UPDATE: > It's my entire development team that's encountering the issue at the moment > -- we're having to refit a good number of computers, and all of them are > detecting it a

Re: Reporting broken download link

2014-12-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi > On 09 Dec2014, at 15:11, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 13:48:44 -0600 > Elizabeth Morgan wrote: > >> UPDATE: >> It's my entire development team that's encountering the issue at the >> moment -- we're having to refit a good number of computers, and all of >> them are detec

Re: Reporting broken download link

2014-12-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 09 Dec2014, at 17:41, Roberto Galoppini > wrote: > > > > 2014-12-09 21:23 GMT+01:00 Rory O'Farrell : > On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 15:14:24 -0500 > Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > > Hi > > > On 09 Dec2014, at 15:11, Rory O'Farrell w

Re: Open Document Editors Devroom at FOSDEM 15, Brussels, 31 Jan 2015

2014-12-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 10 Dec2014, at 08:07, jan i wrote: > > On 8 December 2014 at 23:27, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> >>> On 07 Dec2014, at 17:42, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> >>> Reminder: one week left for submitting talks proposal for FOSDEM. >> Deadl

Re: Open Document Editors Devroom at FOSDEM 15, Brussels, 31 Jan 2015

2014-12-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 10 Dec2014, at 15:01, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> There are other issues, too, like licensing, metrics, and general community >> governance. > > Note that FOSDEM talks have a requirement to be technical. We had to reject a >

Re: Open Document Editors Devroom at FOSDEM 15, Brussels, 31 Jan 2015

2014-12-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 10 Dec2014, at 15:05, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Andrea Pescetti > wrote: > > >> We had to reject a interesting submission about community metrics in the >> past since FOSDEM is not the place for it. >> > > Conveniently, Biturgia is running an EU edition o

Re: [DEV --OT] CloudFoundry...

2014-12-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 17 Dec 2014, at 00:28, Jose R R wrote: > > Red Hat Openshift Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud service < > https://www.openshift.com > has lead over CloudFoundry PaaS (spun out > from VmWare) and thus likely has a larger developer ecosystem. > > Of course, I am slightly biased ;-) > > >

Re: OpenOffice@15 @ApacheConNA in April

2014-12-17 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
HI, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 17:30, Kay Schenk wrote: > > Definitely time to start discussions on ApacheConNA in April (in Austin) > and OpenOffice's participation. > > Back in November, Rich Bowen suggested we think more about "project > tracks" and gathering appropriate talks/topics for these tra

Re: Remove CVS revision/date from contributing.html and faq.html

2014-12-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 22 Dec 2014, at 12:07, Tae Wong wrote: > > We need to remove the CVS stuff from the following files in > ooo-site/trunk/content. > contributing.html > faq.html > > A CVS date for a revision looks like this. > $Date: 1998/10/31 28:10:34 $ > > The date in this example is October 31st, 1998.

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-06 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 6 Jan 2015, at 05:47, jan i wrote: > > I hereby nominate > > Jürgen Schmidt (jsc) > He has been involved in every major openoffice development for a decade or > more. > He was my mentor when I joined AOO, and without his mentoring I would not > have been here. > Jürgen has been involved in

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-10 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
ands to gain hugely. More can be said, and I hope it is. But not now. Cheers, Louis --- Louis Suárez-Potts Age of Peers PMC Apache OpenOffice Skype: louisiam Mobile: +1.416.625.3843 Twitter: @luispo Company: http://www.ageofpeers.com/ Personal: http://www.luispo.com/ Google: https://plu

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-12 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 14:02, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 11/01/2015 Marcus wrote: >> IMHO this PMC is more quite >> than others inside Apache projects. So, I wouldn't see this as a sign >> that they won't follow you. Only direct talkings can help to judge this. > > It is important that the PMC

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-12 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 14:02, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 11/01/2015 Marcus wrote: >> IMHO this PMC is more quite >> than others inside Apache projects. So, I wouldn't see this as a sign >> that they won't follow you. Only direct talkings can help to judge this. > > It is important that the PMC

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-12 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 15:51, jan i wrote: > > I still have not seen any signs of PMC change (I interpret silence in this > discussion as "don't care") so It still seems useless to have me serve > for the 2months I promised Jan, Let’s take a wild leap and imagine that many on this list don’t have

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-12 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 17:02, Dave Fisher wrote: > > >> >> So, what about to let both try to realize this as kind of dual chair? > > Since the Chair at Apache is more ceremonial than THE lead in the best case > then there should be nothing to preclude both Jan and Louis from scratching > thei

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-12 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 18:00, Marcus wrote: > > Am 01/12/2015 11:22 PM, schrieb Louis Suárez-Potts: >> >>> On 12 Jan 2015, at 17:02, Dave Fisher wrote: >>> >>> Asking inactive PMC to go emeritus can be done in any case. The merit does >>>

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-12 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 12 Jan 2015, at 18:20, jan i wrote: > > Remark, whoever ends up getting elected (maybe we should really open up for > new nominations), I will continue to work as usual. Likewise I’ll work as … well, actually, as more than usual. :-) Also: we make what we do with what we get and what we w

Easy Hacks

2015-01-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
There’s a discussion on a FOSS list, initiated (this time) by Stefano Z. of Debian, about compiling a cross-project list of “easy hacks”. What’s easy is in the eye of the beholder, to be sure, but also in the gaze of the community. We’ve periodically come up with some things that inexperienced m

Re: Easy Hacks

2015-01-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Thanks, Andrea… > On 13 Jan 2015, at 17:34, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> what do we have for OpenOffice? > > It's at http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html, > section Finding Easy Tasks. We have two predefined q

Re: issue 60552: embedding live web-pages (floating frame?) into impress slides

2015-01-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Alex, > On 13 Jan 2015, at 17:03, Alexander Di Marco wrote: > > See Below > Hi Rob > > I noticed this has not been worked on since 2013. Out of curiosity, what > would be required (from a development standpoint) to implement this. > > Thanks > > Alex > It’s always a pleasure to see someo

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 13 Jan 2015, at 18:15, Marcus wrote: > > Don't wait for the (old|new) chair to take action. ;-) Start now yourself > with stating your problems and attempts you have already done. Then we can > reply to this. Yes! louis -

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 13 Jan 2015, at 23:04, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > I think the licensing situation is very clear. > > There are two licensing arrangements. > > The free license is standard GPL3/LGPL3. > > There is a commercial license for proprietary, closed source work. That > license has to be p

Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, > On 14 Jan 2015, at 07:17, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 14/01/2015 jan i wrote: >> I decline my nomination for personal reasons and are not voteable. > > Copy-pasting the same remark I sent on this list about the other four, I > respect your choices and your reasons not to run, but I wou

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 14 Jan 2015, at 12:27, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > The TL;DR: I don't think there is a reasonable way to depend on Qt in AOO. > > I also don't think that depending on Qt, were it feasible, would satisfy the > concern that started this thread concerning the difficulty of maintaining > [

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-14 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 14 Jan 2015, at 12:46, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:27:53 -0800 > "Dennis E. Hamilton" wrote: > >> Maintaining the independently-developed VCL GUI framework is an >> important concern. (Then there's UNO as a cross-platform COM >> derivative.) >> >> The problem with

Re: buildbot notification issues, output page, etc

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi > On 16 Jan 2015, at 16:32, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > > Hi Kay, > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 09:37:18AM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote: >> * We seem to again have lost notification from from buildbot on our builds. >> >> * The buildbot page for OpenOffice currently has some issues -- >> see :

Re: Report 01 - scams and fraud "openoffice.org/ko"‏

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 16 Jan 2015, at 16:57, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Zemma Yun wrote: >> I am a Mac OS user. I am sending this email because I want to report >> Korean language website www.openoffice.org/ko > > Thanks for your report (and to Dennis for investigating). This is now fixed. > I confirm that the

PMC FAQs

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi I was going through the site pages and came across the PMC FAQ. It seems out of date…—? http://openoffice.apache.org/pmc-faqs.html -louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands

Re: [DISCUSS] [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 15 Jan 2015, at 03:57, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > O.Felka wrote: >> Am 15.01.2015 um 09:04 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: >>> Procedural note: I didn't add it to my initial mail in order to keep it >>> short, but it is highly recommended that -1 votes be accompanied by a >>> brief motivation (1-2

Re: [OT] The Forking of OpenOffice.org

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 16 January 2015 at 21:53, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I'm sorry, the TDF did not do that. Sun Microsystems did that and > Oracle's eventual response was probably inevitable. > ​Indeed. More could be said on this matter but in many ways the writing was on the wall when Oracle acquired Sun. We

Re: [DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-19 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 19 Jan 2015, at 13:32, Kay Schenk wrote: > > I am probably seeming very disagreeable here. Nope. You'll have to try harder :-) More seriously, you point to a flaw that was not evident on an abstract level but was in practice. I had an IM conversation with Andrea over the weekend, where

Re: [DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
tirely up to the PMC to enable. PPS, no doubt, Jan will again privately chide me for misrepresenting his views. :-) > On 20 January 2015 at 09:32, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >> On 20/01/15 00:29, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >>> >>>> On 19 Jan 2015, at 13:32, Kay Schen

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Yuri, > On 20 Jan 2015, at 09:55, Yuri Dario wrote: > > Hi, > >> Have you looked at this enough to be satisfied the VCL maps to QT well >> enough for what AOO does? > > no, but since QT is a complete SDK for writing apps, I suppose it does > everything AOO needs. > >> So my question may be u

Apache Community List

2015-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Among the good things Apache offers are the general mail lists. I follow several, and the dev [at} community list has lately been of particular interest. A thread that bears tracing relates to the development of the content for "A Maturity Model for Apache Projects." More generally, it's also im

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, > On 20 Jan 2015, at 12:53, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > > On 01/20/2015 07:05 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >> Yuri, >> >>> On 20 Jan 2015, at 09:55, Yuri Dario wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>>> Have you looked at this e

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 20 Jan 2015, at 14:41, V Stuart Foote wrote: > > Andrea Pescetti-2 wrote >> Do you approve that, in his capacity as the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair, >> Andrea Pescetti submits a resolution to the Board asking to be replaced >> by Louis Suárez-Potts as the

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 20 Jan 2015, at 14:28, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > Louis asks about a dependency on LGPL. > > -- replying below to -- > From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 07:05 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Sub

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
e Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor >> could be elected. We had nominations and long discussions and in the end we >> have one candidate available to be the next OpenOffice PMC Chair: Louis >> Suárez-Potts. It's now time to vote. >> >> Do you

Attend Conservancy Supporter Night on Friday before FOSDEM 2015! - Software Freedom Conservancy

2015-01-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jan/20/supporter-night-2015/ The SF Conservancy event listed above is bound to attract interesting people. If you are in the area—I'm talking Fosdem—try to find yourself there! Cheers, Louis -

Re: [CANCEL] Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-21 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 21 Jan 2015, at 02:38, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 15/01/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> Do you approve that, in his capacity as the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair, >> Andrea Pescetti submits a resolution to the Board asking to be replaced >> by Louis Suárez-Pot

Re: [CODE] keyboard shortcut definitions

2015-01-22 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Kay, > On 22 Jan 2015, at 17:58, Kay Schenk wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can find information on where actual keyboard > shortcut definitions -- the actual escape sequences -- are defined for > use in OpenOffice. I found an old thread on where the menus are defined > -- the *.xcu files --

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-25 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
d you contact the Kivy Project? The website is at http://kivy.org/#home . * Finally, one thing I discovered earlier was that "fun" projects that could be useful but need not be are excellent ways to include more contributors. Cheers, louis > - Dennis > > -Original

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 26 Jan 2015, at 03:42, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts > wrote: > >> * One conceivable drawback is that Kivy also uses "Kivy Language, for >> creating sophisticated user interfaces[,]" though it does no

Re: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-26 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 25 Jan 2015, at 19:48, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on > Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure the > conversations and discussion are of value. > > I hereby nominate myself as the repl

Re: PMC Chair nominations

2015-01-30 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, > On 30-01-2015, at 12:47, Marcus wrote: > > Am 01/29/2015 03:56 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: >> Reminder: the nomination deadline expires in a couple hours. See below >> for details. I won't start a vote immediately since Marcus is the only >> one who gave feedback and I want to avoid embar

Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-01-30 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 30-01-2015, at 15:36, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > Pedro and Jürgen, > > It is important to be concerned about false contrasts and comparisons. +1 > > snip > > It is more important, to me, that there be clarity about what the AOO > licensing conditions are and how easy they are t

Re: PMC Chair nominations

2015-01-30 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 30-01-2015, at 19:04, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 31/01/2015 Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: >>> On 30-01-2015, at 12:47, Marcus wrote: >>>> On 26/01/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>>>> Just a note in a dedicated thread to say that nominations for a

Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-02-02 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Simon, This is OT. > On 02-02-2015, at 12:39, Simon Phipps wrote: > > snip > S. Out of curiosity, why do you continue to support LibreOffice? After all, you visibly contribute to this project in at least a couple of areas. I haven’t checked, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you were also a

Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate "Compliance Costs"

2015-02-03 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 02-02-2015, at 22:41, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On 3 Feb 2015 03:29, "Louis Suárez-Potts" wrote: >> >> Simon, >> >> This is OT. > > What is? I am participating in a discussion of the page referred to > legal-discuss by someone else.

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