Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Max Merbald wrote: > > Am 20.01.2014 20:27, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Matt wrote: >>> >>> I was alarmed last week to find on your download page, a rather large >>> advertisement consisting o

Re: [DISCUSS] Certification with LayUp - Open Office

rse they should take, that can >> > integrated with ease as well from the back-end. >> > >> > A colleague, Isuru is on copy, he will change the logo asap in order to >> not >> > violate any trademark policies. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Sheran &g

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Matt wrote: > I was alarmed last week to find on your download page, a rather large > advertisement consisting of a big green button labeled "download now" > which led you too the installer of some malware from another site. I > came across this after my wife aske

Re: Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > Details are here: > > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_comments_apache_openoffice > It has been over a month since we put out this call for comments. You can see some of them in this thread, as well as with the blog

Re: Are there any legal repercussions for banning users from mailing lists?

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:27:09 -0500 >> Rob Weir wrote: >> >> > We (Apache OpenOffice) recently had a user subscribe our users mailing &

Are there any legal repercussions for banning users from mailing lists?

We (Apache OpenOffice) recently had a user subscribe our users mailing list (500+ subscribers), and cause general disruption: 1) Many posts (20+) in a short period of time 2) Posts were off topic 3) She attacked list moderators and other members of the list 4) She threatened that she would repo

Re: [DISCUSS] Certification with LayUp - Open Office

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Sheran Corera wrote: > Re-posting to dev-list from documentation. > > Hi All, > > Going through the Open Office documentation, I noticed the huge effort > taken on content creation and maintenance in each of the different > Wikis

Re: Open Office Educational use

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 6:45 AM, John Baxter wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to find what licence I would need to use Open office in our > Primary School (as a replacement for office 2003). > > > > I have looked on you web site but cannot but cannot find if we need to > purchase a licence, or use t

Re: Introduction-Isaak Nate

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Ike Nate wrote: > Hello Apache OpenOffice Team, > > I would like to introduce myself. My name is Isaak Natenzon and I am from > New York, I found this e-mail through uTest, where I am a SQA Tester. I am > familiar with OpenOffice because I have used it in the past

Re: Hello to the Apache Project Team

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Shari Bradstream wrote: > Good evening, > > I came across the Apache Open Office software and find it intriguing. > I like what I read so decided to invest a little time each week to work on > project materials in the areas that help is needed. > I am not a compute

Re: [Bugzilla] Proposal: Further value for field "Version" - namely "pre 3.4.0"

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > during the review of issues (newly submitted ones and also critical ones) I > observed the following: > Sometimes it reveals that the described defect already occurs in OpenOffice > versions which had been released before Ope

Appreciation from a LibreOffice user on the addition of IAccessible2 support

e. It would be wonderful as well, if you find any reproducible bugs in this area, that you let us at Apache know as well. Regards, Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: config error on Windows 7

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > > On 16.01.2014 13:37, jonasalfreds...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>> Does this path/directory - C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\ >>> - exist on your system? >> >> >> The path exist, however there was a key m

Tracking document corruption reports

I've created a short survey related to document corruption issues, specifically the kind where the contents of a file is replaced by hash marks. The survey asks the user for information related to the circumstances of the issue, the machine configuration, OpenOffice settings, etc. The hope is tha

Re: First look at www.openoffice.org accesibility

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > . . . > > This can be done by updating the ssi setup > > Add to all ssi.mdtext files a language property > > Here is /fr/ssi.mdtext > language: fr > doctype: /doctype.html > brand: /fr/brand.html > footer: /footer.html > topnav: /fr/topnav.ht

Re: Mac Maverick OS

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Randolph Jones wrote: > Hello I have been using OpenOffice Ver 4..0.0 And today was invited to update > so I downloaded the update and installed it but now I cannot use it. I get a > message saying its from an unknown source. How can I resolve this problem? I >

Draft of document corruption survey

http://survey.openoffice.org/index.php/334187/lang-en The idea here is to have a systematic way to collect information related to the "hash mark" issue that we see reported from some users. If we can point the users to a survey like this, we can collect all the relevant information in one place a

Re: First look at www.openoffice.org accesibility

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 01/13/2014 07:52 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> I've been scanning pages on our website to see what kinds of A11Y >> issues we should take care off. I'm concentrated initially on issues >> on our most popu

Re: My OS was restored and I don't have Microsoft windows anymore

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Jen and Gordon Yun wrote: > Hello, > > My laptop just has the motherboard replaced, and they had to restore the > operating system. I need to reinstall the Microsoft Office program that I > purchased from you last August. Could you please tell me what I need to d

UK Cabinet Office "Challenge" related to open document formats

Something of possible interest within out community. The UK's Cabinet Office is doing a public consultation on two questions related to document formats: 1) Sharing or collaborating with government documents 2) Viewing government documents This consultation is in the form of a "challenge" where

First look at www.openoffice.org accesibility

I've been scanning pages on our website to see what kinds of A11Y issues we should take care off. I'm concentrated initially on issues on our most popular pages as well as issues on the template, since the template generates the repeated headers/footers nad navigation on every page. We'll get m

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

e rental kiosks in the US. They could distribute software CD's as well. Regards, -Rob > > Nancy > > > > > Nancy Web Design > Free 24 hour pass to lynda.com. > Video courses on SEO, CMS, > Design and Software Courses > > > > > ___

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Le 11/01/2014 15:37, Guy Waterval a écrit : > >> The downloads do not necessarily correspond to real users, as you said >> before if I good remember, but it's a good indicator. >> We should penetrate deeper into the Windows world, I have alwa

Re: Interesting interoperability problem with formatting of date

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:07:10 +0100 > Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >> On 1/10/14 5:39 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Jürgen Schmidt >> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >>

Re: Interesting interoperability problem with formatting of date

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 1/10/14 5:39 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Jürgen Schmidt >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I received a xls document with some date values, date related functions >

Re: Interesting interoperability problem with formatting of date

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I received a xls document with some date values, date related functions > and formatting and noticed an interesting interoperability problem. > > For example: > Cell Value FormatVisible Value > A1 01/01/20

Re: Web accessibility guidelines -- which ones?

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:35 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote: > Rob, *, > >>... However, there was a confusing (to me) number of >>authorities for accessibility standards. > > It is really pretty simple--WCAG 2.0 is the gold standard for Web content, > and is applicable to Non-Web Information and Comm

Web accessibility guidelines -- which ones?

I've started taking a look at our website from the perspective of accessibility. Since the website is mainly human-authored HTML, with many authors over several years, we'll need to check individual pages for problems. I was going to focus on the top 50 or so pages, which account for the vast maj

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > Around this time last year we invited you to send us your questions > about Apache OpenOffice, the things you always wondered about the > product, or questions about the OpenOffice open source project. > > We had you enter these

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 1/9/14 12:57 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> Around this time last year we invited you to send us your questions >> about Apache OpenOffice, the things you always wondered about the >> product, or questions about the OpenOffic

Ask OpenOffice #2

Around this time last year we invited you to send us your questions about Apache OpenOffice, the things you always wondered about the product, or questions about the OpenOffice open source project. We had you enter these questions into Google Moderator, where you could also view and rate questions

Re: Interest in Volunteering With the OpenOffice Project

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Tyler Kavanaugh wrote: > Hello all: > > My name is Tyler Kavanaugh, and I am from Kansas, in the United States. I > would very much like to be a part of the OpenOffice project, with a focus on > QA/accessibility, as I am a blind user who uses screen-access software

Re: space in wiki for documentation of branches

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:19 PM, Armin Le Grand wrote: > Hi List, > > I have added a new branch to the branches part of the repository. I thought > it would be a good idea to have a place in the wiki to document what the > branches are, what they intend to do and to have a central place to document

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:16 PM, wrote: > What is going on? > I have been using OO for many years – Swedish version – Now Secunia alerted > me to update the OO – Doing so, suddenly the programme was in Portuguese – > well I read Portugues but I still would like the Swedish version so I did it >

Looking forward to 250 million users

So we reached the 85 million download mark. Yea! 100 million will be here soon. Even if we never have another release we will reach 100 million sometime in the next few months. It doesn't require much effort. Inertia will do it. We have a solid application, translated into many languages, ava

Re: Should we do another "your top questions answered" blog?

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Last year at this time we did this post: > > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/your_top_questions_answered > > I thought it worked well. > > Should we do another? Maybe with the restriction that it does not > repeat

Re: Draft Board Report: January

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > The draft board report for January 2014 is due in a couple days. > > You can find the draft here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2014+Jan > > Feel free to provide corrections/suggestions. You can also edit the wiki >

Re: Possible filename problem on Win 8.1: request for help

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On en-Forum a user has reported a problem with single character file names > from OO 4.0.1 Calc and Writer, running on Win 8.1 > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=66773 > > He can open and save such files, but is not

Re: OO Memory usage: rough test

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 08:22:27 -0500 > Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >> > I've been conducting a little experiment over the past hour. Running OO >>

Re: OO Memory usage: rough test

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > I've been conducting a little experiment over the past hour. Running OO 4.0.1 > on Xubuntu 13.10, I monitored memory usage of OpenOffice. > I found that as long as OpenOffice was in use, it did not fully release > memory used by earlier fil

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Medicus - Product Development < gh...@medicuscorporate.com> wrote: > No Problem…just thinking (although I am sure there is a possibility this > has been requested before) that it sure would be nice to see *screen > shots* of the latest version of the software as a

Should we do another "your top questions answered" blog?

Last year at this time we did this post: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/your_top_questions_answered I thought it worked well. Should we do another? Maybe with the restriction that it does not repeat questions from the 2013 version? I'd volunteer to solicit for questions and edit the blog p

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Bruce LeRoy wrote: > I am a semi-retired programmer from Tampa, FL and Spanish bilingual. > > I am interested in solving software problems like the attached screen print. > Hi Bruce, Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project. It looks like you found our New Volun

Re: Open office some companies are racketting

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:25 PM, FR web forum wrote: > We know that. > On the french forum, you can follow this thread about para-sites: > https://forum.openoffice.org/fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8137 > Ending: the only place to download openoffice is its official website > If you have any exampl

Re: New Dev Volunteer

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Juande Manjon wrote: > Hi there, > > This is my first mail to the dev list to communicate my interest to volunteer > in this great project. I'm a C++ developer specialized in document processing > and generation in different formats. I'm familiar with OOXML and Op

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] maintenance of ooo-wiki2-vm.a.o and ooo-forums.a.o

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:44 PM, jan i wrote: > Hi All. > > We have now reached the end of the lazy consensus period. > > There has been no -1, a couple of comments and a couple of +1, this means > the proposal is accepted. > > However, I have to admit, I think we have a big problem. > > If I go ah

Re: Interest in a Cooperation

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Deborah Heuberger wrote: > Hi, > > > My name is Deborah Heuberger and I'm responsible for the partnerships at > the Covus Group, which is part of Europe’s biggest TV Media Company > (ProSiebenSat.1 Media). > Hi Deborah, Thanks for writing. At Apache OpenOffice w

85 million downloads

As of January 1st, 2014 the download count is 85,083,221 Updated charts are here: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional comm

Re: Copyright of the Icons default, industrial and tango

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Hi all > > Today we, (Rainer, Regina and I) foud out that we miss two icons in our Icon > sets. See https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123941 . > > The Icons are available at the Pre Apache Release 3.2.1 but not at 3.3.0. > > What

Re: [RELEASE]: proposal for our next release AOO 4.1

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 17/12/2013 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> >> I don't know what others think but based on this new information I would >> like to move my proposed schedule a little bit. >> Jan 24, 2014 feature freeze >> Jan 27, 2014 translation freeze ... >>

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] maintenance of ooo-wiki2-vm.a.o and ooo-forums.a.o

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM, jan i wrote: > Hi > > based on a polite push from a good infra colleague, I have decided to > present yet another proposal for maintaining ooo-wiki2-vm.a.o and > ooo-forums.a.o (I already maintain translate-vm2.a.o since this is a shared > service). > > This will

Re: Unused patches

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> We would probably want to confirm with the original author for any >> pre-Apache patches, to make sure that the patch is given under ALv2. >> The exception might be those who were Sun/

Re: Unused patches

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: > Hi all, > > we have lots of bug reports with unused patches. I think patches should be > checked as soon as possible and be integrated as soon as possible. > > Example: > I found 31 Bugs with unused patches by Kohei Yoshida - I think we ca

Re: EN forum: change of admin mailbox (and some thoughts)

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Hagar Delest wrote: >> >> Why not a mailing list as long as it is private. >> If you find someone to explain how it would work and to implement it, no >> problem. > > > A private list works exactly like the PMC private list (discussion list

Re: EN forum: change of admin mailbox (and some thoughts)

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Hi All, > > For the record, I've created a Gmail account (aoo.forum...@gmail.com) so > that users can really contact the forum team. We had in the past an > automatic process that could reply and give the user basic information > (registered o

Re: OpenOffice passwords: What are we telling users on the forums?

/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=63279 > - https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=54865 > > I remember some other topics but couldn't find them right now. I confirm > that we are talking about the file encryption and that in most cases, t

Re: Apache OpenOffice 2013 Mailing List Review

ly formatted error message like I saw. -Rob > On Dec 18, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Joseph Schaefer >>> wrote: >>>> We’d appreciate it if you filed an

Re: Apache OpenOffice 2013 Mailing List Review

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Joseph Schaefer > wrote: >> We’d appreciate it if you filed an INFRA jira ticket >> when you do have some free time. >> > > Certainly. That would be the next step. > Befo

Re: Apache OpenOffice 2013 Mailing List Review

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Joseph Schaefer wrote: > We’d appreciate it if you filed an INFRA jira ticket > when you do have some free time. > Certainly. That would be the next step. -Rob > Thanks. > > On Dec 18, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> http:

Apache OpenOffice 2013 Mailing List Review

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2013/12/aoo-2013-mailing-list.html I did this on my personal blog because I was getting disk quota errors on our project blog when trying to upload the images, and I don't have time to deal with that right now. Enjoy! -Rob

Re: Issues with file associations for some users...

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > We have posted Installation Instructions for OpenOffice for some years. > > However, some users seem to still have issues with the file types that AOO > will assign to itself after installation despite the fact that users are > given the opportu

Re: OpenOffice development with Eclipse

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 12/17/13 9:58 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> About a week or so ago I tried again to import the OpenOffice source >> code into Eclipse. The last time I tried that, a few years ago, this >> did not work at all. Our source code was

OpenOffice passwords: What are we telling users on the forums?

I noticed this note, which I thought was odd: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg35699.html I'm hoping this is just a confusion, but we do need to be careful to avoid confusion in this area, since it can cause users to panic. The facts, as I understand them: There are two featu

Re: I think good news from Germany

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > >> > Let us furthermore covert our claim "Productivity Suite". >> > >> >> It sounds like a good, positive article. Would it be possible to get >

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

is running on my server ;-) Thanks, -Rob > On Dec 17, 2013 9:59 AM, "Rob Weir" wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> > Google has a new service that makes it easy to add a website >> > satisfaction survey to a website. The free

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Google has a new service that makes it easy to add a website > satisfaction survey to a website. The free version has 4 questions > that are asked of 500 random website visitors each month. We would be > given results on a monthly b

Re: [RELEASE]: new MacOS compiler used for the 64 bit tool chain requires a new baseline

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 12/17/13 10:39 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: >> On 2013-12-17, 3:07 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>> On 12/16/13 6:31 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2013-12-16, 5:47 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > I would like to propose that with AOO 4.1 we suppo

Re: I think good news from Germany

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, RA Stehmann wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to write down some notions based on the article and some > reactions (in german language) > > http://www.mail-archive.com/users-de@openoffice.apache.org/msg01844.html > > (Feel free to tranlate it.) > > I've got accordance fr

Re: inconvenience on openoffice.org

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 12/15/2013 12:46 PM, schrieb hasgar...@hellshell.de: > >> Hello guys, >> >> I tried to download Open Office from your website. >> As usually I browse the web with noscript enabled. >> >> Your website has a problem: [1] >> >> "JavaScript nee

Re: German community needs a second mailing list for effective working

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > >> > You're absolutely right and I hope it will be able to >> change that in the future, because it is a big problem for a >> software aimed at end users

Re: German community needs a second mailing list for effective working

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > >> > *In OOo it was possible for many years, are members of AOO >> project less wise, to distinguish it?* >> > >> >> >> >> But I've a

Re: German community needs a second mailing list for effective working

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > >> > In concept, I don't have objections to this new list, but >> wish it could be >> > named something other than "dev-de" so it doesn't get confused with >> > dev@openoffice.apache.org. Bu

Re: aoo

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:11 AM, jan i wrote: > On 11 December 2013 22:10, tk wrote: > >> >> >> >> Craig Rasch wrote: >> >we need more exposure to let the android market know AOO exists! >> >> Are you referring to a port of Apache OpenOffice to Android, done under >> the auspices of _The Apache

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:04 PM, jan i wrote: >>> On 11 December 2013 20:57, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Gre

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

n. -Rob > But I'll get to it. > > Best, > gz > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Gregory Zobel wrote: >> > I'd be happy to help develop the survey questions. >> > We could devise

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:04 PM, jan i wrote: > On 11 December 2013 20:57, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Gregory Zobel wrote: >> > I'd be happy to help develop the survey questions. >> > We could devise probably 4-7 more questions wi

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

hat version of OpenOffice is used, how long they have >> been using OpenOffice. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> > Another alternative is to create the survey in Google Forms and then >> embed >> > it on sub-page. I've used this app

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

sing OpenOffice. Regards, -Rob > Another alternative is to create the survey in Google Forms and then embed > it on sub-page. I've used this approach in many classes taught online, and > it goes pretty well. Plus you get more questions. > > Best, > gz > > > > On We

Re: link update on newbie orientation page

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:43 PM, GZobel wrote: > >> On this page: >> >> http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-contributing.html >> >> The link for item 2, point 4: >> >> 14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming

Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

Google has a new service that makes it easy to add a website satisfaction survey to a website. The free version has 4 questions that are asked of 500 random website visitors each month. We would be given results on a monthly basis. (They also have a paid version of this service where you can cus

Re: [RELEASE]: proposal for our next release AOO 4.1

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:41 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > some time ago we have discussed a language only release on base of > 4.0.1. And even a language release requires a lot of work. Until today I > see 3 potential languages ready which is not enough from my perspective. +1 > But on the

OpenOffice subreddit?

Anyone familiar with this? http://www.reddit.com/r/openoffice/ Does anyone know who the owner "citronix09" is? Is it worth making more use of reddit? -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For a

Re: draft blog post: Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 04/12/2013 Rob Weir wrote: >> >> >> https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_comments_apache_openoffice >> This idea has been in my queue for a while. I'd like to push it out >>

Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

Details are here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/call_for_comments_apache_openoffice Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.

Re: draft blog post: Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Keith N. McKenna > wrote: > >> Change CDs to CD's. >> > > Why? OK. I've always wondered about this myself, so I looked it up. It looks like there are various guidelines, but generally the aim is to avoid con

Re: Submission for consultants page

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Drew Jensen > wrote: >> Howdy Rob, >> >> Ah trademarks - yes, I agree the Apache OpenOffice should have a TM, a la: >> "IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ is a suite of open source office

draft blog post: Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_comments_apache_openoffice This idea has been in my queue for a while. I'd like to push it out now for public comment, and based on that try to get a new distributor page set up by January. -Rob

Re: Open Office ECCN query

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Trebilcock, Richard < richard.trebilc...@cgi.com> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > > > I am working on a CGI IT UK Limited project called ‘Galileo’ on which we > are looking to export software. As part of this process, we need to know > whether Open Office is of Unite

[IAccessible2] Nice comment on our blog

"Just to say a big thank you for the great work. We, as blind people, are until now quite tied to MSOffice for a real productivity suite, and with the ribon menus it becomes a nightmare. not to mention the license prices ! Hope OOO 4.1 will be able to expose the accessibility features even if runni

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:31 AM, David Goldfield wrote: > I wanted to report a spelling error in the new "volunteer > opportunities" link on the main page. There is a spelling error with the > word "opportunities." > Fixed. Thanks for letting us know. Regards. -Rob > > > > David Go

Re: AOO and Ohloh stats

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > On 2 December 2013 13:24, Rob Weir wrote: >> Of course, this is not to blame Ohloh. The fault is not in their >> service. The fault lies with those who take such numbers and do false >> comparisons. This is int

Good progress on confusing advertisements on download page

Please take a look at this new blog post from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-blockthis-initiative-update/ It looks like they are taking the ad issue seriously. They have culled 20%+ of the ads and instituted a process for communities to report new misleading ads. I think

AOO and Ohloh stats

You've probably seen various social media posts, blogs, articles, etc., purporting to compare AOO and LO via commit statistics. If you poke a little you see that these are almost always derived from Ohloh. You can see our numbers here: https://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice It is important to keep

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Regina Henschel > wrote: > >> But I'm concerned about the way the product is shown. For example in >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-Office-Word-Excel- >> Compatible-Open-Office-Professional-Edition-2013/

Re: 80 million downloads

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:23:02PM -0500, Rob Weir wrote: >> Yesterday we reached 80,072,389 downloads. > > It would be good to update the charts at > http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html The most recent da

Re: 80 million downloads

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Le 01/12/2013 16:38, Rob Weir a écrit : > >> I think you are confusing the perceptions within the echo-chamber of >> open source insiders with the reality in the real world. > > > But can't we use this echo-cha

Re: 80 million downloads

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 30/11/2013 Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> On 30-Nov-2013, at 16:22, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> And let's not forget that Emilia-Romagna recently announced a >>> migration to OpenOffice > > &

Re: 80 million downloads

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Le 01/12/2013 14:35, Rob Weir a écrit : >> >> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> >>> Unfortunately, the ordinary computer user has no idea of the base of >>> underlying

Re: 80 million downloads

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2013 13:43:12 +0100 > Guy Waterval wrote: > >> Hi Hagar, >> >> >> 2013/12/1 Hagar Delest >> >> > Le 30/11/2013 23:15, Rob Weir a écrit : >> > >>

Re: 80 million downloads

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