Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

[Wolf Halton]

sorry for the top-posting.
Android doesn't give me a lot of choice.

My current employment is deploying opensource software for libraries, so I
am profiting modestly from developers' work that I didn't pay for, exept
when the company pays one or another of them as a contractor to solve an
issue we can't sort out.

I do not think the projects are being molded in our company image.  At the
moment, AOO is not one of the projects we are actively marketing. Since I
have a personal interest in AOO, I would like to see ways I could sell AOO
to my managers as a product to support and offer to our members/patrons.

True, profits do not always rain down on opensource developers. If there
are no profits available from leveraging FOSS, then there is nothing to
send back to the projects in any fashion, is there?

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On Jan 21, 2013 3:06 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote:

 On 21 January 2013 20:10, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

  On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:52 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote:
   On 21 January 2013 19:36, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
  
   I'm wondering if anyone would be offended or object with a blog post
   along the lines of How to make money with Apache OpenOffice?
  
   I appreciate that Apache is a non-profit and that we do not pay for
   developers, etc.  But we are also commercially friendly, and our
   permissive license and focus on consumable source releases supports
   this.  One view is that this is good for the community, to encourage
   commercial interest in a product, since that leads to investment in
   the code, and investment leads to a larger, more diverse community.
   Yes, some will take and never give back.  But for many commercial
   ventures there are notable advantages to working with the community,
   having credibility and commit privileges, etc.  So it s a win-win, I
   think.
  
   The proposed blog post would cover a few business models, emphasize
   the opportunity brought on by the end of life of MS Office 2003, etc.
  
   If anyone is uncomfortable with this I can do it on my personal blog,
   of course.  But it is relevant to the AOO project, so I'd prefer to
   put it here.
  
  
   For me it would depend a lot on the wording. It is a fact that
   people/companies make money of our non-paid work, but to me it is
 another
   level to actively promote it.
  
   The right place to put it, is as you write the AOO blog and The
 business
   models should be presented in a way that (if for nothing else, then
 pure
   morally) part of the earnings should flow back to AOO, in order to keep
  us
   going,
  
 
  Yes, that would be my intent.
 
   I do not really see it as win-win, when a company makes money and has
   commit rights. I (as many others) have commit rights and do not earn
  money,
   we do it for other reasons.
  
 
  Maybe this question deserves its own thread, but what would increase
  your enjoyment/satisfaction with volunteer with AOO?
 
 good question, it is easier to say what would demotivate, and that is when
 I put in a lot work to help end-users, and the community actively
 encourages others to make money on it.

 See later eco system.

 If seeing the project advance faster, seeing more stuff getting done,
  fewer things left undone, then this is made easier with more
  investment into the ecosystem.  And that becomes a virtuous cycle,
  since that success attracts more volunteers, which leads to further
  success.
 

 Well that depends, I am sure that e.g. IBM (just an example) could throw in
 a lot of man power, and we could move high speed, but the price would be to
 de facto work to IBM rules, and that is a situation we should avoid.

 I believe that one of the reasons for AOO success is difference between the
 people involved, which enforces discussions and compromisses...something
 you easily loose when money is involved.

 To me is essential that the eco system is primarely kept intact by real
 volunteers...and that paid volunteers (sorry could not find a better
 expression), which have more time and resources are not taking over. Just
 to be completely clear, this statement is meant as a general rule, and in
 not to point at you or all other paid people in AOO, who all do a great
 job.

 
   This is of course just my opinion which in one sentence is
   good initative, but feeling comfortable depends a lot on content of
 the
   business models
  
 
  Well, I haven't written in yet, but I was thinking of a listing or
  catalog of ways of making money from OpenOffice.  Maybe 10 or so.  So
  not get rich quick stuff, and generally a pitch for involvement by
  for-profit organizations.
 

 I like your idea, and a catalogue of ideas is good...but think about giving
 it the twist of a danish expression when it rains on the priest, it drips
 on the vicar.


 
  -Rob
 
   Jan I.
  
  
  
   No rush to decide. I won't get to this for another week, at least.
  
   -Rob
  
 

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 respin to support 8 new languages

[Wolf Halton]

+1  More language support is a great thing for Apache Open Office


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Albino Biasutti Neto bin...@apache.orgwrote:

 Hi

 2013/1/23 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com:
  this is a call for vote on releasing a minor respin of Apache OpenOffice
  3.4.1 to support 8 new languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmal,
  Polish, Korean, Basque, Asturian, Scottish Gaelic). The Hungarian
  version is repackaged and a Hungarian dictionary is now included.

 Good ! :-)

 [ ] +1 Release this respin package as complement Apache OpenOffice
  3.4.1 (incubating)
 [ ]  0 Don't care
 [ ] -1 Do not release this package because...

 +1

 One however. It could be an update to 3.4.2 (the versions).

 Albino




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Re: How to make money with Apache OpenOffice (proposed blog post)

[Wolf Halton]

Fabrizio,
That sounds like a good approach.
Wolf



On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Fabrizio Marchesano fmarches...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi all,
 if you think it may be of interest, I could talk about the development of
 tailor-made extensions for customers.
 I think this may be seen as a kind of the win-win situation which Rob is
 referring to: taking advantage of the whole community by learning a lot
 about extension development, creating tailored extensions for customers
 with so much specific requirements that a consultancy agreement is needed,
 giving back to the community the new skills learned during the process (the
 ones not related to the customer's specific needs, or at least making
 generalizations), thus sharing knowledge, which can lead to new customers'
 requests and so on.
 In my case, for example, that's the way I came to talk at FOSDEM (it all
 started in quite recent times with IBM Lotus Symphony, but the global
 context is the same; indeed, it could even be a subject of interest, given
 the merging of Symphony code in AOO 4).
 I am at your disposal if you think it may fit.
 Best regards,

 Fabrizio

 On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org
 wrote:

  On 21/01/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
 
  If anyone is uncomfortable with this I can do it on my personal blog,
  of course.  But it is relevant to the AOO project, so I'd prefer to
  put it here.
 
 
  I see no reasons to avoid this topic. But the post would actually be more
  credible, and enjoyable, if we actually manage to interview a couple of
  consultants/companies who are making money (or even a living) out of
  OpenOffice. So not only a generic post by project volunteers, but a post
  including also a few paragraphs where established consultants provide
 some
  extra information.
 
  Regards,
Andrea.
 




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Weird para at Zotero site

[Wolf Halton]

*Though I am not personally all that active..
*
I think AOO is extremely actively under development.
*

Apache OpenOffice 4 users:* Zotero does not currently support Apache
OpenOffice 4. While a future release may include support for Apache
OpenOffice 4, we encourage you to switch to
LibreOfficehttp://www.libreoffice.org/download,
which is based on the same codebase but is more actively developed.
http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_installation

Grrr!

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Re: Weird para at Zotero site

[Wolf Halton]

Thanks, Simon.

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On Aug 13, 2013 1:48 AM, Simon Kornblith si...@simonster.com wrote:

 It looks like that page was updated with exactly what I'm asking for since
 the last time I looked at it. Thanks for the pointer, and sorry for the
 noise. I'll see if I can get things working in the near future.

 Simon

 On Aug 12, 2013, at 2:42 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:

  Simon Kornblith wrote:
  my basic question is: How can I build an extension that works after
  upgrading from AOO 3.4 to 4.0 without requiring intervention on the
  part of the user?
 
  If your problem is addons.xcu, the page Alexandro pointed you to
 
 http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions/Extensions_and_Apache_OpenOffice_4.0
  has some remarks on how to do that.
 
  Regards,
   Andrea.
 


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Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

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Why not move web development as well as the code development into Git?
+1 any Git. 

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 On Mar 1, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org 
 wrote:
 
 I'm going to add my +1 to this proposal.
 
 It occurred to me, when looking into the old OOo SVN dumps that Rob has, 
 that there may be many more downstream users that are on Git and that our 
 being on Git would facilitate accepting appropriately-offered pull requests 
 to the AOO repository.  It seems this is a lower-friction way of sending 
 fixes upstream than going the patch creation and submission route.
 
 - Dennis
 
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 From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com] 
 Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 04:01
 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
 Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.
 
 [ ... ]
 
 If possible to get a git repo only it make sense. That means we don't
 have to move any webpage related stuff into git. Just the pure code is
 relevant her.
 
 +1 for a git repo
 
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Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

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Yes, thank you for the repetition. 

Wolf

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 On Mar 8, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote:
 
 Am 03/08/2015 04:52 PM, schrieb jan i:
 On Sunday, March 8, 2015, Marcusmarcus.m...@wtnet.de  wrote:
 
 Am 03/08/2015 02:08 AM, schrieb wolf.hal...@gmail.com:
 
 Why not move web development as well as the code development into Git?
 +1 any Git.
 
 the staging machine is relying on SVN. So, moving to Git would make
 changes on the website impossible - until someone rewrites the code that is
 doing the staging and publishing, so that it is (maybe additionally) also
 working with Git.
 
 Thats what I heard. It doesn't need to be the full truth but sounds logic
 for me. ;-)
 
 I think it was said before, we talk about the code not the website. Due to
 CMS we cannot currently move the web site so that will remain untouched in
 SVN.
 
 sure, I know that. But maybe Wolf had missed this. That's the reason why I 
 wrote it again. ;-)
 
 Marcus
 
 
 
  On Mar 1, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamiltondennis.hamil...@acm.org
 wrote:
 
 I'm going to add my +1 to this proposal.
 
 It occurred to me, when looking into the old OOo SVN dumps that Rob
 has, that there may be many more downstream users that are on Git and that
 our being on Git would facilitate accepting appropriately-offered pull
 requests to the AOO repository.  It seems this is a lower-friction way of
 sending fixes upstream than going the patch creation and submission route.
 
 - Dennis
 
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 From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 04:01
 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
 Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.
 
 [ ... ]
 
 If possible to get a git repo only it make sense. That means we don't
 have to move any webpage related stuff into git. Just the pure code is
 relevant her.
 
 +1 for a git repo
 
 Juergen
 
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Re: Wrongful information on the Wikipedia

[Wolf Halton]

One solution is to write small but hopeful press releases of progress on the 
blog or otherwhere and have someone else update wikipedia. 

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> On Sep 3, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Phillip Rhodes <motley.crue@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just looked at the Wikipedia page and don't see anything that's -
> strictly speaking - incorrect, or lacking citations.  IOW, I don't see any
> supportable rationale for removing anything that's there, although one
> could question the motives of whoever made it a point to call out some
> concerns about lack of activity in the first paragaph of the article.
> Nonetheless, I think any attempt to modify that will face opposition.
> 
> In a related vein, The Guardian recently ran this article titled "Should I
> Switch From Apache OpenOffice to LibreOffice or Microsoft Office".
> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/sep/03/switch-openoffice-libreoffice-or-microsoft-office
> 
> I don't know if there's any easy way to counter this narrative that's
> spreading through the press, about AOO being dead/dormant/whatever, or how
> LO is clearly "the winner", but it's definitely unfortunate to see this
> kind of stuff spread around so widely.  :-(
> 
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Max,
>> 
>>> On 03 Sep 15, at 16:31, Max Merbald <max.merb...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> the Engish Wikipedia claims that AOO is dormant. I can't see where they
>> have the information from. The sources they use don't say so. I think it's
>> definitely bad for OpenOffice when people think no more is done about it.
>> The problem is also that LibreOffice has just published its version 5.0 and
>> is getting ahead of us.
>> 
>> thanks for the alert.
>> 
>> Wikipedia is composed by a crowd of editors, and you can change the entry
>> to reflect the facts.
>> 
>> So can anyone on this list. Becoming an editor at Wikipedia is not arduous.
>> 
>> Louis
>>> 
>>> Max
>>> 
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Re: Windows 10

[Wolf Halton]

I have had no difficulties with Open Office on Windows 10, either. 

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> On Nov 29, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Max Merbald <max.merb...@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello Jane,
> 
> I've been using OpenOffice on Win 10 since July 29 (which is when Win 10 
> first was available) and I have no problems whatsoever. It works perfectly 
> well on Win 10.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
>> Am 29.11.2015 um 04:31 schrieb Jane Linkswiler:
>> Do I take it that Open Office is not usable on Windows 10? When might it be?
>> 
>>  
>> Jane Linkswiler
>> 
>> (Jane in Phoenix)
>> 
>>  
>> 
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Re: Merge with LibreOffice?

[Wolf Halton]

I think OpenOffice has the larger install base even if LO has much of the Linux 
desktop distro installs. 
AOO is still attracting developers and other project members. 
There may be a finite audience for office suites, but it is a very large 
audience. 

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> On Aug 3, 2016, at 14:02, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
>> Regardless of why or how,
>> when it comes to development, it's clear that LO has won.
> 
> LO is only a fork. OO is the original and will always be the original. That's 
> the fact.
> 
>> What are your views on this?
> 
> LO is the fork, not OpenOffice.
> 
> We should never forget how members of TDF have members of Apache OpenOffice 
> attacked with words. We should never forget what lies were spread about 
> OpenOffice so that LO is better off.
> 
> 
> 
> Gretings.
> Jörg
> 
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Re: [DISCUSS] Release 4.2: General Topics

[Wolf Halton]

Thought I would mention that the Oracle folks are making noises about helping 
developers move off of versions of Java < 1.7.  
They are aware of increasing numbers of vulnerabilities in the older major 
versions. Of course it isn't our job to nudge users off of XP and older Windows 
OSes, or get them off of Linux kernel 2.4, but we can get a statistically 
useful answer about how many of our visitors are using which OS by looking at 
the web server stats from the different language support sites. 
Once we see those figures, I rather expect that the flight path will get 
clearer, relative to support for obsolete OSes and Java versions. 

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> On Aug 25, 2016, at 17:55, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Resending to 3 lists... I suggest to have a "canonical" reply-to to the dev 
> list for the next messages. Andrea
> 
> Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>> On 23/08/2016 Kay Schenk wrote:
>>> WARNING: This is quite long!
>> 
>> And the discussion was even longer, but I'll start with answering this one.
>> 
>> And I'll first note that:
>> 
>> 1) Work is not starting now. We have years of code already committed and
>> not shown in previous releases.
>> 
>> 2) Like for every release, we make plans but at a certain point we have
>> to cut the release and this "wishlist" is thus a tentative guideline.
>> 
>>> *PRIORITIES*
>>> 1. Update the localization.
>>> We've had quite a bit of work by the localization folks since the 4.1.1
>>> release. This was the last release, in 2014-08-21 to import localization
>>> updates. Currently, it seems we might also add 3 new languages: Uyghur,
>>> Sinhala, and Icelandic with the 4.2 release. This would include both UI
>>> translations and Help translations.
>> 
>> Last translations import were done in 4.1.0 and not 4.1.1 (if I recall
>> correctly); but this is a minor detail. There are no new languages to be
>> expected in 4.2.0: we have new languages in Pootle, but I don't think
>> any of them is ready enough for being released (this may of course
>> improve with time). So in short 4.2.0 means that we can add strings to
>> the code, which means we can make them available to translators, which
>> in turn means we can (we have to) update all translations.
>> 
>>> We need volunteers to lead this endeavor. I, personally, don't know
>>> anything about this process.
>> 
>> I'm slowly working on this but I still have something to find/learn.
>> I've sent the l10n list a mail sending that I'm planning to test a first
>> import in early September - just to test the process.
>> 
>>> 2. Update Java requirement from Java 1.5 to *at least* Java 1.7
>>> I am rather adamant that we change our building requirement to Java 1.7
>>> for all platforms. I will be changing that in our Building Guide today.
>> 
>> Is there a real reason for it? I see this like saying (this is just an
>> example, not to be taken literally) "we drop support for Windows XP
>> since it's old and unsupported". In short: if we need work to drop Java
>> 1.5 then we have clear advantages in raising our requirement to 1.7,
>> otherwise we can simply drop the requirement saying "we won't explicitly
>> test compatibility with Java < 1.7"; but in that case we must provide
>> ways to obtain a compatible JRE for all the 4 supported platforms.
>> 
>>> 3. Issues for inclusion
>>> We need to include submitted/tested patches since 4.0.x. This should not
>>> include UI changes which would need to undergo a much longer test period.
>> 
>> The version number is not a detail. We call it 4.2.0 since UI changes
>> are allowed. On the other hand, we don't have to include all patches;
>> actually, seeing all the code that already went in, I would be more on
>> the conservative side here.
>> 
>>> Additionally, issue 127068, involving analytics on our source code would
>>> surely be worth investigating.
>>> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127068
>> 
>> These are automatically found defects, good for easy fixes but probably
>> not really important.
>> 
>> I'd rather suggest that we give some attention to the 4.1.2 regressions,
>> especially this one (the only one so far):
>> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126622
>> 
>>> *BUILDBOTS AND CONFIGURATION*
>>> 1. Move to different buildbots?
>> 
>> Not needed. A "nice to have" if they standardize 

Re: future of OpenOffice

[Wolf Halton]

Thanks for these reminders. I was watching odftoolkit a few years ago. 

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> On Jan 13, 2017, at 23:05, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
> If support for Microsoft Office formats is desired and Java is not a problem 
> then Apache has a 15 year old project called Apache POI. Also, Apache 
> ODFToolkit is sitting in the Incubator for 5.5 years now with one developer - 
> Svante.
> 
> Conversion between ODF and OOXML is the only way to ultimate document 
> freedom. Institutions cannot change - documents need to be write once and use 
> anywhere. 
> 
> There is a way if there is a will.
> 
> Regards,
> Dave
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jan 13, 2017, at 4:56 PM, Peter Kovacs <legi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> +1 :-D
>> 
>> I will pick maybe some of the stuff up.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 13.01.2017 21:38, Chuck Davis wrote:
>>> Toki, I'm very glad to hear SOMEBODY has imagination!  :)
>>> 
>>> It seems we've had quite a number of people coming here lately (like a
>>> professor someplace is sending them to get involved in open source) to
>>> state they want to get involved.  I hope they and their professors are
>>> taking notes from your material!  You have some very good ideas.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for being specific.
>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:08 PM, toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 01/13/2017 03:15 PM, Chuck Davis wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> but I fail to see it in my use cases.
>>>> As far as word processing is concerned, one can make a case that since
>>>> either WordStar 3.3 or WordPerfect 5.1, the proffered functionality is
>>>> overkill for more than 90% of the user base.
>>>> 
>>>> As far as spreadsheets go, a case can be made that for anything that
>>>> requires more sophistication than than Lotus 1 2 3 version 4.0, it would
>>>> be more appropriate to use R & SQLite.
>>>> 
>>>>> and start rolling out really useful features
>>>> For Write, as a starting point, incorporate the features, functionality,
>>>> and capabilities, of both WordStar 3.3 & WordPerfect 5.1, that are not
>>>> currently present in AOo.
>>>> 
>>>> For Base:
>>>> Step One: Include SQLite;
>>>> Step Two: Provide a UI that non-database specialists understand well
>>>> enough, to be able to intuitively create forms and do searches;
>>>> Step Three: Purpose-specific addons. Templates which include Forms,
>>>> macros, etc, that makes such obvious and easy for all to utilize. By way
>>>> of example:
>>>> * Project Management;
>>>> * Genealogy Records;
>>>> * Cookbook, including nutritional data;
>>>> * Contact Management;
>>>> 
>>>> For Calc:
>>>> Step One: Include R as part of the core install;
>>>> Step Two: Purpose-specific addons. Templates which include macros, etc,
>>>> that makes utilization obvious and easy for all. By way of example:
>>>> * Financial Spread Betting;
>>>> * Investment Analysis;
>>>> * Earthquake Prediction;
>>>> 
>>>> ###
>>>> 
>>>> Something that sort of surprises me, is that AOo hasn't worked with SVN,
>>>> to have "Save to SVN" as a standard feature. (The extension that
>>>> provided this functionality is completely broken for LibO, and appears
>>>> to be broken for AOo 4.1.3.)
>>>> 
>>>> "Save to SVN" might look arcane, and not useful to anybody. As a
>>>> practical matter, it offers much better change control, and greater roll
>>>> back functionality, than anything currently offered for any office suite
>>>> --- if it does everything in the background, with minimal
>>>> user-configuration and no end-user integration required.
>>>> 
>>>> ###
>>>> 
>>>> Project Management is the most visible hole in FLOSS office suites. In
>>>> theory, a set of extensions and templates could provide this functionality.
>>>> 
>>>> A second hole is the ability to wrap spreadsheets, documents, images,
>>>> etc into a single package. IOW, the functionality offered by Microsoft
>>>> Office Binder.
>>>> 
>>>>> I don'

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> 
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Re: Voice to text

[Wolf Halton]

Thanks,
That gives me a start to ask much better questions

Wolf Halton 
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(678) 892-0226 Voice and Text

> On Feb 2, 2021, at 09:22, Matthias Seidel  wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>> Am 01.02.21 um 00:37 schrieb Colonel Wolf Halton CBA:
>> I run Ubuntu or PopOS at home. I want to find a voice to text extension of
>> OOO. Is that a thing, or do I need to try and find an OS-specific app that
>> could add the functionality to OOO?
> 
> I don't think there is such an extension for AOO.
> 
> You will need to find something OS specific, that can transform spoken
> language in written text (normally that works in every application with
> a text input field).
> 
> For Ubuntu (and Ubuntu based PopOS) I found "Simon" in the App store.
> But I don't know how it works and there may be other programs better
> suited for your task.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>Matthias Seidel
> 
>> 
>> *Lt Col Wolf Halton, CTGA, PCIP, CBA*
>> 678-687-6104 Voice/Text
>> --
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>> 
> 

Voice to text

[Colonel Wolf Halton CBA]

I run Ubuntu or PopOS at home. I want to find a voice to text extension of
OOO. Is that a thing, or do I need to try and find an OS-specific app that
could add the functionality to OOO?

*Lt Col Wolf Halton, CTGA, PCIP, CBA*
678-687-6104 Voice/Text
--
Are you having CyberNightmares <https://cybernightmares.com>?