Re: docx2odt converters

2021-09-20 Thread Guy Waterval
, I don't have more information. Best regards, Guy Waterval Le jeu. 16 sept. 2021 à 23:45, Carl Marcum a écrit : > Hello Guy, > > I can't tell from this what the issue is. Is it docx format and what > happens when opened in AOO? > > Best regards, > Carl > > On 9/15/21

docx2odt converters

2021-09-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello all, I received a mail from a user having difficulties importing MS Word documents to AOO. Here is the text of the message : "I am having a problem displaying a C/D (that is formatted in Word) , but I have Apache Open Office installed on my Win.10 system. I would like to avoid having to

Re: OpenOffice needs better UI

2021-09-02 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Pedro, Unfortunately, big problems under Windows 10 Version 21H1 for systems x64, unusable. Regards G. Waterval Le jeu. 2 sept. 2021 à 18:44, Pedro Lino a écrit : > Hi Guy, Matthias > > > On 09/02/2021 5:12 PM Guy Waterval wrote: > > > > > > Hello, >

Re: OpenOffice needs better UI

2021-09-02 Thread Guy Waterval
; > Am 02.09.21 um 07:52 schrieb Guy Waterval: > > Hello, > > > > The UI of IBM Lotus Symphony could perhaps be a source of inspiration. > Not > > too far from the actual AOO UI, but with simplified menus and toolbars. > > Can you point me to some screenshot that

Re: OpenOffice needs better UI

2021-09-01 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello, The UI of IBM Lotus Symphony could perhaps be a source of inspiration. Not too far from the actual AOO UI, but with simplified menus and toolbars. Regards G. Waterval Le mar. 31 août 2021 à 13:25, Matthias Seidel a écrit : > Hi, > > I do see the need for a modern icon set to be used

Re: WikiPublisher extension (was Re: servlet-api.jar)

2017-10-16 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Keith, 2017-10-14 5:52 GMT+02:00 Keith N. McKenna : [...] What is relevant is that having it > functional would be a good enhancement to the product as well as > provicing the potential of benefit to the project. > I entirely agree with your position an I have a

Re: Apache licence vs cc-by-sa

2017-06-19 Thread Guy Waterval
ntents that can be stored locally and therefore also being usable offline. It isn't a code activity, and so, such a project will probably not have a really direct impact on the AOO project. But it can help to make it known. Regards -- Guy Waterval > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=em

Apache licence vs cc-by-sa

2017-06-16 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello all, I have decided since for a while, to publish only under an Apache license all the photos that I upload to Wikimedia Commons, because they are destinated to an uni which will select those to integrate to its internal photographic collection. For this reason, I wish delivery the material

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello, I could involve me in Gallery extensions as I'm already active in Wikipedia in macro/microphotography (User:Softenpoche). As I'm not a coder, I can not help for other extensions. Regards -- gw 2017-01-15 18:59 GMT+01:00 Dr. Michael Stehmann < anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de>: > Hello,

Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute!

2017-01-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, 2017-01-15 14:18 GMT+01:00 Hagar Delest : > Le 14/01/2017 à 11:58, mabdul a écrit : > >> Believe me: MS doesn't follow Apache OpenOffice any longer as they know >> that in the next ~10 years OpenOffice cannot hurt MS. Moreover they have >> switched to a

Re: Back to the Project

2016-10-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Raphael, Happy to see you again here. Regards -- gw 2016-10-16 3:17 GMT+02:00 Raphael Bircher : > Hi there > > I'm honest, I'm a bit surprised by this project. Some weeks there was > rumors, that the project is dead, and some weeks later you put out the new >

Project Cliparts galleries

2015-12-07 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, I would produce next year educational cliparts galleries (between 100 to 150 images maximum for one gallery) in the biological area, especially microscopic ones, because I've at home the necessary equipement to do that and I'm retired, so I could also invest in such an activity on the

Re: downloading to tablet

2015-11-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, There's also that : http://www.multiracio.hu/index.php?lang=en=eurooffice=eo_android Regards -- gw 2015-11-10 8:20 GMT+01:00 Rory O'Farrell : > On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 16:33:05 +1000 > wrote: > > > I have Office on my computer – and find it

Re: [DISCUSS] Fwd: Re: FOSDEM 2016 - Call for Participation

2015-09-28 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi, I'm intending to come to help you on the stand for french speakers. It will be a real pleasure to meet you again. Regards -- gw 2015-09-28 9:48 GMT+02:00 RA Stehmann : > Hello, > > as promised Mechtilde and I will join the Apache booth (stand) team at >

Re: [RESULT][VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.

2015-08-23 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jan, 2015-08-23 9:27 GMT+02:00 jan i j...@apache.org: Congratulations Dennis. [...] I will in a moment resign from the project as such and unsubscribe from the lists. I wish the project all the best in the future. Even considering all the bad discussion, I still look back on some

Re: [VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.

2015-08-17 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, 2015-08-16 8:57 GMT+02:00 jan i j...@apache.org: This is a call for a formal vote among the 1 candidate for the AOO Chair role. Due to the fact that there are only 1 candidate we could use lazy consensus, but since some persons might be against that, we will use majority vote, as

[INFO] Contact with wikimedia.ch

2015-05-04 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, I had an interesting discussion this afternoon in Lausanne with people of wikimédia.ch http://xn--wikimdia-f1a.ch. This project has about 500 members and produces contents for Wikipedia. It also develops a software, Kiwix. The project is not only composed of volunteers, it integrates

Re: Apache open office on Anroid

2015-04-20 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Louis, 2015-04-19 17:17 GMT+02:00 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com: Thanks for the clarification and am glad you’ve been able to work with them.. I’m also not employed by them. I do find their work and collaboration interesting, as well, and in particular their use of Calligra, which

Re: Apache open office on Anroid

2015-04-19 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Louis, 2015-04-19 1:35 GMT+02:00 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com: On 18 Apr 2015, at 05:46, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Saturday, April 18, 2015, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: 2015-04-18 10:08 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org javascript

Re: Apache open office on Anroid

2015-04-17 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, 2015-04-17 11:45 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: Guy Waterval wrote: EuroOffice for Android is a possibility http://www.multiracio.com/index.php?lang=enstyle=euroofficepage=eo_android Is this based on the OpenOffice code? EuroOffice 2014 is based on AOO code

Re: Apache open office on Anroid

2015-04-17 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Louis, 2015-04-17 22:26 GMT+02:00 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com: On 17 Apr 2015, at 14:49, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 17 Apr 2015, at 05:45, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Guy Waterval wrote: EuroOffice for Android is a possibility

Re: Apache open office on Anroid

2015-04-16 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello, 2015-04-16 18:50 GMT+02:00 Nguyễn Đình Văn dinhva...@gmail.com: Dear all, I have 2 question, please ask me: 1. Can [Apache open office] view office on Android? EuroOffice for Android is a possibility http://www.multiracio.com/index.php?lang=enstyle=euroofficepage=eo_android Regards

Re: New blog post: Collaboration is in our DNA

2015-04-14 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, Interesting post. Maybe a more decentralized approach, as it seems to be the case with Wikipedia. External associations (third parties) locally perform advertising for the product and produce diverse ressources to satisfy the needs of their users. If these works have a general

Re: Board report proposal, please comment before April 5.

2015-04-05 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jan, Hi all, 2015-04-05 8:20 GMT+02:00 jan i j...@apache.org: On Sunday, April 5, 2015, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/04/15 00:37, jan i wrote: felt that I as new AOO chair, had formulated the report too negative and against the wishes of the community I'm

Re: Board report proposal, please comment before April 5.

2015-04-05 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Gavin, 2015-04-05 10:57 GMT+02:00 Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.au: On 5 Apr 2015, at 8:07 am, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jan, Hi all, 2015-04-05 8:20 GMT+02:00 jan i j...@apache.org: On Sunday, April 5, 2015, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote

Re: If I can help in some way ...

2015-04-03 Thread Guy Waterval
Bonsoir Valentin, Bienvenue parmi nous ! 2015-04-02 16:47 GMT+02:00 Valentin Gérard valentin.gerard@gmail.com: Hello everyone, I'm Valentin, I study Business Informatics at Rennes University in France; there I study langages like Java, SQL, PHP, HTML/CSS, Javascript. I'm actually in an

Re: Double licence ALv2.0 and CC-BY-SA 3.0

2015-03-12 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Dennis, Hi all, 2015-03-11 17:53 GMT+01:00 Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org: Is it correct to assume that we are speaking of documentation +1 and, specifically, material for the OpenOffice.org wiki and web site? -1 If the idea is to maintain the core material on only one

Double licence ALv2.0 and CC-BY-SA 3.0

2015-03-11 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, As it seems that I will be retired in advance (4 years) in July, I will have more time and I plan to join another project. As this project uses a different licence (CC-BY-SA 3.0), I would use for my original contributions, currently under ALv2.0, a double licence (ALv2.0 and CC-BY-SA 3.0)

Re: Double licence ALv2.0 and CC-BY-SA 3.0

2015-03-11 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Michael, Hi all, 2015-03-11 12:14 GMT+01:00 RA Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de: [...] But: if a user creates a derived work and puts it unter CC-BY_SA only, Apache can't use the derived work. (Use includes also improve and share.) So the problem is the use of improvements.

Re: Interoperability

2015-03-09 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rory, OK, thanks, added to the todo list. A+ -- gw 2015-03-09 8:37 GMT+01:00 Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie: On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 23:18:11 +0100 Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Marcus, 2015-03-08 16:33 GMT+01:00 Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de: [...] What do

Re: Interoperability

2015-03-08 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Marcus, Hi all, 2015-03-06 18:45 GMT+01:00 Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de: [...] Maybe it's a bit difficult to still find an interesting topic because of the hugh amount of extensions. But it is indeed a great start into OpenOffice development. You are right but there are perhaps also

Re: Interoperability

2015-03-08 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Marcus, 2015-03-08 16:33 GMT+01:00 Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de: [...] What do you mean with boring subject? Education? I hope it's not seen as boring because it is the key for everything in our life. ;-) I mean that I'm discussing about extensions which is a little off topics here. But

Re: Interoperability

2015-03-06 Thread Guy Waterval
22:54 GMT+01:00 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com: On 03/05/2015 01:51 PM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi all, The presentation has been successfull. The audience was very interested and impressed by the sidebar, the portability of AOO (use on usb key) and the possibility to increase its functions

Re: Interoperability

2015-03-05 Thread Guy Waterval
. Curiously, the question of the interoperability seemed not to be a big problem, perhaps because MS Office can now use the ODF format. Regards -- gw 2015-03-02 17:35 GMT+01:00 Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com: Hi all, I have been mandated to make an AOO presentation in a class of a technical

Interoperability

2015-03-02 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, I have been mandated to make an AOO presentation in a class of a technical school next Thursday. As those people are exclusively working with MS Office, I'd like to know where we actually are with the issue of interoperability. Is it an ongoing work, is it planned to have in the future

Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-17 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jan, Hi all, 2015-02-16 10:26 GMT+01:00 jan i j...@apache.org: In order to keep it (as AOO) we. need to know - is the brand registred and eho has the current right to the brand - can we as AOO provide resources to keep this alive I think it is a good downstream project, but I do not

Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello, 2015-02-14 23:36 GMT+01:00 jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [..] That would require one addition to the Tools Options Appearance Select UI-Profile, and offer: * Prebuilt; * Default; * Custom; That's exactly what we have discussed

Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-14 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, Hi all, 2015-02-13 20:51 GMT+01:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: On 13/02/2015 jonathon wrote: Were these projects (OOo4Kids, OooLight) included, when OOo became an Apache project? No. But as several people pointed out, they have always been independent projects. Eric's

Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-14 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Michael, Hi all, 2015-02-13 9:42 GMT+01:00 RA Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de: On 13.02.2015 09:05, jan i wrote: I cannot see them included in the original IP clearance, so my best guess is that they were forgotten, but others might know more. I think, that both

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-02-04 Thread Guy Waterval
+1 Jan Iversen (jani) A+ -- gw 2015-01-30 19:52 GMT+01:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to resign from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor could be elected. A previous vote was cancelled.

Re: credibility.

2015-01-28 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi jan, 2015-01-26 16:14 GMT+01:00 jan i j...@apache.org: [...] If I have lost my credibility, For me, you've never lost your credibility, because you are realistic and not a dreamer. A+ -- gw

Re: [Info] Presentation about free software on Windows

2014-11-07 Thread Guy Waterval
As an ex-leader of the Education project we welcomed schools willing to engage with the project. And we worked on protocols to be able to work withing the schools own protocols. On 11/6/14, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andrea, Many thanks. A little offtopic here

Re: [Info] Presentation about free software on Windows

2014-11-06 Thread Guy Waterval
? A+ -- gw 2014-11-05 0:19 GMT+01:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: On 20/10/2014 Guy Waterval wrote: 2014-10-16 0:16 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti: Remember that you can ask to be listed at http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html ... It's a good idea, indeed. Many thanks. Here

Partnership with schools

2014-10-24 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, I wonder if we couldn't encourage schools to participate to the projet in a durable manner. Students have each year projects to realize alone or in teams. Why not to suggest works reusable by the project. After a discussion about that with a student who has contacts in a high school of

Re: [Info] Presentation about free software on Windows

2014-10-20 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, 2014-10-16 0:16 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: On 11/10/2014 Guy Waterval wrote: BTW, for legal issues and to be allowed accept mandates from companies and from the state, I had to create a company. It will act in the promotion and help to the migration to free

Re: [Info] Presentation about free software on Windows

2014-10-11 Thread Guy Waterval
at the 01.06.14. A+ -- gw 2014-09-17 8:11 GMT+02:00 Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com: Hi all, Just for info, I will try, for the second time, to organize an event around free software and AOO in Switzerland (as a third party, non official). http://softenpoche.com/manifestations.html I

[Info] Presentation about free software on Windows

2014-09-17 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, Just for info, I will try, for the second time, to organize an event around free software and AOO in Switzerland (as a third party, non official). http://softenpoche.com/manifestations.html I will transmit the results of the try : bad or good ;-) A+ -- gw

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-10 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, 2014-09-09 20:58 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: Guy Waterval wrote: Not possible for a developer to use a double licence ? Sure it is possible. And it is also possible for the copyright holder to add the Apache 2 license to work previously released under other

Re: Feature porting from LibreOffice

2014-09-09 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Michael, That's a problem of licenses. The Apache License has no so called copyleft, so LibreOffice can use our code. But LibreOffice uses licences with a (weak) copyleft, so we can't use their code, if the developer doesn't use also the Apache License (v 2.0) for his or hers code. So:

Re: Forward planning for OO 5.0

2014-09-06 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Vladislav, 2014-09-06 15:12 GMT+02:00 Vladislav Stevanovic stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com: On 05/09/2014 Vladislav Stevanovic wrote: All languages should be in installation file. Then, when process of installation starts, application will ask user what languages want to using (if they

Re: Statistic data per single country

2014-09-01 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob, 2014-09-01 18:00 GMT+02:00 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Vladislav Stevanovic stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com wrote: Tom, thanks for tips. Just one question: When set up is like in this link below (just Home, not particular version), what exactly is

PicoSvoxOOo v1.0 (extension)

2014-08-05 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, From the Educoo users list : http://extensions.openoffice.org/project/picosvoxooo Author : Marie Brungard Many thanks to her -- gw

Re: OOXML

2014-08-02 Thread Guy Waterval
+1 -- gw 2014-08-03 1:47 GMT+02:00 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org: I am often required to read and write DOCX files and I know others for which this is a need. If I cannot accurately read / write DOCX files (or if I suspect that it may not work correctly) then I use Word; I

EuroOffice

2014-06-03 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, I'd like to know which kind of contacts has the AOO project with the EuroOffice group : http://www.multiracio.com/index.php?style=euroofficepage=eo - Casual partner, episodic cooperation - No contact at all, only perceived as a third party - Other ... Many thanks -- gw

Re: EuroOffice

2014-06-03 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, Hi all, 2014-06-03 8:41 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: Guy Waterval wrote: I'd like to know which kind of contacts has the AOO project with the EuroOffice group No formal contacts, but representatives from Multiracio speak at OpenOffice events, like

Re: Forward planning for OO 5.0

2014-05-18 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, 2014-05-18 22:17 GMT+02:00 Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de: Am 05/18/2014 09:40 PM, schrieb Max Merbald: I think it's a very good idea that ideas for AOO Next can be collected here. I have a few myself. One is that the user interface has not been changed/modernised significantly

Re: Forward planning for OO 5.0

2014-05-17 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jürgen, Hi all, 2014-05-17 16:57 GMT+02:00 Juergen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com: Anybody can propose things and we can discuss it. For IBM we have clear priority for the future and that is OOXML and we will propose and discuss details soon. But I hope others have ideas as well ... By

Re: is it offical? OenOffice Online

2014-05-13 Thread Guy Waterval
Salut Sylvain, Interesting because it's a frequently asked question. But as I had a lot of warning messages from antivir (perhaps false), I have stopped the try. A+ -- gw 2014-05-13 9:31 GMT+02:00 Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org: Seems that you need windows to run this. That's

Re: AOO 4.1 Portable

2014-05-03 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, 2014-05-02 8:52 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org: Pedro Albuquerque wrote: is there an updated portable version? The only one I could find was v3.2! An updated portable version by the winPenPack team is now available at http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ Many

Re: Strange bounce mails

2014-04-24 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, I received this one two days ago. I don't understand what to do, because it came from dev and I have no problem in other lists. Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the dev@openoffice.apache.org mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at

Re: Version for i-pad?

2014-03-30 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Louis, Many thanks for your explanations. A+ -- gw 2014-03-29 15:43 GMT+01:00 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com: On 2014-03-29, at 08:58, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Louis, Kickstarter ? Could you develop a little more ? I don't understand very well

Re: Version for i-pad?

2014-03-29 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Louis, Kickstarter ? Could you develop a little more ? I don't understand very well. Many thanks. A+ -- gw 2014-03-28 22:41 GMT+01:00 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com: On 2014-03-28, at 17:24, FR web forum ooofo...@free.fr wrote: Question asked many times See:

Re: Paste screenshots in AOO writer 4.1 bêta

2014-02-20 Thread Guy Waterval
the cause... On 19.02.2014 02:38, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Armin, OK, many thanks. But it's not a priority, I have notified it because it was a little change between the two versions and I didn't know if it was important or not. The workaround is easy with the Paste special command

Paste screenshots in AOO writer 4.1 bêta

2014-02-18 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, I dont know if this issue is relevant or not, just for info. I generally use greenshot to make screenshots and copy them from greenshot to the clipboard before pasting them in Writer. http://getgreenshot.org/ I have noticed a little issue with writer in the latest bêta AOO 4.1 under

Re: Paste screenshots in AOO writer 4.1 bêta

2014-02-18 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi André, Thanks for your answer 2014-02-18 11:32 GMT+01:00 Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com: On 18.02.2014 10:08, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi all, I dont know if this issue is relevant or not, just for info. I generally use greenshot to make screenshots and copy them from greenshot

Re: Community meetup at summer 2014 in Switzerland

2014-02-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Raphael, Hi all, Just for info : http://www.mail-archive.com/announce@documentfoundation.org/msg00181.html A+ -- gw 2014-01-23 15:44 GMT+01:00 Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch: Hi at all This year we have no ApacheCon Europe. So it's maybe a good Idea to have a community meetup. At

Re: LTS Version from 4.0.X

2014-02-09 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Raphael, This one works in this area. But they told me not to be interested by AOO at this moment. They work with LibreOffice only. But they didn't totally close the door for a collaboration in the future. http://whyopencomputing.ch/de/ Good luck. -- gw 2014-02-09 19:37 GMT+01:00 Raphael

Re: [INFO] Unofficial presentation of the AOO and Educoo projects

2014-02-04 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jürgen, 2014-02-04 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com: advocating OpenOffice against Ms Office is indeed no easy job and yes the change of a comfortable work environment to a new one is not easy for many users who simply want to do their job without bigger preferences to one or the

Re: [INFO] Unofficial presentation of the AOO and Educoo projects

2014-02-03 Thread Guy Waterval
first an intermediate layer of experienced users, perhaps organized in an association, between the project and a potential basis of users. So, I will try this way. A+ -- gw 2013-12-07 Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com: Hi all, I have the opportunity to make an unofficial presentation

Re: crash p1 bug, data loss - openoffice

2014-01-27 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Clarence, I reproduce your scenario. No crash of AOO, but table deleted. Windows 7, AOO 4.01 A+ -- gw 2014-01-27 Clarence GUO clarence.guo...@gmail.com Although I haven't reproduce the problem on my AOO4.1 against three applications, I find another problem with the same scenario for

Re: crash p1 bug, data loss - openoffice

2014-01-27 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Oliver, 2014-01-27 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com Hi, On 27.01.2014 11:00, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Clarence, I reproduce your scenario. No crash of AOO, but table deleted. Windows 7, AOO 4.01 I can also confirm the observed behavior in Writer. I reproduced

Press release

2014-01-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all An interesting link about the use of ODF https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/ec-recommends-supporting-open-document-format A+ -- gw

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-12 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Nancy, 2014/1/12 Nancy K nancythirt...@yahoo.com I want to throw out an idea that might bring in new users. The open source android market and dependence on mobile technology are quickly increasing in the number of users. Why not have a mobile version Open Office suite ready for all

Re: Looking forward to 250 million users

2014-01-11 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob 2014/1/7 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org 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

[INFO] Unofficial presentation of the AOO and Educoo projects

2013-12-07 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, I have the opportunity to make an unofficial presentation of the AOO and Educoo projects in Switzerland. www.softenpoche.com/sep/AOO100214.pdf The presentation will be held in the installations of a new AOO user :-)

Re: 80 million downloads

2013-12-01 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Hagar, 2013/12/1 Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net Le 30/11/2013 23:15, Rob Weir a écrit : In any case, the thing to keep in mind is that we are in no way diminished if someone decides to use LibreOffice. We should feel good whenever anyone uses our code, whether in the original

Impossible to get the button Vertical Text activ in the draw bar

2013-11-16 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, Could somebody confirm that ? AOO 4.01 OS : Windows 7 and Linux Mint 15 XFCE I can't say if it was already the case before. Many thanks -- gw

Re: AW: Apache OpenOffice @ T-DOSE

2013-10-31 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Arthur, Please note that the translation of the existing nl flyer was made by a teacher who was not a nativ nl speaker. Thus, a proofreading by a nativ nl speaker would be appreciated. Feel free to correct and modify this document to fit your needs. It's interesting to have something in nl

Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland

2013-10-15 Thread Guy Waterval
to create more specific layers between the AOO project and the users, with a better proximity, which seems to me important for push the use of OpenOffice in the society in a multicultural context. A+ -- gw 2013/10/14 Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch Hi Guy Am 12.10.13 06:58, schrieb Guy

Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland

2013-10-15 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jörg, OK, many thanks, I didn't know about it. It's seems effectively a good way to create groups of users without the need of a big structure. A+ -- gw 2013/10/15 Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de Hello, From: Guy Waterval [mailto:waterval@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 12

Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland

2013-10-11 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Raphael, Good idea. I suggest http://www.ethz.ch/ for this year, and http://www.epfl.ch/ for next year. So, a maximum of people should be happy. A+ -- gw 2013/10/12 Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch Hi at all The Swiss has a active Apache OpenOffice Community. I like to put up a meet

Re: Apache OpenOffice Meetup Switzerland

2013-10-11 Thread Guy Waterval
Sorry for confusion. I will say ethz for 2014 and Epfl for 2015 or 2016. 2013/10/12 Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com Hi Raphael, Good idea. I suggest http://www.ethz.ch/ for this year, and http://www.epfl.ch/ for next year. So, a maximum of people should be happy. A+ -- gw 2013

Opensource and security

2013-10-09 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, A little off topic perhaps, for this list, but perhaps also a frequent question to which it could be nice to have some answers. An opensource sofware has the advantage, in security terms, to grant that there are no spyware in it, that's OK. But is there no danger, as the code is public,

Re: Suggestion

2013-10-09 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello, Several years ago, if I good remember, there was a proposition to integrate this one, but this project didn't survive. http://code.google.com/p/keynote-nf/ 2013/10/9 Muhammad Zafar Hussain mosi...@gmail.com Dear Sir, Develop a software like Microsoft OneNote, so a user can manage

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-07 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Raphael, 2013/10/7 Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch Hi all Am 05.10.13 13:30, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Jörg Schmidt wrote: Apache could for example give hints/weblinks how to encrypt emails (that would help people in dictatorships), but that is not the real object of Apache That

Re: Crowdfunding for Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-04 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, I think it is dangerous when public funds support a developper in a free project in which companies are associated. Just today I had a discussion with a Windows user saying he did not like the free projects because he considered that in these models, the volunteers are the losers and

Re: University Student Promotional Flyer ( was: Re: Yet another flyer)

2013-09-10 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob, Hi all, 2013/9/9 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, No the problem was I forgot my password and reset it, then I couldn't get past the cpatcha - today, I'm in...so it likely was fat fingers on my

Re: University Student Promotional Flyer ( was: Re: Yet another flyer)

2013-09-09 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Andrea, 2013/9/8 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org On 04/09/2013 Drew Jensen wrote: focus on an Individual university student / teaching aid / professor ... PDF https://docs.google.com/file/**d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0INm5IZzQwQXRodGMhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0INm5IZzQwQXRodGM

Re: Yet another flyer

2013-08-30 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Drew, It is a good idea, as usual, many thanks. Just one thing, did you try to print it in black and white to see if it could be used at the Fosdem for instance. I can't do the test myself because I'm on hollidays with a minimal equipment. A+ -- gw 2013/8/30 Drew Jensen

Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post

2013-08-19 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, 2013/8/19 Donald Whytock dwhyt...@apache.org On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, fred juan diaz diaz_frede...@yahoo.fr wrote: En date de : Ven 9.8.13, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de a On

Re: Please confirm the following error in AOO 4.0

2013-08-17 Thread Guy Waterval
Hallo Jörg, 2013/8/17 Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de Ok, I have now also tested with Windows7. In my case, the error occurs. Windows7 32bit German AOO 4.0 German Windows 7, 64 bits french / AOO 4.0 french Your extension is ok, but i need to restart AOO to execute the changes.

Re: Please confirm the following error in AOO 4.0

2013-08-16 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Jörg, I can't confirm it on windows 7, all is OK for me : with http://calc-info.de/files/BasicAddonBuilder-0.5.1.oxt with Anaphraseus_2.04.124b.oxt http://sourceforge.net/projects/anaphraseus/files/Daily%20Snapshot/ which installs a toolbar AND a new menu. A+ -- gw 2013/8/17 Jörg

Re: Apache OpenOffice (beta) Templates website about to go live

2013-08-12 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Roberto, 2013/8/12 Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com We have been running apache openoffice templates beta site for a while now, we plan to go live sometimes by the end of this week, please let me know if you believe there are pending issues or problems with the beta site.

Re: [IDEA] Back to School with AOO blog post

2013-08-06 Thread Guy Waterval
2013/8/6 sebb seb...@gmail.com On 6 August 2013 15:56, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2013 15:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: It is that time of year now: back to school. I wonder

Re: Compatibility with CAT programmes? e.g. Metatexis

2013-08-01 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Stephen, 2013/7/31 Stephen Reader stephen.rea...@t-online.de Dear, brave Developers, One: Thanks. Two: My 'day job' is translating (art texts). To date, I haven't looked into Computer Aided Translation, since my field does not involve the masses of repetitions and variations (as in

Re: Portable version (X-ApacheOpenOffice by winPenPack) updated

2013-07-28 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Marcus, 2013/7/28 Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de I'm already working with OpenOffice since many years, so I don't know if this is still needed by many users. ;-) But it sounds good and helpful. However, to not mixed things up and to get the most attention you would write your

http://whyopencomputing.ch/

2013-07-14 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, For a couple of days, there is a lot of advertising in my country for a new company that wants to offer preinstalled PC with Ubuntu : http://whyopencomputing.ch/ As I do not work with Linux, I wonder if a AOO 4.0 packet is planned for Ubuntu. If this is the case, and if you do agree, I

Re: http://whyopencomputing.ch/

2013-07-14 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Juergen, 2013/7/14 Juergen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com Am Sonntag, 14. Juli 2013 um 09:38 schrieb Guy Waterval: Hi all, For a couple of days, there is a lot of advertising in my country for a new company that wants to offer preinstalled PC with Ubuntu : http

Re: How new developers get started

2013-07-03 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all, 2013/5/13 Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com Hi Kay, Hi all, 2013/5/13 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com I think Guy's idea has merit, but...it would be difficult for us to predict where our next developer might be. It's not my own idea. It's largely inspired from Eric

Re: Upgrading extensions for AOO 4.0

2013-06-30 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob, 2013/6/30 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As you know, some extensions have to be upgraded for AOO 4.0. What to do if some authors refuse to make the necessary modifications and decide to make

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