Re: Possible new Volunteer

[Andrea Pescetti]

On 12/02/2018 Peter Kovacs wrote:

Steve here is volunteering to help. See below.
Can someone guide him further?


Sure. For documentation see here: https://s.apache.org/bCco - help 
welcome, and refer to Keith's mail there for some pointers.



Also I am not sure about what the exact situation is on donations. What is the 
current situation here?


See https://www.openoffice.org/donations.html - donations welcome, and 
they go to the Apache Software Foundation, the main expenditure being on 
the infrastructure that OpenOffice shares with the other ASF projects.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Possible new Volunteer (was:Fwd: Re: I was told you guys don't often visit the forums and I still wanted to thank the developers)

[Peter Kovacs]

Hi all,

Steve here is volunteering to help. See below.
Can someone guide him further?

Also I am not sure about what the exact situation is on donations. What is the 
current situation here?

All the best
peter


 Ursprüngliche Nachricht 
Von: Steve 
Gesendet: 12. Februar 2018 06:05:29 MEZ
An: Peter Kovacs 
Betreff: Re: I was told you guys don't often visit the forums and I still 
wanted to thank the developers

Hi Peter. Thanks for reaching out.  I definitely would like to see OpenOffice 
thrive.  I will try to help with documentation and reporting bugs/usability 
issues; I think this is really where you guys can have a big edge on 
LibreOffice as they seem fixated on chasing Microsoft instead of usability.   
Also, maybe I can donate some money. Is it possible to do this by check? 


> On Jan 25, 2018, at 12:09 AM, Peter Kovacs  wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> We are indeed a conservative Project. We want to ship a basic Office that you 
> as a user extend to your needs by using add-ons.
> Very similar to the idea Firefox uses.
> Despite this vision, openoffice is still a complex tool.
> 
> However we are also today a complete volunteer project. I like to ask if you 
> would consider to become involved.
> All that we do can be learned and not all project development that is needed 
> to be done has the required skill set of a programmer.
> We could also use people that do:
> User support
> Testing
> Documentation
> Translation
> 
> You need to bring following traits that are reqired:
> Openness, respect,  courage to the project. If you can add determination and 
> initiative that would be super cool. And sometimes patience is required.
> 
> What do you say?
> 
> Am 25. Januar 2018 03:48:59 MEZ schrieb Steve :
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!!
>> 
>> by
>> tanstaaf1
>> 
>> » Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:27 pm
>> 
>> I've just come back to Open Office after a multi-year fling with
>> LibreOffice. The arc of my document application history is basically
>> Wordstar/Lotus->MSOffice->OO->LIbre ... and now, I think, back to OO.
>> 
>> What brought me back and what have I noticed and what would I like your
>> developers/steering committee to keep in mind? Libre has, for me, gone
>> off the deep end in gratuitous feature creep and senselessly increasing
>> user interface complexity. Specifically? I was unable to reformat and
>> properly print text I had copied and pasted in; I was unable to find
>> what were once-upon-a-time pretty simple commands to see text
>> formatting and change it; I was unable to use the help system to find
>> help; I was unable to create an account on their website in a
>> reasonable period of time to even ask for help.
>> 
>> And it occurred to me -- after several hours of this roundabout with no
>> progress being made toward a really simple thing -- that I might take
>> another look at OpenOffice. And what I found was: OO installed much
>> more quickly and easily than recent LO updates; OO opened to a MUCH
>> simpler user interface; IN OO MY FORMATTING PROBLEM WENT AWAY!   And I
>> decided to post a thank you to the OO community and found how much
>> simpler it was to create an account and post my comment here! Your
>> software JUST WORKS.
>> 
>> My suggestion to the OO developers is to adopt as a motto something
>> Einstein supposedly said: "A scientific theory should be as simple as
>> possible, but no simpler.” Now, in this case we are talking software,
>> but I think this quote still is relevant.  Know the needs of your
>> target market and stop trying to add extra “features” that few people
>> in the key demographic actually value.
>> 
>> Lately it seems I'm living in an increasingly nightmarish dystopia.
>> With software this is especially the case.   Further, I suspect
>> spreading software complexity is driving most of the cancerous spread
>> of complexity and bugs into the bigger world. Remember the ORIGINAL
>> Mac? Remember how you could just sit down and click with a mouse and
>> pretty much figure out how to use everything in a reasonable period of
>> time? What happened?
>> 
>> Anyway, I thank the developers of Apache OpenOffice for allowing me to
>> just get my work done this morning. Thanks for keeping the user
>> interface SIMPLE and fast. Thanks for just working!
>> 
>> KISS!
>> Open Office 4.1.5 MacOS 10.12.4



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Fwd: New volunteer

[Thomas Seeley]

Hello All,

I have been referred to you to help with a startup issue for newbie
volunteers. The site literature makes reference to resources at a website
called googlecode.com, which no longer exists. Please read the email below
for further details. Do you know of a replacement website for googlecode.com
?

Thomas Seeley

-- Forwarded message --
From: Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: New volunteer
To: Thomas Seeley <thomas.e.see...@gmail.com>


I do seem to have apt-get installed, so the link probably worked when I was
setting up. Could you report this to the dev@openoffice.apache.org list?
Someone else may already know where to find it.

Meanwhile, please proceed using the alternative method described just below
the apt-get line, rerun setup.exe and select the listed packages.


On 9/6/2016 11:22 AM, Thomas Seeley wrote:

> Hi Patricia,
> I am having some difficulty with the startup info. One of the necessary
> websites (googlecode.com) no longer exists. For an example of this, see:
> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guid
> e_AOO/Step_by_step
> ,
> "wget http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/apt-cyg;
> Do you know whether there is an equivalent website to substitute for
> googlecode.com?
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
>
> Forgot to copy you on this.
>>
>>
>>  Forwarded Message 
>> Subject: Re: New volunteer
>> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 10:59:53 -0700
>> From: Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org>
>> Reply-To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
>>
>> Welcome aboard!
>>
>> The first step is to build AOO on at least one computer. For windows, I
>> found the step-by-step guide at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wi
>> ki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step most useful.
>>
>> On 9/5/2016 8:42 AM, Thomas Seeley wrote:
>>
>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> My name is Thomas Seeley. I want to volunteer with OpenOffice to better
>>> familiarize myself with the framework of open source software. This will
>>> also give my something to do while I am convalescing.
>>>
>>> My background in programming began with building control systems and
>>> embedded control systems. In the meantime I became a tenured professor of
>>> Computer Science; I've taught many programming languages including C,
>>> C++,
>>> and SQL.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Thomas E. Seeley, PE
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>
>


-- 
Thomas E. Seeley, PE

Re: New volunteer

[Patricia Shanahan]

Welcome aboard!

The first step is to build AOO on at least one computer. For windows, I 
found the step-by-step guide at 
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step 
most useful.


On 9/5/2016 8:42 AM, Thomas Seeley wrote:

Hello All!

My name is Thomas Seeley. I want to volunteer with OpenOffice to better
familiarize myself with the framework of open source software. This will
also give my something to do while I am convalescing.

My background in programming began with building control systems and
embedded control systems. In the meantime I became a tenured professor of
Computer Science; I've taught many programming languages including C, C++,
and SQL.

Regards,

Thomas E. Seeley, PE



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New volunteer

[Thomas Seeley]

Hello All!

My name is Thomas Seeley. I want to volunteer with OpenOffice to better
familiarize myself with the framework of open source software. This will
also give my something to do while I am convalescing.

My background in programming began with building control systems and
embedded control systems. In the meantime I became a tenured professor of
Computer Science; I've taught many programming languages including C, C++,
and SQL.

Regards,

Thomas E. Seeley, PE

Re: New Volunteer

[Damjan Jovanovic]

Hi Chelsey

Sounds good. If you need anything just shout. I am more involved with
development.

Damjan

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Chelsey Foster <chelynnfos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Damjan,
>
> I would like to get a good feel for the program itself first. I was
> thinking of familiarizing myself with the software by looking through bug
> reports and/or user suggestions and trying to identify the issue for myself
> and report any additional bugs I find along the way (if I in fact find
> any). Do you think that is a good plan?
>
> Best,
>
> Chelsey
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Chelsey
>>
>> Welcome to Apache OpenOffice. You are most welcome to help. Any idea
>> of what you'd like to contribute?
>>
>> Feel free to email this list any time if you need any further help.
>>
>> Regards
>> Damjan
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Chelsey Foster <chelynnfos...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I would just like to introduce myself as a new volunteer. My name is
>> > Chelsey and I a graduate from the University of Victoria and am very
>> > interested in open source development! I hope I can be of some help!
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Chelsey Foster
>>
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Re: New Volunteer

[Chelsey Foster]

Hi Damjan,

I would like to get a good feel for the program itself first. I was
thinking of familiarizing myself with the software by looking through bug
reports and/or user suggestions and trying to identify the issue for myself
and report any additional bugs I find along the way (if I in fact find
any). Do you think that is a good plan?

Best,

Chelsey



On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Chelsey
>
> Welcome to Apache OpenOffice. You are most welcome to help. Any idea
> of what you'd like to contribute?
>
> Feel free to email this list any time if you need any further help.
>
> Regards
> Damjan
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Chelsey Foster <chelynnfos...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would just like to introduce myself as a new volunteer. My name is
> > Chelsey and I a graduate from the University of Victoria and am very
> > interested in open source development! I hope I can be of some help!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Chelsey Foster
>
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Re: New Volunteer

[Damjan Jovanovic]

Hi Chelsey

Welcome to Apache OpenOffice. You are most welcome to help. Any idea
of what you'd like to contribute?

Feel free to email this list any time if you need any further help.

Regards
Damjan


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Chelsey Foster <chelynnfos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would just like to introduce myself as a new volunteer. My name is
> Chelsey and I a graduate from the University of Victoria and am very
> interested in open source development! I hope I can be of some help!
>
> Best,
>
> Chelsey Foster

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New Volunteer

[Chelsey Foster]

Hi,

I would just like to introduce myself as a new volunteer. My name is
Chelsey and I a graduate from the University of Victoria and am very
interested in open source development! I hope I can be of some help!

Best,

Chelsey Foster

Re: new volunteer J.Masa

[Damjan Jovanovic]

Hi Jakub

Welcome to Apache OpenOffice. We appreciate all contributions.

You should probably start by checking the source code out of SVN and
getting it to compile:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO

There is some documentation on how Calc works on
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc

Feel free to post any questions to this list.

All the best
Damjan

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Jakub Máša  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is bc. Jakub Máša and I would like to contribute into this project.
>
> I'm a student at CTU (4th year) and I need to prove my skills by
> contributing to big open source project. I also work for 3 years in
> middle-size commercial company as .Net and C++ developer, therefore I am
> used to work within a small team. Big open source community is something
> new to me, tho.
>
> My goal is to implement scroll lock function like in Excel. Here are the
> bugzilla links for the tickets:
>
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46200
> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=7179
>
> Thanks for any advice/information
>
> Jakub Máša
>
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new volunteer J.Masa

[Jakub Máša]

Hello,

My name is bc. Jakub Máša and I would like to contribute into this project.

I'm a student at CTU (4th year) and I need to prove my skills by
contributing to big open source project. I also work for 3 years in
middle-size commercial company as .Net and C++ developer, therefore I am
used to work within a small team. Big open source community is something
new to me, tho.

My goal is to implement scroll lock function like in Excel. Here are the
bugzilla links for the tickets:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46200
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=7179

Thanks for any advice/information

Jakub Máša

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Re: New volunteer

[Damjan Jovanovic]

Hi Nolan

Welcome to Apache OpenOffice! We appreciate the offer and you are
welcome to help with development.

What is your previous experience? Do you need any help getting started?

Thank you
Damjan


On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Nolan  wrote:
> Hi I am Nolan i'm from NC and I want to help code!
>

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New volunteer

[Nolan]

Hi I am Nolan i'm from NC and I want to help code!

New Volunteer - Dolores Zurdo

[Dolores Zurdo Consuegra]

Hello everybody.

I'm Dolores Zurdo, and i joined this morning to the community. I'm Spanish,
but now I live in Austria. I'm Industrial Engineer.

I've been working in Quality Assurance but not yet for testing... so my
experience in this field is null, but only for the moment :-). Currently
I'm also improving my programming knowledge (for the moment with Python),
my English and my German...

I'm a positive and proactive person. In the Quality sector i learnt, that
nothing is perfect, so there is always a possibility to improve it... so
let's do it  :) I am very motivated to collaborate, learn and then continue
collaborating more efficiently :) . I have been reading information and
blogs... but it is time for me to start with real problems :). So now I
only have one question: what can I do to help you? :). For the moment I'm
reading "INTRODUCTION TO QA" form your website.

Thanks,
Dolores Zurdo.

Re: New Volunteer - Dolores Zurdo

[JZA]

Hola dolores.

I am a long time contributor to OpenOffice community. I am glad you already
took steps to get in the QA project. We have just released our latest
version of AOO.

At the moment most of the QA job is the ongoing validation of bugs on our
bugzilla database, once they are approved, sending them to the developers
or testing the patches yourself should be the next stage of QA testing.

Please remember we have a QA mailing list for related jobs of those sort at
q...@openoffice.apache.org

Buena suerte.


On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Dolores Zurdo Consuegra <
dolores.zurdo.consue...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody.
>
> I'm Dolores Zurdo, and i joined this morning to the community. I'm Spanish,
> but now I live in Austria. I'm Industrial Engineer.
>
> I've been working in Quality Assurance but not yet for testing... so my
> experience in this field is null, but only for the moment :-). Currently
> I'm also improving my programming knowledge (for the moment with Python),
> my English and my German...
>
> I'm a positive and proactive person. In the Quality sector i learnt, that
> nothing is perfect, so there is always a possibility to improve it... so
> let's do it  :) I am very motivated to collaborate, learn and then continue
> collaborating more efficiently :) . I have been reading information and
> blogs... but it is time for me to start with real problems :). So now I
> only have one question: what can I do to help you? :). For the moment I'm
> reading "INTRODUCTION TO QA" form your website.
>
> Thanks,
> Dolores Zurdo.
>



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new volunteer

[Hemu Hemendra]

haii apache open office team,

This hemendra i'm from Andhra Pradesh, India. I completed my B.tech in
Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU ananataput. During this i did a
project on neural network learning over arbitrarily partitioned data by
privacy preserving , i did this along with my friends . In my project also
i find some bugs and rectified at final submission.
am an enthusiast in finding the bugs. Though you
people were developed and released successfully OO there are some minor
bugs in the previous versions. i want to submit some bugs related to spread
sheet in open office.
 I am interested in working with the talented QA
TEAM OF OPENOFFICE , for finding and fixing some bugs, waiting for your
company in QA.



with regards.
hemendra

Completed Level 1 New Volunteer Module

[Nhien Le]

Hello,

Just wanted to let you know that I've completed the first orientation
module.

Best,

Nhien Le

New Volunteer Introduction

[Nhien Le]

Hello all,

My name is Nhien Le, and I'm from Dallas, Texas, and just starting out with
volunteering for OpenOffice. I'm eager to help out with writing technical
documentation for the project, and I'm looking forward to working alongside
my fellow volunteers.

Best,

Nhien Le

New Volunteer

[Neel Das]

Hi, my name is Neel and I am a new volunteer here. I read the new volunteer 
orientation, and it told me to introduce myself. I'll try and keep this brief, 
because I know how busy everybody is. I am a highschooler from Boston, MA, USA. 
I use OpenOffice, so I thought that volunteering to help make it possible for 
others would be nice to do. I currently take AP Computer science, where I use 
Java. So, I can program a little bit, but not a whole lot. I am willing to help 
in any way I can. Right now, I may only be able to do trivial tasks, but I 
would love to learn to do other things as well. I am not too familiar with the 
way this organization runs, so if someone could steer me in the direction of 
which part of the project is in desparate need of volunteers, I would 
appreciate it a lot.
Regards,Neel

Re: New Volunteer

[Kay Schenk]

On 01/06/2015 12:18 PM, Giljahn, April M. wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 
 
 My name is April, I am from Columbus Ohio, and I am attending The
 Ohio State University. I am an English and Linguistics major and I
 want to start gaining experience with writing so that I can become a
 technical writer.
 

Hi April --

I suggest you join the documentation mailing list -- see the mailing
list page for how to subscribe
(http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html). Once you've done
that, I'm sure you'll get some suggestions on how you can help.

Thanks for contacting us.
-- 
-
MzK

There's a bit of magic in everything,
  and some loss to even things out.
-- Lou Reed

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New Volunteer

[Giljahn, April M.]

Hello everyone,


My name is April, I am from Columbus Ohio, and I am attending The Ohio State 
University. I am an English and Linguistics major and I want to start gaining 
experience with writing so that I can become a technical writer.

New Volunteer

[Jamian Vieira]

Hello there!
My name is Jamian Vieira, I am from Los Angeles, California I'm Intereseted
in Music, Rock-Climbing, Movies and Programming. This is my first time
working on an open source project and I'm excited to get started.

New volunteer

[Paul]

Hi everyone,

My name is Paul, I'm an accountant who has progressively moved towards 
programming over the years.


I started with excel and vba, moved over to server-side programming like 
php and now am interested in helping with openoffice to develop basic etc.


all the best,

Paul



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Re: New Volunteer/Introduction

[Keith N. McKenna]

On 7/23/2014 11:35 PM, Sarah Spiers wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 
  
 
 I am a sophomore studying Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson
 College in Boston, Massachusetts, though
 
 I am currently petitioning to create my own major combining Writing and
 Video Game design. 
 
  
 
 Volunteering for OpenOffice is not for a class, but I hope to apply the
 experience I gain to my academic pursuits. I have experience with and am
 interested in writing, marketing/communication, and basic graphic design.
 However, I am more than willing to help with anything else. I am a quick
 learner and will do my best. 
 
  
 
 That being said, since I will be studying abroad in Europe this semester, I
 can only volunteer 5-7 hours a week of my time. However, when I return home
 this December, my availability will increase. I hope to work with all of you
 for a while and become a valuable part of the team.
 
  
 
 Thanks,  
 
 Sarah Spiers
 
  
 
 
Hell-o Sarah and welcome to Apache OpenOffice. Our documentation team is
always looking for people to help with writing and editing our user
documentation. We also have an active marketing team. If you haven't
seen them already you should look at our orientation pages at
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html. They will give you
some background and an introduction to the many ways that you can help.

Again welcome and I look forward to working with you. As a courtesy I
have cc'd you as you are not subscribed to the list. Please reply only
to the mailing list. Also consider subscribing to the list so as not to
miss other replies. To subscribe send a blank e-mail to
dev-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org and follow the instructions in the
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Re: New Volunteer/Introduction

[Andrea Pescetti]

Sarah Spiers wrote:

Volunteering for OpenOffice is not for a class, but I hope to apply the
experience I gain to my academic pursuits. I have experience with and am
interested in writing, marketing/communication, and basic graphic design.
However, I am more than willing to help with anything else. I am a quick
learner and will do my best.


You would be a perfect documentation volunteer. We have an ongoing 
documentation project where we start having quite a few people ready to 
help, but still need help from someone who is a good writer (and 
preferably a native speaker) and who can provide some continuity.


You can find the work-in-progress documentation here:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide

It's a wiki, so it will be fairly easy to edit. But you will need an 
account for that. Accounts are created on request: just let us know your 
preferred username and we can create it for you.


Then the main discussion hub for documentation is the dedicated doc 
list: http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html ; make sure you 
read http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html and then 
please post to the doc list; you are free to pick the pages/sections you 
would like to work on, but we can also have suggestions for you if you 
prefer.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: New Volunteer/Introduction

[Tal Daniel]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org
wrote:

 Sarah Spiers wrote:

 Volunteering for OpenOffice is not for a class, but I hope to apply the
 experience I gain to my academic pursuits. I have experience with and am
 interested in writing, marketing/communication, and basic graphic design.
 However, I am more than willing to help with anything else. I am a quick
 learner and will do my best.


 You would be a perfect documentation volunteer. We have an ongoing
 documentation project where we start having quite a few people ready to
 help, but still need help from someone who is a good writer (and preferably
 a native speaker) and who can provide some continuity.

 You can find the work-in-progress documentation here:
 https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide


Welcome, Sarah.
I'm also a volunteer, and my main focus now is translating the UI  Help
System to Hebrew.
Andrea mentioned an ongoing effort to make documentation move to wiki. I'm
not sure what the future state of AOO [desktop] Help System would be, but I
encourage you to review it too, and make it more clear, at times.

Good luck!

New Volunteer/Introduction

[Sarah Spiers]

Hello everyone,

 

I am a sophomore studying Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson
College in Boston, Massachusetts, though

I am currently petitioning to create my own major combining Writing and
Video Game design. 

 

Volunteering for OpenOffice is not for a class, but I hope to apply the
experience I gain to my academic pursuits. I have experience with and am
interested in writing, marketing/communication, and basic graphic design.
However, I am more than willing to help with anything else. I am a quick
learner and will do my best. 

 

That being said, since I will be studying abroad in Europe this semester, I
can only volunteer 5-7 hours a week of my time. However, when I return home
this December, my availability will increase. I hope to work with all of you
for a while and become a valuable part of the team.

 

Thanks,  

Sarah Spiers

 

Re: new volunteer - technical writing

[Andrea Pescetti]

D B - Katrina wrote:

Hello,My name is Katrina. I'm interested in technical writing. I'm
considering going to college for it actually, but I would love to do
some volunteer work with open office to get a better idea of what
it's all about. I live in Canada and my English is excellent.


Welcome! Alexandro already sent you the relevant pointers. When you are 
done with that, please take a look at our ongoing User Guide project: 
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide


We'd like to move much faster on that, and we currently need 
proofreading (all pages were written by non-native English speakers), 
screenshots and suggestions on the structure. Please send your comments 
to the documentation list 
http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html and we will create an 
account for you to edit those pages directly.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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new volunteer - technical writing

[D B]

Hello,My name is Katrina. I'm interested in technical writing. I'm considering 
going to college for it actually, but I would love to do some volunteer work 
with open office to get a better idea of what it's all about. I live in Canada 
and my English is excellent. I don't have any training but I learn quickly! 
   

Re: About Me (New Volunteer)

[Andrea Pescetti]

Zim, welcome to the project and again your starting point is to get 
OpenOffice to build. Follow 
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO and 
let us know if you need assistance. You complain you are not receiving 
any answers, but you are missing some (see the one from Alexandro below) 
since you are not subscribed to the list. Read 
http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html to know how to fix this.

Regards,
  Andrea.

On 26/05/2014 Alexandro Colorado wrote:

That's excellent there are some guides for PyUNO and good tutorials and
sample code here:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Python


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:38 AM, zimuzo ezeozue zimuzostan...@gmail.comwrote:


Im interested in the OpenOffice PyUno bridge


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:21 AM, zimuzo ezeozue zimuzostan...@gmail.com

wrote:



Hi, My name is Zim. I'm a Nigerian software developer. Currently an
undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering. I'm interested in
building for AOO for the following reasons:
 1. To improve my skills as a developer.
 2. Im passionate about the open source community and I would love to
be a contributor

This is my first attempt at an open source project. I currently work with
a startup https://callbase.co/ . I have a personal project i worked on

at

some time with my brother http://www.nepasituation.com/ . Im proficient
in Java. I know a some Python and Javascript. With a little C++.

Im eager to hear from someone. Thanks









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About Me (New Volunteer)

[zimuzo ezeozue]

Hi, My name is Zim. I'm a Nigerian software developer. Currently an
undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering. I'm interested in
building for AOO for the following reasons:
1. To improve my skills as a developer.
2. Im passionate about the open source community and I would love to be
a contributor

This is my first attempt at an open source project. I currently work with a
startup https://callbase.co/ . I have a personal project i worked on at
some time with my brother http://www.nepasituation.com/ . Im proficient in
Java. I know a some Python and Javascript. With a little C++.

Im eager to hear from someone. Thanks

Re: About Me (New Volunteer)

[zimuzo ezeozue]

Im interested in the OpenOffice PyUno bridge


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:21 AM, zimuzo ezeozue zimuzostan...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi, My name is Zim. I'm a Nigerian software developer. Currently an
 undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering. I'm interested in
 building for AOO for the following reasons:
 1. To improve my skills as a developer.
 2. Im passionate about the open source community and I would love to
 be a contributor

 This is my first attempt at an open source project. I currently work with
 a startup https://callbase.co/ . I have a personal project i worked on at
 some time with my brother http://www.nepasituation.com/ . Im proficient
 in Java. I know a some Python and Javascript. With a little C++.

 Im eager to hear from someone. Thanks

Re: About Me (New Volunteer)

[Alexandro Colorado]

That's excellent there are some guides for PyUNO and good tutorials and
sample code here:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Python


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 2:38 AM, zimuzo ezeozue zimuzostan...@gmail.comwrote:

 Im interested in the OpenOffice PyUno bridge


 On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:21 AM, zimuzo ezeozue zimuzostan...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Hi, My name is Zim. I'm a Nigerian software developer. Currently an
  undergraduate student studying Mechanical Engineering. I'm interested in
  building for AOO for the following reasons:
  1. To improve my skills as a developer.
  2. Im passionate about the open source community and I would love to
  be a contributor
 
  This is my first attempt at an open source project. I currently work with
  a startup https://callbase.co/ . I have a personal project i worked on
 at
  some time with my brother http://www.nepasituation.com/ . Im proficient
  in Java. I know a some Python and Javascript. With a little C++.
 
  Im eager to hear from someone. Thanks
 




-- 
Alexandro Colorado
Apache OpenOffice Contributor
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Re: New Volunteer Note

[Andrea Pescetti]

On 14/05/2014 Thomas Erickson wrote:

My name is Tom, and I'm pleased to be a new volunteer QA analyst!


Welcome, and you can immediately participate in the post-release tests 
on version 4.1. To do so, simply send a note to the QA list (it's better 
if you subscribe before sending it, so you won't miss answers). See 
http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#qa-mailing-list-public


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: New Volunteer Michele Galloway

[Kay Schenk]

On 05/18/2014 05:52 AM, Michele Galloway wrote:
 Good morning!
 
 I am going through the new members orientation and the first suggestion is
 to write an email to this group introducing myself.
 
 I am Michele Galloway who has been in the IT field for 30 years.  It was an
 accidental profession for me as it chose me when I was an administrative
 assistant and the University of Southern California.  I was blessed with a
 boss who thought I had potential and sent me to a training class to
 administrate a small computer called a Rabbit.  That started my 30 year
 journey with information technology.  I have been in many areas of the
 field and found my passion in analysis.  So I do requirements for a living
 and have done testing, system analysis, data analysis, data modeling,
 configuration management, technical support, system administration and
 therefore am delighted to participate with technical groups.  I'm exploring
 the big data storage and big data analytics so any work in those areas
 would be welcomed.
 
 I hope I have something to contribute. I do QA and requirements, and data
 and perhaps there is a need for those skills.  I am currently engineering
 requirements as a government contractor and look forward to contributing to
 open source.
 
 Don't hesitate to contact me with your thoughts on where I might fit in.
 

Michele --

Good to hear from you. Since you are in the process of going through the
Orientation modules, pretty soon you will find information about the QA
area. This is an area in Apache OpenOffice that may suit your interests.
Others on this list may have some ideas on how to put the wide range of
your experience and skills to good use as well.  Welcome and thanks for
contacting the dev list.

-- 
-
MzK

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
   -- Helen Keller


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New Volunteer Michele Galloway

[Michele Galloway]

Good morning!

I am going through the new members orientation and the first suggestion is
to write an email to this group introducing myself.

I am Michele Galloway who has been in the IT field for 30 years.  It was an
accidental profession for me as it chose me when I was an administrative
assistant and the University of Southern California.  I was blessed with a
boss who thought I had potential and sent me to a training class to
administrate a small computer called a Rabbit.  That started my 30 year
journey with information technology.  I have been in many areas of the
field and found my passion in analysis.  So I do requirements for a living
and have done testing, system analysis, data analysis, data modeling,
configuration management, technical support, system administration and
therefore am delighted to participate with technical groups.  I'm exploring
the big data storage and big data analytics so any work in those areas
would be welcomed.

I hope I have something to contribute. I do QA and requirements, and data
and perhaps there is a need for those skills.  I am currently engineering
requirements as a government contractor and look forward to contributing to
open source.

Don't hesitate to contact me with your thoughts on where I might fit in.

Re: New Volunteer Note

[Keith N. McKenna]

Thomas Erickson wrote:
 Hello!
 My name is Tom, and I'm pleased to be a new volunteer QA analyst!
 I recently (April of 2014) received my certification in Software Quality
 Assurance and Testing, but am looking forward to honing my skills with
 hands-on work,
 My background has most recently been in paper Records management, but
 before that I worked in Customer Service, and before that I worked in a
 College library.
 Thank You for this opportunity,
 Tom E
 
Welcome Thomas

Keith



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New Volunteer Note

[Thomas Erickson]

Hello!
My name is Tom, and I'm pleased to be a new volunteer QA analyst!
I recently (April of 2014) received my certification in Software Quality
Assurance and Testing, but am looking forward to honing my skills with
hands-on work,
My background has most recently been in paper Records management, but
before that I worked in Customer Service, and before that I worked in a
College library.
Thank You for this opportunity,
Tom E

New Volunteer Information

[Jake Thomas]

Good afternoon, 

My names Jake Thomas, from Victoria Australia, and well I guess I am looking to 
help out. 

I have completed introductions lvls 1  2, and am in the process of reading 
over lvl 3.

The main area i would probably be able to assist in will be documentation, 
although testing different areas for bugs is also an area of interest.

The time I have available each week varies between 3 - 10 hours per week, 
depending on whether that makes a difference.

Jake
  

Re: New Volunteer Information

[Alexandro Colorado]

Excellent make sure you are fully subscribe to this list and continue
reading the levels. If there is anything that you think you didn't
understand or need more information, dont hesitate to ask. Welcome to
the community and make sure to be vocal on the list so we know more
about your contirbutions in the future.

On 5/7/14, Jake Thomas jazzat...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Good afternoon,

 My names Jake Thomas, from Victoria Australia, and well I guess I am looking
 to help out.

 I have completed introductions lvls 1  2, and am in the process of reading
 over lvl 3.

 The main area i would probably be able to assist in will be documentation,
 although testing different areas for bugs is also an area of interest.

 The time I have available each week varies between 3 - 10 hours per week,
 depending on whether that makes a difference.

 Jake
   


-- 
Alexandro Colorado
Apache OpenOffice Contributor
882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9  5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614

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Re: New Volunteer Information

[Keith N. McKenna]

Jake Thomas wrote:
 Good afternoon, 
 
 My names Jake Thomas, from Victoria Australia, and well I guess I am looking 
 to help out. 
 
 I have completed introductions lvls 1  2, and am in the process of reading 
 over lvl 3.
 
 The main area i would probably be able to assist in will be documentation, 
 although testing different areas for bugs is also an area of interest.
 
 The time I have available each week varies between 3 - 10 hours per week, 
 depending on whether that makes a difference.
 
 Jake
 
 
Welcome Jake;

If you are interested in helping with documentation then I would suggest
you read the Level 3 Introduction to Documentation
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html and to subscribe
and introduce yourself to the documentation mailing list. To subscribe
send a blank email to mailto:doc-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org, then
follow the directions in the follow-up e-mail you will receive. After
you subscribe send a short e-mail introducing yourself to the list at
mailto:d...@openoffice.apache.org. Do to anti-spam measures on the m-wiki
the self registration has had to be suspended. In your introduction
e-mail to the doc list, please specify the user name you want and one of
the admins will create that account for you.

Regards
Keith McKenna



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Re: Help wanted for a new volunteer to fix bug 122003 ( missing titels)

[Andre Fischer]

On 01.03.2014 02:12, Reem Elnagar wrote:

Hi :)

It was written in the oreintation that after building OpenOffice I should try 
fixing easy bugs. So  I chose to start with that bug 122003,  so can any one 
help me with some guidelines on how to fix it.
Thanks in advance and much appreciated :)



This issue seems already to be worked on and may even be fixed (although 
the 'assigned to' and 'status' fields are not set).  And this bug is 
about the OpenOffice web site not its source code.  This may or may not 
be what you want to work on.  Maybe you can pick another one?


Thanks for your interest,
Andre


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Re: Help wanted for a new volunteer to fix bug 122003 ( missing titels)

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Reem Elnagar reemelnagar2...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi :)

 It was written in the oreintation that after building OpenOffice I should try 
 fixing easy bugs. So  I chose to start with that bug 122003,  so can any one 
 help me with some guidelines on how to fix it.

As Andre mentioned, this is a bug related to the website, not the
source code for AOO.  But if you want to work on it, fixing this bug
would get you to be familiar with Subversion, creating patches, our
website, Bugzilla, etc.

I've just updated the list web pages that are missing title tags.
There are currently 413 of them.

To fix them I'd recommend downloading our website source files via
Subversion like:

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/ooo-site/ ooo-site

You'll then find the website files in ooo-site/trunk/content

Then it is a matter of reviewing each of the 413 pages and adding a
descriptive title.  It may not be possible in all cases, since some of
the pages are not in English.  But see what you can do.

It might be simpler to grep for HTML pages that are missing a title
than working from the list in the CSV file, especially if you have an
code editor that makes it easy to load files that match a regular
expression.

Once you've made all the changes locally you can create one big patch
for the entire tree and attach it to the Bugzilla issue and mark it as
resolved.   Let me know when you've done that and I can review and
apply the patch.

Regards,

-Rob



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Help wanted for a new volunteer to fix bug 122003 ( missing titels)

[Reem Elnagar]

Hi :) 

It was written in the oreintation that after building OpenOffice I should try 
fixing easy bugs. So  I chose to start with that bug 122003,  so can any one 
help me with some guidelines on how to fix it.
Thanks in advance and much appreciated :)

Typo on New Volunteer Orientation page

[Elly Mo]

Hi there, 
Just to let you know there is a typo on this page  
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html
As highlighted below;
Once you have completed these first two Levels, you will have been exposed to 
the basic skills that enable you to volunteer as a general contributor, or to 
dive deeper into a specialized are of the project, like Quality Assurance, 
Marketing, Translation or Development.'
*area
That is all. Love your work and value OpenOffice immensely.
Kindest Regards, Ellen :)


~ Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ~

Re: Typo on New Volunteer Orientation page

[Dave Barton]

 Original Message  
From: Elly Mo ellym...@mail.com
To: Dave Barton d...@tasit.net
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 06:54:03 -0500

 Hi there, 
 Just to let you know there is a typo on this page  
 http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html
 As highlighted below;
 Once you have completed these first two Levels, you will have been exposed 
 to the basic skills that enable you to volunteer as a general contributor, or 
 to dive deeper into a specialized are of the project, like Quality Assurance, 
 Marketing, Translation or Development.'
 *area
 That is all. Love your work and value OpenOffice immensely.
 Kindest Regards, Ellen :)

Hi Ellen,

Thank you for your keen eyed observation. The typo are has now been
corrected to area.

Kindest Regards
Dave



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New Volunteer! Bonnie Kim

[Bonnie Kim]

Hello!

My name is Bonnie and I'm a recent graduate from UC Berkeley. I'm new to
Apache OpenOffice, so I wanted to give a little introduction of myself
before we begin.

I studied English as an undergrad, and completed an honors thesis devoted
to sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. My primary interest was in the literary
figure of the robot, and why it continues to grip us today, as a legend if
not as a reality.

I'm interested in OpenOffice because I'm excited to begin my career as a
technical writer, and I wanted to gain some experience before I began as a
professional. Having come from a strong academic background, I still want
to challenge myself by continuing to learn new things, although to be
honest I'm a bit overwhelmed by the sheer variety of technological fields
that are out there.

Anyways, I hope we'll get along very well! And I'll shoot along a couple of
questions here and there if that's alright.

Thanks, everyone!

Bonnie

-- 
Bonnie Kim
University of California, Berkeley
English, B. A.
bonnie...@berkeley.edu
(510) 908-0479

Re: New Volunteer! Bonnie Kim

[Kay Schenk]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Bonnie Kim bok...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello!

 My name is Bonnie and I'm a recent graduate from UC Berkeley. I'm new to
 Apache OpenOffice, so I wanted to give a little introduction of myself
 before we begin.

 I studied English as an undergrad, and completed an honors thesis devoted
 to sci-fi author Isaac Asimov. My primary interest was in the literary
 figure of the robot, and why it continues to grip us today, as a legend if
 not as a reality.

 I'm interested in OpenOffice because I'm excited to begin my career as a
 technical writer, and I wanted to gain some experience before I began as a
 professional. Having come from a strong academic background, I still want
 to challenge myself by continuing to learn new things, although to be
 honest I'm a bit overwhelmed by the sheer variety of technological fields
 that are out there.

 Anyways, I hope we'll get along very well! And I'll shoot along a couple of
 questions here and there if that's alright.

 Thanks, everyone!

 Bonnie

 --
 Bonnie Kim
 University of California, Berkeley
 English, B. A.
 bonnie...@berkeley.edu
 (510) 908-0479


Welcome Bonnie!

We can always use more technical writers. Right now, there are two primary
areas where your contribution would be valuable: (1) a new set of User
Guides (coordinated through the documentation mailing list, using MediaWiki
as the publishing platform); and (2) the actual OpenOffice internal help
files.

If you're interested in working on User Guides, you could start here:
http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/

and, I would suggest you subscribe to the documentation mailing list -- see
the mailing list page:
http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

If you want to get into something more challenging using the XML files of
the internal Help, please see:

http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/online_help/

and subscribe to this developer list.

In any case, we are here to make your experience successful. Please do not
hesitate to ask any questions. Thanks for volunteering.

-- 
-
MzK

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged
 to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
 -- Following the Equator, Mark Twain

Re: New volunteer introduction

[Andrea Pescetti]

sumit Murari wrote:

Is there any complete ZIP File for the source, so that any it can be
directly downloaded ...


A ZIP source package can be downloaded from
http://www.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.0.0/source/apache-openoffice-4.0.0-r1503704-src.zip

Getting the sources through SVN is equivalent for the purpose of 
building, but more convenient since you can easily update and see changes.


Make sure you read 
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO and 
possibly the section specific to your operating system.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: New volunteer introduction

[sumit Murari]

thnks for reply :)

I can do development in C,C++ or JAVA, and frankly i want to contribute
something. I just use  OSS,  for my work and haven't done any contribution
yet, so it doesn't feels nice ..

I'm comfortable with development, but i don't know, where to start and how
to start .


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:45 AM, sumit Murari murarisu...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  hello all, My name is timus, i've been using OpenOffice, and many OSS,
 now
  i want to contribute some to openOffice.
 
 
  I'm from India, and i'm interested in contributing to OpenOffice.
   I've never contributed in any OSS so far, my contribution was limited to
  using software sending statistics and sending the crash report if i
  encountered any.
  Looking for anyone who can guide me ...
 
  Any help will be appreciated ..
 


 Hello timus and it's great that you want to get involved with OpenOffice.
 It would help if we had an idea of what areas you would like to help with.

 Some of our major areas, aside from direct user support through the Forums
 or users list, are discussed in the orientation modules:

 http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html

 So, if you can tell us a little more about what you'd like to do, we can
 assist you with your OpenOffice volunteer efforts better.


 --

 -
 MzK

 When in doubt, cop an attitude.
 -- Cat laws




-- 
*Sumit*

Re: New volunteer introduction

[Kay Schenk]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:16 AM, sumit Murari murarisu...@gmail.com wrote:

 thnks for reply :)

 I can do development in C,C++ or JAVA, and frankly i want to contribute
 something. I just use  OSS,  for my work and haven't done any contribution
 yet, so it doesn't feels nice ..

 I'm comfortable with development, but i don't know, where to start and how
 to start .


OK, thanks for this information. If you've finished the general orientation
modules on how the project works, I think you should take a look at the
developer orientation:

http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html

As a first step, you could download and build Apache OpenOffice.

Also on the Developer orientation page above is a link to easy hacks to
get you started on actual code changes.

Our development information documentation is  in need of an organizational
update, but I think you will find the api area contains a LOT of useful
information:

http://www.openoffice.org/api/

(use the left hand navigation items instead of the search)

This will give you a nice overview of the structure of the program modules
and what area does what.

Thanks again for wanting to join Apache OpenOffice. We want your
participation to be rewarding, and we're here to help.





 On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:

  On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:45 AM, sumit Murari murarisu...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   hello all, My name is timus, i've been using OpenOffice, and many OSS,
  now
   i want to contribute some to openOffice.
  
  
   I'm from India, and i'm interested in contributing to OpenOffice.
I've never contributed in any OSS so far, my contribution was limited
 to
   using software sending statistics and sending the crash report if i
   encountered any.
   Looking for anyone who can guide me ...
  
   Any help will be appreciated ..
  
 
 
  Hello timus and it's great that you want to get involved with OpenOffice.
  It would help if we had an idea of what areas you would like to help
 with.
 
  Some of our major areas, aside from direct user support through the
 Forums
  or users list, are discussed in the orientation modules:
 
  http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html
 
  So, if you can tell us a little more about what you'd like to do, we can
  assist you with your OpenOffice volunteer efforts better.
 
 
  --
 
 
 -
  MzK
 
  When in doubt, cop an attitude.
  -- Cat laws
 



 --
 *Sumit*




-- 
-
MzK

When in doubt, cop an attitude.
-- Cat laws

Re: New volunteer introduction

[sumit Murari]

thnks Kay, I'm building the environment .just got a thought; while
moving in the trunk, i saw all the files and tools.
Is there any complete ZIP File for the source, so that any it can be
directly downloaded ...
 I got it from sourcefourge.net and i found sourgeforge an easier way ..!!


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:16 AM, sumit Murari murarisu...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  thnks for reply :)
 
  I can do development in C,C++ or JAVA, and frankly i want to contribute
  something. I just use  OSS,  for my work and haven't done any
 contribution
  yet, so it doesn't feels nice ..
 
  I'm comfortable with development, but i don't know, where to start and
 how
  to start .
 

 OK, thanks for this information. If you've finished the general orientation
 modules on how the project works, I think you should take a look at the
 developer orientation:

 http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-development.html

 As a first step, you could download and build Apache OpenOffice.

 Also on the Developer orientation page above is a link to easy hacks to
 get you started on actual code changes.

 Our development information documentation is  in need of an organizational
 update, but I think you will find the api area contains a LOT of useful
 information:

 http://www.openoffice.org/api/

 (use the left hand navigation items instead of the search)

 This will give you a nice overview of the structure of the program modules
 and what area does what.

 Thanks again for wanting to join Apache OpenOffice. We want your
 participation to be rewarding, and we're here to help.



 
 
  On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:22 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
   On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:45 AM, sumit Murari murarisu...@gmail.com
   wrote:
  
hello all, My name is timus, i've been using OpenOffice, and many
 OSS,
   now
i want to contribute some to openOffice.
   
   
I'm from India, and i'm interested in contributing to OpenOffice.
 I've never contributed in any OSS so far, my contribution was
 limited
  to
using software sending statistics and sending the crash report if i
encountered any.
Looking for anyone who can guide me ...
   
Any help will be appreciated ..
   
  
  
   Hello timus and it's great that you want to get involved with
 OpenOffice.
   It would help if we had an idea of what areas you would like to help
  with.
  
   Some of our major areas, aside from direct user support through the
  Forums
   or users list, are discussed in the orientation modules:
  
   http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html
  
   So, if you can tell us a little more about what you'd like to do, we
 can
   assist you with your OpenOffice volunteer efforts better.
  
  
   --
  
  
 
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   When in doubt, cop an attitude.
   -- Cat laws
  
 
 
 
  --
  *Sumit*
 



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 When in doubt, cop an attitude.
 -- Cat laws




-- 
*Sumit*

New volunteer introduction

[sumit Murari]

hello all, My name is timus, i've been using OpenOffice, and many OSS, now
i want to contribute some to openOffice.


I'm from India, and i'm interested in contributing to OpenOffice.
 I've never contributed in any OSS so far, my contribution was limited to
using software sending statistics and sending the crash report if i
encountered any.
Looking for anyone who can guide me ...

Any help will be appreciated ..

Re: New volunteer introduction

[Kay Schenk]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:45 AM, sumit Murari murarisu...@gmail.com wrote:

 hello all, My name is timus, i've been using OpenOffice, and many OSS, now
 i want to contribute some to openOffice.


 I'm from India, and i'm interested in contributing to OpenOffice.
  I've never contributed in any OSS so far, my contribution was limited to
 using software sending statistics and sending the crash report if i
 encountered any.
 Looking for anyone who can guide me ...

 Any help will be appreciated ..



Hello timus and it's great that you want to get involved with OpenOffice.
It would help if we had an idea of what areas you would like to help with.

Some of our major areas, aside from direct user support through the Forums
or users list, are discussed in the orientation modules:

http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html

So, if you can tell us a little more about what you'd like to do, we can
assist you with your OpenOffice volunteer efforts better.


-- 
-
MzK

When in doubt, cop an attitude.
-- Cat laws

Re: New Volunteer

[Andrea Pescetti]

Forwarding Raphael's answer (below) to Rayan. Rayan, if you speak Arabic 
then a reasonable and very helpful way to get started would be to help 
us with the Arabic translation, now at 93%. If you can help, let us 
know! Andrea


On 25/07/2013 Raphael Bircher wrote:

Hi Rayan

Welcome at Apache OpenOffice. On
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html you can read the
orientation module. If you have Questions, you are on the right list here.

I wish you the best for your work at Apache OpenOffice.

Greetings
Raphael

Am 25.07.13 04:58, schrieb Rayan Al-Hammami:

Hello All,
My name is Rayan Al-Hammami. I am a 3rd year Computer Science major at
the
University of Central Oklahoma. I am a Saudi-American citizen. I am
excited
to get my hands a little dirty here, or to just learn from the pros. I
greatly appreciate the opportunity, and the work that's done here.
Thanks.

Best Regards,
Rayan



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New Volunteer

[Rayan Al-Hammami]

Hello All,
My name is Rayan Al-Hammami. I am a 3rd year Computer Science major at the
University of Central Oklahoma. I am a Saudi-American citizen. I am excited
to get my hands a little dirty here, or to just learn from the pros.  I
greatly appreciate the opportunity, and the work that's done here.  Thanks.

Best Regards,
Rayan

Re: Hello - new volunteer

[Jürgen Schmidt]

On 7/7/13 10:08 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
 Hi Dave,
 
 Welcome! The first step in volunteering is to subscribe to this dev list.
 
 If you would like to help us with building installation packages for WIndows 
 platforms then you should start by learning how to build from here:
 
 http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html
 
 This may be a difficult place to start, but it would be a prerequisite to 
 building an installation package.
 
 Please ask questions on the list as you explore.

Indeed expert knowledge in the area of Windows installer would be
appreciated. We have a hand made complex packaging process that is
designed to have many common procedures for all platforms + specialized
ones for each platform.

A simplification would be welcome and we are looking forward to produce
minor patch updates to provide better service to our users.

 
 One of the big areas we need help is with secure digital signatures of 
 installation artifacts. Anything that you could add to how we can make this 
 happen in very few steps would be helpful. The ASF has strict standards which 
 no one has met your expertise may prove helpful.

the singing process itself is not the problem it is more the handling or
better secure maintaining of the certificate. Signing a build in a
secure environment is only the matter of using the right flags.

But anyway in both areas help is welcome. Feel free to ask on the dev list

Juergen

 
 Regards,
 Dave
 
 On Jul 6, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Dave Ashelman wrote:
 
 Hello Open Office Developers:
 Good morning:
 I hope this eMail finds you well.  My name is David Ashelman and I have 
 bachelor degrees in computer information systems and mathematics.
 I really believe your software is very robust and extremely reliable.
  
 I have a lot of experience writing MSI database application setups also 
 teaching computer theory to new MSI crafters.  If I can help, then let me 
 know how I can improve your already remarkable software.
 Since 1996, I've been a network administrator, a software design support 
 engineer, an InstallShield technical trainer, a software Release/Build 
 technician, a Windows migration consultant, and an application packaging 
 engineer. 

 I have good technical skills and experience with people and software 
 engineering.
 * Two (2) Technical College Degrees (Computer Information Systems + Math) 
 * Four (4) years of experience employed by the corporation Flexera, who made 
 AdminStudio. I was responsible for supporting and training users of that 
 software (Flexera Admin Studio)
 * I worked at InstallShield from 1999 - 2003 the time when software 
 packaging began 

 From 2000-2003, I taught software application packaging, software design 
 Best Practices, and Windows migration around the United States, Canada,  
 Great Brittan while working for Flexera, Macro Vision, or InstallShield.

 During that time, I saw how very difficult understanding software builds, 
 releasing, and installs was for certain software application developers. So, 
 instead of simply reciting the InstallShield product examples, I wrote a 
 book illuminating and shedding light on hard to grasp concepts and how to 
 best handle those concepts in computer data transfer. Multiple illustrations 
 and mathematical proofs and equations explain everything you need to know to 
 make great software and application installations. 

 * Fourteen (14) years software build/release, software installation 
 authoring, application packaging engineering,  Windows migrations 

 From 2003-13 I have been around the United States meeting great people, 
 solving complex Windows migrations, solving software application packaging 
 projects, creating software build releases, and authored multi-platform 
 software installations. 

 With a little luck, hopefully we can work together. I’d like to help you 
 improve your software solutions.  Your future is bright.

 Kind regards 

 David W. Ashelman
  
  
  
  
  

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Re: Hello - new volunteer

[Rob Weir]

On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Dave Ashelman
1softwareexp...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello Open Office Developers:
 Good morning:
 I hope this eMail finds you well.  My name is David Ashelman and I have
 bachelor degrees in computer information systems and mathematics.
 I really believe your software is very robust and extremely reliable.

 I have a lot of experience writing MSI database application setups also
 teaching computer theory to new MSI crafters.  If I can help, then let me
 know how I can improve your already remarkable software.

 Since 1996, I've been a network administrator, a software design support
 engineer, an InstallShield technical trainer, a software Release/Build
 technician, a Windows migration consultant, and an application packaging
 engineer.


Hello Dave,

Thanks for writing and welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project!

You can read some more about the project and how we work here:

http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/

(Just scan that material for background info)

Setup/install is an area where we have a lot of room for improvement.
Juergen and Dave Fischer mentioned the code signing side of this.
Another area is to look at possibilities for incremental patch
updates.  Currently we require users to download/install the full
version for every update.

Regards,

-Rob


 I have good technical skills and experience with people and software
 engineering.
 * Two (2) Technical College Degrees (Computer Information Systems + Math)
 * Four (4) years of experience employed by the corporation Flexera, who made
 AdminStudio. I was responsible for supporting and training users of that
 software (Flexera Admin Studio)

 * I worked at InstallShield from 1999 - 2003 the time when software
 packaging began

 From 2000-2003, I taught software application packaging, software design
 Best Practices, and Windows migration around the United States, Canada, 
 Great Brittan while working for Flexera, Macro Vision, or InstallShield.


 During that time, I saw how very difficult understanding software builds,
 releasing, and installs was for certain software application developers. So,
 instead of simply reciting the InstallShield product examples, I wrote a
 book illuminating and shedding light on hard to grasp concepts and how to
 best handle those concepts in computer data transfer. Multiple illustrations
 and mathematical proofs and equations explain everything you need to know to
 make great software and application installations.

 * Fourteen (14) years software build/release, software installation
 authoring, application packaging engineering,  Windows migrations

 From 2003-13 I have been around the United States meeting great people,
 solving complex Windows migrations, solving software application packaging
 projects, creating software build releases, and authored multi-platform
 software installations.

 With a little luck, hopefully we can work together. I’d like to help you
 improve your software solutions.  Your future is bright.

 Kind regards

 David W. Ashelman








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Re: Hello - new volunteer

[Dave Fisher]

Hi Dave,

Welcome! The first step in volunteering is to subscribe to this dev list.

If you would like to help us with building installation packages for WIndows 
platforms then you should start by learning how to build from here:

http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html

This may be a difficult place to start, but it would be a prerequisite to 
building an installation package.

Please ask questions on the list as you explore.

One of the big areas we need help is with secure digital signatures of 
installation artifacts. Anything that you could add to how we can make this 
happen in very few steps would be helpful. The ASF has strict standards which 
no one has met your expertise may prove helpful.

Regards,
Dave

On Jul 6, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Dave Ashelman wrote:

 Hello Open Office Developers:
 Good morning:
 I hope this eMail finds you well.  My name is David Ashelman and I have 
 bachelor degrees in computer information systems and mathematics.
 I really believe your software is very robust and extremely reliable.
  
 I have a lot of experience writing MSI database application setups also 
 teaching computer theory to new MSI crafters.  If I can help, then let me 
 know how I can improve your already remarkable software.
 Since 1996, I've been a network administrator, a software design support 
 engineer, an InstallShield technical trainer, a software Release/Build 
 technician, a Windows migration consultant, and an application packaging 
 engineer. 
 
 I have good technical skills and experience with people and software 
 engineering.
 * Two (2) Technical College Degrees (Computer Information Systems + Math) 
 * Four (4) years of experience employed by the corporation Flexera, who made 
 AdminStudio. I was responsible for supporting and training users of that 
 software (Flexera Admin Studio)
 * I worked at InstallShield from 1999 - 2003 the time when software packaging 
 began 
 
 From 2000-2003, I taught software application packaging, software design Best 
 Practices, and Windows migration around the United States, Canada,  Great 
 Brittan while working for Flexera, Macro Vision, or InstallShield.
 
 During that time, I saw how very difficult understanding software builds, 
 releasing, and installs was for certain software application developers. So, 
 instead of simply reciting the InstallShield product examples, I wrote a book 
 illuminating and shedding light on hard to grasp concepts and how to best 
 handle those concepts in computer data transfer. Multiple illustrations and 
 mathematical proofs and equations explain everything you need to know to make 
 great software and application installations. 
 
 * Fourteen (14) years software build/release, software installation 
 authoring, application packaging engineering,  Windows migrations 
 
 From 2003-13 I have been around the United States meeting great people, 
 solving complex Windows migrations, solving software application packaging 
 projects, creating software build releases, and authored multi-platform 
 software installations. 
 
 With a little luck, hopefully we can work together. I’d like to help you 
 improve your software solutions.  Your future is bright.
 
 Kind regards 
 
 David W. Ashelman
  
  
  
  
  
 
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Hello - new volunteer

[Dave Ashelman]

Hello Open Office Developers:
Good morning:
I hope this eMail finds you well.  My name is David Ashelman and I have
bachelor degrees in computer information systems and mathematics.
I really believe your software is very robust and extremely reliable.

I have a lot of experience writing MSI database application setups also
teaching computer theory to new MSI crafters.  If I can help, then let me
know how I can improve your already remarkable software.

Since 1996, I've been a network administrator, a software design support
engineer, an InstallShield technical trainer, a software Release/Build
technician, a Windows migration consultant, and an application packaging
engineer.

I have good technical skills and experience with people and software
engineering.
* Two (2) Technical College Degrees (Computer Information Systems + Math)
* Four (4) years of experience employed by the corporation Flexera, who
made AdminStudio. I was responsible for supporting and training users of
that software (Flexera Admin Studio)

* I worked at InstallShield from 1999 - 2003 the time when software
packaging began

From 2000-2003, I taught software application packaging, software design
Best Practices, and Windows migration around the United States, Canada, 
Great Brittan while working for Flexera, Macro Vision, or InstallShield.


 During that time, I saw how very difficult understanding software builds,
releasing, and installs was for certain software application developers.
So, instead of simply reciting the InstallShield product examples, I wrote
a book illuminating and shedding light on hard to grasp concepts and how to
best handle those concepts in computer data transfer. Multiple
illustrations and mathematical proofs and equations explain everything you
need to know to make great software and application installations.

* Fourteen (14) years software build/release, software installation
authoring, application packaging engineering,  Windows migrations

From 2003-13 I have been around the United States meeting great people,
solving complex Windows migrations, solving software application packaging
projects, creating software build releases, and authored multi-platform
software installations.

 With a little luck, hopefully we can work together. I’d like to help you
improve your software solutions.  Your future is bright.

Kind regards

David W. Ashelman

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New Volunteer

[mehdi soleimani nasab]

Hi, Sup?!

I have added my info to the directory of volunteers. I will finish my
B.Sc. in a month. This summer before starting my master studies I am
thinking of doing sth useful. I hope it can be a starting point to get
me involved with open source. :)

Here's a little info about my past experiences; I was part of a team
in my university who developed a Rule-Based machine translation system
for English to Persian text translation. This team has previously
developed a Persian spell checker extension for Microsoft Word.
I am also familiar with machine learning techniques and their
application in natural language processing.

I have attached my CV (in case u're interested to know more about me!) :)

Bests,

-- 
Mahdi Soleimani


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Re: New Volunteer

[Andrea Pescetti]

mehdi soleimani nasab wrote:

Here's a little info about my past experiences; I was part of a team
in my university who developed a Rule-Based machine translation system
for English to Persian text translation. This team has previously
developed a Persian spell checker extension


Welcome! The easiest way to help immediately is to contribute to the 
Persian translation, due in about 10 days. Please add a comment to

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122287
stating that you are available to help, so that you can coordinate with 
other volunteers vie private e-mail or directly on the issue page.



I have attached my CV (in case u're interested to know more about me!) :)


Attachments are removed, but we don't need a CV, we will hopefully learn 
more about you from your contributions!


Regards,
  Andrea.

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[New Volunteer] How Apache OpenOffice works level completed

[Fernando Martinez]

Hello Dev Team,

 

I have completed the How Apache OpenOffice works level.

 

 

Fernando Martinez

cel: 305-979-4639

email:fernando.marti...@msn.com

 

 

{New Volunteer Modules] Working on decision Making Module

[Fernando Martinez]

Hello Dev Team,

 

I am working on the decision Making Module

 

Fernando Martinez

cel: 305-979-4639

email:fernando.marti...@msn.com

 

[New Volunteer Modules] Started on Infrastructure Module

[Fernando Martinez]

Hello Dev Team;

 

I have started on the Infrastructure Module.

 

Fernando Martinez

cel: 305-979-4639

email:fernando.marti...@msn.com

 

 

[New Volunteer Modules]Done with Infrastructure Module

[Fernando Martinez]

Hello Dev team,

 

I am done with the Infrastructure Module.

 

 

Fernando Martinez

cel: 305-979-4639

email:fernando.marti...@msn.com

 

 

Re: [New Volunteer Modules]Done with Infrastructure Module

[jdaniel.alvaro]

Hello Fernando,
I think that you need to write all your progress in  your wiki, this is the
site : http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page

Regards,
Daniel Alvaro.

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Fernando Martinez fernando.marti...@msn.com
 wrote:

 Hello Dev team,



 I am done with the Infrastructure Module.





 Fernando Martinez

 cel: 305-979-4639

 email:fernando.marti...@msn.com

Re: Introduction - NEW volunteer

[Yue Helen]

Welcome, Larry! and thanks for your interest to Apache OpenOffice. I
believe you will find a lot of fun here!

Here we have one orientation module,
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/orientation/index.html, and you
can find the link to Introduction to Marketing.  Hope it is helpful for
you to start.

Please feel free to share your thought here on how to promote Apache
OpenOffice.

Helen

2012/11/27 Larry Sadler s...@torfree.net

 Salutations

 Quick profile:

  * started using StarOffice 4.x
  * have been using OO regularly then exclusively since
  * hold Bachelor of Business and Master of Business degrees
  * major in finance, minor in computers
  * Financial Manager for 8 years
  * IT Services Manager for 8 years
  * currently freelance
  * not a programmer
  * located in Toronto Canada [at least for now]
  * only fluent in English
  * experienced with not for profit organizations
  * open to suggestions where\how to jump in

 L
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 Larry Sadler 416.354.2952

Introduction - NEW volunteer

[Larry Sadler]

Salutations

Quick profile:

 * started using StarOffice 4.x
 * have been using OO regularly then exclusively since
 * hold Bachelor of Business and Master of Business degrees
 * major in finance, minor in computers
 * Financial Manager for 8 years
 * IT Services Manager for 8 years
 * currently freelance
 * not a programmer
 * located in Toronto Canada [at least for now]
 * only fluent in English
 * experienced with not for profit organizations
 * open to suggestions where\how to jump in

L
--
Larry Sadler 416.354.2952