Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-03 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 1/2/13 9:05 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Howdy Jürgen, Hmm - well, I had understood it was ALv2 specifically so that it would be available to the project here. Hopefully when the developers make a drop of the code it will be something that the devs here will want to utilize it, wasn't really

Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-03 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, if you're interested into including the changes into AOO then all parties involved are listed here (incl. email addresses): http://www.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch/2012/07/suse-und-lanedo-setzen-ooxml-verbesserungen-in-libreofficeopenoffice-org-fur-behorden-um/ Am 03.01.2013 10:22, schrieb

Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
LOl - well, I wouldn't make too much of the paid development part, Jurgen, it is what you do also, paid developement work for this project. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, if you're interested into including the changes into AOO then all parties

Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-03 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Well, it is easier to get funding for such things if both projects get benefits. Depending on the organizers, if things only go to one side now it is likely that such funding will not be available in the future or that it will be reduced considerably and then everyone loses. Pedro.

Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-02 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Jürgen, Hmm - well, I had understood it was ALv2 specifically so that it would be available to the project here. Hopefully when the developers make a drop of the code it will be something that the devs here will want to utilize it, wasn't really fair to ask anyone to comment on something

Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2012-12-24 Thread Drew Jensen
Thanks for that - I knew of that initiative. Does the project intend to integrate their work? On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.orgwrote: The slides are here: http://www.slideshare.net/nice/apache-eurocon2012-matthiasstuermer It appears that some of the

User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2012-12-23 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello; The ASF is a non-profit organization, we don't pay for coding but concerning docx support there was a talk from Matthias Stürmer in ApacheConEU: http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/presentation/46/ This effort, of course, predates the establishment of AOO as a TLP so we were not consulted.