German community needs a second mailing list for effective working

2013-12-11 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, The members of the German community would like to approach you with our wish to install a second mailing list (dev...@openoffice.apache.org) moderated by Jörg, Raphael und Michael (Stehmann). The purpose of this separate list would be to distinguish general user questions from specific

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

2013-12-11 Thread RA Stehmann
+1 It's not only Open Rhein Ruhr, but also FOSDEM (Brussels), Chemnitzer Linuxtage (Chemnitz, Saxonia), FrOSCon (St.Augustin - near Bonn) and T-Dose (Eindhoven) we participate. Regards Michael (Stehmann) On 11.12.2013 09:22, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello, The members of the German community

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

2013-12-11 Thread Arthur Buijs
+1 From the Netherlands. Regards, Arthur RA Stehmann schreef op 11-12-2013 9:44: +1 It's not only Open Rhein Ruhr, but also FOSDEM (Brussels), Chemnitzer Linuxtage (Chemnitz, Saxonia), FrOSCon (St.Augustin - near Bonn) and T-Dose (Eindhoven) we participate. Regards Michael (Stehmann)

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

2013-12-11 Thread jan i
+1 from me, my only concern is how to make sure important information is not kept solely on dev-de (important may also be hints about how to compile etc). I see a heavy burden on the moderators to ensure that this happens. rgds jan I. On 11 December 2013 10:32, Arthur Buijs art...@artietee.nl

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

2013-12-11 Thread Jörg Schmidt
+1 from me, my only concern is how to make sure important information is not kept solely on dev-de (important may also be hints about how to compile etc). I see a heavy burden on the moderators to ensure that this happens. I do not understand the problem. By de-community is nothing

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

2013-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jan i wrote: +1 from me, my only concern is how to make sure important information is not kept solely on dev-de (important may also be hints about how to compile etc). I see a heavy burden on the moderators to ensure that this happens. It depends on the focus, but from Joerg's initial

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Building comphelper

2013-12-11 Thread Steele, Raymond
Fantastic! We were actually looking at that [2] yesterday, but were concerned because it was dated 7 months ago. We will implement it and provide feedback. Thanks again! Raymond -Original Message- From: Herbert Duerr [mailto:h...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:25 PM

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Building comphelper

2013-12-11 Thread Steele, Raymond
Herbert, The changes [2] worked perfectly for us. Now we are having issues compiling ::std::select1st in namedvaluecollection.cxx on line 175. Apparently, select1st is not a member of std. It appears that you may have created a ticket for this one.

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Building comphelper

2013-12-11 Thread Steele, Raymond
For select1st, we noticed that the functional header delivered with stdcxx4 did not define select1st, but the aoo delivered functional located in systemstl/tr1 did. Our Makefile flags are set to include the stdcxx4 functional instead of the systemstl/tr1 functional. To get around this we

Re: Checked out revision 1547453 Build problem on Windows 7

2013-12-11 Thread Vadim Yedzinovich
Hello Herbert, Have install Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack Release. Go ahead but have another problem... Now with Handler.cxx: = Building module writerfilter = Entering /cygdrive/c/source/aoo-trunk/main/writerfilter/source/resourcemodel Entering

aoo

2013-12-11 Thread Craig Rasch
we need more exposure to let the android market know AOO exists!!! what about a flash mob with AOO adopters? microsoft claims a google chrome laptop will not supply a users needs when AOO and android will do anything a windows 8 laptop will do!

Re: link update on newbie orientation page

2013-12-11 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:43 PM, GZobel gz7c...@gmail.com wrote: On this page: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-contributing.html The link for item 2, point 4: 14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star

Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Weir
Google has a new service that makes it easy to add a website satisfaction survey to a website. The free version has 4 questions that are asked of 500 random website visitors each month. We would be given results on a monthly basis. (They also have a paid version of this service where you can

Re: link update on newbie orientation page

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:43 PM, GZobel gz7c...@gmail.com wrote: On this page: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-contributing.html The link for item 2, point 4: 14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source

Re: link update on newbie orientation page

2013-12-11 Thread GZobel
Happy to help. Appreciate the quick reply. FYI, multiple attempts to use Chrome on ChromeBook and Mac to sign up for one of the wikis failed: https://wiki.openoffice.org Each time the screen says this at the top: *To help protect against automated account creation, please select just the cat

Introduction

2013-12-11 Thread Gregory Zobel
Hi Folks, I've spent a couple hours looking through the orientation, help wanted, and related pages. The next step appears to introduce myself. My name is Gregory Zobel, but I prefer to be called gz--nickname given by a former professor of mine. My background is in technical communication,

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Gregory Zobel zob...@wou.edu wrote: Hi Rob, I like the idea of a satisfaction survey. I would suggest using an industry standard, the SUS. http://www.measuringusability.com/sus.php It's been around for 25 years or so, it has provided reliable metrics, and

RE: soltools need(s) to be rebuilt

2013-12-11 Thread Απόστολος Συρόπουλος
Many of those projects have RTTI or C++ exceptions disabled, so problems with typeinfo visibility may not show up there. I have figured out that I need to use GCC with the Solaris linker to avoid all these problems. BTW, the GCC people suggest people who use their compiler on Solaris to

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Gregory Zobel zob...@wou.edu wrote: I'd be happy to help develop the survey questions. We could devise probably 4-7 more questions without users resisting too much--long surveys annoy users. Ending with a couple of open-ended questions: what is most frustrating

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-11 Thread jan i
On 11 December 2013 20:57, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Gregory Zobel zob...@wou.edu wrote: I'd be happy to help develop the survey questions. We could devise probably 4-7 more questions without users resisting too much--long surveys annoy users.

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Gregory Zobel
Sounds good. I'll need to poke around a bit more. It looks like there are some already-existing and good resources in the UX section. I haven't worked in a wiki for a while either, so I need to review some of that. But I'll get to it. Best, gz On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Rob Weir

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Building comphelper

2013-12-11 Thread Herbert Duerr
Steele, Raymond wrote: For select1st, we noticed that the functional header delivered with stdcxx4 did not define select1st, Select1st didn't make it into the C++ standard, so good standard compliant libraries don't include it anymore. but the aoo delivered functional located in

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Building comphelper

2013-12-11 Thread Steele, Raymond
Okay, we will look some more. We were commenting out all instances before you wrote, but were still not having luck. Is it possible that we have to do a clean build? Raymond -Original Message- From: Herbert Duerr [mailto:h...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:16 PM To:

Re: aoo

2013-12-11 Thread tk
Craig Rasch wrote: we need more exposure to let the android market know AOO exists! Are you referring to a port of Apache OpenOffice to Android, done under the auspices of _The Apache Software Foundation_ Or are you referring to the product in the Google Play Store that is based upon

RE: EXTERNAL: Re: Building comphelper

2013-12-11 Thread Meffe, David K
Raymond and Herbet, I found out where the make file was including the stlport libraries. It was in solaris.mk in the gb_Library_FILENAMES and gb_Library_LAYER. I commented out the STLLIBS in both of these sections and it was able to build comphelper. While I'm not sure this is the best

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Gregory Zobel zob...@wou.edu wrote: Sounds good. I'll need to poke around a bit more. It looks like there are some already-existing and good resources in the UX section. I haven't worked in a wiki for a while either, so I need to review some of that. The wiki

Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-12-11 Thread Medicus - Product Development
No Problem.just thinking (although I am sure there is a possibility this has been requested before) that it sure would be nice to see screen shots of the latest version of the software as a readily available link as part of the page design. Just feel that there might be allot of people who'd

Re: Proposed: Website Satisfaction Survey

2013-12-11 Thread Dave Fisher
On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:04 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 11 December 2013 20:57, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Gregory Zobel zob...@wou.edu wrote: I'd be happy to help develop the survey questions.