Re: Require guidance for adding 3/4 columns

2017-01-20 Thread Jorg Schmidt
> From: raymondgoudg...@outlook.com > [mailto:raymondgoudg...@outlook.com] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 6:26 AM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Require guidance for adding 3/4 columns > Require guidance for adding 3/4 columns And what is meant by this? What is "3/4"? Which

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

2017-01-20 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> -Original Message- > From: Dr. Michael Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de] > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 5:13 PM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Community building: give our User a chance to contribute! > > Am 20.01.2017 um 12:38 schrieb Jörg Schmidt:

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

2017-01-20 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hmm, the discussion moves in a wrong direction, with wrong assumptions. I am against a status quo solution. For me status quo directly transfers to nothing happens. I am not talking of creating one Investor that provides Money. I aim at mobilizing as much as possible Open Office users has as

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

2017-01-20 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - Read to the bottom. Don't mistake my opposition to the following statement as opposition to a way forward to funding of a third party. > and one more note: > Our PMC is a PMC of an Apache project and it must be loyal to the ASF and the > OpenOffice project. > If, however, there are single

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

2017-01-20 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: Jörg Schmidt [mailto:joe...@j-m-schmidt.de] > I do not think your opinion is _so_ different, because _I > share your opinion_. Sorry, I think that's too short and not understandable. What I meant when I said positively to the LO/TDF-organizational-model is the willingness to offer

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

2017-01-20 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - Go ahead, but you are missing my point. Managing money like you propose is not something Apache Members want to do. Having a good working relationship with a third party is something the ASF does all the time. The AOO project could find a way to work out a program that would serve to

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

2017-01-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Dave Fisher has posted a valuable comment while I was writing this. I completely support his views on this topic. In addition, it seems to me that you propose a change in how the ASF itself works. This is not the place to do that. I suggest you take such discussion to the

Re: Question -- building AOO 4.1.3 on Windows

2017-01-20 Thread Hong
Hi all, Now I am building AOO under Win7. Most of my settings are exactly the same as the instruction. I keep seeing this package missing error when I did "./configure". Can someone please help? I already kept trying the entire afternoon. ​ As you can see I did a check, it was installed, but

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

2017-01-20 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] > I observe that the Board and the Offices of ASF do not wish > to deal with hypothetical cases. Exceptions must be specific > and actionable. Also, exceptions do not create precedents. > If one project sees something they want as

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

2017-01-20 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: Peter Kovacs [mailto:legi...@gmail.com] > But in my eyes we need a way to ensure project health and > turn towards > the community we have. We were last year at the edge of project > retirement. We are slowly fighting our way out by pure > voluntary work of > people that belive in

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

2017-01-20 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Am 20.01.2017 um 12:38 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > > >> I think LibreOffice are to a certain degree correct. The ASF is not >> capable to do the Project Open Office at this Point. The structure of >> Libre Office is a much more healthy one for the kind of Project >> Libre/Open Office is. > >