RE : Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF Certification

2011-06-23 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hi, I don't think the TDF Certification is meant to cover end users. It's meant to cover professionnal service providers providing services to customers/users. I believe such a certification is an opportunity to advance TDF's Sustainability and foster a business ecosystem around it. I think that

Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF Certification

2011-06-23 Thread Goran Rakic
У чет, 23. 06 2011. у 10:41 +0100, Ian Lynch пише: All it needs to do is have a set of criteria or even a simple contractual statement that the partner company providing services on behalf of the community will uphold community principles and not bring it into disrepute. Why the such

[tdf-discuss] Re: When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/06/11 14:18, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, For some reasons the developpers off the OO-API has decided to not allow sending Emails using there API imho the mechanism is in place Well, one can already find : const rtl::OUString

Re: [tdf-discuss] When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/22/2011 08:18 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote: For some reasons the developpers off the OO-API has decided to not allow sending Emails using there API I believe that all of these use the command line to send an email message using an existing client, which then limits the message that can be

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Hackfest - September 9th, Ohio Linux Fest

2011-06-23 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/21/2011 11:08 AM, drew wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 08:25 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I proposed a talk on OOo / LO and plan to attend. Did not put in much time on the proposal so not sure if it will be accepted. If something is happening there, count me in. No formal

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Hackfest - September 9th, Ohio Linux Fest

2011-06-23 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 09:07 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 06/21/2011 11:08 AM, drew wrote: snip Anyway - would really be excited about you participating - I'm kind of running blind as to what exactly is needed for this. Might be over thinking it (I have that tendency at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-23 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Alex, Thanks for yoyr reply, but how do we acces this with the API ? Greetz Fernand Le 22/06/11 14:18, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, For some reasons the developpers off the OO-API has decided to not allow sending Emails using there API imho the mechanism is in place Well,

Re: [tdf-discuss] When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-23 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Andrew , I use this option for years, just a pitty we can not do this using our beloved API :-) and when making a extention not all users has the same client on there machine Greetz Fernand On 06/22/2011 08:18 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote: For some reasons the developpers off the OO-API has

[tdf-discuss] Sponsored Bug Repair ?

2011-06-23 Thread Fernand Vanrie
I hope Michael and other TDF-members are reading this. As we love to have a Email body when sending emails with the API, our compagny is willing to fund this kind of repair work. The interested makes a Enhancement request The TDF put a price on it The interested pays TDF in advance After TDF

Re: [tdf-discuss] Sponsored Bug Repair ?

2011-06-23 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Fernand, Fernand Vanrie wrote (23-06-11 16:08) I hope Michael and other TDF-members are reading this. As we love to have a Email body when sending emails with the API, our company is willing to fund this kind of repair work. Repair or enhancement... (Side note on the subject: I can

[tdf-discuss] Re: When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 15:44, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, Thanks for yoyr reply, but how do we acces this with the API ? Greetz From my reading of the bits in the code I could find, it is not implemented. Now that I think of it, I seem to recall that this all came from the StarOffice

Re: [tdf-discuss] When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-23 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Fernand, Fernand Vanrie wrote (22-06-11 14:18) For some reasons the developpers off the OO-API has decided to not allow sending Emails using there API [...] Not sure if this has been mentioned already, and/or is of use for you, but since years I use an dispatch command for the task:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Hackfest - September 9th, Ohio Linux Fest

2011-06-23 Thread drew
Hi LeMoyne, et al On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:46 -0700, John LeMoyne Castle wrote: Seems to me this thread used to be longer in Nabble 8-0 Different Mailing List. I am still interested Drew and I had this thought: Even if a HackFest can't be drawn together it would be very useful to the

Things a Hackfest facilitator should know ws ( Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Hackfest - September 9th, Ohio Linux Fest )

2011-06-23 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 10:44 -0400, drew wrote: big snip So - my thinking here is that the important items to have in place (someone) has to be able to competently field/handle/help with the following: Getting the source code from the GIT repositories. Finding the Easy Hacks page. Work

Re: [tdf-discuss] Sponsored Bug Repair ?

2011-06-23 Thread Samuel M
Why should'nt TDF go ahead and employ one of the former OOo developers or someone else from the community? I think there would be much interest from users and companys to pay for fixing bugs / implementing new features. - Ursprüngliche Message - Von: Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl An:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Sponsored Bug Repair ?

2011-06-23 Thread yahoo-pier_andreit
Il 23/06/2011 16:29, Cor Nouws ha scritto: Hi Fernand, Fernand Vanrie wrote (23-06-11 16:08) I hope Michael and other TDF-members are reading this. As we love to have a Email body when sending emails with the API, our company is willing to fund this kind of repair work. Repair or

Re: [tdf-discuss] Sponsored Bug Repair ?

2011-06-23 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Samuel, Samuel M wrote (23-06-11 17:06) Why should'nt TDF go ahead and employ one of the former OOo developers or someone else from the community? I think there would be much interest from users and companys to pay for fixing bugs / implementing new features. Employing people is not such

Re: [tdf-discuss] Sponsored Bug Repair ?

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Derman
Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Samuel, Samuel M wrote (23-06-11 17:06) Why should'nt TDF go ahead and employ one of the former OOo developers or someone else from the community? I think there would be much interest from users and companys to pay for fixing bugs / implementing new features. Employing

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Hackfest - September 9th, Ohio Linux Fest

2011-06-23 Thread drew
Just a quick note. Have sent off the formal request to the OHLF organizers..will keep folks posted as specifics firm up. Thanks, drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List

[tdf-discuss] Debian moves to LibreOffice

2011-06-23 Thread elcico2001 एल्चिको
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Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marc Paré wrote: This thread is really about proposing, to the devs, the possibility of creating a LibreOffice Reader similar to the Adobe .pdf Reader. This could be an idea to investigate, but I don't know how feasible it is; actually there is (or used to be) a read only mode in

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Derman
Simon Phipps wrote: On 23 Jun 2011, at 23:32, Marc Paré wrote: I think it was mentioned that there were at one point over 100 million LibreOffice/OOo users. If we were to develop our own LibreOffice Reader we would already have 100 million potential users for our product. Not only that,

[tdf-discuss] Re: New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread plino
Here is another free one (for Windows only) http://www.officeviewers.com -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/New-LibreOffice-Reader-Eliminates-Need-for-PDF-Reader-tp3101887p3102326.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Antonio Olivares
--- On Thu, 6/23/11, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: From: Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 3:32 PM Hi Antonio Le 2011-06-23 18:05, Antonio

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-24, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Marc Paré wrote: if we were to promote a quick and dirty LibreOffice Reader, very much like the Adobe Acrobat Reader, whose sole purpose is to provide the ability to read .odt files, there would be no need to carry .pdf formatted files. Heh. :-)

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Paré
@Mark others I like the idea, don't get me wrong. But sadly it is hard for developers out there to make just a viewer when some other folks have that :( already. It would be nice if more people, sed -i 's|people|users|g' out there would use the OpenDocument format (*.odt) and not pdf to

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Paré
Simon Phipps wrote: On 23 Jun 2011, at 23:32, Marc Paré wrote: I think it was mentioned that there were at one point over 100 million LibreOffice/OOo users. If we were to develop our own LibreOffice Reader we would already have 100 million potential users for our product. Not only that, the

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Paré
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 17:40 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: OK, this is just a teaser to entice people into a discussion of the following proposal. There is talk on the documentation list of the formats made available to users of our documents (manuals, reference books, etc). These for now are in .odt

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Paré
Marc Paré wrote: This thread is really about proposing, to the devs, the possibility of creating a LibreOffice Reader similar to the Adobe .pdf Reader. This could be an idea to investigate, but I don't know how feasible it is; actually there is (or used to be) a read only mode in OpenOffice.org

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Varun Mittal
I personally feel we have more important set of priorities than diversifying right now into PDF reader. Also no point inventing the wheel again when there are several open source pdf readers available which we can integrate instead of developing one of our own. Won't it be a better idea to

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On 23 June 2011 22:40, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: OK, this is just a teaser to entice people into a discussion of the following proposal. There is talk on the documentation list of the formats made available to users of our documents (manuals, reference books, etc). These for now are

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-23 17:48, Ian Lynch a écrit : Main problem is you are effectively competing with MS Office readers that do a similar job wit .doc but have never displaced pdf. So I think the chances of a LibO reader displacing pdf are not very high. IMO, we can take into account the MSO readers,

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-23 22:59, Varun Mittal a écrit : I personally feel we have more important set of priorities than diversifying right now into PDF reader. Also no point inventing the wheel again when there are several open source pdf readers available which we can integrate instead of developing one of

[tdf-discuss] ANN: ODF 1.2 Candidate OASIS Standard Enters 60-Day Public Review, prerequisite for balloting as OASIS Standard

2011-06-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Details here: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/office/201106/msg00061.html This is a public review. From the announcement, which provides all details on locating the specification and background on the process: Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Derman
Varun Mittal wrote: I personally feel we have more important set of priorities than diversifying right now into PDF reader. Also no point inventing the wheel again when there are several open source pdf readers available which we can integrate instead of developing one of our own. I am

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Wolf Halton
I use a pdf reader called foxit when I am forced to fire up my windows VMs. I am not sure of its licensing. On Jun 24, 2011 12:26 AM, Robert Derman robert.der...@pressenter.com wrote: Varun Mittal wrote: I personally feel we have more important set of priorities than diversifying right now

RE: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
My Windows 7 C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\ folder is 181 MB. Where do you get the 6 GB? -Original Message- From: Robert Derman [mailto:robert.der...@pressenter.com] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 21:24 To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] New

Re: [tdf-discuss] New LibreOffice Reader Eliminates Need for PDF Reader

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Hall
On 24/06/2011 03:59, Marc Paré wrote: Marc Paré wrote: This thread is really about proposing, to the devs, the possibility of creating a LibreOffice Reader similar to the Adobe .pdf Reader. This could be an idea to investigate, but I don't know how feasible it is; actually there is (or used to