[steering-discuss] Wiki page with SC decisions

2011-07-11 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, as suggested at the last SC meeting I started a wiki page listing our decisions. I started this at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/BoD_Decisions if no one objects to the general form, I'd link this page from the SC and bylaws bages in the wiki. regards, André --

[steering-discuss] Request for changes of Membership Committee

2011-07-11 Thread André Schnabel
Dear SC members, as today's MC meeting had to be postponed again we (Sophie and me) like to suggest following changes for the MC: 1. approve all current deputies of the MC plus David Emmerich Jourdain (who volunteered as deputiy but has not yet been approved) as full MC members. (so the MC

Re: [steering-discuss] wording on TDF website

2011-07-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 The images to the right might need to be moved up a little bit too in order to keep the page looking tidy. I think just remove the bullet point and see how the page looks. Regards from Tom :) From: Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org

Re: [steering-discuss] wording on TDF website

2011-07-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian! Am Montag, den 11.07.2011, 16:10 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, I received some complaints that the wording on the TDF website (http://www.documentfoundation.org) is not accurate. While the meta tag correctly states The Document Foundation has the mission of

Re: [steering-discuss] wording on TDF website

2011-07-11 Thread David Nelson
Hi, I'm assuming this the item you're talking about: It is an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation, created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community. My suggestion would be to replace the words meritocratic Foundation, created by with meritocratic organization created

Re: [steering-discuss] Request for changes of Membership Committee

2011-07-11 Thread David Nelson
Hi, 2011/7/11 André Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net: Dear SC members, as today's MC meeting had to be postponed again we (Sophie and me) like to suggest following changes for the MC: 1. approve all current deputies of the MC plus David Emmerich Jourdain (who volunteered as deputiy but has

[tdf-discuss] Offer MHTML support

2011-07-11 Thread Jesse
Hey guys. First, great job on maintaining this software. I love it! But there is a feature I was wondering if you guys would mind implementing. In MS Word, the user can save their document in MHTML format. I have yet to find an editor for Linux which allows the user to do this. Though it may

Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF fundraising suggestion - Bitcoin

2011-07-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, Ben McGinnes wrote on 2011-04-27 03.34: At Florian's recommendation I am posting this to the list for discussion. did anyone have a closer look on this already? I read some issues with Bitcoin in the press the last weeks, but I must confess I didn't manage to follow that topic

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request for Libre Office on Spoon

2011-07-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Jonathan Aquilina wrote on 2011-05-23 17.50: Florian i dont have an objection, but the only issue I possibly see is with the guidelines governing the name usage. @Blake: Any progress on this? Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding

[steering-discuss] wording on TDF website

2011-07-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, I received some complaints that the wording on the TDF website (http://www.documentfoundation.org) is not accurate. While the meta tag correctly states The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the LibreOffice Community into a new, open, independent, and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-07-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Simon, Simon Brouwer wrote on 2011-06-18 17.48: Have a look at the first sentence on the homepage. It simply states that TDF is a Foundation, while strictly spoken, it isn't (yet). The lack of clear information about this on the website might lead outsiders to suspect that TDF want to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-07-11 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Simon Phipps wrote on 2011-06-18 20.15: The project names LibreOffice and The Document Foundation are registered trademarks of their host, [http://www.frodev.org Freies Office Deutschland e.V.], a non-profit organisation registered in Germany. The respective logos and icons used by

[tdf-discuss] Testing

2011-07-11 Thread Ken Springer
My apologies if this message appears in the mailing list. Sending of messages to LO newsgroups has become intermittent, I'm trying to determine what works and what doesn't. -- Ken Springer All progress depends upon the unreasonable person. George Bernard Shaw

Re: [tdf-discuss] Offer MHTML support

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Preston
Well, Jesse - where to begin? Let's start with what MHTML is - it is Mime-encoded Hypertext Mark-up Language or alternatively Multipart What this refers to is that the various parts that may be in a web page (images, Flash videos, audio tracks etc.) are all saved as a single file, usually

Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF fundraising suggestion - Bitcoin

2011-07-11 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello, Ben McGinnes wrote on 2011-04-27 03.34:       At Florian's recommendation I am posting this to the list for discussion. did anyone have a closer look on this already? I read some issues with

Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF fundraising suggestion - Bitcoin

2011-07-11 Thread Simon Phipps
On 11 Jul 2011, at 17:00, Simos Xenitellis wrote: I would say that it is up to the users (members of the discuss@documentfoundation.org) to express their interest in mining for Bitcoins using their computer power, and donating to the TDF. If there is some initial interest to go into this

Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF fundraising suggestion - Bitcoin

2011-07-11 Thread Denis Kasak
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 18:00, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote: [snip] I would say that it is up to the users (members of the discuss@documentfoundation.org) to express their interest in mining for Bitcoins using their computer power, and donating to the TDF. If there is

Re: [tdf-discuss] Testing

2011-07-11 Thread Fer
On 7/11/11, Ken Springer wordwo...@greeleynet.com wrote: My apologies if this message appears in the mailing list. Sending of messages to LO newsgroups has become intermittent, I'm trying to determine what works and what doesn't. -- Ken Springer All