Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/02/2012 Florian Effenberger wrote: Jesús Corrius wrote on 2012-02-03 14:08: We had a huge problem in the OpenOffice.org Conference 2007 in Barcelona as more than 1000 people registered for the conference and at the end there were no more than 250 people appeared. ... We should have a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Can we replace Floppy Disk

2011-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/12/2011 Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Danishka Navin wrote: Why we still continue the Floppy Disk as the icon for Save button in LibreOffice? When was the last time you saw a phone that look like http://iphonestudio.co.uk/images/uber_iphone_phone_logo.jpg

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/12/2011 Pedro wrote: Do you mean the (L)GPL license allows people to sell copies of LibreOffice? I thought it only allowed to charge for production/distribution costs... It does allow to sell copies, and the Free Software Foundation encourages it. See

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: overall communication guidelines and reply-to mangling

2011-12-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/12/2011 Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Whoever hit that trap: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/7271 might probably think scary where to post, and where not. Well, that specific message is probably not a good example, since in the end it was more useful to the

Re: [tdf-discuss] overall communication guidelines and reply-to mangling

2011-11-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Regina Henschel wrote: All mailing lists I'm described to (and believe me that are a lot) behave in the way that a click on Antwort auf diese Nachricht replies to the list. So keep the documentfoundation.org lists to behave this way too. Only @lists.freedesktop.org behave not that way and that

Re: [tdf-discuss] [POLL] own forums

2011-11-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/11/2011 Florian Effenberger wrote: So, a quick +1/-1 in this thread would be nice to get an overview Mine is -1 to be read as: I would be in favor of an own URL with own branding but the same database as http://user.services.openoffice.org since this would be best for users (and,

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/11/2011 Cor Nouws wrote: For some time, I could personally live quite well with a forum that is clearly, visibly, independent serving LibreOffice and other suites. Since suggestions made in that direction seem to be more political than technical feasible, I can leave that illusion. Does

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Cor Nouws wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote (05-11-11 13:02) when it comes to user support the people involved are much more pragmatic That would be my expectation too. And then 'people involved', I would read as those with questions, answers and with moderation tasks. Yes, that was my

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/10/2011 Florian Effenberger wrote: What I would like to have is one official LibO forum, either done by us or someone else, that is open for all languages, and run by a group that does not have members who openly show hostility towards TDF. I am not saying that everyone does so, but at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Good bye to all of the community members knowing my name...

2011-10-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/10/2011 Bernhard Dippold wrote: Even if I tried not to compromise my real life by my LibreOffice activities, I had to realize, that I can't reach this goal Thanks Bernhard for your long history of contributions to OpenOffice.org and later LibreOffice. I understand that the time comes

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-07-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
e-letter wrote: It is difficult to understand why a business would waste time trying to use LO; if a customer uses m$, the supplier might as well do so also and consider the m$ price as a cost of conducting business. I've seen plenty of small, medium and large businesses that chose to use a

Re: [steering-discuss] Wiki Work Items updated

2011-06-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
André Schnabel wrote: There is one special item Discuss and Clarify TDF position on C. Our position on this is quite clear and has been communicated several time. But there was a suggestion to have a discussion on this last year (Michael Meeks to discuss with Andrea Pescetty). Do we want to

Re: [steering-discuss] Wiki Work Items updated

2011-06-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Michael Meeks wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 14:45 +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: everybody (now!) knows the priority of the Document Foundation has been to stick to the licenses it had unilaterally chosen, before discussing any further options; this is perfectly understandable

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] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: If I am the copyright holder of my code, I can issue it with a license that requires anyone who modifies my source code to provide me with the changes to my code that they make. ... PS: It is the case that neither the GPL nor APLv2 have such a compulsory condition

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Oracle contributes OOo Code to Apache Software Foundation's Incubator

2011-06-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/06/2011 Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:51:09AM -0700, NoOp wrote: http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/06/01/statement-about-oracles-move-to-donate-openoffice-org-assets-to-the-apache-foundation/ TDF's statement included : Today we welcome Oracle’s donation of

Re: [tdf-discuss] Comparison of LO and OO downloads for a non-English language

2011-05-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
M Henri Day wrote: 2011/5/28 Stefan Weigel stefan.weigel@... As far as I know, it´s an issue of data volume on the download servers. Which, no doubt, is an question of money. Actually it is just a choice: it does lower the barrier for someone to host a mirror, but the size and upload time are

Re: [tdf-discuss] need new string in chart type dialog of line and XY chart for smoothing line with B-spline

2011-05-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/05/2011 Regina Henschel wrote: Steve Edmonds schrieb: Currently it is in English Data points order, that are 17 characters, in German we have Ordnung für Stützpunkte, that are 23 characters, Spanish has 28 characters and fills the dialog area completely. Interpolation Polynomial

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Forums - A Different Question

2011-04-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Harold Fuchs wrote: Has Oracle given permission for TDF to use its forum, or doesn't TDF need such permission? Does TDF *want* to use an Oracle resource? I think Drew has already explained this on multiple mailing lists, anyway: the forums at http://user.services.openoffice.org/ are run by

Re: [tdf-discuss] QA - Bug Confirming: Volunteers required

2011-04-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Christian Lohmaier wrote: Or maybe people did join, waited a little and then left again without writing a word, because the channel itself was silent. This was more or less my case. I connected in the afternoon European time, I saw no activity at all for one hour, I realized that 12PM (i.e.,

Re: [steering-discuss] Reducing donation ads

2011-03-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/03/2011 Kazunari Hirano wrote: We Japanese, from the bottom of our heart, appreciate your help and supports form abroad. If you take a look at some articles in my blog http://openoffice.exblog.jp/ you will see the grave situation. Thanks khirano for your reconstruction efforts and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Vertical Text not working

2011-03-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/03/2011 Andreas Mantke wrote: Am Sonntag, 13. März 2011, 04:39:15 schrieb Kunal Singh: View Toolbars Drawing Vertical Text not working. I tried with LibreOffice 3.3.2-x64-rc1 on openSUSE 11.3-x64 KDE 4.4.4 and I can't persuade the icon for vertical text to appear in the drawing

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mail List issues

2011-03-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/03/2011 NoOp wrote: Note: it seems that I've fallen into this category on the OOo list; after 5 years of posts, I'm suddenly no longer subscribed, nor can I comment on OOo bug reports any longer unless I create a new username/password... but that's another story Yes, that is another

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Disclaimer

2011-03-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Italo Vignoli wrote: On 3/9/11 9:53 PM, RGB ES wrote: support to both, OOo and LibO and to help the Spanish localization of both projects under the same umbrella (something similar to PLIO project for Italian(1)). ... Totally wrong. PLIO at the moment is divided between people that want to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Example: Strange OpenOffice Email from a new universe

2011-02-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Joe Rotello wrote: On the subject of an example of the Email received... Here's my initially-received copy. I include the header info for ones perusal. OK, then I confirm what I wrote in http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg05281.html and others confirmed in the

Re: RE : Re: [tdf-discuss] Strange OpenOffice Email from a new universe

2011-02-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/02/2011 Charles-H. Schulz wrote: You can copy and paste it here,of course :-) Since nobody forwarded the message in the end, and I didn't receive it myself, I can only speculate it is the expected message notifying all openoffice.org (the site, not OpenOffice.org the software) users about

Re: [tdf-discuss] Contributors' names in LibO 3.3: how to ask for a correction?

2011-01-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/01/2011 Gianluca Turconi wrote: I post here because I've just read a message about credits in LibO 3.3 and so I've checked them ... I' haven't found among the contributors the name of Davide Prina, co-author of the Italian spellchecker dictionary. ... Furthermore, I've checked the

Re: [Libreoffice] [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rene Engelhard wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:13:48AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: Besides that, distros will have to continue libreoffice-build, which does still contain patches. (Removing those would be a big regression about what we ship right now) Thanks. So some distributions will

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/01/2011 Cor Nouws wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote (18-01-11 21:13) LibreOffice bugs like http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg04508.html ... The bug you point to, does not suggest that they will make substantial changes, though? Well, at a first glance I'd say

Re: [tdf-discuss] New year - new listmailfooter

2011-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: If You think, it beeing a good thing to have a posting guidelines pointer in the footer, then I'll be glad to put it in there for all active Mailinglists. I agree it's a good thing to have it, and I suggest to seize this opportunity to get rid of the eternity

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO build numbers

2011-01-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rainer Bielefeld wrote: My current version comparing with previsious version: 3.3.0 RC4 - WIN7 (64bit) German UI [OOO330m19 (build 6 / tag 3.3.0.4)] 3.3.0 RC3 - WIN7 (64bit) German UI [OOO330m19 (build 5 / tag 3.3.0.3)] I am astonished to see OOO300m19 for both OpenOffice.org 3.3-RC9

Re: [tdf-discuss] Spam filtering the mailing lists

2011-01-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Jonathan Aquilina schrieb: I was cleaning out my junk folder to find there were at least 7 emails which Thunderbird was nice enough to filter from my gmail inbox. These for shure were mails sent to one of the mailinglists? To which one? ... No single one coming

Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging

2011-01-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/01/2011 Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: I think that we should have a webpage where Linux distributions who are packaging LibO, could list what changes they made compared to the official build by TDF. ... So, is it a good idea to ask the Linux distributions to publish the changes they made

Re: [tdf-discuss] Content of Beta3 Windows Install-Packages

2010-11-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Thorsten Behrens wrote: Christian Lohmaier wrote: Brazilian version has traditionally (i.e. OOo-times) been a different package/has not been called OpenOffice.org in Brazil, but BrOffice due to trademark issues. ... Yep - but since BrOffice is a well-established brand, and under

Re: [tdf-discuss] changed footers of all documentfoundation and libreoffice.org mailing lists

2010-11-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Sigrid Carrera wrote: 2010/11/24 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org: What do others think? I still clearly favor the non-poetic version ;) I have no real preference. But in my opinion, the non-poetic version looks to me more professional. So I vote for this one. I will very

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice should have own LibreOfficeFont

2010-11-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Harold Fuchs wrote: Mateusz Zasuwik mzasu...@gmail.com wrote ... http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html http://ooblog.pl/2010/02/06/polska-swiatowym-liderem-we-wdrozeniu-openoffice/(polish) The study relies on extricating fonts

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: I don't know if and how easy this would be in drupal. So far I have coded a very simple webform in django (python is my thing :-)) to allow uploading a document and a comment. This would be elementary in Drupal. The only thing that is then left, is to link the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Honestly, I believe new developers joined because the bar for contribution was lowered ... the paperwork reduction may have helped too, but I don't see it as the most effective improvement. The paperwork was only a practical detail

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Compiling in Windows

2010-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
that the bug is obsolete and at the same time complain it is being ignored, but if it is meaningful it can be solved in LibreOffice or upstream in OpenOffice.org. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-10-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
then need to be confirmed with every developer; while with a copyright agreement/assignment in place, the Document Foundation could effectively represent a measurable percentage of the codebase, and its opinion be weighed accordingly. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- Unsubscribe instructions

Re: [tdf-discuss] why LibO?

2010-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Fridrich Strba wrote: I changed the occurences of LO in the build to LibO. Please, could you come to an agreement? I think it's kind of official, see http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/msg00430.html Regards, Andrea. -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
in the situation Jean correctly described as messy. Regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived

Re: [tdf-discuss] Please embed dictionaries in Danish lang-pack and install

2010-10-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
and hyphenation patterns: see http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/extended/3.2.1rc2/ Is LibreOffice's packaging different from this point of view? And why? Regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives

Re: [tdf-discuss] QA Infrastructure

2010-10-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
that qatrack.services.openoffice.org, the current instance of QATrack, is on community-run servers and that a fresh installation wouldn't be problematic. Regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot

Re: [tdf-discuss] QA Infrastructure

2010-10-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
in the public opinion. At least, I recommend that new tests are written for any LibreOffice specific functionality, that we have a tool to track them (kind of TCM) and a tool to track releases (QATrack being the natural candidate here). Regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e

Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] eWeek coverage of LibreOffice

2010-10-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
here and there these days. Regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists

Re: [tdf-discuss] [FAQ] new entries (here: CA/JCA/SCA)

2010-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
/Assignments as inherently bad: very respectable Foundations promoting Free Software do use them, in the interest of their projects, and a trustworthy Foundation should not be afraid to ask for them. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti. -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr