[steering-discuss] Update on the Foundation

2010-12-20 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dear friends, The Steering Committee would like to provide you an update regarding the status of the establishment of our Foundation. We have spent quite some time evaluating the legal, fiscal, financial and practical options that were available to us. Assessing these took us considerable

[steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread David Nelson
Hi Klaus, Bernhard, Florian, all, :-) On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: So Florian can't bring up the website *now* - that's a great pity (especially with regards to the immense work David put into the site during the last week), but we can't do

[steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread David Nelson
Hi Bernhard, :-) On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: PPS: I still believe, that the visible part of the main page should not contain more than a few lines of text, a download button (can lead to the download page) and links to the most interesting

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi David, *, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:05 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Twitter and blog in the scrolling area are ok, but I think a news area is more important than those tow. Christian,

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
SilverStripe? Is that something that will look a bit like the ribbon-bar in the 2007-2010 MicroSquish Office? Regards from Tom :) From: Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Cc:

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi David, *, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:35 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: [...] IMHO, I would scrap the current theme and make a new one. I've never done a SilverStripe theme before, but once

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I thought Joomla was far easier to use than Drupal and has a much larger faster community?  SilverLight website looks very dated or is it just starting-up? Please don't start trolling. 1st of all it is SilverStripe,

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-20 Thread David Nelson
Hi Christian, :-) Thanks for your reply. OK, I've noted about working with the git repo. Let's see if there's any kind of go-ahead from Florian and Christoph. If we wait for answers from everyone, we'll never get anywhere and the subject will just drown in circular, endless discussions. My aim

Re: [tdf-discuss] first stable version

2010-12-20 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Kevin, 2010/12/20 kevin zh kevin.zh1...@gmail.com: HI Every, the RC1 was released, can you tell me when will the first stable version come out, If I remember correctly, then RC2 was recently tagged in git, this means, that you can download this version within the next few days. The final

[tdf-discuss] some really bad news

2010-12-20 Thread Kürti László
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/12/cptn-holdings-llc-acquirer-of-882.html so whoever get the idea first that OpenOffice should be free (libre) and not only open she must be praised and thanked. Laszlo -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Michael Wheatland
On 20/12/2010 7:03 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Samuel Mehrbrodt
Spreadsheet is ok for me as long as it gets translated. Because here in Germany almost nobody would know what Spreadsheet means. Where did I use adjectives? I think Drawing is also a noun, but maybe you have a better idea. 2010/12/20 Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au: On 20/12/2010 7:03

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
+1 for Spreadsheed / Presentation / Drawing / Formula. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: Spreadsheet is ok for me as long as it gets translated. Because here in Germany almost nobody would know what Spreadsheet means. Where did I use

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 12/20/2010 6:13 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote: On 20/12/2010 7:03 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodts.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the

Re: [tdf-discuss] [website][drupal] The Drupal website development update - December 2010

2010-12-20 Thread Wolf Halton
Great job! Is there a timeframe for this to replace the current home page? BTW - your placeholder theme looks fine. I think you could allow the regular users to choose from a range of builtin themes. I build for readability and comprehension and many themes mar those goals. -- Unsubscribe

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Johannes A. Bodwing
Hello, ... for Spreadsheed / Presentation / Drawing / Formula. ... So we could have: Text Table Presentation Drawing Formula I think we discuss on the basis of computer-stoneage. For example Writer/Word/Text e.g., this began decades ago with only text and a handful of fonts and simple

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Robert Derman
Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote: I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Sebastian G. bastik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 20.12.2010 10:32, schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the names of the applications like

[tdf-discuss] After having joined OIN...

2010-12-20 Thread Carlo Strata
Hi Everyone! After having joined OIN, two next good steps may be join: - http://www.oasis-open.org/about/contributors.php - http://www.odfalliance.org/members.php What do you think about? Have a nice evening, Carlo -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org

Re: [tdf-discuss] Change executable names

2010-12-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-12-17 8:09 PM, NoOp wrote: - LO takes over all OOo application defaults icons. - LO uses the same executable names as OOo (soffice.exe, swriter.exe, etc). This makes it impossible to select an .odt and re-associate it with OOo. While I absolutely agree that the executable names

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Johannes A. Bodwing
Hi Jeremy and others, ... Johannes A. Bodwingjo...@arcor.de wrote: If we change names, we should do it on the background of the real functions of a modern Office-Suite. For that eventually we have to think deeply about a complete new naming-background for the future LO. On Sat, 18 Dec 2010

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Johannes, * just one remark about your last paragraph: Johannes A. Bodwing schrieb: [...] Who from TDF/LO has the overview of the most effiency schedule for major steps of the TDF/LO-project? I don't think that such a task can be done by one single person - it has been done as a common

Re: [tdf-discuss] [website][drupal] The Drupal website development update - December 2010

2010-12-20 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Great job! Is there a timeframe for this to replace the current home page? BTW - your placeholder theme looks fine.  I think you could allow the regular users to choose from a range of builtin themes.  I build for