[board-discuss] Preliminary results Elections TDF Board of Directors

2013-12-18 Thread Cor Nouws
/www/board-discuss/msg03358.html Kind regards, Cor Nouws -- The Document Foundation - Chairman Membership Committee - http://nl.libreoffice.org - twitter : cor4office -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help

[board-discuss] TDF Board Elections 2013 Voting

2013-12-07 Thread Cor Nouws
can be resolved in time. If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask the Membership Committee in private at electi...@documentfoundation.org Happy voting! Cor Nouws -- The Document Foundation - Chairman Membership Committee http://nl.libreoffice.org twitter : cor4office

Re: [board-discuss] MC minutes from 2013-11-29

2013-11-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (30-11-13 09:26) thank you very much, and congratulations on your appointment to the new role! Thanks! I would hereby like to ask you in public whether you accept your new role as Chairman of the Membership Committee. Yes I do. I'm glad to be able to serve the

Re: [board-discuss] asking permission to use name / logo

2013-10-17 Thread Cor Nouws
and signing. Good news indeed - thanks! Cor -- - Cor Nouws - http://nl.libreoffice.org - The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [board-discuss] Board elections soon - think about your candidates!

2013-10-17 Thread Cor Nouws
but I'll add my two cents. Florian, incredible work, incredible colleague. You're always cool headed, encouraging, and hard working. Sure, let me rise this flood :) So high, that other board members get their share too ;) Cor -- - Cor Nouws - http://nl.libreoffice.org - The Document Foundation

Re: [board-discuss] asking permission to use name / logo

2013-09-18 Thread Cor Nouws
), the logo (4) and I guess and maybe also for the document part of the logo(3) ? I would be supportive of that request. Thans you for that. Can this mail-exchange be the start for the board to handle it in a meeting? Cheers, Cor -- -- - Cor Nouws - http://nl.libreoffice.org - The Document

Re: [board-discuss] asking permission to use name / logo

2013-09-18 Thread Cor Nouws
Norbert Thiebaud wrote (06-09-13 22:15) For Info: [...] A looks ok, modulo the grainy font edge due, I suspect to the logo being a png and not a svg Thanks you for the remarks Norbert. You're fully right. I should have explained more clearly that it's a rough draft ;) -- - Cor Nouws

[board-discuss] asking permission to use name / logo

2013-09-05 Thread Cor Nouws
) ? If there's need for any further info or such, pls let me know. Thanks for your time kind regards, Cor -- - Cor Nouws - http://nl.libreoffice.org - The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member libreoffice-trainingcenter_naming_logo_proposals.odg Description: application

Re: [board-discuss] BoD minutes from 2013-07-17

2013-08-02 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (02-08-13 10:33) Since that approval, our generous donors have provided more funds, offering further possibilities for TDF to invest in tasks deemed important. Thanks to all our supporters! Proposal: Set up an extended budget with a total amount of 100.250 €,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: AMD joins LibreOffice, adds GPU grunt to free software suite

2013-07-10 Thread Cor Nouws
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Re: [tdf-discuss] [Writer] Problem with modern typefaces having more than the standard styles

2013-04-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi GwenDragon, GwenDragon wrote (10-04-13 20:43) i reported at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35538 but no fix or replie since months. no fixes for these bugs? Sorry to read that. Alas it's reality that not all bugs get fixed or get fixed soon. What often helps, is if you are

Re: [board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Thorsten Behrens wrote (28-03-13 19:57) Robinson Tryon wrote: We're looking to purchase some swag and goodies for the contest. Some of the ideas we've come up with have included: - T-Shirts - Mugs - Posters - Pens - Pins - Patches - Hoodies - Laptop cases Great! If you get designs finalized

Re: [board-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

2013-03-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Joel, Joel Madero wrote (29-03-13 17:59) At that cost maybe we can give a sticker to everyone who participates? Let's say it's 50 people (very very optimistic), it might be less than $25 to get them a sticker. And once we ship, we send some more. Always good for everyone to have one at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Initial Reactions to 4.0.0

2013-02-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Robert, Robert Boehm wrote (08-02-13 18:26) release. So far so good...this is a good releasenot aware of any bugs affecting [...] But this 4.0 seems to me to be the best initial release yet Thanks to everyone! Thanks for your encouraging and positive feed back. I hear similar

Re: [tdf-discuss] Huge problems with big documents

2013-02-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Georgio, Giorgio Migliaccio wrote (07-02-13 09:07) We’re using LibreOffice (since v2.x up to 4.0 beta) inside our product LetterSketch, which was started 7 years ago. [...] Good to read from you, after we've met in Gouda, last year! [...] Is there any kind of suggestion you can give us

[tdf-discuss] new years wishes

2012-12-31 Thread Cor Nouws
Wishing you all the best for 2013: love, joy, happiness, inspiration for your work and fun in building and sharing good things in life. Cor -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org - www.librelex.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] Marketing material suggestion: Why LibreOffice?

2012-12-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Immanuel, Thanks for your initiative and input for this! Immanuel Giulea wrote (29-12-12 22:04) What are the plans on CIMS for LO 4.0 ? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0#Core I've some documentation from some years back. Will try next weeks (overloaded, sorry) to see

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice Conference 2013 Proposals

2012-12-23 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Florian Effenberger wrote (17-12-12 14:03) The Document Foundation hasreceived the following two proposals for hosting the LibreOffice Conference 2013, ... * Milan, Italy * Montreal, Canada [...] In the meantime, we invite the community to discuss with the proponents on our discuss

Re: [board-discuss] Re: [tdf-membership] MC filings for Q4/2012

2012-12-11 Thread Cor Nouws
Eike Rathke wrote (11-12-12 17:58) Looking at my already stuffed calendar I suggest next week Monday 17th or Tuesday 18th. OK for me. And for the others ? We can have an irc meeting with as many as possible - and if needed consult via mail with more. Cheers, Cor -- - Cor -

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice 4.0 Test Marathon

2012-12-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, For those interested in helping a bit out with the 4.0: we have a LibreOffice 4.0 Test Marathon from December 14 - 19: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Test_Marathon_LibreOffice_4.0 I hope to see many of you there :-) Kind regards, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org --

Re: [tdf-discuss] Calc AutoFilter change is a regression in usability

2012-11-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Stefan, Stefan Weigel wrote (06-11-12 11:33) I have several users, also heavily complaining about the new AutoFilter. In fact, for the very most use cases the new AutoFilter is much more time consuming than it was before. The new one is getting better. See

Re: [tdf-discuss] Calc AutoFilter change is a regression in usability

2012-11-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Stefan Weigel wrote (06-11-12 12:04) Thanks. type-ahead at least would be a big improvement. However, one has still to uncheck all and to click OK. Formerly this all was only one click. I know that last time that I looked at it, there were some problems with key bindings. E.g. Alt-A for All

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice Forums Categories Proposal

2012-09-27 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Thanks for working on this! Lucian Oprea wrote (27-09-12 15:29) The idea to start with fewer boards is very good. In the future, if needed you can create new categories and forums and move there specific messages. One could also think that a special category makes it more attractive

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: [tdf-discuss] Which version to get?

2012-09-03 Thread Cor Nouws
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Pedro pedl...@gmail.com wrote: I think this page needs URGENT updating... Not only it says that the previous (and buggy) version 3.6.0 is Our latest, feature rich version which obviously is not true, but also that version 3.5.5 is the Previous version

[board-discuss] [tdf-core] Candidate for Membership Committee elections

2012-09-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Just as I did wrote in a post yesterday evening to some other lists, I would like to nominate myself for a seat to the Membership Committee elections. I've been a (deputy-)member of this committee and I would like to have the opportunity to continue my contribution there. I'm one of

Re: [tdf-discuss] Too dangerous putting 3.6.x on the main download page at the moment without putting an orange circle and second in place order

2012-08-16 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Carlo, Carlo Strata wrote (16-08-12 18:44) I think we must follow a more conservative way promoting the download and the installation of 3.6.x version *at the moment.* [...] What do you think about? I'd rather put energy in improving, than in re-doing the discussion we had before (for n

Re: [tdf-discuss] Reply settings on this list have changed

2012-08-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi All, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote (13-08-12 15:21) this is to inform you that the reply settings on this list have changed (so-called Reply to mangling has been disabled). So far, e-mails had set a reply-to the mailing list address. In other words, with any e-mail client, replies to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version 3.6.0 is Recommended???

2012-08-11 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Pedro, Pedro wrote (10-08-12 21:03) [...] However the ONLY download visible in the Download page is 3.6.0 (it takes 4 or 5 pages in not so obvious links to get to version 3.5.5 Good catch, as we call that. Thanks. I've added a link to the release notes page, linking to download-more page,

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice 3.6 Bug Hunting Party - July 6 7

2012-06-28 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, This is a first mail to inform you that we will have a LibreOffice 3.6 Bug Hunting Party, next week: July 6 More info here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Party_3.6.0 (subject to slight changes of course) Official announcement will be out tomorrow, but pls feel

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice meeting (hacking, writing) in Utrecht, Saturday June 9th

2012-06-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, For those that are able to come to Utrecht next Saturday: there will be a LibreOffice meeting! It is from the Dutch Language group (so Flanders and The Netherlands) and we do both hacking in code and work on documentation. And often we also meet old friends from the OOo-time there.

[tdf-discuss] Re: Testing 3.6.0alpha1

2012-06-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Rainer, Rainer Bielefeld wrote (03-06-12 13:27) we were not lucky, most users will not be able to do “real life tests” that version because of “Bug 48946 – not find JRE”. I doubt that we will any Bug report for that version because of tests with Alpha1. I thought we had introduced the

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-23 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Norbert, Norbert Thiebaud wrote (23-05-12 16:47) To go back to the original issue: Hé, that was mine ;-) 1/ I have no problem with TDF developing alternative way to 'recognize' people. But that is more a Internal Marketing/Community Management topic than a MC topic. My idea is the

[board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, When inviting people in the Dutch language community to consider membership of TDF, two items showed up. 1. Not all active people are familiar enough with the beautiful English language to feel comfortable to use the application page ( related info). has partial translation been

[board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, When inviting people in the Dutch language community to consider membership of TDF, two items showed up. 1. Not all active people are familiar enough with the beautiful English language to feel comfortable to use the application page ( related info). has partial translation been

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Thanks for the thoughts... Charles-H.Schulz wrote (22-05-12 18:43) I'll try to go back to the initial two questions. The first one, the one of the language, is an important one. To my very own surprise (and partial misunderstanding) we have lots of enthusiastic volunteers who *do and

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice priorities

2012-05-20 Thread Cor Nouws
hi Pedro, all, Pedro wrote (17-05-12 12:28) IMHO after several releases it is possibly time to slow down a bit and concentrate on Quality instead of Quantity... A suggested contradiction between quality and new functions is an artificial (which has been explained over and again ;-) and has

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice priorities

2012-05-20 Thread Cor Nouws
Pedro wrote (19-05-12 23:49) A user who is already on ANY mailing list has already taken more steps than the gross majority [...] In the Netherlands we added the info as one of the few FAQ's that is clearly linked from the 'Get support' page. -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org --

Re: [tdf-discuss] FYI, LibreOffice membership

2012-05-20 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (20-05-12 10:39) Hi, Marc Paré wrote on 2012-05-20 06:57: Do you find yourself contributing to LibreOffice's lists and helping users in various ways? If you do, or, if you would like to do this in a constructive way, you may qualify to become a member of the TDF

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice priorities

2012-05-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hello Pieter, Pieter E. Zanstra wrote (18-05-12 16:09) In the process of commenting it would be good that people who actively respond to a reported bug, also add their email address. [...] This is done automatically (anyway in my settings/preferences) when I add a comment. -- - Cor -

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice priorities

2012-05-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Pedro wrote (18-05-12 11:50) Resetting the user profile is hardly a fix. I think the correct name is workaround. Ah yes. If I've seen it correct, recently some extra checks were done in the code to prevent some troubles. However, it is a regularly popping up problem since the later versions

Re: [tdf-discuss] Getting Action

2012-04-16 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Charles, Thanks for working on your ideas! Charles Jenkins wrote (16-04-12 16:15) Would a bug bounty work well for this type of feature? I'm nervous about doing that, because I wouldn't want to shell out money for features that don't actually work or don't end up making into the real

Re: [tdf-discuss] Mail Merge to Email in Writer

2012-04-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Marc-André Laverdière wrote (13-04-12 13:46) As the dev team has been trying to shrink the LO suite, and remove a lot of bloat accumulated over the years, this is something that could slash a lot of the footprint. The email is a very tiny Python component :-) One of the concerns I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Mail Merge to Email in Writer

2012-04-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote (13-04-12 14:02) The File-Send-Document As Email already calls random email clients as in the default email client.would it be that hard to replace the smtp function with a call to the DEFAULT mail client? (I know nothing about coding.) With the mail

Re: [tdf-discuss] Mail Merge to Email in Writer

2012-04-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote (13-04-12 15:35) Yes, but that is what an email client does, not a word processor Then how to do all this from your word processor on any system ..? -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Mail Merge to Email in Writer

2012-04-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote (13-04-12 15:37) OK, keep this functionality. ;-) But LO MUST keep a record of the emails sent in some way - it doesn't at the moment, which is not a good thing. That is my main objection - if this function was passed through an email client there would be a

Re: [tdf-discuss] How developers scare end-users away from filing bugs

2012-02-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Kazar, Thanks for posting here, of course your bug report, and sorry that you got annoyed. adept techlists - kazar wrote (14-02-12 05:52) I noticed a problem in a 3.5 RC 1, I was able to reproduce it every time [...] (bug 45247) Rainer is our most active QA volunteer. His comment states

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-02-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (06-02-12 18:09) sorry to be so pushing here, but if possible by any means, I'd like to start voting this week, since we're really late already. So, if nobody objects with serious concerns and a concrete (!) proposal what to change and who (!!) does the work, I'd like

[tdf-discuss] bounty for nice LibreOffice task on Windows

2012-02-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, I just came across an (bit) older link for a nice 'bounty': So if someone has time/possibilities: http://gun.io/open/25/ Kind regards, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-31 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Florian, *, Florian Effenberger wrote (28-01-12 22:49) as you might have spotted, today we issued the proposals for this years' LibreOffice Conference. Berlin and Zaragoza (in alphabetical order) have sent in their applications and are therefore candidates for this years' location. Do I

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-31 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Florian, Florian Effenberger wrote (31-01-12 17:52) we have discussed that in the past, with various arguments, but in the end decided to have the 2013 application to end in August, before this years' conference. [...] OK, sorry that I didn't remember that. No need for me to open that

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Marc Paré wrote (24-01-12 10:36) This third option seems to make the most sense. As you imply, the most active members would then be included in the vote. I agree, but of course we say 'active people' here. As this is a form of filtering of our mailing lists active contributers, we could

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (24-01-12 11:26) I think this would exclude a fair amount of contributors. Many of e.g. the code contributors are not members, but indeed do a very valueable work. Excluding them from voting sounds wrong. And it's not logic: the conference is not meant for members

Re: [tdf-discuss] Fonts

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Bob, Robert Boehm wrote (24-01-12 16:06) Hi...just a general question as I test LO 3.5: Ever since LoDEV versions of 3.5 I cannot find the general FONT section in options for setting the default FONT which is easily found in all older versions. Did it move or is it omitted for some reason?

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: test session for LibreOffice 3.5.0

2012-01-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Nino, Nino Novak wrote (20-01-12 18:50) Cor, couldn't you make the links in the blog article clickable? Good idea (for next time ;-) - bit back log with the mail ..) -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org

[tdf-discuss] test session for LibreOffice 3.5.0

2012-01-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Just in case you missed this: http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2012/01/17/tdf-announces-the-second-bug-hunting-session-to-put-first-release-candidate-of-libreoffice-3-5-on-the-test-bench/ ... don't miss the next weekend :-) Greetings, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org --

[board-discuss] request FOSDEM spendings

2012-01-16 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi *, I'd like to ask reimbursement for part of my FOSDEM-spendings. Estimates are € 150,-. As may be known, I assist with marketing and will promote /speak about QA. -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to board-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org

Re: [tdf-discuss] using PDF as Graphic Format in 3.5

2012-01-05 Thread Cor Nouws
H Fernand, Fernand Vanrie wrote (05-01-12 12:32) Do not know if this is the good list ? For discussion? Yes. It can not be a big problem to make PDF a acepted graphic format for LO. (PDF insert as a picture) If that is true: it maybe can become an easy hack? These day's PDF is a

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

2011-12-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Erich Christian wrote (30-12-11 11:45) I'd go for a change, neither elderly people nor 'youngsters' associate anything useful with the symbol. Having asked my teenagers (13, 16, 19) who are familiar with computers ever since, they cannot remember floppy although I've been using some until a

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Please do not submit Bug reports concerning 3.5 Beta0

2011-12-15 Thread Cor Nouws
Pedro Lino wrote (15-12-11 23:57) the page still mentions Beta0. Can someone fix that, please? Will be done later Pedro, when all mirrors are ready. -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Please do not submit Bug reports concerning 3.5 Beta0

2011-12-15 Thread Cor Nouws
Cor Nouws wrote (16-12-11 08:22) Pedro Lino wrote (15-12-11 23:57) the page still mentions Beta0. Can someone fix that, please? Will be done later Pedro, when all mirrors are ready. Well, done it anyways. However, I have no idea how I have to change the V-icon to a i or ?-icon. Someone

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

2011-12-14 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (15-12-11 00:41) - So, whatever I do, someone will be upset. Poor them ;-) No serious, I don't think people involved in this discussion will be really upset. Maybe slightly disappointed. But hey :-) - I myself would like to keep reply-to mangling as is, as I have

[board-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice-qa] End of the line for 3.3 family and regressions

2011-12-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Pedro, *, Pedro Lino wrote (10-12-11 12:46) So, what should we do to each group of bugs? Anyway, I'm not sure whether there are how many bugs in each group, or even there is any bug in some group. Maybe we need separate discussion? It is already for some time now, that there is need for

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

2011-11-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Thorsten Behrens wrote (30-11-11 14:48) At any rate, here's the ultimate answer in this whole reply-to-munging debate (for who ever is amenable to technical argument): Me thinks there's different habits, skills, expectations with devs and non-devs (to put it black white) Since I have no

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

2011-11-11 Thread Cor Nouws
Andrea Pescetti wrote (11-11-11 09:40) 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, honestly, more comfortable for me and many other volunteers!) at the moment.

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-11 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andrea, Andrea Pescetti wrote (11-11-11 10:38) 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

Re: [board-discuss] [RESULT] New Membership Committee voted by the board

2011-11-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Norbert Thiebaud wrote (09-11-11 14:35) On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Andre Schnabelandre.schna...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Thorsten, * Datum: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 14:08:21 +0100 Von: Thorsten Behrenst...@documentfoundation.org [...] We would like to ask all successful candidates to formally

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi *, Cor Nouws wrote (29-10-11 00:16) Now I wonder: what about the future of forums for LibreOffice? It looks convenient to have all at one place. On the other side: LibreOffice will grow to be different more and more. Different code base, more functions. So apart from that it is maybe

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Florian, Florian Effenberger wrote (08-11-11 15:33) of course, there is no need to hurry, but why not start (in case we want to go for it) now, so we have enough time to evaluate and decide? Yes, not doing things in a rush is good. What I was referring to: if there is less need to hurry,

Re: [board-discuss] Re: Vote for MC elections

2011-11-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Florian Effenberger wrote (07-11-11 12:11) Ok. So I take it that you propose Simon and Norbert as seat holders, which means we have one deputy role open at the moment? Currently I'm not able to follow any discussion on numbers, but it would be my suggestion to accept Drew his kind offer to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Question concerning [Bug 42661 - No associated Alternatively Open With... items in EXPLORER context menu available]

2011-11-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Rainer, Rainer Bielefeld wrote (07-11-11 12:47) anybody here who can contribute deeper knowledge how WINDOWS adds more programs to the Open With context menu list? That would be useful if for example) you want to use LibO as an alternative editor for .doc documents and similar, without fix

Re: [board-discuss] Membership Committee

2011-11-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Drew, Thanks for suggesting to help in the MC and your answer on Michaels questions. drew wrote (05-11-11 21:31) Howdy Micheal, et al, I believe that I bring a number of personal attributes that fit quite well to such a task. As far as I have had contact with you over the past years,

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-11-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Andrea Pescetti wrote (06-11-11 11:18) And branding can be adapted too, and possibly made dependent on the URL. Ah, that is interesting (I only have knowledge of office suites you know ;-) ) But technology is really easy in this case: the main issue, as I wrote, is political. Isn't

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Show prominently on web site first page 64 bit problem.

2011-11-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Sjonnie, sjonnie wrote (04-11-11 15:39) back to my original point: i was only asking to put somewhere obvious on the website that there is a problem with JRE and 1.7.0. Are you sure? I read i think it is only fair to warn people with a 64 bit OS that we do not function well on a 64 bit

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

2011-10-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Bernhard, Bernhard Dippold wrote (29-10-11 01:24) After quite an amount of time and a lot of work for LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org before I have to tell you that I'll have to stop my activities in this great community. Thanks for working with us - I'm glad that I learned to know you

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-10-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Italo, Italo Vignoli wrote (29-10-11 11:26) LibreOffice is going forward and bringing new features to users, with an increasingly different code base. OOo is going backwards, [...] From what I've seen the past year, I am not positive too about OO, especially not compared to LibreOffice.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-10-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Dennis, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote (29-10-11 20:47) I am also not aware of any discussion that was antagonistic to TDF whatsoever among those involved with finding a resolution for the migration of the OOo Forums to a reliable hosting. The key objection was to preserve and continue that

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-10-29 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andrea, Andrea Pescetti wrote (29-10-11 01:11) I believe that in general fragmenting support is not a good idea, unless it is really needed. Me too - though there are some nuances. I write about this in some other mails. Regards, -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe

Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board: Michael Meeks

2011-10-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi David, David Nelson wrote (08-10-11 16:38) 2011/10/8 Jesús Corriusje...@softcatala.org: In my opinion, I don't think it's best for the project to put some of the most skilled developers to work in documentation, when other developers can also do this task perfectly well. It is precisely

Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board: Michael Meeks

2011-10-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi David, David Nelson wrote (09-10-11 13:30) I don't see anything incongruous about asking a candidate in the Board of Directors election about what commitments he might be willing to take on if elected. In fact, what else are you supposed to ask of candidates? Taking care for

Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board

2011-10-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Norbert Thiebaud wrote (09-10-11 14:25) Trying to extract election promises out of some people, on ground completely unrelated to the office they seek, is not going to get you there. Correct. I would assume (have seem some mails swiftly after posting my initial contribution to this thread)

Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board

2011-10-09 Thread Cor Nouws
David Nelson wrote (09-10-11 14:55) Norbert, it would be good if you read things carefully and accurately. Cor, it would be good if you did not jump to conclusions. David, it would be good if you just understood the point ;-) Norbert and Cor, it would be polite and in keeping with the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting...

2011-10-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Italo Vignoli wrote (02-10-11 22:20) On 10/02/2011 08:38 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: 2. I have an offer. What formatting by senders will most powerfully serve those on [libreoffice-accessibility]? What do those with access limitations confirm to be the best that works for all of them?

[tdf-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-users] OASIS Standard ODF 1.2 Approved

2011-10-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote (01-10-11 03:17) The OASIS ODF 1.2 Committee Specification 01 has been successfully advanced to an OASIS Standard,http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201109/msg00010.html. Thanks for and congratulations with this good news! -- - Cor -

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Gary, NoOp wrote (30-09-11 03:46) After all that + discussions on the -user list it seems that LO doesn't really care to provide any specific rules/regulations/FAQ regarding Top/Interspersed/Bottom posting on any of their lists. [...] Has not yet been forgotten. But to manage

Re: [steering-discuss] Proposal: Optional local NGO donation links on download and extension pages

2011-09-26 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Thorsten, *, Thorsten Behrens wrote (22-09-11 10:28) [...] The generic english pages will not be affected by this proposal. A local, native-lang NGO, that is in good standing with TDF, and fulfills the following prerequisites * has at least three NGO members, that are accepted TDF

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Problems well ordered and qualified in BugZilla? (Was Re: Re: strange page orientation problem)

2011-09-25 Thread Cor Nouws
NoOp wrote (26-09-11 03:39) Sure. I'll try to go through them this weekend come up with a list; starting with those msgs that indicate 'works in 3.3.4 but not in 3.4.3. ... I've downloaded all of the msgs from the users list will try to sort/search. It may take a few more days. Thanks!

Re: [tdf-discuss] Seat at the BoD

2011-09-23 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jim, Jim Jagielski wrote (23-09-11 16:23) If people feel that it would be helpful to TDF to have a board member who has a tight relationship with Apache, Would do no harm of course. I would accept a nomination if it would be useful. Thanks for offering, but I think that won't be

Problems well ordered and qualified in BugZilla? (Was Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: strange page orientation problem)

2011-09-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Gary, NoOp wrote (21-09-11 05:11) If 3.4.x then I *highly* recommend trying 3.3.4 instead. To me it seems that 3.4.x (3.4.3) is full of bugs and should never have been released at all, particularly with this statement: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ quote LibreOffice 3.4.3 Final

Re: [tdf-discuss] strange page orientation problem

2011-09-20 Thread Cor Nouws
jef.peeraer wrote (20-09-11 10:01) On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Cor Nouws wrote: Which OOo version were you using there? 3.2.0, i think. There are indeed a lot of bugs concerning printer dialog (Bug 33245, eg). So i file an extra bug, or just confirm an existing one ? If it is the same, pls add

Re: [tdf-discuss] strange page orientation problem

2011-09-20 Thread Cor Nouws
jef.peeraer wrote (20-09-11 10:01) On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Cor Nouws wrote: Which OOo version were you using there? 3.2.0, i think. There are indeed a lot of bugs concerning printer dialog (Bug 33245, eg). So i file an extra bug, or just confirm an existing one ? If it is the same, pls add

Re: [tdf-discuss] strange page orientation problem

2011-09-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jef, jef.peeraer wrote (19-09-11 11:35) i try to upgrade all my OOo users to LO, but encounter a serious problem. i have a template for labels to be printed on a ql-1060 (which has default labels of 102 mm (4) width). The label format in the template is user defined, 10,2 cm width and 6 cm

Re: [steering-discuss] Base - a new mailing list?

2011-09-13 Thread Cor Nouws
Norbert Thiebaud wrote (13-09-11 22:49) yes but not _here_ Indeed - see the marketing list ;-) -- - Cor - http://nl.libreoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

Re: [tdf-discuss] Error in scripting framework

2011-09-12 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Olivier, Olivier Hallot wrote (12-09-11 17:39) Couldn't we write just Oh dear, I am unable to find a macro you asked me to execute!? Would the following be acceptable: Error: the macro you are trying to execute (libName.modName.fnName) could not be found. Cheers, -- - Cor -

Re: [tdf-discuss] The Microsoft Word 2007 XML(*.docx) format does not correctly save numbering edits.

2011-09-05 Thread Cor Nouws
e-letter wrote (05-09-11 00:05) Long-term it does help, in terms of making very clear to the original poster that the priority is superior performance of LO. True, but I expect someone choosing for GNU (the OP) to be well aware of that. There is no negative attitude towards m$ except your

Bug 39903 (Was Re: [tdf-discuss] Monthly Bug Hunting Session)

2011-09-05 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Russ, upscope wrote (05-09-11 19:31) What happened to bug 39903 turned in Aug. 8th. It sure is make life miserable. Did not exist in old 3.3.2 version and does not go away with complete reinstall of LibreOffice. Pls see my comments in the issue. Regards, -- - Cor -

Re: [tdf-discuss] The Microsoft Word 2007 XML(*.docx) format does not correctly save numbering edits.

2011-09-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi e-letter, e-letter wrote (04-09-11 10:31) These typical m$ queries are irrelevant to LO. If you want to create m$ documents, get money out of your pocket and pay for m$o. If the expected and desired behaviour occurs with the native odt format, then LO is good. Sorry, but I am not so happy

Re: [tdf-discuss] The Microsoft Word 2007 XML(*.docx) format does not correctly save numbering edits.

2011-09-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hello , M Robinson wrote (02-09-11 19:24) LibreOffice 3.4.0 OOO340m1 (Build:12) I've tried this repeatedly, when I generate lines of text, number them (F12), delete every other line number, save in Microsoft Word 2007 XML (*.docx) format the results are always the same when viewed in MS

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Writer] Problem with modern typefaces having more than the standard styles

2011-08-31 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Gwen, GwenDragon wrote (31-08-11 13:25) I reproted the problem in LO bugtracker: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35538 really no ideas for fixing this problem? Apparently not, until now. I remember having seen some discussion about a way to solve the issue. No idea where,

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-26 Thread Cor Nouws
Terrence Enger wrote (25-08-11 17:35) In general, IMO if you build and test on the master, best for questions is IRC #libreoffice-dev. Is that easier for the experts? My experience on the dev and discuss lists is that the response time is at least as fast as I would hope for, and faster by

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [QA] Opening a .doc file - Regression in Libreoffice 3.4 ???

2011-08-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Gary, *, NoOp wrote (24-08-11 05:17) You've found YALOB (Yet Another LO Bug); of which there seem to more more of every day oddly enough with previous OOo files. And there will be more of them, no doubt. It was well known, and repeatedly written by OpenOffice.org developers, that fixing

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