Re: [tdf-discuss] [Hackfest] Ohio Linux Fest

2011-06-24 Thread Carl Symons
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:13 AM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 15:36 -0400, drew wrote: Just a quick note. Have sent off the formal request to the OHLF organizers..will keep folks posted as specifics firm up. Hi, Quick note. Exchanged a few emails with one of

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

2011-06-15 Thread Carl Symons
Sounds like a good idea if there are enough people to assist with pulling it off. What is hands-on training? Training on how to use LibO apps? Or is it more in line with a hacking session? What is being certified? Carl On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:13 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: Howdy,

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

2011-06-03 Thread Carl Symons
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Augustine Souza aesouza2...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/3/11, Harold Fuchs hwfa.libreoff...@gmail.com wrote: ... The LO folk left the OOo group because OOo was, in their opinion, going to be over-controlled (by Oracle). Now that this is no longer true, the LO folk

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

2011-04-29 Thread Carl Symons
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: snip Thanks for the answer. So, we should then go with the blurb without the and can be found by searching online part. Here it is: You can get support for LibreOffice from various independent forums run by LibreOffice

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

2011-04-28 Thread Carl Symons
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Harold Fuchs hwfa.libreoff...@gmail.com wrote: Please, why does the LibreOffice web page link to the forums for OpenOffice.org ? The current LO Help web page at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ has two links to OOo forums: - http://www.oooforum.org/ -

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

2011-04-28 Thread Carl Symons
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 28/04/11 09:04 AM, Carl Symons a écrit : On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Harold Fuchs hwfa.libreoff...@gmail.com  wrote: Please, why does the LibreOffice web page link to the forums for OpenOffice.org ? The current LO

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

2011-04-28 Thread Carl Symons
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 28/04/11 10:47 AM, Carl Symons a écrit : On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com  wrote: Le 28/04/11 09:04 AM, Carl Symons a écrit : On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Harold Fuchs hwfa.libreoff

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

2011-04-28 Thread Carl Symons
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Hi Carl Le 28/04/11 11:22 AM, Carl Symons a écrit : You can get support for LibreOffice from various independent forums run by LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org users and supporters. These forums are more mature and heavily

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

2011-04-19 Thread Carl Symons
I didn't get too deep into Spoon, but it looks a good resource for LibreOffice users. Not that much different conceptually from Mozilla offerings. Carl On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Blake Madden bl...@spoon.net wrote: Hello, I was referred to this mailing list by Florian Effenberger of The

Re: [tdf-discuss] Forums... again

2011-04-17 Thread Carl Symons
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:06 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/4/17 Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com: Again: The point is not forum or not. The point is: Why the heck do you want *yet another* forum. Please, re read my message: I'm NOT talking about a new forum nor

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support for Office 2003 file formats (WordML, SpreadsheetML

2011-03-26 Thread Carl Symons
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Jaime R. Garza gar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I don't really understand the logic behind your suggestion. You want LO to drop support for the defacto-standard file format??? I don't really see any good reason for doing such a completely strategically

Re: [tdf-discuss] Instant Messenger for Libre Office (serverless and open source)

2011-02-28 Thread Carl Symons
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org wrote: On 2/28/11 2:22 PM, Randolph Dohm wrote: P.S. - The fact that our email address is on the public website is not an implicit authorization to write. In addition, you have sent a second message before

Re: [tdf-discuss] Default font on LibO

2011-01-30 Thread Carl Symons
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Nguyen Vu Hung vuhung16p...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This question seems to be trivial and I am sorry if this is a FAQ What is the default font used by LibO 3.3 on Ubuntu (10.04?) How can this happen? What could be the reason on the client's side that makes

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2011-01-02 Thread Carl Symons
source software. It also illustrates a guiding principle of TDF. To The Document Foundation, thank you. Thank you for starting this project, for listening, for creating LibO in a meritocracy. Carl Symons -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2011-01-01 Thread Carl Symons
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Olivier Hallot olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org wrote: snip The Go-oo homepage also says Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice. Does that mean that LibreOffice is driven by Novell too? I wouldn't put in that

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-31 Thread Carl Symons
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: snip And if you are sent an OOXML document to edit and return then it's bad manners not to send it back in the format it was sent to you, just like it's bad manners to receive a plain text email and reply in

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-31 Thread Carl Symons
that I appreciate in the open source community. Carl Symons -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-31 Thread Carl Symons
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010/12/31 12:15 PM  Carl Symons wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Paul Gresspgr...@optonline.net  wrote: I checked my OOo, dev m95 (3.4), it doesn't support save as docx and 3.3 rc8 (3.3 m18) also

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-31 Thread Carl Symons
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: On Fri Dec 31 2010 10:53:16 GMT-0800 (PST)  Paul Gress wrote: On 12/31/10 07:50 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: The answer to ALL this nonsense is surely this. If you receive an OOXML document, politely reply to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-31 Thread Carl Symons
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: On Fri Dec 31 2010 11:17:28 GMT-0800 (PST)  Carl Symons wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: On Fri Dec 31 2010 10:53:16 GMT-0800 (PST)  Paul Gress wrote: On 12/31/10

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-31 Thread Carl Symons
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: On Fri Dec 31 2010 11:45:46 GMT-0800 (PST)  Carl Symons wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Yep.  Go back to the first message in this thread and follow the links

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-30 Thread Carl Symons
I support Larry's position. Carl Symons On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: I will not support or use LibreOffice  until it stops helping spread OOXML by enabling writing in this file format. There is absolutely no need to write in this proprietary

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-30 Thread Carl Symons
system can't/won't come to the rescue. It is up to the open community to deal with it. Don't make it possible for an open application to write in a file format that seeks to damage it. Carl Symons -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-30 Thread Carl Symons
with the Standards Committee decision. And how likely is it that some U.S. CongressCritter would allow the FTC to take action anyway? Carl Symons -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-30 Thread Carl Symons
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:14 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: several thread entries truncated I will not support  or use LibreOffice  until it stops helping spread OOXML by enabling  writing in this file format. There is absolutely no need to write in  this proprietary format. To

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Do not support writing to OOXML format

2010-12-30 Thread Carl Symons
/saving as docx/OOXML except to go along with Microsoft's anti-open fraud and deception. Carl Symons -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived

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

2010-12-18 Thread Carl Symons
Thanks to this group for all the work. After working on a Drupal site for a F/OSS Fest in the U.S., I appreciate how much work this can be. Carl On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au wrote: I thought it was about time to share some of the progress that the

Re: [tdf-discuss] opening big chinese docx file cause LO crash many times.

2010-12-14 Thread Carl Symons
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Jih-Yao Lin jih...@gmail.com wrote: the chinese big file is about 300kb, and when i change the content and save it, LO crash. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/

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

2010-12-07 Thread Carl Symons
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Steven Shelton ste...@sheltonlegal.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/7/2010 11:40 AM, Eduardo Moreno wrote: El 07/12/10 10:20, Samuel Mehrbrodt escribió: Today there was an announcement that KOffice got a new name (Calligra) and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-11-30 Thread Carl Symons
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM, leif leiflod...@gmail.com wrote: Den 30-11-2010 11:43, plino skrev: The point here is that OOo has a small installer with 140Mb (no Java, and only English, Spanish and French dictionaries). Why is LO going in the opposite direction with 299 and 466Mb???

[tdf-discuss] Re: Vision/Mission

2010-11-24 Thread Carl Symons
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: Hi! This only saw a little bit of discussion on the marketing list (after the first draft was met with silence here). I like the interpretation, that there is not much to anything objectionable or to add, better than the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-22 Thread Carl Symons
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Lee Hyde anub...@gmail.com wrote: cut On 22/11/10 17:50, Rene Engelhard wrote: No, my position taken to the logical conclusion would not be that (as I think there's use cases for GUIs - I didn't say anything against them here but just mentioned that dpkg

Re: [tdf-discuss] Libreoffice 3.3 Beta 3

2010-11-18 Thread Carl Symons
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2010-11-18 3:03 PM, Jesús Corrius wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: OOo is currently at 3.3rc5 - anyone know what LibO 3.3b3 is based on? Will there be