Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-23 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi Jens, Jens Bannmann a écrit : Vincent Hennebert wrote: Question is, also, how to advertise the thing. Would the fop-user mailing list be enough to attract donators? From a quick search, it doesn't seem that the topic was brought up previously on that list. Can anyone think of another

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-23 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Jul 23, 2007, at 16:13, Vincent Hennebert wrote: Could you elaborate on that a bit? Without knowing any implementation details, I think that all related work would be (implicitly or explicitly) included in the funded task and as such done by the developer. Well I would be curious too

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-22 Thread Jens Bannmann
Vincent Hennebert wrote: Question is, also, how to advertise the thing. Would the fop-user mailing list be enough to attract donators? From a quick search, it doesn't seem that the topic was brought up previously on that list. Can anyone think of another place where we can reach users? I think

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-22 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Jul 22, 2007, at 09:31, Jens Bannmann wrote: Andreas L Demelle wrote: I do wonder whether the motivation (with or without the bounty) is enough by itself to make it happen. (...) I'm under the impression that certain other things need to happen first before a decent auto-layout

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-21 Thread Andreas L Delmelle
On Jul 20, 2007, at 14:08, Andrejus Chaliapinas wrote: Hi Thought I'd chime in on this one as well... First off: I agree with the general sentiment that this is a very interesting initiative! That said, as a note of caution, I do wonder whether the motivation (with or without the bounty)

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-21 Thread Patrick Paul
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: On Jul 20, 2007, at 14:08, Andrejus Chaliapinas wrote: Hi Hi Thought I'd chime in on this one as well... First off: I agree with the general sentiment that this is a very interesting initiative! That said, as a note of caution, I do wonder whether the motivation

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-20 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Hi Jens Good idea, IMO! That's the street performer protocol [1]. Let's hope there will be enough motivation (and time) around for someone. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Performer_Protocol I don't know of an instance inside the ASF where this has been tried, but I know this has been

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-20 Thread Vincent Hennebert
Hi, I second that, a good idea for sure! Regarding how this may be done within the ASF, that's probably a question we can ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe the ASF itself can serve as the SPP platform? I think it's worth making a poll on fop-user to see how many users would be ready to participate

Re: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-20 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 20.07.2007 10:06:55 Vincent Hennebert wrote: Hi, I second that, a good idea for sure! Regarding how this may be done within the ASF, that's probably a question we can ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe the ASF itself can serve as the SPP platform? I'm 99.9% sure that it would not. There

RE: Bounty for auto table layout?

2007-07-20 Thread Andrejus Chaliapinas
I'm 99.9% sure that it would not. There were discussions about that in the past and the members' opinion was to keep such things separate from the ASF. The ASF would never pay anyone to make an improvement on one of the projects since it's a NPO and there are certain rules around that status.