Re: [PROPOSAL] ODF Toolkit for Incubation

2011-07-28 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Sam Rubyru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Yegor Kozlovyegor.koz...@dinom.ru wrote: Can we do this for now? If anyone is committed to the project and able to contribute, please respond to this note with some

Re: [VOTE] Accept ODF Toolkit for Incubation

2011-07-28 Thread Andy Brown
Sam Ruby wrote: Please cast your votes: [ ] +1 Accept ODF Toolkit for incubation [ ] +0 Indifferent to ODF Toolkit incubation [ ] -1 Reject ODF Toolkit for incubation +1 Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [PROPOSAL] ODF Toolkit for Incubation

2011-07-22 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: And I've added it to the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ODFToolkitProposal -Rob

Re: [PROPOSAL] ODF Toolkit for Incubation

2011-07-21 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: And I've added it to the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ODFToolkitProposal -Rob What can I do to help? Good question. Once the project is set up, there will be many

Re: [PROPOSAL] ODF Toolkit for Incubation

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: And I've added it to the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ODFToolkitProposal -Rob What can I do to help? Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional

Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Andy Brown
Hi Sam, Sam Ruby wrote: I've divided up the list of proposed committers into four categories, based on their current status. --- Have IDs: damjan Damjan Jovanovic florentFlorent André grobmeier Christian Grobmeier gstein Greg Stein jimJim Jagielski lrosen Lawrence

Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Andy Brown
Christian Grobmeier wrote: Joanmarie Diggs Peter Korn Jean Hollis Weber What is required to get these approved? http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#Voting+in+a+new+committer The Podling PMC need to vote these people in. If these people are already known to the current team, this

Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Andy Brown
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Joe Schaefer wrote: Lists are now available: ooo-{dev,commits,issues,notifications,private}@incubator.apache.org The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread Andy Brown
+1 (non-binding) Andy Brown - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Comment: Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread Andy Brown
Keith Curtis wrote: -1 My list of 44 reasons is here: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=2567 To boil it down to one: this plan as announced had several big flaws, and they still exist. Kind regards, -Keith P.S. I don't see many from LibreOffice voting against this proposal, so I joined again

Re: Request: Can proposed committers introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Andy Brown
the program. Thanks for allowing me to be part of this. Andy Brown - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org

Re: OOo Monetary Donations

2011-06-08 Thread Andy Brown
Simon Phipps wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Ian Lynchianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 June 2011 22:50, Noel J. Bergmann...@devtech.com wrote: Dave Fisher wrote: Your donation will go directly towards helping this project. Some of the ways in which your funds might be used

Re: OOo Monetary Donations

2011-06-08 Thread Andy Brown
Andrew Rist wrote: to a foundation independent of Oracle: Team OpenOffice.org e.V. searching for a more complete answer It would be interesting to find out if all funds received for OOo were accounted for since the fork. The e.V changed names and collects donations for LibreOffice,

Re: OOo Monetary Donations

2011-06-08 Thread Andy Brown
Simon Phipps wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: Andrew Rist wrote: to a foundation independent of Oracle: Team OpenOffice.org e.V. searching for a more complete answer It would be interesting to find out if all funds received for OOo were

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Andy Brown
Leo Simons wrote: You know, there is this large and interesting community of maintainers of mirrors of open source software. A fair share of them are your typical beard stroking [1] uber experienced unix [2] system administrators who maintain a local mirror for their company / campus / ISP

Questions for the cheap seats.

2011-06-05 Thread Andy Brown
Hi all. This is my fist post here, been lurking from day one. As a user I am trying to understand somethings that are going on here. 1: LibreOffice was forked due to the way OOo was being handled by Sun/Oracle. 2: Last month, Oracle stated that OOo would be turned over to a Foundation to

Re: Questions from the cheap seats.

2011-06-05 Thread Andy Brown
Sorry for the mistype on the subject. :( Andy Brown wrote: Hi all. This is my fist post here, been lurking from day one. As a user I am trying to understand somethings that are going on here. 1: LibreOffice was forked due to the way OOo was being handled by Sun/Oracle. 2: Last month, Oracle

Re: [OO.o] updated mailing lists in proposal

2011-06-05 Thread Andy Brown
Greg Stein wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 20:07, Alexandro Coloradoj...@openoffice.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: I just updated the proposal to provide more detail on the requested mailing lists. Figured it would be good to discuss here. This