Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-10 Thread eric b
Hi, [ +1 ] (non binding) Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation Thanks ! Eric Bachard -- qɔᴉɹə Education Project: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Education_Project Projet OOo4Kids : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page L'association EducOOo : http://www.educoo.org Blog :

Re : Request: Can proposed committers introduce themselves?

2011-06-08 Thread eric b
Hello, My name is Eric Bachard. In the real life, I'm Professor of Applied Physics at UTBM (see [1]). In my spare time, I'm contributing to free software, as core developer. Contributing to OpenOffice.org since 2004, my skills are C ++ / C, objective C, shell and Perl. I know well

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 7 juin 11 à 06:01, Ralph Goers a écrit : It is my expectation that if we make reasonable requests and that if those requests are within Oracle's power to fulfill those requests, that we will obtain subsequent software grants. Sam, for me this is the only area where I question whether

Re: OpenOffice: were are we now?

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 6 juin 11 à 02:28, William A. Rowe Jr. a écrit : Because Oracle and TDF, in confidential negotiations, could not come to an agreement. Also that's one more reason why OpenOffice.org should be hosted by the Apache Foundation. For the memory, LibreOffice and TDF have been created

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi Ross, Apologies, I just retrieved the mail one minute ago, sorting the n 750 mails I received from this list. Le 2 juin 11 à 12:13, Ross Gardler a écrit : On 02/06/2011 10:30, eric b wrote: Hi, For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org

Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 6 juin 11 à 19:00, Ian Lynch a écrit : Look guys, this is going round in circles. I'm not an ASF or TDF member but I spent quite a lot of time and effort on OOo and ODF in the past so I care what happens. The fact is the software grant is made. My understanding is that if the code

Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 6 juin 11 à 20:21, Greg Stein a écrit : On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 14:18, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org wrote: I'll surrely can make it to the US if needed. OSCON is good, but would like to know if there will be enough OOo people there to ensure there would be an useful

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi Ross, Le 6 juin 11 à 23:52, Ross Gardler a écrit : Thank you very much, I appreciate a lot :-) Mentoring is essential in the Education Project, because our main goal, after create a strong bridge with Educational world, was to attract new developers. I'm a bit lost with the Apache

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 7 juin 11 à 01:44, Ross Gardler a écrit : Eric, Thanks for the background. You're welcome :) It would be great if you can repost this to the dev@community.a.o list if the podling is accepted. Sure I'll do. But like you wrote : only if the podling is accepted. It's off

OpenOffice.org dependencies at runtime. was: Re: OO/LO License + Why LO needs the AFL 2.0 to exist (quickly)

2011-06-05 Thread eric b
Hi, First over all, I'm not a native speaker, but I think I can answer. Apologies if I'm off topic, this thread is extremely difficult to follow. Le 5 juin 11 à 09:41, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : I was thinking about binary-only components such as a linker library or shared library

Re: OpenOffice.org dependencies at runtime. was: Re: OO/LO License + Why LO needs the AFL 2.0 to exist (quickly)

2011-06-05 Thread eric b
Le 5 juin 11 à 10:09, eric b a écrit : Hi, First over all, I'm not a native speaker, but I think I can answer. Apologies if I'm off topic, this thread is extremely difficult to follow. Le 5 juin 11 à 09:41, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : I was thinking about binary-only components

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread eric b
Hi James, Le 3 juin 11 à 05:07, James Kosin a écrit : On 2:59 PM, Luke Kowalski wrote: The following project is being sent in as an incubator candidate. regards luke Okay, First, I've been reading the talking points going back and forth on this for about 1-2 days now. And there are some

Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal). The idea we defend since several years, is to work with High Schools and Universities, train students, detect potential good ideas, write code (contribute back

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 2 juin 11 à 17:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from IBM but who has never contributed

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 2 juin 11 à 17:57, Greg Stein a écrit : Whether one group has more committers than the other doesn't matter either. There are Apache projects with just a half-dozen people working on them. That is sufficient for the Foundation, so we can just ignore number comparisons. I fully

Re: OpenOffice - Wiki - Required Resources - Subversion vs. Mercurial vs. Git

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Le 2 juin 11 à 22:26, Christian Lippka a écrit : Hello, Hello Christian, The Open Office Proposal Wiki currently lists a subversion repository as a required resource. We already had subversion for some time as the repository for the main code and it didn't work well for a project

Rép : OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread eric b
Hi, First, apologies for the new thread, due to my late arrival on this list. As developer for OpenOffice.org since 2005, and having some knowledge in OOo source code, I'm interested to contribute to the new OpenOffice.org (as dev). Where are the essential links to start ? e.g. I