Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi, On 2011-12-24, at 05:23 , Ross Gardler wrote: > Sorry Sally > > It's just a heads up about the potential issue of multi-lingual press > releases from AOO. The first instance will be the milestone release in Q1 > 2012, so no rush. Indeed. It's the end of the year, I have some time to catch u

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
thanks. I confess I was stricken with inconsolable grief that my name had been so transformed to a plant's… but, seriously: gee whiz, let's let trivialities stay trivial. So, enjoy the northern hemisphere's effort at cheer, Louis On 2011-12-24, at 04:46 , Ross Gardler wrote: > sorry, auto-co

RE: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Sally Khudairi
Thanks, Louis. Not all project announcements from the ASF take place in the form of a press release. Many are blog posts or sent to the annou...@apache.org list. We reserve press releases for formal announcements, such as statements from the Foundation, TLP major version releases, graduating fro

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi… methinks IM would be easier…. On 2011-12-24, at 10:14 , Sally Khudairi wrote: > Thanks, Louis. > Not all project announcements from the ASF take place in the form of a press > release. Many are blog posts or sent to the annou...@apache.org list. We > reserve press releases for formal announ

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Sally, On 2011-12-24, at 05:14 , Sally Khudairi wrote: > Thanks, Ross. > I'm missing some context here. Who wants to do what, why, and when? We are still speculating. I had raised the idea of issuing a more or less formal press release, as OOo used to. Ross and Dennis pointed me to the officia

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2011-12-24, at 04:39 , Ross Gardler wrote: > Lotus, please do conduct the kind of outreach you are talking about. > However, please now we have an official Apache blog. Let's not use another. I am not sure I'd be the one using the official blog anyway. As I mentioned, I'm much less involved

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi all, Sorry, read messages in reverse order…. On 2011-12-24, at 06:45 , Ross Gardler wrote: > Thanks Sally, > > So the message to the AOO community is to get the English language versions > approved with enough time for translation. Or vice versa, to English. Not all original things start off

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 2011-12-24, at 03:53 , Gianluca Turconi wrote: > In data 24 dicembre 2011 alle ore 01:41:34, Shane Curcuru > ha scritto: > >> One might look in the obvious place: >> http://www.apache.org/press/ > > I read there: "Any press release or news announcement that refers to The > ASF and/or its

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating(RC6)

2011-12-24 Thread imacat
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[VOTE] Release Apache ODF Toolkit 0.5-incubating(RC6)

2011-12-24 Thread Devin Han
Hi all, Merry Christmas! There is a special gift ;) Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache ODF Toolkit (incubating) version 0.5. This will be the first incubator release for ODF Toolkit in Apache. This release candidate fixes the following issues found in RC5: (1) Reomve JUnit

RE: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Sally Khudairi
Thanks, Ross. I'm missing some context here. Who wants to do what, why, and when? Chat soon. -Sally [from the mobile; pls pardon spacing/spelling errors] -Original Message- From: Ross Gardler Sent: 24/12/2011, 4:45 AM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: ASF Marketing & Publicity Subject:

RE: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Sally Khudairi
Ah, thanks, Ross. Yes, I can see the situation where we'd like to issue localized press releases to coincide with the availability of a certain product, feature, or user community. We recently did this for this past week's open letter: in addition to our usual distribution in English, it was als

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Arthur Buijs
On 12/24/2011 11:23 AM, Gianluca Turconi wrote: In data 24 dicembre 2011 alle ore 10:45:55, Ross Gardler ha scritto: Thanks for flagging this, I've shared this mail with press@ to see how Sally (VP M&P) wants to prepare. Can you take a guess at the languages we are likely to encounter early.

RE: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Ross Gardler
Thanks Sally, So the message to the AOO community is to get the English language versions approved with enough time for translation. For single language, non-English releases we need to give as much time as possible, but they still need to go through the usual review process. Ross Sent from my

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 24 dicembre 2011 alle ore 10:45:55, Ross Gardler ha scritto: Thanks for flagging this, I've shared this mail with press@ to see how Sally (VP M&P) wants to prepare. Can you take a guess at the languages we are likely to encounter early. We may have German, French, Spanish, Italian a

RE: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Ross Gardler
Sorry Sally It's just a heads up about the potential issue of multi-lingual press releases from AOO. The first instance will be the milestone release in Q1 2012, so no rush. Looking further into the future there may be situations when a national group will want to do their own release. Ross Sen

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Ross Gardler
sorry, auto-correct messed with Louis' name Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Dec 24, 2011 9:39 AM, "Ross Gardler" wrote: > Lotus, please do conduct the kind of outreach you are talking about. > However, please now we have an official Apache blog. Let's not use an

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Dec 24, 2011 8:54 AM, "Gianluca Turconi" wrote: > > In data 24 dicembre 2011 alle ore 01:41:34, Shane Curcuru > ha scritto: > > >> One might look in the obvious place: >> http://www.apache.org/press/ > > > I read there: "Any pres

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Ross Gardler
Lotus, please do conduct the kind of outreach you are talking about. However, please now we have an official Apache blog. Let's not use another. It would be great ifyou can wind down the previous b Blogspot gradually and migrate people to our blog. Ross Sent from my mobile device, please forgive

Re: IP Clearance Milestone

2011-12-24 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 24 dicembre 2011 alle ore 01:41:34, Shane Curcuru ha scritto: One might look in the obvious place: http://www.apache.org/press/ I read there: "Any press release or news announcement that refers to The ASF and/or its projects must be reviewed and approved by the VP, Marketing and Pu