I hereby resign from the Apache OpenOffice PPMC. I intend no further
involvement with this project and will unsubscribe from all project
lists after posting this note.
For me, contributing to a volunteer project must be enjoyable. I do
not enjoy working with this group, because of the behaviour
The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very demotivating
for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft chapters on the
ODFAuthors website and will put the compiled draft book there soon. Then I'll
go back to my travel photos and to the LibreOffice books.
On 01/05/2012, at 20:37, eric eric.bach...@free.fr wrote:
Hi,
Le 01/05/2012 12:23, Jean Weber a écrit :
The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous,
and very demotivating for me to continue to work on it.
What about wait for the Apache OpenOffice availability *before* to stop
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
The lack of interest in this book is quite conspicuous, and very
demotivating for me to continue to work on it. I've put the updated draft
chapters
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
I think the trick is finding the right people, of connecting
volunteers with volunteer opportunities. Realistically, if someone
was really interested in tech writing, they probably would not be on
this list. The traffic
I revised the Preface to Getting Started with AOO.
http://www.odfauthors.org/apache-openoffice/english/user-guides/getting-started-3.4/drafts/gs3.4-preface/view
Among other changes, I added a section on What's new in v3.4. I took
the info from the release notes on the wiki,
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 04:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for this! Here are my first reactions...
I find the gray background a bit gloomy. The name of the book Getting
Started is too small and almost gets
Is this statement correct?
Each spreadsheet can have many sheets, and each sheet can have many
individual cells. In Calc 3.4, each sheet can have a maximum of
1,048,576 rows and 1024 columns.
://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=69f0fbe8e03b2c13resid=69F0FBE8E03B2C13!1629parid=root
Hope you like it!
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
We're getting close to having a publishable version of the Getting
Started guide for Apache OpenOffice.
Would anyone like
lou ql wrote,
I notice that in page 4 of Preface, Help system it describes the help
menu as *Apache OpenOffice Help*. But actually the menu is *OpenOffice.org
Help*. My build is r1325589 on Windows XP SP3.
Which is correct? or both are OK?
The Preface should say OpenOffice.org Help to agree
Andrea wrote,
Drew wrote:
Why not work so a document starts in Italian and is translated to
English, or Japanse or Swazi
Well, in this case it makes a lot of sense to start with an English
version and then localize it in multiple languages. It's simply the most
efficient way in this case.
RGB ES wrote,
On chapter 3, page 9 and on chapter 11 page 19 you explain how to
teach the program to always save as msoffice format. I think a huge
warning must be there saying that this is NOT recommended: using an
external format to save files is a risky move that may cause problems
with
Guy Waterval wrote,
Why reinvent the wheel indeed. There's an existing structure and it would
be a good idea to integrate all the documentation writers in a unique
environnement. But before to invest a lot of time in such a document
project, there's perhaps a choice to do with the license. My
Can ODFAuthors use the AOO logo on the cover of the user guides we are
producing to AOO?
Related question: with the license for these books being CC-BY, not
Apache-2, I have never been clear just what relationships these books
will have to AOO. I realise that they will not be considered part of
We're getting close to having a publishable version of the Getting
Started guide for Apache OpenOffice.
Would anyone like to produce some cover art for this book? Drew?
I quite like some of the flower-based work you did for marketing
purposes. Perhaps some flower theme would work for the GS
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:48, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Jean, all
First, many thanks for your work.
2012/4/25 Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com
[...]
Perhaps we'll end up with a set of official user docs (Apache license,
non-book format) and a set of community
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 21:27, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Can ODFAuthors use the AOO logo on the cover of the user guides we are
producing to AOO?
The relevant ASF policy is here:
http://www.apache.org
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 21:27, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
Main thing is to avoid having the user be confused about the source of
the documentation. It is from ODFAuthors, not AOO. So when we host
the files on the wiki, we should make sure it is clear to the user
where to report
On 26/04/2012, at 12:31, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 21:27, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
Main thing is to avoid having the user be confused about the source of
the documentation
On 04/04/2012, at 17:54, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
I have uploaded to the ODFAuthors website the draft chapters for
Getting Started with Apache OpenOffice. They need review, especially
the Preface and Chapter 11, which have questions (as comments) in the
files.
http
I have uploaded to the ODFAuthors website the draft chapters for
Getting Started with Apache OpenOffice. They need review, especially
the Preface and Chapter 11, which have questions (as comments) in the
files.
I'm encountering irritating layout problems while revising legacy
OpenOffice.org documents using the latest developer build from Apache
OpenOffice. Same file works in LibreOffice 3.4.6 with no problems.
Here are two of the issues I'm encountering (may be others that I
don't recall right now).
*
(Sorry about the broken thread. I plucked this out of the archives.)
Rob,
Not commenting on the level of detail, just on the presentation.
Thirty years of writing and editing user documentation, FAQs, etc, and
ten+ years of website work has taught me this:
* Bullet lists, preferably of no more
On 06/03/2012, at 4:30, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-03-05 12:08 PM Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote:
If there is no solution for extensions, Apache OpenOffice 3.4 early
incubator releases should not
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 05:46, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/03/2012, at 4:30, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-03-05 12:08 PM Rob Weir wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 06:07, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 05:46, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/03/2012, at 4:30, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-03-05 12:08 PM
On 2012/3/1 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com:
At the moment we plan to move forward with OpenOffice.org as replacement for
%PRODUCTNAME% because there are many many dependencies all over the code and
it is not used in the UI only.
That is good news for anyone who wants to update
Greg,
Windows, Mac, and other builds (as well as Linux) are here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+Snapshots
AFAIK, testers are needed for all.
--Jean
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 07:29, Greg Roberts lookfortherab...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi guys,
Just
When I attempt to install AOO (latest developer build) on Windows 7, I
get the following error:
Error 1606. Could not access network location OOo-dev 3. This is at
the step when the installer is calculating space requirements.
This happened with the previous build, too.
--Jean
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 18:37, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
When I attempt to install AOO (latest developer build) on Windows 7, I
get the following error:
Error 1606. Could not access network location OOo-dev 3. This is at
the step when the installer is calculating space requirements
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 19:42, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:40:12 +
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:37:02 +1000
Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
When I attempt to install AOO (latest developer build) on
Windows 7, I
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 03:25, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:50:20 +
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:30:46 +0100
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have recreated the installationsets - Writer menues
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 21:14, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:58:38 +1000
Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 19:42, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie
wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:40:12 +
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 21:19, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 21:14, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:58:38 +1000
Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 19:42, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie
wrote:
On Wed, 29
AFAIK this Windows 7 machine has all Win7 updates installed. It has
OOo 3.3 and LO3.4 on it. I removed a previous ooo-dev (3.2!) following
instructions Rory pointed me to. When I got the most up to date
Windows installation file for AOO (from the cwiki page), it installed
with no problem and
This Mac has OS X Lion 10.7.3 installed. It has LO3.4 and LO3.5
installed on it, but no legacy version of OOo.
Installation proceeded with no problem, and the program appears to work.
I have found one problem so far, when working with templates. I'll
write that up in a separate thread.
--Jean
I have not attempted to search Bugzilla to see if a bug report exists
for this problem. If this is not a known bug, I will attempt to test
on Windows and Ubuntu as well as on Mac and file a bug report. But if
someone says oh yes, we know all about that! and can point me to the
bug report, I'll
, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
I have not attempted to search Bugzilla to see if a bug report exists
for this problem. If this is not a known bug, I will attempt to test
on Windows and Ubuntu as well as on Mac and file a bug report. But if
someone says oh yes, we know all about
For Windows 7, the file from here worked for me (all menus toolbars
ok, including in Writer), when another one did not show menus
toolbars in Writer:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+Snapshots
--Jean
2012/3/1 YangTerry polo8...@hotmail.com:
I
/tutorial/en/spreadsheets_tutorial/frameset.html
Thoughts?
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:25, Jing Bai jingbaibe...@gmail.com wrote:
The wikis we use are xpages wikis that run on Domino servers. USA IDC
hosts
the WIKI for all
This book, by Sarah Maddox (one of the technical writers at Atlassian,
the company behind the Confluence wiki), may be of interest:
http://ffeathers.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/writing-a-book-with-docbook-and-a-confluence-wiki/
http://xmlpress.net/publications/chocolate/
--Jean
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 15:40, xia zhao lilyzh...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Recently I am working on sample files collection and category. These sample
files would be used for AOO 3.4 and further AOO release testing. These
sample files are major for compatibility, which covers the
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 19:19, Andre Fischer a...@a-w-f.de wrote:
Hi Betsy,
On 17.02.2012 07:16, Jing Bai wrote:
Greetings, I am Betsy Bai who leads the ID team in IBM Symphony team.
Actually, it is not like that. The product teams at IBM don't do their
own
doc.
[...]
In the future,
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 20:55, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 19:19, Andre Fischer a...@a-w-f.de wrote:
Hi Betsy,
On 17.02.2012 07:16, Jing Bai wrote:
Greetings, I am Betsy Bai who leads the ID team in IBM Symphony team.
Actually, it is not like
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 00:00, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote:
Where MUA = Mail User Agent, i.e. the actual program that you use to read
your emails - like Thunderbird, Outlook, GMail (really, the browser you use
to open gmail.com), etc.
I mostly read my GMail on my iPad, and my
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:25, Jing Bai jingbaibe...@gmail.com wrote:
The wikis we use are xpages wikis that run on Domino servers. USA IDC hosts
the WIKI for all Lotus products, such as Lotus Connections, LotusLive,
Symphony, Sametime and etc. There is a STSM named John Hunt who wrote the
concerned with work on LO. This may change now that Apache OpenOffice is
closer to release.
Meanwhile, work on Apache OpenOffice is being done through
ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org. I have cc'd that list.
--Jean
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 20:12, heiko strauss allem...@web.de wrote:
Hi Jean Weber,
hi
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:29, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
Something like this:
1. Email interview off-list with an AOO contributor. Questions like:
tell us about yourself, where you live, what you do for a living.
What is your development machine? How did you start working with
At what point, and in what form, will the Symphony user documentation
be made available for updating to AOO? AFAIK, it's all delivered
online, but details about production tools would be useful. If this
info is on the wiki or in the list archives, a pointer to that info
would suffice.
Also, will
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 06:51, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
At what point, and in what form, will the Symphony user documentation
be made available for updating to AOO? AFAIK, it's all delivered
online, but details about production tools would be useful. If this
info is on the wiki
Is anyone interested in working on a Getting Started with Apache
OpenOffice 3.4 book and/or user guides for Writer or other
components? Release notes are available [1], though possibly
incomplete, and the software (developers' builds) is working, so it's
probably not a waste of time to start
In addition to developers' conferences and an AOO event, IMO an
important potential use for some of the money is to fund marketing
expenses such as attendance (and materials for display booths) at
trade shows where potential customers/users gather. AOO is somewhat
unique in Apache by having users
On 14/02/2012, at 0:25, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote:
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity.
On Feb 13, 2012 10:22 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
In addition to developers' conferences and an AOO event, IMO an
important potential use
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 05:17, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
I'd like to write a blog post on the top new things in AOO 3.4, from
the user perspective, compared to OOo 3.3.
What would you put on that list? What are the benefits of upgrading?
Looking at the features list, enhanced RFT
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 16:55, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi Everyone,
The http:ooo-site.apache.org version of www.openoffice.org is ready for
review before migration. There are several last issues for people to review.
FYI...
I have made a few changes on the Documentation
,
Great! Thanks for the heads up. I did tweak that page in the last 24 hours.
Regards,
Dave
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 18, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
I am going to update the support page (currently at
http://ooo-site.apache.org/support/index.html). FYI, here
There are quite a lot of existing FAQs on the OOo wiki. Someone was
organising and sorting them and (I think) working through them doing
updates. (I have no idea if that someone is still around.) Anyone
wanting to work on FAQs should probably become familiar with what's
already there (at least in
Similar to my note about the FAQs, there is a collection of how-tos on
the OOo wiki. These also need to be checked to see if they are out of
date.
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos
That page is also a good place to check if you're thinking of writing
a how-to; perhaps
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:19, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:40, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi Jean,
On Dec 17, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
I could potentially do the same on the Docs portion of the migrated
OOo website, if it's ready
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:48, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:31:19 -0500
Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ian Lynch
ianrly...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Well
I am going to update the support page (currently at
http://ooo-site.apache.org/support/index.html). FYI, here is what I
intend to do. (If there is a place on the planning wiki for this info,
I'll put it there too.)
* Check all the links and remove or correct any out of date ones.
* Remove all
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:00, Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Jean Weber [mailto:jeanwe...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 19 December 2011 10:35 AM
To: OOo-dev Apache Incubator
Subject: Support page of website - work planned
I am going to update
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:42, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
Some spam on the ooo-users list this evening:
http://markmail.org/message/hqvtj76howq5kmjv
The poster is subscribed to the list. This was not moderated in.
What do we want moderators to do in this case? Warn the user?
On 18/12/2011, at 7:58, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote:
I think it is irresponsible to not mitigate risk by having multiple levels
of fall-back in place always. Not installing a 3.4 atop a 3.3 is one of
On 18/12/2011, at 9:56, Allen Pulsifer apulsi...@apache.org wrote:
The Apache OpenOffice (incubating) project has tentatively identified the
first quarter of 2012 for a Version 3.4 release.
I think I would prefer Apache OpenOffice v1.0
That would totally confuse most of the current users
Now that the OOo wiki has been migrated to Apache, is this a good time
for me to start cleaning up the Docs section? Specifically, removing
obsolete info (like references to Clayton and me as Docs Co-Leads and
some of the info in the orientation pages for contributors to Docs).
I could
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:40, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi Jean,
On Dec 17, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
Now that the OOo wiki has been migrated to Apache, is this a good time
for me to start cleaning up the Docs section? Specifically, removing
obsolete info (like
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:40, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi Jean,
On Dec 17, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
I could potentially do the same on the Docs portion of the migrated
OOo website, if it's ready for that sort of cleanup.
I was going to ask for help with support
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 15:57, Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch wrote:
Hi at all
Now the collection of builds is nearly compleedet. On
http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/devsnap.php I have Mac Windows and Linux (deb).
It would be great, if sameone can provide rpm builds
Will there also be builds
Now that the migration to Apache is well advanced and builds are
becoming available, my mind turns again to the area in which I could
potentially contribute something: end-user documentation. We discussed
this some months ago, with various suggestions for the type of docs
needed and the
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 06:03, Dennis E. Hamilton
dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote:
I did a *sampling* just now and I found all of these addresses used as
Feedback locations:
disc...@lists.odfauthors.org
Impress Guide 3.3, 2011-08-27
Oops! That's an error. My bad.
+1 for b) Apache OpenOffice
--Jean Hollis Weber
Donald Harbison wrote,
As promised, here's the ballot. Choose one, cast your vote. If none of
them get more than 50% of the binding votes, we will start a ballot for the
top two contenders.
a) Apache OpenOffice.org
b) Apache OpenOffice
c)
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:04, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
and...@pitonyak.org wrote:
On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk
wrote:
On 04/09/11 18:01, Rob
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
... one alternative would be to upload
the doc to Apache-Extra.org. Projects there are hosted by Google
Code, and also agree to these guidelines:
http
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
Wearing my IBM hat, the larger issue, one that may not concern
everyone here but does concern me, is the impact the license choice
has on our ability to attract corporate-sponsored contributors to an
effort that is not using a
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 22:29, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm fairly sure that whatever route AOOo chooses to take, I won't be
interested in being part of it. I had no real idea of what would be
involved here (I
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 07:01, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Regardless of what the other members of ODFAuthors choose to do
regarding AOOo and the existing user guides, and where they choose to
do it, I am burnt out and not interested in continuing.
That includes, in case it's
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:20, Michael Stahl m...@openoffice.org wrote:
thus i propose to disable the address mangling at Gmane.
+1
Jean
I have put part of the notes from Rob, me, and Nino on this wiki page,
for easier reference than digging them out of the archives.
User Docs Other Support Services
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=27826116
--Jean
Just trying to be quite clear on something here, since every time the
topic turns up, it seems to mutate into a wider discussion without
actually answering the question of the relationship of the existing
user guides to AOOo.
We have established that relicensing the existing OOo user guides
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
What should I tell the small group that remains from the ODFAuthors
team that has been working on the user guides?
Feel free to share this note. You could invite them to discuss here
at ooo-dev, or I'd be happy to answer
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 07:52, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
What should I tell the small group that remains from the ODFAuthors
team that has been working on the user guides?
Feel free to share this note. You could
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 08:30, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote:
Le 5 sept. 11 à 18:28, Guy Waterval a écrit :
I've written some documentation about OO.org 3.3.0 on my website which I'm
using now as a raw material (it's largely perfectible) to write an end-user
documentation about Lotus
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rob's suggestions for boldly going where OOo Docs have not
gone before are good ones, but they won't happen immediately. In the
short term
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
Wearing my IBM hat, the larger issue, one that may not concern
everyone here but does concern me, is the impact the license choice
has on our ability to attract corporate-sponsored contributors to an
effort that is not using a
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Rob's
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:53, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote:
Hi Jean;
Continuing on the topic of my general ignorance ...
--- On Mon, 9/5/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
...
It's not clear to me that the user guides produced by
ODFAuthors are in fact official
Responding to some other points in this note
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:53, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote:
I recall someone (maybe you) had said that the
ODFAuthors wanted to keep independent. If they
want to join the podling they are welcome.
Sure. Each person can choose
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 15:19, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote:
Now, I see TDF proposes a Board of Director. This means TDF has a
pyramidal structure (read : The Cathedral and the Bazaar), will be controled
by several Companies, who will decide.
The simple contributor will decide nothing,
On 04/09/2011, at 2:40, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
To help prioritize the list migration efforts, I've collected numbers
from the legacy OOo lists. Looking at 2011 posts, year to date, these
are the average posts/day for the most-used lists.
I've arbitrarily cut-off the lost at
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 07:43, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
IMO, looking at traffic on 2011 lists gives a false impression, at least
when averaged. I can only speak for the two active lists at documentation
(dev and authors), but they are quite active when we are working on docs for
a
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 07:58, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
I have no objection to the general recommendation of list
consolidation, directing all user-related lists to ooo-users
and project-related lists to ooo-dev.
Having thought about this some more over breakfast, I amend
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 03:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
Here is the post I sent to users@ooo. It appears to have caused
offense to a LO supporter who wanted to blow off steam and go out in
a blaze of glory. I will grieve his loss.
Rob, I feel that comment was completely
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 15:18, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
IMO, documentation.dev can be mapped to ooo-dev. That list was used
for policy and infrastructure discussions, which would fit well on
ooo-dev.
I would like
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 15:10, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
IMO, documentation.dev can be mapped to ooo-dev. That list was used
for policy and infrastructure discussions, which would fit well on
ooo-dev.
On further reflection, IF we set up a list for ooo-userdocs (under
whatever name
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 15:47, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 15:18, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
IMO, documentation.dev
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:36, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Rob,
Thanks for the comments and encouraging ideas. Before I can answer the
more substantial questions in a useful way, I'll need to do some
research
do?
To: ODFAuthors odfauthors-disc...@lists.odfauthors.org
Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2011, um 07:13:14 schrieb Jean Weber:
So... what would you like to see as documentation/user support for
AOOo?
Here is a first rough collection of requirements/ideas/wishes
which may need being discussed
Returning to a point Rob made earlier...
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:36, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
My general view is this: After 10 years of OpenOffice.org we have
about as many volunteers as the status quo will ever get us. If
someone is really interested and able to contribute to
A little late here, and a trivial observation, but this type of
statement really jerks my chain, because it is so Northern-Hemisphere
specific:
It is September. Time for cooler weather and time to go back to school
(Watching the temperatures and humidity rise inexorably towards summer
makes
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