Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi all, before i will leave for a short Christmas break i would like to share some thoughts with you about the last months, my private expectations, and my wishes for the next year. Oracle's announcement to stop their investment in OpenOffice.org was a shock for me. Well the reason is

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Ross Gardler
What a great post - thank you Jürgen Can I request that this goes on the AOO blog? I recognise this is your own thoughts, but you can make that clear (as you did here). You correctly observe that the AOO project needs to do a better job of communicating the good - this post does just that so lets

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Donald Harbison
+1 (!) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. 2011/12/23 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com Hi all, before i will leave for a short Christmas break i would like to share some thoughts with you about the last months, my private expectations, and my wishes for the next year.

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi. 2011/12/23 Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com +1 (!) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. 2011/12/23 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com Hi all, before i will leave for a short Christmas break i would like to share some thoughts with you about the last months, my

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Juergen, On 23.12.2011 13:35, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, before i will leave for a short Christmas break i would like to share some thoughts with you about the last months, my private expectations, and my wishes for the next year. [..] And not everything is bad. With the IP

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, special thanks goes to Jürgen for his great post. great (really great) thanks goes to everybody for the stuff which we have achieved so far - great progress. It is a great feeling to be part of such a successful open source project. I am glad that I survived the retreat of my former

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi all and that includes Jürgen :-) Yes, this be a blog. :-) Perhaps others, too, can chime in? Briefly: I am delighted with the new founding of Apache OpenOffice and with the interest it has garnered. What better way to end the developer year? :-) I'd like to thank the Apache Mentors. People:

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Carl Marcum
+1 Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year Everyone !!! Best Wishes, Carl On 12/23/2011 07:35 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, before i will leave for a short Christmas break i would like to share some thoughts with you about the last months, my private expectations, and my wishes for the next

R: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello; Well said! First of all, absolutely Merry Christmas to everyone and well deserved best wishes for the upcoming year. I had always been an outsider to the OOo project so it's rather unexpected to give my impressions but: 1) I am sure everyone agrees this project had about all odds

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Dave Fisher
Happy Holidays to all. Dave On Dec 23, 2011, at 4:35 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, before i will leave for a short Christmas break i would like to share some thoughts with you about the last months, my private expectations, and my wishes for the next year. Oracle's announcement

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: What a great post - thank you Jürgen Can I request that this goes on the AOO blog? +1 for this move. Really a superb post, Jürgen. Enjoy your time off and Happy Holidays! I recognise this is your own thoughts,

Re: Merry Christmas and some private thoughts

2011-12-23 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2011 schrieb Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com: What a great post - thank you Jürgen thanks Can I request that this goes on the AOO blog? I recognise this is your own thoughts, but you can make that clear (as you did here). You correctly observe that the AOO