Re: Draft Board report for November

2012-11-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Also maybe something like, In anticipation of additional growth post-graduation, we are developing web pages to support new volunteers, especially in the localization and QA areas Thanks, included. Andrea

Draft Board report for November

2012-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
In the first three months after graduation a project is supposed to report to the Board on a monthly basis. So our reports will be due in November 2012, in December 2012, and then on a quarterly basis (Jan-Apr-Jul-Oct). I started a first draft of this month's report (which is still using the

Re: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: On the help files, you find numbers written like 1.79769313486232 x 10E308 This is wrong: it should be either 1.79769313486232 x 10^308 or 1.79769313486232E308 what do you think? Yes, it's wrong and your first proposal is correct and more readable than the second one. Then I

Re: Draft Board report for November

2012-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: ... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2012+Nov Feel free to edit it. It should cover September 2012 and October 2012. Good that you put it on the wiki. When is the due date? I received no deadline, since officially we only report on Jan-Apr-Jul-Oct and

Re: AOO.Next IBM Priorities

2012-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/11/2012 robert_weir wrote: We (IBM) have consulted with customers, internal users, other IBM product teams, on what our (IBM's) development priorities should be for the next AOO release. Obviously, we're not the only ones with priorities or interests or opinions. We don't make AOO

Re: [BZ]How does vote function work

2012-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ji Yan wrote: I'm curious how the vote function works in Bugzilla. Will we prioritize defect fix plan based on votes number? Not only on that, but votes are an indicator. When one has to pick priorities, having dozens of votes for one issue can make a difference. Regards, Andrea.

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: Right. So maybe when we do a wider call for volunteers we can offer three tracks: 1) Sign up for ooo-dev and drink from the firehose (our only current option) 2) A short intro on the wiki, one that doesn't exist yet, but maybe someone can write one. 3) A longer

Re: Encouraging participation

2012-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:21 PM, jan iversen wrote: - We need to focus more on people who want to help, instead of using all the legal stuff (which are necessary) as a buffer not to move things. (e.g. I got 2 volunteers working on a danish translation, highly

Re: old business...old OpenOffice domain names registered by Oracle (primarily)

2012-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: In order to take control of the DNS for each domain we need someone with Apache Infrastructure karma to work in concert with the proper person from Oracle in order to transfer all of these domain registrations.

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: I wonder if something like this would work: http://openhatch.org/search/?q=toughness=bitesizelanguage=Python It looks like they can suck in appropriately flagged BZ issues. Thanks, good link. It still seems to lack the matching part (i.e., I register on the site

Re: Help - translation to Portuguese (PT)

2012-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
José Oliveira wrote: Hello, my name is José Oliveira. I would like to help, translating the documents in to Portuguese. How can I do that? Welcome, Jose'! For all activities regarding translation and localization you should subscribe to the ooo-L10N discussion list. You can find all details

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: However, if we want to have a beta release of these lang packs, then this is not hard either: 1) Checked the PO files into the 3.4.x branch 2) Verify that they have correct license headers (assuming PO files allow a license header) 3) Generate a source package as a

Chinese translators: please join ooo-L10N

2012-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
We obviously have a group of Chinese-speaking people who are translating OpenOffice, press releases and web pages into (variants of) Chinese. If you are in this group, please remember to join the ooo-L10N mailing list http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-l10n/ since we have

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/10/2012 Roberto Galoppini wrote: A more diverse and sustainable project. For example, until few years ago having OOo integrated or at least able to interoperate with SAP was a distinct dream, is there any chance we can have the right SAP people to attend the AOO BoF, and discuss about

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: There is another opportunity not to miss: we can propose a (technical) talk about Apache OpenOffice as a Main Track Talk, see the same page. Deadline 31 October. It would be good if Juergen, or another developer, took the occasion to show something about

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: New Volunteer Orientation root page: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/orientation/ This is an excellent resource. But we received a few requests from prospective volunteers this weekend and I'm believing it would be overwhelming to point them there. I

Re: Missing option in right click under OO 3.4.1

2012-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/10/2012 Eric Byers wrote: MS Office was installed first. Followed by OO 3.4.1 After the installation of OO, the option under the right mouse click for a new MS Word document was removed. Right click in a folder space, select New - spreadsheets, text documents and others show as possible

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/10/2012 Ian Lynch wrote: I arranged one for the OOo schools mascot ... The winner was clear-cut. A 16 year old Italian boy who aspired to be a graphic designer. Here he is (by chance, he's called Andrea too): http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/interview_andrea_maggioni.html (EN)

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/10/2012 jan iversen wrote: On 26 October 2012 19:43, Andrea Pescetti wrote: - Releasing a new language is totally risk-free: a new language can't break functionality in OpenOffice, while any feature could have bugs and needs more qualified testing. I do not agree to that statement

Re: the presentation program keeps losing my pages

2012-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Grant McPeetie wrote: I have used the impress program to produce two presentations for my work as a teacher. The first time, it ate fifteen pages. I loaded it on a more powerful machine and I can’t account for three missing pages. I save my work all the time, even though it autosaves, and I

[RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
It is now clear that, thanks to new volunteers now coordinating on ooo-l10n, we will soon be in a position to add 3-5 new languages to Apache OpenOffice. It is also clear that at the moment we have no demand for a 3.4.2 with critical bugfixes because... well, 3.4.1 does not have critical

Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot base don revision r1400866

2012-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: It seems that I messed up the links, it should be clean now. Let me know if there are still missing links Slovak (sk) Windows: listed in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds but missing. Polish (pl) Windows+Mac: not listed in

Re: Need new logo for openoffice.apache.org

2012-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 20/10/2012 imacat wrote: I happen to have a 300x100 logo at hand, so I updated it. Feel free to revise it if you feel my uploaded logo is ugly. The reference logo is http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg ... http

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: 1) release new languages via lang packs only for now 2) release full installs, but for only these new languages I don't see a big difference between a langpack and a full install in this case, so I'd go for full installs, unless releasing langpacks helps in communicating that

Re: proposal for new l10n workflow

2012-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/10/2012 jan iversen wrote: I have finally finished my proposal for a new workflow. please have a look at: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:L10procNew.pdf It seems I'm the first one who replies after having read your document in full. And the quality of your proposal is not the issue

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/10/2012 Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 12-10-22, at 04:49 , Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 10/21/12 11:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: OpenOffice its own devroom, which will be available all day Saturday (2 Feb 2013). We should try to find out if other Apache projects will be there as well

Re: [WWW]: shared ideas and looking for feedback

2012-10-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/10/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: 1. a clear structure for the English content as well as the translated pages. .../press/msg_20121019.html .../de/press/msg_20121019.html .../it/press/msg_20121019.html Means we have for all pages a translated version in the related sub directory. Same path and

Re: OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-10-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/10/2012 Guy Waterval wrote: 2012/10/18 Andrea Pescetti We welcome translations of today's press release about the OpenOffice graduation. What about the translations of the press release about the OpenOffice graduation?. Are we authorized to diffuse them or not. Somebody has asked me

Re: OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator

2012-10-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/10/2012 Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2012-10-18 9:38 AM Dave Fisher wrote: The old lists will forward to the new when these are created. Will the feeds on gmane also be renamed? This will probably need some coordination with them after the mailing list have been relocated. I've added this

CWS notes11

2012-10-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Does anybody know the status of CWS notes11? It is mentioned here (for a minor wording issue regarding Notes/Comments) https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=109265 and apparently it is not integrated yet, and it was not yet marked as Ready for QA; so it appears to be unfinished work.

Re: Need new logo for openoffice.apache.org

2012-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On 10/22/12, Kay Schenk wrote: hmmm...well, OK. I think I remember something like this now. Should we use Alexandro's new one at: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/ApacheOpenOfficeTM.svg AFAIK there was no resolution on the fonts, the

Re: [ApacheCon EU] China: Visas to Germany

2012-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/10/2012 Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 22 October 2012 22:50, Peter Junge wrote: As well, I'm also following the ApacheCon list and didn't notice the issue there, except Chinese AOO committers asking for invitation letters. Okay; thanks. I then really want to press the idea of

Re: ASF DOAP File

2012-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/10/2012 Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Andrea Pescetti, http://projects.apache.org/create.html Are you going to create ASF DOAP File for Apace OpenOffice? Sure, but we will need a while before we get there. There's a number of other infrastructural updates that need to be done before

Re: Extensions website unavailable?

2012-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/10/2012 Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:12:52 +0200 jan iversen wrote: I have no problem with download, but extensions is down seen from spain as well, but extensions have been rather unstable the last couple of days. It was OK at 10:30 (GMT+1) today. I've seen Extensions

Call for papers: ApacheCon North America, Portland, Feb 2013

2012-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
We are busy talking about other conferences at the moment (both in Europe: ApacheCon Europe in Sinsheim in two weeks and FOSDEM in Brussels in February 2013) but especially those who live in the US may be pleased to know that the website of the next ApacheCon North America is online:

Re: Extensions website unavailable?

2012-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: The outage seems to be described in this post: http://sourceforge.net/blog/various-sourceforge-services-down Even though according to the (updated) post web projects are still being restored, both http://extensions.openoffice.org and http://templates.openoffice.org

Re: Teaser of Mosaic Fun with OpenOffice Calc

2012-10-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
imacat wrote: Teaser of Mosaic Fun with OpenOffice Calc Without Adv.: http://youtu.be/g0XBetqW7IQ With Adv.:http://youtu.be/LYFDLzagyNA Please come join us in ApacheCon Europe 2012! ^_*' Nice, looking forward to seeing more! Andrea

Re: Need new logo for openoffice.apache.org

2012-10-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/10/2012 imacat wrote: I happen to have a 300x100 logo at hand, so I updated it. Feel free to revise it if you feel my uploaded logo is ugly. I think that this was good as a temporary solution, but that we should delete it now, since it has different colors and we don't want variants

Re: Automatically Generated extension.update.xml

2012-10-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
imacat wrote: I wonder if it is possible to generate the extension update information files extension.update.xml automatically on http://extensions.openoffice.org, instead of maintaining the update information files by the authors manually? This requires a slightly complex answer since there

Re: discussion on new l10n workflow

2012-10-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/10/2012 jan iversen wrote: Would it be an idea to have 1 UI file pr directory in main (that would be so easy to implement) and 1 Help file pr directory in helpContent2 ? Yes, this might work. Sure the current 276 files are too many, while consolidating too much on the other hand is very

Re: OOoCon videos/material

2012-10-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/10/2012 Peter Junge wrote: - OOoCon 2009 (Orvieto/Italy) and OOoCon 2010 (Budapest) were hosted at http://www.ooocon.org. To my knowledge that site was running on a VM at one of Sun's data centers. I recall there was an incompatible update of the site between both conference, so the

OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator

2012-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
The Apache Software Foundation today announced that Apache OpenOffice has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project, signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. In the near future

OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
We welcome translations of today's press release about the OpenOffice graduation. The English source can be found at https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces35 Translations are being listed by Rob at

Re: [UX]: potential new default color for application background

2012-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/10/2012 RGB ES wrote: 2012/10/12 Jürgen Schmidt For example all the grey colors are not so nice and I tried a new color for the application background. I would like to propose that we change the default color to a new fresh one. If our users don't like and prefer the old grey one they can

Re: Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/10/2012 Eike Rathke wrote: On Saturday, 2012-10-13 18:07:24 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: This said, the latest versions of LO introduce bugs that I can't reproduce on AOO. AOO is very stable and we want to keep it that way. Thanks. The latest version of AOO also still didn't fix bugs that

Re: OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Shenfeng Liu wrote: Congratulation to the graduation! I'm working on the Simplified Chinese translation. As you've probably seen, imacat already translated to Traditional Chinese and while at it provided a Simplified Chinese version at http://www.openoffice.org/zh-cn/news/graduation.html So

Re: discussion on new l10n workflow

2012-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/10/2012 jan iversen wrote: Finally I have finished describing the current process, and also combining all the notes on open issues I could find. Please have a look at: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:L10proc.pdf and http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Localization_AOO Thanks, this is a

Re: Import Powerpoint

2012-10-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2012 NEUMANN Francois wrote: Is OpenOffice able to import Powerpoint 3.0 presentation (rather old format, I know…) ? For such an old version you will have to try. Support might be absent or incomplete, but development will focus on improving the import filters for more recent

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/10/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: would it be possible to ask back to the organizers? A deadline is a deadline and we would like to know where we are. The organizers should be able to give an answer in the next days. I've asked the organizers to inform us about their decisions. I expect to

Re: BItTorrents -- do we care?

2012-10-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/10/2012 Raphael Bircher wrote: I setting up a tracker now... http://rbircher.homeunix.org:6969 I gave it a try, but I could only get some bits from the first file (the source package); for the other running file download started but never progressed, and I got Torrent unauthorised for

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: Yes; apparently LibreOffice had not thought about this, even though it was clearly written in the guidelines that organizers would have asked to merge similar devrooms. So we'll need to wait. The organizers set Saturday as a deadline. For the record, I

Re: Consultants Directory: Update and Help Needed

2012-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: So areas where I could use help: 1) Reviewing the non-English legacy consultants for relevant ones who should be invited. German, French, Italian and Spanish volunteers are especially needed. Just post a quick request in English to ooo-progetto-it: I'll moderate

[RESULT] Re: [VOTE] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I'm hereby asking the IPMC to recommend the following resolution to the Board. Aim of the resolution is to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project as a Top Level Project. ... This vote will be open for 72 hours from now; only votes from the Incubator PMC

Re: Graduation timeline: A reminder for project members, press and list observers

2012-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Rob Weir wrote: 1) Sending a [VOTE][RESULTS] post to the IPMC list 2) Sending the proposed resolution to the board list The 72 hours just expired and I've taken care of both steps. So everything to be done

Re: Graduation timeline: A reminder for project members, press and list observers

2012-10-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Also, there are some administrative steps that we'll need to take care of over the weekend, assuming the IPMC vote passes: 1) Sending a [VOTE][RESULTS] post to the IPMC list 2) Sending the proposed resolution to the board list per these instructions:

Re: Proposed resolution: Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I've proceeded now and started the 72-hour vote on general@incubator. Quick follow-up: - Vote thread is at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201210.mbox/%3C5075C5B0.4010403%40apache.org%3E - We received some approvals, no problems

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 2012-10-11, at 24:24 , Rob Weir wrote: OK. So we've said that we're happy to share a devroom. This is good. Are we still waiting to hear from LO? Yes; apparently LibreOffice had not thought about this, even though it was clearly written in the guidelines that

Re: [PROPOSAL][WWW] style and content changes to home page

2012-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/10/2012 Kay Schenk wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/test/ ... I am invoking *lazy consensus* on these changes and put this in place sometime on Sat, PDT -- say 15:30, unless there are objections. It's nice indeed. I only see the Valid XHTML icon positioned a bit too high maybe... Is it

Re: Installation patches

2012-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/10/2012 Andre Fischer wrote: In the last days I looked into how to create installation patches for updating AOO. Using patches instead of full installation packages would lead to smaller files to distribute for updating AOO on the next release. This is really great news! A lot of users

Re: OpenOffice SVG vector graphics

2012-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/10/2012 Graham Lauder wrote: That's not verdana the bowl on the p is the wrong shape. Not sure what it is tho. Searching We needn't search. Let's ask Michael Acevedo (in CC), since the logo at http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg should be his work. Michael, do

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: And indeed this happened today: FOSDEM organizers, who received an application from Apache OpenOffice and one from LibreOffice, asked whether we can share a devroom. Of course this was already in our proposal, so I said it would be OK for us. I was allowed

Re: Proposed resolution: Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2012 Donald Harbison wrote: On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:24 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: The proposed resolution text follows. I expect to start a VOTE on it on general@incubator as soon as there is consensus (on the same list). Andrea, I believe we have established consensus here

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 10/8/12 10:59 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: I can take care of this, no problem. I'll forward the current text at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Graduation+Resolution+%28draft%29 to general@incubator in about 24 hours, unless someone asks that we wait

Proposed resolution: Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache OpenOffice Project: * Andre Fischer (af) * Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) * Andrew Rist (arist) * Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) * Armin Le Grand (alg) * Dave Fisher

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-10-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/09/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I've just sent the devroom application. ... Our availability to share a joint devroom with other projects is stated in the proposal, so it will likely happen that FOSDEM organizers consider this option and make their recommendations accordingly. And indeed

Re: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation

2012-10-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/10/2012 Dave Fisher wrote: On Oct 9, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Offering to remove the files is bizarre. What is that, slash-dot bait? ... What gets me is the attitude of Rob as a representative of IBM. Rob already clarified that removing the files would be a

Re: OpenOffice SVG vector graphics

2012-10-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Here is the Liberation font with some Condensed Bitstream on the Os. http://imagebin.org/231157 please comment. Here is the proper but with using Nimbus: http://imagebin.org/231160 It's nice to see all these

Re: SVG support in Draw [was:OpenOffice SVG vector graphics]

2012-10-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On 10/6/12, Alexandro Colorado wrote: [2]http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_Create_a_High-Quality_Chart_Using_OpenOffice.org_and_Scribus Further chat with the people on the #scribus chatroom on IRC they point me out about the way they handle SVG They are a few

Re: Afrikaans Language Pack

2012-10-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rudi Heymann wrote: Some years ago I installed OpenOffice with an Afrikaans language pack, which served my purposes excellently. Recently I upgraded OpenOffice to Version 3.4.1. However it seems that this is not available on an Afrikaans Language Pack. Could you inform me why this language pack

Re: OpenOffice SVG vector graphics

2012-10-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: I upload the OpenOffice SVG logo on pure SVG, still needs some cleanup on the nodes, but this is a 100% SVG logo. The attachment is on the cWiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/ApacheOpenOfficeTM.svg

Re: Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-10-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/10/2012 Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2012-10-03 12:42 AM Andrea Pescetti wrote: I'd like to cover this problem in the Known Issues but if there are variants of the solution it would be nice to list them all. On the forum people who were unsuccessful in correcting the issue usually didn't

Re: [WWW] Do we need a new site logo (for graduation) -- call for volunteers

2012-10-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: 2012/10/4 Kay Schenk We all love the orb with gulls, but maybe it's time for a slight update to our logo? Or the header line on our websites (project and user portal). I do not like the idea of another logo change: IMO, the last one is too recent. On the other hand, a

Re: Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/09/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 05/09/2012 Larry Gusaas wrote: Is any work being done on this serious bug on Macs OS X ver. 10.7 10.8? There have been many help requests on the user forum and on the ooo-users mailing list. I confirm we had several reports in the forum and mailing list

Re: Need Apache Member/Officer to submit list creation request (Was: [PROPOSAL] Reinvigorate extension authors community)

2012-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: Certainly ooo-...@incubator.apache.org is fine with me if that's what we all want now. But I don't know if it is too late. List names will have to be revised when we graduate anyway, so at that time we might be able to change it to whatever we agree upon.

Re: [VOTE] [PMC] Starting Membership for Apache OpenOffice PMC

2012-10-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Membership: Andre Fischer (af) Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) Andrew Rist (arist) Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) Armin Le Grand (alg) Dave Fisher (wave) Donald Harbison (dpharbison) Drew Jensen (atjensen) Ian Lynch (ingotian) Jürgen Schmidt (jsc) Kay Schenk (kschenk) Kazunari Hirano (khirano) Louis Suarez-Potts

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] PMC Chair Nominations

2012-10-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrew Rist wrote: I'll hold the discussions open for 72 hours (more if necessary). It would also be good to hear from the nominees As for me, I accept the nomination. I must say it came as a surprise to see the support of so many community members. This is very rewarding and motivating for

Re: Policy question: How to link to books about OpenOffice?

2012-10-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: One way to think of it is to treat the publisher or author (for self-published books) as the consultant in the terms of the policy. They are the ones providing the service, via their book. So we would allow linking to the author's website or the publisher's

Re: [ACEU FUNDING][DISCUSS] draft for announcing ticket discount application process

2012-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: below is my draft for the announcement of the application process for the ACEU 2012 non-Apache committer ticket discount for AOO community members. ... I am aiming to reach consensus on this announcement until Thursday afternoon in order to let the application

Re: Call for comments: Webpage for Listing OpenOffice Consultants

2012-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/09/2012 Rob Weir wrote: I have an English version, and an Italian one that is identical to the Italian version except it says Ciao in the title. For testing purposes only, of course. But if anyone wants to check in a real translations of those strings, it will be more interesting.

Re: Short questionnaire about bachelor thesis

2012-09-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/09/2012 15:56, Sebastian Tischer wrote: my name is Sebastian Tischer and I am student of business and economics at the university of technology in Dresden. Hi Sebastian, you sent variations of your message multiple times to several OpenOffice lists and from different e-mail addresses.

Re: Call for comments: Webpage for Listing OpenOffice Consultants

2012-09-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: A technical solution could be to put the strings into their own XML file, so different localized versions could be used. These would be strings like column headers, the text of the disclaimer, etc. This would be perfect, and flexible enough. Another solution would be to have

Re: [DISCUSS]: AOO 3.4.1 reflection and lessons learned

2012-09-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/09/2012 Kevin Grignon wrote: I really like to identify opportunities for improvement, capture them in a some-day-maybe list (a.k.a. opportunity backlog). ... I'd like to be able to easily and quickly capture my thoughts on ideas on things we could improve the tool. At the moment, it

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC Chair

2012-09-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Yong Lin Ma wrote: I hope other PMC members who are willing to take the Chair role do not hesitate to step up. Exactly. And about the rest, Rob and Dave clarified very well what the current phase is about, and there's no need to discuss my name further in this phase where we are collecting

Re: Call for comments: Webpage for Listing OpenOffice Consultants

2012-09-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/09/2012 Rob Weir wrote: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Draft+--+Apache+OpenOffice+Consultants+Directory I'm working on the XSLT script now. Looking good so far. Nice. From what I see, reusing it to rebuild the consultants page in the Italian website (the one

Re: [UX] [Call for review] Task Prioritization Survey Questions

2012-09-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/09/2012 Regina Henschel wrote: Kevin Grignon schrieb: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_Survey_Templates_-_Task_Prioritization The keywords in the modules are all about isolate actions, making up a matrix of 62 × 5 for spreadsheet for example. I think those things can be better

FOSDEM 2013 devroom request: Apache OpenOffice

2012-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
is definitely willing to consider a possible suggestion by the organizers for a joint ODF editors devroom, dedicated to Apache OpenOffice and to the other Free and Open Source editors using OpenDocument as their native format. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti - Apache OpenOffice PPMC.

Re: Draft Blog Post: Use the Source, Luke

2012-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/09/2012 Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=use_the_source_luke It's good, as usual, but it would feel more complete with some specific call to action, like giving potential code contributors (core, extensions) pointers to get involved. The web server

Re: Change of 'soffice' name

2012-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: +1. At least on Linux, the conflict between AOO and LibO comes from distro packaging: you can install both, AOO and the official LibO side by side without problems. Indeed. And since it's a packaging problem, distributions should take care of it. The alternatives system should

Re: [proposed PMC] call for feedback: Are you willing to serve as a PMC member?

2012-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Please provide feedback, if you are willing to serve as a PMC member. Andre Fischer (af) Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) I am willing to serve as a PMC member. Andrew Rist (arist) Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) Armin Le Grand (alg) Dave Fisher (wave) Donald

Re: Draft Blog Post: Use the Source, Luke

2012-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=use_the_source_luke What links would you recommend for someone who wanted to take their first look at the source code? Building guide, for certain. Any other good introductory information? Maybe OpenGrok

Re: [PMC] Proposed Initial PMC List and process

2012-09-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrew Rist wrote: * The list is made up of the names that received more than 3 nominations. This was a spot in the data that had a step. This produces a list of 23 names which is 'no too big, and not too small'. I had a look at numbers just to put this in context and: - The proposed 23 names

OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
FOSDEM, one of the biggest Free and Open Source Software events in Europe, is coming again on 2-3 February 2013 in Brussels. Attendance is free and, moreover, Developer Rooms can be made available upon request, but they must be requested before the end of September. See

Re: OpenOffice Developer Room (devroom) at FOSDEM

2012-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 12-09-24, at 10:52 , Rob Weir wrote: Perhaps it could be de-politicized a little more if the request is for an ODF Editors room, and do with multilateral, with LO, Calligra, AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc. I'm all for that and tried that in 2011 but not this year (2012).

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/09/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 9/24/12 10:26 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Just to confirm that I have received no offline nominations. thanks for this info, it shows that the approach was not so wrong and we had no real need for this additional option. It's still good to have had this

Re: [PROPOSAL] Mailing Pt_Br

2012-09-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Albino B Neto wrote: I search but list and not found. Kay's link works for me: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-geral-ptbr/ I didn't get the data of moderation. The moderator activity can well be zero; you will receive a message with MODERATE in the subject if there

Re: Missing Visual C++ Libraries in all recent versions of Open Office installer

2012-09-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/09/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 16/09/2012 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: the fact is that there is a bug, that has to be closed as wontfix or left open depending on a *new* one: install the MSVCRedist (which IMO is no defect, but a request for enhancement). For reference, I opened

Re: [User Docs] What do we as a community want for user documentation or AOO

2012-09-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: So I suppose what is being asked for is consensus that there will not, at this time, be any separate effort inside of the Apache OpenOffice project and the project will look to relying on the ODFAuthors site for emergence of updated User Guides. Exactly, this is how I

Re: Apache OpenOffice Awarded Two InfoWorld Bossie (Best of Open Source Software) Awards

2012-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: 2012/9/20 Andrea Pescetti Why don't you repost it to http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ then? Rob recently asked for help and indeed it would be nice to have more authors there... Well, I don't feel my English skills are good enough... my personal blog is on Spanish ;) You shouldn't

Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: 2012/9/19 Dennis E. Hamilton I recommend that the process continue. My only objection is that having secret nominations is not compatible with the Apache Way ... I recommend that no one accept nominations privately and that those who have already sent theirs via any back-channel

Re: Apache OpenOffice Awarded Two InfoWorld Bossie (Best of Open Source Software) Awards

2012-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/09/2012 RGB ES wrote: 2012/9/19 Rob Weir And now we receive awards both for the product, but also for one of the legacy web services. Yes, and it is also very interesting to notice that the Templates site is available in a dozen languages, and entirely community-driven (and by this I

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