Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-07 Thread Graham Lauder
On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 08:34 -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.orgwrote: We had some earlier discussions on this. Personally, I was proposing that we take the opportunity to simplify. For example, right now we're doing all the

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-07 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 07/07/2011 11:25 AM, schrieb Graham Lauder: On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 08:34 -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Graham Lauderyori...@openoffice.orgwrote: We had some earlier discussions on this. Personally, I was proposing that we take the opportunity to simplify.

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-07 Thread Shane Curcuru
http://blogs.apache.org/ Any PPMC member can simply ask infrastructure@ to create a blog for the podling (I think that's the right list), specifying the preferred name for the blog. The PPMC should manage a list of PPMC members who have write access to the blog, and ensure that comments

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-07 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.orgwrote: On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 08:34 -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.org wrote: We had some earlier discussions on this. Personally, I was proposing that

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-07 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 07/07/2011 11:25 AM, schrieb Graham Lauder: On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 08:34 -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Graham Lauderyori...@openoffice.org** wrote: We had some earlier discussions on

Re: IDL Generation and MediaWiki [Was Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements]

2011-07-06 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Clayton, I am separating into two sub-topics: (1) IDL Generation. Thanks for the link to what the Wiki uses to create a short hand for various IDL links. This points out a very important topic that needs to be

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-06 Thread Graham Lauder
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:33 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 10:23 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: Much of what is on there is legacy material that could

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-06 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.orgwrote: On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 13:33 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 10:23 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:29 PM,

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-06 Thread Kay Schenk
On 07/06/2011 11:00 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi Kay, On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: So, keep the home page as is or find someway to get the CMS to display it, action statements intact at least. yes...I hope to investigate the Apache CMS capabilities in this regard this week.

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-05 Thread Graham Lauder
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 10:23 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: Much of what is on there is legacy material that could be seriously pruned. For instance all the old Marketing material that is V2.0 and earlier could be deleted. What would you

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 10:23 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: Much of what is on there is legacy material that could be seriously pruned.  For instance all the old Marketing

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-05 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 5, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 10:23 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: Much of what is on there is legacy material that could be

IDL Generation and MediaWiki [Was Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements]

2011-07-05 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Clayton, I am separating into two sub-topics: (1) IDL Generation. Thanks for the link to what the Wiki uses to create a short hand for various IDL links. This points out a very important topic that needs to be co-ordinated. How do those the IDL Pages get generated. This needs to be

Re: IDL Generation and MediaWiki [Was Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements]

2011-07-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Clayton, I am separating into two sub-topics: (1) IDL Generation. Thanks for the link to what the Wiki uses to create a short hand for various IDL links. This points out a very important topic that needs to be

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-05 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: As far as preparing literal books, it would help to know if the page content is stored as records in a database. That would make exporting to the book simpler, using sql to predesigned report templates. In my experience, almost no web images are

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-05 Thread Wolf Halton
I am going to do some research into *2odf in python. On Jul 5, 2011 11:57 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Wolf Halton wrote: As far as preparing literal books, it would help to know if the page content is stored as records in a database. That would

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-04 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 16:08 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 3, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Jean Weber wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 04:16, C smau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 18:53, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: A few example items... the existing/legacy MediaWiki

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread C
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 09:53, Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: -Original Message- From: C [mailto:smau...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2011 3:43 PM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements snip C. I've been told

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 07/03/2011 07:43 AM, schrieb C: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 06:29, Graham Lauderyori...@openoffice.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 12:57 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: Some projects are huge and others small. I downloaded several: wave@minotaur:~/ooo-test$ ls -1 development documentation download

RE: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Gavin McDonald
-Original Message- From: C [mailto:smau...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2011 6:00 PM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 09:53, Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: -Original

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread C
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:56, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 07/03/2011 07:43 AM, schrieb C: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 06:29, Graham Lauderyori...@openoffice.org  wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 12:57 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: Some projects are huge and others small. I downloaded

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 12:05 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 07/03/2011 11:38 AM, schrieb C: The majority of the documentation project content is not really stored in the stuff that was downloaded in this test. What you find in the web-content side is pretty much just pointers to the Wiki

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread TJ Frazier
On 7/3/2011 05:38, C wrote: I'm only speaking for the Doc Project web content. As long as the MediaWiki content is still around (and I hope it stays around), the Doc project web content move could probably be stripped down to just one HTML page and a few ZIP and PDF files that should be

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 3, 2011, at 3:51 AM, C wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:35, TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Moving the wiki is going to be a bear. I can only help with the cleanup afterward, since that merely requires some OO.o familiarity, and modest Confluence skill. The documentation in

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 2, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Raphael Bircher wrote: Am 02.07.11 23:41, schrieb Kay Schenk: OUCH! see below... On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dave Fisherdave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Yesterday I got tired of the look of people.mdtext in the project site. It was so 1990s. So, I've

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 2, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Raphael Bircher wrote: Am 03.07.11 01:30, schrieb Kay Schenk: On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Raphael Bircherr.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Am 02.07.11 23:41, schrieb Kay Schenk: OUCH! see below... On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dave Fisherdave2w...@comcast.net

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:29 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 12:57 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: Yesterday I got tired of the look of people.mdtext in the project site. It was so 1990s. So, I've improved the look via css and adding defined widths. I guess I am volunteering for the

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jul 3, 2011, at 11:16 AM, C wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 18:53, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: The short of it is.. I'll help move the MediaWiki to a new server on the Apache side (if the decision is made to do this), but I'm not interested in moving the content to Confluence

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-03 Thread Dave Fisher
...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Date: Sunday, July 3, 2011, 11:53 AM On Jul 3, 2011, at 3:51 AM, C wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 12:35, TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Moving the wiki is going to be a bear. I can

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-02 Thread Kay Schenk
OUCH! see below... On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Yesterday I got tired of the look of people.mdtext in the project site. It was so 1990s. So, I've improved the look via css and adding defined widths. I guess I am volunteering for the item on

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-02 Thread Raphael Bircher
Am 02.07.11 23:41, schrieb Kay Schenk: OUCH! see below... On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dave Fisherdave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Yesterday I got tired of the look of people.mdtext in the project site. It was so 1990s. So, I've improved the look via css and adding defined widths. I guess I

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-02 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Am 02.07.11 23:41, schrieb Kay Schenk: OUCH! see below... On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dave Fisherdave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Yesterday I got tired of the look of people.mdtext in the project site. It was so

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-02 Thread Raphael Bircher
Am 03.07.11 01:30, schrieb Kay Schenk: On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Raphael Bircherr.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Am 02.07.11 23:41, schrieb Kay Schenk: OUCH! see below... On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dave Fisherdave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Yesterday I got tired of the look of

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-02 Thread Graham Lauder
On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 12:57 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: Yesterday I got tired of the look of people.mdtext in the project site. It was so 1990s. So, I've improved the look via css and adding defined widths. I guess I am volunteering for the item on

Re: Website Content plus Look and Feel Improvements

2011-07-02 Thread C
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 06:29, Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 12:57 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: Some projects are huge and others small. I downloaded several: wave@minotaur:~/ooo-test$ ls -1 development documentation download projects www The size is