Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 10/19/12, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I am thinking about what new project volunteers need to get started. Obviously there are area-specific things. For example, developers need to know how to download and build. Translation volunteers need to understand Pootle, etc. But there are

Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?

2012-10-21 Thread imacat
Hi, On 2012/10/21 12:19, Guy Waterval said: Hi all, 2012/10/21 Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: Hi there, is there an odp template available for AOO presentations (employing the latest AOO/ASF art work) at the upcoming Apache Con Europe

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:47 PM, jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.com wrote: 3) +1, but I will never understand why it is a mailing list and not a forum, where it is so much easier to look at history Oh please, not again... mailing lists have many advantages over web forums: 1. Speed (the

Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
Here someone wrote it better than me, on the VLC mailing list http://pastehtml.com/view/cfnt9o362.txt I would add: -No captcha to solve anywhere to join a mailing list. - No separate user-password to remember on a mailing list. - You can read it anywhere you can get e-mail - You don´t have to

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:07:24 -0300 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: -No captcha to solve anywhere to join a mailing list. - No separate user-password to remember on a mailing list. - You can read it anywhere you can get e-mail - You don´t have to conciously go fetch or look at

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-21 Thread jan iversen
Sorry, it seemed my remark sparked quite some feelings, that was not my intention ! But not having been on the list for very long, means that there a lot of history I dont have, and the mailer didnt exactly like when I tried to get all messages. During my research for a updated l10n process, I

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread David McKay
On 21/10/12 09:41, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:07:24 -0300 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: -No captcha to solve anywhere to join a mailing list. - No separate user-password to remember on a mailing list. - You can read it anywhere you can get e-mail - You don´t have

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:17 AM, jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry, it seemed my remark sparked quite some feelings, that was not my intention ! But not having been on the list for very long, means that there a lot of history I dont have, and the mailer didnt exactly like when

Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?

2012-10-21 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)
Hi imacat, On 21.10.2012 09:37, imacat wrote: I have uploaded mine. You are welcome to try it. ^_*' http://templates.openoffice.org/en/node/8932 thank you very much for sharing, looks great to me! ---rony

Re: Marketing events: Brochure? Newsletter?

2012-10-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Nancy K nancythirt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi! I have been keeping up with the discussions, but unable to participate much lately, unfortunately. In the marketing department, is there a newsletter or brochure that could be distributed at any event? Hi Nancy after

Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?

2012-10-21 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 21.10.2012 12:58, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: Hi imacat, On 21.10.2012 09:37, imacat wrote: I have uploaded mine. You are welcome to try it. ^_*' http://templates.openoffice.org/en/node/8932 thank you very much for sharing, looks great to me! Hmm, there seems to be a problem,

Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?

2012-10-21 Thread imacat
On 2012/10/21 20:13, Rony G. Flatscher said: On 21.10.2012 12:58, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: On 21.10.2012 09:37, imacat wrote: I have uploaded mine. You are welcome to try it. ^_*' http://templates.openoffice.org/en/node/8932 thank you very much for sharing, looks great to me! Hmm,

Wiki robots.txt

2012-10-21 Thread imacat
Dear all, I found the following rule in the robots.txt of our wiki: User-Agent: * Disallow: / Does any know if there is any special reason why it is set so? Does any have any reason to keep it? I'm thinking of removing this rule. This prevents legal search engines from indexing our

Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?

2012-10-21 Thread Rony G. Flatscher (Apache)
On 21.10.2012 14:50, imacat wrote: On 2012/10/21 20:13, Rony G. Flatscher said: On 21.10.2012 12:58, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: On 21.10.2012 09:37, imacat wrote: I have uploaded mine. You are welcome to try it. ^_*' http://templates.openoffice.org/en/node/8932 thank you very much

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:59 AM, David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com wrote: Technical aspects are bets handled through a mailing list; general user questions are best handled through a forum. I agree that a dual approach makes everyone happy. I should have renamed it why mailing lists should

Automatically Generated extension.update.xml

2012-10-21 Thread imacat
Dear all, I was trying to add on-line update to my extension. 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?

Re: Directory main/swext/mediawiki

2012-10-21 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Am Samstag, 20. Oktober 2012 um 23:52 schrieb Alexandro Colorado: On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:50 PM, jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.comwrote: I am a bit confused. We have a directory named main/swext/mediawiki. Is that the sun wiki publisher 1.1 or are there 2 different mediawiki

proposal for new l10n workflow

2012-10-21 Thread jan iversen
I have finally finished my proposal for a new workflow. please have a look at: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:L10procNew.pdf I have tried to implement the comments (on the document describing the existing workflow) from the community, and at the same time avoid non-essential themes that

Re: Directory main/swext/mediawiki

2012-10-21 Thread jan iversen
Now I am the one that is confused (again). Is the directory mediaWiki active or not ? SPI is an interface if I understand it right, and that is hopefully not hidden in the mediawiki directory ? jan On 21 October 2012 17:40, Juergen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Am Samstag, 20.

Re: Directory main/swext/mediawiki

2012-10-21 Thread jan iversen
I have looked for a newer source, since it was moved, but our own extensions has a broken link and sourceForge does not offer any help. Any ideas ?? It is a sun part, so we should have inherited it or not ? jan. On 20 October 2012 23:52, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Sat, Oct

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread RGB ES
2012/10/21 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:59 AM, David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com wrote: Technical aspects are bets handled through a mailing list; general user questions are best handled through a forum. I agree that a dual approach makes everyone happy. I

Re: Another logo needs updating: Get it here!

2012-10-21 Thread RGB ES
CC to Hagar, because he proposed the download logo used on the forums: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=238128#p238128 See below for more details 2012/10/21 Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com On 10/20/2012 03:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 5:09 PM, RGB ES

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:08 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/21 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:59 AM, David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com wrote: Technical aspects are bets handled through a mailing list; general user questions are best handled through

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Joe Schaefer
FWIW this is the only Apache project where forums are supported, and if a good case can be made as to why some mailing list traffic would be better served on the forums, go for it.  It's just that mailing lists are where we expect project decisions to be made because we have standard ways of

Re: [WWW] Web development in CMS

2012-10-21 Thread Dave Fisher
Alexandro, Would you be specific about the webapps that are being discussed? What is the purpose? At least point at the threads involved. Concrete examples can be discussed while abstract ones are not going to change policies. Recall that AOO already makes use of several specific webapps -

Re: Another logo needs updating: Get it here!

2012-10-21 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 21/10/2012 21:18, RGB ES a écrit : CC to Hagar, because he proposed the download logo used on the forums: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=238128#p238128 See below for more details [...] Hy, Hagar. There is a discussion on the MLs about a new download button (without

Re: Directory main/swext/mediawiki

2012-10-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 10/21/12, Juergen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Am Samstag, 20. Oktober 2012 um 23:52 schrieb Alexandro Colorado: On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:50 PM, jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.comwrote: I am a bit confused. We have a directory named main/swext/mediawiki. Is that the sun

Re: [WWW] Web development in CMS

2012-10-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 10/21/12, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Alexandro, Would you be specific about the webapps that are being discussed? What is the purpose? At least point at the threads involved. There still a lot of infrastructure needed/demanded by the many project. Applications that will

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 10/21/12, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: FWIW this is the only Apache project where forums are supported, and if a good case can be made as to why some mailing list traffic would be better served on the forums, go for it. It's just that mailing lists are where we expect

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Joe Schaefer
markmail carries all apache lists and has a great search interface. From: Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:22 PM Subject: Re: Why a mailing list is

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Kay Schenk
On 10/21/2012 01:24 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: markmail carries all apache lists and has a great search interface. Yes it does! I use it a lot! From: Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com

[PROPOSAL] download statistics

2012-10-21 Thread Kay Schenk
Are we interested in emphasizing our download statistics more by putting a link to: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ in the Additional Information list on: http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html My thought is we could add various types of download stats to the current stats page (or

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: [PROPOSAL] download statistics

2012-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Are we interested in emphasizing our download statistics more by putting a link to: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ in the Additional Information list on: http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html We can try,

Re: Need new logo for openoffice.apache.org

2012-10-21 Thread RGB ES
2012/10/21 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com KG01 - see comments inline. On Oct 21, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: [snip] But speaking for myself, I'd really like to see a comprehensive proposal, since one criticism of our current state is that we

Re: proposal for new l10n workflow

2012-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.com wrote: I have finally finished my proposal for a new workflow. please have a look at: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:L10procNew.pdf I'll take a closer look, but I did browse it quickly and had one question: Do we

Re: proposal for new l10n workflow

2012-10-21 Thread jan iversen
On 22 October 2012 00:01, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.com wrote: I have finally finished my proposal for a new workflow. please have a look at: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:L10procNew.pdf I'll take a

Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?

2012-10-21 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Guy Waterval wrote: Hi all, 2012/10/21 Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: Hi there, is there an odp template available for AOO presentations (employing the latest AOO/ASF art work) at the upcoming Apache Con Europe 2012 in Sinsheim? If so, where

Re: ACE12: odp-template for AOO-presentations ?

2012-10-21 Thread Keith N. McKenna
imacat wrote: Hi, On 2012/10/21 12:19, Guy Waterval said: Hi all, 2012/10/21 Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: Hi there, is there an odp template available for AOO presentations (employing the latest AOO/ASF art work) at the upcoming Apache Con

CMS diff: Quality Assurance

2012-10-21 Thread Yan Ji
Clone URL (Committers only): https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://openofficeorg.apache.org/openofficeorg%2Fqa.mdtext Yan Ji Index: trunk/content/openofficeorg/qa.mdtext === ---

Teaser of Mosaic Fun with OpenOffice Calc

2012-10-21 Thread imacat
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Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 21.10.2012 10:07, Fernando Cassia wrote: Here someone wrote it better than me, on the VLC mailing list http://pastehtml.com/view/cfnt9o362.txt As a matter of fact, user.forum.openoffice.org kept on working while all the lists were abandoned and the whole project was at stake. Before

Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 21.10.2012 21:36, Joe Schaefer wrote: FWIW this is the only Apache project where forums are supported, and if a good case can be made as to why some mailing list traffic would be better served on the forums, go for it. It's just that mailing lists are where we expect project decisions to