Re: Introduction
Ciao Pedro, sorry for the delay but I first had to build AOO, just to be re-acquainted with it On 05/01/2012 04:32 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Benvenuto Giuseppe! On 05/01/12 06:25, Giuseppe Castagno wrote: Hi there, a few words to introduce myself. My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy. ... Wow.. and I have to say that I was thinking just yesterday how good it would be to have *you* around ;). I am relatively new to the project but I started with some code you wrote. I did some small changes to the icc module, mostly to change the license to Apache License 2, since using copyleft for the icc profile is simply a bad idea. I have a wishlist for that module: 1 - We need to update SampleICC: the original version is just too old and is not available online anymore. Maybe the SampleICC developers may be interested in having the ICC profile as a contributed sample. I think this is the current: http://www.color.org/sampleicc.xalter It moved to 1.6.4, but I don't know if the color profile we need changed, for this we need to have a look at the relevant PDF/A ISO Norms (was ISO 19005-1:2005 plus ISO 19005-1:2005/Cor.1:2007(E)). A quick look at the ISO web tells me nothing changed wrt PDF/A-1[ab] That is: if the color profile didn't change I don't think there's a need to update it. 2- We don't really need to have the icc profile built every time and we don't have the silly limitations imposed by the GPL so I was thinking of moving the icc profile generation out of the build (maybe to tools) and have the generated profile directly in vcl. I agree, though I'm not sure how to implement it ATM. 3- It would be great if people could download and use the Adobe profile as an alternative (the stax module gives a similar option). mm, this can be changed, putting the color profile in configuration and giving the possibility to add a new one in some way (adding through an extension mechanism may be?), or do you have something else in mind? Of course changes to vcl and/or standard configuration may be needed, because currently the sRGB profile is hard-coded into vcl. Just some free-running ideas, though. If you feel like working on any of that do let me know and I will help review/commit it. Also, while not strictly mandatory, you are welcome to submit an iCLA: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf It's not as demanding as the previous SUN agreement but it is important if you want to become a committer later on. submitted to the mail address show in the ICLA itself. -- Kind Regards, Giuseppe Castagno Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu
Re: Introduction
On 05/09/12 12:47, Giuseppe Castagno wrote: Ciao Pedro, sorry for the delay but I first had to build AOO, just to be re-acquainted with it No problem ... I've been rather busy on other stuff too :). On 05/01/2012 04:32 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: ... I have a wishlist for that module: 1 - We need to update SampleICC: the original version is just too old and is not available online anymore. Maybe the SampleICC developers may be interested in having the ICC profile as a contributed sample. I think this is the current: http://www.color.org/sampleicc.xalter It moved to 1.6.4, but I don't know if the color profile we need changed, for this we need to have a look at the relevant PDF/A ISO Norms (was ISO 19005-1:2005 plus ISO 19005-1:2005/Cor.1:2007(E)). A quick look at the ISO web tells me nothing changed wrt PDF/A-1[ab] That is: if the color profile didn't change I don't think there's a need to update it. FreeBSD's LO port uses SampleICC 1.6.6. I think the library has had some fixes but honestly I am not sure how relevant the changes are. It's a matter of updating the tarball and re-adapting the patches (easier said than done as I noticed in my attempt to update apache-commons). 2- We don't really need to have the icc profile built every time and we don't have the silly limitations imposed by the GPL so I was thinking of moving the icc profile generation out of the build (maybe to tools) and have the generated profile directly in vcl. I agree, though I'm not sure how to implement it ATM. I think it's easy: we just go back to using the vcl header directly, like you did originally (inc/vcl/sRGB-IEC61966-2.1.hxx), and we have the external program overwrite the existing header . This can wait though, I think step 3 is more interesting. 3- It would be great if people could download and use the Adobe profile as an alternative (the stax module gives a similar option). mm, this can be changed, putting the color profile in configuration and giving the possibility to add a new one in some way (adding through an extension mechanism may be?), or do you have something else in mind? I was thinking about something really primitive with manual intervention in the lines of main/stax/download/README_stax-1.2.0.jar that is: if a file called main/icc/download/ sRGB_IEC61966-2-1.icc exists, it is used to generate the header, otherwise the free icc profile is generated and used for the header. This basically means that your create_sRGB_profile.cpp is split in two: one part calculates the profile if needed, another dumps the header. If you feel like working on any of that do let me know and I will help review/commit it. Also, while not strictly mandatory, you are welcome to submit an iCLA: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf It's not as demanding as the previous SUN agreement but it is important if you want to become a committer later on. submitted to the mail address show in the ICLA itself. Thanks! Pedro.
Re: Introduction from LiJian
Hi Li Jian, nice to also see you here. Best regards, Peter On 5/4/2012 2:35 PM, lijian wrote: Hi all, I'm LiJian from cs2c team of China. I am very glad to be back to Apache OpenOffice.org. I used to work on OpenOffice.org for several years, and focused on Writer Layout and Formatting as a developer role. So happy to see some old friends here and work together with you guys again. I'm interested in OpenSouce, especially in AOO, and looking forward to joining you. Best regards, 2012-05-04 lijian
Re: Introduction
Hi Giuseppe, On 01.05.2012 13:25, Giuseppe Castagno wrote: Hi there, a few words to introduce myself. My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy. I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer. I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at openoffice.org). Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF export area (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626), among them the PDF/A export (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651), on Writer I added a type of document index (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420). I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice community. great to have you on the project. I am expecting that your future work will be as valuable as your former work. Best regards, Oliver.
Re: Introduction
Hi Giuseppe, Welcome back! Helen 2012/5/1 Giuseppe Castagno giuseppe.casta...@acca-esse.eu Hi there, a few words to introduce myself. My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy. I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer. I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at openoffice.org). Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF export area (https://issues.apache.org/**ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626 ), among them the PDF/A export (https://issues.apache.org/** ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651 ), on Writer I added a type of document index (https://issues.apache.org/**ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420 ). I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice community. -- Kind Regards, Giuseppe Castagno Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu
Re: Introduction
Hi Giuseppe Am 01.05.12 13:25, schrieb Giuseppe Castagno: Hi there, a few words to introduce myself. My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy. I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer. I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at openoffice.org). Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF export area (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626), among them the PDF/A export (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651), on Writer I added a type of document index (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420). I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice community. Cool, then welcome back! Well, I don't know you, i think you was active befor my time at OOo. But the stuff you added looks realy good, Thanks for come back. Greetings Raphael -- My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/
Re: Introduction
Benvenuto Giuseppe! On 05/01/12 06:25, Giuseppe Castagno wrote: Hi there, a few words to introduce myself. My name is Giuseppe Castagno, I live in very small town near Turin, Italy. I'm 56 years old and I work as a free-lance programmer. I participated in OpenOffice.org, there I was known as beppec56 (at openoffice.org). Years back, in OpenOffice.org I implemented some stuff in the PDF export area (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=12626), among them the PDF/A export (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59651), on Writer I added a type of document index (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=53420). I am looking forward to working with the Apache OpenOffice community. Wow.. and I have to say that I was thinking just yesterday how good it would be to have *you* around ;). I am relatively new to the project but I started with some code you wrote. I did some small changes to the icc module, mostly to change the license to Apache License 2, since using copyleft for the icc profile is simply a bad idea. I have a wishlist for that module: 1 - We need to update SampleICC: the original version is just too old and is not available online anymore. Maybe the SampleICC developers may be interested in having the ICC profile as a contributed sample. 2- We don't really need to have the icc profile built every time and we don't have the silly limitations imposed by the GPL so I was thinking of moving the icc profile generation out of the build (maybe to tools) and have the generated profile directly in vcl. 3- It would be great if people could download and use the Adobe profile as an alternative (the stax module gives a similar option). If you feel like working on any of that do let me know and I will help review/commit it. Also, while not strictly mandatory, you are welcome to submit an iCLA: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf It's not as demanding as the previous SUN agreement but it is important if you want to become a committer later on. Again, absolutely welcome! Pedro.
Re: Introduction
Hi Nik Am 29.04.12 01:09, schrieb Nik Fiala: Hello, My name is Nik Fiala, i'm 21 years old and live in Switzerland. I work at a local advertising agency and study part-time business administration. I am new to coding and look forward to gain a little bit experience here. I would like to help translating the website to german. A warm welcome from my side. For all here, I know Nik since long time and will mentoring him at the first time. I'm sure he will do a good job here. Greetings Raphael
Re: Introduction Francis C. Costero
Welcome Francis. Very happy to see and your excellent contributions on behalf of the forums. Thanks! /don On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.orgwrote: Hello Francis. I noticed with enthusiasm the work that you did in cleaning up the proposal page on the Apache OOo Community Wiki. (Being slow at many things, I did not connect you with FJCC on the forums until you explained it just now!) Welcome, - Dennis E. Hamilton tools for document interoperability, http://nfoWorks.org/ dennis.hamil...@acm.org gsm: +1-206-779-9430 @orcmid -Original Message- From: F C. Costero [mailto:fjcc.apa...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 18:19 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Introduction Francis C. Costero Hello to all. I've been lurking here for a while and I'm a volunteer on the EN and ES user forums with the user names FJCC and FJCC-ES. I helped put together the proposal under discussion for bringing the forums into the Apache project. I hope I can provide some information here about the opinions on the forum, though, of course, I don't have any official standing as THE forum representative. I'm just one of the gang. Francis
RE: Introduction Francis C. Costero
Hello Francis. I noticed with enthusiasm the work that you did in cleaning up the proposal page on the Apache OOo Community Wiki. (Being slow at many things, I did not connect you with FJCC on the forums until you explained it just now!) Welcome, - Dennis E. Hamilton tools for document interoperability, http://nfoWorks.org/ dennis.hamil...@acm.org gsm: +1-206-779-9430 @orcmid -Original Message- From: F C. Costero [mailto:fjcc.apa...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 18:19 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Introduction Francis C. Costero Hello to all. I've been lurking here for a while and I'm a volunteer on the EN and ES user forums with the user names FJCC and FJCC-ES. I helped put together the proposal under discussion for bringing the forums into the Apache project. I hope I can provide some information here about the opinions on the forum, though, of course, I don't have any official standing as THE forum representative. I'm just one of the gang. Francis smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Introduction and start working
Am 09/28/2011 03:03 AM, schrieb Maho NAKATA: From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmannorwittm...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: Introduction and start working Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:08:01 +0200 Hi Nakata Maho, thanks for the welcome. Until last Friday I had a 21 iMac PowerPC on my home desk, but now it has been replaced by a new 27 iMac Intel. Thus, my PPC iMac is more or less retired, but if needed I can wake this machine up ;-) Congratulations for having Intel Mac. I still have PPC, but I really do retire to use PPC any more, too... Now I really love my new MacBookAir 11'...even I switched from FreeBSD as the Desktop OS. Wow, the world is really changing this year. :-) Marcus
Re: Introduction and start working
From: Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: Introduction and start working Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:08:01 +0200 Hi Nakata Maho, thanks for the welcome. Until last Friday I had a 21 iMac PowerPC on my home desk, but now it has been replaced by a new 27 iMac Intel. Thus, my PPC iMac is more or less retired, but if needed I can wake this machine up ;-) Congratulations for having Intel Mac. I still have PPC, but I really do retire to use PPC any more, too... Now I really love my new MacBookAir 11'...even I switched from FreeBSD as the Desktop OS. Thanks Nakata Maho Best regards, Oliver. On 20.09.2011 13:39, Maho NAKATA wrote: Hello Oliver-Rainer Wittmann I'm very happy to work with you, again, and congratulations for new position at IBM. Do you still use PPC based Mac? Recently I bought MacBookAir and it is really nice laptop. Regards, Nakata Maho 2011/9/20 Oliver-Rainer Wittmannorwittm...@googlemail.com: Hi, I am Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, living in a small town near Hamburg, Germany, and I want to join Apache OpenOffice. In the last nine years I was working in Sun's/Oracle's OpenOffice.org development team as a software developer. My main focus was on the word processing component Writer and on the OpenDocument support for this component. May be you know me from one of the last OpenOffice.org conferences (OOoCons) which I attended since 2008 as a speaker. May be you know me as o...@openoffice.org as the Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Writer project. May be you know me from the OASIS ODF TC - the technical committee which is responsible for the OpenDocument file format - on which I have been an active member since December 2006 until this early summer. After same change acceptance in the last months I have got the possibility to continue my engagement in OpenOffice, now under the Apache Foundation, as an employee of IBM. I am aiming to be a valuable contributor to this project. I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll -- take over issue 88652 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and perform the given tasks. - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. On my -- system (Windows 7) I have done a build without them and successfully installed this built version. Thus, I will provide a corresponding patch which only removes the check for the existence of these files in the configure script. I will ask others for verification on their Windows system, if a build and a following installation is still possible. Please let me know, if somebody else is already working on these things or if you have any remarks, pros, cons, ... Afterwards, I will have a closer look at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration. I will work on certain items of it starting with: - A lot of stuff is mentioned (and marked as solved) on this page which - only needs to be done as proposed and discussed on this list, but as far as I can see not yet been done. Please let me know your remarks or objections. I am looking forward to good collaboration and building close relationships. Best regards, Oliver.
Re: Introduction and start working
Am 21.09.2011 12:07, schrieb Martin Hollmichel: Hi, Am 20.09.2011 12:26, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: Hi, [...] I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll This will have some impact wrt system requirements ? Which Windows version will be affected by this change ? -- take over issue 88652 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and perform the given tasks. - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe also this will iirc have some dependencies wrt system requirements, what do you consider as minimum Windows baseline ? I would be fine with a XP System SP2, Why not SP3? Really, SP2 is a totally outdated system. Besides that, we don't need unicows.dll on any Windows XP installation, WinXP is UniCode enabled. unicows.dll ist just for Win9x. Maybe you mixed unicows.dll with the notorious uwinapi.dll that at least has some value on WinXP, though it's unclear how much. Regards, Mathias
Re: Introduction and start working
Hi, Am 20.09.2011 12:26, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: Hi, [...] I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll This will have some impact wrt system requirements ? Which Windows version will be affected by this change ? -- take over issue 88652 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and perform the given tasks. - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe also this will iirc have some dependencies wrt system requirements, what do you consider as minimum Windows baseline ? I would be fine with a XP System SP2, -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. They come from the installer SDK, On my system (Windows 7) I have done a build without them and successfully installed this built version. Thus, I will provide a corresponding patch which only removes the check for the existence of these files in the configure script. I will ask others for verification on their Windows system, if a build and a following installation is still possible. Please let me know, if somebody else is already working on these things or if you have any remarks, pros, cons, ... greetings, Martin
Re: Introduction and start working
Hi Martin, On 21.09.2011 12:07, Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, Am 20.09.2011 12:26, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: Hi, [...] I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll This will have some impact wrt system requirements ? Which Windows version will be affected by this change ? -- take over issue 88652 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and perform the given tasks. As stated in issue 88652 by Mathias, unicows.dll is no longer needed as the support for win9x has been dropped. Here, I am trusting Mathias. Is this information correct? - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe also this will iirc have some dependencies wrt system requirements, what do you consider as minimum Windows baseline ? I would be fine with a XP System SP2, I would alse be fine with Windows XP SP2 as the minimum Windows operating system as it is already stated in the building guide for Windows - http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. They come from the installer SDK, As I can see on my system (Windows 7) the files instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe are no longer included in Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express or Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 I also did not see that these files are included in an OOo installation set, if they are copied into ../external/msi/. Searching for information about the Microsoft Windows Installer - namely these executables - results that - the Microsoft Windows Installer is part of the Windows operating system since versions Windows 2000 and Windows ME. - for previous Windows versions (95, 98, 98 2nd Edition) the Microsoft Windows Installer has be manually installed. As far as I know these Windows version are no longer supported by OOo. Is this correct? Thus, I concluded that these files are no longer needed. Does anyone has further information? Thanks and best regards, Oliver greetings, Martin
Re: Introduction and start working
Hi, - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe also this will iirc have some dependencies wrt system requirements, what do you consider as minimum Windows baseline ? I would be fine with a XP System SP2, I would alse be fine with Windows XP SP2 as the minimum Windows operating system as it is already stated in the building guide for Windows - http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. They come from the installer SDK, As I can see on my system (Windows 7) the files instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe are no longer included in Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express or Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 I also did not see that these files are included in an OOo installation set, if they are copied into ../external/msi/. Searching for information about the Microsoft Windows Installer - namely these executables - results that - the Microsoft Windows Installer is part of the Windows operating system since versions Windows 2000 and Windows ME. - for previous Windows versions (95, 98, 98 2nd Edition) the Microsoft Windows Installer has be manually installed. As far as I know these Windows version are no longer supported by OOo. Is this correct? Thus, I concluded that these files are no longer needed. Does anyone has further information? I would think this depends on what version of the installer we depend, on my windows xp system I have Windows Installer 3.01 available, on my Windows 7 there is version 5 available. As always, some testing on the baselines is required. To my knowledge, just the creation of .msp (patches and service packs) requires a recent version of the installer, so if avoiding this the removal of the instmsi?.exe may be ok, Thanks and best regards, Oliver Martin greetings, Martin
consolidation of Windows Build software requirements [was: Re: Introduction and start working]
Hi Martin, On 21.09.2011 13:56, Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe also this will iirc have some dependencies wrt system requirements, what do you consider as minimum Windows baseline ? I would be fine with a XP System SP2, I would alse be fine with Windows XP SP2 as the minimum Windows operating system as it is already stated in the building guide for Windows - http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. They come from the installer SDK, As I can see on my system (Windows 7) the files instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe are no longer included in Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express or Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 I also did not see that these files are included in an OOo installation set, if they are copied into ../external/msi/. Searching for information about the Microsoft Windows Installer - namely these executables - results that - the Microsoft Windows Installer is part of the Windows operating system since versions Windows 2000 and Windows ME. - for previous Windows versions (95, 98, 98 2nd Edition) the Microsoft Windows Installer has be manually installed. As far as I know these Windows version are no longer supported by OOo. Is this correct? Thus, I concluded that these files are no longer needed. Does anyone has further information? I would think this depends on what version of the installer we depend, on my windows xp system I have Windows Installer 3.01 available, on my Windows 7 there is version 5 available. As always, some testing on the baselines is required. To my knowledge, just the creation of .msp (patches and service packs) requires a recent version of the installer, so if avoiding this the removal of the instmsi?.exe may be ok, Yes, once I have a corresponding patch ready we have to check it on the different Windows platforms. Does the current version of Apache OpenOffice allow the creation of patches and service packs? Best regards, Oliver.
Re: consolidation of Windows Build software requirements [was: Re: Introduction and start working]
Hi, Yes, once I have a corresponding patch ready we have to check it on the different Windows platforms. Does the current version of Apache OpenOffice allow the creation of patches and service packs? I don't think so and maybe we should avoid that kind of complexity at this stage, so please go ahead with testing your change, Best regards, Oliver. Martin
Re: Introduction and start working
Hello Oliver-Rainer Wittmann I'm very happy to work with you, again, and congratulations for new position at IBM. Do you still use PPC based Mac? Recently I bought MacBookAir and it is really nice laptop. Regards, Nakata Maho 2011/9/20 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com: Hi, I am Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, living in a small town near Hamburg, Germany, and I want to join Apache OpenOffice. In the last nine years I was working in Sun's/Oracle's OpenOffice.org development team as a software developer. My main focus was on the word processing component Writer and on the OpenDocument support for this component. May be you know me from one of the last OpenOffice.org conferences (OOoCons) which I attended since 2008 as a speaker. May be you know me as o...@openoffice.org as the Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Writer project. May be you know me from the OASIS ODF TC - the technical committee which is responsible for the OpenDocument file format - on which I have been an active member since December 2006 until this early summer. After same change acceptance in the last months I have got the possibility to continue my engagement in OpenOffice, now under the Apache Foundation, as an employee of IBM. I am aiming to be a valuable contributor to this project. I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll -- take over issue 88652 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and perform the given tasks. - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. On my system (Windows 7) I have done a build without them and successfully installed this built version. Thus, I will provide a corresponding patch which only removes the check for the existence of these files in the configure script. I will ask others for verification on their Windows system, if a build and a following installation is still possible. Please let me know, if somebody else is already working on these things or if you have any remarks, pros, cons, ... Afterwards, I will have a closer look at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration. I will work on certain items of it starting with: - A lot of stuff is mentioned (and marked as solved) on this page which only needs to be done as proposed and discussed on this list, but as far as I can see not yet been done. Please let me know your remarks or objections. I am looking forward to good collaboration and building close relationships. Best regards, Oliver.
Re: Introduction and start working
Hi Nakata Maho, thanks for the welcome. Until last Friday I had a 21 iMac PowerPC on my home desk, but now it has been replaced by a new 27 iMac Intel. Thus, my PPC iMac is more or less retired, but if needed I can wake this machine up ;-) Best regards, Oliver. On 20.09.2011 13:39, Maho NAKATA wrote: Hello Oliver-Rainer Wittmann I'm very happy to work with you, again, and congratulations for new position at IBM. Do you still use PPC based Mac? Recently I bought MacBookAir and it is really nice laptop. Regards, Nakata Maho 2011/9/20 Oliver-Rainer Wittmannorwittm...@googlemail.com: Hi, I am Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, living in a small town near Hamburg, Germany, and I want to join Apache OpenOffice. In the last nine years I was working in Sun's/Oracle's OpenOffice.org development team as a software developer. My main focus was on the word processing component Writer and on the OpenDocument support for this component. May be you know me from one of the last OpenOffice.org conferences (OOoCons) which I attended since 2008 as a speaker. May be you know me as o...@openoffice.org as the Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Writer project. May be you know me from the OASIS ODF TC - the technical committee which is responsible for the OpenDocument file format - on which I have been an active member since December 2006 until this early summer. After same change acceptance in the last months I have got the possibility to continue my engagement in OpenOffice, now under the Apache Foundation, as an employee of IBM. I am aiming to be a valuable contributor to this project. I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll -- take over issue 88652 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and perform the given tasks. - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. On my system (Windows 7) I have done a build without them and successfully installed this built version. Thus, I will provide a corresponding patch which only removes the check for the existence of these files in the configure script. I will ask others for verification on their Windows system, if a build and a following installation is still possible. Please let me know, if somebody else is already working on these things or if you have any remarks, pros, cons, ... Afterwards, I will have a closer look at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration. I will work on certain items of it starting with: - A lot of stuff is mentioned (and marked as solved) on this page which only needs to be done as proposed and discussed on this list, but as far as I can see not yet been done. Please let me know your remarks or objections. I am looking forward to good collaboration and building close relationships. Best regards, Oliver.
Re: Introduction and start working
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, living in a small town near Hamburg, Germany, and I want to join Apache OpenOffice. Welcome to the project, Oliver! In the last nine years I was working in Sun's/Oracle's OpenOffice.org development team as a software developer. My main focus was on the word processing component Writer and on the OpenDocument support for this component. May be you know me from one of the last OpenOffice.org conferences (OOoCons) which I attended since 2008 as a speaker. May be you know me as o...@openoffice.org as the Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Writer project. May be you know me from the OASIS ODF TC - the technical committee which is responsible for the OpenDocument file format - on which I have been an active member since December 2006 until this early summer. I hope we will see you back at OASIS as well. In particular it would be good to understand which change tracking proposal will work best for AOOo. After same change acceptance in the last months I have got the possibility to continue my engagement in OpenOffice, now under the Apache Foundation, as an employee of IBM. I am aiming to be a valuable contributor to this project. IBM? I've heard of it. They make typewriters, yes? I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll -- take over issue 88652 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and perform the given tasks. - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. On my system (Windows 7) I have done a build without them and successfully installed this built version. Thus, I will provide a corresponding patch which only removes the check for the existence of these files in the configure script. I will ask others for verification on their Windows system, if a build and a following installation is still possible. I don't know if you saw the developer education event we did a couple of weeks ago for the Linux build. It might be interesting to do something similar for the Windows build, once you have the above issues resolved. This would help us test the build documentation and build system. as well as enable more developers to help with the project. Please let me know, if somebody else is already working on these things or if you have any remarks, pros, cons, ... Afterwards, I will have a closer look at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration. I will work on certain items of it starting with: - A lot of stuff is mentioned (and marked as solved) on this page which only needs to be done as proposed and discussed on this list, but as far as I can see not yet been done. Please let me know your remarks or objections. I see that you have an iCLA on record, but are not yet a committer. You can read more about becoming a committer here: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ppmc-faqs.html I think the key thing is to participate in the dev discussions on this list and submit some high-quality patches. This should be easy for you. Think of it like an Olympic trial. Everyone, even the fastest runner in the world, still needs to try out for the team. I am looking forward to good collaboration and building close relationships. Best regards, Oliver.
Re: Introduction and start working
Hi Oliver, welcome onboard. :-) It's great to see that you got the chance to develop full time for our office product. Marcus Am 09/20/2011 12:26 PM, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: Hi, I am Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, living in a small town near Hamburg, Germany, and I want to join Apache OpenOffice. In the last nine years I was working in Sun's/Oracle's OpenOffice.org development team as a software developer. My main focus was on the word processing component Writer and on the OpenDocument support for this component. May be you know me from one of the last OpenOffice.org conferences (OOoCons) which I attended since 2008 as a speaker. May be you know me as o...@openoffice.org as the Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Writer project. May be you know me from the OASIS ODF TC - the technical committee which is responsible for the OpenDocument file format - on which I have been an active member since December 2006 until this early summer. After same change acceptance in the last months I have got the possibility to continue my engagement in OpenOffice, now under the Apache Foundation, as an employee of IBM. I am aiming to be a valuable contributor to this project. I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software requirements as given on http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll -- take over issue 88652 (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and perform the given tasks. - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. On my system (Windows 7) I have done a build without them and successfully installed this built version. Thus, I will provide a corresponding patch which only removes the check for the existence of these files in the configure script. I will ask others for verification on their Windows system, if a build and a following installation is still possible. Please let me know, if somebody else is already working on these things or if you have any remarks, pros, cons, ... Afterwards, I will have a closer look at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration. I will work on certain items of it starting with: - A lot of stuff is mentioned (and marked as solved) on this page which only needs to be done as proposed and discussed on this list, but as far as I can see not yet been done. Please let me know your remarks or objections. I am looking forward to good collaboration and building close relationships. Best regards, Oliver.
Re: Introduction and start working
Hi Oliver-Rainer! Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2011, 12:26 +0200 schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: After same change acceptance in the last months I have got the possibility to continue my engagement in OpenOffice, now under the Apache Foundation, as an employee of IBM. I am aiming to be a valuable contributor to this project. Hey, cool to know that you're here ... greetings to a small town near Hamburg :-) Cheers, Christoph
Re: [Introduction] Getting involved with Apache OOo
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the welcome. I'm bringing this thread back as I've been a little more active recently and am a new name around OOo and Apache. Some may have missed the initial post as there has been a lot of emails going through this list. Wanted to add that I've got experince with MedaWiki as well as various forum software out there (at least the administration side). Nice to have you here, Matt. You might take a read at some of the material up on our Podling website [1]. It has information about the project, decision making, how to work with the website, source control, mailing lists, wikis, etc. We have more stuff which needs to be migrated as well. You can see a fuller plan on the wiki [2] Your support and QA skills would certainly valued on this project. Are you signed up for the ooo-users list as well [3]? Regards, -Rob [1] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Transition+Planning [3] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: Matt Richards wrote: Greetings, I have been using OOo for quite some time (its been my fall back if I'm not able to use Microsoft's suite [mostly on Linux and Mac]) and am very pleased seeing it become an Apache project. While, I've not really been part of the OOo community until I heard it has been accepted into the incubator (I been lurking on the general list, [stuck around after another project I've been following got accepted into the incubator]), I'm quite interested in helping this project in anyway shape or form that my skill set is able to do so (time is also key factor). I do not have much in the way of development skill set, my primary background is in customer service, with a little bit of qa testing and a bit of linux server administration. Anyhow, I mostly wanted to introduce myself and welcome the project [Yea, I know it a bit on the late side.. I'm more of a lurker]. I've been reading a few of the discussion threads so far, very pleased with the way things are heading at this time. Thanks for reading, please let me know if I can help in shape or form at this stage. Hi Matt, If you have seen some of the threads you should know that we do what we can. Pick an item that needs doing and do it. The idea is to lead by doing. You know your skill set better than anyone here ever would. Welcome to the group. Andy -- --Matt
Re: [Introduction] Getting involved with Apache OOo
Thanks for the information. I've signed up on the users ML, though that does not appear to be that active just yet. I've not bothered to signup on any of the older existing MLs as I figure those will eventually disappear. I've given a quick glance at the current incubator website thus far. Have not dug real deep into the project migration information on the wiki (only a little bit on the wiki/forums). Still struggling a little bit here and there with learning the Apache way of things, digging around as much as I can before I bother people with questions.. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the welcome. I'm bringing this thread back as I've been a little more active recently and am a new name around OOo and Apache. Some may have missed the initial post as there has been a lot of emails going through this list. Wanted to add that I've got experince with MedaWiki as well as various forum software out there (at least the administration side). Nice to have you here, Matt. You might take a read at some of the material up on our Podling website [1]. It has information about the project, decision making, how to work with the website, source control, mailing lists, wikis, etc. We have more stuff which needs to be migrated as well. You can see a fuller plan on the wiki [2] Your support and QA skills would certainly valued on this project. Are you signed up for the ooo-users list as well [3]? Regards, -Rob [1] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Transition+Planning [3] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Matt Richards wrote: Greetings, I have been using OOo for quite some time (its been my fall back if I'm not able to use Microsoft's suite [mostly on Linux and Mac]) and am very pleased seeing it become an Apache project. While, I've not really been part of the OOo community until I heard it has been accepted into the incubator (I been lurking on the general list, [stuck around after another project I've been following got accepted into the incubator]), I'm quite interested in helping this project in anyway shape or form that my skill set is able to do so (time is also key factor). I do not have much in the way of development skill set, my primary background is in customer service, with a little bit of qa testing and a bit of linux server administration. Anyhow, I mostly wanted to introduce myself and welcome the project [Yea, I know it a bit on the late side.. I'm more of a lurker]. I've been reading a few of the discussion threads so far, very pleased with the way things are heading at this time. Thanks for reading, please let me know if I can help in shape or form at this stage. Hi Matt, If you have seen some of the threads you should know that we do what we can. Pick an item that needs doing and do it. The idea is to lead by doing. You know your skill set better than anyone here ever would. Welcome to the group. Andy -- --Matt -- --Matt
Re: [Introduction] Getting involved with Apache OOo
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the information. I've signed up on the users ML, though that does not appear to be that active just yet. I've not bothered to signup on any of the older existing MLs as I figure those will eventually disappear. I've given a quick glance at the current incubator website thus far. Have not dug real deep into the project migration information on the wiki (only a little bit on the wiki/forums). Still struggling a little bit here and there with learning the Apache way of things, digging around as much as I can before I bother people with questions.. For general Apache and Apache Way info, I'd recommend: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html http://community.apache.org/newcomers/index.html http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html (and note the link to the video in the comments) On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the welcome. I'm bringing this thread back as I've been a little more active recently and am a new name around OOo and Apache. Some may have missed the initial post as there has been a lot of emails going through this list. Wanted to add that I've got experince with MedaWiki as well as various forum software out there (at least the administration side). Nice to have you here, Matt. You might take a read at some of the material up on our Podling website [1]. It has information about the project, decision making, how to work with the website, source control, mailing lists, wikis, etc. We have more stuff which needs to be migrated as well. You can see a fuller plan on the wiki [2] Your support and QA skills would certainly valued on this project. Are you signed up for the ooo-users list as well [3]? Regards, -Rob [1] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Transition+Planning [3] http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Matt Richards wrote: Greetings, I have been using OOo for quite some time (its been my fall back if I'm not able to use Microsoft's suite [mostly on Linux and Mac]) and am very pleased seeing it become an Apache project. While, I've not really been part of the OOo community until I heard it has been accepted into the incubator (I been lurking on the general list, [stuck around after another project I've been following got accepted into the incubator]), I'm quite interested in helping this project in anyway shape or form that my skill set is able to do so (time is also key factor). I do not have much in the way of development skill set, my primary background is in customer service, with a little bit of qa testing and a bit of linux server administration. Anyhow, I mostly wanted to introduce myself and welcome the project [Yea, I know it a bit on the late side.. I'm more of a lurker]. I've been reading a few of the discussion threads so far, very pleased with the way things are heading at this time. Thanks for reading, please let me know if I can help in shape or form at this stage. Hi Matt, If you have seen some of the threads you should know that we do what we can. Pick an item that needs doing and do it. The idea is to lead by doing. You know your skill set better than anyone here ever would. Welcome to the group. Andy -- --Matt -- --Matt
Re: Introduction
Hi, Joost, On 9/4/2011 07:04, Joost Andrae wrote: Hi, I'd like to introduce myself: My name is Joost Andrae and I live in Hamburg, Germany. I was working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org full time since I joined StarDivision as QA engineer in 1995. This was the time when StarOffice development started. Since several years I'm working as program manager to coordinate development efforts, to do some presales negotiations, to be contact for partners and doing a lot of other things. Besides I've been involved as QA engineer into agile development (SCRUM) of a web application. My main field of activity was the Calc spreadsheet application, the Math formula editor and the Chart application. Furthermore I was involved into QA/testing of all client server and web based StarOffice development as well as into server based products like the document converter application and the SDK. The crash reporting functionality was also one of my babies which I tested, QA'ed and administered. At the time I mainly worked as QA engineer I also tested font and printing technology used within SO/OOo as well as I did performance and memory tuning measurements of the application. I'm involved into QA (as QA Co-lead), l10n (coordinating QA) and i18n (RTL, CTL) efforts as well as I cared about the download infrastructure (mirror network and Bouncer/MirrorBrain), the download pages and releases of the en-US versions. I join as an individual, not as an Oracle employee. This and all future posts from me do not reflect any company opinion that I am affiliated with. These posts reflect my private opinion only. Kind regards, Joost By a remarkable coincidence, I just added a line to the Site-QA plan[1] about the crash-reporting facility. If you want to jump right in, you could add some useful details there, about where the receiving facility is hosted, and who controls it. We (AOOo) have to plan on re-hosting it. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Site-QA-Plan -- /tj/
Re: Introduction
Welcome on board. Great to see you here. :-) Marcus Am 09/04/2011 01:04 PM, schrieb Joost Andrae: Hi, I'd like to introduce myself: My name is Joost Andrae and I live in Hamburg, Germany. I was working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org full time since I joined StarDivision as QA engineer in 1995. This was the time when StarOffice development started. Since several years I'm working as program manager to coordinate development efforts, to do some presales negotiations, to be contact for partners and doing a lot of other things. Besides I've been involved as QA engineer into agile development (SCRUM) of a web application. My main field of activity was the Calc spreadsheet application, the Math formula editor and the Chart application. Furthermore I was involved into QA/testing of all client server and web based StarOffice development as well as into server based products like the document converter application and the SDK. The crash reporting functionality was also one of my babies which I tested, QA'ed and administered. At the time I mainly worked as QA engineer I also tested font and printing technology used within SO/OOo as well as I did performance and memory tuning measurements of the application. I'm involved into QA (as QA Co-lead), l10n (coordinating QA) and i18n (RTL, CTL) efforts as well as I cared about the download infrastructure (mirror network and Bouncer/MirrorBrain), the download pages and releases of the en-US versions. I join as an individual, not as an Oracle employee. This and all future posts from me do not reflect any company opinion that I am affiliated with. These posts reflect my private opinion only. Kind regards, Joost
Re: Introduction
Hi TJ, I'm not sure if the backend infrastructure of the crash reporter can be hosted outside a trusted network and it's fairly complex as it contains debugging systems for all platforms available, as well as a big database which is tied to the Hamburg build infrastructure and it stores terabytes of debug information of mostly all builds done in Hamburg. The backend logic afaik is not opensourced. If there is a deep interest into this then someone at Apache needs to negotiate this with people involved. Most information about the communication (XML file format and Soap communication) from OOo to the backend can be read here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CrashReporting By a remarkable coincidence, I just added a line to the Site-QA plan[1] about the crash-reporting facility. If you want to jump right in, you could add some useful details there, about where the receiving facility is hosted, and who controls it. We (AOOo) have to plan on re-hosting it. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Site-QA-Plan Kind regards, Joost
Re: Introduction
On 9/4/2011 07:56, Joost Andrae wrote: Hi TJ, I'm not sure if the backend infrastructure of the crash reporter can be hosted outside a trusted network and it's fairly complex as it contains debugging systems for all platforms available, as well as a big database which is tied to the Hamburg build infrastructure and it stores terabytes of debug information of mostly all builds done in Hamburg. The backend logic afaik is not opensourced. If there is a deep interest into this then someone at Apache needs to negotiate this with people involved. Most information about the communication (XML file format and Soap communication) from OOo to the backend can be read here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/CrashReporting By a remarkable coincidence, I just added a line to the Site-QA plan[1] about the crash-reporting facility. If you want to jump right in, you could add some useful details there, about where the receiving facility is hosted, and who controls it. We (AOOo) have to plan on re-hosting it. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Site-QA-Plan Kind regards, Joost Thank you very much for the info: it's exactly what somebody is going to need to know. I have quoted it on the wiki, so it doesn't get lost. Not being a developer here (ASF or OOo), I'm just trying to make sure that stuff doesn't fall through the cracks. -- /tj/ I'm a bit out of date as a developer; what assembly language is all this stuff in? I know a lot of them: RCA 501, 301; IBM 7090, 1401, 360; CDC 6000; even 8080 and 6502. Those desktop dinky-toys are cute, but they'll never amount to anything. ;-)
Re: Introduction
Hello Joost-- We can certainly use your valuable insights, and I'm sure you have MANY! On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I'd like to introduce myself: My name is Joost Andrae and I live in Hamburg, Germany. I was working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org full time since I joined StarDivision as QA engineer in 1995. This was the time when StarOffice development started. Since several years I'm working as program manager to coordinate development efforts, to do some presales negotiations, to be contact for partners and doing a lot of other things. Besides I've been involved as QA engineer into agile development (SCRUM) of a web application. My main field of activity was the Calc spreadsheet application, the Math formula editor and the Chart application. Furthermore I was involved into QA/testing of all client server and web based StarOffice development as well as into server based products like the document converter application and the SDK. The crash reporting functionality was also one of my babies which I tested, QA'ed and administered. At the time I mainly worked as QA engineer I also tested font and printing technology used within SO/OOo as well as I did performance and memory tuning measurements of the application. I'm involved into QA (as QA Co-lead), l10n (coordinating QA) and i18n (RTL, CTL) efforts as well as I cared about the download infrastructure (mirror network and Bouncer/MirrorBrain), the download pages and releases of the en-US versions. I join as an individual, not as an Oracle employee. This and all future posts from me do not reflect any company opinion that I am affiliated with. These posts reflect my private opinion only. Kind regards, Joost -- --- MzK Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -- Victor Hugo
Re: [Introduction] Getting involved with Apache OOo
Matt Richards wrote: Greetings, I have been using OOo for quite some time (its been my fall back if I'm not able to use Microsoft's suite [mostly on Linux and Mac]) and am very pleased seeing it become an Apache project. While, I've not really been part of the OOo community until I heard it has been accepted into the incubator (I been lurking on the general list, [stuck around after another project I've been following got accepted into the incubator]), I'm quite interested in helping this project in anyway shape or form that my skill set is able to do so (time is also key factor). I do not have much in the way of development skill set, my primary background is in customer service, with a little bit of qa testing and a bit of linux server administration. Anyhow, I mostly wanted to introduce myself and welcome the project [Yea, I know it a bit on the late side.. I'm more of a lurker]. I've been reading a few of the discussion threads so far, very pleased with the way things are heading at this time. Thanks for reading, please let me know if I can help in shape or form at this stage. Hi Matt, If you have seen some of the threads you should know that we do what we can. Pick an item that needs doing and do it. The idea is to lead by doing. You know your skill set better than anyone here ever would. Welcome to the group. Andy
Re: Introduction
Hi Tora, I'm pleased to e-meet you here and I'm hoping there will be an OOoCon again to meet in person. Best regards, Peter On 23.06.2011 20:09, tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote: Hi all, I'd like to introduce myself, too. I'm Takamichi Akiyama from Japan. I transferred to Sun Microsystems in 1999 with 8 year work experience in telephone exchange system. In Sun I was in charge of StarOffice development from 2000 to 2003 with colleges in Beijing, Seoul, India, California, not to mention, people in Hamburg. My area was especially for North East Asian culture such as vertical writing, grid layout, i18n, l10n, as well as quality assurance, translating documents, UI, and online help. Because of focusing on Asian culture and being a UNIX lover from SunOS, I am highly interested in sw, sc, vcl, sal, i18npool, and relevant modules such as svx, sfx2, tools, framework, ... and am eager to help system-wide performance improvement with OpenOffice.org. I use C, C++, Perl, Ruby, XSLT, PHP, JavaScript, OpenOffice.org BASIC, ... As you might notice, I am not very familiar with Windows, though. After quitting Sun, I moved to Berkeley, California in the US to learn English, met people there, and started Capoeira, Brazilian martial arts, as my life-time activity. With invaluable treasures from the US, I came back to Japan and started my own business as self-employed to technically support OpenOffice.org users by providing patches for their special needs and/or bugs. Through such efforts I have been successfully contributing to the OpenOffice.org project for nearly decade. Best regards, Tora --- Nickname: Tora Real name: Takamichi Akiyama Co-Lead of mirror subproject at the former OpenOffice.org http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Tora
Re: Introduction
Hello Raphael, good having you around here. Peter On 24.06.2011 15:42, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi at all My name is Raphael Bircher and living in Switzerland. The moast of the peoples knows me already. I'm in the OOo Community since the End 2005. I doing QA, Web Stuff, and sametimes I try to do a little bit coding. I've all teached myself, programming experiences and also my bad developer english (without OOo I think I had never learned english). My work for OOo was: - Help by the release QA for the german NLC - Bughunting, IssueTracker cleaning - QA for Mac during and after Aqua porting - Automated Testing - QA the Mac OS X Langpacks - Mentoring new peoples in QA - QA and scripting for the OOo Website - Evaluate problems depended to the Kenai migration. - Dedecting wrong subscribe links during the kenai migration with a script (over 30'000 pages checked) - A portable OpenOffice.org for Mac (never published) Non tecnical stuff - New Member recruting (same of the hardest jobs at OpenOffice.org) - Particip at souveral Events (at the moment no time, see below) - initial and founding Member of OpenOffice.org Switzerland (now saffos swiss assossiacion for free and fair software solutions) I'm no longer member of this assossiacion, but I have contact to it. Work at the moment - Helping by the migration to Apache - 64 bit Version of OOo for Mac And if sameone believe, that my live is filled with OpenOffice.org only, then you are wrong. I have a much bigger passion as OpenOffice.org. It's Sport. I have had many difficult time in my live. I was born with a strong physical handicap called ICP, I had cancer in the year 2005/2006, but nothing of this things blocks me out in sport. My main sport is floorball, this is a hockey sport wich is realy popular in Sweeden Finland Czach Rebublik and Switzerland. I play it for about 20 years now. But sport is for me much more then fun, it's a way of therapy for my handicap and it's a good way to show the people that much mor is possible as you expect. I train 6 times per week and sametimes more. This is the reason why I have not the time to particip at events for OOo. I hope you can respect this. For all who want to see me play, I have a video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBx08dH1Sj0) Back to OOo, what's my reason to particip on it. Because of the sport and also because social assurance issue it's not easy for me to work for money (in this case Switzerland is a complicate and same times paradox Country). But I can't only sit here, and wait for the next training. I have to do samething in the free time, and I like to do same thing that is usfull for all. I think OpenOffice.org is a good thing to du this. The work on the computer is a good alternation to the hard work on the sportfield. Also I want to keep open the door to the world of IT, even I don't know if I would work as professional IT in future. I tend more to going direction motivation coaching, sport coach or samething like that. Anyway, the next five years I will make sport, and that's my first priority. In this time I will also particip to OOo. We had a realy hard time at our project, and sametimes it realy hurt wat's going on the last 12 month. Now we see a light and I realy hope that we take the chance. I want to finish my introduction with a little philosophical quote from myself. This quote I said as I was in the hospital with cancer and a survey chance between 30 and 50 %. Im grössten Tief ist der Anfang deines grössten Hochs, du wächst mit den negativen und nicht mit den positiven Momenten Translation to english In the deepest deep is the beginning of your biggest heighlight, you growing up with the bad and not with the good things. Greetings Raphael
Re: Introduction
Hi Peter, nice to meet YOU ;-) ## Manfred - (android) mobil - please excuse typos Am 03.07.2011 08:56 schrieb Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org: Hello Raphael, good having you around here. Peter On 24.06.2011 15:42, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi at all My name is Raphael Bircher and living in Switzerland. The moast of the peoples knows me already. I'm in the OOo Community since the End 2005. I doing QA, Web Stuff, and sametimes I try to do a little bit coding. I've all teached myself, programming experiences and also my bad developer english (without OOo I think I had never learned english). My work for OOo was: - Help by the release QA for the german NLC - Bughunting, IssueTracker cleaning - QA for Mac during and after Aqua porting - Automated Testing - QA the Mac OS X Langpacks - Mentoring new peoples in QA - QA and scripting for the OOo Website - Evaluate problems depended to the Kenai migration. - Dedecting wrong subscribe links during the kenai migration with a script (over 30'000 pages checked) - A portable OpenOffice.org for Mac (never published) Non tecnical stuff - New Member recruting (same of the hardest jobs at OpenOffice.org) - Particip at souveral Events (at the moment no time, see below) - initial and founding Member of OpenOffice.org Switzerland (now saffos swiss assossiacion for free and fair software solutions) I'm no longer member of this assossiacion, but I have contact to it. Work at the moment - Helping by the migration to Apache - 64 bit Version of OOo for Mac And if sameone believe, that my live is filled with OpenOffice.org only, then you are wrong. I have a much bigger passion as OpenOffice.org. It's Sport. I have had many difficult time in my live. I was born with a strong physical handicap called ICP, I had cancer in the year 2005/2006, but nothing of this things blocks me out in sport. My main sport is floorball, this is a hockey sport wich is realy popular in Sweeden Finland Czach Rebublik and Switzerland. I play it for about 20 years now. But sport is for me much more then fun, it's a way of therapy for my handicap and it's a good way to show the people that much mor is possible as you expect. I train 6 times per week and sametimes more. This is the reason why I have not the time to particip at events for OOo. I hope you can respect this. For all who want to see me play, I have a video on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBx08dH1Sj0) Back to OOo, what's my reason to particip on it. Because of the sport and also because social assurance issue it's not easy for me to work for money (in this case Switzerland is a complicate and same times paradox Country). But I can't only sit here, and wait for the next training. I have to do samething in the free time, and I like to do same thing that is usfull for all. I think OpenOffice.org is a good thing to du this. The work on the computer is a good alternation to the hard work on the sportfield. Also I want to keep open the door to the world of IT, even I don't know if I would work as professional IT in future. I tend more to going direction motivation coaching, sport coach or samething like that. Anyway, the next five years I will make sport, and that's my first priority. In this time I will also particip to OOo. We had a realy hard time at our project, and sametimes it realy hurt wat's going on the last 12 month. Now we see a light and I realy hope that we take the chance. I want to finish my introduction with a little philosophical quote from myself. This quote I said as I was in the hospital with cancer and a survey chance between 30 and 50 %. Im grössten Tief ist der Anfang deines grössten Hochs, du wächst mit den negativen und nicht mit den positiven Momenten Translation to english In the deepest deep is the beginning of your biggest heighlight, you growing up with the bad and not with the good things. Greetings Raphael
Re: Introduction: Jin Hua, Chen
Hello Jin Hua. Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project. I see that you already have an Apache ID. This is good. Could you add a row for yourself to this page: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html Instructions for editing the webpage are here: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/docs/edit-cms.html Also, since are a member of the Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC) you should sign up for the ooo-private list by sending an email to: ooo-private-subscr...@incubator.apache.org Regards, -Rob On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Jin Hua Chen chenj...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Hi ALL, I am an IBMer from BeiJing, China. It is great to be part of such a vital community. I have been Lotus Symphony developer and tech lead in the past 7 years. Now I am working as Lotus Symphony Presentation lead, focusing on common used feature development and usability enhancement. I had been working for Lotus Symphony programmability and Symphony Eclipse integration before. I am quite impressed by the powerful capability of OpenOffice.org, hopefully we will have more brilliant future with Apache OpenOffice. Thanks Best Regards! Jin Hua Chen IBM China Software Development LAB, Beijing tel.: (8610)82452776 fax: (8610)82451161 e-mail: chenj...@cn.ibm.com 2/F, 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193
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Welcome to the project, Mouette. It is good to see that we have a Solaris expert here, to help with that port. We also have BSD members, and of course Windows and Linux. But do we have a Mac programmer on board? -Rob On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:47 PM, L'oiseau de mer oiseau...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am Mouette Yang, and i also is a OpenOffice and Solaris user. I hope i can help to build OpenOffice in the Solaris x86 platform and package it. And Testing. I am happy anout this project can continuing.
Re: Introduction: Wolf Halton
Hi Rob, I do network security, and I am learning to do application security. I coauthored a penetration testing book for entry-level security people in 2007. Last year I published some preliminary work on cloud security. Wolf On Jun 29, 2011 8:18 AM, Rob Weir apa...@robweir.com wrote: Hi Wolf, Welcome to the project. What kind of security work do you do? One thing we have not discussed on this list, is security. As we all know, Microsoft Office has been a vector for security exploits for many years, with macro viruses, etc. They presence of mobile code in the form of macros, embedded in documents that are mailed around, combined with the ubiquity of MS Office, this makes it an attractive target. If we're successful with Apache OpenOffice, and it grows to have a much larger market share, then it is reasonable to expect that it will also become attractive to crackers. We should be planning for this, and make such enhancements in OO that will help users (and corporate IT departments) manage these risks. Regards, -Rob On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Y'all! I have been a user and evangelist of openoffice.org since star office appeared. I am a security specialist, linux engineer and tech school instructor. I develop and manage web sites as well, and am a python and web programmer. Wolf Halton
Re: Introduction
Welcome, Mouette! Mouette is a very active, hard-working, hardcore member of our local Taiwan OpenOffice.org community. He is also an active member of the OpenSolaris community. It is very nice to have him here. Mouette is working on OpenOffice.org Solaris/OpenSolaris port now. I am looking forward to his contribution. And about the MacOS expert: I think Eric Bachard from EducOOo is also on this list, isn't he yet? He is the one that forwarded me the information to join the list of initial committers. He is the first OpenOffice.org MacOS porter, and had successfully ported OpenOffice.org onto OLPC SugerOS. He would be of our great help. On 2011/06/29 20:13, Rob Weir said: Welcome to the project, Mouette. It is good to see that we have a Solaris expert here, to help with that port. We also have BSD members, and of course Windows and Linux. But do we have a Mac programmer on board? -Rob On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:47 PM, L'oiseau de mer oiseau...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am Mouette Yang, and i also is a OpenOffice and Solaris user. I hope i can help to build OpenOffice in the Solaris x86 platform and package it. And Testing. I am happy anout this project can continuing. -- Best regards, imacat ^_*' ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc Woman's Voice News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/ Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://wofoss.blogspot.com/ OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/ EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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Thanks! I hope I can contribute in terms of UI/UX. B.O.B. Port-folia IlustreBOB.com.br (http://IlustreBOB.com.br) — twitter.com/IlustreBOB (http://twitter.com/IlustreBOB) On quarta-feira, 29 de junho de 2011 at 09:11, Rob Weir wrote: Very nice portfolio, Bruno. I like your work. -Rob On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Bruno O. Barros meunomee...@gmail.com (mailto:meunomee...@gmail.com) wrote: Hello, I'm a brazilian graphic designer and hope I can help you guys develop an even nicer OpenOffice. Lately I've been working on the UI/UX of a couple of iOS apps and I have some experience on webdesign. My portfolio: http://ilustrebob.com.br/ (unfortunately it's in pt-BR) Thanks, B.O.B. Portfolio IlustreBOB.com.br (http://IlustreBOB.com.br) — twitter.com/IlustreBOB (http://twitter.com/IlustreBOB)
Re: Introduction
Hi Rolf Thanks for introduce your self here on the list. Maybe you can join the de list too. if you ar not already there. You will find the lists under http://de.openoffice.org/about-ooo/about-mailinglist.html Greetings Raphael Am 27.06.11 08:12, schrieb Rolf Eder: Hi, I like to introduce my self. My name is Rolf Eder (reder at apache.org). I have professional experience with OpenOffice.org since 2007. I was and I am responsible for transition away from MS Office, roll-out and support for +50 clients in our company (WinXP and Mac OS with OOo 3.3). My main focus is integration of OOo in ERP system workflows, development of Base dbs for office use, macro programming, design of templates for office use etc. I am willing to volunteer for the QA team (German and/or English). Sorry, no real-world dev skills. My FORTRAN know-how back from university work won't count here I presume :-) Greetings -- My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/
Re: Introduction
Am 27.06.2011 um 09:35 schrieb Raphael Bircher: Thanks for introduce your self here on the list. Maybe you can join the de list too. if you ar not already there. You will find the lists under http://de.openoffice.org/about-ooo/about-mailinglist.html Hi Raphael, does that make sense? de-qa seems dead (last msg in apr) and de-dev dies slowly (current issue is a long thread about OOo vs LO). I followed LO and thought about joining the TDF but in my summary their move was politically motivated. I'm not interested in joining historical bashing but I am looking forward in the evolution of OOo. It's a pity OOo as a project is jeopardized by a struggle about license agreements but I can live with Apache and will support this fork. Of course I would welcome if both projects would merge. Speaking from a companies point of view: You cannot change your operating environment by every development movement - even if you are strong supporter of open source. That will drive your users crazy and doubles your effort and costs. Office software is based on long-term considerations. Enough with politics, please. ;-) Greetings Raphael Am 27.06.11 08:12, schrieb Rolf Eder: Hi, I like to introduce my self. My name is Rolf Eder (reder at apache.org). I have professional experience with OpenOffice.org since 2007. I was and I am responsible for transition away from MS Office, roll-out and support for +50 clients in our company (WinXP and Mac OS with OOo 3.3). My main focus is integration of OOo in ERP system workflows, development of Base dbs for office use, macro programming, design of templates for office use etc. I am willing to volunteer for the QA team (German and/or English). Sorry, no real-world dev skills. My FORTRAN know-how back from university work won't count here I presume :-) Greetings -- My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/ -- Rolf Eder EDV-Leiter _ Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstätten Glonn GmbH Co. KG Herrmannsdorf 7, D-85625 Glonn, http://www.herrmannsdorfer.de Amtsgericht München HRA 81612; persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin: Beteiligungsgesellschaft Karl Schweisfurth mbH, 85625 Glonn, Amtsgericht München HRB 159629, Geschäftsführer: Karl Schweisfurth Tel. 08093-9094-37, mobil 01511-6787500 e...@herrmannsdorfer.de __ HERRMANNSDORFER - Handgemachte Lebens-Mittel in Ökologischer Qualität
Re: Introduction
+1 On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Rolf Eder e...@herrmannsdorfer.de wrote: Am 27.06.2011 um 09:35 schrieb Raphael Bircher: Thanks for introduce your self here on the list. Maybe you can join the de list too. if you ar not already there. You will find the lists under http://de.openoffice.org/about-ooo/about-mailinglist.html Hi Raphael, does that make sense? de-qa seems dead (last msg in apr) and de-dev dies slowly (current issue is a long thread about OOo vs LO). I followed LO and thought about joining the TDF but in my summary their move was politically motivated. I'm not interested in joining historical bashing but I am looking forward in the evolution of OOo. It's a pity OOo as a project is jeopardized by a struggle about license agreements but I can live with Apache and will support this fork. Of course I would welcome if both projects would merge. Speaking from a companies point of view: You cannot change your operating environment by every development movement - even if you are strong supporter of open source. That will drive your users crazy and doubles your effort and costs. Office software is based on long-term considerations. Enough with politics, please. ;-) Greetings Raphael Am 27.06.11 08:12, schrieb Rolf Eder: Hi, I like to introduce my self. My name is Rolf Eder (reder at apache.org). I have professional experience with OpenOffice.org since 2007. I was and I am responsible for transition away from MS Office, roll-out and support for +50 clients in our company (WinXP and Mac OS with OOo 3.3). My main focus is integration of OOo in ERP system workflows, development of Base dbs for office use, macro programming, design of templates for office use etc. I am willing to volunteer for the QA team (German and/or English). Sorry, no real-world dev skills. My FORTRAN know-how back from university work won't count here I presume :-) Greetings -- My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/ -- Rolf Eder EDV-Leiter _ Herrmannsdorfer Landwerkstätten Glonn GmbH Co. KG Herrmannsdorf 7, D-85625 Glonn, http://www.herrmannsdorfer.de Amtsgericht München HRA 81612; persönlich haftende Gesellschafterin: Beteiligungsgesellschaft Karl Schweisfurth mbH, 85625 Glonn, Amtsgericht München HRB 159629, Geschäftsführer: Karl Schweisfurth Tel. 08093-9094-37, mobil 01511-6787500 e...@herrmannsdorfer.de __ HERRMANNSDORFER - Handgemachte Lebens-Mittel in Ökologischer Qualität
Re: Introduction
Am 27.06.2011 um 13:07 schrieb michael: There is no traffic on the de-qa mailinglist, because Mechtilde don't want to talk to herself ;-). Volunteers for the qa in the germanophone communtity are badly needed. If you don't want to awake the still sleeping de-qa mailinglist ;-), de-dev is the best place to discuss in german language how you can support qa. OK. I subscribed de-qa and introduced myself there to avoid the noise on de-dev. If it turns out de-qa is clinically dead, I will approach de-dev if necessary. Greetings -- Rolf Eder
Re: Introduction
Hi Ivo, I am very happy to see you, the L10N guy, here. :) I am looking forward to seeing your L10N builds and working on the Continuous L10N. :) Thanks, khirano
Re: Introduction
Hi Tora-- Thanks for the intro and a good reminder to all of us about the mirrors project! h. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:09 AM, tora - Takamichi Akiyama t...@openoffice.org wrote: Hi all, I'd like to introduce myself, too. I'm Takamichi Akiyama from Japan. I transferred to Sun Microsystems in 1999 with 8 year work experience in telephone exchange system. In Sun I was in charge of StarOffice development from 2000 to 2003 with colleges in Beijing, Seoul, India, California, not to mention, people in Hamburg. My area was especially for North East Asian culture such as vertical writing, grid layout, i18n, l10n, as well as quality assurance, translating documents, UI, and online help. Because of focusing on Asian culture and being a UNIX lover from SunOS, I am highly interested in sw, sc, vcl, sal, i18npool, and relevant modules such as svx, sfx2, tools, framework, ... and am eager to help system-wide performance improvement with OpenOffice.org. I use C, C++, Perl, Ruby, XSLT, PHP, JavaScript, OpenOffice.org BASIC, ... As you might notice, I am not very familiar with Windows, though. After quitting Sun, I moved to Berkeley, California in the US to learn English, met people there, and started Capoeira, Brazilian martial arts, as my life-time activity. With invaluable treasures from the US, I came back to Japan and started my own business as self-employed to technically support OpenOffice.org users by providing patches for their special needs and/or bugs. Through such efforts I have been successfully contributing to the OpenOffice.org project for nearly decade. Best regards, Tora --- Nickname: Tora Real name: Takamichi Akiyama Co-Lead of mirror subproject at the former OpenOffice.org http://wiki.services.**openoffice.org/wiki/User:Torahttp://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Tora -- --- MzK He's got that New Orleans thing crawling all over him, that good stuff, that 'We Are the Champions', to hell with the rest and I'll just start over kind of attitude. — 1 Dead in the Attic, Chris Rose
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Hello Kay, Nice to see you again! :-) Tora On 2011/06/24 0:45, Kay Schenk wrote: Hi Tora-- Thanks for the intro and a good reminder to all of us about the mirrors project! h. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Introduction
On 23 Jun 2011, at 23:15, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi, Before I wade through the 908 messages that I pulled from the archive let me introduce myself briefly (you may already have read some of the following elsewhere..) I live in Hamburg, Germany. I was working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org full time since I joined StarDivision in 1993, and the StarCalc spreadsheet application's team in 1994. My main field of activity is the Calc spreadsheet core engine, formula compiler and interpreter. I'm also deeply involved with the OpenOffice.org internationalization (i18n) framework, partly arisen from the various needs of the number parser/formatter used in Calc and other OOo applications, coordinating the related work. Support of new locales, enhancements and changes to locale data are my main interest there. Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet application project. Co-Lead of the localization (l10n) project for the i18n framework. Since 2006 I'm a member of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) committee, mainly working on the formula specification (OpenFormula aka ODFF). Since 2008 a (passive) liaison member of the Unicode Consortium, representing OpenOffice.org. Since 2010 an elected member of the OpenOffice.org Community Council. I love sailing offshore and cycling onshore. I'm known on the net as erAck. I join as an individual, not as an Oracle employee. OOo is my baby and I'd like to further nurture and support its development now that it left parental home after 18 years ;-) My dream is a collaboration between LO and OOo. Eike Great to hear from you again, Eike. While my association with OOo is shorter and smaller than yours (and most of the other Hamburg friends who have said hello here) I share your dream :-) S.
Re: Introduction
Same here. Great to see you here, Eike. /don On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 23 Jun 2011, at 23:15, Eike Rathke wrote: Hi, Before I wade through the 908 messages that I pulled from the archive let me introduce myself briefly (you may already have read some of the following elsewhere..) I live in Hamburg, Germany. I was working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org full time since I joined StarDivision in 1993, and the StarCalc spreadsheet application's team in 1994. My main field of activity is the Calc spreadsheet core engine, formula compiler and interpreter. I'm also deeply involved with the OpenOffice.org internationalization (i18n) framework, partly arisen from the various needs of the number parser/formatter used in Calc and other OOo applications, coordinating the related work. Support of new locales, enhancements and changes to locale data are my main interest there. Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet application project. Co-Lead of the localization (l10n) project for the i18n framework. Since 2006 I'm a member of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) committee, mainly working on the formula specification (OpenFormula aka ODFF). Since 2008 a (passive) liaison member of the Unicode Consortium, representing OpenOffice.org. Since 2010 an elected member of the OpenOffice.org Community Council. I love sailing offshore and cycling onshore. I'm known on the net as erAck. I join as an individual, not as an Oracle employee. OOo is my baby and I'd like to further nurture and support its development now that it left parental home after 18 years ;-) My dream is a collaboration between LO and OOo. Eike Great to hear from you again, Eike. While my association with OOo is shorter and smaller than yours (and most of the other Hamburg friends who have said hello here) I share your dream :-) S.
Re: Introduction
Hi Claudio, Am 21.06.2011 19:51, schrieb Claudio Filho: 2011/6/21 Roberto Salomonroberto.salo...@gmail.com: Used to work with Louis and Claudio on OOo. Hopefully we can contribute more at Apache. 2011/6/20 luizh...@gmail.comluizh...@gmail.com: humm..maybe four Wow! The Brazilian participation is forming! Only with great friends and volunteers. =D Bests Claudio agora já estamos muitos ;-) M.
Re: Introduction
Hi 2011/6/18 Manfred A. Reiter ma.rei...@gmail.com: I will further help improving OpemOffice.org, not exclusively but *in cooperation with LibreOffice.* She isn't the unique. I wish to help where i can, like translation, QA and community. In OOo, i did many things related with marketing and community in my country, and is good to see some friends here. I will try to follow the discussions, see how works this environment and see how i can contribute. Best regards, Claudio
Re: Introduction
Bom dia Claudio, 2011/6/20 Claudio Filho filh...@gmail.com: Hi 2011/6/18 Manfred A. Reiter ma.rei...@gmail.com: I will further help improving OpemOffice.org, not exclusively but * *in cooperation with LibreOffice.* * She isn't the unique. I wish to help where i can, like translation, QA and community. agora já estamos três. ;-) aquele abra,co M.
Re: Introduction
I will try to follow the discussions, see how works this environment and see how i can contribute. Best regards, Claudio Welcome, my friend :) -Jomar
Re: Introduction
Hi all, My name is Ingrid von der Mehden. Some may know me as Ingrid Halama which is my former name. I am a developer on OpenOffice.org, alias iha. I started to code on StarOffice in 1998 as an employee at Star Division. This small German company was bought by Sun in 1999, which then was bought by Oracle last year. I'm currently employed by Oracle and I'm a member of the OASIS TC 'Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument)'. I was not involved in the decision making process to whom donate the OpenOffice.org code to. I am here on my own free will as a private person. I do not speak on behalf of my employer nor on behalf of any other entity. My past work was to lead the Sun/Oracle internal development of the chart component. I am one of the authors of the current implementation. Some years ago we have rewritten that module basically completely new reusing only little of the former code. This has become necessary to allow for further feature development. It was an interesting adventure to get the new component connected and work together with all the other parts of the office (interfaces for load/save/filter, embedding via Ole and new data connections to calc and writer). Analyzing the chart related parts of ODF and working out proposals for corrections and extensions has been also a significant part of my work. Just to give an impression of the coding I have done in the recent years: For OOo 3.4 Beta I've added date axes (one can display bars over time having monthly intervals now). At the OOo Hackfest 2010 Regina and me started making the size of the legend customizable and we got it also integrated into OOo 3.4 Beta. Thanks to Regina for the helping hands and eyes! For OOo 3.3 I coded on hierarchical axis labels and some other layout and rendering stuff. I supported my mentee Weizhao from RedOffice to implement the new chart types 'bubble' and 'filled net' for OOo 3.2 and helped Kohei from Novell to get in a switch for the behavior regarding data from hidden cells. Further I did some work focusing on usability (context menu stuff and a new element selector list box) where Sophie lend me her helping eyes to get the things tested in time. OOo 3.1 has seen more flexible positioning of axes and axis labels and some other work for right to left layout for an Arabic version. And so on and on. :-) In the future I would like to focus more on scientific chart users. I think this is necessary to allow for a broader adoption of OpenOffice.org within universities. Some essential features are still missing here - for example X error bars. This feature has currently the most votes (140) among the open chart features. Closely followed by polynomial trend lines with 129 votes. Eric B, I am happy to see you here! Very good to have a university expert available to ask :-) What do you think? Would implementing these features benefit your students or are there other things that are needed even more urgent? What also might be interesting for the scientific users is a surface chart type. My former mentee Weizhao from RedOffice has worked on this already. We've had a very fruitful cooperation. Sadly Weizhao went out to take another opportunity last year. I must admit that I have lost track a bit of the surface chart topic as always something different has been more urgent on my agenda recently. So I am sending my greetings to the people from RedOffice! Maybe we can reconnect working on this topic when things are running here? Among the people from IBM I see Jian Fang Zhang. Was it you who identified some serious chart bugs last year and send me the nice patches to fix them? Thanks again for that! :-) By the way, I guess you are located in China also? So I am sending greetings from Europe to Asia again! I am excited to see so many known and new names and colleagues from all over the world. Looking forward to get to work on more cool stuff together! Ingrid
