Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
Original Message From: Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:17:56 +0100 Hi, not an issue with LO but hopefully someone has some feedback. I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I tried the address in Windows 7 with the same result. Cheers Hi Tim, The oooforum.org site is still operational, but their server is (at best) unreliable. Sometimes you can connect without any problem and other times the connection will time out. I have no idea why this is. BTW Tom, oooforum.org was never under Sun or Oracle's control and was established independently from the original OpenOffice.org project. Neither it is not part of AOO or hosted ASF servers. Think of it like this: oooforum.org = The independent, unofficial form. forum.openoffice.org = The official AOO forum, which offers some support for LO users. Regards Dave -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
On 02/24/2013 10:17 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode. http://forum.libreoffice.org/ Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable http://forum.openoffice.org/ As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
Andrew , when this site is gone then its also a terible lost of knowledge and code examples for both communities, Greetz Fernand On 02/24/2013 10:17 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode. http://forum.libreoffice.org/ Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable http://forum.openoffice.org/ As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
thanks everyone for the feedback. - Original Message - From: Fernand Vanrie Sent: 02/26/13 01:53 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Andrew , when this site is gone then its also a terible lost of knowledge and code examples for both communities, Greetz Fernand On 02/24/2013 10:17 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode. http://forum.libreoffice.org/ Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable http://forum.openoffice.org/ As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
Hi :) Should TDF and Apache both be contributing to keeping it going? Is anyone here able to explain it to the BoD? Regards from Tom :) From: Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 14:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Andrew , when this site is gone then its also a terible lost of knowledge and code examples for both communities, Greetz Fernand On 02/24/2013 10:17 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode. http://forum.libreoffice.org/ Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable http://forum.openoffice.org/ As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote: I very much doubt we'd be involved with keeping a OOo or AOO forum going - just my thoughts though. It would seem to me it would be in everyone's best interest to, if nothing else, clone the site and store the data, even if a new version of the site would have to have up on the page, where people will easily see it, a notice that it's for archival and search purposes only. I know this past week I was doing research and all the links were timing out to that page - but that it had information I wasn't finding elsewhere (other than the Google cache of the site). Hal Best, Joel On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Should TDF and Apache both be contributing to keeping it going? Is anyone here able to explain it to the BoD? Regards from Tom :) From: Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 14:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Andrew , when this site is gone then its also a terible lost of knowledge and code examples for both communities, Greetz Fernand On 02/24/2013 10:17 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode. http://forum.libreoffice.org/ Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable http://forum.openoffice.org/ As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA Volunteer jmadero@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
Help and resources have been offered, but it is currently under sole ownership by someone that may not let anyone else into his playground and will not allow it to move into one not controlled by him. So, unless he has a change of heart, it is doomed to die unless the current owner (Ed) decides to do something with it. On 02/25/2013 04:13 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Should TDF and Apache both be contributing to keeping it going? Is anyone here able to explain it to the BoD? Regards from Tom :) From: Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 14:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Andrew , when this site is gone then its also a terible lost of knowledge and code examples for both communities, Greetz Fernand On 02/24/2013 10:17 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode. http://forum.libreoffice.org/ Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable http://forum.openoffice.org/ As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
Wouldn't it be possible to write a Perl screen scraper and spider through it? Or would that be a copyright issue? Hal On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Help and resources have been offered, but it is currently under sole ownership by someone that may not let anyone else into his playground and will not allow it to move into one not controlled by him. So, unless he has a change of heart, it is doomed to die unless the current owner (Ed) decides to do something with it. On 02/25/2013 04:13 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Should TDF and Apache both be contributing to keeping it going? Is anyone here able to explain it to the BoD? Regards from Tom :) From: Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 14:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Andrew , when this site is gone then its also a terible lost of knowledge and code examples for both communities, Greetz Fernand On 02/24/2013 10:17 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode. http://forum.libreoffice.org/ Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable http://forum.openoffice.org/ As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
I assume that it is not a problem to scrape the forum if you know how to do it. I dropped Ed a line and he said that he would look at it and that he thought that it was having performance problems. Last time I asked him about it, it was being hit constantly by spammers or something that was causing it problems. On 02/25/2013 07:06 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: Wouldn't it be possible to write a Perl screen scraper and spider through it? Or would that be a copyright issue? Hal On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Help and resources have been offered, but it is currently under sole ownership by someone that may not let anyone else into his playground and will not allow it to move into one not controlled by him. So, unless he has a change of heart, it is doomed to die unless the current owner (Ed) decides to do something with it. On 02/25/2013 04:13 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Should TDF and Apache both be contributing to keeping it going? Is anyone here able to explain it to the BoD? Regards from Tom :) From: Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 14:53 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Andrew , when this site is gone then its also a terible lost of knowledge and code examples for both communities, Greetz Fernand On 02/24/2013 10:17 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote: I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I understand that the LO folks are standing up their own forum, but it is still in test mode. http://forum.libreoffice.org/ Apache hosts the user forum now, so it should stay reliable http://forum.openoffice.org/ As for the oooforum.org, It is no longer reliable. I hear reports that it comes and goes. Lately, when I go there it seems to be more likely that it is down than up. I should probably ping Ed and see if he still pays lip service to making it function. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
Hi :) The address seems to be working now if you do a google search for OpenOffice forums and click on their links. Clicking on the link in your email doesn't work though and directly typing the address into the url-bar doesn't work either. Between 2010 and a few months after Apache were given those sites they kept falling over or going down. At first people thought it was Oracle taking them down permanently but later it became clear it was just their inability to be reliable. Under Apache those sites seem to have been fine until now. Perhaps they are moving to better servers this week and that's causing a temporary blip? I copypasted these links from a google search http://www.oooforum.org/ http://www.oooforum.org/forum/ http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ All worked fine for me but can you click on them? Weird isn't it? Regards from Tom :) From: Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 3:17 Subject: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Hi, not an issue with LO but hopefully someone has some feedback. I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/. When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I tried the address in Windows 7 with the same result. Cheers -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org
Hi Tom, the last 2 links work fine. http://www.oooforum.org/ not so. Which is a bit of a bummer as that is the link referenced in the getting started guide :( No worries. I'll sleep on it and see if the server resets itself overnight (or I guess while the rest of the world is beavering away fixing problems such as this). Cheers - Original Message - From: Tom Davies Sent: 02/25/13 05:17 PM To: Tim Lloyd, users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Hi :) The address seems to be working now if you do a google search for OpenOffice forums and click on their links. Clicking on the link in your email doesn't work though and directly typing the address into the url-bar doesn't work either. Between 2010 and a few months after Apache were given those sites they kept falling over or going down. At first people thought it was Oracle taking them down permanently but later it became clear it was just their inability to be reliable. Under Apache those sites seem to have been fine until now. Perhaps they are moving to better servers this week and that's causing a temporary blip? I copypasted these links from a google search http://www.oooforum.org/ http://www.oooforum.org/forum/ http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ All worked fine for me but can you click on them? Weird isn't it? Regards from Tom :) - From: Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 25 February 2013, 3:17 Subject: [libreoffice-users] oooforum.org Hi, not an issue with LO but hopefully someone has some feedback. I am just flicking through the LO4.0 getting started guide and there is a reference to http://www.oooforum.org/ . When I click on that link (fedora/firefox/seamonkey) the browser just sits there and eventually times out. Is this address still valid? I tried the address in Windows 7 with the same result. Cheers -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+ h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
