Ok I hereby eat my words..and yes my hat if I have to... exhibit one: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions
On 10/1/07, Andrew Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just wondering how you would react, to be honest. The issue came > up between myself and some others recently...as an aside to our > setting up the new user forum. > > In researching a number of sites dealing with OO.org it seemed that > many of the sites have gone a certain bit towards commercialism. I was > curious what your gut reaction would be. > > Not to put too fine a point on it, but what we realized was that the > only places that where not starting to foster a growth of small OO.org > solution providers seemed to be the English speaking countries. > Anyway, this is not the venue for this discussion at all. > > I'll send you a direct email with more of what our thoughts are. > > On 10/1/07, Floyd Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > I would be willing to do anything to help. I have a web server where I host > > sites and can set up a forum at baseusers.com. I am happy to contribute the > > bandwidth. Do you have a preference as to forum brand? I have several in my > > Plesk Application Vault or ... ? Naturally, you can have access to > > everything. If the traffic is horrendous, I can put a dedicated server to > > the task. > > > > Floyd Humpherys > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrew Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 8:29 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [dba-users] Re: Ideas to make Base to an attractive Modul in > > OpenOffice.org > > > > Hello Floyd.. > > > > Another new star in the OO.org universe... > > > > Question would you be willing to host support forums for commercial database > > applications? > > > > On 10/1/07, Floyd Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Andrew Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 1:10 AM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [dba-users] Re: Ideas to make Base to an attractive Modul > > > in OpenOffice.org > > > > > > You know it is starting to appear that we need to setup a page with > > > links to applications implemented in, or with, Base. > > > > > > On 10/1/07, Manolis Christodoulou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Uwe Fischer wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > for the Base application help it would be very helpful to have a > > > > > sample database with some sample records. Help steps can then > > > > > refer to those tables. > > > > > Currently, every Base help text needs to start with something like > > > > > "imagine you have a database with the following structure... and > > > > > there are fields with the following names ... and you have defined > > > > > a query like this ...". This makes writing short how-to-do steps > > > > > really annoying (and may be the main reason why there aren't any > > > > > such short and quick > > > > > guides) > > > > > > > > I entered the discussion a little bit late, sorry about that. > > > > > > > > I'm developing a Patients Records Database with OOo and MySQL as an > > > > engine. It's pretty usable right now, I use it at my office every day. > > > > It's GPL'ed and you can find it at http://mobi-doc.com. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately the whole thing is based on a Greek Translation of > > > > ICD10 codes and all the forms are in Greek (even the documentation). > > > > Maybe if someone could provide an English ICD10 database, I can > > > > translate it in English. > > > > > > > > Back in 2000 I used the Greek translation of the WHO book, to pass > > > > every single code to a paradox database, using scripts where was > > > > possible, it took me 3 years and I won't do it again... > > > > > > > > Another thing is scripting. I use a lot of it, even unpublished > > > > interfaces. In some cases I found some tricks to overcome Base's > > > > limitations (like multi-table subform read-only status). > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Manolis Christodoulou MD > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > http://mobi-doc.com > > > > http://palmpowereddoctor.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > For document attachments please prefer OASIS/ISO OpenDocument Format. > > > > > > Hi [email protected], > > > I have a site at www.baseusers.com which James Elliott from Australia > > > and I were going to do something good with about a year or more ago > > > and we haven't really done anything with it as you can see, but I > > > would be willing to list every application that wants to be listed that is > > associated with Base. > > > > > > Even if the application is listed on the wiki or on OOO's main site, > > > another point of exposure could be a good thing. If there was a small > > > application like a personal information manager that people could > > > download and use immediately, the user base would grow. > > > > > > I do not know why a person would rather pay for Word over Writer, but > > > I can see why people would rather use Access than Base. I give out > > > OOO disks like candy and I think that when people can actually use > > > Base for something, it will prove Base is a serious application. > > > > > > Anyway, if anybody wants their application listed, send it to > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will promote it all I can. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Floyd Humpherys > > > > > > mostly free phones dot com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
