On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Roberto Galoppini <roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-11-23 21:55 GMT+01:00 Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com>: > >> >> > On 2014-11 -23, at 12:58, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Rob Weir <r...@robweir.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Those who know the history know that Apache OpenOffice is the >> >> continuation of the OpenOffice.org project, which itself came from a >> >> proprietary suite developed in Germany called StarOffice, which itself >> >> started as StarWriter, an application written in 1985 by Marco Börries >> >> . >> >> >> >> So next year, in 2015, will be our 30th anniversary. >> >> >> >> Any ideas what we might do? >> >> >> >> For example, does anyone still have a Zilog Z80 (or an emulator) that >> >> can run the original StarWriter? >> >> >> >> It looks like some emulators here: >> >> >> >> http://www.z80.info/z80emu.htm#EMU_CPU_W32 >> >> >> >> It might be interesting to show the history of Writer, from release to >> >> release, via a set of screen shots (or a movie) showing the evolution >> >> of the UI. >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> -Rob >> >> >> > >> > Can we reach a consensus on whether 2015 should be a 25 yr or 30 yr >> > anniversary? It would be great to get some graphic types involved soon in >> > creating an appropriate logo for the websites to put up in 2015. >> >> Why do we need a certain date to enable good graphics? Note, I’m a >> historian. That means that I distrust any claim to date certainty and >> believe, rather, that we can trace backwards the emergence of modalities of >> living which in the present lay claim to having been birthed at particular >> moments, though in historical narrative that was only when they were >> revealed to be as such. >> >> Hence, a graph(ic) would do nicely, no? Not a cake but a chart? >> > > Would be cool to do something like this: http://historyofbitcoin.org/ >
I noticed this time line widget, from the same group that makes the timeplot widget we use on our download stats page: http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ -Rob > Roberto > > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Despite the fact that 1985 was the release of a text based StarWriter >> > rather than graphical, I, personally am good with this date. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > MzK >> > >> > "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth >> > to a dancing star." >> > -- Friedrich Nietzsche >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
