Hi all, Steve here is volunteering to help. See below. Can someone guide him further?
Also I am not sure about what the exact situation is on donations. What is the current situation here? All the best peter -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Steve <stev...@zoho.com> Gesendet: 12. Februar 2018 06:05:29 MEZ An: Peter Kovacs <peter.kov...@posteo.de> Betreff: Re: I was told you guys don't often visit the forums and I still wanted to thank the developers Hi Peter. Thanks for reaching out. I definitely would like to see OpenOffice thrive. I will try to help with documentation and reporting bugs/usability issues; I think this is really where you guys can have a big edge on LibreOffice as they seem fixated on chasing Microsoft instead of usability. Also, maybe I can donate some money. Is it possible to do this by check? > On Jan 25, 2018, at 12:09 AM, Peter Kovacs <peter.kov...@posteo.de> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > We are indeed a conservative Project. We want to ship a basic Office that you > as a user extend to your needs by using add-ons. > Very similar to the idea Firefox uses. > Despite this vision, openoffice is still a complex tool. > > However we are also today a complete volunteer project. I like to ask if you > would consider to become involved. > All that we do can be learned and not all project development that is needed > to be done has the required skill set of a programmer. > We could also use people that do: > User support > Testing > Documentation > Translation > > You need to bring following traits that are reqired: > Openness, respect, courage to the project. If you can add determination and > initiative that would be super cool. And sometimes patience is required. > > What do you say? > > Am 25. Januar 2018 03:48:59 MEZ schrieb Steve <stev...@zoho.com>: >> <https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/posting.php?mode=edit&f=106&p=437127> >> <https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/report.php?f=106&p=437127> >> <https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&f=106&p=437127> >> Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS!! >> <https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=92106&sid=059b9ca72612edeb63ff1d201a6d9fad#p437127> >> <https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=437127#p437127>by >> tanstaaf1 >> <https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=95811> >> » Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:27 pm >> >> I've just come back to Open Office after a multi-year fling with >> LibreOffice. The arc of my document application history is basically >> Wordstar/Lotus->MSOffice->OO->LIbre ... and now, I think, back to OO. >> >> What brought me back and what have I noticed and what would I like your >> developers/steering committee to keep in mind? Libre has, for me, gone >> off the deep end in gratuitous feature creep and senselessly increasing >> user interface complexity. Specifically? I was unable to reformat and >> properly print text I had copied and pasted in; I was unable to find >> what were once-upon-a-time pretty simple commands to see text >> formatting and change it; I was unable to use the help system to find >> help; I was unable to create an account on their website in a >> reasonable period of time to even ask for help. >> >> And it occurred to me -- after several hours of this roundabout with no >> progress being made toward a really simple thing -- that I might take >> another look at OpenOffice. And what I found was: OO installed much >> more quickly and easily than recent LO updates; OO opened to a MUCH >> simpler user interface; IN OO MY FORMATTING PROBLEM WENT AWAY! And I >> decided to post a thank you to the OO community and found how much >> simpler it was to create an account and post my comment here! Your >> software JUST WORKS. >> >> My suggestion to the OO developers is to adopt as a motto something >> Einstein supposedly said: "A scientific theory should be as simple as >> possible, but no simpler.” Now, in this case we are talking software, >> but I think this quote still is relevant. Know the needs of your >> target market and stop trying to add extra “features” that few people >> in the key demographic actually value. >> >> Lately it seems I'm living in an increasingly nightmarish dystopia. >> With software this is especially the case. Further, I suspect >> spreading software complexity is driving most of the cancerous spread >> of complexity and bugs into the bigger world. Remember the ORIGINAL >> Mac? Remember how you could just sit down and click with a mouse and >> pretty much figure out how to use everything in a reasonable period of >> time? What happened? >> >> Anyway, I thank the developers of Apache OpenOffice for allowing me to >> just get my work done this morning. Thanks for keeping the user >> interface SIMPLE and fast. Thanks for just working! >> >> KISS! >> Open Office 4.1.5 MacOS 10.12.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
