a small improvement of the extension page

2013-11-23 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, often already I was confronted with the unawareness of users who believed the AOO for updates of extensions is responsible. It would be good to have on the extension page is a sub page with explanations, which explains such things. Greetings, Jörg

Join the open office project

2013-11-23 Thread Εφη
Hello, my name is Efi, I am a 3rd year computer science student and I have a project this semester about open source software. I chose develpment because thats the field I feel more interested in. I have 2 years experience with c++, my last project was a library for dynamic avl trees, if that

Re: What A Black Friday For Me :(

2013-11-23 Thread Max Merbald
Hi David, that doesn't sound too good. What program did you use to check for duplicate programs? I'd think the best thing to check for this is to open the control panel and then check "programs and features". You'll see a list of installed software and you'll be able to see whether something

Re: Join the open office project

2013-11-23 Thread Marcin Tustin
It's not really clear what you expect from the users of this list, or what you offer. It sounds like you want to get involved, so I suggest you look at this page, and the linked pages, then mail when you have some concrete questions: http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html I'm sure everyone

Re: [discussion] release mirror structure.

2013-11-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrew Rist wrote: On 11/22/2013 1:52 AM, jan i wrote: Not having the binaries on apache.org is for sure the simplest solution, and if we can decide that, then I am sure infra wont have a problem. Actually, it was Infra who pushed for having the Apache mirrors as a secondary mirror network, a

Re: [discussion] release mirror structure.

2013-11-23 Thread jan i
On 23 November 2013 17:18, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Andrew Rist wrote: > >> On 11/22/2013 1:52 AM, jan i wrote: >> >>> Not having the binaries on apache.org is for sure the simplest solution, >>> and if we can decide that, then I am sure infra wont have a problem. >>> >> > Actually, it was Infra

Re: a small improvement of the extension page

2013-11-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jörg Schmidt wrote: often already I was confronted with the unawareness of users who believed the AOO for updates of extensions is responsible. It would be good to have on the extension page is a sub page with explanations, which explains such things. Do you mean that people cannot understand t

Re: Join the open office project

2013-11-23 Thread Εφη
Sorry for not being clear, I want to help with the development of OpenOffice, I visited the webpage you suggested before sending the first email and I followed the advices from this page http://openoffice.apache.org/students.html regarding my first email. My question is if I can contribute to t

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2013-11-23 Thread Samer Mansour
I think I found what we need with the following: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/34834886/logo-w-offset3.png?version=6&modificationDate=1385227784594 (from https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO4.1+-+Desktop+Icons) The application icons will have the bi

Re: a small improvement of the extension page

2013-11-23 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 6:33 PM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: a small improvement of the extension page > > Do you mean that people cannot understand that it's responsibility of > the author of each extens

Re: Hello

2013-11-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/11/2013 David Virden wrote: My name is David and I'm interested in assisting with technical documentation. Hello David, welcome! You received other answers but probably you couldn't see them since you are not subscribed to the list, see http://markmail.org/thread/urspnlj4yv7at3wh The r

Re: Join the open office project

2013-11-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Efi wrote: My question is if I can contribute to the programming of OpenOffice, expand some feature or write something new? Sure you can! The first step is to get OpenOffice to build. You may find the step-by-step guide at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO very