Re: [tdf-discuss] donation button on German download page

2011-09-20 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, Original-Nachricht > Von: drew > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > Betreff: Re: [tdf-discuss] donation button on German download page > > > > I know the topic about local NGOs is still to be discussed, I think we should keep in mind, that other NGOs might have the sam

Re: [steering-discuss] Proposal: Optional local NGO donation links on download and extension pages

2011-09-22 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Thorsten Behrens > > A local, native-lang NGO, that is in good standing with TDF, and > fulfills the following prerequisites > > * has at least three NGO members, that are accepted TDF members at >the same time > * is an non-profit organisation > * has, in the past year, org

[tdf-discuss] Diploma thesis: a survey about OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice

2011-09-27 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, yesterday we received a request for participation in a survey at the German LibreOffice list. As the survey's target is the LibO/OOo community in general, I'm forwarding this to the related lists. I'd be happy to see many community members participating (but please don't crash the survey ser

Re: [tdf-discuss] Postal address of TDF Members

2011-09-28 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Sophi, thanks for pointing to that (and thanks to Florian for further explanation). I think, we will see some more questions on that topic, so mine would be ... > Von: Sophie Gautier > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > > For the set-up of the Foundation, we need the postal address (no

Re: [steering-discuss] freezing membership applications

2011-10-31 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, Original-Nachricht > Datum: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:35:20 + > Von: Michael Meeks > > On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 10:34 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > > Not really - it's 3 weeks from candidate introduction to end of > > election, compared to 2 weeks for the usual MC meeting ca

Re: [steering-discuss] chairmen

2011-10-31 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Datum: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:44:02 +0100 > Von: Florian Effenberger > > The statues do not set explicit rules on whom to appoint, they just > foresee that the BoD appoints two of its members to these roles. NB: > Deputies can, to my understanding, *not* be appointed chairmen. Nitpicking

Re: [steering-discuss] Preparing elections for the membership committee

2011-11-01 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Florian Effenberger > An: steering-disc...@documentfoundation.org > > What we should agree on soon is whether to run the vote just now and > wait with the legal set-up until the Foundation is in existence, or > whether we take the existing MC (needing a deputy for Thorsten, since

Re: [tdf-discuss] Associations around TDF

2011-11-02 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Datum: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:36:01 -0200 > Von: Olivier Hallot > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > Betreff: Re: [tdf-discuss] Associations around TDF > Hello André > > Yes, please open a page. > consider ALTA from Brazil as interested NGO. Ok, wiki page started at https://wiki.document

Re: [tdf-discuss] Questions

2010-09-28 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Alex, Original-Nachricht > Von: Alexander Thurgood > > First, congratulations on the creation of this new Foundation, here's > hoping it takes off :-) Thanks, we all hope so :) > > I have a few questions though, that don't yet appear to have an answer > in your FAQ : >

Re: [tdf-discuss] Questions

2010-09-28 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Danishka Navin > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > As our l10n contributors are keep working on pootle server, > we should setup the pootle service for LibreOffice, with required changes. > > Some of them working several localization projects and should not > duplicate the contri

Re: [tdf-discuss] how to unsubscribe

2010-09-29 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Uwe Brauer > > I have already sent an email to > unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org > > But the messages keep coming. > > Any idea what is wrong? You used the wrong mailaddress to unsubscribe. Correct is: > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to > discuss+unsubscr...@document

Re: [tdf-discuss] Online Petition

2010-09-29 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Andras, > > I got a feedback from a Hungarian free software supporter about the > petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/documentfoundation > He said that he had no clue what it was and how it was related to The > Document Foundation and LibreOffice. The text of the petition did not >

Re: [tdf-discuss] [Legalese] "Foundation" or "Group"?

2010-10-01 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, Original-Nachricht > Von: Gianluca Turconi > > Should Germany be the chosen country in order to register the foundation > or is that point a work in progress too? It's in progress. We (speaking of OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. in this case) are happy to be the interi

Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF and KOffice

2010-10-05 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Is there any collaboration between KDE's KOffice and TDF? there is no formal agreement, you know - we are very new in the game :) But people work together at several levels. E.g KOffice and people from TDF both work on ODF standard conformance. Christoph Noack had several talks with KOffi

Re: [tdf-discuss] New name

2010-10-05 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: "Gianluca Turconi" > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > > Can such new lists be announced in the "announce" list too? > > I'm subscribed to that list, but I haven't seen any news. whatever happened .. I sent it to announce: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/announce/msg00

Re: [tdf-discuss] Government of TDF

2010-10-06 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi all, for the moment (or better for the initial period) the Steering Committe is the governing instance of TDF. But this will change. We understand, that there are questions, how the committee was elected, how it is supposed to work, etc ... I will follow up on this later (or maybe tomorrow).

Re: [tdf-discuss] Shorter mailing list prefix?

2010-10-07 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Florian Effenberger > > Am 07.10.2010 um 08:23 schrieb Jean Hollis Weber: > > > Is it possible to shorten this prefix on emails from the Documentation > > mailing list? [libreoffice-documentation] > > someone asked to have a longer prefix -- initially it was > libo-documentation.

[tdf-discuss] blog post about the steering committee

2010-10-11 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, to give all of you a better picture of the Steering Committee (to be more precise: the provisional Steering Committe), I wrote some background info at my blog: http://libobil.blogspot.com/ regards, André -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adr

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-12 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Harold, > Von: Harold Fuchs > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > Betreff: [tdf-discuss] Donations ? > I just noticed that the TDF "Donations" web page at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ gives bank account > details > for something called "Openoffice.org Deutschland e.V."

[tdf-discuss] [SC] Steering Committee Info at the wiki

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, I started to move some formal information about the steering committe and what we agreed upon (so far) to the wiki. Those pages have a notice that the content should not be changed without approval of the SC. I'd ask all of you to respect this, so that the SC can work in wiki without the need

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] Steering Committee Info at the wiki

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Benjamin, > This is exactly why I suggested we look at multiple wiki engines before > installing one and proceeding. ACL features of Foswiki make it easy to > specify a separate set of pages or an individual page, and control who has > edit > access, view access, or no visibility of the page

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice Beta 2 available for testing

2010-10-14 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Charles Marcus > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > > Good point... but that bandwidth usage is limited to the initial uploads > (one time per release), and the mirror updates. > > I think the savings of 100+MB per download from hundreds of thousands of > downloads would trump tha

Re: [tdf-discuss] Wiki/Language Teams

2010-10-15 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > > Hier fehlt noch unser AP, bin aber nicht sicher wen einzutragen... > André? Na ja - die Grobe Idee ist dort diejenigen einzutragen, die sich für die lokalen Communities zuständig fühlen , d.h. am ehesten die bisherigen Co-Leads. > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_Teams >

[tdf-discuss] [SC] Meeting minutes at the wiki

2010-10-18 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi everyone, just as info and because we need to be transparent - minutes of the recent Steering Committee Meeting are online at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings we are going to publish all minutes from now on and will have public agenda as well. regards, Andr

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] Meeting minutes at the wiki

2010-10-18 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Daniel Veillard > > Excellent ! IMHO You're heading in the right direction :-) > I would suggest to create a blog aggegator (planet.documentfoundation.org) > and post both (or just links) to try to reach a larger audience. as the planet is actually in place - you suggest to blog t

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define "Membership" within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Jean Hollis Weber > It looks good to me and covers most of the points I am familiar with in > other volunteer organisations. > > The "ND Manifesto" is mentioned twice, but I don't know what or where > that is. thanks for the reminder - I changed the text to be links. André -- GMX

Re: Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-19 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Ramon, * > Von: Ramon Sole > > > > I would seriously reconsider the way I deal with my volunteer > communities. > > Agree. And that's they're doing exactly. They're asking TDF involved > people to resign from their OOo responsabilities. Nobody asked to nobody > to leave the Ooo Community. T

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define "Membership" within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Gianluca, > Von: "Gianluca Turconi" > > I've read that post, but I think you're reiterating an old misconception > by confusing the Document Foundation with the wider LibreOffice Community. Hmm .. so the first topic (term definition "Member") is not very clear. I'm not speaking about mem

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define "Membership" within TDF?

2010-10-20 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Sebastian Spaeth > On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:39:29 +0200, Gianluca Turconi > wrote: > > I see: The Document Foundation (members: Charles-H. Schulz, Google, > > whoever-you-want) with its steering committee/council; > > > > While it seem you and others see: The Document Foundation + Go

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define "Membership" within TDF?

2010-10-20 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Gainluca, > > Well, we're now talking about *meaningful* contribution and > evaluation... ;-) > > That's an important step ahead. > > On the wiki a read: "all these contributions need to be non-trivial and > last for a certain time frame". > > Then, there's a desperate need for a clear d

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-20 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > > Perhaps there is another issue at play here. > Yes, Oracle was invited to contribute to TDF; but the current discussion > on TDF > membership and documents on-line seem to forbid organizations. At first, we are just discussing at the moment - everyone who wants to have her points to be

[tdf-discuss] Steering Committe Meeting Minutes 2010-10-27

2010-10-29 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, Minutes from our last Steering Commitee call are now online at the wiki. Topics of the call were: * Update on: discussion about community structure started (how to define members?) * Website: decision on CMS to use * Decision on where to have public SC discussions * Review and prioritize a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments & the Document Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Andrea, ( just to mention: I did not make my mind on this yet, I'm just providing some thoughts) > Von: Andrea Pescetti > An: discuss@documentfoundation.org > > The paperwork was only a practical detail: not relinquising your > > copyright is the most important. > > I haven't seen any new

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments & the Document Foundation

2010-11-03 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, Von: Gianluca Turconi Gesendet: 03.11.10 08:40 Uhr Il 02/11/2010 20.57, Charles Marcus ha scritto: > It might sound complicated, but once it is automated, it would 'just > work'. Of course, the system that holds this information should be > backed up religiously...;) This system may work

Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-11 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, > Von: Rainer Bielefeld > Gesendet: 11.11.10 15:47 Uhr > > the current bug tracking system is sufficien for expert communication, > but if masses of users will file their problems, we will loose overview, > soon. There are too less sort criterias for subcomponents, OS-Versions, > LibO ver

Re: [tdf-discuss] Und schon wieder eine Frage zu Übersetzungen

2011-02-16 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Karl-Heinz, I guess, this was the wron list, so I'm sending to german list as well. (Follow ups should be sent only there ;) Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:38:08 +0100 > Von: "Karl-Heinz Gödderz" > An: LibO-global-discuss > Betreff: [tdf-discuss] Und schon

[steering-discuss] Minor incosistencies in our ByLaws

2011-03-09 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, as we are currently preparing the legal documents for the Foundation in Germany, we found some minor inconsistencies in the bylaws. I'd like to ask the Steering Commitee, if we should do some modifications to our bylwas, so that the meaning is more clear. The issues we found are: 1st - de

Re: [tdf-discuss] OCA vs. ICLA: two names - one thing?

2011-06-16 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, Original-Nachricht > Von: Bernhard Dippold > > So if I understand it right, the difference is a legal one with probably > minor consequences in code usage: > > While with ICLA the contributer keeps the copyright on his own (and thus > needs personal legal assistance or an