January 2005 - Openoffice-os4 - Studentersamfundet

Organising people.
by Peter Bengtsson 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

I would like to insert a quick note about the problems organising people over different time-zones and by way of a mailing list. In addition to the fact that some read their mail more seldom than others, there is the fact that a backlog of mail will quickly build up when you do not read your mail. Taking care of a 50-mail backlog takes both a bit of time and effort in addition to making it easy to forget to reply to a mail. We will have to learn to communicate efficiently as well as we try to organise. At least we have a head honcho now, but there is still much to do and there will undoubtedly be many false starts. So please, patience, tolerance and no flamewars. -Peter aka. Archprogrammer Reality is for people who cannot face ScienceFiction. Only lefthanded people are in their right minds.

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Pre-organisatorial note.
by Chris Fraser 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

I asked this earlier, before I knew about the voting, : Does anyone have any pertinent questions, concerns, or other issues they feel should be addressed in the opening contact or follow ups? Now you can post them here to the list if you think it need to be discussed, but I think they should be directed to the poor sod we elect. I just want to make sure we have all the bases covered and be a thorough as possible.

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Wiki?
by Scott W 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

All, Just a thought here, but as there's already the beginning of discussion on porting pre-requisites and the like, a wiki might be a good idea, if anyone is able to get one set up quickly...can be used to pull the 'meat' out of the current list that will need to be updated in coming weeks/months. I'm not a fan of using wikis 'for everything,' but they're great for a group sharing data that changes... Comments/not possible/have one/etc? Scott

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Voting Booth open
by Christophe Ochal 11 Jan '05

11 Jan '05

Hello, I'd like to inform that the voting booth is open, and will run for 24 hours starting from now. Please keep in mind that this is not a popularity vote, and should be taken seriously. The voting booth can be found on http://amigadev.amigaworld.net in the "OpenOffice Internal" forum, if you can not enter the forum, contact me through this list or private mail ASAP. Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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AW: [OO.org-OS4] Voting Booth open
by alexwe＠alexwe.de 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

> You should be able to access it now. Could you please add me as well? My nick there is alexw. Thank you. Alex.

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Intro
by Scott W 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hey all, Here's an 'official intro'... Interested in contributing to the project, although I expect the capacity to vary a bit based on my paid job schedule, as well as getting up to speed on AOS development after 'forever' away from it. I've worked as a paid developer for > 8 years, as well as a sysadmin, and have done build/release engineering as well as some PM work. Languages of choice are C and C++, and have done a good amount of cross-platform development, primarily in the *nix world and unfortunately, Windows. Other languages include SQL, shell, Java, Python.. I've worked with most flavors of *nix, Solaris since Solaris 2.5.1, Linux since pre 1.0 kernel days. Add HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, and others as I've been 'forced to.' Stared out on TRS-80, Pet, Apple, (first 3 'borrowed'), VIC-20, Atari 400, then a handful of Amigas before going into the US military, where I ironically wound up working on databases, then leaving and getting a degree in CS and 'starting real work' ;-) Most dev work has been back-end (server side or writing to system APIs like POSIX and win32 API), no GUI- although I've got a bit of HCI and know 'what makes a good UI,' I just never got into that part of development...current 'preferred platforms' are basically anything not Windoze..FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, Solaris are 'personal use', and trying to like Mac OS X currently, although I'm not sure how that one will pan out (looks like they took a perfectly good Unix and broke it so far :-( ) Currently have a uA1 on order, am told it'll be a week or two to have in hand (finally?). Work schedule changes daily lately, but am under the gun for the next few weeks or so, more than likely...after that, things may ease up a bit. I'll be starting basically back at square one for AOS development, so will have to spend some time doing that once my uA1 comes up, but whatever I can do in the meantime I'll certainly try to. I mentioned to Olegil that if an rsync mirror is needed for any of the project's work, I should be able to supply that on RAID disk...either the entire repository/website can be replicated, or just the source tree, whichever. The connection wouldn't be fast enough for anything else, at ~384k, but more than fast enough for a backup or for source control, defect tracking, or the like. That system would likely be a dual PIII FreeBSD box, which should be able to run any tools if any are needed. I've no overwhelming urge to become a PM as my paid work is 'enough' for right now, but if/when leads are needed for 'other than head honcho' for specific tasks, I could probably help out in that area until I can get AOS coding up to speed... Thanks, Scott (Wegster on forum(s))

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I: [OO.org-OS4] Re: The list, updated
by AP 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Good morning to all. I'm Luke Giusti of Amigaplatform.com (www.amigaplatform.com) and all my staff is ready to start with this project of porting. The staff is composed by 3 active members and 5 amiga's friends. We are not programmers but we are ready for betatesting, icons, graphics, documentations, localizations into italian language. Regards Luke. www.amigaplatform.com info(a)amigaplatform.com

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RE: [OO.org-OS4] Name
by Peter Gordon 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hi, > AmigaOpenOffice? AOO? > OpenOfficeOS4? OOOS4? Apologies for replying to an old email.. how about "OOoOO", for "OpenOffice.org On OS4" ;-) Cheers, Pete

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The list, updated
by Christophe Ochal 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello, Sofar the list i've assembled is: Amon_Re Argo Rincewynd TonyW T_Power Mark These are the entries that will be present on the voting booth poll, anyone who wants on or out speak up ASAP. Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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in... partially
by michael.merkel.oo＠mirime.de 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

hi. i know that i will not have much time (job + family) and that my amiga development exerience is limited... although i am a s/w developer for several years now (>6 years employed as developer, ~15 years developing privately). well, programming in "c/c++" is long ago - ABAP-OO is my current "mother language" ;-) so i really want to share the team effort but fear that if i can contribute smth it will be only a very little part. i really hope the whole project leads to a good result. thanks and byebye... michael merkel

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