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May - 2012

OOo repository for Extensions

ClipArt Escuela SVG

ClipArt para su uso en la Galería de Apache OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org y derivados.

223 imágenes en formato SVG para incluir en tus documentos
Todas las imágenes fueron obtenidas de OpenClipArt.org y están bajo licencia CC0 PD.

Creado por el equipo de open-office.es.
+Info en http://blog.open-office.es (en Español).

English
223 images in SVG format to include in your documents
All images were obtained from OpenClipArt.org. All images are licensed CC0 PD.

Created by the team open-office.es.
+Info at http://blog.open-office.es (in Spanish).

por salva_sbs el 18 de May de 2012, a las 22:47:41

Michael Meeks

2012-05-18: Friday

  • Up early; mail chew, great to see the good work that David(s), Matus etc. have been doing on the gbuild conversion - switching away from a plunging 'dmake' compile to a pure gnumake version which has a ton of parallelism advantages.
  • Encouraged too to read the list of bugs fixed in 3.5.4rc1 release - rapidly ratcheting up the 3.5 quality, with several misc. improvements not captured by the generating script either.
  • Joined linkedin to try to hunt a few quiet ones down, and curious at the number of people it immediately identified as potential links; I wonder how - I didn't let it see my gmail addressbook.
  • Fine dinner with the babes in the evening. Back to work for a bit afterwards.

18 de May de 2012, a las 19:26:28

Louis Suarez-Potts

IBM contributes Symphony to Apache OpenOffice - The H Open Source: News and Features

IBM contributes Symphony to Apache OpenOffice - The H Open Source: News and Features

I was first shown the work that IBM could do with OOo back in 2004 or so, at the Almaden Center near San Jose, CA. It was impressive. But so was the center! But about the divergence: I, along with so many others in the Apache OO podling are delighted that this narrative has come to a happy conclusion that is also, and far more interestingly, a very strong beginning. As I wrote on the list, Thanks. More words would only dilute the sentiment and diminish the actuality of what is being done now by a rapidly growing and active global community.

(Once again, I feel well, invigorated by the enthusiasm of new members and old hands--those I've known for more than a decade. it's terrific. And it makes me want to learn, again, so much more, and so many more languages and of the people speaking them.)

por Louis Suárez-Potts (noreply@blogger.com) el 18 de May de 2012, a las 04:29:12

Apache OpenOffice - Windows Users Dominate Downloads - InternetNews.

Apache OpenOffice - Windows Users Dominate Downloads - InternetNews.

Kerner is seemingly outraged (or its milder form) that the vast majority of AOO downloads are Windows. He ought not to be. During the heyday of OOo (say, 2010), more than 95 percent of downloads from the website were Windows users. It makes sense, as most computers bought in stores do not come packed with OOo. (Most is not all, of course.) That said, there are Linux downloads, and I'd expect these to increase, as more public sector departments heave that sigh of relief that OOo is back, its better, and they can get it now, in Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and other forms. We broke 1M the first week or so, and I will go out on a very stout limb and predict that we'll be seeing even more spectacular numbers. (Especially if Facebook decides to promote us, as a free software option.... after all, it would surely help their business model in getting into enterprises and schools in a way that goes beyond the banal and dull plopping of ads in otherwise publicly personal spaces.)

por Louis Suárez-Potts (noreply@blogger.com) el 18 de May de 2012, a las 04:07:29

Michael Meeks

IBM's Symphony code contribution

Today IBM seems about to deliver on their promise of opening up the Symphony codebase. That is a good thing. It represents an important way-point, in the middle of a long process.

A long journey

I recall well meeting Don Harbison at the OpenOffice conference in Koper in 2005, and a memorable party during which I no doubt bored him to death by re-iterating the importance of working with the community, in the open and contributing your code. Then around April 2006, IBM Workplace 2.6 arrived: a proprietary product based on a version of the OpenOffice.org 1.x code-base. That was enabled by the non-copy-left SISSL license variant the code was under at the time. Fast fowarding to September 2007, Lotus Symphony appeared in beta, complete with an interview "IBM joins OpenOffice to widen it's reach" with Doug Heintzman, promising:

"IBM will dedicate a core team of 35 programmers in China to the OpenOffice project, but more people will be added as needed around the world, he said."

Around this time, we got some contributions of parts of the Symphony feature-set thrown-over-the wall. Sadly these were mostly vs. an obsolete code base, and were mostly not maintained or forward ported (though LibreOffice's current Lotus Word Pro filter was rescued from that dump). At the time I confess I was eager for IBM not to contribute anything towards propping up the fundamentally unjustly managed and structured OpenOffice.org project, with which I'd become utterly disillusioned.

As time passed, the waiting and suspense continued to build, in November 2008 at OOoCon Beijing I had the pleasure of meeting Michael Karasick, whose (keynote) gave an apologetic score-card for this contribution, and promised "we will be contributing". More time passed. By July 2011, the donation of the code was announced in a press release "IBM Donates Lotus Symphony Source Code to the Apache OpenOffice Project", and still no code.

Then, this week Don Harbison announced that IBM have signed a software grant agreement to the Apache project for the code, which is planned to appear in svn as a single, flat, code dump. At last ! the code will be read and the valuations independently assessed. I have fond memories of working together with Doug, Michael & Don, and I'm certain their commitments were sincerely given and meant on each occasion. I suspect the primary cause of the delay is degrees of embarrassing frustration inflicted by part of a corporate machine fearful of, and unused to the transition costs of open, community based development.

Every day, open and engaged ...

Of course, it is great when code that has been proprietary and closed is finally opened, and licensed in a way that LibreOffice can include it. While there is some sad level of duplication vs. work done in LibreOffice, there are also some nice sounding features that should be useable for our next release as/when we have re-licensed.

On the other hand, one of the real pleasures of working in LibreOffice is the collegial, interaction and co-operation with my much-appreciated colleages from Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, Lanedo, Google and the hundreds of developers and other supporters that have contributed to the project since we started ~eighteen months ago. The credit these guys deserve, for their outstanding effort defies praise. In my book what looks like the boring, every-day, long-haul work of open interaction to achieve shared goals is worth immeasurably more. It may take time to hammer out results that I don't always agree with, but it is good.

Playing well with the community seems to me to mean a lot more than a one-off code-dump. It also means being willing to compromise and work constructively with others of differing ideological viewpoints, encouraging and motivating people to work together.

It means that companies should not horde their changes, to try to be first to the market. There should be direct contribution of the totality of bug fixes and improvements, as they are made, to an appropriate branch. Unfortunately, licensing is a factor here too. The Apache license, by providing you with the choice of when to release your code: "now ? later ? never ?" creates an economic incentive to horde and create a saleable, proprietary feature-edge. That in turn creates a disincentive for others to share. In contrast, a weak copy-left license pushes people inevitably towards sharing, working together, and a service & support based business model.

Hoping for good corporate citizens

So, what does this mean, if anything ? if this move signals a genuine change of heart, towards working collaboratively with the developer community in a sustained and non-proprietary fashion - releasing code changes as they are made and working fully in the open, that is good news. Of course, the most convincing way to make such a commitment to work well as peers with the community, is to join with the existing majority of the developers around the code-base, who are eager to work with IBM as part of LibreOffice. Indeed, more than that - I (and I suspect others) are anxious to make room for our friends from IBM: Peace, Love, LibreOffice ! However, that will inevitably mean making a few real compromises, working in community always requires that. One would be formalizing that intention to contribute well in the most convincing way: using the form of a source-code-license like the MPLv2 or LGPLv3+ which codify such good behaviour. That helps to ensure timely, collaborative code contribution from all players, protecting everyone independent of scale. Is it hard to make such a binding commitment ?

Failing that the option of competing with that community, while trying to build a track record from scratch as an enthusiastic believer in open development, collaboration, compromise, working as an equal, etc. may prove problematic. One canary here may be how this substantial code dump is treated. Will it be split up into individual, digestible features & commits, which can be merged individually into the existing Apache OpenOffice codebase. Or will a single, big, un-documented code commit be attempted ?

A conclusion or two

It looks like IBM will release six+ years of work by their development team; that is a good thing, it will be interesting to see what their sharp team has been up to over that time. Opening previously proprietary software is almost always a good thing, and it may provide our users with some improvements in due course.

In this historical context actions speak much louder than words, but are much harder to extrapolate into the future. Will we see a positive, constructive engagement moving forwards ? the best sign of that would be positive interaction with, compromise and re-unification with the vast majority of developers. An ongoing sadness for me is the lack of even contemplation of that.

Still, in the meantime the LibreOffice community is having fun preparing for it's 3.6 freeze with steady hacking progress; a prototype new feature page is in the process of getting built, though I suspect completing that will need to wait for some last minute features to get pushed. It's a great place to have fun, make a difference and get involved with Free Software, why not try an Easy Hack today ? every little helps.

17 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

2012-05-17: Thursday

  • More mail, pleasant call with Sean, an old friend, lunch. Team meeting, ESC meeting, Vojtech's staff meeting, call with Brian Green. Dinner, back to some typing.

17 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

Louis Suarez-Potts

Apache OpenOffice™ 3.4 Blows Past 1M Downloads

Apache OpenOffice™ 3.4 Blows Past 1M Downloads

Okay, I'm impressed. Clearly, there is a hunger for OpenOffice, and that is not too surprising, given just how many millions had downloaded pre-Apache OpenOffice. Apache OpenOffice is, in many ways, improved.

But now we have to re-establish the ecosystems* that had begun to form. I'd be interested to start by leaning the scope and location of OpenOffice (old) and Apache OpenOffice (new) use. We can start with the old account:  Major OpenOffice.org Deployments - Apache OpenOffice.org Wiki .


* Ecosystem here means not just those companies selling support and services related to OO but also a lot of other business that derives in whole or in part from the use and production of the application and its extensions. Consider: Nearly every public sector adopter of OpenOffice is legally required to buy support and offer training; they also often want services (migration, ad hoc work) and certification. And as OO is available in many immensely popular languages, the possibilities of making money in this ecosystem is not insignificant.

por Louis Suárez-Potts (noreply@blogger.com) el 17 de May de 2012, a las 15:56:07

Otto's Club Twitter

openofficeorg: Apache OpenOffice: 1 M downloads! #apache #openoffice #opensource http://t.co/ManWeGnJ

openofficeorg: Apache OpenOffice: 1 M downloads! #apache #openoffice #opensource http://t.co/ManWeGnJ

17 de May de 2012, a las 10:52:26

openofficeorg: Apache OpenOffice: 1 M downloads! http://t.co/uahVYRaR #apache #openoffice #opensource

openofficeorg: Apache OpenOffice: 1 M downloads! http://t.co/uahVYRaR #apache #openoffice #opensource

17 de May de 2012, a las 10:40:27

Jan Holesovsky

Improved Rulers

Recently I was able to spend a bit of time on the UI hacking again; and this time it was the "Rulers" in Writer. Thanks to Mirek M. (BTW, have you seen his Call for GSoC projects designs, and Call for Templates blog entries?) who provided me with a helpful mockup, I was able able to implement the new look quickly and effectively, mostly by removing code :-)

I hope I will be able to do more such changes before the 3.6 feature freeze; I'll keep you informed. And if anybody of you is interested in UI-related hacking, just mail me or ping me on the IRC (kendy on irc.freenode.net), and I'll provide you with code pointers to other interesting areas :-)

por kendy el 17 de May de 2012, a las 08:58:00

OOo repository for Templates

Michael Meeks

2012-05-16: Wednesday

  • Mail chew, call with Vojtech; more trawling of statistics, E-mail, and wiki editing; minor patch review. Interview. More admin.

16 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

OOo repository for Extensions

ClipArt Caricaturas de Animales 02 SVG

ClipArt para su uso en la Galería de Apache OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org y derivados.

61 imágenes en formato SVG para incluir en tus documentos
Todas las imágenes fueron obtenidas de OpenClipArt.org y están bajo licencia CC0 PD.

Creado por el equipo de open-office.es.
+Info en http://blog.open-office.es (en Español).

English
61 images in SVG format to include in your documents
All images were obtained from OpenClipArt.org. All images are licensed CC0 PD.

Created by the team open-office.es.
+Info at http://blog.open-office.es (in Spanish).

por salva_sbs el 16 de May de 2012, a las 18:57:17

ClipArt Caricaturas de Animales 01 SVG

ClipArt para su uso en la Galería de Apache OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org y derivados.

110 imágenes en formato SVG para incluir en tus documentos
Todas las imágenes fueron obtenidas de OpenClipArt.org y están bajo licencia CC0 PD.

Creado por el equipo de open-office.es.
+Info en http://blog.open-office.es (en Español).

English
110 images in SVG format to include in your documents
All images were obtained from OpenClipArt.org. All images are licensed CC0 PD.

Created by the team open-office.es.
+Info at http://blog.open-office.es (in Spanish).

por salva_sbs el 16 de May de 2012, a las 17:48:34

OOo repository for Templates

Michael Meeks

2012-05-15: Tuesday

  • Up early, more mail chew, generated some bug metrics for the ESC. More patch review / merge, worked at slideware. Continued licensing work.
  • Advisory Board call in the evening. Dinner with Lydia & J. out for a beer with Chris - good to catch up with him as he prepares to go into the Anglican ministry.

15 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

Otto's Club Twitter

openofficeorg: Ashisuto supports #Apache #OpenOffice http://t.co/rWo4YqC0

openofficeorg: Ashisuto supports #Apache #OpenOffice http://t.co/rWo4YqC0

15 de May de 2012, a las 06:45:38

openofficeorg: 業務用食材のエキスパート 尾家産業のホームページ http://t.co/SIhu2QY2 Oie Sangyo adopts #OpenOffice.org

openofficeorg: 業務用食材のエキスパート 尾家産業のホームページ http://t.co/SIhu2QY2 Oie Sangyo adopts #OpenOffice.org

15 de May de 2012, a las 06:30:45

openofficeorg: 尾家産業、シンクライアント環境のオフィス・ソフトにhttp://t.co/PQIl0pocを採用 YOMIURI ONLINE http://t.co/CVfw8sUY Oie Sangyo adopts #OpenOffice.org

openofficeorg: 尾家産業、シンクライアント環境のオフィス・ソフトにhttp://t.co/PQIl0pocを採用 YOMIURI ONLINE http://t.co/CVfw8sUY Oie Sangyo adopts #OpenOffice.org

15 de May de 2012, a las 06:25:06

Michael Meeks

2012-05-14: Monday

  • Up early; mail chew, created another commit account, patch review variously for the 3.5.4rc1 freeze today. Pushed a substantial grammar checker speedup - removing an un-necessary annoying hang on first-typing (basically caused by poor design of the linguistic/ APIs).
  • Wrote/sent status report, spent some time on slideware. J.'s Pregnancy Crisis Centre AGM in the evening, hacked away at this & that.

14 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

OOo repository for Extensions

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por ichaoli6 el 14 de May de 2012, a las 01:50:09

Michael Meeks

2012-05-13: Sunday

  • Up late, off to Church, N. off to a party. Ruth spoke on holiness. Chatted to people afterwards; Emily & Beth over for lunch, played in the garden with the babes.
  • Got everyone kitted up, and tried to train E. to steer a pedal-less bike in the road, against fierce resistance. Finally got somewhere at least, no injuries.
  • Watched the Princess Bride with the babes; put them to bed, did a little hacking on repsnapper, and up late talking to J.

13 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

2012-05-12: Saturday

  • Up early; packed the babes in the car and set off to Aldeburgh, dropped J. off near Ipswich. On via a diversion to Anne's. Cup of tea.
  • Out to the boating lake, Bruce had kindly made up four boat-hooks for rescuing model boats (far more fun than the boats themselves it seems); much fun had by all. Went to throw stones at the sea - as you do.
  • Back for fine lunch, and off to pick J. up, then to hospital in Colchester - went to see him. Home - packed babes off to bed.
  • Worked until midnight looking at an obscure OLE2 file format / fat chaining issue causing performance issues, the trivial fixes defeated by our regression tests; finally got it.

12 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

Louis Suarez-Potts

AOO 3.4.0 Release Notes

AOO 3.4.0 Release Notes


These notes are really well done. I think a good release note ought to describe not only what is new and how it affects what is old, but also give a sense of the narrative underlying the changes made, including, when feasible, identifying the actors who did the work. (Usually, that is done by citing the relevant issue.) With the release of AOO 3.4, thoughts slide to future milestone releases....

por Louis Suárez-Potts (noreply@blogger.com) el 12 de May de 2012, a las 17:47:34

Eric Bachard

Switching OOo4Kids and OOoLight to AOOo3.4 code base

English :

I'll have some time, and since Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is released, it's time to switch OOo4Kids and OOoLight base to Apache OpenOffice source code.

Work in progress.  Stay tuned  ;-)

Version française :

Je vais avoir un peu de temps, et comme Apache OpenOffice 3.4 vient de sortir, il est temps de baser OOo4Kids et OOoLight sur le code source d'apache OpenOffice.

Travail en cours. À suivre ;-)

por Eric Bachard el 12 de May de 2012, a las 07:09:00

Michael Meeks

2012-05-11: Friday

  • Up, more gut-wrenchingly tedious mail, commit license auditing, wiki statement list updating, etc.
  • Lovely steak dinner with babes, put them to bed. Worked late.

11 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

Louis Suarez-Potts

South Korea Still Paying The Price For Embracing Internet Explorer A Decade Ago | Techdirt

South Korea Still Paying The Price For Embracing Internet Explorer A Decade Ago | Techdirt

Moody's article is excellent. It accurately describes the terrible situation South Korea finds itself in: Locked in to an antiquated technology and unable to take advantage of modern software. This is the fate that choosing proprietary standards leads to: costly, very costly, isolation.

por Louis Suárez-Potts (noreply@blogger.com) el 11 de May de 2012, a las 03:36:04

Michael Meeks

2012-05-10: Thursday

  • Up, enjoyed H's PGL assembly - on their adventure activity holiday with the school year recently; fun. Back to E-mail. Lunch. ESC meeting. Dug into Caolans' nice fix for an OLE2 stream reading performance regression caused by some more aggressive security related stream checking, good stuff.
  • Created an account, more scripting and careful digging through license mails.

10 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

2012-05-09: Wednesday

  • Up lateish; mail, patch review, merge, cherry-picking etc. Dug into grammar checker related slowness from Daniel's nice notes. Poked away at scripting, and mailing people, worked late.

09 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

OOo repository for Templates

OOo repository for Extensions

IBM Connections Connector

The IBM Connections Extensions lets you to connect IBM Connections easily when you work in Apach OpenOffice window.
You can add Apache OpenOffice files to an Activity or a Files, create To-Do items, create Bookmark, post a document to a Blog, or search Profiles data.

IBM Connections is social software for business that lets you access everyone in your professional network, including your colleagues, customers, and partners.
Profiles: Find the people you need by searching across your organization using tags to identify expertise, current projects, and responsibilities.
Activities: Organize your work, plan your next steps, tap your professional network, and gather information to meet business objectives.
Blogs: Gather and prioritize community ideas, present your own ideas, and learn from others.
Wikis: Create web content together, edit, and publish it in a convenient location with access that you manage.
Communities: Exchange and share information with others through a web browser, IBM Sametime, or email software.
Files: Post, share, and discover documents, presentations, images, and more.
Bookmarks: Save, share, and discover bookmarks through this social bookmarking service.

por liudali el 09 de May de 2012, a las 09:51:30

Michael Meeks

2012-05-08: Tuesday

  • Up, poked mail, worked through license E-mailage, updating the wiki etc. Got idly curious & poked my pile of perl at my Apache OpenOffice (incubating) git repo. Omitting Rob Weir's checkin of everything, hdu's removal of tango and Andrew Rist's changing of header licenses, it's interesting to see out of the ~66k files in the repo, less than 4k have any other changes: 6% of files changed even slightly, filtering just for .[ch]* the same number - 6% - ho hum.
  • It is amusing to me that the "developers from over 21 corporate affiliations" advertised by Apache OpenOffice (incubating), are never enumerated; presumably many are co-incidental employers of free-time volunteers rather than official supporters of the project; and odd given the 23 committers in the last year that Ohloh suggests.
  • Matus got his collaborative editing session going, so we're all set for some Google Summer of Code goodness. Worked away until Lydia & Janice over for dinner.
  • Worked through bugs with patches in the evening, pushing them to people for review, and merging a good few.

08 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

OOo repository for Templates

Hello Kitty To Do List

A cute to Do list with your favorite character

por lrnt314 el 08 de May de 2012, a las 20:15:23

Roberto Galoppini

Apache OpenOffice.org 3.4: Download it Now!

apache_openoffice_logoThe Apache OpenOffice.org project announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.4, see the new features and improvement in the Release Notes. You might get the gist of some of the new features looking at the Apache OpenOffice SourceForge video, featured also on FeatherCast.

Apache OpenOffice 3.4 main new features:

  • word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databases, drawing, and mathematical editing applications support for Windows, Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) and Macintosh operating environments
  • native language support for English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
  • improved ODF support, including new ODF 1.2 encryption options and new spreadsheet functions
  • enhanced pivot table support in Calc
  • enhanced graphics, including line caps, shear transformations and native support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
  • improvements in performance and quality

Download it now!

por Roberto Galoppini el 08 de May de 2012, a las 17:52:13

Louis Suarez-Potts

Apache OpenOffice Downloads

Apache OpenOffice Downloads


Try it. I've been using early versions for some time now and have yet to experience a crash--more than I can say about many other applications. But to me, the most important part is it's use of ODF 1.2 and what that means for interoperability among so-called office applications--and then some.

Here the issue. What makes a document? The physical form? The logical frame? Sheer convention? So, too, the "office" document. A generation has come to expect of a suite those things that are found in the prevailing application. But that assemblage is, however useful, nevertheless rather arbitrary. It was also spawned by the desires of white-collar workers in large corporations, not by the needs and desires of those outside of the corporate walls. Times have changed. Today, and even more so, tomorrow, virtually all people will have access to some form of a computer, and they will be wanting to create, edit, distribute their works. The number of those coming to this 21st century table is not small, it's in the billions.

The ODF can accommodate them, as can open source implementations of the format. I'd imagine that people will be using tablets and other thin devices to access Web services (aka "the cloud"), so it's probable that the implementation we will see on these devices may differ from what we see on the desktop. But the implementations will still offer all users the productivity tools they need and want for their creations, be they text or graphic or musical or voice or some wonderful combination.

Finally: Open source is a community effort. It works best when the community of users substantially overlaps the community making it. In its best form, open source products defy the static and disposable quality of the shrinkwrapped commodity. Open source products are dynamic, they are not limited to a specific slice of time and place, and the old commodity is. The future of an open source product is endless, that of the closed commodity landfill or its electronic equivalent.

por Louis Suárez-Potts (noreply@blogger.com) el 08 de May de 2012, a las 15:26:51

Michael Meeks

2012-05-07: Monday

  • Up earlyish; packed everyone into the car and off to the Dinosaur park near Norwich. Played outside on the wonderful climbing facilities, enjoyed the various trails. Had a picnic lunch.
  • Enjoyed the farm / zoo, sheepdog demonstration, goat feeding, hand-washing, stamping of sheets etc.
  • Back to the soft-play area - really an impressive new addition to the park: a set of three drop-slides and play areas - in a world where the nanny state bans ever more fun things, big drop-slides for three-year-olds is one thing I didn't enjoy as a child - fun.
  • Fish and chips on the way home, bed.

07 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

2012-05-06: Sunday

  • NCC in the morning, back for lunch. Slugging, and house tidying; threw out some huge stack of obsolete CDs, paperwork and un-necessary electronic bits.
  • Played a shape-tracing game on the little girls to much amusement; after N's successfull guess of a hexagon, E's square was guessed to be a 'Mexican', hmm.
  • Poked at repsnapper in the evening - looking really nice - Martin "hurzl" Dieringer has done some simply fantastic cleanup of the core, threading the slicing, adding all manner of infill modes eg. hexagonal, and producing some beautiful gcode, wow !

06 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

2012-05-05: Saturday

  • Up late, breakfast; out to Claire & Simon's for lunch, caught up with them happily. Home for some slugging. Dug at the planning database, it appears that a vile property speculator has submitted plans to build a petrol station adjacent to our house. Sadly, it appears that UK planning law appears to have no means of compensating owners for the reduction in their property value as a side-effect of the next-door speculator's substantial gain. Drat.
  • Justin & Karen popped by for a meal, and talk around the fire in the evening.

05 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

2012-05-04: Friday

  • Up early, mail chew, more scripting and admin work - how I prefer substantial C/C++ hacking to perl-ness. Bid 'bye to the parents, lunch. More scripting in the afternoon, digging out this and that - Friday club over at our house - dinner, put babes to bed, more hacking and mail.

04 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

2012-05-03: Thursday

  • Up early; mail chew, call with Vojtech. More scripting. Amazed to see Nokia suing others for patents, yet another terrible sign of their corporate vitality.
  • Parents arrived in the evening, up late catching up with them by the fire - fun.

03 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

Roberto Galoppini

More than just a Forge

SourceForge just a forge? Not quite, not anymore. SourceForge is investing time and resources to help open source projects to grow, and we do that through numerous ways. Take our recent collaboration with one of the most famous open source projects: the OpenOffice project, now incubated at the Apache Software Foundation.

SourceForge helps the Apache OpenOffice by serving downloads for the Extensions and the Templates sites, as well as the shortly upcoming Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Release.

Read the full article at SourceForge blog.

por Roberto Galoppini el 03 de May de 2012, a las 14:06:50

Eric Bachard

Google is like Hotel California ...

English version

Recently was the Google Summer of Code. Apache OpenOffice received no slot and like other mentors from accepted applications in the same situation, I'd like to unsubscribe from Google lists.

After asking on the list, looks like this is not possible !!

Google is like Eagles Hotel California song : " you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave ..."


[UPDATE] : I'm now unsubscribed (uff). Thanks to the admin who helped me.

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Récemment, c'était le Google Summer of Code. Apache OpenOffice n'a pas reçu de financement, et comme d'autres mentors de projets acceptés qui sont dans la même situation, je voudrais me désabonner de la liste Google-summer-machin-chose.

Après avoir demandé sur la liste, on dirait que ce n'est pas possible !!

Google, c'est comme dans la chanson Hotel California des Eagles : "vous pouvez quitter l'hotel quand vous voulez, mais vous ne pouvez jamais partir ..."

[MISE À JOUR] : je suis maintenant désabonné (ouf). Merci à l'admin qui m'a aidé.

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2012-05-02: Wednesday

  • Up early, packed babes off to school, chewed over some code with Matus, chatted with Andre too. Andre pointed out a local geocache which we tried to find; took them to the bus.
  • Chewed mail, merged patch, created new account, call with Kendy, lunch. Enjoyed Xamarin's beautiful Android in C# idea, in an amusing twist, Mono is protected by a real standardisation effort, with its surrender of copyright, that Java never had.
  • TDF board call, more administrative and scripting grunt work of deep tedium. Dinner, back to work.

02 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

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Michael Meeks

2012-05-01: Tuesday

  • Up early, chewed mail; beavered away at auditing and scripting. Lunch. Further obsoleted the go-oo website, setup a new commit account, reviewed text: admin. Got my SUSE/VPN password reset/changed, still failed to make the ultra-meta-secure openVPN magic to work, hey ho.
  • Matus (my GSOC student for LibreOffice / spreadsheet collaboration) and his friend Andre arrived in the evening - good to meet them in person; up late enjoying the company.

01 de May de 2012, a las 21:00:00

Profe. Roman

La culpa es del tío Luis

Hace años que tengo todas las ganas de tener una moto…

Hasta hace algún tiempo no había prestado atención de que me visualizaba siempre en motos chicas… y más que nada en scooters o similares…

Hace poco falleció mi tío Luis…

Hace apenas unas semanas, mientras hacía la cola de la carnicería de mi barrio, al ver un hombre con un chico de unos 10 años bajando de una motito, pude unir todos estos cabos sueltos.

Desde los 8 años yo viví con mis padres en San Miguel (provincia de Buenos Aires). Y una de las etapas favoritas de las vacaciones, era cuando me dejaban ir a quedarme en la casa de mis tíos de Pilar (Villa Rosa, para ser más exacto).

La casa del tío Luis y la tía Nelly no tenía ni un poquito de lujo, no tenían hijos en ese momento con quienes yo pueda jugar, ni solían llevarme a pasear de esa manera que te llevan los tíos sin hijos cuando sos el sobrino mimado.

Pero allí había un tesoro gigantesco y tentador; una sola cosa que era capás de hacerme desear el momento de poder ir y quedarme con ellos.

Esa cosa era el taller del tío Luis.

Probablemente no llegaría a llamarse taller para la mayoría de los mecánicos. No era mucho más que algún techo de chapas, un conjunto de herramientas, un pozo al que por alguna razón llamábamos fosa y los conocimientos de Luis para arreglar autos viejos.

Es casi seguro que ahí, en esas vacaciones, desarrollé mi amor por armar y desarmar cosas, por hacer funcionar lo que no anda o crear lo que todavía no existe.

El tío no era un gran maestro, no dedicaba mucho tiempo a explicar lo que iba a hacer o sobre el origen de los problemas de un auto o una moto. Pero tenía la habilidad natural de hacerme sentir útil en el trabajo.

No me decía “tenemos que desarmar el carter de este motor para aflojar los cojinetes”, solo decía “buscá la de media y sacá todos los tornillos”. Y yo sentía que era un mecánico.

Durante el día de trabajo, habitualmente había que ir hasta Pilar (como a unos 5 km) a comprar algún repuesto. Así que subíamos a alguna moto que tuviera en ese momento y salíamos sin mucho preparativo. Creo que esta foto expresa bien a que me refiero cuando digo “sin mucho preparativo”…

EnLaMotoDelTioLuis

La verdad que esos viajes de compras no eran algo que se hacía como una responsabilidad a la que había que darle un tiempo acotado para no retrasarse con el trabajo. Más bien eran momentos de relajación (y algo de vértigo también… miren la moto y se darán cuenta).

Recuerdo tan bien ese día en que nos sacamos la foto…

Hacía mucho calor. Cerca del mediodía. A las pocas cuadras de lo del tío, al pasar por un bar  (esa construcción que se ve al fondo de la foto era el bar), Luis vio una antigua máquina de fotos, esas que eran un cajón sobre un trípode de madera, con una tela negra, debajo de la que se ponía el fotógrafo para hacer su magia. Apenas nos pasamos unos metros y desaceleró para hacer una vuelta en U y parar la moto frente al bar.

Entramos juntos y habló con un señor que estaba apoyado en el mostrador tomando algo en un vaso chiquito.

Luego salimos los tres a la calle y nos subimos a la moto para posar tal como salimos… “quédense muy quietos, ni respiren… recuerdo que dijo”.

Al rato, luego de que este señor haga el resto de su magia sin sacar las manos del cajoncito, tuvimos la foto revelada. La misma que hoy, luego de más de 30 años, les muestro acá.

Tanto tiempo después, me doy cuenta que cada vez que me visualizo en moto, recuerdo esa sensación en el asiento de atrás, con el tío Luis, entre el ruido, el viento, ese motorcito que parecía que iba a explotar en cualquier momento (aunque jamás lo hizo).

Hay tantas cosas que nos hacen tal como somos, tantas personas a las que les debemos lo que queremos, que recordar esto y poder escribirlo, es un regalo que me da la vida.

Gracias Luis por tantos lindos días en el taller.


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por elproferoman el 01 de May de 2012, a las 16:14:36

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Michael Meeks

2012-04-30: Monday

  • Up lateish, still feeling pretty awful; urk. Chewed mail. Worked on scripting and some stats. Interested to see Mirek's blog about the design team seeking designs for several of the GSOC projects.
  • Lovely to have H. back in one piece from her wall-to-wall fun PGL holiday, encouraging stuff.

30 de April de 2012, a las 21:00:00

2012-04-29: Sunday

  • Off to NCC, helped out with creche - surprisingly fun. Home, lunch, slugged & watched Tintin with the babes. Much relaxing action. Bed early.

29 de April de 2012, a las 21:00:00

Profe. Roman

¿Aprenderemos sobre cooperación a partir de los robots?

Algunas veces, cuando quiero quitar la atención de algún problema que no puedo resolver (casi siempre por estar demasiado metido adentro del mismo) escribo en mi navegador www.ted.com y busco algún video que me impacte por su nombre.

Ayer fue uno de esos días y al recorrer los nombres de los videos, me encontré con este “Vjay Kumar: robots que vuelan… y cooperan“. Sin dudarlo, me lancé a mirarlo… y les aseguro que fue una excelente forma de dedicar esos 16 minutos que dura la presentación.

Se trata de un experimento realmente asombroso: un modelo mecánico extremadamente simple para crear un helicóptero “de juguete”; una forma de pensar como trasladar el helicóptero del origen al destino; una idea increíble para hacer que muchos helicópteros trabajen sincronizados… incluso para algo tan delicado como ejecutar música.

Actualmente estoy estudiando programación de computadoras; y una de las premisas fundamentales que nos enseñan es “dividir grandes problemas en pequeñas porciones”. Vjay Kumar y su equipo llevaron este concepto al máximo posible.

Posiblemente lo más sorprendente sea la idea de cooperación, aquello de “cada robot solo ve su tarea y a los robots que lo rodean”

¡Cuántas veces dejamos de coopear con nuestros pares por pensar en nosotros mismos en vez de pensar en el objetivo que consensuamos colectivamente!

A continuación les dejo el video para que ustedes mismos saquen sus conclusiones:


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