2011/02/25

Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation

Thousands of donors contribute €50,000 in just eight days to The Document Foundation

LibreOffice Community accomplishes next major milestone
Ongoing donations to support marketing, infrastructure and development


The Community around LibreOffice, the free personal productivity suite, has accomplished the next major milestone in establishing The Document Foundation as a legal entity. In just eight days, some 2,000 donors from all over the world contributed €50,000 for the capital stock necessary to set-up the legal entity in Germany.

"We still can't believe it," says Florian Effenberger, Steering Committee member. "It happened in such a short period of time and was beyond our wildest expectations. You all really rock! On behalf of the Community, the Steering Committee would like to thank all the donors for their generous support."

The €50,000 collected will form the Foundation's paid-up capital, ensuring a permanent future for the organization after the legal paperwork is complete, based in Germany. The capital will be frozen assets for the Foundation: the funds cannot be spent, and we will be able to avail just the annual interest. All money donated from now on will actually bankroll our ongoing running costs for things such as marketing, hardware, infrastructure, attending trade shows, initial financing of merchandising material and, of course, developing new and exciting ideas.

"So we still need your support: Every donation helps to pay for our future operational running," Effenberger adds.

Details on how to donate to The Document Foundation and how the money will be spent are available at http://challenge.documentfoundation.org

Information about LibreOffice can be found at http://www.libreoffice.org
The home of The Document Foundation is at http://www.documentfoundation.org


About The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the LibreOffice community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization over the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community.

Media Contacts

Florian Effenberger (Germany)
Mobile: +49 151 14424108 - E-mail: floeff@documentfoundation.org
Olivier Hallot (Brazil)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812 - E-mail: olivier.hallot@documentfoundation.org
Charles H. Schulz (France)
Mobile: +33 6 98655424 - E-mail: charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org
Italo Vignoli (Italy)
Mobile: +39 348 5653829 - E-mail: italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org

2011/02/21

Pootle (often) hangs

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Olivier Hallot
wrote:
> On 19-02-2011 13:06, leif wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> As I want to use Pootle to translate I experience quite often (e.g.,
>> now) that Pootle hangs. I can easily access the site and navigate the
>> lists, but when I want to go into translation mode it hangs for ever.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Leif Lodahl
>> The Danish Team
>>
> Indeed, same situation with me.
+1

I think that at least the search function of pootle leaks (kind of) memory.

By "memory leak", I mean

* The real one
* Some kind of memory management like smart pointer.

So, we have to reboot the *web server* (or even the server) to free up memory.

I am sorry that I don't have time to dig into the problem deeper than what
the intuitive art told me :)

Project vi locked?

Hello the openoffice.org webmasters,

I think I have received this email by mistake.

Do you mean that the following project has been locked?
Could you please explain why?
http://vi.openoffice.org/source/browse/vi/www/

I have to ask because I have no idea what is going on here.
Other members of the vi team (and I don't) do have the write permission
to the repository so I am sure that they are still
reading the list - which is CC'ed.

Being a fan of meritocracy, I am just a person who sits between
the Vietnamese community and the OpenOffice.org l10n team.
Therefore, it is wrong sending me the following email privately.

Best regards,

Nguyen Vu Hung
- Hide quoted text -

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:55 PM, wrote:
> The vi project has been locked by the site administrator.
>
> While this project is locked, you may not create or change artifacts (news
> items, issues/artifacts, files, code, etc.). In addition, you may not add
> members to this project.
>
> Contact the site administrator for more information.

2011/02/16

build/make LibreOffice

665 2011-02-11 15:45:02 cd 000.git/
666 2011-02-11 15:45:25 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/bootstrap
668 2011-02-11 15:46:30 cd bootstrap/
670 2011-02-11 15:47:37 nohup sh autogen.sh
682 2011-02-11 15:55:05 wget "http://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/VerifyItem-Start/jdk-6u23-linux-i586.bin?BundledLineItemUUID=3HiJ_hCvh90AAAEuagQpGxOA&OrderID=gf.J_hCvlUsAAAEuUAQpGxOA&ProductID=QhOJ_hCw.dUAAAEsFIMcKluK&FileName=/jdk-6u23-linux-i586.bin"
685 2011-02-11 15:55:28 chmod +x jdk-6u23-linux-i586.bin
687 2011-02-11 15:55:37 sudo sh ./jdk-6u23-linux-i586.bin
689 2011-02-11 15:56:17 sudo chown -R vuhung.vuhung jdk1.6.0_23/
691 2011-02-11 15:56:34 mv -R jdk1.6.0_23/ ~/opt/

704 2011-02-11 15:58:09 cd ~/work/001.LibO/000.git/bootstrap/
707 2011-02-11 15:58:16 sh autogen.sh

730 2011-02-11 16:02:10 wget http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/apache/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.8.2-bin.tar.bz2
731 2011-02-11 16:02:24 tar xvjf apache-ant-1.8.2-bin.tar.bz2
732 2011-02-11 16:02:37 ln -s apache-ant-1.8.2 apache-ant

748 2011-02-11 16:04:32 cd ~/opt/
749 2011-02-11 16:04:55 wget https://github.com/downloads/KentBeck/junit/junit-4.9b2.jar
752 2011-02-11 16:06:01 ln -s junit-4.9b2.jar junit.jar


export JAVA_HOME=$HOME/opt/jdk
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH:$HOME/opt/apache-ant/bin
export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/dt.jar:$HOME/opt/junit.jar

762 2011-02-11 16:08:05 sh autogen.sh --with-junit=/home/vuhung/opt/junit.jar
763 2011-02-11 16:08:55 nohup make &> /dev/null & | tee make.`date -I`.txt
835 2011-02-11 23:17:51 nohuup make dev-install &> /make.dev-install.`date -I`.1.txt &
842 2011-02-11 23:23:29 ls install/basis3.3/
843 2011-02-11 23:23:33 ls install/basis3.3/program/

2011/02/15

Jumping to a specific slide in Impress (libreoffce/OpenOffice)

But since Impress usually supports jumping to other (hidden) slides in
the presentation in any case, this might be required ... even if you
exclude (e.g.) slide 5, you can change to slide 5 by "5 ENTER" (another
feature important for some other users). To solve this, it requires a
bit more work ...

2011/02/08

open source: importance of being open

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> Though we have a related page:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LibreOffice/FindTheExpert
Thank you, it is extremely useful when I go to IRC as well.

>
> That page is to help those doing bug triage, I think?
> I don't think we want to start getting personally addressed mail asking for enhancements,
> surely? The norm in Open Source is to keep discussion in the open, on publicly archived
> mailing lists.
Thank you for reminding me that; being an open source enthusiast for
more than a decade,
I know the importance of being open - in communication, that's how
open source development
diagram works.

2011/02/05

[l10n-dev] Resignation from French NL project Co-Lead

Hi all,

I'm resigning from the co-lead role of the French Native Lang project.
This resignation is immediate.

It was a great pleasure to work together all these last years and even meet you in real life during OOoCons.

As we share the same interest to spread OpenDocument usage, I'm sure we'll have chance to meet again.


Best regards.

Gilles Bignebat.

2011/02/02

Announcing LibreOffice Portable, a Full-Featured Office Suite For USB, Removable and Cloud Drives

Announcing LibreOffice Portable, a Full-Featured Office Suite For USB, Removable and Cloud Drives

PortableApps.com and The Document Foundation are proud to announce the immediate availability of LibreOffice Portable 3.3, a portable version of the free productivity suite for Windows.

LibreOffice Portable runs right from a USB flash drive or cloud drive and allows users to use a full-featured word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, database and drawing program on every PC with no installation needed. It's a great way to carry your documents, spreadsheets and presentations along with everything you need to edit them with you wherever you go. Like all software in PortableApps.com Format, it works at home, work or school, in a net cafe, even in your local library, making it easy to essentially carry your computer right in your pocket.

LibreOffice Portable includes all the new features in the just-released LibreOffice 3.3 including SVG support, improved PDF support, better document protection, usability enhancements, improved compatibility and thousands of other fixes and improvements. LibreOffice Portable makes use of PortableApps.com's award-winning portable software technology to allow it to run without affecting the host PC or requiring administrative rights to install. No changes needed to be made to LibreOffice itself to make it portable.

"LibreOffice is a wonderful addition to our lineup of portable software and will be a big hit with our users", said John T. Haller, lead developer of PortableApps.com. "The Document Foundation has been great to work with and we look forward to a long partnership."

"We've been working with PortableApps.com to ensure a portable version of LibreOffice would be available in conjunction with the 3.3 release", said Florian Effenberger, Steering Committee Member of The Document Foundation. "Many of our users are fans of portable software and working with an open source platform was a natural fit for us."

LibreOffice Portable is available for immediate download free of charge from http://www.libreofficeportable.org/ and http://portableapps.com/LibreOfficePortable


About PortableApps.com

PortableApps.com is the world's most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any portable storage device (USB flash drive, iPod, memory card, portable hard drive, etc) or cloud drive and lets you carry your favorite desktop software with you and use it on any computer. With millions of users all over the world and a full collection of open source software as well as freeware and commercial software and partners in the software and hardware industry, PortableApps.com is the most complete solution for life on the go.

About The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation has the mission of facilitating the evolution of the OOo Community into a new, open, independent, and meritocratic organization within the next few months. An independent Foundation is a better reflection of the values of our contributors, users and supporters, and will enable a more effective, efficient and transparent community. TDF will protect past investments by building on the achievements of the first decade, will encourage wide participation within the community, and will co-ordinate activity across the community.


Press Contacts For PortableApps.com

John T. Haller (United States)
Phone: 646-289-5002 extension 2
E-mail: press@portableapps.com


Press Contacts The Document Foundation

Florian Effenberger (Germany)
Phone: +49 8341 99660880
Mobile: +49 151 14424108
Skype: floeff
E-mail: floeff@documentfoundation.org

Olivier Hallot (Brazil)
Mobile: +55 21 88228812
E-mail: olivier.hallot@documentfoundation.org

Charles H. Schulz (France)
Mobile: +33 6 98655424
E-mail: charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org

Italo Vignoli (Italy)
Mobile: +39 348 5653829
E-mail: italo.vignoli@documentfoundation.org

2011/02/01

Profiling libreoffice

I always use callgrind instead; and I use it like this:

export OOO_DISABLE_RECOVERY=1
valgrind --tool=callgrind --simulate-cache=yes --dump-instr=yes ./soffice.bin -writer -splash-pipe=0

Then I use 'kcachegrind' on the output.

Now - possibly you want to use callgrind_control -z just before you
start doing something fun in calc - so that you can not get swamped by
the startup cost; and of course - this method is fairly slow, and really
you need to build with debug symbols to get a good view of what is up.

OTOH - it is a wonderful tool ;-)

HTH,

Michael.