Re: [us-marketing] Extras page - and 253 MB folder - make 4.1 GB on the DVD.

On 02/23/2011 03:17 PM, drew wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:53 -0500, webmaster for Kracked Press
> Productions wrote:
> > I worked on the Extras and Additional Software page and folder.
> >
> > http://lungstrom.com/libreoffice-dvd-project/LibreOffice-disc-North-American-DVD/extras.html
> >
> >
> > I took some packages out.
> > Found the Mac text editor is now paid only.
> > I added some to it.
> >
> > The folder that holds the English versions of these Win, Linux, and Mac OSX
> > packages is about 253 MB.  That makes this English N.A. DVD so far 4.1
> > GB in size.
> > Not much room for any more packages [i.e. French and Spanish versions]
> WOW - well that is quite the list there. You if nothing else, for me
> anyway, that is nice to have all in one place.

Well I just redid Extension page, AGAIN. The long Spanish file names 
were causing trouble with Roxio burning software.  Had to reduce their 
name lengths.  Then re-link these shorter names to the page.

The actual working folder had some folders not being used on the web 
site or DVD.  The actual file size in the web-page folder, a sub-folder 
from the one I keep all my web pages in for ease of use with FileZilla, 
is actually about 3.6 GB.  That is much better than 4.1 GB.

> > I have been working on an English Free and Open Source package list.
> > http://www.lungstrom.com/list/
> > Since I moved over to Ubuntu for my desktop, I have not updated it,
> > much, in the past year.  So I have this list.  The German language
> > version had a German language site listed near the bottom of the page.
> > It looks like it is for an Open Source DVD
> Another wow - that is also nice. I take it this page is permanent and I
> can use it as a reference?

The "lungstrom.com/list/" page? That one has been up for 4 to 5 years 
now.  I do not maintain it as often as I use to.  The last update I did 
was after 4 or 5 months when I added LibreOffice to the list.


> > http://www.opensource-dvd.de<http://www.opensource-dvd.de>and here is
> > the English translation
> > <http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&langpair=auto%7Cen&u=http://www.opensource-dvd.de/&tbb=1&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhjD2rqIkWCEza-NMBjatYZltMSgog>
> > of that page.
> Well, not sure what you are, or if you are, asking here - BUT if you are
> thinking that you would like to assemble a disk similar to the
> opensoure-dvd.de then I will absolutely be willing to help work on that
> with you. I would think that using most of the html pages you have put
> together for the NA-CommDVD site you have up as a starting basis would
> make sense, and suspect no one would mind. I feel strongly that at that
> point we need to call it something else, The Lungstrum List DVD or such,
> and I would certainly be happy to work on graphics and the like for the
> new theme.
ooops - LungstrOm, not LungstrUm.  common mistake since the "u" was the 
normal spelling and it was spelled that way by Ellis Island people, so 
it stuck.

No not a disc.  I wondered if we can add our favorite sites for free and 
open source packages, like my "/list/" page listed above.  I do not want 
to try to keep such a DVD up-to-date.  My site points to the actual 
download pages so I do not need to host the actual files and have to 
keep it up-to-date.



> If we go forward with that we should move off this list perhaps, but in
> a due time.
>
> Going forward with a NA LibreOffice disc, just my opinion, but I think
> we should take a breath and on Tuesday[1] next all look at what is the
> right direction to take. I'm not talking about stopping, rather think of
> this last few weeks as having been a sprint[2], and now it's time to
> stop look at what we have, what is on your site, what I have on this DVD
> (I'll put the iso up to a location for the others here to have access to
> over the weekend) and what is in the LibreOfficeBox.
>
> Just my thoughts on it this moment.
>
> Best wishes, and again I'm really excited about what you are doing here
> Drew
Well I am about to work on the typos now.  The Extras page was the last 
big issue for me.

I wonder when the Writer Guide will be back online.  Plus I would like 
to see more of the documentation finished for LibreOffice so I do not 
need to point to OOo's document files.  As for a break, I do not have 
one.  Tonight is a "board meeting", Thursday is a double nerve block.  
The calendar is full of this and that.  Besides, I only work on this DVD 
for a few hours a day, until my back and shoulders scream for me to 
stop.  The last time I did a full shift at a computer/desk 5 days a 
week, I was on Methadone and Oxycodone and I still ended up collapsing 
from the pain.  That was the last day I "worked" for a living.  I spend 
one-third to one-half of my day watching TV or reading, if I am not 
going to an appointment somewhere close.  I have to so my pain levels do 
not spike.

> [1] In an Agile process we might call this a SCRUM, kind-a sort-a.
> - also Monday I'll be traveling so no real access to the net, but you
> guys could start on Monday..and I expect to be on-line all weekend :)
>
> [2] Sprint as a period of actions in a development process
> http://blog.brightgreenprojects.com/2010/03/10/sprint-iteration-agile-scrum/
>
> > I took that link out, since it is for a German language DVD. I wonder if
> > I should put in my free list link and some others that may be good to
> > use.  I have not done that yet.


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