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This originated from a college student requesting help with some PPT 
files she could not open. I offered to help her. The problem turned out 
to be that her data files were heavily corrupted, AOO was/is working 
properly insofar as her particular problem is concerned.

Stan Helton

On 10/1/2012 5:07 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 Stan Helton wrote:
>> I am not a member of the AOO team, but I have applied and am awaiting
>> approval.
>
> I'm not sure I understand this. What "application" did you send? We 
> still have many outdated pages on our website, so you might have 
> followed old or unclear instructions.
>
> There is no subdivision into an "OpenOffice team" and "others": in 
> discussions on this mailing list all volunteers are on the same level, 
> so you become part of the team by simply answering user requests, like 
> this one.
>
> It might be that you don't have the necessary privileges to commit 
> code directly to the OpenOffice repository, but this doesn't exclude 
> you from the team: most of the volunteers who contribute to this 
> mailing list and to the official support forums are in the same 
> situation. So, welcome to the team!
>
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
>

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