On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Junge <peter.ju...@gmx.org> wrote: > On 6/21/2013 9:59 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >>> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] >> >> >>>> What is the problem? >>>> >>> >>> The CD is not from the Apache OpenOffice project. It was not reviewed >>> and approved for release by the project. It is a 3rd party product. >>> The website says it is from "Verein Freies Office Deutschland e.V..": >> >> >> No, this is absolutely *not* true! >> >> The "Verein Freies Office Deutschland e.V.." is NOT the creator of the >> PrOOo-box, but that's us (Detlef, Jan and I) three members of the >> AOO-Community in Germany. >> >> You can see my entry here: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Directory+of+Volunteers >> >> and I can gladly Jan and Detlef ask to register there. >> >> The "Verein Freies Office Deutschland e.V. is the *only* one who pays us >> the hosting of the Box (850 euros per year). >> >> *We would be pleased if the Apache paid. Apache wants to do that?* > > > As far as I understand the Apache way: Apache products must be hosted by > Apache infrastructure(*), but as the PrOOo-Box certainly contains also > non-Apache products it cannot be hosted at Apache. Seems a Catch-22 to me. > Does someone has any good idea how to fix this? It would certainly be a good > thing to continue the PrOOo-Box within the AOO community. >
Do you have a list of what non-Apache products are included? There may be something possible here. The AOO install sets, for example, include non-Apache components. But we had to carefully review them for license requirements, and document these licenses and required notices, etc. And this was all decided by a public vote of the PMC. So this may be possible. But it must start with a proposal and discussion on the dev list. So it is good to start this discussion now. -Rob > (*) Apache strictly requires to avoid community fragmentation like it had > happened with OOo. > > Best regards > Peter > > > > > > > >> >>> But these are still 3rd party distributions. >> >> >> No, this is the Box of german Members of the AOO-Community! >> >> >> But that is not the problem, because the question is a Others, namely how >> we can make local work on AOO when we can not even provide information users >> need? >> >> A notice in a news-teaser is anyway only a temporary entry. What is the >> problem? >> >> >> Rob, you have, tell me here on the list, the following: >> >> * it's okay to get involved locally for AOO and Apache welcomes such >> activities >> >> * I should self make a choice >> >> >> However, I live in Germany, and here I know the OpenOffice users for more >> than 8 years, and I know what users need for assistance. >> And we all have to do something otherwise AOO lost in Germany. Sorry, but >> that *is* the truth. >> >> >>> So we are fair and we don't give special prominence to any single 3rd >>> party distribution. >> >> >> But that is *not* what is needed. >> >> There shall be *no* permanent link, but only a *temporary* news-teaser. >> This teaser is automatically replaced by someone else, as soon as there are >> new news. >> >> What is the problem? >> >> >> >> Greetings, >> Jörg >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
