Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
Kay Schenk wrote: - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Six plus source: Windows, Mac, Linux 32-bit RPM, Linux 32-bit DEB, Linux 64-bit RPM, Linux 64-bit DEB. Regards, Andrea.
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
On 06/05/2012 11:35 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Kay Schenk wrote: - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Six plus source: Windows, Mac, Linux 32-bit RPM, Linux 32-bit DEB, Linux 64-bit RPM, Linux 64-bit DEB. Thanks Andrea -- apparently my eyes are failing me! :( Regards, Andrea. -- MzK Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end. -- Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
On 06/05/2012 05:34 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 6 June 2012 01:20, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ross Gardlerrgard...@opendirective.comwrote: On 6 June 2012 00:14, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here is the latest revision--and guess what, after some digging, I found the SPI deal is done! YAY! Hold up... http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/16846 Sorry to disappoint. The cheque mentioned in that post was cancelled due to the change in chair of Fundraising and further questions being asked here in the ASF. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/16845/match=schultheiss Unfortunately my note about further questions overlapped with the cheque notification otherwise I would have kept my mouth shut and returned the money if approval had not been given. Sometimes email and a rotating planet work against us... Ross Ross...this coupled with your earlier comment... There is certainly improvement but still the SPI issue is not resolved, calling that out explicitly makes me thing the PPMC is unaware of activity on this issue. This is falling between the cracks, partly because a change in VP fundraising resulted in a further delay after the issue seemed to be resolved on the SPI side. However, the item was raised at the last board meeting and everything should now be cleared up. I have it on my todo list to close this off, but that would not be the PPMC being self-managing and nobody here has asked me what needs to be done still (if someone could pick this up I'd be grateful, just mail fundrais...@apache.org and ask if we are clear to have SPI transfer funds). OK, in my mind, the PPMC *was* self-managing in addressing this initially, and the post I referenced. So, I will need to modify this comment in some way that makes sense. a confusing set of events... http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/16759 Ross Ross -- MzK Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end. -- Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
On 06/05/2012 05:26 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here's a draft -- Dennis is working on getting me actual people numbers later today, so what I have here in terms of new committers is just a (bad) guess. And, duh -- we only report in March, June, September, December, so what I have here in terms of what we've been doing since March is probably way, way off... Please update as you see fit! I now have an incubator wiki account so I will happily post when we're done == proposed June AOO report == *Project Name and Brief Description* OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) * OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations have supported 110 languages worldwide. * Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation * 1. Review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy 2. Given the size and scope of OpenOffice, continue work oncommunity readiness espeically with refgard to organization and communication style. 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community It seems odd to have a list that large and say that we're about to start a graduation vote. OK, I don't get your meaning here... My impression was we're really only working on #1, and Andre and Pedro seem to have those under control. #2 and #3 are ongoing activities, before and after graduation, for us and any other Apache project. we had #3 in the March report, so I just left it. I put in #2, because this is a point in the preparing for graduation document, and goes to how well we operate as a group. The reason I included it was twofold: to give communication style/interoperability more attention by us; and to make sure the incubator board knows we think this is important. But I don't think we have any graduation blocking issues there. no...it's just a awareness list. We have started preliminary discussion concerning graduation, and are putting renewed emphasis on the above items as we would like to propose graduation within the next month. * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness * - None * Community Development Progress * - Since our last report we have voted in 5 (?) new Committers/PPMC members. - Since our last report, one committer/PPMC member has resigned - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum moderation). - We accepted an offer from SourceForge to host our older 3.3 version and provide client installs of our latest release 3.4. This decision was arrived after much discussion among members and consulation with mentors. - Due to heightened interest, we are putting more resources (services, volunteers) into translation efforts - We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party distributin requests. Ongoing emphasis as to how to accomodate and track these requests is becoming an important concern. - We are putting renewed emphasis on recruitment to assist with maintaiing now abandoned former native-language project web sites. I'd word that as, 'We are increasing our global reach by recruiting volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of legacy native language home pages ok -- will do * Project Development Progress * - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. Over three million downloads in the first month. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Source tarbalss in Engligh Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms Language packs for 15 languages A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline We would like to publicly acknowledge the efforts of our mentors, the Apache infrastructure team, and the wonderful folks at SourceForge in making this release a success! - We are currently working on an alternate repository for category-B code to comply with graduation requirements - Prepartion was made in May for importing IBM Symphony changes into the OpenOffice repository Maybe first say an SGA was received from IBM for IBM Lotus Symphony, and now are preparing to import... ok... This should be complete by the time of the June board meeting. - Work is continuing on making translation processes easier for volunteers. Currently, only committers can access the Pootel server. - Testing and implementation of old update service for OpenOffice has been accomplished. This service is for older OpenOffice clients to identify updates and, optionally, install an update if available. - need and update on this one and the mailing list
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
On 06/05/2012 08:36 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: KG01 - See comments inline. Kay, thanks for putting this information together. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here's a draft -- Dennis is working on getting me actual people numbers later today, so what I have here in terms of new committers is just a (bad) guess. And, duh -- we only report in March, June, September, December, so what I have here in terms of what we've been doing since March is probably way, way off... Please update as you see fit! I now have an incubator wiki account so I will happily post when we're done == proposed June AOO report == *Project Name and Brief Description* OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) * OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations have supported 110 languages worldwide. * Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation * 1. Review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy 2. Given the size and scope of OpenOffice, continue work on community readiness espeically with refgard to organization and communication style. 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community It seems odd to have a list that large and say that we're about to start a graduation vote. My impression was we're really only working on #1, and Andre and Pedro seem to have those under control. #2 and #3 are ongoing activities, before and after graduation, for us and any other Apache project. But I don't think we have any graduation blocking issues there. We have started preliminary discussion concerning graduation, and are putting renewed emphasis on the above items as we would like to propose graduation within the next month. * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness * - None * Community Development Progress * - Since our last report we have voted in 5 (?) new Committers/PPMC members. - Since our last report, one committer/PPMC member has resigned - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum moderation). - We accepted an offer from SourceForge to host our older 3.3 version and provide client installs of our latest release 3.4. This decision was arrived after much discussion among members and consulation with mentors. - Due to heightened interest, we are putting more resources (services, volunteers) into translation efforts - We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party distributin requests. Ongoing emphasis as to how to accomodate and track these requests is becoming an important concern. - We are putting renewed emphasis on recruitment to assist with maintaiing now abandoned former native-language project web sites. KG01 - Re 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community, perhaps we could acknowledge that we are working to re-invigorate the user experience design effort. Software is for people, and we should show that we are working hard to understand who is user our product, why and for what, and how we will work to deliver the best experience possible to support our users. We don't just make code software, we design great products that align with our client's view of success - that is a design activity. My feedback here is too wordy, please include anything that acknowledges effort in user research and design of our products would be great. you got it! I'll include something on this! I'd word that as, 'We are increasing our global reach by recruiting volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of legacy native language home pages * Project Development Progress * - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. Over three million downloads in the first month. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Source tarbalss in Engligh Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms Language packs for 15 languages A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline We would like to publicly acknowledge the efforts of our mentors, the Apache infrastructure team, and the wonderful folks at SourceForge in making this release a success! - We are currently working on an alternate repository for category-B code to comply with graduation requirements - Prepartion was made in May for importing IBM Symphony changes into the OpenOffice repository Maybe first say an SGA was received from IBM for IBM Lotus Symphony, and now are preparing to import... This should be complete by the time
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
Yes, I agree the funding thing is confusing. It is a situation that the ASF is not set up to manage, and one that probably won't happen again. That being said, someone in the PPMC needs to own these things. I'm aware of their status, so it is possible, but it would seem nobody else is tracking each step as things gradually move forwards. Of course, we are all volunteers here, I'm not blaming anyone just highlighting some of the problems a volunteer organisation needs to address. Ross Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Jun 6, 2012 6:16 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/2012 11:35 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Kay Schenk wrote: - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Six plus source: Windows, Mac, Linux 32-bit RPM, Linux 32-bit DEB, Linux 64-bit RPM, Linux 64-bit DEB. Thanks Andrea -- apparently my eyes are failing me! :( Regards, Andrea. -- --**--** MzK Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end. -- Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: Yes, I agree the funding thing is confusing. It is a situation that the ASF is not set up to manage, and one that probably won't happen again. That being said, someone in the PPMC needs to own these things. I'm aware of their status, so it is possible, but it would seem nobody else is tracking each step as things gradually move forwards. Of course, we are all volunteers here, I'm not blaming anyone just highlighting some of the problems a volunteer organisation needs to address. Ross got it! I'll look at the postings again...obviously some mis-communication or expected communication (to the PPMC) that never came. Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Jun 6, 2012 6:16 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/05/2012 11:35 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Kay Schenk wrote: - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Six plus source: Windows, Mac, Linux 32-bit RPM, Linux 32-bit DEB, Linux 64-bit RPM, Linux 64-bit DEB. Thanks Andrea -- apparently my eyes are failing me! :( Regards, Andrea. -- --**--** MzK Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end. -- Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel -- MzK Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end. -- Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
*DRAFT* June board report...please help
OK, here's a draft -- Dennis is working on getting me actual people numbers later today, so what I have here in terms of new committers is just a (bad) guess. And, duh -- we only report in March, June, September, December, so what I have here in terms of what we've been doing since March is probably way, way off... Please update as you see fit! I now have an incubator wiki account so I will happily post when we're done == proposed June AOO report == *Project Name and Brief Description* OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) * OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations have supported 110 languages worldwide. * Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation * 1. Review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy 2. Given the size and scope of OpenOffice, continue work on community readiness espeically with refgard to organization and communication style. 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community We have started preliminary discussion concerning graduation, and are putting renewed emphasis on the above items as we would like to propose graduation within the next month. * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness * - None * Community Development Progress * - Since our last report we have voted in 5 (?) new Committers/PPMC members. - Since our last report, one committer/PPMC member has resigned - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum moderation). - We accepted an offer from SourceForge to host our older 3.3 version and provide client installs of our latest release 3.4. This decision was arrived after much discussion among members and consulation with mentors. - Due to heightened interest, we are putting more resources (services, volunteers) into translation efforts - We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party distributin requests. Ongoing emphasis as to how to accomodate and track these requests is becoming an important concern. - We are putting renewed emphasis on recruitment to assist with maintaiing now abandoned former native-language project web sites. * Project Development Progress * - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Source tarbalss in Engligh Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms Language packs for 15 languages A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline We would like to publicly acknowledge the efforts of our mentors, the Apache infrastructure team, and the wonderful folks at SourceForge in making this release a success! - We are currently working on an alternate repository for category-B code to comply with graduation requirements - Prepartion was made in May for importing IBM Symphony changes into the OpenOffice repository This should be complete by the time of the June board meeting. - Work is continuing on making translation processes easier for volunteers. Currently, only committers can access the Pootel server. - Testing and implementation of old update service for OpenOffice has been accomplished. This service is for older OpenOffice clients to identify updates and, optionally, install an update if available. - need and update on this one and the mailing list numbers!!: Community support forums remain popular with users, hitting a new concurrency record (296) -- MzK So let it rock, let it roll Let the bible belt come and save my soul Hold on to sixteen as long as you can Changes come around real soon make us woman and men. -- Jack and Diane, John Mellencamp
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On 5 June 2012 21:34, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness * - None What about the possibility of leaks and the damage this might do to the community? You may have omitted it because you feel it is being handled OK and that there is nothing really to report at this stage. If that is the case then I would say that. The goal here is to give a heads up to the IPMC/Board that there is a serious issue and that it is being dealt with internally. If it is not resolved to the communities satisfaction and escalation is the first the IPMC/Board hear of this that will be considered bad form. You may also have omitted it because you are aware the IPMC and Board are already informed. This is true, but the board report is an opportunity for those who are not satisfied with progress to raise further issues and, if they so wish, escalate. I therefore try and include all items that cause significant tension. Furthermore, it is not uncommon for the board to ask a PMC chair to provide more information if something like this is not included in a report (a board member will often scan lists during review). They don't want to have to do detective work but if it looks like an issue is being ignored they will seek clarification. Note, the board reports are public so be sparing with details. The IPMC/Board has access to the private archives if they want details. From my last update to this list I think you could say: Possible leaks of information from the ooo-private email list are being investigated. Our first objective is to first establish if and how leaks occurred. Once full details are available we will be working to address the issue directly. No action is currently required from the board and an update will be provided, at the latest, in our next report. - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum moderation). There is certainly improvement but still the SPI issue is not resolved, calling that out explicitly makes me thing the PPMC is unaware of activity on this issue. This is falling between the cracks, partly because a change in VP fundraising resulted in a further delay after the issue seemed to be resolved on the SPI side. However, the item was raised at the last board meeting and everything should now be cleared up. I have it on my todo list to close this off, but that would not be the PPMC being self-managing and nobody here has asked me what needs to be done still (if someone could pick this up I'd be grateful, just mail fundrais...@apache.org and ask if we are clear to have SPI transfer funds). You probably also want to mention that the PPMC is starting to plan for graduation. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: (if someone could pick this up I'd be grateful, just mail fundrais...@apache.org and ask if we are clear to have SPI transfer funds). Suggestion: specify what the funds would be used for. I see prior mention of planning for an event. If so, that would be ideal, as that would increase the chance of the request being approved. - Sam Ruby
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: On 5 June 2012 21:34, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness * - None What about the possibility of leaks and the damage this might do to the community? You may have omitted it because you feel it is being handled OK and that there is nothing really to report at this stage. If that is the case then I would say that. The goal here is to give a heads up to the IPMC/Board that there is a serious issue and that it is being dealt with internally. If it is not resolved to the communities satisfaction and escalation is the first the IPMC/Board hear of this that will be considered bad form. You may also have omitted it because you are aware the IPMC and Board are already informed. This was my assumption but I don't know that for sure. I will be happy to include the leak business. This is true, but the board report is an opportunity for those who are not satisfied with progress to raise further issues and, if they so wish, escalate. I therefore try and include all items that cause significant tension. Furthermore, it is not uncommon for the board to ask a PMC chair to provide more information if something like this is not included in a report (a board member will often scan lists during review). They don't want to have to do detective work but if it looks like an issue is being ignored they will seek clarification. Note, the board reports are public so be sparing with details. yes, I know this... The IPMC/Board has access to the private archives if they want details. From my last update to this list I think you could say: Possible leaks of information from the ooo-private email list are being investigated. Our first objective is to first establish if and how leaks occurred. Once full details are available we will be working to address the issue directly. No action is currently required from the board and an update will be provided, at the latest, in our next report. I will include your wording on this. Thank you. - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum moderation). There is certainly improvement but still the SPI issue is not resolved, calling that out explicitly makes me thing the PPMC is unaware of activity on this issue. This is falling between the cracks, partly because a change in VP fundraising resulted in a further delay after the issue seemed to be resolved on the SPI side. However, the item was raised at the last board meeting and everything should now be cleared up. I have it on my todo list to close this off, but that would not be the PPMC being self-managing and nobody here has asked me what needs to be done still (if someone could pick this up I'd be grateful, just mail fundrais...@apache.org and ask if we are clear to have SPI transfer funds). You probably also want to mention that the PPMC is starting to plan for graduation. Well I did mention that we were in the discussion stage on this, but I can be more explicit. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com Thanks for your comments, Ross. Much appreciated. -- MzK Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end. -- Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: (if someone could pick this up I'd be grateful, just mail fundrais...@apache.org and ask if we are clear to have SPI transfer funds). Suggestion: specify what the funds would be used for. I see prior mention of planning for an event. If so, that would be ideal, as that would increase the chance of the request being approved. - Sam Ruby OK, thanks. -- MzK Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end. -- Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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On Jun 5, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: (if someone could pick this up I'd be grateful, just mail fundrais...@apache.org and ask if we are clear to have SPI transfer funds). Suggestion: specify what the funds would be used for. I see prior mention of planning for an event. If so, that would be ideal, as that would increase the chance of the request being approved. - Sam Ruby OK, thanks. With these suggested changes - well done Kay! Regards, Dave -- MzK Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not the end. -- Sonny, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
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On 6 June 2012 00:14, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: ... You probably also want to mention that the PPMC is starting to plan for graduation. Well I did mention that we were in the discussion stage on this, but I can be more explicit. I missed it, not sure if that was my rush to give you feedback or whether it needs to be more explicit - your call on that one. Oh, and I forgot to say thank you for picking this up. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: On 6 June 2012 00:14, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: ... You probably also want to mention that the PPMC is starting to plan for graduation. Well I did mention that we were in the discussion stage on this, but I can be more explicit. I missed it, not sure if that was my rush to give you feedback or whether it needs to be more explicit - your call on that one. Well we are still basically in the discussion stage at this point. So, I think this is sufficient. Oh, and I forgot to say thank you for picking this up. Ross -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective http://opendirective.com OK, here is the latest revision--and guess what, after some digging, I found the SPI deal is done! YAY! and Dave, thank you...we have been REALLY busy since March! centuries in AOO time! I should get some actual numbers re committers from Dennis soonish. The formatting is a mess here but it should come out better for the wiki post. = June Board Report Project Name and Brief Description: OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) * OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations support have supported 110 languages worldwide. Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation: 1. Review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy 2. Given the size and scope of OpenOffice, continue work on community readiness espeically with refgard to organization and communication style. 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community We have started preliminary discussion concerning graduation, and are putting renewed emphasis on these items as we would like to propose graduation within the next month. Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness - Leaks from ooo-private to outside agencies Possible leaks of information from the ooo-private email list are being investigated. Our first objective is to first establish if and how leaks occurred. Once full details are available we will be working to address the issue directly. No action is currently required from the board and an update will be provided, at the latest, in our next report. Community Development/Outreach Progress - Since our last report we have voted in 7 (?) new Committers/PPMC members. - Since our last report, 2 committer/PPMC members have resigned - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (e.g. forum moderation) - We were able to successfully transfer SPI funds formerly earmarked for OpenOffice.org to the ASF. See permalink: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/16846 These funds, as previously discussed, will primarily be used for developer travel when needed. - We accepted an offer from SourceForge to host our older 3.3 version and provide client installs of latest release 3.4. This event was accomplished after much discussion among members and consulation with mentors. - Due to heightened interest, we are putting more resources (services, volunteers) into translation efforts - We are more putting effort into addressing trademark and third-party distributin requests. Ongoing emphasis as to how to accomodate and track these requests is becoming an important concern. - We are putting renewed emphasis on recruitment to assist with maintaing now abandoned former native-language project web sites. - Established various social programming accounts for additional outreach: Twitter, Google+, Facebook - Setup two additional native language mailing lists Project Development Progress - Pootle services for the project were established and used. Translation services will be ongoing as new contributors for this service join. - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Source tarbalss in Engligh Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms Language packs for 15 languages A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline - We are currently working on an alternate repository for category-B code to comply with graduation requirement - Prepartion was made for importing IBM Symphony chages into the OpenOffice repository This should be complete by the time of the June board meeting. - Testing and implementation of old update service for OpenOffice has been accomplished. This service is for
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here's a draft -- Dennis is working on getting me actual people numbers later today, so what I have here in terms of new committers is just a (bad) guess. And, duh -- we only report in March, June, September, December, so what I have here in terms of what we've been doing since March is probably way, way off... Please update as you see fit! I now have an incubator wiki account so I will happily post when we're done == proposed June AOO report == *Project Name and Brief Description* OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) * OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations have supported 110 languages worldwide. * Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation * 1. Review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy 2. Given the size and scope of OpenOffice, continue work on community readiness espeically with refgard to organization and communication style. 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community It seems odd to have a list that large and say that we're about to start a graduation vote. My impression was we're really only working on #1, and Andre and Pedro seem to have those under control. #2 and #3 are ongoing activities, before and after graduation, for us and any other Apache project. But I don't think we have any graduation blocking issues there. We have started preliminary discussion concerning graduation, and are putting renewed emphasis on the above items as we would like to propose graduation within the next month. * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness * - None * Community Development Progress * - Since our last report we have voted in 5 (?) new Committers/PPMC members. - Since our last report, one committer/PPMC member has resigned - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum moderation). - We accepted an offer from SourceForge to host our older 3.3 version and provide client installs of our latest release 3.4. This decision was arrived after much discussion among members and consulation with mentors. - Due to heightened interest, we are putting more resources (services, volunteers) into translation efforts - We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party distributin requests. Ongoing emphasis as to how to accomodate and track these requests is becoming an important concern. - We are putting renewed emphasis on recruitment to assist with maintaiing now abandoned former native-language project web sites. I'd word that as, 'We are increasing our global reach by recruiting volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of legacy native language home pages * Project Development Progress * - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. Over three million downloads in the first month. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Source tarbalss in Engligh Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms Language packs for 15 languages A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline We would like to publicly acknowledge the efforts of our mentors, the Apache infrastructure team, and the wonderful folks at SourceForge in making this release a success! - We are currently working on an alternate repository for category-B code to comply with graduation requirements - Prepartion was made in May for importing IBM Symphony changes into the OpenOffice repository Maybe first say an SGA was received from IBM for IBM Lotus Symphony, and now are preparing to import... This should be complete by the time of the June board meeting. - Work is continuing on making translation processes easier for volunteers. Currently, only committers can access the Pootel server. - Testing and implementation of old update service for OpenOffice has been accomplished. This service is for older OpenOffice clients to identify updates and, optionally, install an update if available. - need and update on this one and the mailing list numbers!!: For ooo-dev we have 409 subscribers ! Community support forums remain popular with users, hitting a new concurrency record (296) Very good report. I see you have some other suggestions as well. Once those are included, and maybe a run through a spell checker, it should be ready to go. Thanks for volunteering to draft this! -Rob -- MzK So let it rock, let it roll Let the
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
On 6 June 2012 01:20, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.comwrote: On 6 June 2012 00:14, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here is the latest revision--and guess what, after some digging, I found the SPI deal is done! YAY! Hold up... http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/16846 Sorry to disappoint. The cheque mentioned in that post was cancelled due to the change in chair of Fundraising and further questions being asked here in the ASF. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/16845/match=schultheiss Unfortunately my note about further questions overlapped with the cheque notification otherwise I would have kept my mouth shut and returned the money if approval had not been given. Sometimes email and a rotating planet work against us... Ross Ross Ross
Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help
KG01 - See comments inline. Kay, thanks for putting this information together. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here's a draft -- Dennis is working on getting me actual people numbers later today, so what I have here in terms of new committers is just a (bad) guess. And, duh -- we only report in March, June, September, December, so what I have here in terms of what we've been doing since March is probably way, way off... Please update as you see fit! I now have an incubator wiki account so I will happily post when we're done == proposed June AOO report == *Project Name and Brief Description* OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org) * OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite providing six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations have supported 110 languages worldwide. * Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation * 1. Review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy 2. Given the size and scope of OpenOffice, continue work on community readiness espeically with refgard to organization and communication style. 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community It seems odd to have a list that large and say that we're about to start a graduation vote. My impression was we're really only working on #1, and Andre and Pedro seem to have those under control. #2 and #3 are ongoing activities, before and after graduation, for us and any other Apache project. But I don't think we have any graduation blocking issues there. We have started preliminary discussion concerning graduation, and are putting renewed emphasis on the above items as we would like to propose graduation within the next month. * Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness * - None * Community Development Progress * - Since our last report we have voted in 5 (?) new Committers/PPMC members. - Since our last report, one committer/PPMC member has resigned - We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum moderation). - We accepted an offer from SourceForge to host our older 3.3 version and provide client installs of our latest release 3.4. This decision was arrived after much discussion among members and consulation with mentors. - Due to heightened interest, we are putting more resources (services, volunteers) into translation efforts - We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party distributin requests. Ongoing emphasis as to how to accomodate and track these requests is becoming an important concern. - We are putting renewed emphasis on recruitment to assist with maintaiing now abandoned former native-language project web sites. KG01 - Re 3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community, perhaps we could acknowledge that we are working to re-invigorate the user experience design effort. Software is for people, and we should show that we are working hard to understand who is user our product, why and for what, and how we will work to deliver the best experience possible to support our users. We don't just make code software, we design great products that align with our client's view of success - that is a design activity. My feedback here is too wordy, please include anything that acknowledges effort in user research and design of our products would be great. I'd word that as, 'We are increasing our global reach by recruiting volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of legacy native language home pages * Project Development Progress * - We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012. Over three million downloads in the first month. This release included: Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages Source tarbalss in Engligh Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms Language packs for 15 languages A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline We would like to publicly acknowledge the efforts of our mentors, the Apache infrastructure team, and the wonderful folks at SourceForge in making this release a success! - We are currently working on an alternate repository for category-B code to comply with graduation requirements - Prepartion was made in May for importing IBM Symphony changes into the OpenOffice repository Maybe first say an SGA was received from IBM for IBM Lotus Symphony, and now are preparing to import... This should be complete by
