Hi Ian, Ian Laurenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:54:54 +1300:
> I am extremely disappointed with the way that this has been handled. > > To the best of my knowledge this was not discussed with the group in > advance. Are we a community or not? To me something like this should > have been discussed and agreed upon. > > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 07:25 -0800, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > Money raised from sales of OOoAuthors books will be spent as > > decided by the contributors to those books. At some point (when > > we actually have some money in the account), we'll need to work > > out just how to handle these decisions, but that's a topic for > > another thread, and probably another day. > > A quote from the site: > "Profits from the sale of this book support expenses of OOoAuthors > (http://oooauthors.org/)." > > To me these quotes are contradictory, and the issue should have been > discussed and decided upon in advance. > > While I acknowledge the hard work that Jean has put into these > documents they are the result of the collective hard work of all the > community and to me as such a unilateral decision by Jean was > inappropriate. > I remember some discussions about this topic, but I can't find the mails right now, sorry. As far as I remember, the authors of the books will decide, what they want to do with the money. The second quote you've mentioned is just for the reason, that Jean has something to write down, what the money will be used for. (That's my personal guessing!) I'm sure, Jean will say the same, when she's online later (or maybe tomorrow). The money we will get through this books (I don't have an imagination, how much this will be) isn't automatically used for paying for our webspace (isn't Enthought paying for it?), it's used, for what the whole group of authors decide. Sigrid
