Sorry I haven't responded sooner, but I've been out all afternoon
and just got back.
Ian Laurenson wrote:
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.
As Sigrid pointed out, this was discussed with other members of
the group, but it was quite some time ago. Everything else Sigrid
said is true, to the best of my knowledge, so I won't repeat it
all here.
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.
The second quote was intended as a shorthand variation of what I
posted on the list. On re-reading, I can see that it may sound
contradictory and can easily be misinterpreted, so I'll change it.
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 should have raised the discussion again more recently, but I
have been so distracted by other concerns (outside OOo) that I
never thought about bringing it up again. I've been too focused
on the product to pay attention to the process. Sorry. I
certainly had no intention of making a unilateral decision.
Ian, may I ask whether you object to the publication of the
books, or to the fact that they are being sold at a profit
instead of at cost, or is your objection only to the way I
handled the publication?
Regards, Jean
