André Schnabel wrote:
TeamOOo is the only instance, that is present at global websites within
OOo and and has no special focus (not focused on a region or an a
sub-project).
There are other associations, that promote OOo, "sell" OOo materials,
accept donations and give (parts of) those donations back to the
community. I for myself am board member of such a association. And we
have severeal discussions (how to spend the money, how strongly should
we promote and collect oney how should this presented at OOo and other
sites).
At the moment we are listet for accepting donations at the german
donation page. There will be printed books, where we get some of the
profits - those will be listed at a "books for sales page". Parts of
those books will (hopefully) published under PDL.
So .. I'm aware of the need to do things in your own way and of some
problems that will araise with the community itself.
...
It think, the discussion did start from the wrong end. It stated (here)
with removing OOo Authors books.
At the Council it started with thinking about adverticements and
promoting payed for materials at our website. If we'd accept
advertizements at any place, if the "partner" gives some of money back
to OOo, our website could easily be sold. Everybody who pays 10$ for a
banner is giving some of his profits to the community.
...
*sigh* as you might have read above, I changed my mind after having some
thoughts. I see, that OOoAuthors is not the same as , let's say,
O'Reilly. But it is not easy to say, what is just
payed-for-advertizement and what is advertizement for donations to the
community. As said .. I'll have the same problem within some weeks.
To me, the way to go is, to have a List of payed-for boks and mark those
that are produced by the community and/or give some of the profits back
to the community.
I have no perfekt solution .. so thanks for discussing this in a
positive manner.
Thank you also, André, for that information and for your positive
contributions to this discussion, both here and on the Council
list. I know we all want a good solution that works for everyone,
and I know that it is not easy to find such a solution. I
certainly want to keep working with you and others, including the
rest of the Council, to find a win-win solution.
I said in an earlier note that I would write to the CC about a
couple of points of concern to me, but now I realise that I don't
know how one is supposed to communicate with the CC. The Council
web page doesn't say (it only mentions submitting agenda items).
Can you or any other Council member reading this note tell me
what I should do to convey some comments and concerns to the
Council? Through the Community Contributor Representative?
Through the Chair & Secretary (Louis)? Or?? Thank you.
Regards, Jean
