Author: robweir
Date: Tue Jan 8 17:48:38 2013
New Revision: 1430404
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1430404&view=rev
Log: (empty)
Modified:
openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_volunteers.mdtext
Modified: openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_volunteers.mdtext
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_volunteers.mdtext?rev=1430404&r1=1430403&r2=1430404&view=diff
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--- openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_volunteers.mdtext (original)
+++ openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/why/why_volunteers.mdtext Tue Jan 8
17:48:38 2013
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ OpenOffice, through its decade plus exis
with the project. At one time or another Sun, Oracle, Novell, Redhat, IBM and
others have sponsored their employees to work on OpenOffice. Some professional
are recently retired
and work on the project to keep their skills sharp or to "give back" to the
open source community. Others have a business based on OpenOffice consulting,
and volunteer with the
project to stay close to potential customers. Others are students, studying
software engineering or a related field, and participate in our project as a
form of electronic
-internship.
+internship. Among our volunteers are several programmers with over a decade's
experience working on OpenOffice. We are fortunate to have a depth of talent
working on this project
+that would be the envy of many corporations.
So our all-volunteer principle is a statement of how we are organized, as a
non-profit. We do not pay for developers. But this is not a statement on the
professionalism and
talent of our volunteers. In fact, very few corporations would be able to
afford the kind of talent that we have, as volunteers, helping with Apache
OpenOffice.
