Author: orcmid
Date: Mon Sep 7 20:59:02 2015
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Log:
The original approval of Apache OpenOffice as a Top Level Project (TLP) and all
of the Apache OpenOffice reports to the Board as they appeared in approved
Board minutes.
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+Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2012/board_minutes_2012_10_17.txt>
+
+F. Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project
+
+ WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
+ interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's
+ purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with
+ the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for
+ distribution at no charge to the public, related to the OpenOffice
+ personal productivity applications.
+
+ NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee
+ (PMC), to be known as the "Apache OpenOffice Project", be and hereby
+ is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it
+ further
+
+ RESOLVED, that the Apache OpenOffice Project be and hereby is
+ responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to
+ the OpenOffice personal productivity applications; and be it further
+
+ RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, OpenOffice" be and
+ hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the
+ direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache
+ OpenOffice Project, and to have primary responsibility for
+ management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of
+ the Apache OpenOffice Project; and be it further
+
+ RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby
+ are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache
+ OpenOffice Project:
+
+ * Andre Fischer (af)
+ * Andrea Pescetti (pescetti)
+ * Andrew Rist (arist)
+ * Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch)
+ * Armin Le Grand (alg)
+ * Dave Fisher (wave)
+ * Donald Harbison (dpharbison)
+ * Drew Jensen (atjensen)
+ * Ian Lynch (ingotian)
+ * Jürgen Schmidt (jsc)
+ * Kay Schenk (kschenk)
+ * Kazunari Hirano (khirano)
+ * Louis Suarez-Potts (louis)
+ * Marcus Lange (marcus)
+ * Oliver-Rainer Wittmann (orw)
+ * Pedro Giffuni (pfg)
+ * Peter Junge (pj)
+ * Raphael Bircher (rbircher)
+ * Regina Henschel (regina)
+ * RGB.ES (rgb-es)
+ * Roberto Galoppini (galoppini)
+ * Yang Shih-Ching (imacat)
+ * Yong Lin Ma (mayongl)
+
+ NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Andrea Pescetti be
+ appointed to the office of Vice President, OpenOffice, to serve in
+ accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of
+ Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
+ resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a
+ successor is appointed; and be it further
+
+ RESOLVED, that the initial Apache OpenOffice Project be and hereby
+ is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
+ encourage open development and increased participation in the
+ OpenOffice Project; and be it further
+
+ RESOLVED, that the Apache OpenOffice Project be and hereby is tasked
+ with the migration and rationalization of the Apache OpenOffice.org
+ podling; and be it further
+
+ RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache
+ Incubator OpenOffice.org podling encumbered upon the Apache
+ Incubator Project are hereafter discharged.
+
+ Special Order 7F, Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project, was
+ approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
+
+
+
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+Attachment AL: Status report for the Apache OpenOffice Project from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2012/board_minutes_2012_11_21.txt>
+
+Apache OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13 and graduated from the
+Incubator on 2012-10-17.
+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 110
+languages worldwide.
+
+As the project graduated very recently, this report still focuses on the
+pre-graduation phase and uses the pre-graduation template.
+
+MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS TO ADDRESS TOWARD GRADUATION
+
+OpenOffice graduated in October. To that aim, the project since the last
+report had:
+1. chosen a PMC with public nominations on the ooo-dev list
+2. elected a PMC chair
+3. carefully checked the compliance of code in its repository with the Apache
+rules.
+
+ISSUES FOR IPMC OR ASF BOARD AWARENESS
+
+No new issues at this time.
+
+COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT/OUTREACH PROGRESS
+
+We are increasing our global reach by recruiting volunteers to help update
+and maintain the large set of native language home pages and to update the
+OpenOffice translations into several languages. We managed to recruit new
+translation volunteers and get them involved in the project.
+
+Because our product is client-centric, we have put additional focus on our
+social networking accounts - Google +, Facebook - in collecting feedback and
+ideas from our user base. For example, 1260 users proposed ideas for
+OpenOffice 4.0 in a survey we conducted using Google Moderator.
+
+In anticipation of additional growth post-graduation, we are developing
+web pages to support new volunteers, especially in the localization
+and QA areas.
+
+We are also looking at conferences and events to increase our outreach: after
+ApacheCon, we will have a strong presence at FOSDEM (February 2013, Brussels,
+Belgium) where the Apache OpenOffice project will have a dedicated track for
+developers ("devroom").
+
+PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS
+
+We started discussing plans for the next OpenOffice release. It will contain
+several new features and it will probably be labelled 4.0. Plans are to
+release it in Q1 2013 or shortly after.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users. The English forum reached
+50,000 members in June (or, if we remove the spam accounts which manage to go
+through, in September 2012, almost 5 years after its creation). The ooo-users
+list also is quite active and the localization list ooo-L10N is fast growing.
+As Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways to
+direct users to appropriate support venues.
+
+The developer list, ooo-dev, remains very active.
+
+
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+Attachment AC: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti]
+from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2012/board_minutes_2012_12_19.txt>
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+* Issues for Board Awareness
+
+The graduation process, as expected, was non-trivial and involved
+migration of multiple resources. Infra was very helpful, but it
+took about 7 weeks before the main resources could be considered
+to be fully migrated.
+
+* Community Development/Outreach Progress
+
+A major effort is ongoing to recruit new volunteers for the project,
+through announcements on the website, blog posts and calls on the
+ooo-announce list. We managed to recruit volunteers for translation
+(about 20 new languages), Quality Assurance and Marketing. The dedicated
+mailing lists are now seeing a strong increase in traffic and diversity
+of posters.
+
+We continue to use social networking accounts - Google +, Facebook - to
+collect feedback and ideas from our user base. A Google+ community was
+recently started. An initiative called "Ask OpenOffice" was launched too,
+to collect the top 10 non-support questions from our users: they will be
+answered in a blog post, to help users reach a better understanding of
+OpenOffice at Apache.
+
+Dozens of project volunteers attended the 3-day OpenOffice track at
+ApacheCon EU, often meeting in person for the first time; the ApacheCon
+experience allowed volunteers to discuss about the project, to get media
+exposure and to learn more about the Apache Foundation and the Apache Way.
+
+We have several volunteers ready to attend FOSDEM (February 2013, Brussels,
+Belgium) where the Apache OpenOffice project will have a dedicated track
+for developers ("devroom") and, pending final approval by FOSDEM, a stand
+for the whole conference. We also submitted talks for the ApacheCon NA in
+Portland and we'll have several volunteers attending it too.
+
+* Project Development Progress
+
+The next OpenOffice release will be labelled 4.0. Plans are to release
+it in Q1 2013 or shortly after. Volunteers are stepping up to take
+responsibility for the major new features, opening wiki pages to document
+their progress and inviting other potential developers to join.
+
+The project will also release new languages for OpenOffice 3.4.1 (the
+current stable version), with a translation deadline set to end of 2012 and
+a release expected in January 2013. The project will release an update to
+the 3.4.1 sources (including the new translation resources) and binary
+packages for the added languages only.
+
+The project added 3 new committers since the graduation date.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users.
+The mailing lists for user support and localization are quite active, and
+those for QA and marketing are fast growing. As Apache OpenOffice is a
+client product, we continue to investigate ways to direct users to
+appropriate support venues. The developer list, ooo-dev, remains very
+active.
+
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+Attachment AH: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti]
+from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2013/board_minutes_2013_01_16.txt>
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+Issues for Board Awareness
+
+None at this time.
+
+Community Development/Outreach Progress
+
+Recruiting new volunteers for the project through announcements on
+the website is proving very effective. The current effort, after a
+successful call for translation volunteers, is aimed at finding Quality
+Assurance volunteers willing to help with early testing of OpenOffice
+4.0, due later in 2013. The volunteers mailing lists keep growing in
+traffic and diversity of posters.
+
+We continue to use social networking accounts – Google +, Facebook – to
+collect feedback and ideas from our user base. A Google+ community was
+recently started. An initiative called "Ask OpenOffice" was run to
+collect the top 10 non-support questions from our users, which were then
+discussed on the dev mailing list and answered in a blog post.
+
+We have several volunteers ready to attend FOSDEM (February 2013,
+Brussels, Belgium) where the Apache OpenOffice project will have a
+dedicated track for developers ("devroom") and a stand for the whole
+conference. We also submitted talks for the ApacheCon NA in Portland
+and we'll have several volunteers attending it too.
+
+Project Development Progress
+
+The graduation process can be considered complete. All relevant
+resources have been fully migrated.
+
+The next OpenOffice release will be labelled 4.0. Plans are to release
+around April 2013. Volunteers have taken responsibility for the major
+new features, which are being documented for developers and for users
+on the project wiki.
+
+The project prepared test snapshots for new languages of OpenOffice
+3.4.1 (the current stable version), with the aim of releasing at least
+8 new languages in late January. The project will release an update to
+the 3.4.1 sources (including the new translation resources) and binary
+packages for the added languages only.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users.
+The mailing lists for user support and localization are quite active,
+and those for QA and marketing are fast growing. As Apache OpenOffice
+is a client product, we continue to investigate ways to direct users to
+appropriate support venues. The developer list, ooo-dev, remains very
+active.
+
+
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+Attachment AM: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti]
+from
<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2013/board_minutes_2013_04_17.txt>
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+Issues for Board Awareness
+
+The project had a long policy discussion on veto powers and code
+reverts: the discussion was difficult also due to uncertainties about
+the Apache policy, now clarified after an articulated discussion on the
+members list; this will reduce the risk of similar discussions to
+happen again in future. This remained an isolated incident.
+
+Community Development/Outreach Progress
+---------------------------------------
+
+The project added a new committer, Samer Mansour.
+
+Blog posts calling for new development, documentation, QA, design
+volunteers have proved successful, with many new people contacting the
+mailing lists and some providing sustained contributions to the
+discussions and activities. Orientation modules for new volunteers were
+made available, to simplify introduction of new volunteers.
+
+Apache OpenOffice participated in FOSDEM 2013 in Brussels, with a
+booth for two days and a dedicated track (devroom) for a full day of
+technical talks, and in ApacheCon NA in Portland, with presentations
+and meetings.
+
+The OpenOffice Wiki, running on MediaWiki, was very unstable. It has
+been fresh installed on a new vm and updated to the latest release
+under the guidance of Infra, and is now stable, documented and
+maintained.
+
+A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
+license was started on the OpenOffice Wiki.
+
+A new project logo is currently being selected for version 4.0.
+
+A small team of volunteers was created to take care of the LAMP virtual
+machines used for the OpenOffice Wiki, the OpenOffice Forum and an
+ASF-wide new Pootle server for software translations. The Apache
+Infrastructure team is providing guidance and support. The OpenOffice
+infrastructure needs have been discussed with Infra to allow proper
+planning and budgeting.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users. The mailing lists
+for user support, localization, QA and marketing are quite active. As
+Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways
+to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list,
+ooo-dev, remains very active.
+
+Product/Project Development Progress
+------------------------------------
+
+The project released an update to version 3.4.1 in late January,
+to include 8 new language translations made available by volunteers.
+
+The next OpenOffice release will be labeled 4.0. Plans are to release
+in June, 2013.
+
+New ports, languages and other distribution channels are expected. The
+new release in June will be provided in many more native languages. New
+volunteers have come forth to assist with this effort. Build work has
+started for reinstating OpenOffice into Linux repositories, currently
+Fedora at this time.
+
+The source tree has been cleaned of non en-US messages (these are
+now kept in external files) allowing normal translation of these parts.
+
+A new localization process, eventually leading to a more efficient
+translation workflow and a massive cleanup of tools and intermediate
+formats, is being implemented. The toolset is independent of OpenOffice
+and can be easily adopted by other projects especially in combination
+with the new translate/Pootle server.
+
+Most of the work towards version 4.0 is being done in branches, with
+integration to trunk expected to begin soon. Buildbots and QA tests
+cover both trunk and branches, to guarantee optimal coverage.
+
+Work is beginning on a Strategic Plan for the project. The plan will
+likely be sub-divided into various components: Web/Wiki, User Support,
+Documentation, Project: General, Project: Writer, Project: Calc,
+Project:Base, etc. We anticipate this will be a rather lengthy process
+involving both volunteers and our end users.
+
+
+
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+Attachment AI: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti]
+from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2013/board_minutes_2013_07_17.txt>
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+Issues for Board Awareness
+---------------------------
+
+OpenOffice, like the ASF as a whole, is hit by the announced policy
+change of Apache Extras. The project currently stores several libraries
+there, in an area known as ooo-extras, and the build process downloads
+them when options like --enable-category-b are used. A solution should
+be found at the ASF level.
+
+Community Development/Outreach Progress
+---------------------------------------
+
+The project added 4 committers (May: dwhytock, akerbeltz, vkadal;
+July: pmralbuquerque) and one new PMC member (April: jani) since our
+last report in April.
+
+These new committers are primarily involved in the translation efforts
+to incorporate additional native language capability into Apache
+OpenOffice. Our new PMC member has many years of experience in open
+source, and is assisting in administration of our LAMP servers.
+
+A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
+licence was started on the OpenOffice Wiki and is progressing well.
+
+OpenOffice is participating in the Google Summer of Code program for
+the first time after several years.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users. The mailing lists
+for user support, localization, QA and marketing are quite active. As
+Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate ways
+to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer list,
+ooo-dev, remains very active.
+
+Product/Project Development Progress
+------------------------------------
+
+We will be releasing Apache OpenOffice 4.0 in July, likely the week
+of July 15.
+
+This release will feature a new, more modern, user interface, a
+reworked directory layout to simplify development and installation,
+code updates to allow building on newer platforms and (at least) 23
+languages.
+
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+Attachment AJ: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Andrea Pescetti]
+from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2013/board_minutes_2013_10_16.txt>.
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+Issues for Board Awareness
+---------------------------
+
+OpenOffice, like the ASF as a whole, is hit by the announced policy
+change of Apache Extras. The project hopes that a solution will be
+found at the ASF level.
+
+Community Development/Outreach Progress
+---------------------------------------
+
+The project added 3 committers (July: elish, christef; August: sebb)
+since our last report in July. The last PMC addition is jani (April
+2013).
+
+The new committers span different areas of expertise, ranging from
+QA to localization, recruitment of new volunteers, website updates
+and procedural advice.
+
+A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
+licence is progressing well on the OpenOffice Wiki.
+
+The OpenOffice forum infrastructure was successfully updated last
+Summer. The OpenOffice custom infrastructure is now in a "minimal
+maintenance" mode, and the project could benefit from more
+volunteers helping with infrastructure work and more well-defined
+processes for system administration. A proposal is currently under
+preliminary discussion, with contributions from Infra.
+
+Experimental solutions to make website translation easier are
+being developed, with a couple of translated versions of the
+website close to completion.
+
+New versions of the Extensions and Templates sites, externally
+hosted, were put online in the last months.
+
+OpenOffice participated in the Google Summer of Code program for
+the first time after several years.
+
+OpenOffice was accepted for a track (devroom) at FOSDEM, a
+major European free and open source software conference, to be held
+1-2 February 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users: on the
+English forum, registered users reached 60,000 on 17 September and
+the forum hit 300 users online, a new traffic record.
+
+The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA and marketing
+are quite active. Activity in social media is progressing well. As
+Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate
+ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer
+(dev) list remains very active.
+
+Product/Project Development Progress
+------------------------------------
+
+Apache OpenOffice 4.0 was released on 23 July 2013, followed by
+another release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1, on October 1st.
+
+Version 4.0 featured a new, more modern, user interface, a
+reworked directory layout to simplify development and installation,
+code updates to allow building on newer platforms and 23 languages.
+
+Version 4.0.1 added 9 languages (some of which hadn't been updated
+in years) and important bugfixes. The additional translations were
+made possible by the community growth and the availability of new
+volunteers.
+
+Activities that are already ongoing for the next release include:
+the rejuvenate01 branch, to explore using native platform
+capabilities and libraries for building; the IA2 accessibility work;
+actions for an easier installation and availability on mainstream
+Linux distributions; a new localization process, now progressing in
+the l10n40 branch; a build approach that is progressively dropping
+the historical dmake in favor of GNU make.
+
+The download trend remains very strong, with over 70 million
+downloads of Apache OpenOffice so far.
+
+
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+from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2014/board_minutes_2014_01_15.txt>
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+Issues for Board Awareness
+---------------------------
+
+OpenOffice depends on code stored at Apache Extras for its binary
+releases. It is unclear whether Apache Extras will adopt the same
+policy as Google Code http://s.apache.org/hzJ but, if it does, this
+will be a major problem for OpenOffice starting 15 January. In
+earlier conversations on the Infra list this was determined to be
+a ComDev issue and there were no public updates so far about it.
+
+Community Development/Outreach Progress
+---------------------------------------
+
+The project added 6 committers (October: fanyuzhen, bourock, wlada;
+November: knmc, joesch; December: hanya) and one PMC member
+(November: fanyuzhen) since our last report in October.
+
+The new committers span different areas of expertise: development,
+QA, localization, documentation, extensions, user support in native
+languages.
+
+A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
+license is progressing well on the OpenOffice Wiki, and materials
+from an "OpenOffice for students" guide have been made available
+and are being integrated.
+
+The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is still in a
+"minimal maintenance" mode, with many improvements waiting to be
+implemented. A proposal to move forward in a way that is also
+acceptable by Infra has recently received consensus; a team is
+forming and we are looking forward to offer professional and
+responsive infrastructure support to the project community members.
+
+Experimental solutions to make website translation easier have
+been tested. The first pilot languages are already online.
+
+The localization community is growing, with 5 localizations
+(Bulgarian, Danish, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal, Thai) reaching 100%
+since the last report.
+
+There is a growing interest on the mailing list from new volunteers
+who would like to help with simple core development tasks.
+
+OpenOffice will co-organize a track (devroom) at FOSDEM, a
+major European free and open source software conference, to be held
+1-2 February 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. Several project developers
+will be presenting their latest work and the upcoming features.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users, with an average
+of over 100 posts per day. The community also reached consensus on
+a new graphical identity, to be implemented as part of the pending
+tasks.
+
+The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA and marketing
+are quite active. Activity in social media is progressing well. As
+Apache OpenOffice is a client product, we continue to investigate
+ways to direct users to appropriate support venues. The developer
+(dev) list remains very active.
+
+Product/Project Development Progress
+------------------------------------
+
+Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1, a maintenance release, was released on
+1 October 2013.
+
+A possible "language update" release of Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 to
+include the 5 additional languages now ready for release (Bulgarian,
+Danish, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal, Thai) is being discussed, with a
+tentative release date in late January.
+
+Version 4.1.0, with a tentative release date in early April, will
+feature several improvements, including the IA2 accessibility work
+and the replacement of outdated Mozilla code with the NSS libraries:
+both are already merged to trunk and now being tested.
+
+Activities that are still ongoing for the next release include:
+the rejuvenate01 branch, to explore using native platform
+capabilities and libraries for building; actions for an easier
+installation and availability on mainstream Linux distributions; a
+new localization process, now progressing in the l10n40 branch; a
+redesign of the build approach, dropping the historical dmake.
+
+The download trend remains very strong, with 85 million downloads of
+Apache OpenOffice as of 31 December 2013.
+
+
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+from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2014/board_minutes_2014_04_16.txt>
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+Issues for Board Awareness
+---------------------------
+
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-190 was opened to
+check whether we need to have uniform ADA (Americans with
+Disabilities Act) statements for all the public websites of the
+Apache projects.
+
+Community Development/Outreach Progress
+---------------------------------------
+
+The project added 3 committers (January: rbd; February: clarence_guo;
+March: astepukonis) since our last report in January. The new
+committers are involved in QA, development, localization. No new
+PMC members since November 2013 (fanyuzhen).
+
+The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is still in a
+"minimal maintenance" mode. Important fixes get applied timely, but
+many improvements requested by the community have been in queue for
+months. The infrastructure team internal to the OpenOffice project
+is insufficient and cannot work effectively due to disagreements on
+the system administration policy. The best option seems to
+progressively standardize on the Infra processes and minimize the
+amount of "non-standard" sysadmin work needed.
+
+Experimental solutions to make website translation easier have
+been tested. The first ones are already online and we are engaging
+new volunteers.
+
+A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
+license is progressing on the OpenOffice Wiki.
+
+The localization community is growing: OpenOffice 4.1, expected
+mid-April, will be fully released in 38 languages, 6 of which
+(Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai)
+are new with respect to version 4.0.
+
+OpenOffice co-organized a track (devroom) at FOSDEM, a major
+European free and open source software conference, in February 2014
+and will have a dedicated track during ApacheCon Denver.
+
+The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA are quite
+active, the marketing list is moderately active. Activity in social
+media is progressing well. The developer (dev) list remains very
+active.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users, with an average
+of over 100 posts per day.
+
+In the previous report OpenOffice mentioned that the new policy
+announced for Apache Extras http://s.apache.org/hzJ would have been
+a major problem. But three months later no complaints were seen on
+the dev list. It must be considered, though, that in the past months
+the focus was mainly on consolidating the 4.1 release, so no
+external libraries like the ones hosted in Apache Extras were
+updated.
+
+
+Product/Project Development Progress
+------------------------------------
+
+Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0, a release with some major improvements
+including IA2 accessibility, OOXML compatibility, Mac OS X specific
+features (64-bit application), replacement of outdated Mozilla code
+with the NSS libraries, is currently in Release Candidate phase and
+is expected to be approved mid-April. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0-beta
+was officially voted and released for public testing on 10 March
+2014.
+
+Activities that are still ongoing include: actions for an easier
+installation and availability on mainstream Linux distributions; a
+new localization process, now progressing in the l10n40 branch; a
+redesign of the build approach, dropping the historical dmake;
+implementation of export to OOXML formats.
+
+The download trend remains very strong, with about 95 million
+downloads of Apache OpenOffice as of 31 March 2014.
+
+
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+from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2014/board_minutes_2014_07_16.txt>.
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+### Issues for Board Awareness
+
+The mail outage experienced by Apache last May is unacceptable
+both for a reputable foundation like the ASF and for a
+well-established project like OpenOffice. We appreciate that the
+Foundation is now aware that a well-working infrastructure is a
+priority and that steps are being taken to guarantee a higher
+quality of service.
+
+### Community Development/Outreach Progress
+
+The project added 1 new committer (May: tal) since our last report
+in April. The new committer is involved in localization and website
+improvements. No new PMC members since November 2013 (fanyuzhen).
+
+The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is still in a
+"minimal maintenance" mode. We are now starting to address the queue
+of improvements requested by the community, but faster reaction
+times are needed. The infrastructure team internal to the OpenOffice
+project is insufficient and lacks coordination. We are
+progressively standardizing on the Infra processes to minimize the
+amount of "non-standard" sysadmin work needed.
+
+Several volunteers engaged in translating the website to their
+language by simply editing the HTML files; this proved to work
+better in our case than sending people to the Apache CMS and asking
+them to send patches.
+
+We have new volunteers and new developments in the main website
+too, with a completely reworked download section and more visibility
+for localized websites thanks to a new language drop-down.
+
+A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
+licence is progressing more slowly than expected on the OpenOffice
+Wiki, even though new volunteers show up regularly.
+
+The localization community is growing: OpenOffice 4.1, released
+29 April 2014, is fully released in 38 languages, 6 of which
+(Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai)
+were new with respect to version 4.0.
+
+OpenOffice had a dedicated track during ApacheCon Denver and
+is set to have one during ApacheCon Budapest too, judging by the
+number of submitted talk proposals.
+
+The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA are quite
+active, the marketing and documentation lists are moderately active.
+Activity in social media is progressing well. The developer (dev)
+list remains very active.
+
+Community support forums remain popular with users, with an average
+of over 100 posts per day. The online users counter reached two peaks
+in May (359) and July (404). As for graphics, the forum header is
+now consistent with the Extensions and Templates sites.
+
+### Product/Project Development Progress
+
+Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0, a release with some major improvements
+including IA2 accessibility, OOXML compatibility, Mac OS X specific
+features (64-bit application), replacement of outdated Mozilla code
+with the NSS libraries, was published on 29 April 2014.
+
+A bugfix release, Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1, is expected in August.
+It will contain bugfixes and a few new translations.
+
+Activities that are still ongoing include: actions for an easier
+installation and availability on mainstream Linux distributions; a
+new localization process, now progressing in the l10n40 branch; a
+redesign of the build approach, dropping the historical dmake;
+a rewritten OOXML filter, allowing import and (later) export.
+
+The download trend remains very strong: Apache OpenOffice celebrated
+100 million downloads on 17 April 2014.
+
+
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+from
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+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+### Issues for Board Awareness
+
+The Apache OpenOffice community is currently focusing on attracting
+new volunteers in code development. This is working well for the
+initial involvement and simple code contributions, but we need to
+have more resources available for the second step, i.e., mentoring
+more significant code contributions. This may require a shift of
+internal responsibilities in the project, which in turn may result
+in slower activity in some areas.
+
+### Community Development/Outreach Progress
+
+The project did not invite new committers or PMC members since the
+last report. The latest committer addition is from May 2014 (tal)
+and the latest PMC addition is from November 2013 (fanyuzhen).
+
+Thanks to a recent effort focused on new code volunteers, we are now
+seeing many more patches and contributions coming from new
+volunteers, but at the same time we are witnessing a reduced level
+of activity (in terms of both contributed lines of code and e-mails
+to the dev list) from more experienced developers. This will need to
+be monitored closely, as the project needs both new and experienced
+developers for a smooth progress.
+
+The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is still in a
+"minimal maintenance" mode. The infrastructure team internal to the
+OpenOffice project is insufficient and mostly inactive. Apache Infra
+has been providing support and (when possible) timely notifications,
+thus easing the task of the internal team.
+
+Several volunteers are getting involved by updating our many native
+language websites with the more recent approach (editing the HTML
+files rather than working through the CMS).
+
+A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
+licence is progressing more slowly than expected on the OpenOffice
+Wiki, even though new volunteers show up regularly.
+
+The localization community is growing: OpenOffice 4.1.1, released
+21 August 2014, is fully released in 41 languages, 3 of which
+(Catalan, Valencian AVL, Valencian RACV) are new with respect to
+version 4.1.0.
+
+A survey to know about existing volunteers and their unexpressed
+potential (i.e., reasons that may limit their contributions to fewer
+fields than the ones they could actually be active in) was launched,
+with the aim of analyzing and presenting results by ApacheCon EU.
+
+OpenOffice will have a dedicated track at ApacheCon Budapest, with
+talks spanning all the main project areas. But most of the project
+committers will not attend the event despite the good location
+and promotion, probably a symptom that we need to investigate
+other event formats in addition to ApacheCon.
+
+The mailing lists for user support, localization, QA are quite
+active, the marketing and documentation lists are moderately active.
+Activity in social media is still good. The developer (dev) list
+remains very active in terms of messages posted. Community support
+forums remain popular with users, with an average of over 100 posts
+per day.
+
+### Product/Project Development Progress
+
+Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1, a bugfix release introducing stability and
+security fixes, as well as new languages, was published on 21 August
+2014.
+
+Activities that are still ongoing, but at a slower pace than
+expected, include: actions for an easier installation and
+availability on mainstream Linux distributions; a new localization
+process, now progressing in the l10n40 branch; a rewritten OOXML
+filter, allowing import and (later) export.
+
+The download trend remains very strong: Apache OpenOffice reached
+120 million downloads at the end of September 2014.
+
+
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+from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2015/board_minutes_2015_01_21.txt>
+
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+### Issues for Board Awareness
+1) Andrea Pescetti, the current PMC Chair, gave his availability
+to resign as soon as a successor can be elected: after 2 years it's
+time for a rotation. Discussions are still ongoing, so the
+resolution won't arrive in time for the January Board meeting.
+
+2) The Apache OpenOffice community is still struggling in
+involving new volunteers who can independently work on big
+developments. Lack of appropriate mentors is still the main issue.
+
+3) Following the many discussions we had in 2014, OpenOffice now
+needs a replacement for Apache Extras. SourceForge provided a
+proof of concept that could work for us, but we prefer that the new
+location for Apache Extras is decided at an ASF-wide level (i.e.,
+that, as it used to be the case, all Apache projects put their
+"Extras" in a common space).
+
+### Community Development/Outreach Progress
+Since the last report, the project added two PMC members:
+Michael and Mechtilde Stehmann (mikeadvo, mechtilde) in
+December 2014. The latest committer addition is from May 2014 (tal).
+
+We continue to see new volunteers who would like to be involved,
+but we are able to use them for relatively easy tasks only, since we
+are still witnessing a reduced level of activity (in terms of both
+contributed lines of code and e-mails to the dev list) from more
+experienced developers.
+
+The OpenOffice custom infrastructure (wiki, forum) is now out of the
+"minimal maintenance" mode and is assigned to Jan Iversen.
+
+A new documentation effort for an end-users manual under the ALv2
+licence is stalled, even though new volunteers show up regularly.
+The problem is still the lack of appropriate coordinators/mentors.
+
+The localization community is growing, with new volunteers and new
+languages.
+
+A survey run just before ApacheCon EU showed that we have a lot
+on unexpressed potential in our volunteers, especially for
+non-development tasks. The challenge is now to implement the "better
+tools" and "better guidance" that these volunteers asked for, in
+several fields, from documentation to marketing to QA.
+
+OpenOffice had a dedicated track at ApacheCon Budapest, with
+talks spanning all the main project areas except core development.
+OpenOffice will have a dedicated booth and a devroom (shared
+with other OpenDocument Editors) at FOSDEM 2015, 31 January in
+Brussels.
+
+The mailing lists for user support, localization, development are
+quite active, the marketing, documentation, QA lists are moderately
+active. Activity in social media is still good. Community support
+forums remain popular with users, with an average of over 100 posts
+per day.
+
+### Product/Project Development Progress
+Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 is currently in the plans. It will be a
+bugfix release, but it will contain a major new feature in terms of
+packaging, with digitally signed installers and executables that
+will be accepted by modern Windows systems without warnings.
+Considering the many counterfeited sites offering variants of
+OpenOffice and the number of our users, this will be a significant
+milestone for the project.
+
+Activities that are still foreseen, but mostly stalled at the
+moment, include: actions for an easier installation and availability
+on mainstream Linux distributions; a new localization process, now
+progressing in the l10n40 branch; a rewritten OOXML filter,
+allowing import and (later) export.
+
+The download trend remains very strong: Apache OpenOffice passed the
+130 million downloads at the end of 2014.
+
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+## Description:
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+
+## Activity:
+Andrea Pescetti resigned as Chair after 2 years in order to enable
+a "rotating" Chair role (i.e., a change every 1-2 years). Andrea
+remains an active PMC member. Jan Iversen was elected as new Chair
+and the transition was smooth.
+
+The mailing lists for users and the development list are fairly
+active, while specialized lists see a lower, but steady, activity
+(which is natural considering their specialized nature).
+
+The support channels (users mailing list and official forums) are
+very active as usual, thanks to the work of many of volunteers.
+
+New volunteers for development show up regularly, but our lack of
+mentors have made it very difficult to keep them active. The level
+of commits on trunk remain low, only a few simple fixes have been
+committed.
+
+The challenging position as release manager remains open since
+Jürgen Schmidt announced he wanted to resign as release manager.
+Jürgen is still an active PMC member.
+
+The 2 Mac (buildbot) delivered Q3 2014 from Infra are not
+operational, but a little group of volunteers work on installing
+the AOO development platform.
+
+Proof of concept for Digital Signing was made mid. 2014, no further
+work have been done. Once version 4.1.2 is ready for internal
+testing, work will continue.
+
+OpenOffice was present at FOSDEM (January 2015 in Brussels,Belgium),
+with talks and had a table that was well visited. We look forward to
+the idea of having an Apache Stand in 2016, where AOO want to be an
+integrated part.
+
+A BoF was held in CSDN OSTC (March 2015, China).
+
+2 Volunteers worked on preparing a AOO track for Austin, in the end
+it was decided not to make a track. Traditionally Europe is stronger
+for AOO so we look forward to Budapest.
+
+A major issue for AOO is the current activity level (practically no
+development). The community only has a few active developers, which
+makes a bootstrapping a challenge.
+
+As always AOO wants to cooperate with derived project, and believe
+derived projects benefit from a AOO with a high development level.
+Talks are (as usual) ongoing and are currently focused on how
+development in derived projects can be integrated in AOO and thereby
+help the whole eco-system. Talks in particular with one project, has
+been more intensive, but has currently not lead to any agreements,
+except it is clear that a cooperation must be a win-win situation,
+where AOO make changes adapting to the needs to the derived project.
+
+
+## Issues:
+The current CMS discussion based on a proposal to decommission the
+tool and ask projects to find other solutions would cause a
+significant problem for AOO. The AOO Web pages depend on the
+features of CMS that cannot be easily ported to other tools. If
+Infra is to stop the service, AOO will need to either only maintain
+only a few pages or run CMS on a project VM. The Board should
+remember to look at the total cost of this change, not only the
+Infra costs.
+
+
+## PMC/Committership changes:
+ - Currently 140 committers and 29 PMC members in the project.
+ - New PMC members:
+ - Jan Iversen was added to the PMC on Wed Feb 11 2015
+ - Mechtilde Stehmann was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 03 2015
+ - Dr. Michael Stehmann was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 03 2015
+ - Dennis E. Hamilton was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 13 2015
+ - Last committer addition was Tal Daniel at Tue Apr 29 2014
+
+
+## Releases:
+ - Last release was 4.1.1 on Thu Aug 21 2014
+
+Even though AOO remains committed to bring out version 4.1.2, it is
+only progressing slowly. It is decided this will be the first
+digitally signed release. The slowness is due to focus on other
+challenges (like electing a new chair) and to lack of developers /
+release manager.
+
+
+## Mailing list activity:
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 569 subscribers (down -16 in the last 3 months):
+ - 917 emails sent to list (866 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 500 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
+ - 1377 emails sent to list (1195 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 507 emails sent to list (624 in previous quarter)
+We are working on reducing the amount of unnecessary mails as
+it is too high for the private mailing list.
+
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 203 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
+ - 6 emails sent to list (27 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 171 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
+ - 22 emails sent to list (25 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 18 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
+ - 0 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 149 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
+ - 20 emails sent to list (36 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 3 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 356 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
+ - 109 emails sent to list (51 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 11334 subscribers (down -37 in the last 3 months):
+ - 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 24 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
+ - 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 97 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months):
+ - 1698 emails sent to list (1919 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 87 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
+ - 4 emails sent to list (21 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 251 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
+ - 257 emails sent to list (118 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 280 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
+ - 57 emails sent to list (57 in previous quarter)
+ - [email protected]:
+ - 155 subscribers (up 10 in the last 3 months):
+ - 65 emails sent to list (38 in previous quarter)
+
+
+
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+Attachment AQ: Report from the Apache OpenOffice Project [Jan Iversen] from
+<http://apache.org/foundation/records/minutes/2015/board_minutes_2015_07_15.txt>
+
+## Description:
+Apache 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 and in dozens of languages.
+
+## Activity:
+The support channels (users mailing list and official forums) remain
+active, the mailing lists have a low but steady flow.
+
+The level of commits on trunk remain low, only a few simple commits.
+
+Due to a contributor, the buildbots were maintained to a operational
+again. They are still some configuration work outstanding.
+
+The same contributor provided a patch to solve a rat-scan issue. We
+still have a minor rat-scan issue (6 non-critical files are being
+reported)
+
+A PMC member volunteered to be release manager (limited to the
+upcoming release), discussion is ongoing.
+
+There will not be a AOO track at apacheCON CORE, since only a few
+talks have been submitted.
+
+## Issues:
+The lack of progress on all fronts in the project is a major concern,
+and the PMC have been trying for some time to find consensus about
+the road ahead.
+
+## PMC/Committership changes:
+ - Currently 140 committers and 29 PMC members in the project.
+ - New PMC members:
+ - Dennis E. Hamilton was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 13 2015
+ - Last committer addition was Tal Daniel at Tue Apr 29 2014
+
+
+## Releases:
+ - Last release was 4.1.1 on Thu Aug 21 2014
+
+AOO remains committed to bring out version 4.1.2, but no real
+work has been done since last report. The issues destined for 4.1.2
+have been given a BZ status that allows a faster integration (less
+test demand). Digital signing is still a wish for the new release.
+
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