On Thu May 25 2006 15:54, Matt Price wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:31:01AM -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> > On 5/24/06, David Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >On of the issues about OOo marketing I have not fully understood is that
> > >OpenOffice development plans are to some extent controlled by StarOffice
> > >needs. And they seem to be focusing on business.
> > >
> > >Maybe there is a separate StarOffice marketing arm that needs to be
> > >lobbied ?
> >
> > Long term, the real solution is that OOo needs to be spun off as an
> > independent organization a la Mozilla. I really do not think this
> > structure can work very much longer. Get Sun and IBM and Novell to put
> > up a few million (or tens of million) dollars, and there might be a
> > fighting chance.
> >
> > I have been contemplating raising this issue with the project leads,
> > though no doubt this would make a lot of people unhappy.
>
> ok, but how about in the short-to-medium-term?
Break the tasks into short manageable specific tasks. There tasks should be
focused not on the bibliographic end game but on the intermediate steps to
allow others to get involved also. e.g.
- read/write the most important parts of the new citation file formats
- provide a UNO interface
- provide a basic UI to edit / add / delete a citation
- provide a basic UI to edit / add / delete a citation database
- provide a basic UI to edit / apply / delete a citation style
etc
Then possibly offer bounties for the basic things.
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