Hi David, I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind, but there is a website that does this:
http://www.pledgebank.com/ I am willing to pledge $100 today. (I am actually willing to pay $100 today, if the fund it setup, but if you prefer the pledging then I am happy to do that too.) Thanks, mohammad Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, MD e [EMAIL PROTECTED] w www.mo.md On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:40:54 +1000, "David Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There is still a remaining positive point, or some light at the end of a > long > tunnel, and that is that Sun developers have agreed that bibliographic > 'improvements' should be in OOo version 3. No date is yet set for version > 3 > but I would guess that it is more than a 12 months away. As far as I can > tell > The Sun developers are still flat out bug fixing version 2, and they have > not > started a new round of enhancement planning. > > I have put in two submissions to give talks at the OOo conference in > Lyon, > France in Sept 2006 where I hope to promote the Bibliographic Project. I > am > depended upon getting a subsidy for the Australia-France airfare. We > should > hear if this is accepted or not in the next few weeks. > > Regarding private funding, I have been somewhat reluctant in the past, > the > principle reason reason was that we probably needed several thousand > dollars, and I was worried that if people sent in less that the amount > needed, I would be left holding not enough money and people pissed off > because nothing was happening. > > Perhaps we could set up scheme where people can make pledges for funding. > And > the pledges would only be collected when we have a enough pledged for the > task ? If the pledged amount was not delivered by a certain time it > could be > refunded, or kept, depending on the donor's wishes. Anyway I am will to > discuss ways and means. > > > regards > > > David > > > > > > > > On Thursday 15 June 2006 3:04 am, Matthew Yates wrote: > > Wow, this series of e-mails is depressing. I am a > > professor at the University of Rochester and use > > Openoffice daily, so along with Matt Price and Bruce > > D'Arcus, there are at least a few people interested in > > using Openoffice in academia. I've been following > > this issue for some time (I'm the one who suggested > > the failed attempt to get funding from the NSF CCLI > > program). Bibliographic support is the ONLY reason I > > do not use Openoffice exclusively and have my students > > use it exclusively as well. I otherwise love it. But > > right now I use Endnote on Linux using Codeweavers > > Crossover office to add/remove citations to papers I > > write. I must then us MS Word to do the final > > formatting of the bibiography before submitting for > > publication. > > > > I was really hopeful a year or so ago that better > > bibliographic support would be built in by now. I am > > disturbed that people seem to be giving up now, but I > > am not sure what can be done to help. If Sun > > developers will not be able to work on this, could > > they provide a reasonable estimate of coding man hours > > needed based on the specs (and perhaps a cost > > estimate)? Could the community (me included) try to > > raise funding that could be ear-marked for this > > project? If enough money could be set aside, then > > perhaps the development could move forward. As with > > many people, I have little free time for this, but it > > is an important issue for me and I would like to help > > somehow. > > > > -Matt > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ------------------- > David N. Wilson > Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic > OpenOffice Project > http://bibliographic.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
