On 11/14/06, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Someone else has also leaped into help and your suggestions and
willingness to help are equally welcome! I'd like to move the
consultants' page to a wiki--consultants.services.openoffice.org--and
also consider charging to be listed. The fee would be minimal and
would go to paying for sustaining the project.
What I can do is grant you access to the project, so that you can fix
the page (along with the other person) and also see about moving it
to (and creating) the wiki...
My proposal was to first create a policy with a few conditions that need to
be
fulfilled to become and remain listed. Only after that is decided, it seems
to
me that the practical aspects of which platform is used for the publication
(wiki, CMS, web site, ...) need to be arranged.
So, I now see 2 methods of determining "active" OO.o support status:
* a small recurring fee to be paid to OO.o
* this will eliminated non-active and non-serious entries
* it may be too high a barrier for some consultants ?
* how to organize this (taxes, international payments, ...)
(I am afraid that coordinating and tracking payment from the
hundreds of entries may involve a lot of work)
* anything that has to do with *money* suddenly becomes much
more sensitive as book keeping and controls against abuse
need to be set-up.
* checks on the web site (web site up, relevant words to OO.o)
* does not cost money
* can be automated by spider script
The policy could decide to use 0 (current situation), 1 or even the 2 of
the above checks, or other checks that are proposed ?
Which group decides on the policy for being listed on the
consultants.services.openoffice.org page ?
Thanks,
Peter
