On 11/19/06, Laurent Godard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yes and this paid fee will be understood as contribution i really would prefer that contribution is required instead of only money. A lot of companies have materials or skills, so they can give some things back (and usually do not).
What about the case of an individual or company that: * has never contributed a letter of code, translations, ... back to the OO.o project * but with high quality helps local users to install and use OO.o (that support being paying or non-paying by the end user) I would consider that entity to be useful for the progress of the project, because it increases adoption of OO.o and ODF, and should thus be allowed to be listed on a non-paying 'consultants' page. In my view (FWIW), the primary goal of at least one page should be to list the maximum amount of useful support companies, geographically close to the user. I am not in favor of coupling the listing on this one page to monetary donations or even having contributed code, translations, whatever to the project. The only criterium is *user* support (paying or non-paying) and thus increased adoption. I repeat my offer to help on the definition of a simple policy that would allow largely automated criteria to maintain such a page. Defining and implementing a policy to throw out the spurious entries from the current 'consultants' page would be a possible first implementation. Next to that (but that is a different project) there could be pages that allow listing with a more prominent visibilty based on other criteria such as monetary sponsoring or code/translation contribution or even other criteria. Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
