On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 12:42 +0100, Charles Schulz wrote: > Hello, > > I think that we should not be afraid of corporations paying more and > leaving the OOo contributors aside. We're not that many to be in this > case, Laurent, at least I don't see more than twenty small companies > (aside Sun, Novell and Red Hat) being regular or important contributors > to OOo. And I think Louis and Erwin and we know most of them already so > they should also have a proeminent visibility. > > But once again Laurent: OOo needs money wether you want it or not....
Ah, yes. The certification effort started on the doc project was geared to raising funds via royalties and seed money. However, this could not come to pass because OOo cannot or will not endorse the entities that were interested. By the way, we are talking about many thousands of dollars rather than the pittance that will come from this plan. My company is listed and the listing has not produced any viable revenue stream. > > Charles. > Laurent Godard a écrit : > > Hi > > > >> Also there (for extensions), it could be usefull to allow a large > >> group of > >> non-paying extension projects and also open up to sponsors if they want > >> to pay to get a more prominent position on the web site. > >> > > > > This is very dangerous imho > > OOo Extensions has to support and avertize high quality stuff, not being > > dependant of any 'pressure' > > > > OOo Extensions have to be designed with 'sources' (repositories ar linux > > distibutions by example) > > - OOo (by default) > > - OOo-earning-Money > > - Company 1 (added by user) > > - Company 2 (added by user) > > > > may be a post-metadata on extensions telling "money given > > back" and then be listed in an other category (or with a special icon) > > > > This is rough idea that can be technically discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > list > > > > Laurent > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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