Thanks for the replies. It is something that is relevant in the UK, luckily once I explained the situation, the nice man at the dole office let me off, but it might not be the same for someone else so maybe a standard letter when you initially sign up would be a good idea. Then everyone knows where they stand.
Claire On 3 March 2010 11:42, TJ Frazier <tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > Hi, Florian, Claire, > > > On 3/3/2010 04:59, Florian Effenberger wrote: > >> Hi Claire, >> >> Claire Wood wrote on 2010-03-02 14.17: >> >> Maybe Florian could look at that and give us feedback, as he is probably >>> a more frequent user of Base than me. I do think that some things for >>> Base and Calc which are written with novices/intermediate users, >>> actually expect the user to have had previous experience with similar >>> applications, which might not be the case. >>> >> >> oh, I'm sorry - I don't use Base at all, and the request came from a >> third party. I just forwarded it to this list, because I thought it >> might fit, and I pointed the sender to the archives and invited him to >> subscribe to d...@doc :-) >> >> On a slightly lighter note, which you might find hillarious - I >>> certainly did and I'm sure anyone else in the UK would find it equally >>> funny. They wanted me to get a form signed by OOo to say that I was a >>> volunteer. (You have to declare that you're working voluntarily and not >>> getting paid so that it doesn't affect your benefits while you're >>> searching for work.) I had to explain that it couldn't be done because >>> the person that would need to sign it was probably on the other side of >>> the world! It served to show that systems in this country need to be >>> dragged into the 21st century and account for people using the internet. >>> >> >> Hm, are they fine with an e-mail or a fax? I don't know you very well, >> so I can't write anything, but if someone asks me for a reference, and I >> know him from my work within OOo, I'm happy to write a few lines. >> However, of course, no official organization stands behind that, so I >> don't know if they would accept it. >> >> Florian >> > > This sounds like something the Council might want to handle, with a > boilerplate letter, (assuming I have the facts straight) something like: > > Subject: Unpaid volunteers > > OO.o employs and pays no one. The few people who do get paid for their work > here are employed by sponsoring companies, such as Oracle; those companies > generously donate their employees' time to OO.o. All others are purely > unpaid volunteers. > > (This to go out over the chairman's signature, as email or fax.) > -- > /tj/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org > > -- Best wishes Claire Wood
