On 12/14/05, Louis Suarez-Potts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually funding is handled by the Community Council, by default. > Marketing has no funds, independent of that.
So who makes the request. Marketing project or you? In other words It seems that if there was a conference that the marketing project want's to attend and you didn't feel it was worth it, it wouldn't get proposed. Now I am sure that is not the case here as you have said that the community council will consider it, but I think the general consensus on the marketing list will be that we shouldn't spend money on it. So there should be nothing for the community council to consider. You have made the decision to bring it up to the community council without discussing it with the marketing project. Do you understand how that doesn't feel like we are able to make any decisions? I'll admit I'm not the best with words, but I hope you understand the point I'm trying to get across. > 2. I did not say that unfunded people can't attend. I said that I > think it's a mistake for OOo to fund people to attend. <Quote Louis> I think it would be a mistake for OOo to attend this year's. </Quote> I see you have difficulty with words too, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't type what you meant. > As to the OpenDocument fellowship/OOo: they are quite different and > do have differing interests, though obviously there is some overlap. > But: OOo is about open source; OpenDocument Fellowship is not. Really I thought OOo is about a community of people that wanted to develop a good office suite. OD Fellowship is about open source, a freely implementable and changeable format; and open community, open to discussions and ideas where the majority gets heard. Because we encourage proprietary vendors to use the format doesn't mean that we don't hold the ideals of open source. In the same way that StarOffice and OpenOffice have a relationshiop. I'll even venture to say that we implement these ideals better than OOo does. If you want to learn what the OD Fellowship is about you can go here: http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Fellowship/AboutUs Or ask. But please don't make assumptions. -- Adam Moore Founding Member http://www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
