Dear Florian Dear Sirs I am publicaly writing at LinkedIN For example the last
Microsoft vs. OpenOffice Microsoft has posted on its website a three-minute video A Few Perspectives on OpenOffice.org, which has resulted the customer reviews referred to the use of Microsoft Office after the failure of familiarity with OpenOffice.org. It highlights the problems of compatibility, lower productivity, reduced efficiency, additional burden on corporate resources and other issues. To see this video (http://www.microsoft.com/showcase/en/US/details/faaf9eb8-77c6-4bed-bc08-c069a7bfbb04 ) on the official website, you must install a plugin Silverlight. What do you think about this??? > Hi, > > although being not on duty, at least at the moment, I feel responsible > for sharing this discussion with you. I know that some of you are also > involved with The Document Foundation and LibreOffice, or might be > interested to do so. > > I don't want to start a discussion here, nor blame anyone - we all know > these are not easy times. > > I also don't know if that discussion from the Council session affects > MarCons - but anyways, I wanted to share this with you, should there be > discussions regarding MarCons roles in the future. Basically, during the > council meetings, there have been concerns that those having a strong > relationship to TDF should not speak on behalf of OpenOffice.org. > > As stated, I'm sure things will turn out well for the future in one way > or another, but to prevent surprises, I wanted to share this with you. > > Florian > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [project leads] Re: Problem with QA tests and release of OOo > 3.3.0 > Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:13:31 +0200 > From: Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> > Reply-to: [email protected] > Organization: OpenOffice.org > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > Hi, > > Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote on 2010-10-16 00.49: >> I am shocked by what I have read in the minutes of the last Community >> Council. >> The minutes are there : >> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101014#Community_Council_Session >> It is about to force the members of the Community Council which are also >> member of the Document Foundation, to leave their seat at the Community >> Council under the pretext of an alleged conflict of interest. > > to be precisely, it obviously affects not only the members of the > Community Council, but everyone who has a representing role in the > Community. > > If I understood it correctly, it also affects Charles, me (being at > least temporarily not on duty, cf. my mail from a few days ago), and > probably everyone else who speaks in public on behalf of OpenOffice.org. > > After I temporarily gave up on the role of the Marketing Budget Holder, > all the authorizers have been removed by the treasurer as well, although > they did not suspend their roles neither permanently nor temporarily: > http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=budget&msgNo=255 > > Hopefully the chat between Cor and Martin will clarify some things, but > looking at the current status, it looks pretty much like a lot of people > will not be eligible, so to say, to speak on behalf of OpenOffice.org > anymore. > > Florian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
