On 11/5/05, Charles-H.Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Ryan, > > Ryan Singer wrote: > > >Hi Charles, > > > >I'm not Louis, but I was there on behalf of the Open Document Fellowship, > >and I thought it went well. IBM was a gracious host, and there was a very > >interesting dialogue between the attendees. It was decided that there > will > >be some sort of org for ODF, although the specifics are still being > worked > >out. > > > Interesting indeed. The fellowship was there but did not deem useful to > inform the OOo community of its presence at the meeting. Anyway.
I am part of the small overlap between the fellowship and the OOo community. We were told our invitation was confidential, and the OOo lists are pretty public. I considered bringing it up on so-ooo, but decided that I would just talk to Louis and Simon Phipps at the event. The fellowship tries to stay as publically available as possible, but this was a confidential meeting. >A Foundation for OOo was not really discussed, as the meeting was about > >OpenDocument more specifically. It might also be worth noting that there > was > >a good degree of tension between SUN and IBM. > > > Does this surprize you? :-) Not really. I can only hope they get along well enough to both be a good member of the community. >Google only sent 1 person, and > >he was a technologist, not a suit. > > > > > OK thanks Ryan, No problem. I am, after all, still a Marketing Contact for OOo. Charles. > > > -- _________________ Ryan Singer
