On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 17:48 +0100, Charles-H.Schulz 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.
No-one asked. Simple as that really. if you want to know anything about ODF just ask. We will do the best we can to answer questions. > >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, but its interesting as to how the politics might fall out. In any case, that was one reason for the OD fellowship being made up of individual members not corporate representation or even specific project representation. The membership is around 70 now and from a wide range of interest groups in many countries. Some are members of the OOo project others OASIS people, KOffice people, teachers, archivists, OSC people FFII, Schoolforge and so on. But members do not represent these organisations, they are individuals with an interest in promoting ODF independently though many have specific skills and standing in the global community. The democratic structure of ODFellowship means that it will always be independent. The committee is voted for by the membership on a one person one vote system and no-one is there as of right because they have some particular link to some project or company. In fact I believe we have least 5 nations represented on the committee of 6 people. ODF is deliberately independent of OOo and needs to remain that way even though there will be common interests. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
