On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Louis Suarez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no secret and it depends on the context, as I thought I had > indicated in the post. But, basically, it comes down to determining how > interested and engaged the region is (esp. those with resources) and if there > exits the apparatus (institutional, infrastructural, etc.). And, you'll note > I wrote, "contributors," too, meaning that I hold little hope for > "developers" but a lot for contributors even beyond localizers. I was reading <http://lwn.net/Articles/358701/> with some amount of interest and, what you write does provide some support to the argument. The traditional means-to-end of "visibility via contributions" may not be holding true for a sizeable number of economies in the Asian region. Additionally, there has to be ways of discussing what can be termed as a contribution to OO.o while keeping it relevant. For example, depending on the consumption of the software, direction of contributions could vary a lot. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@native-lang.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@native-lang.openoffice.org
