Fabrizio, That sounds like a good approach. Wolf
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Fabrizio Marchesano <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi all, > if you think it may be of interest, I could talk about the development of > tailor-made extensions for customers. > I think this may be seen as a kind of the win-win situation which Rob is > referring to: taking advantage of the whole community by learning a lot > about extension development, creating tailored extensions for customers > with so much specific requirements that a consultancy agreement is needed, > giving back to the community the new skills learned during the process (the > ones not related to the customer's specific needs, or at least making > generalizations), thus sharing knowledge, which can lead to new customers' > requests and so on. > In my case, for example, that's the way I came to talk at FOSDEM (it all > started in quite recent times with IBM Lotus Symphony, but the global > context is the same; indeed, it could even be a subject of interest, given > the merging of Symphony code in AOO 4). > I am at your disposal if you think it may fit. > Best regards, > > Fabrizio > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > On 21/01/2013 Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> If anyone is uncomfortable with this I can do it on my personal blog, > >> of course. But it is relevant to the AOO project, so I'd prefer to > >> put it here. > >> > > > > I see no reasons to avoid this topic. But the post would actually be more > > credible, and enjoyable, if we actually manage to interview a couple of > > consultants/companies who are making money (or even a living) out of > > OpenOffice. So not only a generic post by project volunteers, but a post > > including also a few paragraphs where established consultants provide > some > > extra information. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > -- Wolf Halton This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com Open-Source Software in Libraries - http://FOSS4Lib.org Advancing Libraries Together - http://LYRASIS.org Apache Open Office Developer [email protected]
