On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: > On G+ I have hold a conversation with Bruce Byfield and Jos from KDE > about the continuation of the Apache OpenOffice community and how the > way that the community has enter lately into a dormant stage with very > little traffic. > > Althought I do seem that is an exageration, I feel that is true that > traffic has reach its lowest in several months. I wonder what is going > on with the community as well as overal adoption and concern of a lack > of marketing strategy. > > I would love to hear from the community managers to have an evaluation. >
Community mangers? Come on, you know that is not how we roll at Apache! What is amazing to be is how much LO sees a merger of the projects as a threat to them. Here's the background. At the LO conference one of the presenters spoke in favor of merging LO with AOO, of combining the efforts. This was the IT Head from the Swiss Supreme Court IT office, who also said that they preferred to use AOO for its superior stability compared to LO. https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/open-and-libre-office-projects-should-reunite As you can imagine, having a speaker at a LO conference say nice things about AOO and to suggest cooperation with AOO was an insult that could not be permitted. So LO marketing went into over-drive to try to kill that message. That's why we see articles like this, and recent related blog posts by Simon and Charles. But it does make me wonder: What are they so afraid of? Why do they think the idea of cooperation so dangerous? Why do they think that users are so wrong to value stability and to think that the two projects would work better together? -Rob > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
