Hi Everybody, I’m a candidate for PMC Chair…. And more below. > On 6 Jan 2015, at 13:33, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > > Each of the (current and future) nominees should answer this mail in public > and state very briefly:
The PMC Chair is ostensibly an administrative position. It’s certainly that, but it also vests its holder with an authority that can be used to grow the project. That, at least, is one way I should like to use it, should I be elected. If elected, I could serve for at least one year and probably more. OpenOffice has been my life for a very long time; it—the community and what it can accomplish with a free tool as powerful as OpenOffice and the ODF—is something I believe in and love. But so do we all. I don’t see myself as working in isolation or as the “lead.” Hardly; I see the role as enabling others. I have a notion of where I would like to see OpenOffice—but so do you. And so does Jan. What would be great is if we could work efficiently and collaboratively to realise our visions of Apache OpenOffice’s future. Growing the community of contributors and uses is something I have some experience doing. But what worked with OpenOffice.org, like the Native Language Projects, were created under different circumstances. AOO is not OOo: it’s more of a community effort. And it operates within the Apache Software Foundation. These are plusses and the opportunities they present to would-be contributors can be communicated to those companies and government agencies who are already using OpenOffice and those who are considering using it. We have not focused on such marketing efforts, and I would like to do so. We also need … so many other things. Updated documentation for developers, for instance; more mentoring and training (at whatever level); and so on: not news. Engaging the community that we have and that we will have is part of the fun I’d like to take on, though I’d reframe it by emphasising that it’s actually our fun. I also believe that we need to explore collaboration with The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. I’ve always argued we should. No one benefits by maintaining this split. (Oh, arguably, the proprietary products reap in yet more billions. But they would anyway.) I have no illusions about any reconciliation or collaboration. But I also believe that the overall community of users stands to gain hugely. More can be said, and I hope it is. But not now. Cheers, Louis --- Louis Suárez-Potts Age of Peers PMC Apache OpenOffice Skype: louisiam Mobile: +1.416.625.3843 Twitter: @luispo Company: http://www.ageofpeers.com/ Personal: http://www.luispo.com/ Google: https://plus.google.com/+LouisSuárezPotts/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
