Every remaining dev / concerned user must get together a take an initiative. Things rarely workout on their own.
On 11 July 2016 at 13:11, JZA <acolor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds good, there have been some intention of these in the past, not sure > how open the community is right now to be honest. But is a good idea if > somehow there is some strong backing. > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Suminda Dharmasena < > sirinath19...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am writing to see if the current AOO Dev team would like to create an > > independent entity which can: > > > > - Do trainings > > - Accept funds and have pay developers > > - Write commercial books / online tutorials with sponsorship > > > > This can be used have paid developers working on the project. Maybe > initial > > sponsorship can come from an organisation like Redhat, Pivotal or Micro > > Focus if they are interested. Perhaps companies which used the code base > in > > the past like IBM or Oracle. > > > > The entity should ensure they work on the AOO codebase using the ASF way. > > > > Suminda > > > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > 9060 55AB FFD2 2F02 0E1A 3409 599C 14FC 9450 D3CF >
