+1 I'm Anton Méixome, from Galician NLC.
We are expectant about the procedure, schedule and details of the workflow to be held in Document Foundation / LibreOffice. I would draw attention to the need for this "reunification" be especially careful and clear as to the continuity of the work about localization. It would be very frustrating division into 2 groups in many cases. OpenOffice community has many more relevant aspects of code development, much as this is vital. As coordinator of the Galician location I welcome this initiative and I trust the responsibility of both the new Foundation and Oracle in this new stage. Antón 2010/10/1 Marc Paré <[email protected]>: > >> 1. We are all celebrating LibreOffice and we support the project, no >> matter it's trademark name. >> >> 2. We are worried about marketing. We know regular users don't understan d >> this process and we have been working for a long time promoting OpenOffi ce >> on government, universities and other institutions. There are "hos tile >> environments" out there, and this great news are kind of bad news for so me >> people (for example Panama, where government contracts ask for MSOffice or >> OpenOffice mentioned as a >> trademark). >> >> 3. Our great news are confusing and can be used against Free Software, i f >> the Document Foundation don't coordinate a communication's strategy. We know >> this project will succeed as a development project but there a other are as >> needed. A fork enhances the most common unfounded fears about Free Softw are: >> projects are unstable and there's a lack of support. >> >> >> So, of course, the scenario will be better if Oracle gives the trademark >> to the community, but if we have to wait a month for that to happen, the >> situation will still be complicated. In that case, it may be better if w e >> start positioning LibreOffice now because in two months, it may be too l ate. >> >> Of course, we decided to wait for your guidances but we want to make sur e >> you are thinking about the consequences of waiting for the trademark >> . >> >> Thanks a lot for doing what some of us only dared to dream: building a >> home for OpenOffice. >> >> Carolina >> > Hola Carolina: > > I agree with you 100%. I would not wait for Oracle to make its mind up. W e > should go about organizing LibreOffice as if there will be no trademark > transfer. The LibreOffice is more than just a small group of people who h ave > moved on from the OpenOffice.org suite, if we don't take the Document > Foundation and LibreOffice seriously now, then it would be hard to gain > everyone else's respect later. The fact that so many high ranking Ooo peo ple > have joined on the Ooo shift from Oracle/Sun's shadow is a deliberate act ion > that has been noticed from everyone. I have already notified my schoolboa rd > IT of the "temporary fork" and that the OpenOffice team may either come b ack > as the same Ooo group but having gained their trademarked name from Oracl e > or under the name of LibreOffice. As long as the communication lines with > the general public is kept open, in my opinion, there should be no proble m > with branding the suite as LibreOffice. Note that we try to promote the O oo > at my school board as an alternative to MSOffice and I use it to teach in my > classes as much as I can. If we all did this, maybe this too could help > "nudge" Oracle in deciding of the name transfer. > > Marc > -- > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to > [email protected] > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot b e > deleted. > List archives are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > > -- Leader of openOffice.org GL http://gl.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to [email protected] All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
