HI, This email is prompted from reading a couple of the discussions going on, or just recently having gone on.
This question of a new UI for LibreOffice for instance, is a good one to move into what I wanted to touch on. I believe the question itself is wrong - or to say it avoids looking at other ways to achieve the goals of those wanting to explore options for change. Basically what I want to say is this - I hope we find a way to construct our association, or collective efforts, such that it fosters growth in a lateral fashion, not just from the perspective of a single application. Do we really want to say that we, our efforts, are only to support this one application, LibreOffice? Do we not want to rather say that we are all collectively working to deliver the best possible tools for the document generation market? (ok, not the best wording..) This new organization, freed from the dominance of a single vendor, should not limit it's scope to only the this one artifact, brought from the old, LibreOffice. Rather, I hope, it should be capable of supporting new ideas, and new approaches. Certainly there are valid and proper, concerns with regards to compatibility with OO.o with regards to LibreOffice now and going forward. But they should not be an over riding concern when it comes to all our endeavors. Think about the situation back at OO.o with the Education project - How should we handle a situation such as this, where a group of active individuals, members of the larger group, decide to pursue a specialized derivative of the main application - would be shun them? What if a young designer, or an old one..lol.., proposes some radical ideas - and some young developers see the same vision and want to pursue it - will we have a way to help, and support them - or will we view it only as a loss from the perspective of work-hours on the libreOffice application? Thanks Drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to [email protected] Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived ***
