In order to succeed, a mass movement must develop at the earliest moment a compact corporate organization and a capacity to integrate all comers.
—Eric Hoffer, American philosopher This discussion is interesting but it reminds me of people re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Or, perhaps a better analogy is where there are two battleships, one is 30x bigger and the other is undermanned. In fact, there is only a skeleton crew so if there is a problem in many areas of the ship, there is no one able to fix it. Meanwhile, some of the crew are sitting on deck chairs discussing how they'd like a better battleship, but they are at sea so it is not possible now. I believe the best way to ensure TDF's success is for you to find a crew to fix all of these as fast as possible: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks Forks often take years to get going because they take years to get a large enough of a team. That is a random list, but the sooner you can fix those, the sooner you can fix other things including font features. Fixing bugs is the way to be able to write features. People can work anywhere they want, but that is the front door, and evidence you need more. People with expertise already are valuable. It is good is that you have people who are able to mentor others. Some forks didn't even have that. You need to find enough people so you have expertise over every line, which I don't think you have today. I also hope there is a crew hacking ribbon-like UIs in Python, one working on server and web features, etc. If you want to succeed in a decade, and you are mostly going to be volunteers, you need many, focused on things that improve the product today. You can keep a positive attitude by remembering there is another battleship that is 10x undermanned than you ;-) It says OpenOffice, etc. on the side, but that is not the most important consideration. Kind regards, -Keith http://keithcu.com/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted