At FISL in Brazil last week, I had the opportunity to speak as the co-presenter in a session about the evolution of OpenOffice.org - I think there will eventually be video of it. During the meeting, I called for developers to start work on the code-base now, regardless of their eventual expectations of which of the two open source projects they will join, so that their skills and their familiarity with the code is developed. This uniting message was well received by the audience.
Also during the presentation, Jomar Silva announced that he had just met with representatives of the Brazilian government and representatives of both the Apache (Jomar Silva) and TDF communities (Olivier Hallet) had signed a letter of intent[1] with the government that Brazil should start engaging directly with the office suite they depend on, rather than just consuming the code. This growth in the developer base seems to me to be exactly the sort of news we all need at the moment, and I'm looking forward to hearing from Olivier and Jomar as the first developers are identified and start work on the LibreOffice Easy Hacks. S. [1] http://www.softwarelivre.gov.br/news/cisl-and-communities-strengthen-floss-office-suites -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
