On Mon December 12 2005 11:05, + Caolan McNamara wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 10:22 +0000, Andrew Brown wrote: > > There was in my original article a paragraph saying that the volunteer > > work was in general much more impressive outside the English community. I > > don't know why this is true, and I don't want to be invidious by putting > > up a list of remarkable contributors which will then leave off people who > > should be there. Let me put it this way round: there are people as > > impressive as Andrew Pitonyak, CP Hennessey and Dan Kegel whose work is > > for the most part done in other languages. > > Actually from my own perspective I didn't mind the article though I > reckon things are more positive than they appear. What I would be wary > of though is that "[email protected]" is a dysfunctional list and > not very representative of people which actually *contribute* to > Openoffice.org rather than talk about contributing to it :-). > > I don't think many of the developers on OOo bother to read or take part > in [email protected] anymore, rather taking to irc #openoffice.org > or [email protected] and/or the individual development mailing lists > and issuezilla tracker to communicate with eachother.
And that is why I wish the MS bashing and other off-topic rants would stop. Pleaselist members, use your considerable energy to contribute to OOo - writing docs, contributing clipart or templates or even better, help on the http://qa.openoffice.org team or contribute code. -- CPH : OpenOffice.org contributor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
