On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 22:23 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > > ODFauthors only cover LibreOffice and OpenOffice but there name suggests they > might expand to cover other projects? Did they used to be 1 section of the > OpenOffice Community? or where they always separate? > > TDF's steering committee are talking about paying for membership to Oasis and > i > have been wondering if it would be appropriate to ask TDF's SC if they could > get > a reduced rate for ODFauthors, or include them in the same fee or should we > ask > TDF's SC and Apache to each put forwards half the costs for ODFauthors? I > imagine that it might be difficult for ODFauthors to raise the funding > required > to join so i was wondering how much support we could or should offer. > > > Regards from > Tom :) >
The ODFAuthors website can be used by anyone or any group that is producing documentation for any product that supports the OpenDocument Format. We'd love to have it expand beyond the existing two products. The original group (and their website) was known as "OOoAuthors"; it was set up by some members of the OpenOffice.org community to produce user guides for OOo. It has always been autonomous, although the user guides eventually were adopted as "official" OOo documentation. Possibly relevant information: because ODFAuthors as an organisation has no legal standing, its finances are handled by an incorporated Australian not-for-profit association called Friends of OpenDocument, Inc. The domain name is now owned by TDF, which hosts the website. I personally don't see any reason why ODFAuthors should be involved with OASIS; we are documenters, not coders. Any interested individuals who happen to be involved with ODFAuthors should also be involved with other groups that are more relevant. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
