Hi :) Most of my questions about this have been answered already, thanks :)
TDF is likely to spend the money required to become a member of Oasis. It would seem that it would be dumb not to. My questions were to gauge how tightly integrated ODFauthors is with TDF and whether it might be appropriate to help them gain membership, perhaps at a reduced rate or as part of TDF. All the answers in this thread indicate that there wouldn't be much point and that ODFauthors could pursue this separately if there was any point. The gravitas of an organisation can increase when it can show that it is members of or supported by or just working with other relevant organisations. Almost like a quality mark. But it sounds as though that would be the only benefit to ODFauthors and for the price-tag it wouldn't be worth it. I've learned a lot about ODFauthors and it's all good :) Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 19 June, 2011 23:12:56 Subject: RE: [libreoffice-documentation] ODFauthors Tom, I am not clear what the question is. If ODFAuthors is not a genuine organization, I don't think there is any way for it to join OASIS. The easiest path would be for interested individuals from ODFAuthors to become TDF Members and be associated to whatever degree OASIS/TDF require to offer them as participants on OASIS Technical Committees. I can't speak for the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), but I suspect they have no need to support participation on OASIS. That is to say, I would be surprised to learn that they are an institutional member or see any need to become one. Perhaps that will change as the incubator process is completed for OpenOffice.org, but I think it is outside the lines with regard to how Apache operates. I can't imagine them funding a third-party to go play at OASIS under any conditions. That's completely outside the box, it seems to me. - Dennis PS: The last time I checked, ODFAuthors was about ODF in name only. PPS: I just checked on the OASIS site. ASF is not a member of OASIS at any level. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 14:24 To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] ODFauthors 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 :) -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
