I am stil catching up for the discussion, but.. to add clarity i'll try to put as much information from the other discussions at OOo Marketing list.
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > FYI: > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Louis Suarez-Potts <lsuarezpo...@gmail.com> > > Date: June 1, 2011 2:58:02 PM EDT > > To: Jim Jagielski <j...@apache.org> > > Cc: Louis Suarez-Potts <lsuarezpo...@gmail.com>, Italo Vignoli < > italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org>, Sam Ruby <ru...@apache.org> > > Subject: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF > > message-id: <e0b12107-5bbf-478f-92d9-c4be9a463...@openoffice.org> > > > > For me, yes, share. And I quite agree that more is better and > transparency is crucial, but also concerned about size/productivity ratio. > There is currently a bit rearagement movement toward figuring things out in TDF OOo previously to the OOo annoucement, which happened last month on the marketing list in OOo. http://openoffice.org/projects/marketing/lists/dev/archive/2011-05/ > > > > -louis > > > > > > On 2011-06-01, at 14:35 , Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > >> BTW: would it be OK if I shared this email on the ASF > >> general@incubator list...? Again, just to be open and > >> public from the start. > >> > >> On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > >> > >>> Hi All, > >>> You know, I am not sure I've actually met Jim, though I have met Sam > and had splendid dinners with Italo. > >>> > >>> > >>> On 2011-06-01, at 14:00 , Jim Jagielski wrote: > >>> > >>>> Now that the cat is out of the bag, we are welcoming and encouraging > >>>> involvement from everyone. The initial draft of the proposal > >>>> is located: > >>>> > >>>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal > >>>> > >>>> and we want to really increase the list of initial committers. As > >>>> the main contacts for the OOo and LOo communities, you both are > >>>> ideally suited to share the link with your communities, and I ask > >>>> that you do so, so that we can have a podling that well represents > >>>> the community and ecosystem as a whole. > Just to add clarity by inviting them, you mean that we should join the mailing list for discussing the proposal here. Or should we continue our converstions on each location. Should we add ourselfs as commiters? > >>>> > >>>> Cheers! > >>> > >>> > >>> Thanks, Jim. As I mentioned in my post to OOo's marketing project (I > lead it), and also in my blog, ooo-speak on Blogger, I'm really interested > in establishing groundwork for the reconciliation of the divided communities > and for real, true open-source community focused on OOo technology, > including the ODF. > >>> > >>> I will surely rally the OOo community around this flag. But I also > suggest a conference call as soon as can be arranged between the interested > parties. I'm not sure who all those be. But I'd hope it includes ODF > stalwarts such as Rob Weir and Don Harbison, Apache folk, LibreOffice, and > OOo .... I second this motion and start building an agenda for this conference call. Also make sure other peripheral projects are aware like the ODF Union and Native-Lang projects. OpenOffice.org is certainly much more than two commiters and the message will take a few days to spread out through the localized lists and dev lists. > >>> > >>> I don't have (yet) an agenda; that's something to think more about, at > least if we want a productive and not just venting meeting, though there is > something to be said about venting. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Louis > >>> > >>> > >>> ---- > >>> > >>> Louis Suarez-Potts, PhD > >>> Community Manager > >>> Chair, Community Council > >>> OpenOffice.org > >>> > >>> Time Zone, −0400 UTC > >>> +1.416.531.9513 (landline) > >>> +1.416.625.3843 (mobile) > >>> > >>> AIM: lui...@mac.com > >>> GTalk: lui...@gmail.com > >>> Skype: louisiam > >>> Blog: http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/ > >>> > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
