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> From: Tutorials For OpenOffice <[email protected]> > Date: October 17, 2010 5:22:34 AM CDT > To: Dave Johnson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Support for LibraOffice > Reply-To: [email protected] > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Dave Johnson <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:04:46 -0500 >> LibO is a new version of OpenOffice.org from the >> http://www.documentfoundation.org >> We would be pleased if you could show your support for LibO on your webpage. > > Hi Dave, > > As you will be aware from your involvement with The Document Foundation's > LibreOffice marketing group/project, LibreOffice is not strictly speaking a > "new" version of OOo, since the current beta 1 & 2 releases are based on the > OOo 3.3.0 development code, incorporating patches from Novel's Go-OO and > others. What is new is that the long (10 year) wait for "The Community" to > take control of "The Project" is finally over and The Document Foundation is > now being established. > > We and other projects (eg. OpenOffice Authors) outside of the "official" OOo > holding, have been waiting on a definitive statement as to whether or not the > OpenOffice.org name and trademark, held in trust by Sun and subsequently > Oracle, is going to be released to The Document Foundation. In the absence of > any such statement and in light of remarks[1] made by (Sun/Oracle's puppet) > OOo Community Development Manager - Louis Suarez-Potts, at the most recent > meeting of the OOo Community Council, it would seem that Oracle will not be > supporting The Document Foundation and propose to take action to distance > themselves from it. > > The "long neglected" (Read: almost abandoned) Tutorials For OpenOffice > project has itself undergone a change of administration/ownership and work > has started on a number improvements and expansions of both the tutorials and > the services provided by the website. Until such time as The Document > Foundation has established a viable infrastructure and released a production > version of LibreOffice, we propose to continue working on tutorials centered > around OOo. However, just like the OpenOffice Authors project, we will be > preparing LibreOffice materials for publication at a later date. > > At this stage we only intend to demonstrate our support for The Documentation > Foundation and LibreOffice, by adding appropriate entries to the "Links" page > of our website. > > Regards > > Dave Barton > Project Coordinator > Tutorials For OpenOffice > > [1] In summary: Members of the OOo Community Council who have joined, or > indicated their support for, The Document Foundation (eg. Cor Nouws) are > being asked to resign from the council. > > > > -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
