Hi Drew, Ross reminds me to be very careful about content licenses.
Would you please confirm that the license for all contributions to the these Forums is here - http://openoffice.org/terms_of_use ? If not, then where? Thanks! Best Regards, Dave On Jun 18, 2011, at 10:04 AM, drew wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 08:42 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: > >> >> Zoltan - If you wish to get this done please contact Gavin so that the >> technical requirements plus any formal request to Oracle can be organized. > > Hi Zoltan, Dave > > As it happens I've have the details available and am subscribed to the > infrastructure list - I'll pass this information along to Gavin M. > there, today. > > As for a formal request to Oracle, it is not needed. I was part of the > group the established the relationship with SUN Micro wherein they > supplied use of a server (a zone on a server actually). The content of > the forum was never owned by SUN. > > At the time Terry Ellison and me had to sign contributor agreements but > that was only a requirement for us to register our SSH keys and have > root access to the zone. There was not such requirement for anyone else > associated with the site. > > Terry maintains the site. He has expressed his desire to continue to do > so. (But since I'm already hooked into the mailing lists here I'll just > pass the details on, for expediency) For my part I think it's time to > move on, I truly believe that is the right decision for everyone > concerned. > > So - as for requesting that the OO.o User Community Forums become part > of the Apache OpenOffice.org project, formally - the request needs to go > to the Volunteers Group at the Forums, not Oracle. > > Zoltan has all the authority needed there, both formal and good will > wise, to do just that. I hope and will advocate to the members that they > avail themselves of such an offer, should it come - however will not > take part in any vote by the membership. > > My best wishes for all your continues endeavors, > > Drew Jensen > >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> >>> >>> Another important aspect is this: If the forums are part of the project, >>> then all project members can also participate in the forums. We're not >>> segregating roles, but encouraging a valuable way for direct communications >>> between users and all project members. >>> >>> I heard some discussion of whether some other way of supporting users would >>> work well, maybe something like StackExchange. IMHO, that is an >>> implementation detail. Let's first agree on whether the user support >>> function should be an integral part of the Apache OpenOffice project or >>> not. If we agree it is, and I hope we do, then we can discuss the best way >>> to implement that function going forward. >>> >>> -Rob >> >> > >
