Ross, I'd be happy to volunteer for this preso. I'm one of the non-coder Committers, and worked to move OpenOffice to Apache on several fronts. My day job is working in IBM Software Group's Open Standards/Open Source team with my specific focus on the OASIS OpenDocument Format standard, hence my keen interest in OpenOffice, and all things 'ODF', including the ODF Toolkit Java tools, enabling programmatic manipulation of documents.
I'm new to Apache, drinking from the firehose, but I'd very much like to step up and discuss the various perspectives that led to OpenOffice moving to Apache at TransferSummit. Hopefully, by September my track record on list will be more established than it is now. I signed up to work the trademark/branding, communiations and community development aspects of the project. /don On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > I chair a conference in Oxford, UK called TransferSummit. The next on > is in September (7/8). The conference is about open development and > open innovation. > > I would love to have someone from the Apache OO.o team present the > community case for Apache OO.o. That is, rather than a technical > presentation I am looking for a justification for the move to the ASF. > There are other talks that cover the Apache Way, I'm more looking for > opinion from the initial committers. > > I'm afraid we don't pay travel expenses, but we do cover a conference > pass, two nights accomodation, gala dinner, breakfasts and lunch > > More info about the conference at http://www.transfersummit.com > > (if anyone on this list thinks they have another killer presentation > for such an event feel free to mail me) > > Ross >
